Oscar-Contending Doc ‘The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru’ Tells Incredible WWII Story Of Villainy And Heroism

One of the most extraordinary stories from World War II, paradoxically, is one of the least known: the sinking of the Lisbon Maru. This was the scene, in the ocean waters around a remote island off the Chinese coast: “On October 2, 1942, the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese freighter carrying 1,816 British prisoners of war, […]