Here we've displayed a list of the best Pow Camp films : The Great Escape(1963), The Deer Hunter(1978), Seven Beauties(1976), King Rat(1965), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(1983), A Town Like Alice(1956), Frieda(1947), Katyn(2007), To End All Wars(2001), Paradise Road(1997), Escape From Fort Bravo(1953), Victory(1981) ... ...
War, Drama
USA
1963
172 Minutes
Steve McQueen James Garner Richard Attenborough Charles Bronson James Donald Donald Pleasence James Coburn David McCallum Gordon Jackson John Leyton Angus Lennie
military officer soldier prisoner nazi cheeky engaging gutsy spirited suspenseful germany pow camp escape deception confinement dangerous assignment prison rebellion escape quest pursuit
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1976
115 Minutes
Giancarlo Giannini Fernando Rey Shirley Stoler Elena Fiore Piero Di Iorio Enzo Vitale Roberto Herlitzka Lucio Amelio
thug sister psychiatrist nazi commandant wife soldier witty dark disheartening family home pow camp naples, italy germany asylum survival world war ii seduction collaboration family honor fall
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
War
USA
1965
133 Minutes
George Segal Tom Courtenay James Fox Patrick O'Neal Todd Anderson Sammy Reese Joe Turkel Michael Stroka William Fawcett Denholm Elliott Leonard Rossiter
prisoner of war guard soldier rival friend tense engaging pow camp singapore war friendship survival bribery black market quest rivalry 1940s
Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
War
UK|New Zealand|Japan
1983
124 Minutes
David Bowie Tom Conti Ryuichi Sakamoto "Beat" Takeshi Kitano Jack Thompson Johnny Ohkura Alistair Browning James Malcolm Chris Broun Grant Bridger Colin Francis
soldier prisoner of war translator military officer sergeant homosexual cool disturbing gutsy pow camp japan world war ii cultural differences torture homosexuality imprisonment honor underdog discovery 1940s
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Drama, War
UK
1956
107 Minutes
Virginia McKenna Peter Finch Kenji Takaki Jean Anderson Marie Lohr Maureen Swanson
prisoner of war pretty woman soldier engaging spirited australia london malaysia pow camp world war ii romance survival quest love 1940s
A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
Drama
UK
1947
98 Minutes
David Farrar Glynis Johns Mai Zetterling Flora Robson Albert Lieven Barbara Everest Gladys Henson Ray Jackson Patrick Holt Milton Rosmer Barry Letts
pilot wife mother aunt nazi tense emotional pow camp germany england oxfordshire, england nazism bigotry marriage world war ii love transformation discovery 1940s
A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then ... See full summary »
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Drama, History, War
USA
2001
121 Minutes
Ciaran McMenamin Robert Carlyle Kiefer Sutherland Mark Strong Yugo Saso Sakae Kimura James Cosmo Masayuki Yui John Gregg Shu Nakajima Greg Ellis
soldier captain lieutenant major brooding gritty burma jungle pow camp prisoners of war confinement uprising world war ii forgiveness underdog discovery escape 1940s
A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ... See full summary »
Drama
Australia|USA
1997
115 Minutes
Glenn Close Pauline Collins Cate Blanchett Frances McDormand Julianna Margulies Jennifer Ehle Elizabeth Spriggs Tessa Humphries Susie Porter Sab Shimono
dowager prison guard doctor musician socialite nurse chilling heartwarming pow camp singapore prisoners of war prison life singing world war ii violence prostitution escape rise 1940s
A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.
Western
USA
1953
98 Minutes
William Holden Eleanor Parker John Forsythe William Demarest William Campbell Polly Bergen Richard Anderson Carl Benton Reid John Lupton Howard McNear Alex Montoya
warden soldier indian pretty woman gutsy spirited thrilling arizona desert pow camp american civil war prisoners of war survival betrayal escape rescue pursuit 1860s
During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.
Action
UK|USA|Italy
1981
117 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Michael Caine Pelé Bobby Moore Osvaldo Ardiles Paul Van Himst Kazimierz Deyna Hallvar Thorensen Mike Summerbee Co Prins Russell Osman
prisoner of war military officer nazi soccer player soldier guard spirited engaging suspenseful pow camp france paris stadium soccer field competition soccer teamwork prison break world war ii nazi occupation
As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
Drama, History
USA
1939
97 Minutes
Anna Neagle Edna May Oliver George Sanders May Robson ZaSu Pitts H.B. Warner Sophie Stewart Mary Howard Robert Coote Martin Kosleck Gui Ignon
nurse patient soldier prisoner spy engaging disheartening bleak belgium hospital pow camp courtroom prisoners of war bravery world war i imprisonment prison break escape rescue underdog
English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war ... See full summary »
Adventure, Action
UK
1979
102 Minutes
Roger Moore Telly Savalas David Niven Claudia Cardinale Richard Roundtree Stefanie Powers Sonny Bono Elliott Gould William Holden
german american soldier prostitute greek person archaeologist chef patriotic brash amusing pow camp greece island brothel monastery mountain world war ii prisoners of war theft nazis unlikely allies
A World War II adventure, involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.
War
USA
1971
99 Minutes
Richard Burton John Colicos Clinton Greyn Wolfgang Preiss Danielle De Metz Karl Otto Alberty Christopher Cary John Orchard Brook Williams Greg Mullavey Ben Wright
captain sailor nazi prisoner of war medic soldier tense thrilling north africa tobruk, libya pow camp ship undercover operations illness dangerous mission world war ii ambush impersonation adventure rescue
In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
War
USA
1954
80 Minutes
Ronald Reagan Steve Forrest Dewey Martin Oscar Homolka Robert Horton Paul Stewart Harry Morgan Stephen Bekassy Leonard Strong Darryl Hickman Ralph Ahn
army officer captain prisoner of war sadist commander guard disturbing intense inspiring pow camp north korea korean war undercover operations torture violence brainwashing communism discovery escape rescue
During the Korean War, an American officer is tasked with infiltrating a Communist-run POW camp in order to investigate the treatment of American prisoners by the enemy.
Comedy
1961
98 Minutes
James Robertson Justice Leslie Phillips Stanley Baxter Eric Sykes Richard Wattis Norman Bird Jeremy Lloyd
scientist nazi inmate commandant british soldier host amusing madcap playful great britain germany airplane pow camp television studio world war ii disguise prison break camaraderie reunion escape
British prisoners of war plan the escape of a stuffy British scientist (James Robertson Justice) shot down by the Nazis.
Drama, War
1970
106 Minutes
Brian Keith Helmut Griem Ian Hendry Jack Watson Patrick O'Connell Horst Janson Alexander Allerson John Abineri Tom Kempinski Caroline Mortimer Mary Larkin
british soldier german soldier captain captive major prisoner of war suspenseful gritty engaging pow camp scotland tunnel prisoners of war jailbreak secret plans world war ii investigation rivalry escape quest
A wily Irish officer (Brian Keith) lets a U-boat captain (Helmut Griem) lead a mass escape from a camp in World War II Scotland.
Romance, War, Drama
1943
163 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Roger Livesey Deborah Kerr Anton Walbrook John Laurie James McKechnie Neville Mapp
soldier major general teacher nurse nazi gripping melodramatic witty england pow camp south africa germany love friendship war aging military love transformation sacrifice
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.