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1. The Great Escape (1963)

Approved | 172 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson

Votes: 259,261 | Gross: $12.10M

2. Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Approved | 117 min | Action, Adventure, War

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter

Votes: 15,159 | Gross: $17.11M

3. The Birdmen (1971 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are... See full summary »

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Doug McClure, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Basehart, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 337

4. Virginia City (1940)

Passed | 121 min | Western

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 2,969

5. Counterpoint (1967)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, War

A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen

Votes: 1,056

6. Sailor of the King (1953)

Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee

Votes: 697

7. The McKenzie Break (1970)

PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, War

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson

Votes: 1,703

8. The Wooden Horse (1950)

101 min | Drama, History, War

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.

Directors: Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple | Stars: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene

Votes: 1,595

9. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

Approved | 90 min | War, Drama

A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp. There they have to make use of his best resources to stay alive - and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf

Votes: 960

10. Destination Gobi (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 1,132

11. Zhavoronok (1965)

91 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany.

Directors: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker | Stars: Vyacheslav Gurenkov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Valeriy Pogoreltsev, Valentins Skulme

Votes: 260

12. Tank Force (1958)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, War

During WW2 in North Africa, an American sergeant serving with the British 8th Army is captured by the Germans but he hatches various plans of escape from the POW camp.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Anthony Newley, Bonar Colleano

Votes: 392

13. A Coming-Out Party (1961)

98 min | Comedy, War

A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes

Votes: 619

14. No Dead Heroes (1986)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action

A US lieutnant is turned into a guinea pig for deadly KGB experiments.

Director: Junn P. Cabreira | Stars: Max Thayer, John Dresden, Nick Nicholson, David Anderson

Votes: 162

15. Jees ja just (1943)

99 min | Comedy, War

Kalle Ryhmy and Ville Romppainen have to go behind the lines to destroy a Russian weapons stockpile.

Director: Risto Orko | Stars: Oiva Luhtala, Reino Valkama, Kirsti Hurme, Kullervo Kalske

Votes: 57

16. P.O.W.: Prisoners of War (1988 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure

Fight your way out of a P.O.W. camp, picking up weapons along the way. A variety of enemies, including end bosses, stand in your way.

Votes: 46

17. Northwest Passage (1958–1959)
Episode: Break Out (1958)

30 min | Adventure

Maj. Rogers, Sgt. Marriner and Ens. Towne are captured by a French patrol and thrown into a prison stockade. There they are subject to inhuman conditions and brutal torture by the sadistic French commander, Maj. Marten.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Adam Williams

Votes: 25

18. Nova (1974– )
Episode: History's Great Escapes (2004)

TV-PG | Documentary

"Great Escape" follows archaeologists---and original escapees---as they retrace the daring World War II POW escape dramatized in the 1963 Steve McQueen movie.

Director: Mark Radice | Stars: Richard Donat, Robert Krulwich

Votes: 26

19. My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode: Helena Bonham Carter (2019)

47 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Helena Bonham Carter goes in search of the truth behind her relatives' involvement in World War II. Both sets of her grandparents, one pair in France the other in England, were unconventional war heroes.

Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Caroline Catz

Votes: 63

20. Churchill (2021)
Episode: Beginnings (2021)

45 min | Documentary, Biography

Churchill's privileged upbringing, his difficult relationship with his father, his fledgling early military and journalistic career, and how his incredible Boer War adventure made him famous.

Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Aaron Neil, Priya Atwal, Katherine Carter, Alexandra Churchill

Votes: 12

21. Transatlantic (2023)
Episode: No Road Back (2023)

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, History

When Nazi officers spark panic and a police crackdown, Albert must smuggle the writer Walter Mehring out of the city. Varian bumps into an old friend.

Directors: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond | Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Lucas Englander, Cory Michael Smith, Corey Stoll

Votes: 150

22. Bomb Girls (2012–2014)
Episode: Guests of Honour (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, War

Buzzing with excitement, Lorna hosts a dinner for her visiting son Gene - but the party hits some snags when Sheila brings an unexpected guest - while news of escaped POWs results in a city-wide blackout.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Charlotte Hegele, Ali Liebert

Votes: 74