NH DOCS: Potentially Dangerous & Nina & Irena

A pay-what-you-can screening at the New Haven Free Public Library. During World War II, the U.S Government restricted the actions and freedoms of 600,000 Italian residents of the United States. All were declared “Enemy Aliens,” and many were placed under curfew, banned from their workplaces, evacuated from their homes and communities, and even placed in internment camps. Interned Italians were not charged with a crime or allowed legal representation. The government considered them “Potentially Dangerous”not based on anything they had done, but on where they were born.Most Italians refused to speak about what happened to them. Even 80 years later, many have remained silent. Potentially Dangerous reveals their stories for the first time.