The Cowra Breakout

• TV Show
• 1985-04-16
• EN
• Ended
• 2h 0m
• AU

• 7.0
• 2

Production

Kennedy Miller Productions

Storyline

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.