Nanking
2007, NR, 89 min.
Directed by Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Not reviewed at press time due to sudden opening date change. This vivid documentary account of the Japanese “rape of Nanking” in 1937 includes the reading (by Mariel Hemingway, Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff, and others) of diaries, letters, and other accounts of the exceptionally vicious invasion written by the expats and survivors.

This article appears in March 14 • 2008.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.