and actress mira sorvino coming up now. >> and by contributions to your p br pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> at 77 actor activist george takei has countless films and tv series under his credit but he's most known for star trek. and speaking out on issues like marriage equality and a formal apology for the internment of the japanese americans in world war ii. as well as thousands of other americans wrongly imprisoned during that war. a new story of his life comes to theaters, i love the title, "to be takei." our west coast became a potential combat zone. living in that zone were more than a hundred thousand persons of japanese ancestry. >> my life has been transformed almost as fantastically as science fiction. because as a boy i looked out on the world imprisoned by a barb wire fences of american entertainme internment camps. >> you know i think it is hard, george, for many americans, certainly those borne of a certain generation to even imagine their government could or would or more expressly did something like this. >> it is still a little-known chapter of americ