World War II prisoner of war films

The Great Escape

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 8.2

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder...

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but C...

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Stalag 17

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 8

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

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Empire of the Sun

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him whil...

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King Rat

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.5

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a whee...

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The Way Back

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.3

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

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36 Hours

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

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Three Came Home

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmat...

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Reach for the Sky

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

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