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  1. Stalag Luft
    1993 · Comedy · 1h 43m
  2. Oct 27, 1993 · Stalag Luft: Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Kelly. During WW2, after the 'ingenious' desertion of the German guards, the Allied prisoners of a POW camp decide to remain in the camp, some masquerading as German guards, in order to fool the frequent SS inspections.

    • (180)
    • Comedy, Drama, War
    • Adrian Shergold
    • 1993-10-27
    • They Built Three Escape Tunnels: ‘Tom,’ ‘Dick’ and ‘Harry’
    • Only 76 of The Planned 200 Prisoners Escaped
    • Nazis Caught 73 Escapees—And Executed 50

    The secret operation was led and organized by Roger Bushell, a Royal Air Force pilot who had been shot down over France while assisting with the evacuation of Dunkirk. In the spring of 1943, Bushell and over 600 prisoners of war began building three tunnels with the code names of Tom, Dick and Harry. The plan called for each tunnel to stretch for m...

    The Nazis eventually discovered the tunnel Tom and summoned photographers to chronicle their find before its demolition. While the Nazis celebrated their discovery, however, they were unaware that work on the two other underground passages continued. The prisoners eventually turned Dick into a storage space and focused all construction on Harry, wh...

    The audacity and resourcefulness demonstrated by the Allied pilots was the stuff movies are made of, and the breakout was immortalized in the 1963 blockbuster The Great Escape, which starred Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. There was no Hollywood ending, however, for most of the 76 men who broke o...

  3. Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.

  4. May 1, 2019 · Stalag Luft III: One Man's Story: Directed by Louise Woehrle. Stalag Luft III - One Man's Story is told by World War II prisoner of war U.S. Eighth Air Force Lt. Charles Woehrle, one of 10,000 prisoners in Stalag Luft III, depicted in the movie "The Great Escape." Woehrle was shot down May 29th, 1943.

    • (18)
    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • Louise Woehrle
    • 2019-05-01
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  6. Mar 4, 2024 · The event took place on 25 March 1944, 76 POWs of Stalag Luft III camp escaped captivity. Through meticulous planning, preparation and clever deception, the prisoners were able to outwit their captors but ultimately the Great Escape ended in tragedy, as the 48 escapees buried at Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery can attest.

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  8. Oct 27, 1993 · Overview. Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse than the last.

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