American Experience Bataan Rescue

Contrast rules of war--and the treatment of POWs-during World War II and today. With chilling testimony from both captive and liberator, BATAAN: DEATH MARCH AND RESCUE depicts the 1941 capture of thousands of Allied soldiers on the Bataan peninsula. Only 500 prisoners in the Cabanatuan camp were rescued. Their valiant struggle to survive a sweltering jungle, disease, deprivation, and brutality is remembered in this stirring documentary.