The Cowra Breakout

1984 • Directed by

Chris Noonan

War, Drama, Action

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.