Nanking

Older Comments on Nanking

• Posted 02/20/11 by ramiro
  dead to the Japanese
• Posted 01/10/11 by Alfredo G. Pacio
  What a priceless legacy bequeathed to mankind by the photographers who took those pictures in Nanking during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. I was born in Qctober 1, 1937 and it was only this year (2010) that, through the internet, I have come across the historical videos aboue World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, Battle of Great Brteain, Dunkirk, Tobruk, among many battles that depicted the leadership of Britain, the United States, Canadan Australia, Russia, and China in defeating fascism and in saving our democratic civilization, On various on these historical videos, China and the Philippive were menttioned as the Asian countries that suffered similar attrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during the Fall of Nanking, Singapore and the Philippines! I admit that tears were flowing down my cheeks when viewing these factual historical films about the Rape of Nanking and the sufferings of the Jews in German concentration Camps. Would that the world's democracies be always guided by able and wise leaders, the like Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, MacArthue, to prevent such war as brught about by Hitler, Hirohito (throuh his tacit implementation of the Tanaka doctrine) and Mussolini. Tenaka! 92010) that
• Posted 11/16/10 by Ted Lewis
  A disturbing, moving and inspiring account of the horrors of war and how the efforts of committed individuals to a humanitarian cause can truly make a difference against an overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable adversary. A chronicle of the inhumanity inherent in warfare and a stirring testament of courage and the indomitable human spirit. To hear it in the matter-of-fact words of the participants taken from their letters, journals and diaries and interviews with actual survivors is especially impactful. "Nanking" takes it's place alongside other documentaries of; the Holocaust; the gulags of Stalin; the killing fields of Laos; the genocides of Armenia and other atrocities. It also leaves us with the question; Does distance, circumstance and nationality absolve us from responsibility in these human affairs? How can we continue to rationalize inaction in the knowledge of such horror?
• Posted 11/14/10 by Tommy Peters
  I can't forget Minnie Vautrin, Iris Chang and several others. There are documentaries out there but this is it. As much as Iris was exposing the evidence her target was, which the documentary failed to highlight, the Revisionist Historian. http://youtu.be/BsQZ7DGVWV4
• Posted 06/16/10 by Admin
  JxB- Thank you for your comment - We have made several adjustments to the ad placements in this film. In the same way as television programming, we have to have ad breaks throughout our content (a portion of the revenue is shared with the filmmakers). We hope with further growth to be able, in the future, to attract sponsors who will allow us to provide films with fewer or no interruptions. Thank you for visiting us - we greatly appreciate your input.
• Posted 06/14/10 by JxB
  A truly shocking and deeply moving presentation. I will not sleep well tonight. And yet I would highly recommend viewing this tragic event and the glory of the people who tried to stop it. However I do have to make one quite negative comment about this site which has to do with advertising. While I understand the need for funding, perhaps there is some other way to manage the advertising. Perhaps it could all be done up-front. But being snapped back to reality from scene showing a pile of slaughtered babies by a commercial for diapers acts more as a sad commentary on our present world than it does to promote the sale of the product. Something as intense as this movie should not be interrupted by commercialism in this way. And I am not exaggerating what happened. The scene literally was showing a pile of dead infants when it cut to a diaper commercial. That stole so much of the impact of what I was watching and replaced it with an entirely different message.
• Posted 05/15/10 by Chato
  This was a very deep and thought provoking documentary. Extremely well done and informative. Through all the madness and violence, it was moving to see regular people take a moral stand. Christian missionaries, a Nazi, doctors and others forging not only a plan to save thousands but working together amid the horrors of war and keeping the Japanese aggressors at bay. Nanking showed the horrors of war. But it also showed the capacity of the human spirit to do good - despite all odds.
• Posted 05/10/10 by Louise
  Its horrifying what countries have done in the past but incredible what they still do - the persecution of the Falun Gong (google it) practitioners in China is going on now, is barbaric, horrific and completely unnecessary. Nick I know this is your opinion '...we shall never treat others in such beasty ways as those Japanese invaders did to us.' But the Chinese government has and is. They torture and imprison Tibetans and their own people in forced labour camps and people are dying. 'Mr. Liang, who suffered terrible torture in custody, died on May 1st, 2010 in Gongzhuling Central Hospital under surveillance of Gongzhuling City Prison guards.' See clearharmony.net Such human rights abuses have become acceptable to the business world. That's why they continue in places like the Sudan, Congo, India, and the middle east. They will continue until we stop them - but we have to know about them first. What are you doing to stop them?
• Posted 05/10/10 by Gelbert
  Its Horrible x1000 in those days! now I saw the story of my great grand parents thanks for the Documentary film makers!
• Posted 03/30/10 by bellagatta
  I sent this snag film to many of my friends both Japanese & Chinese. ) I lived in Japan and also lived in Taiwan & Hong Kong ) Japanese were shock and most did not know about this since it was a well kept secret in Japan. Chinese knew about this and how cruel Japanese can be. I remember years back when a few Japanese tourist went to China and started to sing War songs in China!! I think they were kicked out. I 've been to Hiroshima and read the guest book at the museum, asking if Japan deserved the Atomic bomb~ most wrote Yes! ( all were foreigner who wrote in the guest book ), Japane never apologized to China. They are in denial. They were shamed when they surrender in WW2. I was in Southern Japan and went to a " Club Bar" that had the flag "Rising Sun Ensign " & war uniforms on display, and had all these old guys singing war songs." Banzai" after each drink~ Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last, desperate military charge....it was real creepy!
• Posted 03/08/10 by Me Fook Yuan
  Please post a documentary about the Japanese medical experiment Unit 731 (infamous in China for their vivisections) in Hebei Province. Or perhaps viewers get it from Australia's ABC Foreign Correspondent archives.
• Posted 02/18/10 by Bellagatta
  In Japan most young people do not know about world war 2 and the behavior of their fathers ~ grndfather etc ~ it is kept out of their History books. It is not taught in school. A few Japanese friends saw some war movies in the USA and did not know of Japan's defeat or what the Japanese did in China~ Indonesia ~ etc. They were shock. ( back in the 80's ). Now with the internet I bet they can get updated!
• Posted 02/05/10 by nick
  I am Chinese. I don't hate Japanese. My nation of China survived. After so many years, now, my country has become stronger than Japan, both economically and militarily. We Chinese should never forget the pain forced upon us during this period by Japanese, not for perpetual hating them, but to re-affirm our love for each of country man and to teach ous that, when China soon becomes a superpower, we shall never treat others in such beasty ways as those Japanese invaders did to us!
• Posted 02/05/10 by keithsoulasa
  Show this to anyone who demonizes America in its foreign policy, we've never done nothing like this... Its good to know individual's can still be good people and the hotel rawanda thing has happened so many times thoughout history there might just be hope for man
• Posted 01/11/10 by Michael
  The human race sickens me, animals behave better than we do. Also, don't give me that story that there are some good people in the world--the world stood by and continues to stand by today and do nothing. It's time for the Apocolypse.
• Posted 12/04/09 by zhihao
  a big reason why the japanese deserved the atomics bombs...im sad the tojos surrendered so early, could have plotted 2 more on them
• Posted 11/02/09 by jonathan
  it is super ironic to see hollywood leftists being so appalled at what is clearly what they advocate. chairman Mao came and killed another 70 million Chinese. what the Japanese did was bad but neither are victims. so sad to see free people behave as moral superiorists all the while supporting these murderers as the communists canvased SE Asia. Sean Penn and others legitimizing socialism. ask a Vietnamese person what they think about being abandoned. ask the 34 million killed by the communists of Burma, Vietnam and Cambodia! Sick, guilty, rich, liberal white people trying to shed their collective guilt. sickening at best
• Posted 10/17/09 by typo
  the adverts ruined the emotional trip of this amazing movie. thank you pantene, colgate, and all the others that think their products are more important than the congruent telling of such an emotional story. i was weeping within the first fifteen minutes, then torn from the world created by the people that made this movie by the selfish and self-important advertisers. not only was i not interested in your products before the adverts, i'm doubly uninterested in your products now. bravo to the makers of this film. god bless the victims of this horrific war crime. god forgive the perpetrators of such an immeasurable sin. there is nothing close to hate speech, spam, or inappropriateness in this posting. removal of it would be another shining example of selfishness. just as the world needs to know about the events in this movie, the world should know about the indifference shown by nameless, faceless corporations in the pursuit of profits.
• Posted 10/15/09 by ANGI
  THIS FILM WAS EYE OPENING GREAT AND A LEARNING EXPIRENCE
• Posted 10/14/09 by Peter
  My parents are from China. My father from Macau (formerly a Portugese territory) and my mother is from Shanghai. My mothers father was from the United States. My mothers mother, I believe, was Chinese but she states otherwise saying she is of Portugese decent and born in Hong Kong. My mothers mother looked VERY Chinese and spoke Mandarine and Cantonese fluently. She claims not to have parents. This makes me wonder if she was sold as a young girl, as a lot of gilrs were because they were not as "valuable" as sons. I've heard stories from my mother of terror during the war years. How they were kicked out of their home, their servants shot to death on thier front lawn, and my grandfather imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp where he would eventually die. Leaving my mother and grandmother on the streets. The stories can go on and on. But when I see this film I am touched and almost feel like I was there with everything I've heard over the years. It was the other holocaust that people very rarely talk about. It's always about the extermination of the jews. Sad in it's own right. But there was much devistation and loss of life all over the world. Not just Europe. I am American born from my French/American mother and my Portugese father. I don't look Chinese. I was raised eating rice, using chinese slang and was taught Chinese etiquette. But I feel more Chinese than anything else. And sometimes I do wonder "what am I"?
• Posted 10/04/09 by Ron
  What is sad is this still happens!
• Posted 09/30/09 by americans Devan,Anthony,and Luis
  This is one of the most unfortunate events that has occurred in world history!! the amount of devastation that accurred in nanking was just a sample to what the people had to face beyond the camera!! the japaneese need to make a an official apology to the citizens of nanking!! I know an apology cant change what happened but some sign of remorse would be necesarry!!!!we as americans know we have done wrong to alot of nations and are not here to judge the japanese people but are truly sorry about this event. thank you
• Posted 09/28/09 by praveen
  the events that unfolded in nanking in 1937 is a sad story that is unheard of. why did the japanese soldiers kill and rape 300,000 chinese civilians is an atrocity that is unmatched. the barbaric killing of the innocent. i just read the book "the rape of nanking" by iris chang. why did she commint suicide??? was she supposed killed by japanese too?? it is sad but true. the pictures depicting women as sex slaves or comfort women to the japanese army is a sign of how torturous they were. to rape,torture, mutilate girls and older women is mind blowing.yet in our history books afew pages mention the rape of nanking. more attention is given to the jewish holocaust. japan tried to cover it up if it were not for a few souls that risked their life to save the chinese people. let us never forget what happened there..the unforgotten holocaust of asia. if we do then we are doomed to repeat the past.
• Posted 09/26/09 by Jeffrey Long
  After seeing this movie, is there any wonder that God's answer to Nanking was--Hiroshima and Nagasaki? ...and that most famous and towering, and wise of American leaders since George Washington: General Douglas MacArthur. He DID return, and all the way to gates of Nippon itself! As is so often the case, the Christian missionaries are the heroes if anyone can be justly accorded that designation. A truly magnificent production illuminating one of those dark episodes of history we'd all like to forget. But, like Rwanda, Cambodia--the Holocaust itself--it needs to be studied so that the descendants of those Chinese and Japanese today and in years to come will determine to never let such evil happen again. As for the "Safe Zone"? "The Name of the LORD is a strong tower, the righteous run (only) into it and are safe."
• Posted 08/14/09 by John J. Grimes
  I can see that from some of the comments above that the old belief that organized religion itself is the cause of more deaths than anything else. Whether it is fanatical nationalism or religious fanaticism, nobody wins in the end. One can pray 5, 10 or 20 times per day, they can fast for a week but it matters not if their heart is filled with hate. This film is simplay magnificent. That is what we should be talking about and not one's God or Gods.
• Posted 07/21/09 by Kevin
  I would also like to comment on Tom's ignorant statement about the "Christian Bible". People should refrain from speaking about that which they know nothing of. Jesus on numerous occasions spoke of love, tolerance and forgiveness of all. Luke 6:27-28: …Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. These are the actions of men, and not supported by Christ or his teachings. You could find justification in the Quran and hiostorical accounts of Muhamed in the Hadith for such atrocities, but not the New Testement. 023.005 YUSUFALI: Who abstain from sex, 023.006 YUSUFALI: Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (in their case) they are free from blame, Sahih Bukhari Volume 3, Book 34, Number 432: Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: that while he was sitting with Allah's Apostle he said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get female captives as our share of booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interrupt us?" The Prophet said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence.
• Posted 07/21/09 by Liam
  I just have few thigs to say, with my littel english that i can write, i just can say, that war is dificult for all, it afect, people, soldiers mind, in the end soldiers are people to, in my country there was civil war, and people turn it to other people and it was horrible, all suffer, just people that are in top don't but in the end we all are humans, and i think will should stop this wars, and take care of are future generations.
• Posted 07/05/09 by PHIL
  A powerful film that unveils human capacity to inflict unfathomable pain on others. A correction to Tom, below: It's not the "Christian" bible that says "an eye for an eye..."---this is an Old Testament passage which Jesus turned upside down with "turn the other cheek." He was killed for such confusing heresy....
• Posted 06/25/09 by Tom
  Dear snagfilms, thank you for making this very important movie available. I had not heard of it prior to this. Sadly it is not the sort of movie that usually does well in mainstream movie theaters. One of the things that this movie causes me to think about is context. People do not act in a vacume, there is usually some reason (real or imagined), for why they do the things that they have done. For instance, I remember back in the 80's when Japan was sponsoring exhibits in america which were basically telling us how terrible we were for dropping the atom bomb on them. But when you watch a movie like this you can see the clear justification for what was done. But the thing that I am really wondering about is what caused the Japanese to behave in this way. What is the context and motives for such inhuman behavior? It would be interesting to know more about the history of Japanese Chinese interactions. For surely as we have seen with Tibet, the Chinese are no saints. I am not saying that the past justifies such atrocious actions, but they obviously did fell justified. The Christian Bible Teaches "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth". And this very sadly is the level of thinking at which many people function. But if you pursue this to it's ultimate conclusion then "The world shall be toothless and blind". Fortunately there is also another principle, one which people often speak but seldom practice. "To forgive is divine".
• Posted 06/20/09 by Bennett
  Joyce Fredman fails to mention the murder of half of all European Jews during World War. She also fails to mention numerous bombings of civilians in Israel by terrorists and daily firing of rockets into town that are adjacent to Gaza.
• Posted 06/19/09 by joycefredman
  It is not just Japan. Look at how Israel treats the Palestinians today, look at Darfur, look at China and North Korea. This film tells the brutal truth, necessary to be heard if we are to face up to the heart of darkness in humanity. It shows the eternal beauty of individual integrity.
• Posted 06/06/09 by Bill
  When will we learn from history? Today, are we going to let North Korea and Iran be the next great oppressors and subject millions of people to the cruelties these oppressors would have no sensitivity against committing? Japan and Germany are no longer the oppressors...but other countries can slowly reach the point where we cannot stop them. Unless we become educated and pay attention.
• Posted 06/01/09 by Nanson Hwa
  The perspectives of the Japanese government and the actions of the Japanese military establishment are separate and distinct from the sentiments and views of the Japanese people who have been oppressed and were indentured servants in their own closed society. The media selected what news was to be reported and pictures were to be shown to the Japanese public for control, manipulation and deception. The idea of a strong national identity, superiority and arrogance adopted from German culture and military advisers was needed to embark on a journey for world conquest and subjugation of other Asian countries, thus the inhumanity to man by aggressor nations was justified.
• Posted 05/31/09 by D.M.
  What is with the Japanese? How could such arrogance continue to this day? I have no respect for their not, as a nation, admitting to and apologizing for such atrocities. Disgusting and disgraceful. It seems to me that their culture has always controlled, oppressed and disrespected women.
• Posted 05/30/09 by Eddie Exford
  I was very aware of the creulty and savagetry of the soilders of the Germany on Europe. After seeing this film I have come to realize that during this time period there was severe cruelty by the groups that began/initiaited this horrible war. It is obvious that even today we may not know of other war crimes and mass murders. God bless their souls.
• Posted 05/30/09 by sue
  this is an amazing film. I know about europe but know almost nothing about china. It was eye opening. I agree with the other post that said this should be mandatory viewing by all
• Posted 05/28/09 by 2nd Generation
  I saw this on dvd a while back. Such a powerful and well done documentary about war and the impact it has for future generations. I have an old photo book from China that has pictures and accounts of what happened in Nanking during WW2. I was even gonna make a documentary about this too. Japan should accept what it had done and not hide anymore. Germany had/has done the honorable thing of accepting blame and educating its citizens about what happened during that time.
• Posted 05/26/09 by boricua
  this is as bad as the holocaust.should be mandatory viewing in every school in the world.
• Posted 05/25/09 by Donald
  This segment in time was not that long ago and it tells us that no one is safe against any atrosities, misuse, torture or mutilation of common people. The United States can also be at risk if the time is ever taken against us and we bacome the lessor and loose a war. If this happens be certian that American men, women and children will be at the odds of the enemy. Let us never take down our guard and always keep America strong in every conceiveable military way to prevent any country from doing the same to those of us who live in America.
• Posted 05/23/09 by Armond
  A truly moving story about what happened in Nanking. This all had taken place before I was born. But, even though I knew of some wartime crimes happening there I could never have imagined the amount of atrocities that have become evident through this film.
• Posted 05/23/09 by Chris
  Powerful film, it blew me away
• Posted 05/19/09 by Anju Wilson
  Wow... wonderful, truly moving documentary. I cannot believe the world stood still during that time and did nothing. Volume is very low for the film
• Posted 05/18/09 by sherwin
  doesn't play. the sponsor video just keeps repeating. i'm using firefox on macbook.
• Posted 05/17/09 by Rick Allen
  Paul: Nanking has never been available (legally) online prior to our screening. Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms
• Posted 05/17/09 by PAUL
  Excellent documentary, but not online premiere! It as been available online for over a year.Just giving credit where it's due.
• Posted 05/16/09 by nova
  after watching the citibank commercial, the film was not shown..the white circle on the right hand corner keeps on circling...circling. fyi, i tried to watch the films in hong kong witha a eeepc laptop. mediator www.asia-conciergecom