POW Drama
  • Hart's War picture
    Movies

    Hart's War (2002)

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

  • The Counterfeiters picture
    Movies

    The Counterfeiters (2008)

    Nazis force prisoners in a concentration camp to forge currencies in an attempt to destabilize other...

  • The Road To Guantanamo picture
    Movies

    The Road To Guantanamo (2006)

    In September 2001 several British Muslims travel to Pakistan for a wedding and subsequently wind up...

  • Bent picture
    Movies

    Bent (1997)

    Nazis arrest a self-absorbed homosexual (Clive Owen) and his lover (Brian Webber) and ship them to...

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    Movies

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    Steven Spielberg's acclaimed account of an English boy's life in a WWII internment camp in...

  • The Great Escape picture
    Movies

    The Great Escape (1963)

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

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    Movies

    Captive Hearts (1987)

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

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai picture
    Movies

    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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

  • The Blockhouse picture
    Movies

    The Blockhouse

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

  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence picture
    Movies

    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

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

  • Stalag 17 picture
    Movies

    Stalag 17 (1953)

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

  • Rescue Dawn picture
    Movies

    Rescue Dawn (2007)

    During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a U.S. fighter pilot, is shot down over...

  • James Donald picture
    People

    James Donald

    Scottish-born actor James Donald was born in Aberdeen on May 18, 1917, and took his first...

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    People

    Alan Rawsthorne

    Alan Rawsthorne was a late starter in music; the Lancashire-born composer didn't even begin studying...

  • Karel Stepanek picture
    People

    Karel Stepanek

    Though born in Czechoslovakia, actor Karel Stepanek was generally regarded as a German actor due to...

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    People

    Alfred Lynch

    British character actor Alfred Lynch was generally cast in roles calling for a cockney dialect and a...

  • The Ascent picture
    Movies

    The Ascent

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

  • Victory picture
    Movies

    Victory (1981)

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

  • Destiny of a Man picture
    Movies

    Destiny of a Man

    A Russian man tells the story of his military tour during World War II and how he suffered at the...

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    Movies

    Shock Troops (1968)

    A group of Frenchmen freed by the Resistance are running from the Germans and suspect that one among...

  • The McKenzie Break picture
    Movies

    The McKenzie Break

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

  • Passenger picture
    Movies

    Passenger (1963)

    A former female SS Officer at Auschwitz meets one of her women prisoners aboard a liner some 15...

  • The Good War picture
    Movies

    The Good War (2004)

    Two mortal enemies eventually begin to respect and admire each other's distinct views.

  • The Hanoi Hilton picture
    Movies

    The Hanoi Hilton (1987)

    Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North...

  • Paradise Road picture
    Movies

    Paradise Road (1997)

    Women (Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett) of several nationalities band together to...

  • A Man Escaped picture
    Movies

    A Man Escaped (1957)

    A Resistance fighter (Francois Leterrier) and his cellmate (Charles Le Clainche) flee their Nazi...

  • Prisoner of the Mountains picture
    Movies

    Prisoner of the Mountains (1997)

    A Chechen villager takes two Russian soldiers (Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr.) hostage, hoping to...

  • To End All Wars picture
    Movies

    To End All Wars (2002)

    A World War II, prisoner-of-war drama about a group of American POWs. Led by Lieutenant Colonel...

  • Into the Sun picture
    Movies

    Into the Sun (1992)

    Story about a Hollywood actor and the relationship he forms with a top Air Force pilot in preparing...

  • The Vanishing Corporal picture
    Movies

    The Vanishing Corporal

    An ingenious French corporal (Jean-Pierre Cassel) tries repeatedly to escape from a World War II...