The first half of the movie is played for comedy, as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use planes, trains, and boats to ...

At the North Compound, I visited the Harry Tunnel Monument. This monument is a tribute to the Great Escape, which inspired the 1963 film “The Great Escape,” starring Steve McQueen, James ...

WATCH: 'That tunnel was flooded, but the drawings survived'. The story was first told by Paul Brickhill, one of the people who helped with the escape attempt, in his 1950 book, The Great Escape.

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...