A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.
Susan Sarandon
Col. Margaret Ann JessupTerry O'Quinn
Maj. Tom PattersonJay Acovone
Capt. RaderKristy McNichol
T.J. NolanValerie Mahaffey
Lt. Katherine R. GraceJohn Philbin
Paraplegic soldierNeva Patterson
Lady Judith EasonAlberta Watson
Lt. Helen Prescott