POW (Prisoner of War)
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    People

    Anatole Taubman

    Anatole Taubman appeared in movies such as Taken and Quantum of Solace and TV shows including The...

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    Hart's War (2002)

    A conniving colonel (Bruce Willis) oversees the murder trial of a black airman (Terrence Howard) in...

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    Hannibal Brooks (1969)

    Hannibal Brooks (Oliver Reed) is a British prisoner of war assigned to care for an elephant in a zoo...

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    The Great Raid (2005)

    In 1944 Lt. Col. Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) leads a U.S. battalion to rescue more than 500...

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    The Great Escape (1963)

    Allied soldiers (Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough) dig a tunnel out of a Nazi...

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    Captive Hearts (1987)

    A downed Army Air Corps pilot (Chris Makepeace) falls in love with one Japanese villager (Mari Sato)...

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    Code 7, Victim 5

    In this action film, an American detective is hired by an aging millionaire to investigate the...

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    Von Ryan's Express (1965)

    An Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) and a British major (Trevor Howard) seize a Nazi prison train...

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    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    A British POW colonel (Alec Guinness) orders his men to build their Japanese captor (Sessue...

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    Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

    A former Green Beret (Sylvester Stallone) goes on a reconnaissance mission to spring MIAs from a...

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    Prisoners of the Sun (1991)

    An Australian captain (Bryan Brown) tries to prosecute a Japanese baron (George Takei) for POW-camp...

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    The Blockhouse

    Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground...

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    MacArthur (1977)

    Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck) returns to the Philippines, manages postwar Japan and defies...

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    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

    A Japanese captain (Ryuichi Sakamoto) on Java holds an intellectual British colonel (Tom Conti) and...

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    Waterloo Bridge (1940)

    A ballet dancer (Vivien Leigh) and a British officer (Robert Taylor) cross stars on the eve of World...

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    Bridge to Hell

    This exciting WW II drama is set in Yugoslavia and chronicles the daring exploits of a band of...

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    Stalag 17 (1953)

    In a Nazi prison barracks, other POWs believe that a cynical American sergeant (William Holden) is...

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    Major Dundee (1965)

    A Union major (Charlton Heston) chases Indians to Mexico with a condemned Confederate captain...

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    Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

    An egocentric Austrian mountaineer (Brad Pitt) gradually learns selflessness from the young Dalai...

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    Uncommon Valor (1983)

    A colonel (Gene Hackman) with a sponsor (Robert Stack) leads five Marine veterans into Laos to find...

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    A French Woman

    Portrait of one woman leads to an acute picture of France from 1939-1954.

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    The Walking Dead (1995)

    A sergeant (Allen Payne) leads four Marines on their last mission: to evacuate a POW camp in 1972...

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    The Ascent

    Set in British East Africa during World War II, based on a true story of an Italian prisoner-of-war...

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    McBain (1991)

    An ex-POW (Christopher Walken) and his war buddies help a dead friend's sister (Maria Conchita...

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    Victory (1981)

    Allied prisoners (Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Pelé) can either play soccer with the Germans...

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    Blood and Honor

    While burning and looting throughout the South, renegade Union Colonel Evans, takes possession of...

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    The Hook

    A U.S. sergeant (Kirk Douglas) and two privates (Robert Walker, Nick Adams) are ordered to kill a...

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    Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1998)

    Dieter Dengler, growing up in bombed out, postwar Germany, dreamed of flying, of being a test pilot....

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    Maria's Lovers (1985)

    A World War II soldier returns home to his Pennsylvania town with deep psychological wounds from his...

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    The McKenzie Break

    A wily Irish officer (Brian Keith) lets a U-boat captain (Helmut Griem) lead a mass escape from a...