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

Özet

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.

Oyuncular

• Terence McKenna

  Narrator

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  Andrew Tarbet

  John Payne

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  David Hewlett

  Walter Jenkins

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  Greg Spottiswood

  John Stroud

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  Brooke Johnson

  Kay Christie

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  Martin Julien

  Les Canivet

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  Andrew Miller

  Ike Friesen

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  Jeremy Ratchford

  Fred Reich

• Robert Clayton

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

• Robert Manchester

  Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)

Ekip

Yönetmen

Brian McKenna

Senaryo

Terence McKenna, Brian McKenna

Hikâye / Eser

D'Arcy O'Connor

Yapımcı

Arnie Gelbart, Adam Symansky, Darce Fardy

Kurgu

Alfonso Peccia