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1) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1965
Description
An American World War II POW in a brutal Japanese prison camp in Singapore seeks dominance over both captive and captors using human courage, his understanding of human weaknesses, and willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power.
Publisher
Railway Man Pty Ltd, Railway Man Limited, Screen Queensland Pty Limited, Screen NSW and Screen Australia
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
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Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
Soldiers' Stories on Film (Bedford)
WML Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
Soldiers' Stories on Film (Bedford)
WML Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
Description
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
4) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
7) Unbroken
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
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Description
Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to...
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
During World War II, the Far East island of Borneo is captured by the Japanese. Based on true events, this is the story of American author Agnes Newton Keith, who along with her husband, a British administrator, is arrested. Their family is separated and placed into different prison camps. The camp commander takes an avid interest in the authoress, but does not intervene when she is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Unbroken": Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
"Unbroken : path to redemption" : When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story...
11) Paradise road
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Fact-based recounti ng of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
