If you have time, it is good if you can watch Sarjan Hassan and Leftenan Adnan The movies are about the struggle of the local people to free their land from the Japenese.Those movies will give you some ideas about the struggle of the Malays and the British armies to free themselves from the Japanese. You may visit the following link to view the movies:

a) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=filem+leftenan+adnan&aq=f

b) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=filem+sarjan+hassan&aq=f