Film

The Cowra Breakout

Age rating

M

Director

Chris Noonan

Year

1984

A Powerful Drama of Men and Ideals at War

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.