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The Great Raid Details

2005 Certificate 15 Certificate 15
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Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalised, starved, and tortured, the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945, an American battalion, with the help of Filipino .. Read more

Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini
Director John Dahl
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama

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The Great Raid

Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalised, starved, and tortured, the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945, an American battalion, with the help of Filipino guerrillas, planned a daring mission some called it suicide, to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there. The story is based on two books, THE GREAT RAID: RESCUING THE DOOMED GHOSTS OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR by William B. Breuer and GHOST SOLDIERS: THE EPIC ACCOUNT OF WORLD WAR II'S GREATEST RESCUE MISSION by Hampton Sides. In addition, several men involved in the raid served as consultants on the project. THE GREAT RAID stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt. Colonel Mucci, an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead the dangerous mission. Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson and Marton Csokas as Captain Redding, who is always trying to escape. Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp.

Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini, Joseph Fiennes, Marton Csokas, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Dale Dye, Craig McLachlan
Director John Dahl
Studio BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins
LOVEFiLM Instant: 2 hrs 5 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs 7 mins
Certificate Certificate 15 DVD
Certificate 15 LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres Action/Adventure, Drama
Language DVD: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish
Released Production year: 2005

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