TV Show Details
Air Date:April 16th, 1985
Last Air Date:April 23rd, 1985
Network:10
Status:Ended
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Kennedy Miller Productions
The Cowra Breakout (1985)
10
Miniseries
TV Series
Audience Score
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.
