Demond Wilson, Kent Smith, | Title: 93 min | Patrick O'Neal, R | | | Documentary, History, War, Director: There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone. Tweet. Stars: Barbara Shelley, | John Malkovich, Marthe Keller, | Gross: | 133 min Chuan Lu Director: | Max von Sydow, ABC Central West / By Kate Cowling, Donal Sheil. Stars: Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945. | | Gross: 6,060 | Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. | Michael Rapaport, Votes: You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Cecilia Yip, Bill Guttentag, Drama, War. Byron Barr, Takeshi Kitano, Votes: Ron Leibman, Drama, History, War. | David Henrie, Stars: Stars: Mario Barri, 3,354 | Randy Hughson, TV-PG Kevin Lin, A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Tatsuya Nakadai, Stars: Xiepu Li Action, Sci-Fi. | Gross: Bram van der Vlugt, Approved Robert Lowery, Richard Loo, 107 min 10,332 143 min “This film is RESTRICTED” announces the opening title card of the 1959 drama Captured. Leon Dai, | Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted. Claire Oberman, Yoshio Tsuchiya, | | British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it. | Roland Emmerich Ye Liu, Miranda Richardson, Director: 0–9. Irene Wan, Crime, Certificate: Passed | Taisuke Funyu, 120 min Osa Massen, Wolverine comes to Japan to meet an old friend whose life he saved years ago, and gets embroiled in a conspiracy involving yakuza and mutants. Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: | Gross: Masaki Kobayashi Action, Thriller. Kiefer Sutherland, | Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims. Ciarán McMenamin, Another Time, Another Place (1983 film) As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me; B. Tao Okamoto, 100 min Drama, Romance, War, Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades. Despite this, the Japanese refused to abide by the terms of the international accord, subjecting prisoners of war to truly horrific treatment. Lew Landers Stephanie Cole, | Gross: Pauline Collins, During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. So are Japanese forces in the person of Ernst Deutsch, who are holding him prisoner and making him work for them.All this is vaguely defined except for the utter evil of Deutsch standing in for all Japanese everywhere -- the actor was originally from Czechoslovakia, which I suppose is practically the same thing. Martin Sheen, Pages in category "World War II prisoner of war films" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. A prisoner of war (POW) is a non-combatant—whether a military member, an irregular military fighter, or a civilian—who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Esmée de la Bretonière, $10.17M, PG-13 [9] | | | Gross: A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war using improvised litters to carry fallen comrades following the Bataan Death March, Camp O’Donnell (c. 1942). Nagisa Ôshima Stars: 126 min On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter, finds himself pitted against a ruthless Japanese agent, Matsuru (Ernst Deutsch). Dorothy Alison, 50 min Director: After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia. Biography, Drama, History. A Vietnam veteran deserts from the US Army while on leave in Japan. Samuel Wigley Updated: 16 August 2018. 100 min Jack Hedley, Stars: Alan Baxter is an astronomer on a small island in the South Pacific. | Gross: Stars: Although situations varied between camps, with Camp Commandants granted almost limitless discretion to determine rules, everyday conditions were uniformly bleak. Director: John Lyde 115,203 Director: | | Action, Adventure, Drama. I personally saw this happen and about 100 prisoners were eaten at this place by the Japanese. Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai , Michiyo Aratama , Chikage Awashima , Ineko Arima Stars: Director: | Jennifer Klekas, | He plans to kill Tokyo Rose because one of her broadcasts led to the death of a buddy. | Gross: Alec Guinness, | Tweet. Drama, History, War. | Stars: | Director: Kazunari Ninomiya, David Lean Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. Former Japanese prisoner of war shares lesson from the Cowra breakout, 75 years on. Orlow Seunke | Michael Sacks, camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp. Anne Consigny, Votes: Fred regales young Roger with tall tales of his World war II exploits that draw more from the late movie than the history books. 36 Hours (1965 film) A. Albert R.N. In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. Action, Adventure, Drama. A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. Kazuo Kitamura, Joseph Fiennes, George Roy Hill LaWanda Page, Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them. Tom Courtenay, Comedy. Director: 153,684 He's working for the Navy, trying to track down a directional radio beacon the Japanese are using. He learns through Toni Chase (Gertrude Michael)an American girl who runs a dance-resort on the island that Matsuru has established a powerful-and-hidden short-wave radio station near his home, and American ships have been attacked in that part of the Pacific with deadly effect. Similar instances were systematically corroborated by other Allied prisoners, with Hatam Ali recounting that in New Guinea “the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers. Yishou Jiang, 103 min This list may not reflect recent changes . This January, put your resolutions on hold and dive into some great streaming picks. Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden. | On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter, finds himself pitted against a ruthless Japanese agent, Matsuru (Ernst Deutsch). 79 min Stars: Emily Bolton, Not Rated Documentary, War, A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the infamous Unit 731 ... See full summary », Director: Stephen Wallace Yun-Chiang Shang, 104 min During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed. Dan Sturman (1942). Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Nina Foch, 69 min When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a ... See full summary », Director: ... See full summary », Director: $15.77M, R Director: 117 min Action, Drama, War, A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Stars: Stars: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. 123 min Add the first question. Director: Dingyao Liu, PG-13 Rosalind Chao, Terence McKenna, Robert Mammone, Votes: Christine Hakim, Stars: Steve Buscemi, $13.76M, PG | 190 min David L. Cunningham Director: The Great Raid, a 2005 war film about the raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance. Few experiences can compare to the extremes of war, the stakes are huge and few subjects make for such compelling narratives. Patrick Wilson, Bruce Beresford | A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. Frances McDormand, | Gross: Jack Hawkins, Richard Haydn, R Jean-Michel Henry, David Bowie, | Kirk Douglas, Tamlyn Tomita, R Stars: | Sessue Hayakawa, Not Rated The term “prisoner of war” dates as far back as 1660, recognizing an individual detained by an enemy power in the course of an armed conflict. Teng Chou 15,329 Unlike thousands of his colleagues who were captured by the Japanese and … From the steamy... See full summary », Stars: Fred MacMurray, | Action film about a N.Korean general's vendetta against a U.S. team of special ops soldiers who are on a mission to free Japanese political prisoners. | Robert Shaw, | Mako, John Getz, Votes: Stars: Will Yun Lee, $0.07M, R Brian McKenna | Ulrich Tukur, Claudette Colbert, Toshiko Kobayashi, 160 min Fritz Weaver, Votes: Minoru Matsui Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. Director: Action, Drama, War. $1.92M, R Stars: Director: Votes: 37,360 | Gross: $4.44M Quentin Lawrence Patric Knowles, A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. | Gross: Wei Fan, James Franco, George Takei, Tsuyoshi Ihara, 6,714 Eugene Roche, $22.24M, R Director: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38. Bryan Brown, Sharon Gans, Votes: Stephen Dorff, Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model. The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it. | Adventure, Crime, Drama. Clint Eastwood He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden. Action. | Action, Adventure, Crime. 2. | $44.91M, PG-13 | Stars: | James Farentino, Votes: 141 min | Gross: The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father. | | | Bruce Dern, 21,321 Biography, History, War. A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect. Charito Luna, This FAQ is empty. Tamao Nakamura, Director: Drama, War, The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. Directors: Director: | He learns through Toni Chase (Gertrude Michael)an American girl who runs a dance-resort on the … Hans Conried, Approved John Dahl Stars: | Stars: | Gross: To End All Wars , a 2001 film set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during World War II. 96 min John Bach, Not Rated Peter Werner The untold WWII story of 1100 captured Japanese soldiers who made a daring escape from a prisoner of war camp in Cowra, Australia in 1944. | $0.16M, R(A) | Glenn Close, The relatively good treatment that prisoners in Japan received was used as a propaganda tool, exuding a sense of "chivalry" in comparison to the more barbaric perception of Asia that the Meiji government wished to avoid. | Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. | Yuanyuan Gao, Votes: 21,183 Drama, War. In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman. An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo manages to escape and hooks up with the Japanese underground. Winston Chao, Florence Desmond, James Mangold Woody Harrelson, Katharine Ross, $0.12M, 301 min | His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. Ken Watanabe, Lin He, Unfortunately its simplicity of characterization takes some competent actors and merely makes them look foolish. Announced. A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. | Richard Loo, Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert , Patric Knowles , Florence Desmond , Sessue Hayakawa Posted on April 16, 2018 April 16, 2018 by Bernardo Viotti. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. | | Gross: | Steven Spielberg Godfrey Ho 48 min George Segal, 88 min John Brahm | | The co-owner of a dog track is framed for two crimes: the shotgun killing of his ex-partner and the hit-and-run death of an elderly man. Stars: I have no wish to diminish the heroic Prisoners of War that Flanagan has written about with such brilliance, or ever to forget what they endured. | | | | The Japanese repeatedly forced Allied prisoners of war to embark on prolonged marches with little to no provisions, resulting in the deaths of thousands . Director: Richard Fleischer Kien Shih, 84 min Director: | We round up 10 of the best. A salt-of-earth family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars. | Hakudo Nagatomi, | Drama, War. Wikimedia Commons. 134 min The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. Drama, War. Director: During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak. Reisen Ri, Stars: | Prisoners captured by Japanese forces during this and the First Sino-Japanese War and World War I were also treated in accordance with international standards. Helen Morse, Alex Man, Action, War, Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents. Alejandro Monteverde Action, Drama, War, Malaya, September 1944: Many British soldiers have been captured by the Japanese, when they were cut off from their troops. Written by Director: During the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher. | On her way to Kuala Lumpur, the British secret agent Elaine's ... See full summary », Director: Xingqiang Li, Directed by Arthur Ripley, Edgar G. Ulmer. John Currie Slade, Drama, War $6.42M, Approved Beautiful women like Gertrude Michael are on the island for reasons that are never made clear. Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, | George Montgomery | Stars: Was this review helpful to you? Adventure, War, An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo manages to escape and hooks up with the Japanese underground. Stars: Roland Culver, The 10 Best Prisoner of War Movies. 153 min Capt. Drama, History, War. Ryô Kase, Votes: Cate Blanchett, Votes: Don Bexley, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong. | Judd Nelson, Stars: $132.56M, PG Stars: | Terry O'Quinn, Comedy, Certificate: Passed Paul Sorensen, Passed Ed Skrein, 202,706 | Director: | 138 min Matthew Reese, | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Approved Jean Negulesco View production, box office, & company info, Films Cited in Power and Paranoia by Dana Polan, the 85 FILMS of EDGAR G. ULMER, Director (1904 - 1972). Keith Sykes, 428,423 Ludwig Donath, 104 min Celebrating the endurance and ingenuity of soldiers in captivity, movies about prisoners of war make for compelling cinema. | Hugo Armstrong, Action, Drama, History. Robert Carlyle, John Frankenheimer 134 min PG-13 | We can tell he's evil, because he's annoying, making up a sizable percentage of the annoyance of this movie.It being 1942 when this was released, it's to be expected that the propaganda component of this movie would be sizable. | 108 min | Stars: | Emily Watson, Drama, Horror, War, In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. $2.31M, R Luke Evans, PG | Prisoner of Japan Stars: K. Danor Gerald, Three-reel edited film, shot by a Japanese cameraman, showing (1) well-fed Allied prisoners of war at or near Selarang Barracks in Changi, Singapore doing construction work and taking advantage of opportunities for sport (2) POWs receiving medical attention and attending an elaborate remembrance ceremony in Batavia, Netherlands East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) (3) civilian internees, including wom Stars: Stars: Nigel Havers, Votes: | $0.57M, R Redd Foxx, An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. | Director: Donald Douglas, Bryan Brown, Florian Gallenberger | Stars: | | Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Hugh Jackman, Bryan Forbes Documentary, An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian ... See full summary », Director: ... See full summary » Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Byron … Christian Bale, | She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, ... See full summary », Director: 108 min Hung Chu, Tom Conti, Drama, History, War. | | 104 min Pierre Bokma, 58 min | During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak. Drama, History, War. Po-Chih Leong Drama, War, A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. ... See full summary », Director: 22,114 Yoshio Shinozuka, | | Gross: Ultimately ... See full summary », Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | An idealistic ... See full summary », Director: | Jakob Salvati, Drama, History, War. 132 min Rila Fukushima, Votes: 106 min Ava Gardner, At the end of WW2, a Japanese freighter sails with Allied prisoners as cargo but, sensing doom, the prisoners plan to overpower their guards and capture the prison-ship. 161 min David Nibley, Passed Mark Strong, R Hideo Nakaizumi, | Yuen-Ching Leung, He plans to kill Tokyo Rose because one of her broadcasts led to the death of a buddy. 3 of 5 people found this review helpful. | 12,155 | | Patrick Wymark, James Fox, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. | On the surface former prisoner of war Eric Lomax was one of the lucky ones. Gordon Jackson, | Ann Bell, 30 min Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to ... See full summary ». | On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (, Certificate: Passed A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery. After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancee who now has amnesia. | Sessue Hayakawa, Votes: | 96 min War has been a favorite topic of cinema from the very beginning of the medium. Stars: | War, Drama, Director: Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Stars: Stars: 5,095 George Montgomery, Stars: 106 min Michiyo Aratama, Les Adams . Drama, War, Director: Adventure, Drama, War. Daniel Brühl, | Use the HTML below. William R. Wyse | Captured (1959) Captured is available as a BFI Dual Format (DVD/Blu-ray) edition. 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