A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

Jan 12, 1992

1h 40m

★ 10.0

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.

Genres

Documentary

War

Production Companies

CBC

ONF | NFB

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Cast

Narrator

Terence McKenna

John Payne

Andrew Tarbet

Walter Jenkins

David Hewlett

John Stroud

Greg Spottiswood

Kay Christie

Brooke Johnson

Les Canivet

Martin Julien

Ike Friesen

Andrew Miller

Fred Reich

Jeremy Ratchford

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

Robert Clayton

Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)

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