Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Stars: | IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Fiction - An uplifting story of surviving in a German POW camp. 108 min | Gross: Laurence Fox. 90 min Geoffrey Palmer, | Frederick Leister, Robert Carlyle, | 178 min David Tomlinson, A WWII Royal Air Force squadron prepare for an important and dangerous mission…to demolish a Nazi-run munitions factory deep in the fjords of Norway–an installation which is a source of fuel for German rocket-launching. George Takei, Tom Courtenay, If you get a chance to see this film, be certain to watch it all the way to the end to see the actual escape. Robert Mammone, Votes: 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit. Robert Mammone, Votes: Approved Stars: 51,137 Brian Keith, | Their escape is suspected, so a tough Capt. But it's such a great story, include it here.For China WW II started in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China. Not Rated The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. | Paul Lukas, PG During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. | Leslie Phillips, Not Rated Together they helped thousands of Jews from all over Europe escape through France to Spain and on to the United States from 1940 to 1942. In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war. Lewis Gilbert Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. James Garner, | | Gross: True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany. As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. Robert Strauss. Director: | Director: | R | John Mills, Eric Portman, $22.24M, R Jean Negulesco | Zach Grenier, Votes: During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed. | 116 min John Dahl During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss Votes: 51,383 6. | Rachel Kempson, Howard Ryshpan, | Directors: | Mervyn Johns, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Stars: Ciarán McMenamin, | Gross: | 34,329 Christopher Rhodes, Votes: 1,233,597 | … Stars: camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans. The film is loosely based on a true event in which a Japanese submarine surfaced off the California coast, setting off a brief wave of panic. Sophia Myles, Two of the films show escapes from the Japanese.I label the films either "Fiction" (no basis in actual incident, though possible real location) or "Truthful" (varying degrees of basis in actual incident).It's not my intention to include documentaries, as they don't have the entertainment value that Hollywood made films have. Director: Stars: | | Gross: Truthful - Real story of an American, Varian Fry (portrayed by William Hurt), who aids the escape of Jews from Vichy France. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans. Robert Beatty, Action, Drama, War. Drama, History, War. Lionel Chetwynd Maria Perschy, These particular POWs were those who survived the Bataan Death March in 1942 after the Japanese captured the Philippines. | Truthful - This film shows the escape of the American POWs from a Japanese POW camp. Nicholas Lyndhurst, Drama, War. War, Drama. | A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France. | Director: Comedy, Drama, War. | Colin Farrell, Simple escapes from behind front lines are not included.Most people think of films showing Allies escaping, but at least two of these films show German escape attempts. During the war it was a POW camp, but no escapes. Director: Drama, War. | Nigel Stock, Approved Brian Keith, Since the film is made almost seven decades after the events of WWII conspired, it inherently has a ‘modern’ treatment, more so at the hands of director David Ayer whose filmography is by now, rather characteristic of similar tropes. Alfred Lynch, Approved | Director: John Dahl | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco, Robert Mammone. Billy Wilder Shopping. I've never seen it. Stars: Leo Genn, Stars: | Gross: Frank Sinatra, Fiction - A story of British & American prisoners in an Italian POW camp just as the Allies have conquered Sicily. | | Gross: Don Chaffey Director: Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Drama, War. Miranda Richardson, | Gross: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder. Adventure, Drama, War. | British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it. | Gross: Ian Hendry, Jud Taylor, 633 Squadron (1973). Flowers of War . The film was also the first film to be awarded the best picture Academy Award at the first annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award ceremony in 1929 and was one of the first films to show two men kissing. 7. Frances McDormand, Fiction - This is a comedy about a fictional escape from a POW camp in Germany. Ian Bannen, Fiction - An interesting story of Sgt Sefton (portrayed by William Holden), who is accused by his fellow POWs of giving information to the Germans about escape attempts. In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. | Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis. Cole Hauser, Votes: I make a small commission from some of the links on this site. François Leterrier, | Bobby Moore, Votes: Jack Watson. Tell us what you think about this feature. | 172 min Bobby Moore, Votes: | Roy Del Ruth Nazi, Holocaust and other MUST SEE World War II movies. 153 min Anthony Steel, $2.70M, Approved But evidently there was a wooden horse involved in the escape, and it was small enough for a man to carry. Anatoliy Kotenyov, Alan Arkin, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Michael Caine, Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them. Claudette Colbert, | Copy link. Tony Denison, Terence Alexander, 101 min | Director: Lionel Jeffries. Stars: | | Gross: A British prisoner of war becomes imprisoned alongside his best friend from home, though he is unaware that while he was captured, the friend began an affair with his wife. $2.31M, PG David Greene. camp housed in a Medieval castle. The story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Ed Harris, While WWII Allied officer Jack Rose is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz Castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the greatest betrayal awaits him on safe ground. | Christopher Rhodes, | Gross: Being a comedy, it reminds me of Hogan's Heroes. Director: Margaret Lindsay, Not Rated A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again. Mark Robson Fiction - A comedy of older POWs in a German camp. | Ian Hendry, Americans freed the POWs in 1945, but then gave up the town to the Soviets under the Yalta agreement. Robert Bresson | | | Action, Drama, War, A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. You really have to see the actual escape. | camp housed in a Medieval castle. | Basil Dearden Stanley Baxter, The film Eine Frau in Berlin "A woman in Berlin ", based on the bestselling book of the same name conjures up images of one of the most brutal pages from the past: sexual violence against German women at the end of World War II. Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics , August Diehl , Devid Striesow , Martin Brambach 12,890 | Ultimately ... See full summary », Director: As Japan invades China in 1937, the brutal Nanking massacre is carried out by Japanese forces. $1.92M, TV-G Paul Wendkos https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-prisoner-war-films In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards. Ultimately ... See full summary », Director: This film depicts the escape more truthfully than the original film, but also shows the postwar investigation of the Gestapo members who killed the 50 escapees. Trevor Howard, 228,189 Adventure, Drama, History. Roy Ward Baker David L. Cunningham John Dahl Michael Caine stars as the captain of the team and works with Max von Sydow, portraying a German officer in the POW camp, to get the game to happen. June 1945. | Gross: Drama, History, War. So in order for Sefton to clear his name, he must find out the real informer. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them. $10.17M. Nagisa Ôshima | Votes: 21,267 | Gross: $10.17M 120 min | | Gross: 15,915 Not Rated Comedy. German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II. In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery. 116 min | Drama, War. | Director: Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Christian Bale, Missing Best Picture Nominees (1930-present). | Helmut Griem, Truthful - An actual story of a fellow who escaped several times and was purposely recaptured as he sent info back to the Allies in England. Michael Goodliffe, Guy Hamilton Colin Gordon, Drama, War. | John Huston A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. It was the largest escape from a German concentration camp in WW II. ... See full summary », Director: It shows that the tunnel actually ended up being just short of the trees they had planned on reaching. R Not a very well known film and not yet available on DVD. Hardy Krüger, Don Taylor, Richard Todd, Director: Several of the camps staff were killed, and the prisoners fled into the surrounding woods. | Director: Fiction - A great story of a soccer team competing with Germans in Paris. $44.91M, Not Rated Hitler of course made the most of the incident, awarding Werra the Iron Cross. Comedy, Drama, War. Tap to unmute. Stars: Michael Wilding, | From war-torn romances to bloody battles, these are the best films that depict the horrors of World War 2—and the humanity at the center of the conflicts Lionel Jeffries, Not Rated Jean Gabin, During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. Richard Attenborough, Approved Terence Alexander. Michael Mendl, R Approved At the end of WW2, a German POW doing hard labor in the Soviet Gulag escapes from his Siberian camp to return to Germany but he's pursued by a Soviet NKVD officer. 240 min Ken Annakin Director: Director: Mark Robson Info. Approved Directors: | | Otto Preminger, 125 min Stephen Wallace | Gross: 69 min Connor (portrayed by Brian Keith) is called in to deal with it. 158 min | | When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. Jack Gold Steve Zahn, Terry O'Quinn, Stars: Stars: Drama, History, War. 6 John Bach, R Stars: Fiction - I don't know much about this film, except from the IMDb plot descriptions. Director: | Director: | Stars: Director: Drama, War. Drama, War. | Drama, War, The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. Stars: Nigel Havers, Votes: 28,270 Ryan, aka von Ryan, did this to get medicine, food and clothing for the prisoners, justifying the exposure by the belief that the American forces would rescue them in a few weeks. | Mark Strong. $10.85M, R | In my opinion this was Ingrid Bergman's greatest role, depicting Aylward. Set during the dark days of the Second World War, “Black Sheep” chronicles a Waffen-SS troop detachment on anti-partisan duties in occupied Yugoslavia. 21,278 Jim Sturgess, | Harry Andrews, Adventure, Drama, History. Colin Farrell, Ian Dalrymple Director: camp. 111,848 Bruce Willis, 116 min Frank Sinatra, Adventure, Drama, War. | Drama, Romance, War. Lamont Johnson | One Percenter February Youtube Ad 2. 134 min Eric Portman, Bryan Brown, | William Sylvester. World War II Pacific Movies. Director: Starring Steve McQueen, the film shows the planning and tunneling out of the POW camp. This is a list of escape films (cinema or TV) of WW II. Drama, History, War. Maurice Beerblock, | Christian Bale, Charles Bronson, Votes: Approved War, Comedy, Drama. Adventure, Drama, History. Alfred Lynch, Mark Robson | Director: Fiction - This is a story of German POWs in a prison camp in Scotland and their attempted escape. Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. Here are the best WWII Pacific movies. | I have not seen this film. Stars: Director: The camp was closed shortly after the escape, partly because there were no more prisoners, but also due to the horrors committed against the Jews at the camp. The film does not dwell on the horrors, but dwells on the escape. Director: William Holden, During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Tell us what you think about this feature. Truthful - Not a very well known film, but it's an interesting depiction of multi-national cooperation in escaping the Germans. 117,656 Tom Hardy, 172 min Since the United States was not yet in the war, Werra manages to travel through the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and back to Germany. Stars: Stars: 12,890 Erich von Stroheim, Votes: Hardy Martins 206,453 PG Stars: Some lesser-known wartime stories, such as Japan’s The Burmese Harp and the German-made Generation War, rank alongside the … Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. I have not seen this film, but it looks very interesting, I'll keep an eye out for it. James Franco, Action, Drama, War. | | $19.08M, R Gregory Hoblit | Directors: Roland Monod, PG Some films set during World War 2 may not be considered WWII movies in the most traditional sense, but they're often such amazing films that it would be unfair to leave them off the list. https://www.timeout.com/london/film/50-best-world-war-ii-movies Bryan Forbes | | Action, Drama, History. Truthful - The film shows the real life story of Gladys Aylward, English missionary in China. As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. 21,278 | William Holden, | Only successful escapes from POW camps are included. In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape. ", R Stars: Werner Herzog Benjamin Bratt, Jack Lee, It's an exception to my criteria of this list, in that the escape does not involve a POW camp. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape. Charles Haid. Tom Roberts Charles Bronson, Votes: David Bowie, Action, Drama, War, A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. $0.17M, 101 min Harald Winter. 116 min | Alec Guinness, | Glenn Close, It may be more about a romance involved than the actual escape. So the Allied prisoners take over the train and have to maneuver their escape. Andrew L. 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