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Years after winning an Olympic gold medal, Eric Liddell returns to China to teach school and stays to protect the local citizens when China is invaded by Japan at the beginning of World War II.
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"After winning Olympic gold in the 1924 Paris Olympics, Eric Liddell has returned to China, where he was born to missionary parents, to teach local schoolchildren. In 1937, the Japanese invade China at the outset of WWll. Liddell and his friend Xu Niu, a street-smart resistance fighter, recognize the increasing danger so Liddell sends his wife, Florence, and their two daughters to safety in Canada. Duty-bound, Liddell stays to minister to the civilian victims. Liddell and other foreign nationals are taken as prisoners and placed in one of the many Japanese internment camps where they are forced to endure for two years. Eric Liddell’s immortal legacy of hope continues to this day as he remains admired as a champion for life."
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