Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "pow-prisoner-of-war"

51. Desperate Journey (1942)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, War

When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey

Votes: 2,604

52. What Price Glory (1952)

Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest

Votes: 1,448

53. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )

Documentary, Drama, War

'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.

Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk

Votes: 124

54. Northern Pursuit (1943)

Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A Canadian Mountie of German descent feigns disaffection with his homeland in hopes of infiltrating and thwarting a Nazi sabotage plot.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely

Votes: 1,637

55. Rocky Mountain (1950)

Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 1,326

56. Berlin 1945 (2020)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.

Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David

Votes: 325

57. The Hook (1963)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, War

In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams, Pancho Magalona

Votes: 785

58. The Deep Six (1958)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War

Called to active duty during World War II, U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant Alec Austin struggles to do his military duties while observing his Quaker beliefs, to the dismay of his comrades.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 533

59. The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus

Votes: 459

60. San Antone (1953)

90 min | Drama, Western

A Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado

Votes: 191

61. The White Sister (1933)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman falls in love with a dashing officer, but becomes a nun when she believes him to be killed in battle.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lewis Stone, Louise Closser Hale

Votes: 486

62. Skin Art (1993)

R | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A Vietnam vet who suffers from flashbacks and impotency ever since he was captured and tortured in Vietnam now works as a tattoo artist for a local pimp and his Asian girls. His latest client gets him to finally deal with these issues.

Director: William Blake Herron | Stars: Kirk Baltz, Ariane, Jake Weber, Nora Ariffin

Votes: 65

63. Sovereign (I) (2015)

18 min | Short, Action, Drama

Plagued with survivor's guilt, an Iraq war veteran turned mercenary stumbles upon a plot to sabotage America's energy independence. Fighting to free the demons in his head, he sets out to eradicate the traitors amongst us.

Director: Jack Hartnett | Stars: Jack Hartnett, Scott Levy, Lesli Kay, Said Faraj

Votes: 16

64. Prisoner of Mind

Short, Drama | Completed

What if you could get revenge on the person who stole everything from you? That question is examined in this two-character drama about a man paying the price for his grandfather's misdeeds, and a former POW who had nothing to come home to.

Director: John McAteer | Stars: Rich Ting, Jon Coffey, Pat Turner

65. The Nebraskan (1953)

Approved | 68 min | Drama, Western

Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb

Votes: 283

66. Celestial Body (2000)

85 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders ... See full summary »

Director: Lukas Nola | Stars: Filip Nola, Filip Sovagovic, Barbara Nola, Rene Bitorajac

Votes: 147

67. POW's POV (2011)

5 min | Short

A prisoner of war's subjective view. An unpleasant, claustrophobic space. The passage of time. A story which repeats itself, since the game of war and prison is, unfortunately, eternal.

Director: Goran Trbuljak

Votes: 16

68. Korean War Stories (2001 TV Movie)

56 min | Documentary, History, War

A history of the "Forgotten War", the Korean War, as told by the American veterans, both famous and unknown, who fought there.

Director: Robert Uth | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Buzz Aldrin, James Baker III, Dick Bernard

Votes: 49

69. Awakening Dreams (2010)

Drama, War

Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow. But ...

Director: Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar | Stars: Hamed Aghaei, Alireza Aghazade, Mehri Sadat Alagha, Amir Hossein Arman

Votes: 114

70. Patriots (1937)

96 min | Drama, Romance, War

The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman.

Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Mathias Wieman, Lída Baarová, Bruno Hübner, Hilde Körber

Votes: 25

71. The Oshima Gang: The Making of 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' (1983 Video)

30 min | Documentary, Short

Documentary off behind the scenes of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence featuring interviews to David Bowie, Tom Conti and Sir Lourens van der Post.

Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Nagisa Ôshima, Jeremy Thomas

Votes: 22

72. Christmas Crackers (1946)

13 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Add a Plot

Director: John Sprod | Stars: C. Deslandes Carter, Gill Carter, Kathleen Carter, Mary Edwards

73. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Barbarossa: June-December 1941 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

After dominating southeastern Europe through force or intrigue, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Walter Warlimont, Albert Speer, Grigori Tokaty

Votes: 516

74. The Pacific (2010)
Episode: Okinawa (2010)

TV-MA | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The 1st Marine Division fight a determined Japanese force on Okinawa who prefer death to surrender and are indifferent to the lives of Okinawan civilians.

Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Noel Fisher

Votes: 2,388

75. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Prisoners of War, Part Two - Battle for the Mind (1998)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Examines the treatment of prisoners of war on both sides during WWII. From interrogation to housing to repatriation, civilian and military POWs were often used as pawns between warring nations.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Mark Seaman, Robert C. Doyle, Sydney Dowse

76. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157