Bataan Rescue

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United States

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This PBS documentary covers the 1942 fall of Bataan and the 1945 raid that freed over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese camp in the Philippines. It presents the events through archival footage and expert commentary.

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What happens

Bataan Rescue is a 2003 television documentary film about the Raid at Cabanatuan (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Cabanatuan). Produced by PBS for the American Experience documentary program, it begins with the Fall of Bataan (Filipino: Pagsuko ng Bataan) in 1942 up to the titular event in January 1945, where more than 500 prisoners of war were liberated from a Japanese camp in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. Directed by Peter Jones and written and produced by David Axelrod, the film first aired on PBS in the United States on July 7, 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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