The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), The Great Escape (1963), The Deer Hunter (1978), Seven Beauties (1976), King Rat (1965), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), A Town Like Alice (1956), Katyn (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pow Camp movies.
Storyline: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand-picked commandos, but a mix-up leaves him with a medical unit containing a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.—Col_Hessler
Plot Keywords: captain, sailor, nazi, prisoner of war, medic, soldier, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau.
Plot Keywords: colonel, friend, captive, veteran, government official, president, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Local residents are outraged when their small town's doctor is murdered while at a nearby military base during World War II. A suspect is soon named: Nazi prisoner of war Domsczek (Robert Carradine). The trial is mounted quickly -- but few want to defend such a heinous criminal. The onus falls on lawyer Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau), who was best friends with the victim. Cobb will have to overcome both grief and social stigma in order to maintain his integrity while defending Domsczek.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, nazi, doctor, woman, son, prisoner of war, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British soldier Eric Newby (Callum Blue) is captured by Italian forces in World War II. Held captive in a prisoner-of-war camp at a derelict orphanage, Newby is released after the Italian armistice of 1943. But his freedom is short-lived. Newby soon finds himself the target of a Nazi division that refuses to surrender. He survives thanks to the help of Italian farmers and a woman, Wanda (Barbora Bobulova), who gives him food, teaches him Italian and falls in love with him.
Plot Keywords: farmer, nazi, british soldier, woman, tender, tense, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American army officer, troubled by reports of brutality, volunteers to investigate conditions inside North Korean POW camps. He parachutes behind enemy lines and infiltrates a group of G.I.s being marched to one of these camps. There, he witnesses scenes of G.I.s being brainwashed, beaten, subjected to mock executions, deprived of food and water, and more, under the supervision of a Russian colonel.—dinky-4
Plot Keywords: army officer, captain, prisoner of war, sadist, commander, guard, disturbing ...
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