Broken Sun is partly based on what attempted escape from a POW camp?
Broken Sun Broken Sun is a 2008 Australian film set in the 1940s about a World War I veteran who meets an escaped Japanese POW. The story is partly based on the Cowra breakout of 1944. The film was the debut feature from Brad Haynes.
Soldiers and Slaves Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble is a 2005 history of World War II by "New York Times" reporter Roger Cohen. It recounts the ordeals suffered by the 550 American prisoners of war shipped into eastern Germany during the winter of 1944–1945.