PBS

DVD Features:

Additional Release Material:

• Production Interviews - 1. Directors
                                    2. Re-enactors

Text/Image Galleries:

• Maps
• Timelines

Product Description:

Another installment in PBS's widely heralded AMERICAN EXPERIENCE series, BATAAN RESCUE tells of one of World War II's most thrilling events. In December 1944, over five hundred American prisoners of war awaited an inevitable slaughter by crazed Japanese soldiers. But salvation came in the form of an elite Ranger battalion, who teamed up with a brave Filipino resistance group to attack the prison camp and rescue the hopeless soldiers. Featuring eyewitness accounts from both prisoners and rescuers, BATTAN RESCUE proves that even in the most dire of circumstances, the human will for survival can surmount any odds.

Plot Keywords:

World War II