Digging The Great Escape (2011)
• November 28th, 2011 • 1h 12min
Documentary, War
Overview
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live that situation. In an effort to understand the technical details of how this feet of ingenuity was achieved, the team recreate some of the equipment used by the prisoners.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Besa: The Promise
Released on: 2012-07-19
Documentary
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...
Lee
Released on: 2024-09-12
History, Drama, War
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...
Force of Arms
Released on: 1951-08-13
War, Romance, Drama
During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; ba...
Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades
Released on: 2015-11-10
Documentary
For the men who fought perhaps the fiercest battle of WWII, seventy years have passed. But the memor...
Haruko's Doll
Released on: 2018-08-04
Drama, Romance, History, War
In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a...
Ouzeri Tsitsanis
Released on: 2015-12-03
Drama, Music, War
During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in lov...
Hitler's Madman
Released on: 1943-06-10
Drama, War
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen...
Plan for Destruction
Released on: 1943-04-22
Documentary, History
Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at t...
Reveille with Beverly
Released on: 1943-02-04
Comedy, Music, Romance, War
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ fo...
Rumors
Released on: 1943-12-01
Animation, Comedy, War
Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is abo...
Tender Comrade
Released on: 1944-05-30
Drama, Romance, War
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares ...
They Stooge to Conga
Released on: 1943-01-01
Comedy, War
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headq...
Theirs Is the Glory
Released on: 1946-10-13
War, Documentary
Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.
This Was Paris
Released on: 1942-03-21
Drama, War
British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
Diamonds of the Night
Released on: 1964-09-25
Drama, War
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultima...
Back from the Front
Released on: 1943-05-28
Comedy, War
The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief ru...
Visa to Paradise
Released on: 2010-03-13
Documentary
Narrated by himself, by those who knew him and those he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes the acti...
Prison Ship
Released on: 1945-11-15
Action, War, Drama
Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually...
Two Nights in a Day
Released on: 1963-01-01
Romance, War
Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to...
The Bombers
Released on: 1973-07-28
War, Drama
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.