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Pages in category "German prison films" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 14 Days to Life; A.
The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within.
Shorter version of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey; reconstructed by American PBS series Frontline in 1984 1946 United States Seeds of Destiny: Gene Fowler Jr. Shows devastation and solicits relief funds 1946 France Nous Continuons: English Title: We Live Again. Deals with child survivors. In Yiddish. 1947 Soviet Union The Nuremberg ...
Based on the true story of allied prisoners planning a mass escape from a German prison camp, ... As much a battle of wills as a great action movie, this enduring classic won seven Oscars ...
Clemens Forell is a German Wehrmacht soldier who was captured by the Soviets in 1945. Forell is sentenced to 25 years hard labour for "crimes against the partisans" and sent as part of a large group of prisoners to a Gulag labour camp in the Siberian region of the Soviet Union. After a huge cross-continent railway journey on starvation rations ...
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. [1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka).
It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube". Their compound holds 630 sergeants representing many different aircrew positions, but the film focuses on one particular barracks, where the men come to suspect that one of their number is an ...
The sadistic camp commandant erects a row of seven crosses and vows to "put a man on each". The first to be apprehended is Wallau, who dies without giving up any information. With the dead Wallau narrating, the film follows Heisler as he makes his way across the German countryside, stealing a jacket to cover his prison garb.