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The Cowra Breakout (movie)
- User score: 4.5
- Production country: Australia
- Producer: Chris Noonan , Phillip Noyce
- Genre: War, Drama, Action, TV Movie
- Release date: 7/1/1984
- Run time: 250 min.
Movie description
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.