Added: Aug 23, 2011
From: nologorecords
Duration: 63:7
DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005B1Z5/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399377&creativeASIN=B00005B1Z5 http://thefilmarchive.org/ The Battle of China (1944) was the sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series.[1] It follows an introduction to Chinese culture and history with the modern history of China and the founding of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen, leading on to the Japanese invasion. The invasion of China is explained in terms of the four-step plan for Japanese conquest, mentioned in the Tanaka Memorial. "Here was their mad dream. Phase One - the occupation of Manchuria for raw materials. Phase Two - the absorption of China for manpower. Phase Three - a triumphant sweep to the south to seize the riches of the Indies. Phase Four - the eastward move to crush the United States." Special attention is paid to Japanese atrocities such as the bombing of Shanghai, including an attack on civilians shown in "Bloody Saturday", the famous image of a burned Chinese baby crying in a bombed-out railroad station. As well it includes graphic film footage of the Nanking Massacre atrocities. The film mentions a Nanking massacre death toll of 40,000 -- far lower than modern estimates; the true death toll was unknown at the time. The mass westward migration associated with the moving of the Chinese capital to Chongqing, and the construction of the Burma Road are also covered, and the film concludes with overview of the Chinese victory at the Battle of Changsha. The Chinese communists are never explicitly mentioned, but are implicitly acknowledged with a discussion of Chinese guerrilla warfare behind the Japanese lines. Likewise, American support in the form of the Flying Tigers, construction of the Ledo Road, and the Hump airlift are mentioned near the end of the film but in a manner not to overshadow the Chinese war effort. The introductory maps shown in the film show China as including Outer Mongolia and Tannu Tuva, as they were, at this time, claimed by the Republic of China. These areas are not claimed by present-day People's Republic of China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_China
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Rating: 4.6190476' max='5' min='1' numRaters='63' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 48483 Comments: 71
yudhisyudhis12 Says:
Apr 11, 2012 - Banzai..!! Sieg Hail Japonese! Sieg Hail Nazi! Viva le Axis!
naoatjp Says:
Apr 14, 2012 - The WAR PROPAGANDA FILM, so, almost all the scenes of this video is covered with mis-patches. In reality, at that time, Chinese Air Force bombed many non-military-buildings, some of those scenes have recorded in this video, and have been blamed by foreign countries. China wanted to exterminate the Qing-Dynasty, but Japan stopped it and has helped Qing keeping their own old home ground.
naoatjp Says:
Apr 14, 2012 - Before those Wars, many foreign countries' men in China, including Japanese, have been Robbed, raped, been beaten, been massacred, like the methods that are displayed in the "Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall". ( I don't know why, China, even though she prefer the propaganda so much, is not post the pages of "Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall" at Wikipedia in other words on Earth, except Chinese, English and Japanese.)
zzuserz Says:
Apr 14, 2012 - XAXAXA lol that's really funny. Fucking chinese are all the time cheating. Mongolia And Manchuria is not part of China. Manchurian Qing is not China. China and Manchuria Lost this War. Mongolia and Russia won. China all the time lost all the time cheating. Fuck The chin A
DJBanville Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - have to like this!! My great grand-pa was a major general under Chiang Kai-shek during WW2!!
DJBanville Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - please do speak the truth. Did China have air force at all at the time?? Could they afford air forces?? From what I've heard, their air force was nothing more than hundreds of ww1 airplanes which were leftovers from the Europeans.
DJBanville Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - see if you could use kung fu stuff to scare off armed robbers in Harlem during the small hours.
DJBanville Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - I wholeheartedly agree with what my grandpa once told me about the Japanese-Chinese war: It was largely the Chinese's fault. If you are weak, somebody will attack you. If you don't counterattack, you have to face the music and be looked down upon. Don't find excuses. Failure is failure, however you want to explain it. According to what grandpa said about the Chinese in the 1940s, most of the Chinese were illiterate, dumb, and indifferent to everything except their families. Totally hopeless.
legendarybloodfang Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - now its the complete opposite XDDD
eeg10 Says:
Apr 22, 2012 - The Qing dynasty was already gone by this time. Japan invaded Manchuria during the middle of the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists.
TianyieSeiWoi Says:
Apr 26, 2012 - yup correct. ROC took over 1911. Manchurian Incident occurs in 1931 no doubt this film probably has some propaganda, yet that's a common trait of all war "informational films".
kazuko289 Says:
Apr 26, 2012 - Bomber was done by Jiang Jieshi who escaped to Taiwan. Footage is USA compilation. Japan invested to Manchuria. USA invested to Southern China. German invested to Tibet. Russian invested to Mongol and Machuria. Those imperialists were in war in China. The most cunning sly was American USA. Truman was Terrorist.
clee19821013 Says:
Apr 28, 2012 - it did, mostly supplied by the Soviet Union, not state of the art (from Soviet Union's perspective), but not WWI era airplane either. Some German supplied ones as well. Not that many American made until later
FahrradcamOsnabrueck Says:
May 1, 2012 - 0:43:30 look like german helm´s
Lucas19870415 Says:
May 12, 2012 - Our country and people have suffered so much. I love China and proud to be Chinese.
SzetoSanjoeng Says:
May 12, 2012 - jaja stupid
SzetoSanjoeng Says:
May 12, 2012 - go to hell!
yuantengfei1 Says:
May 12, 2012 - 真实的历史
syarisyari10 Says:
May 15, 2012 - いきなり不躾な内容で申し訳ありません。余命宣告を受け、残り半年の命です。事の経緯はブログに記載しております。その内容を先に確認して頂ければスムーズにお話も出来ると思います。ブログ→httｐ://145.jp / お好きな額で構いません。私の手元にはブログの写真に貼っている通りです。冷やかしをされる方や中途半端な気持ちの方は最初からお断り致します。体調も日に日に悪くなる一方です...出来れば早急にご連絡をお待ちしてます。気軽にご連絡下さい。ブログ→httｐ://145.jp /
十一億 いりません Says:
May 21, 2012 - 悩みです
MultiManduul Says:
May 22, 2012 - go to hell china
njfaoitpasdkjg Says:
May 25, 2012 - いきなり不躾な内容で申し訳ありません。余命宣告を受け、残り半年の命です。事の経緯はブログに記載しております。その内容を先に確認して頂ければスムーズにお話も出来ると思います。ブログ→httｐ://624.jp / お好きな額で構いません。私の手元にはブログの写真に貼っている通りです。冷やかしをされる方や中途半端な気持ちの方は最初からお断り致します。体調も日に日に悪くなる一方です...出来れば早急にご連絡をお待ちしてます。気軽にご連絡下さい。ブログ→httｐ://624.jp /
dfdflkdsdf Says:
May 25, 2012 - ジャニーズ・韓流・俳優・モデル・歌手ユニット・タレント・有名芸能人のマル秘動画が満載！ え！・・あ○しの松○がフジTVお天気おねえさんと・・・。 サイトはコチラ→httｐ://647.jp / アイドルと逢える！目撃情報なども盛り沢山。サイトはコチラ→httｐ://647.jp /
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
asshimardoughnut Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - Those were the Mongols during their occupation of China. Though I am glad you know where the significance of the word kamikaze comes from.