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 ...

Part 1 of this two-part made-for-TV movie is a retelling of the original motion picture The Great Escape from 1963, which is based on an event that actually occurred. 200 Allied aircrew members ...

Prison escape ... great effect to highlight the claustrophobic conditions and the apparent impossibility of escape. Eastwood ...

But even before either of these TV shows hit the airwaves, McCallum starred in one of the most famous Hollywood films of the 1960s: the World War II prison film The Great Escape. The 1963 movie ...

On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in a classic film, The Great Escape. In 1977, a key member of ...

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 ...