| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2017 2:53 p.m. PST |
"Celebrating the endurance and ingenuity of soldiers in captivity, movies about prisoners of war make for compelling cinema. We round up 10 of the best…"
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Imho …. The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape were superb!!… Amicalement
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| dBerczerk | 24 Jan 2017 5:03 p.m. PST |
King Rat, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and Von Ryan's Express were also pretty good. |
| Old Peculiar | 24 Jan 2017 5:38 p.m. PST |
La Grande Illusion – brilliant! |
| Wackmole9 | 24 Jan 2017 6:11 p.m. PST |
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| Graycat | 24 Jan 2017 8:25 p.m. PST |
I just watched King Rat and decided I needed to read the book. Probably not even close to the movie. Has anyone made an 'alternate viewpoint' film of American POW camps? I think George Takei has written of his experience in one of the 'relocation centers' but I can't really think of anything like 'the great POW Films' looking at it from the other side. |
| Kevin C | 24 Jan 2017 9:46 p.m. PST |
Graycat, There is this movie about a German POW in an American POW camp: link
I found it pretty interesting since the town that I live in now had a POW camp in World War II, as did another town close to where I grew up in Arkansas. In fact my mother can remember visiting one of the POW camps when she was a child. And a number of people around here employed German POWs on their farms.
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| Cyrus the Great | 24 Jan 2017 9:49 p.m. PST |
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| emckinney | 24 Jan 2017 11:03 p.m. PST |
I've heard that some of the German prisoners in Canada who were sent to work on farms out in the prairie provinces got out to a certain point and we're just given tickets and told where to get off. Is this true? The attitude seems to have been, "There's a thousand miles of flat in every direction except north. That way is tundra. After that, you're still on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Run away if you feel like it." That, and just giving a POW a train ticket and expecting them to go where they're supposed to fits the American stereotype od Canadians. |
| Cerdic | 25 Jan 2017 12:59 a.m. PST |
Colditz was a good film. The Great Escape. Obviously. What was that film where Oliver Reed took an elephant from the zoo to escape over the Alps to Switzerland? I seem to remember it was quite funny. Hannibal Jones, or something like that? |
| gavandjosh02 | 25 Jan 2017 2:26 a.m. PST |
… the 1957 British war film The One That Got Away, the story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to successfully escape from Allied custody and return to Germany. |
| Vigilant | 25 Jan 2017 3:25 a.m. PST |
Cedric – Hannibal Brooks. Great film. Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard. |
| Florida Tory | 25 Jan 2017 5:51 a.m. PST |
The Secret War of Harry Frigg |
| Tango01 | 25 Jan 2017 11:10 a.m. PST |
All of them so good!…
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| Huscarle | 25 Jan 2017 12:05 p.m. PST |
How about "The Hill", although I suppose its really the glasshouse?
"Dark Blue World" had the returning Czech RAF crews incarcerated alongside the SS by the communists.
"The McKenzie Break" is the only other film that I can recollect about German POWs escaping.
What was the film about German POWs in an American camp in USA? It was 1944/5, but inside the camp it was still 1940 and the early prisoners (from 1940) killed any dissenters to Hitler & co? I think the town doctor worked out what was going on? |
Marc33594  | 25 Jan 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
Nice link and hard to argue with the choices though many of you have made strong cases to expand the list. Here is another list: imdb.com/list/ls054603419 There is this one about German POWs in the US, I must confess havent seen it:
theincidentmovie.com |
| capncarp | 26 Jan 2017 5:10 p.m. PST |
To End All Wars-- Robert Carlyle,Kieffer Sutherland
The Birdmen--ABC Movie of the Week 1971
Three Came Home-- Claudette Colbert, 1950
The Purple Heart--Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Richard Loo,
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