Streaming Pacific Videos: Micronesia

Link to Video (40 minutes)
"Over sixty Japanese warships were sunk in Truk Lagoon in a surprise raid by U.S. carrier-based aircraft on February 17, 1944. Now scattered across the lagoon bottom, the Fujikawa Maru, Shinkoku Maru, Aikoku, Betty Bomber and others have become undersea islands of life. Home to beautiful creatures and corals, they remain littered with recognizable cargo and weapons."

Link to Video (57 minutes)
"Organized around the problems of growing population in a closed ecological setting, the film touches on almost all aspects of life on a tiny Micronesian atoll."

Link to Video (30 minutes)
"Over one billion dollars have been provided by the United States to the Marshall Islands under the Compact of Free Association. As this aid is ending, the loss of money is having a profound effect on this small country."

Link to Video (50 minutes)
"In this program, Knut Nordby travels with neurologist/author Oliver Sacks to the tiny coral atoll in Micronesia called Pingelap, where almost 10 percent of the population are congenitally colorblind. Together, they set up a clinic and interview residents to learn about life in a society of people where so many have never seen the world in color"

Link to Video (24 minutes)
"Describes coral reefs in Guam and the benefits they provide such as building land masses, protecting tropical shores from coastal erosion and serving as a habitat for marine organisms. Coral reefs are affected by human and natural disturbances and there is concern for their health and survival."

Link to Video (28 minutes)
"Documents the plight of the people of the Bikini Atoll, test site of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States. Tells how the Bikinians still long to return home after forty-one years and twenty- three powerful explosions."

Link to Video (58 minutes)
"Explores the question of whether local people have the right to refuse to have nuclear weapons deployed in their area. Tells about Palau, a tiny emerging republic in Micronesia, as it attempts to maintain history's first nuclear free national constitution despite official American opposition."

Link to Video (30 minutes)
"While the flames at Pearl Harbor were still burning, Japanese forces overwhelmed American troops on Guam and occupied the island. When the U.S. military liberated the island, it began buying land for next to nothing. Today, Guam's inhabitants want fair compensation."