Nanking (2007 film)

Nanking
Nanking film poster
Directed by	Bill Guttentag Dan Sturman
Written by	Bill Guttentag Dan Sturman Elisabeth Bentley
Produced by	Ted Leonsis Bill Guttentag Michael Jacobs
Starring	Rosalind Chao Stephen Dorff John Getz Woody Harrelson Mariel Hemingway Michelle Krusiec Jürgen Prochnow Sonny Saito Graham Sibley Robert Wu
Cinematography	Stephen Kazmierski Buddy Squires
Edited by	Hibah Sherif Frisina Charlton McMillan Michael Schweitzer
Music by	Philip Marshall
Distributed by	Fortissimo Films (world) THINKFilm (U.S.) CCTV (China)
Release dates	January 20, 2007 (2007-01-20) (Sundance) July 3, 2007 (2007-07-03) (China)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Mandarin (Nanjing dialect) Japanese

Nanking (Chinese: 南京) is a 2007 documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre, committed in 1937 by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. It was inspired by Iris Chang's book The Rape of Nanking (1997), which discussed the persecution and murder of the Chinese by the Imperial Japanese Army in the then-capital of Nanjing at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre. Contemporary actors play the roles of the Western missionaries, professors, and businessmen who formed the Nanking Safety Zone to protect the city's civilians from Japanese forces. Particular attention is paid to Nazi Party member John Rabe, a German businessman who organized the Nanking Safety Zone, Robert O. Wilson, a surgeon who remained in Nanjing to care for legions of victims, and Minnie Vautrin, a missionary educator who rendered aid to thousands of Nanjing's women.