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The Rape of Nanking

The Rape of Nanking

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 13, 2007

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

58%

Original Title

The Rape of Nanking

Production Companies

Real to Reel Productions, Reel Iris Productions, Toronto ALPHA

Director

Anne Pick

Description

About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces.