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TheGreat Raid is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan on the island of Luzon, Philippines during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Marton Csokas, Joseph Fiennes with Motoki Kobayashi and Cesar Montano. The principal photography took place from July 4 to November 6, 2002, but its release was delayed several times from the original target of fall 2003. The film received negative to average reviews from critics and was a commercial failure.

In 1945, American forces were closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines. The Japanese held around 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan and subjected them to brutal treatment and summary execution, as the Japanese code of bushido viewed surrender as a disgrace. Many prisoners were also stricken with malaria.

The film opens with the massacre of prisoners of war on Palawan by the Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese military's secret police (though it was committed by the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army).[citation needed]

At Lingayen Gulf, the 6th Ranger Battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Mucci is ordered by Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger to liberate all of the POWs at Cabanatuan prison camp before they are killed by the Japanese. The film chronicles the efforts of the Rangers, Alamo Scouts from the Sixth Army and Filipino guerrillas as they undertake the Raid at Cabanatuan.[citation needed]

The film covers the resistance work undertaken by nurse Margaret Utinsky, who smuggled medicine into the POW camps. The Kempeitai arrested her and sent her to Fort Santiago prison. She was eventually released but spent six weeks recovering from gangrene as a result of injuries sustained from beatings.[citation needed] The movie ends with the prisoners being liberated.

The Americans used a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter to divert Japanese attention while the Rangers were crawling toward the camp; the aircraft used in the movie was a Lockheed Hudson, because none of the four surviving P-61s were airworthy when the film was made.[citation needed]

The movie was filmed in south-east Queensland, Australia utilising a huge, authentic recreation of a prisoner of war camp. In addition, numerous local Asian students were employed to play Japanese soldiers.[citation needed]

The movie was shot in 2002 but it was pulled from its original 2003 release schedule on several occasions. It was finally released in August 2005, by Miramax Films, which coincided with the formal departure of co-founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein from the company.[citation needed]

Retired Marine Corps captain Dale Dye was the film's military advisor and trained the cast in a boot camp in northern Queensland, reprising a role and practice from Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan and Platoon.[1]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of 121 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Though the climax of the film -- the actual raid -- is exciting, the rest of it is bogged down in too many subplots and runs on for too long."[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[3]

In the summer of 1863, things were looking very bleak for the Confederate armies in the field with battles and campaigns like Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Tullahoma souring the Confederate morale quickly. One Confederate cavalier, in the midst of these horrible setbacks, decided to launch one of the most daring raids of the Civil War, a raid that would span hundreds of miles from Tennessee to Ohio.

During the spring and early summer of 1863, Confederate Brigadier General John H. Morgan was a seasoned raider with at least three very successful Kentucky raids under his belt. Gen. Morgan now was itching for another raid, one that would cement him in his growing fame. Spending the winter of 1862 planning and strategizing for this raid, the time finally came in June of 1863 to begin. The first obstacle in his way was convincing his superiors Generals Joe Wheeler and Braxton Bragg. Both men wanted Morgan to raid into the Bluegrass State, but stressed several times for Morgan to stay in Kentucky, and if possible, make a definitive move on Louisville. Morgan, wanting to get a start on his raid, agreed, but things would change once Morgan was away from the peering eyes of his superiors.

The Rangers were tasked as the assault element and the Alamo Scouts served as advance reconnaissance and surveillance teams. The Filipino guerrillas, with support of the local populace, ensured their infiltration would not alert Japanese sentries. They also served as a blocking position to prevent a Japanese counterattack from crossing over the Cabu bridge.

Two teams of Alamo Scouts pushed nearly 30 miles into enemy territory ahead of the Ranger assault force. Their initial observations determined a raid on Jan. 29 would be suicidal in the event the assault force needed to fight nearly 1,000 Japanese troops encamped in the vicinity, and they recommended to delay the operation 24 hours. The following day, Lt. Bill Nellist closed the distance to within a few hundred yards from the camp to report accurate, timely findings. There was an abandoned shack with a vantage point that could be used to hide in plain sight. Nellist and Rufo Vaquilar, a Filipino American, disguised themselves as Filipino farmers, adding straw hats to hide their faces. They strolled into the shack with ease.

The rescue force crossed over to friendly lines with a convoy of 106 water buffalo carts and more than 500 POWs. Three years of suffering at the hands of their Japanese captors was over, and the world began to learn about the unimaginable torture of those who survived the Bataan Death March and conditions inside the POW camp.

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Confederate Colonel Joseph O. Shelby's cavalry raiders set out from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, on what will become known as "Shelby's Great Raid," one of the most notable cavalry raids of the war. The month-long incursion into Missouri takes 800 men over 1,500 miles and inflicts more than 1,000 casualties before the raiders return to Arkansas on October 26. Colonel Shelby is later promoted to Brigadier General Shelby.

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Here is a war movie that understands how wars are actually fought. After "Stealth" and its high-tech look-alikes, which make warfare look like a video game, "The Great Raid" shows the hard work and courage of troops whose reality is danger and death. The difference between "Stealth" and "The Great Raid" is the difference between the fantasies of the Pentagon architects of "shock and awe" and the reality of the Marines who were killed in Iraq last week.

The movie is based on the true story of a famous raid by U.S. Army Rangers and Philippine guerillas, who attacked the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan and rescued more than 500 Americans, with the loss of only two American and 21 Filipino lives. Nearly 800 Japanese died in the surprise attack. These numbers are so dramatic that the movie uses end credits to inform us they are factual.

"The Great Raid" has the look and feel of a good war movie you might see on cable late one night, perhaps starring Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan or Lee Marvin. It has been made with the confidence that the story itself is the point, not the flashy graphics. The raid is outlined for the troops (and for the audience), so that, knowing what the rescuers want to do, we understand how they're trying to do it. Like soldiers on a march, it puts one step in front of another, instead of flying apart into a blizzard of quick cuts and special effects. Like the jazzier but equally realistic "Black Hawk Down," it shows a situation that has moved beyond policy and strategy and amounts to soldiers in the field, hoping to hell they get home alive.

"You are the best-trained troops in the U. S. Army," their commander (Benjamin Bratt) tells the 6th Army Ranger Battalion. Perhaps that is close to the truth, but they have never been tested under fire; their first assignment involves penetrating Japanese-controlled territory, creeping in daylight across an open field toward the POW camp, hiding in a ditch until night, and then depending on surprise to rescue the prisoners, most of them starving, many of them sick, all of them survivors of the Bataan Death March.

Historical narration and footage provide the con As the Japanese retreated, they killed their prisoners, and Americans in one camp were burned alive. In both this raid and a larger, more famous one at the nearby Los Banos camp, the challenge was to rescue the POWs before the Japanese felt the enemy was close enough to trigger the deaths of their prisoners.

Commanding the Rangers are the real-life war heroes Lt. Col. Henry Mucci (Bratt) and Capt. Bob Prince (James Franco), who plans the raid. In parallel stories, we meet the fictional Maj. Gibson (Joseph Fiennes), leader of the POWs, and a brave American nurse, also from real life, named Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen). She works in the Manila underground, obtaining drugs on the black market, which are smuggled in to the camp. She and Gibson were once lovers (in what must be a fictional invention), but have not seen each other for years. Still, it is the idea of Margaret that sustains Gibson, whose strength is being drained by malaria.

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