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Nanking (2007) -- The powerful story of 200,000 Chinese who were saved during the "Rape of Nanking" by a small group of unarmed Westerners.
Nanking (2007) -- This is the U.S. theatrical trailer for Nanking, directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.
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Nanking (2007) -- Open-ended Trailer from ThinkFilm
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Writers (WGA):
Bill Guttentag (screenplay) &
Dan Sturman (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
3 July 2007 (China) more
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Even in the darkest of times there is light more
Plot:
"Nanking" tells the story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937... more | add synopsis
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5 wins & 5 nominations more
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(4 articles)
Free Documentary of the Week: 'Nanking'
 (From Moviefone. 26 May 2009, 3:36 PM, PDT)

Snag This: Nanking
 (From Cinematical. 19 May 2009, 2:32 PM, PDT)

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Cast

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Hugo Armstrong ... John Magee
Rosalind Chao ... Chang Yu Zheng

Stephen Dorff ... Lewis Smythe

John Getz ... George Fitch

Mariel Hemingway ... Minnie Vautrin

Michelle Krusiec ... Yang Shu Ling

Chris Mulkey ... Mills McCallum

Jürgen Prochnow ... John Rabe

Sonny Saito ... Higashi Sakai
Graham Sibley ... Miner Searle Bates
Mark Valley ... Stage Manager
Robert Wu ... Li Pu

Woody Harrelson ... Bob Wilson
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MPAA:
Rated R for disturbing images and descriptions of wartime atrocities, including rape.
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USA:88 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Not to be confused with _Rape of Nanking, The (2007)_, based on Iris Chang's book with that title. more

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54 out of 63 people found the following comment useful.
Superb, 16 February 2007
10/10
Author: Caliann

I saw the film at Sundance as part of a packed house for a third or fourth screening. I've seen the story of Nanking depicted before but never with the confidence I had that this was how it really was. It was like watching three Shindlers save the Chinese, and Spielberg's Shoa, all rolled into one perfect film. A panel of actors speak the lines from letters and diaries of European/American witnesses and Chinese and Japanese survivors tell their stories themselves on film. It's not just a narrator interpreting the events - it's the voices of the people who were there. The story line is well honed accompanied by stills, 16 mm smuggled out by one of the foreigners, and the actors provide voice for the foreigners. It is an incredibly moving and informative film. I sat next to two couples, two Japanese American men married to Chinese American women. One wife had seen the film the night before, and our night she brought everyone else back with her. I spoke with one of the husbands and he said that out of scale of 5 he gave it a 7. For the rest of the week I ran into others who saw the film and everyone said that they thought it was the best documentary they had ever seen in their lives. I totally agree.

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