Movie: A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

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Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna

Narrator

Andrew Tarbet
Andrew Tarbet

John Payne

David Hewlett
David Hewlett

Walter Jenkins

Greg Spottiswood
Greg Spottiswood

John Stroud

Brooke Johnson
Brooke Johnson

Kay Christie

Martin Julien
Martin Julien

Les Canivet

Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller

Ike Friesen

Jeremy Ratchford
Jeremy Ratchford

Fred Reich

Robert Clayton
Robert Clayton

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

Robert Manchester
Robert Manchester

Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)

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    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.

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    1992-01-12

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    The Valour and the Horror

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