The US Army’s defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack. Colonel Joseph Madden is among the escaping survivors who are ordered by general Douglas McArthur to organize a guerrilla. As he finds many native Filipinos inclined to resist the occupier’s vision of returning to the South Asian fold under a paternalistic empire which doesn’t hesitate to ‘spank the unruly’, but is mainly civilian, unprepared, inept in military matters, Madden appeals to the legendary anti-US freedom fighter Andres Bonifácio’s homonymous grandson Captain Andrés Bonifácio, who is luckily rescued from a POW dead march, to inspire the resistance -once his own fighting spirit is rekindled- with him in a still very unsure war, retaliated by bloody, ten to one repression. When the Japanese realize the people side against them, they stage fake …
Also Known As (AKA): Stahlgewitter, Zwei schlagen zurück, Espírito Indomável, Retour aux Philippines, Gli eroi del Pacifico, Voltemos à Carga, La patrulla del coronel Jackson
File Name : Back.to.Bataan.1945.mkv
File Size : 1562.78 MB
Resolution : 720×480 @ 640×480
Duration : 01:34:33
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: USA
Genres: Drama, War
