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A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (1992)

ALL 01/12/1992 (en) Documentary, War 100 Min
  • Release
    01/12/1992
  • Production
    CBC, ONF | NFB
  • Rotten tomato
    100%
  • Original title
    A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

The Valour and the Horror

Overview

The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to help defend Hong Kong in late 1941, fully aware that they may have been on a doomed mission. The C Force, consisting of about 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec City) were, with the other British, Indian and Hong Kong troops, attacked on December 8, 1941 and overwhelmed by Japanese troops, leading to numerous casualties and the surrender on Christmas day. The Canadians would spend more than 3 and half years as prisoners of war, in horrible conditions. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

  1. Brian McKenna

    Director



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  1. Terence McKenna

    Narrator

  2. Andrew Tarbet

    John Payne

  3. David Hewlett

    Walter Jenkins

  4. Greg Spottiswood

    John Stroud

  5. Brooke Johnson

    Kay Christie

  6. Martin Julien

    Les Canivet

  7. Andrew Miller

    Ike Friesen

  8. Jeremy Ratchford

    Fred Reich

  9. Robert Clayton

    Self (Royal Rifles of Canada) (as Bob Clayton)

  10. Robert Manchester

    Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)

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Casts : 10 , Crews : 26

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A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (1992) 100 Min

ALL 01/12/1992 (en)
Documentary, War
  • Release 01/12/1992
  • Production
    CBC, ONF | NFB
  • Original title A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The Valour and the Horror

Overview

The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to help defend Hong Kong in late 1941, fully aware that they may have been on a doomed mission. The C Force, consisting of about 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec City) were, with the other British, Indian and Hong Kong troops, attacked on December 8, 1941 and overwhelmed by Japanese troops, leading to numerous casualties and the surrender on Christmas day. The Canadians would spend more than 3 and half years as prisoners of war, in horrible conditions. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

  1. Brian McKenna

    Director

  2. D'Arcy O'Connor

    Story

  3. Alfonso Peccia

    Editor

  4. Arnie Gelbart, Adam Symansky, Darce Fardy

    Producer



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