4.5(2 votes)
4h 10m
1984-07-01
en
The Cowra Breakout 1984
A Powerful Drama of Men and Ideals at War
WarDramaActionTV Movie
Synopsis
In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.