Kahuku: Survival of a Plantation Town
1988•NR•19m•Released
Documentary
When the Kahuku sugar plantation and mill shut down in the 1970's, workers who lived in plantation housing had to decide how to hold the community together and create something new out of an industry that had come to an end. This is the story of their successful transition from plantation to self-governing community.
Director
Victoria Keith
Writer
Victoria Keith
Studio
Hawaiian Electric Company
Cast
Scott Shirai
Narrator
Tom Nakayama
Self
John Primacio, Jr.
Self
Seiko Shiroma
Self
Recommended
7
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
7.5
A Plastic Ocean
2016
6.4
The Captains
2011
6.9
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
6.2
Elstree 1976
2015
7.3
Maria by Callas
2017
7.4
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
8
Avicii: True Stories
2017
8.2
Baraka
1992
8.2
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
2026
7.5
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019
7.1
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
6.8
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
7.5
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
7.9
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
2014
7.2
Gunda
2021
7.4
Above Majestic
2018
6.5
Nail Bomber: Manhunt
2021
7.1
That's Entertainment! III
1994
7
Girl Rising
2013
Similar Movies
7.6
Riding Giants
2004
6.1
Kumu Hina
2014
7.5
The Four of Moana
1959
10
Kekaiulu Hula Studio
2022
8.2
Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii
1973
7
Nihi
2003
6
The Massie Affair
2005
5.8
Out of State
2017
E Haku Inoa: To Weave a Name
2013
4.3
Follow Me
1969
Under a Jarvis Moon
2010
5
Rise of the Wahine
2014
5
Songs of Love from Hawaii
2024
Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii
2018
7
Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home
2014
Our Big Ocean
2023
7
Kapu Aloha 101: Ke Kula o Maunakea
2015
6
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
2009
Hawaii, l'âme du ukulélé
2020
7
The Bruce Movie
2005