Grand Illusion (1937), The Great Escape (1963), Stalag 17 (1953), The Bridge (1999), Unbroken (2014), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968), The Elusive Corporal (1962), The Captive Heart (1946) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pow Camp movies.
Storyline: World War I French fliers (Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin) become captives of a German aristocrat (Erich von Stroheim) who considers one of them his equal.
Plot Keywords: war, world war i, french cinema, classic, humanity, class, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war are all put in an "escape proof" camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the movie is played for comedy, as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use planes, trains, and boats to get out of occupied Europe.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, escape, adventure, action, historical, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem - there seems to be a security leak. The Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For some in Barracks 4, especially the loud-mouthed Duke, the leaker is obvious: J.J. Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that no other prisoner seems to have. Sefton denies giving the Germans any information and makes it quite clear that he has no intention of ever trying to escape. He plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but it doesn't extend to spying for the Germans. As tensions mount and a mob mentality takes root, it becomes obvious that Sefton will have to find the real snitch if he is to have any peace and avoid the beatings Duke and ...
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, comedy, drama, mystery, black comedy, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mina (Carole Bouquet) is tired of her unemployed husband, Georges (Gérard Depardieu). When she goes to a matinee with her son, Tommy (Stanislas Crevillen), one afternoon, she meets Matthias (Charles Berling), an intriguing and intelligent engineer. The two fall for each other, and Tommy knows all about his mother's secret and seemingly doesn't care. But it's an easy secret to keep, especially when Georges gets a job working on an out-of-town bridge -- the same bridge Matthias helped design.
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, history, military, cold war, ideology, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who joined the armed forces during the second world war. Only to be captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific. During his capture, Louie must continue his fight by surviving through the war.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, survival, japan, true story, biography, torture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.—Peter Zunneberg <p.zunneberg@tip.nl>
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, adventure, military, spy, humor, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, french film, drama, escape, history, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the evacuation at Dunkirk, June 1940, some thousands of British prisoners are sent to German P.O.W. camps. One such group includes "Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell," a concentration-camp escapee who assumed the identity of a dead British officer. To avoid exposure, "Mitchell" must correspond with the dead man's estranged wife Celia. But eventual exposure seems certain, and the men must find a way to get him out. If he reaches England, though, what will his reception be?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british film, drama, romance, history, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. One British officer has the idea of starting a daily gynmastics routine using a vaulting horse: they can place it near the boundary and start a tunnel from under it. He and two others do escape the camp by this means and plan to make for neutral Sweden. To do that, they'll not only have to move around without arousing any suspicions, but also find a stranger from a neutral or occupied country who'll be willing and able to help them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, true story, escape, courage, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, psychological warfare, brainwashing, torture, interrogation, loyalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, among many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, nazis, germany, heroism, escape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Middle-aged Harry lives comfortably with his wife Edith and his daughter and her husband. Though rather sour and a bit mean, he is in fact content. So when Edith finds she is pregnant again he is anything but overjoyed. Apart from the changes it will mean, he is now seen as some sort of older superman in town. Meanwhile his daughter sees child bearing as a way out of the extra housework she is having to do, the achievement of which starts to put pressure on her increasingly tired husband.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, world war ii, australia, veterans, adventure, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwaffe veteran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, racial discrimination, murder mystery, bruce willis, drama, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War II, the prisoners of a German camp on a Greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, adventure, comedy, world war ii, nazis, greece, resistance ...
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: war, korean war, military, drama, historical, american film, black and white ...
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