Hell in the Pacific (2010)

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 propelled the United States into World War II and marked the beginning of the war in the Pacific.

This film series breaks down the traditional view of this conflict as a war between merciless Japanese and heroic Allies. On remote islands and in dense jungles both sides threw away the rule book in a descent into pitiless horror.

Hell in the Pacific is the story of those who were there: the Japanese pilot who bombed Pearl Harbor; Allied captives forced to build the Thai-Burma railway; Marines who killed their Japanese prisoners; an Australian combat nurse who survived a mass execution and the pilot who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.