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
as Col. Margaret Ann Jessup
Kristy McNichol
as T.J. Nolan
Alberta Watson
as Lt. Helen Prescott
Valerie Mahaffey
as Lt. Katherine R. Grace
Terry O'Quinn
as Maj. Tom Patterson
Suzanne Lederer
as Lt. Gail Poison
Neva Patterson
as Lady Judith Eason
Jay Acovone
as Capt. Rader
John Philbin
as Paraplegic soldier
