Unwanted Soldiers
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Directed by | Jari Osborne |
Written by | Jari Osborne |
Narrated by | Jari Osborne |
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Country | Canada |
Unwanted Soldiers is a 1999 made-for-TV documentary written, directed and narrated by Jari Osborne for the National Film Board of Canada. It won the Canada Award at the 2000 Gemini Awards.
The film tells the story of Osborne's father and other Chinese-Canadian veterans who fought in World War II, documenting a history of discrimination against them and the Chinese-Canadian community in British Columbia. Osborne's father and his compatriots recall their training for clandestine missions behind enemy lines in Southeast Asia, as they fought for a country that had discriminated again them.[1]
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External links
- Watch Unwanted Soldiers at NFB.ca
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Unwanted Soldiers at IMDb
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Categories:
- 1999 films
- 1999 television films
- 1990s documentary films
- Canadian films
- Canadian documentary films
- Chinese-Canadian films
- National Film Board of Canada documentaries
- Documentary films about racism in Canada
- Documentary films about World War II
- Documentary films about veterans
- Canada Award-winning programs
- Films shot in British Columbia
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in Canada
- 1990s Canadian film stubs
- War documentary film stubs