4 real historical locations · China
Based on the true story of British journalist George Hogg, who during the Second Sino-Japanese War took charge of an orphanage and led sixty orphaned children on a 700-mile trek across the Gobi Desert to safety.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning China.
British journalist George Hogg helps evacuate 60 orphaned children across the mountains of Shanxi Province as Japanese forces advance — a true story of extra...
George Aylwin Hogg (1909-1945) was a British journalist and aid worker who ran the Shandan Bailie School in China. In 1945 he led 60 orphans on a 1,200-km trek across the Qilian Mountains to Shandan in Gansu Province ...
View location →British journalist George Hogg arrives in Nanjing in the aftermath of the massacre to witness Japanese atrocities. He is saved by guerrilla leader Jack Chen ...
The Nanjing Massacre (December 1937 – January 1938) resulted in an estimated 300,000 Chinese deaths. Hogg arrived shortly after and documented the devastation before being sent to Huang Shi.
View location →George Hogg takes charge of a war orphanage at Huang Shi, caring for over 60 children while the Japanese advance threatens. He transforms the orphanage into ...
The real George Hogg ran the Baili Boys School in Shandan (not Huang Shi as the film depicts). He cared for approximately 60 orphaned boys and was helped by New Zealander Rewi Alley.
View location →Hogg leads the sixty children on a 1,000-kilometre trek across mountains to safety in remote Shandan in Gansu Province, escaping the advancing Japanese front.
The real trek to Shandan in 1945 covered mountain terrain across the Qilian range. George Hogg died of tetanus in Shandan in July 1945, weeks after completing the journey. He was 30.
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