"A Powerful Drama of Men and Ideals at War" 01 July 1984 Drama, Action, War 250 mins
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.
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Alan David Lee as Stan Davidson
George Miller Producer
Australia 01 July 1984
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Ben Hardy and Ralph Jones manned the Vickers machine gun and began firing into the first wave of Japanese escapees making for the fenceline.
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