Rare footage captured by amateur filmmaker Dave Tatsuno documents life during World War II for the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced from their homes to live behind barbed wire in American internment camps. On this day in 1945, they were free to return to their homes, as the end of the war was near. Watch on America in Color: http://bit.ly/2Dy0ZPZ | Smithsonian Channel

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Thousands of Japanese Americans were ordered into American internment camps during WWII. Some objected, but others volunteered for the U.S. Army. And it divided the community, even to this day. The stories of Prisoners in Their Own Land, tonight on KING 5 News at 6:30. | KING 5