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The Colditz Story
Why this pick
Like The One That Got Away, it treats wartime captivity as a tense contest of ingenuity, nerve and institutional control, with a brisk, unsentimental British procedural style.
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MOVIE1957 1h 51m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Great Escape
Why this pick
A larger-scale but similarly character-led POW escape film, built around methodical planning, repeated setbacks and the exhilaration of testing a prison system's limits.
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The Wooden Horse
Why this pick
An austerely made British POW drama that finds tension in practical detail, patience and improvisation rather than spectacle, closely matching the controlled realism of Roy Ward Baker's film.
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The Password Is Courage
Why this pick
Another fact-inspired account of an exceptionally persistent British prisoner, balancing escape mechanics, dry humour and mounting danger without losing its grounded wartime perspective.
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The Hill
Why this pick
For the same claustrophobic wartime power struggle, this intense prison drama trades escape adventure for moral pressure, harsh discipline and defiance within an enclosed military system.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz von Werra (Hardy Krüger) is shot down during the Battle of Britain and captured. He wagers with his RAF interrogator (Michael Goodliffe) at the POW reception centre, Air Defence Intelligence, located at Trent Park in Cockfosters, near Chipping Barnet in Hertfordshire, that he will escape within six months.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Hardy Krüger
Franz von Werra
Andrew Faulds
Lieutenant, Grizedale
Julian Somers
Booking Clerk
Harry Lockart
German Prisoner
Robert Crewdson
German Prisoner
George Mikell
German Prisoner
George Roubicek
German Prisoner
Frederick Jaeger
German Prisoner