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Season 15 Episode 12: Bataan Rescue

36 SeasonsJul 07, 2003TV-PG55m7.1

"Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 commando raid that freed 513 survivors of the 1942 Bataan Death March who were being held in a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines. Rescuers recall how they did it, and POWs describe what it meant to them. "That's the night I was reborn," says one. "That's my birthday."

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Season 15 Episodes:

Episode 1 Jimmy Carter (Part I)

1. Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Aired: Nov 11, 2002

Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with ...

Episode 2 Jimmy Carter: Part 2

2. Jimmy Carter: Part 2

Aired: Nov 12, 2002

Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with ...

Episode 3 Chicago: City of the Century: Part 1

3. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 1

Aired: Jan 13, 2003

Tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town i...

Episode 4 Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2

4. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2

Aired: Jan 14, 2003

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the ...

Episode 5 Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3

5. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3

Aired: Jan 15, 2003

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the ...

Episode 6 The Murder of Emmett Till

6. The Murder of Emmett Till

Aired: Jan 20, 2003

A documentary examining the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old boy from Chicago whi...

Episode 7 Transcontinental Railroad

7. Transcontinental Railroad

Aired: Jan 27, 2003

Charting the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to construct ...

Episode 8 Partners of the Heart

8. Partners of the Heart

Aired: Feb 10, 2003

During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpen...

Episode 9 The Pill

Aired: Feb 24, 2003

A documentary recounting the development of the birth control pill.

Episode 10 Daughter from Danang

10. Daughter from Danang

Aired: Apr 7, 2003

A woman taken to America during Operation Babylift returns to Vietnam in orde...

Episode 11 Seabiscuit

Aired: Apr 21, 2003

He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short str...

Episode 12 Bataan Rescue

12. Bataan Rescue

Aired: Jul 7, 2003

"Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 com...

Episode 13 Murder at Harvard

13. Murder at Harvard

Aired: Jul 14, 2003

Historian Simon Schama ("A History of Britain") plays sleuth -- searching, he...

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Main Cast

Scott GlennNarrator

Creators

Peter Jones

Peter JonesDirector

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Current Status: Currently Airing

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary, History, Biography

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