The Rape of Nanking

Year: 2007

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: English

Directors: Anne Pick, William Spahic

Documentary

A Chinese‑American author, Iris Chang, confronts the horrors of the 1937 Nanking Massacre while researching and writing her bestselling book. Her relentless pursuit reveals the brutal, often overlooked genocide in which roughly 300,000 Chinese civilians—including women, children and soldiers—were raped, tortured and killed by Japanese forces over weeks.

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