The Cowra Breakout

A Powerful Drama of Men and Ideals at War

• War
• Drama
• Action
• TV Movie

• 250 Mins
• 1984
• en

• star4.5/ 10

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.