WOMEN OF VALOR | Full WORLD WAR II DRAMA Movie HD | SUSAN SARANDON

thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Applause] the executive Commission on women in the draft is hereby call to order our first witness Colonel Margaret and Jessup U.S Army Nurse Corps retired will make the opening remarks Colonel Joseph thank you Mr chairman [Music] it has long been the contention of those who oppose women in the draft that should women be captured they would break well the fact is women have been prisoners of War and their experiences are a testimony to their strength endurance and courage 104 Army and Navy nurses stationed on the Philippines were incarcerated by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945. yet their courage has been virtually invisible to the public and has gone unrecognized by the military in December of 1941 I was stationed at Camp Pershing on the island of Luzon in the Philippines located near the resort town of Rosario the camp was used for what today is called RNR arrest and relaxation it was Paradise okay let's get to the good part May 1st um would you open the box already the suspense is killing don't rush me this is my first wedding my grandmother moved faster on a Diamond Jubilee [Music] crazy it's so religious beautiful I love it thank you here I was going to apologize for not having it wrapped but seeing how fast you open presents I think we all made out it's a Greek fertility God it looks like a hat rack well of course it comes to worse you always can hang your jewelry on it look bites your tongue you know I met this intern at Walter Reed once he invited me up to his place to see this ancient Buddha he said if you wanted something really bad all you had to do was make a wish and rub it oh wait what is wrong with you nothing honey just a bunch of dirty minds oh you're also wonderful I really wish I didn't have to resign to get married because I'm going to miss you all so much I can't take this anymore what are you doing just open the box already it's a lovely it's black I bet I look great in this I tried to find a white one but I couldn't so long I thought you were a virgin I am well look at it this way if there's a war there are bound to be blackouts and if there are blackouts you'll be right in fashion okay I'll leave it to you to see war is a fashion experience who is it Maggie open up a telly all right I'm coming I'm coming Helen do you realize good job Pearl Harbor the Japanese didn't stop at Pearl Harbor later that morning they hit Clark Field in the Philippines where Helen's fiance Chris and my Tom flew with the 17th Pursuit Squadron MacArthur had grounded all our planes so when the Japs came in it was like shooting ducks in a penny arcade [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] whatever happened [Music] thank you [Music] everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's good yeah you guys here are you okay yeah I was just thinking about this guy I met today didn't catch his name he was real handsome kind of like John Garfield it was more muscle that's just great here I am presently giving it a way to find a hunk like that Miss Goody Two Shoes over here walks away with the prize without so much as lifting at him what happened what's your secret how'd you meet this Heartbreaker just again helping me with the wounded then when the planes came in on their strafing run hit the ground I wasn't really sure what was going on I turned to ask him what we should do him and being a soldier and all I looked up to ask him what we should do been hit right below the eye side of his face was blown away he wasn't falling he was just standing then he kind of half turned and fell someone was screaming at me to stay down but all I could do was look at him honey I'm so sorry I'm a nurse I should have done something but I couldn't no Grace you did exactly what any one of us would have done under the same circumstances you're being much too hard on yourself I was scared to death the way you ran out from under that truck I never would have known I had no choice I'm claustrophobic what you've done if they assigned you to Tunnel Hospital in Corregidor did no I got out of it I said I'd kill myself first it's a wonder they didn't ship you home on a section 8. send me here instead did the rest would do me good [Laughter] one more week and we would have been married it's one more week what's important is that he loves you I know that that's kind of thinking that had been I'd feel much better now believe me it's just a piece of paper it's not a pain color what do you mean Tom and I were married last summer you were married [Music] why didn't you tell me I wanted to but I just I didn't want you to have to lie for me I can't believe it I mean I just assumed that you would be in for life so did I met Tom what about your career I don't have to be in the military to be a nurse so what are we going to tell them plan to tell them when Tom's tour was up so you think they're all right sure I think they're fine for the next two weeks the jobs hit us with everything they had brow plummeted my girls never let it show then on the 22nd of December they invaded the lungayan Gulf total chaos men in trucks and cars on Horseback and on foot racing South to Baton now [Music] Miss Jessica Miss Jessica yes name's John Rader Colonel Morton ordered me to evacuate you and your team immediately where the tan why batan it's the only place we can defend what about our patients they're being shipped to a hospital in San Manuel why aren't we going there look ma'am you're the last of the nurses I've been ordered to get you out now this is Jeff Battalion a couple of miles from here and I ain't even got enough guys to play them in baseball somebody has to stay with the wounded you want to stay here and be taken prisoner that's your business either way I'm leaving in 15 minutes come on Jessica wake up add some water when it's not ours just a minute more but we are never going to catch that kind of voice is now either we pull out now or start waving the white flags and I'm not about to 15 seconds is nothing Remos no then you're gonna have to leave without me Nick here ready so what could have been so important a woman after my own heart [Music] hey slow down before you get us killed in chaps are miles behind us then who are they look out forgot you're gonna hit him of course I'm gonna hit them [Music] everybody up grab those Jerry cans ladies first [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] now all right you can turn around then what the hell's going on I've been following Tojo over here for the last few hours it looked like he was going to take a few prisoners so I slowed him down a little and who are you TJ Nolan I was a rigger with ram Tech until the Japs blew it up and then you just I knew something like this would happen well come on let's get out of here before his buddies come looking for him you can join us if you like give him a hand will you Ramos yes sir Nolan since when did a tough outfit like Ram Tech started hiring boys to do a man's work I'm not a boy [Music] we reached the Bataan peninsula in hospital number three on New Year's Eve there was nowhere left to run radar took off with Ramos for Parts Unknown while Nolan figured she'd be safer with us [Music] we work 20 hour days and lived on half rations for the next two months when we ran out of supplies we improvised jungle vines contraction banana leaves for beds gasoline cans for stoves some of the girls came down with malaria but somehow morale stayed High then in March the bottom fell out MacArthur had been ordered to Australia president of the United States [Applause] for the purpose as I was on organizing the American offensive against Japan a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines I came through and I shall return you have been listening to an address by General Douglas MacArthur we now return you I knew it it's gone to get reinforcements I don't believe it we'll believe it the rats are leaving the ship and the king rat just got off first you're out of line Nolan I know General MacArthur he would never have left if he wasn't ordered out I bet he'll be back before we know it why don't you guys just face it MacArthur has left us holding the bag what US you're not a nurse you're not a soldier in the way you're acting I don't even think you're an American that's enough it's all over but the shouting I can't believe that haven't you heard the song that's going around or the battling Bastards of Bataan no mamas no Papas no Uncle Sam don't you get it nobody's coming because nobody gives a damn Nolan we don't need you to spell it out for us we're not blind no you're just deaf we hear what we need to hear oh and even if it means lying to yourselves right all we've got is Hope and what happens when that runs out then we've got each other and if you can't understand that then maybe it's better if you go It Alone fine I will you mind if I have a drag of that afraid you're gonna have to do it for me thanks seems the only thing I can still work is my mouth what's nice looking girl like you doing in a place like this it's the only finishing school I could get into it hey did you get the word on that scuttlebutt about Dugout Thug leaving the rock yeah I just heard him on the radio from Australia well I guess that does it for me then huh I mean with MacArthur Dawn Jeff's are going to hit us everything they got unless the ships come in there aren't any ships screw them hey I got a hot flash for you the ships are coming that's why MacArthur left they went to organize a rescue don't lie to me he said I shall return so he's coming back you can count on it I shall return I shall return after MacArthur left things calmed down for a while nightly bull sessions were filled with talks of food and rumors of rescue for the first time since Pearl we began to Hope perhaps the ships would come after all John [Music] today I won the Irish Sweepstakes maybe it didn't you have to take us all after a night bad said you've been drafted Mac I've been drafted Thomas well what happened come on thank you how did you manage to get in here we're completely surrounded Puck brought us in Chris and I joined the bathroom planes were destroyed I thought that the Hawks hated America well they do not as much as I hate the Japanese let me take a look well the face is familiar but where did you come up with this get up you mean I kind of like it it has a multitude of sins what's this you're all skin and bones back I'm not exactly chubby yourself come here skinny [Music] I was so afraid to be killed the bags I was born to die in bed [Music] [Music] Chris and Helen since you wished to contractually matrimony please join your right hands and express your intention before God and his church Helen do you take Chris here present for your lawful husband according to the right of our holy mother of the church Chris do you take Helen here present for your life away according to the right of our holy mother the church I do I'll pronounce you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] wait a minute [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you okay sure I'm fine quiet we're worried well don't worry you know about surviving in the jungle you're up high well I don't know the hux will teach me yeah they scare me too if I gotta be grounded I'd rather be with them than any other outfit in this war besides I'm a very fast learner I'd like you to have my West Point ring of my father's watch for safekeeping no I feel a lot better if you took them it's like saying you're never going to come back yeah I'll bring them back myself [Music] [Music] oh by April 8th the Japs have broken through on all fronts you are out of everything food morphine hope doctor the artery in the leg is bleeding again plasma stats there isn't any what are you talking about I left my knees in blood that was the last of it get in here I'm not sterile get in here Crystal no bleeder so I can see what I'm doing no I'm not a nurse I don't need a nurse I need an extra finger you got one of those don't you think now I know how the Dutch kid felt when he tried to hold back the bike with his finger what a way to make a living I know you'd make a wonderful nurse you're a natural with an eighth grade education so you go back to school you're still young so not anymore Maggie there Maggie check your gear and get the nurses you're being evacuated at kringgador what immediately what's happening I just saw how evacuated to become a hospital not me what about you what about our patients there aren't enough bolts then you better call the General and tell them we're not going look I wasn't going to tell you this but we're surrendering Bataan in the morning either leave now or you'll be taken prisoner you're needed on Corregidor [Music] [Laughter] they can walk move them he talks over there can he walk out for a second please oh you've got to look at me I can't move I can't feed myself I can't even go to the dream without help what do you thinking that's going to do to me someone got you decreted all right away why it's gonna fall You Know It please give me something I can fight with account as somebody else I have you're my last hope I'm begging you let me die like a soldier [Music] come on [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Maggie come on we gotta go now [Music] Let's Get Him to the or chestra [Applause] you don't make it out of here [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] Maggie I need a little more retraction right here another handstand I can't see I need some lights in here now thank you would you think I'd leave and miss all the fun [Music] [Applause] the tan had fallen after three months under constant and grueling enemy fire ly surrendered our boys had stood their grounds throwing themselves at the enemy when they had run out of ammunition now it was over [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right okay all right we surrender it's okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] surrender [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign come on okay closer together everybody closer together draw that hurry up hurry up please hurry up hurry up hurry up and put your hand over your head just like this okay all right up up okay and make more deep breath all right make more depressed all right don't move Dora we never made it to Manila where all our fellow nurses would be interned instead we ended up on one of the many death marches that would take place throughout the war six days to the rail station at San Miguel a track that would be measured in lives [Music] [Music] come on [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] look at it again size up right there oh ah we'll go again served up hot on our best China what about you I've already eaten thanks [Music] [Music] please please [Music] foreign [Music] no touch me [Music] again [Music] that's good [Music] foreign I don't think I'll ever feel clean again all you need is time I don't think I'm gonna make it Maggie you have to I love you love each other [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] come on come on get up shut up [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] God Bless America [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I love [Music] you [Music] okay [Music] okay let's go again [Applause] she doesn't know what she's doing come on I'll take care of her I promise [Music] that is still [ __ ] off take your friend back to the ranks Yama you come Commander our rules are simple we'll salute and bow to all Japanese military personnel regardless of rank will obey all orders without hesitation any resistance we met by force the punishment for escape is death bulk of the food you grow here will feed the Imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines any excess over your quota will be yours if nothing remains we'll starve in the Japanese Army to be taken prisoner while still able to resist it's considered a criminal act suicide rather than surrender is preferred reflect upon this you consider your situation you know please take your choice thank you gone off has she afraid so don't be it's a blessing the Japanese are a superstitious Lord possession and Insanity to them are one in the same shall have nothing to fear from them but won't they just kill her gracious no it'd be terrified that her Devil's Spirit would possess them I'm Judith Easton my husband Lord Cecil Easton was the former director of the Batangas agricultural station Maggie Jessup this is Helen Wyatt pleasure Lord Easton that makes you a leader in Batangas my dear we're all ladies I'm Nolan and that's Catherine Grace we call her Gracie I don't suppose any of you were able to pick up some food along the way we passed the horn and harder but they wouldn't let us stop we were lucky to get rid of some water notice that there aren't any children here were they taken away from you no all the women with children were taken to the Santo Tomas University in Manila are we the only Army nurses here the early nurses and the only female military personnel I'm Molly Carstairs my husband John and I under sugar Plantation here here you don't have any other medical stuff there is a civilian Doctor Charles Morgan in the main compound he comes whenever he can but it's not enough between the berry berry Dengue Fever dysentery and malaria we're losing at least one of us per day where's the hospital in the men's compound they have an area they like to call a hospital but it's really just a place to die why does the camp Commander speak with an American accent he's a countryman of yours who's an American born in San Francisco I believe you're kidding it was studying in Japan when he was inducted into the military service I don't think he had a choice how come you know so much about this guy know that an enemy at least he's an American shouldn't expect too much from that he is as you say between a rock and the hard place his men won't trust him because he's an American we can't trust him because he's Japanese it's not him I'd be worried about if I were you it's Kodama who that terrible little man who was going to kill your friend you made him lose face in front of his commanding officer he'll never forgive you for that I'll Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati I'm from Cincinnati sing ER it's so funny Ohio in Japanese means good morning [Music] I can't believe it good night sweetheart I'd like to give them all a good night permanently don't let it bother you my dear it's just their way of lowering our morale how much lower do they think we can go a thousand times lower that's how many records They found when they took over the camp oh that's just great I never paid much attention to the Hit Parade before I got in this dung hole and now I'm going to become an expert right Maggie um you sleep yet [Music] you and Tom ever think about having kids that's why we got married and I wanted kids we talked about it all the time still young there'll be somebody else oh they won't it'll never be anyone else don't think like that really it's just gonna make things much worse try to get some sleep okay [Music] [Music] I'm pregnant [Music] I don't know God help me I don't know if it's Christmas you know look at the way they're hauling stuff great way out of here only if you're dead my dear that's the morning video the most regular is Clockwork but you know that's just sometimes hey beginning today all work parties will be divided into groups of ten the color armbands you've been given will help us expedite executions in the event of escapes the mathematics are simple if one prisoner in a work party escapes the remaining nine will be shot ball 10 Escape 100 will be executed yeah no she knows it's good enough I got an idea let's take some of this corn back to camp and start our own garden how do you care good idea oh look see hearts cool [ __ ] he sound see go look try it foreign he wants us to hit each other hit me please do it give me satisfaction do it or he'll kill us both harder [Music] [Laughter] [Music] I don't know [Music] [Music] I'm Dr Morgan there's a man in the men's compound he says he's your husband Tom Patterson that's right is he all right afraid not he's sir zero chance to survival go with me you're hurting me nobody's trying to hurt you we're trying to keep you from getting killed all right let me ask you all just one question it's someone you loved were over there what would you do if you could have been with Chris before he died would you let anyone or anything stop you would you will get us all you heard what Nakayama said about Escape I'm not escaping let her go no you can hold on to me forever you're all insane well if you won't listen to me hey hey hey back off because Maggie's going and if you run to the chaps you're gonna deal with me and me as well give him my love I'm gonna go with you no someone's got to distract the guards that's me what's up [Music] [Music] all right this is really you were you expecting someone else how did you get in here boy what's important is that we're together are you in pain I was hoping you got out don't worry about me I'm fine [Music] I want you to do something for me name it when you get back when we get back home when you get back home I want you to find somebody else I don't want you to give up look who's talking about giving up what about that promise that you made to me we were going to die together in bed after we made them yeah okay I feel stronger already I love you man I love you too [Music] you kiss so good [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] once again Nakayama had saved my life however this time I wasn't sure he had done me a favor Tom was dead and now more than ever kadama was my sworn enemy [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] it was a very foolish thing you did risking your life to be with your husband godama could have shot you on the spot it's just as foolish as risking your life for an emperor Emperor Hirohito is a living God my husband wasn't such a bad guy either a lack of respect and sentimentality is typically American you should know I'm Japanese what we do is out of Duty not emotion a lesson you do well to learn I'm putting you in charge of the woman's compound I don't understand as of today as ranking female officer I'm putting you in charge of the female prisoners you'll help me bring in the crops I'm a nurse not a farmer nevertheless you're in charge then why don't you put me in charge of something I can do give me a hospital you have a hospital a place to die enough of this I'm putting you in charge in that spinal disobeying all your people will suffer please [Music] you do it what is she trying to do get herself killed what do you think you're doing you're here to work let's do it here if it's Chris what if it isn't [Music] lost him once are you willing to lose them again foreign come here look where'd it come from the hugs they run the resistance operation in this area and from time to time leave us things in the fields food medicine use of the war they're a fierce lot the Japanese I too am a big fan of National Geographic and I'm sure that the hugs are a real interesting bunch of Primitives but could we just open the package now thank you [Applause] good job [Music] [Applause] killing people today how can you allow this do you know what this is this is the sword of the Samurai one who lives by Dakota Bushido would have rather die than live in shame did it's been in my family for 400 years my father and mother lived by that goat and now because of your president they've died by it I don't understand all Japanese Americans have been placed in concentration camps because of crimes against their flag because of the color of their skin my father and mother chose not to endure that shame I'm truly sorry about what happened to your parents killing us won't bring them back and your parents chose to take their own lives here we have no choice there's always a choice not for us either your men kill us or you leave us to rot not excuse you call a hospital and you know that suicide's not an option for us you know our values they're yours I'm Japanese Stop The Killing foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] I love it come on hey hey shut them up this is you are David okay see [Music] [Music] begging twice baby okay good good that's right just a little bit more now put push hard come on that's right good push good good good good good okay keep your head down oh come on yes you can it's almost there come on I can see the head one more take a deep breath on push oh [Music] good good suction a girl oh [Music] my God I understand that one of your nurses has given birth to a baby yes last night a little girl and his father he was a captain in the Army Air corps he died in batam as soon as you can get them ready I love Kodama take them to the civilian camp at Central Tomas that may not be for a few months it's impossible it was a very difficult this is no place for a baby or an adult for that matter but if you move the mother and the child now they're both die they're suffering from malnutrition I'll give you a month Madonna could take them to Manila we'll never get to Manila alive Kodama will walk us to death just for just we've got a month we'll get you out of here how the gorillas oh well we found the radio [Music] [Music] [Applause] did I help yeah so when do we go April 9th the first anniversary of the fall of the town [Music] I love you baby [Music] all right [Music] oh God I don't know [Music] I don't know crazy [Applause] um [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] laughs [Music] [Music] you sent for me I've ordered the warehouse cleared do whatever you like with it [Music] we finally got our Hospital a week later we received a word that Helen and the baby had made it [Applause] during the next year of captivity life in Batangas became almost tolerable two months after Nakayama Leta set up a hospital we celebrated our first 24 hours without a death taking charge of the PA speakers came next at first I was against doing nakayama's dirty work but Nolan convinced me otherwise using records we were able to pass on more news to the camp they'll always be in England meant that the British were still hanging on walsi Matilda meant that the Australians were working with us and so on what's up that's it in March of 44 Gail Polson arrived from Mindanao where she had been taken prisoner after escaping from corrigador Haggard and drawn she'd finally run out of lipstick [Music] following a poor spring harvest the camp was put on Half rations starvation ran rampant as deaths from dry berry berry reached epidemic proportions with no medical supplies of any consequence animal protein became our only chance for survival once again Nakayama came to the rescue [Music] [Applause] you getting anything on the radio I'm worried about Gail she doesn't eat soon she won't make it won't eat huh well maybe you'd rather we sent out to a restaurant for some chicken soup or better yet a drugstore for some lipstick we wouldn't want our fashion plate looking too pale when we bury her just let me die in peace well why didn't you say so what the hell do you think you're doing we cannot let a good pair of shoes go to weigh scale nuts no I'm alive so am I well then you're gonna need this foreign Normandy the Allies have invaded normally to start the morning off an oldie but a goodie that old world war one classic over there [Music] [Applause] [Music] this one ladies [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] on this bright October morning an old favorite of yours and mine I'm waiting for ships that never come in better latey than never [Music] hey [Music] enough in there hey Tojo get her to the bed over there [Music] I know about the records the radio the radio what radio whose is it I don't know whose is it I don't know once more who does this radio belong to mine the truth now she dies it's mine the radio's mine I brought it with me from Mindanao today [Music] what what [Music] the radio was not hers we got it from the gorillas long before she even arrived at the camp please take her down any day now everything's gonna be over what will you gain by taking her life [Music] anyone ever tell you look great without makeup you're a real Beauty inside and out playing no no it sounds like timings [Music] you are completely surrounded you come out unarmed and surrender immediately while we're coming in you've got 10 minutes no no please don't hurt him I'll take care of it you're not insane [Music] what the hell [Music] the tenant Margaret Jessup U.S Army Nurse Corps what are you doing here all you women were supposed to be liberated at Santa Tomas not all of us if you don't allow the Japanese to leave with their weapons and give them a four-hour Head Start they'll kill over a hundred hostages are you nuts General to have my hide if I did that was going to have over 100 corpses if you don't I would like you to have this please it's been in your family for life hundreds of years it should be for your sons there won't be any if you don't take it it'll hang on the wall of a stranger's house would lie about how he won it in battle summarize sword belongs with a song and I'm a woman in the summer I like my mother what would your father have thought be honest [Music] foreign [Music] a few days later we heard that he had died the way he wanted to like a sandwich [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] after two years 10 months and 24 days finally free of the 104 Army and Navy nurses incarcerated by the Japanese during the war not one failed to survive the ordeal for that we were awarded the Bronze Star for gallantry the Bronze Star without the V for battle I would like to ask the committee were we not valorous were those who risked everything to preserve life any less courageous than those that carried a weapon how does one measure courage I can only speak from my own experience you measure against yourself and that can only be done once you strip away civilization plain codes is a shining thing when you see it a glowing reflection of the spirit of those women whom I served [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you

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Length: 95min 26sec (5726 seconds)

Published: Sat May 27 2023