| A War Story | |
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| Directed by | Anne Wheeler |
| Written by | Anne Wheeler |
| Produced by | Tom Radford Anne Wheeler |
| Starring | David Edney Frank C. Turner |
| Narrated by | diary Donald Sutherland story Anne Wheeler |
| Cinematography | Robert Nichol Ron Orieux |
| Edited by | Ray Harper |
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| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
A War Story is a 1981 Canadian docudrama produced, written, and directed by Anne Wheeler. It tells the story of her father Major Ben Wheeler when he was captured by the Japanese during the Second World War.
The film also shows the Japanese perspective as it shows the harsh, inhuman treatment of the POWs. During that time, A Japanese soldier would kill himself before allowing himself to be taken prisoner. This cultural difference caused the Japanese to look at captured soldiers as having no honour. At the end of the film, as the Americans arrived to liberate the camps, many of the Japanese guards at the camp committed suicide rather than become prisoners.