The Great Raid: Not following the left-wing propaganda on World War II

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2007)

World War 2 was one of the most fearsome wars ever fought in recorded history. Many movies and documentaries tell stories of all the characters on each side. We are usually told that Hitler "was a bad dude" and how Churchill's leadership proved worthy against the danger of Nazi Germany. However, we rarely get a glimpse of Japan fighting America. Not long after World War 2 ended, movies and documentaries gushed out of old stories. However, a lot of them were left-wing media and often contained propaganda.
Even if WW2 media didn't have propaganda, they still contained a lot of profanity or extreme violence. Sadly, these movies mostly focus on the adults instead of the teens that are into history. Luckily in 2005, a movie called "The Great Raid" was released in the theaters. Director John Dahl tells the story of the Cabanatuan raid of 1945; just days before the war ends. The Japanese held more than 500 POWs in that camp and horribly treated them. For three years the POWs felt like they were forgotten and after the beginning of 1945, the American Soldiers planned an assault on the camp to free the POWs.
Now, if anybody wants to see this movie, I'm going to warn you that the level of violence in this movie is similar to a T-rated video game along with mild language (for a war movie, very low) and there are scenes where the POWs get hit and tortured by the Japanese though no gore or gallons of blood is shown.
Note: despite the R rating this film carries, I recommend people 14-years older or up to see this one.