# Help me ID this military movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134 "2016-04-03T22:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/1 "2016-04-03T22:42:15Z")
This movie may have come out sometime around 10-20 years ago, but I’m not certain. I only saw the beginning. It was a POW camp with US (or probably some WW2 allied nations) prisoners. There was a US soldier who was being crucified, or at least tied up on a post as punishment. I think it was a Japanese POW camp. An imprisoned soldier goes over and frees the guy tied up. I don’t know if the war ended, or what exactly. Thats all I remember. And, Go. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/2 "2016-04-03T22:48:20Z")
Did you recognize any of the actors? That might help nail it down. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/3 "2016-04-03T22:57:28Z")
Nope. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/4 "2016-04-03T23:01:58Z")
After doing some research, it may have been the movie The Great Raid (2005). But I really don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/5 "2016-04-03T23:04:07Z")
There’s something similar in the movie _Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence_, set in a Japanese P.O.W. camp. A guy’s about to get executed with a sword when David Bowie steps out from the crowd, places himself in front of the executioner and kisses him, causing him to crumple in a heap. ([youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AALrrgEOlvU&feature=youtu.be&t=96)) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/6 "2016-04-04T00:09:43Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > After doing some research, it may have been the movie The Great Raid (2005). But I really don’t know. This is the one I’m thinking of. It is about the rescue of a POW camp in the Philippines. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/7 "2016-04-04T01:21:57Z")
Was George Takei in it? > **[Prisoners of the Sun (1990) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100414/?ref_=tttg_tg_tt)** > > Prisoners of the Sun: Directed by Stephen Wallace. With Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach. The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300... ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/8 "2016-04-04T01:31:17Z")
There a scene similar to this in _ **Unbroken** _. ---
**Author:** ![Marlonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Marlonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlonius)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-military-movie/751134/9 "2016-04-04T03:38:41Z")
“To End All Wars” with Keifer Sutherland.