POW Stories: Unfiltered War Horrors

It's March 31st.

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80 years after World War II wrapped up, Wild Bear Entertainment drops.

Under a bamboo sky, a heavy hitting film that lets over 60 Australian, prisoners of war

tell their brutal stories straight from recorded testimonies.

No actors, no scripted lines, just their voices over archival footage and fresh location

shots, colorized to hit modern eyes hard.

Another surge, oh, builds it around first-person accounts from guys captured as young as 18

up to 32.

The film traces their nightmare from Changi Prison in Singapore to slave labor on the

Thai Burma Railway, where over 2,700.

Ozzie's die from starvation, beatings, and diseases like cholera over 18 grueling months.

Then came Hellish shipboyages to Japan, more deaths at sea, and backbreaking coal minework.

Meanwhile, the script pulls key themes from thousands of pages of interviews done 50 years

after liberation.

What hits deepest is the raw humanity amid the horror meteship that kept them going, scraps

of Aussie humor, and clever survival hacks like bamboo IVs.

In makeshift hospitals, prisoners held on to hope, organizing little concerts for normalcy,

proving that losing it meant dying.

Their stories force you to face wars toll without any sugar coating.

Even after atomic bombs flashed and supply drops finally came on November 5, 1945, the

ordeal lasted 3 and a half years total.

Back home, many faced isolation, trauma, suicides, and lifelong scars, no real support, leaving

some as prisoners in their own minds forever.

This films a must see reminder of their grit and what we owe them.

Catch it opening April 2nd at Capri Cinema Goodwood, and rolling out wider soon.