A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (1992)
• January 12th, 1992 • 1h 40min
Documentary, War
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Ghosts: Soldiers of a Forgotten War
Released on: 2021-11-27
Documentary
The Donetskyi village is on the border between the unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic and the Lu...
Hell Jumper
Released on: 2024-07-09
Documentary
Courage, love and loss. Young people risk their lives with self-funded missions to rescue families i...
Her Anti-WTO
Released on: 2006-02-11
Documentary
The 2005 World Trade Conference in Hong Kong was the starting point of the "direct action" that emer...
Ghost Town
Released on: 2016-06-11
Animation, Drama, War
While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of d...
This Light Rains
Released on: 2007-04-15
Drama, War
On the morning a soldier leaves for war, he must bring his family together or risk losing them forev...
17th Parallel, Nights and Days
Released on: 1973-01-01
Drama, War, History
Following the 1954 Geneva Accords that partitioned Vietnam into two zones at the 17th parallel, a pr...
Mong Kok First Aid
Released on: 2020-02-03
Documentary
Mong Kok First Aid investigates the experiences and unheard stories of a group of young volunteers w...
Há Sempre Alguém Que Te Ama
Released on: 2004-10-14
Documentary
Filmed immediately after the end of the civil war in Angola, Há Sempre Alguém Que Te Ama records the...
The Collaborator
Released on: 2024-10-18
Drama, War
When a teenage boy's best friend disappears during the army's occupation of Kashmir in 1993, he will...
Ten Thousand Li Ahead
Released on: 1941-01-01
Drama, War
Driver Ko Wah (Lee Ching) refuses to transport ammunitions for the enemy, and is sent to jail after ...
Superpower
Released on: 2023-02-17
Documentary
Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s documentary, shot just before and after Russian invasion of Ukraine on...
Anti-XRL Campaign - Media Perspective
Released on: 2010-11-06
Documentary
In late 2009, over twenty Hong Kong civic groups united as the "Anti-High-Speed Rail, Stop Funding" ...
Lai Man-wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary
In the life of Mr. Lai Man-wai, he had seen the most turbulent times of recent Chinese history. From...
In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland
Released on: 2021-03-01
Documentary
As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker...
PITFALL
Released on: 2017-09-09
War, Drama
Amidst the horror and chaos of war, two enemies are forced into an unholy alliance in the battle for...
The Third Day
Released on: 2025-07-04
War, Drama, History
As his son is drafted into the army, a father volunteers months later to serve in the same regiment,...
Bengal Memory
Released on:
Documentary, History
A Bangladeshi American undertakes a journey to learn about the liberation war in his native country,...
Lie
Released on: 2006-06-07
Drama, War
The film is about the inner suffering and conflictions of Yavar, father of a soldier, who can't give...
Echoes of fighting
Released on: 2021-01-01
Documentary
On the 14th of November 2020 the Polisario Front considered breaking the ceasefire calling on the Un...