The Cowra Breakout
TV Series

The Cowra Breakout

7.0 /10 1985 - 1985 1 Season 4 Episodes

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.