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37 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Great Escape. 1963 2h 52m Approved. 8.2 (260K) Rate. 86 Metascore. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Director John Sturges Stars Steve McQueen James Garner Richard Attenborough. 2. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love.
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- 'The Great Escape' (1963) Director: John Sturges. The Great Escape’s title is a perfect one, because it’s all about an escape, and it’s an indisputably great movie.
- 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) Director: David Lean. An adventure/war movie that won Best Picture, all the while also being an undeniably excellent epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai centers on a group of British prisoners forced to build a bridge by their Japanese captors during the Second World War.
- 'Devils on the Doorstep' (2000) Director: Jiang Wen. An incredibly underrated war movie that deserves a lot more attention than it gets, Devils on the Doorstep takes a unique approach to both the war genre broadly and the prisoner-of-war sub-genre more specifically.
- 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence' (1983) Director: Nagisa Ōshima. Telling a story about a clash of cultures while being set almost entirely in a prisoner of war camp and partially qualifying as a Christmas movie, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence really does have it all.
- The Great Escape. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough. 29 votes. In the riveting drama The Great Escape, a group of Allied prisoners, led by Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen), are confined in an ostensibly escape-proof German POW camp during World War II.
- Unbroken. Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund. 15 votes. As a boy, Louis "Louie" Zamperini is always in trouble, but with the help of his older brother, he turns his life around and channels his energy into running, later qualifying for the 1936 Olympics.
- Empire of the Sun. Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson. 13 votes. Set amidst the turmoil of World War II, Empire of the Sun is a captivating tale of survival and resilience.
- The Deer Hunter. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage. 8 votes. The Deer Hunter is a gritty war drama that explores the lives of three steelworkers whose existences are irrevocably shaken by the Vietnam War.
Aug 21, 2022 · Prisoner Of War (1954) Topics. Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin, Oscar Homolka, Robert Horton, Paul Stuart, Harry Morgan, Darryl Hickman, Ralph Ahn, Strother Martin, Dick Sargent, Stuart Whitman, Gordon Mitchell, pancoligo.
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Prisoner of War is a 1954 American war – drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin and Oskar Homolka. [2] [3] Plot. An American officer volunteers to be captured in order to investigate claims of torture against American POWs in North Korean camps during the Korean War . Cast.
Apr 18, 2013 · 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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May 3, 2024 · From The Deer Hunter to The Great Escape, here are 20 of the best prisoner of war movies ever made.
