Cowra Breakout Part 2

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @brucebisbey9554
    @brucebisbey9554 Год назад +17

    A Yank I had the honor to live and work in Australia (awesome country and people) for over a year working between Sydney and Brisbane. We were near Cowra...but had no idea of its place in history. When we go back, my lady and I will check it out and pay our respects. Thank you for posting.

  • @jamien4561
    @jamien4561 2 года назад +17

    Thank you for putting this up. It's a shame we don't make good movies anymore in this country

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  2 года назад

      I agree, the Cowra Breakout is quite good, so is the Riddle of the Stinson but decides from that there are no good classic movies/miniseries I can recall.

    • @mikeedmunds7616
      @mikeedmunds7616 2 года назад +2

      @@tankengine8889 Bangkok Hilton 1989, The Dirtwater Dynasty 1988, Against the wind 1978 are a few really good ones.

  • @BrianHayter-zl2uc
    @BrianHayter-zl2uc 7 месяцев назад +4

    I remember watching this back in the 80's, what a series. 👍👍👍

  • @bevanhill5648
    @bevanhill5648 2 месяца назад +1

    What a brilliant series in my opinion 1 of the best

  • @anuradhaatapattu5759
    @anuradhaatapattu5759 Год назад +7

    One of the best movies I've watched. Heart touching ♥️

  • @kell4674
    @kell4674 Год назад +4

    My all time favourite Australian mini-series, made at the height of the country's golden era of film and television production. Alan David Lee and all the cast were excellent but the amazingly talented team of Japanese actors deserves special mention. I'd love to know what kind of reception it got when it was shown in Japan.

  • @privatebubba8876
    @privatebubba8876 Год назад +7

    Excellent account of the horrors of war and it's far reaching devastation. It's difficult to humanize such a barbaric situation but this telling did a very good job.

  • @trwhitford65
    @trwhitford65 Год назад +3

    Thanks for the upload. USMC Vietnam Vet here.....

  • @marcwitt8507
    @marcwitt8507 Год назад +3

    First ty for posting …i just watched all three parts of this and I enjoyed it very much ,my father served during WW2 in the US Army 574th signal air warning battalion Co.C he was in New Guinea and fought with the aussies …and the beginning where POW’s were arriving and eventually left for their home again on a ship ,i could think of a few stories my dad had told me one was of when he stood guard duty with a Aussie soldier on a cargo ship standing guard over Japanese POWs air raids were almost daily and one such happened as they were watching them as the story goes my dad said to the pows if one bomb falls near this ship you will all get it my dad and this soldier drew their bolts back and waited he spoke of the rain he had malaria i just want to say may all of our soldiers rest in peace they did so much for all of us ….my father was also stationed at one point in Brisbane before go to NG…thanks again for the post

  • @300guy
    @300guy 3 года назад +16

    Thank you for putting this up, I am kind of saddened that so few people have taken the time to watch. Australia seems to put out some pretty good period mini series, like Operation Buffalo on Maralinga

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  3 года назад +3

      All good mate. Australia has made many good shows and movies from the 80s roughly, but that's just my opinion.

  • @teamshaboobalu2887
    @teamshaboobalu2887 Год назад +3

    This is exactly why P.O.W. Camps are usually put on very small & remote islands.

    • @389383
      @389383 2 месяца назад

      Not in the US or Canada.

  • @gerardedgar5961
    @gerardedgar5961 Год назад +3

    It's not often you see an excellent movie I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for freeIt's not often you see an excellent movie. I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for free.

  • @paulthomas9271
    @paulthomas9271 Месяц назад

    Quite a few twists and turns in this didn’t see those coming

  • @nizamul388
    @nizamul388 4 месяца назад

    Been searching this series for long time I watched it years ago on tele great insight to a time of events we only heard of

  • @peterbamforth6453
    @peterbamforth6453 Год назад +3

    A very thaughtfull and touching film thanks for uploading. :}

  • @peterkirgan2921
    @peterkirgan2921 13 дней назад

    Love this movie my father did National service early 1952 he was issued with the lee Enfield 303 rifle he was also a bren gunner ! Hes still alive @90 years of age ! Me raaf pilot before f18 hornet flew the Mirage 3 was accurate with the 30mm cannons!!

  • @BrianHayter-zl2uc
    @BrianHayter-zl2uc 7 месяцев назад +1

    My pop was a guard at Cowra, so proud of him.🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @carldurham5879
    @carldurham5879 10 месяцев назад

    Great show

  • @darwinbruce59
    @darwinbruce59 Год назад +3

    Good on yeah mate. Good to see again.

  • @RafaelGil2022
    @RafaelGil2022 Год назад +4

    Great movie

  • @Dan-q6v1v
    @Dan-q6v1v 14 дней назад

    Wow! AWESOME MOVIE!

  • @garrykenyon3625
    @garrykenyon3625 Месяц назад

    Going by my father my uncle was in that training camp they mentioned. It was him and he's offsider that brought in the last excapees.

  • @___michael___7165
    @___michael___7165 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent movie.

  • @tonynapoli5549
    @tonynapoli5549 Год назад

    Thanks for posting

  • @rustykilt
    @rustykilt Год назад +14

    I enjoyed this series. Looking back with sympathy on the Japanese jars with me as my Father fought at Buna, Gona and Sanandana. Dad had no sympathy for the Japanese and saw the atrocities they committed. As with most he served with, they never forgave the Japanese and this was often a real hatred. Often, Japanese prisoners were treated with reasonable compassion but the same can never be said of Allies held in Japanese POW camps, where the treatment was cruel and barbaric. It is often portrayed as just Japanese culture, but to those who fought and died trying to stop the Japanese, they have no such illusions.

    • @lauriemayne7436
      @lauriemayne7436 Год назад

      It used to be part of Japanese culture, just as the "fair go" used to be part of Australian culture at national level. Both the Germans and the Japanese had ambitious plans of conquest, and tempered their efforts in the extreme to pull off what really amounted to the impossible, assuming as it did that the enemy was weak and lacked resolve. That barbarity was supposed to deliver the goods where being nice wouldn't have done the job. They learned otherwise.

    • @philiprufus4427
      @philiprufus4427 Год назад

      Brit here, my old man was the same,he was never in the Far East,but he came from Devonport.
      He was in the Navy and had a lot of school chums in Singapore and on The Rodney and Renown,
      He would not buy a Jap car,even in retirement he bought a Ford.

    • @paulthomas9271
      @paulthomas9271 Месяц назад

      The British were treated better in the German POW camps than the despicable Japanese POW camps very much sadistic regime

  • @susanbeaumont6063
    @susanbeaumont6063 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you.

  • @nev707
    @nev707 Месяц назад

    Very well made series.
    Whilst some license with facts such as the Officer killed at the end was actually unarmed and was from a training camp and not the prison camp as depicted.

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  Месяц назад

      Yes, some artistic licensing with McDonald playing a form of Lt Doncaster, the training officer in a dim light.
      However they did get the situation right- 2 young diggers accompanying Doncaster ran away, leaving him to his fate.. that was from official documents I read awhile back.

  • @markbackus1449
    @markbackus1449 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent film.

  • @Dan-q6v1v
    @Dan-q6v1v 14 дней назад

    They don't make movies like this any more!!

  • @tazmod7272
    @tazmod7272 9 месяцев назад

    Good series

  • @ScammedbyFolrentinaConchas
    @ScammedbyFolrentinaConchas Год назад

    Yeah wow! Know the story first screen play👏🌹😘

  • @MrTetsukobu
    @MrTetsukobu Год назад +1

    Excelent movie!!!

  • @tomabbott5259
    @tomabbott5259 2 месяца назад

    I saw this on TV before so i know theres one scene missing, a scene where Junji and his pal are building a Japanese garden then Shimoiyama comes along and says why are you building this garden theres no sense in that?and Junji replies with a very thought provoking answer"I thought a Soldier respects beauty"to which Shimoiyama replies"Truly"...

  • @spiritoflights
    @spiritoflights Год назад

    Excellent!

  • @billsmith9711
    @billsmith9711 Год назад

    try to find Bill Smith in the Tokyo phone book!

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 Год назад +2

    Excellent production.
    Australian film is virtually non existent nowadays.

    • @lauriemayne7436
      @lauriemayne7436 Год назад

      Thanks to John Howard. He killed it off, just as Peter Dutton plans to finish what Howard started to be rid of anything cultural about Australia. The Aussies just sat back and watched. Many of them applauded.

    • @philiprufus4427
      @philiprufus4427 Год назад +1

      Damn Shame, Aussie's made some great stuff,heartbreaking to think you,ve gone the same way as us Brits !

    • @lauriemayne7436
      @lauriemayne7436 Год назад +1

      @@philiprufus4427
      And for the same reasons. Lack of testicular fortitude and moral sense.

  • @juanmanuelparadacontreras9565
    @juanmanuelparadacontreras9565 Год назад

    Una grata sorpresa toparme con este filme del género bélico con tan aleccionador mensaje antibelicista al final del mismo. Por recrearse el sentido del honor y del sacrificio extremo que los japoneses hacían honor hasta en el cautiverio.
    Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.

  • @Kingmick58
    @Kingmick58 3 года назад +4

    Thanks for posting. But where can i watch the New Guinea part of the story?

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  3 года назад +2

      Not too sure where you can anymore. Sorry!

    • @Kingmick58
      @Kingmick58 3 года назад

      @@tankengine8889 Thanks mate. I'll keep looking. It was the basis of the Stan and Lieutenant story.

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  3 года назад

      @@Kingmick58 indeed it was, it had his story in new guinea, and his enlistment into the 22nd Garrison Battalion. I recall watching it before.

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  3 года назад +2

      If your there, uploading the New Guinea part now.

    • @Kingmick58
      @Kingmick58 3 года назад

      @@tankengine8889 Yeah baby!

  • @matsukotakako
    @matsukotakako 10 месяцев назад +1

    Jyunichi Isida good acter

  • @johnmerton3630
    @johnmerton3630 Год назад +4

    My father told me the local farmers were shooting them.

  • @andrewbarra8087
    @andrewbarra8087 Год назад +1

    Stan in post WW2 battle dress and an Officers cap as a CPL??

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  Год назад

      Yeah, I saw that.. the Officers Cap was used by Other Ranks sometimes, but the Battledress was indeed post WW2. As they say "don't ask"

  • @Blueknsw777
    @Blueknsw777 8 месяцев назад

    THIS IS PART THREE

  • @Wolf-lb5ez
    @Wolf-lb5ez 3 года назад +6

    It was a honourable if futile attempt to escape.

    • @privatebubba8876
      @privatebubba8876 Год назад +2

      More like misguided and futile attempt but that was the way of the Bushito. Death before dishonor.

  • @RoyBelcher
    @RoyBelcher 9 месяцев назад

    I guess the prisoners just didn't know their limitations.

  • @woodwage7988
    @woodwage7988 Год назад +4

    Very good film..with the same recurring stupidity..Today, it's Ukrainians turn..⁉️

  • @Dan-q6v1v
    @Dan-q6v1v 14 дней назад

    Allenn David Lee was born in Kenya. So was i! A very handsome manm

  • @Robot-xt6vv
    @Robot-xt6vv 3 года назад +5

    I’m actually from cowra

  • @MichaelThomas-mb4kr
    @MichaelThomas-mb4kr 4 месяца назад

    It is the duty of every soldier, regardless of their country of origin, that, they attempt to escape their captors at every opportunity. However, very sad when the hate continues on both sides when soldiers become non-combatants in POW encampments. Seems no one respects any wartime law in place, not even the "Geneva Convention!" or the UN Charter of Human Rights, of which Australia has been a signatory since the end of the 1st World War. Take care good people.

  • @jayamjayam4165
    @jayamjayam4165 Год назад

    Remarkable story. It show loyalty to king and country and strict code of military conduct. Never lose yr honour or die trying to be one. Honour is man's ultimate religion. The same honour that Jesus shows to mankind.

  • @tonynapoli5549
    @tonynapoli5549 Год назад

    Horrors of war

  • @geeeeeee3
    @geeeeeee3 Год назад +6

    Complete tragedy that even one Australian was murdered. I wonder how many atrocities those Japanese had committed before they were captured and sent to the Pow camp. God knows how many rapes and torturous murders they would have committed if the had not been recaptured.

  • @MichaelCerovski
    @MichaelCerovski 3 месяца назад

    Have we learned nothing?

  • @mikeedmunds7616
    @mikeedmunds7616 2 года назад +1

    Action begins when he sounds the bugle: 44:05

  • @reggriffiths5769
    @reggriffiths5769 2 месяца назад

    It's what happens when cultures collide. Events that shouln't happen, do. Events that should happen, don't. At the end of the day evil begets evil, and good is left wanting.

    • @tomabbott5259
      @tomabbott5259 2 месяца назад

      I think so too would it all be averted if people just took the trouble to talk to each other and get to know each other😢

  • @emanueldanbarbaresso3366
    @emanueldanbarbaresso3366 Год назад

    SUBTITRARE IN LIMBA ROMANA

  • @andrewhorsburgh2549
    @andrewhorsburgh2549 Год назад +2

    They have never apologized for what they did to the POW'S.

    • @geeeeeee3
      @geeeeeee3 Год назад +1

      No the Japanese never did apologize to any nation for the hundred of thousands of rapes tortured horrific medical experiments murdered and their favorite...torture

  • @richardmaxwell3472
    @richardmaxwell3472 Год назад +5

    The camp commander should have been charged after the fact....

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  Год назад

      I come to this slightly late but I researched the real Major Horden (a certain Major Ramsay)
      He was found to be properly operating the camp and abiding by the Geneva Convention. Although somewhat exonerated, he took his resignation in October 1944.
      In the end, was it really his fault?

  • @Notkulan62
    @Notkulan62 9 месяцев назад

    Because cowra camp of the Japan how died in the war 🫡🫡

  • @markchilluffo9638
    @markchilluffo9638 Год назад

    5⭐️

  • @johnradburn84
    @johnradburn84 Год назад +1

    Sobering gives a respect to their doctrines

  • @jimmyhaley727
    @jimmyhaley727 10 месяцев назад

    bool chit

  • @GMEOK
    @GMEOK Год назад +2

    Amazing truly amazing.

  • @peterkirgan6850
    @peterkirgan6850 2 года назад +6

    Great series the Japanese deserved what they were given after what they afflicted on our serviceman!! I still dont trust these people to this day! My neighbor was In the7th division!!!

    • @barefootbooks69
      @barefootbooks69 2 года назад +1

      Ah, a good ol' Aussie bigot. Well done.

    • @JL-tm3rc
      @JL-tm3rc 2 года назад

      @@barefootbooks69 The japanese are more bigot than you think.

    • @barefootbooks69
      @barefootbooks69 2 года назад

      @@JL-tm3rc I made no comment on whether the Japanese were bigoted or not.

    • @JL-tm3rc
      @JL-tm3rc 2 года назад

      @@barefootbooks69 i agree

    • @douglastaggart9360
      @douglastaggart9360 Год назад +1

      I agree but why are you writing neighbor not neighbour which is the proper English way .

  • @joemitchell877
    @joemitchell877 Год назад +3

    Excelente. MY Lord. NOT Hollywood Anti Christian CRAP

  • @fredflintstome6532
    @fredflintstome6532 Год назад

    First scene, two 'diggers' doing shit drill and the 'CPL' wearing the wrong hat. FFS

    • @tankengine8889
      @tankengine8889  Год назад

      They're doing better drill than my Cadet Unit on a good day!
      But yes, the cap is wrong.. But I recall drivers of any rank wore those peaked caps..

  • @strainddgrayvee
    @strainddgrayvee 15 дней назад

    Shit story

  • @ronaldzakoc8121
    @ronaldzakoc8121 Год назад +1

    G'day mate, when seen this title, I thought it was the ather movie with same name,it turned out better than the regional one way back. Had not seen this one before bloody top movie. Why can't we make good Aussie any more, not Hollywood spin-offs 🤔🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘