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51. The Last Blitzkrieg (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, War
The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces. Stars Van Johnson, Kerwin Matthews, Dick York and Larry Storch.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, Larry Storch
Votes: 345
52. The First Grader (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua
Votes: 4,900 | Gross: $0.33M
53. Some Kind of Hero (1982)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, War
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Ronny Cox
Votes: 1,734 | Gross: $23.67M
54. 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: 1,709
55. The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
R | 95 min | Drama, War
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Directors: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Arfan Usman
Votes: 11,485 | Gross: $0.32M
56. 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: 1,596
57. Grbavica (2006)
90 min | Drama
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic
Votes: 6,897 | Gross: $0.04M
58. The Edge (2010)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 3,245
59. 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: 961
60. Changi (2001)
60 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Six young men experience pain and horror during their stay in the Japanese Prison Camp during World War II.
Stars: Stephen Curry, Anthony Hayes, Leon Ford, Matthew Newton
Votes: 422
61. Son of Lassie (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage ?
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 949
62. Silent Cries (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, War
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Annabeth Gish, Chloe Webb, Gail Strickland
Votes: 183
63. 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: 393
64. 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: 1,135
65. P.O.W. (2003)
48 min | Drama
Flight Sergeant James Caddon is captured when his plane is shot down on a bombing raid. He is taken to the P.O.W. camp Stalag 39, where he discovers a daring escape is already being planned.
Stars: James D'Arcy, Anatole Taubman, Ewan Stewart, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 168
66. The Great Escape: The True Story (2021)
60 min | Documentary, History
Three-part documentary examining the story of the audacious Second World War prison break, in which 76 prisoners of war tunnelled their way out of a German prison camp in March 1944.
Stars: Martyn Hillyard, Tim McInnerny
Votes: 16
67. Private's Progress (1956)
102 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones
Votes: 908
68. Jenny's War (1985)
PG | 198 min | Drama, War
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Stars: Dyan Cannon, Elke Sommer, Robert Hardy, Patrick Ryecart
Votes: 166
69. The Ritchie Boys (2004)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Holocaust survivors share their story of fleeing to the United States, joining the US Army, training in Military Intelligence, and returning to Europe to end Nazism by using their linguistic abilities.
Director: Christian Bauer | Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 265
70. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell (1999 Video)
89 min | Adventure, History, War
August, 1916. Using the name 'Henri Defense', 17 year old Indiana Jones has enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, Jason Flemyng, Richard Ridings
Votes: 712
71. Babi Yar. Context (2021)
121 min | Documentary, History
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Hans Frank, Hans Isenmann, Vladimir Artobolevsky, Anastasya Osmachko
Votes: 439
72. The Making of 'the Bridge on the River Kwai' (2000 Video)
53 min | Documentary
Documentary about the making of the classic WWII film.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Adrian Turner, Norman Spencer, Pamela Mann, William Holden
Votes: 141
73. Great Escape: The Untold Story (2001 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The Stalag Luft III was a prison camp on Germany's border with Poland. It held 10,000 Allied airmen of all nationalities during the Second World War, and was escape proof. But for Allied ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Clarke | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Jimmy James, Alex Cassie, Roger Bushell
Votes: 90
74. Stalag Luft (1993 TV Movie)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
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.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Kelly
Votes: 181
75. The Emperor of Taste (2008–2009)
490 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Helena De Keyser, a descendant from a family of gin distillers who lost her lover during the Second World War, anno 2008 asks her granddaughter Alessandra to investigate exactly what happened back then.
Stars: Katelijne Damen, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy, Matthias Schoenaerts
Votes: 326
76. The Ascent (1994)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, War
A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco, Rachel Ward
Votes: 207
77. First Yank Into Tokyo (1945)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Richard Loo
Votes: 271
78. Okraina (1933)
98 min | Drama, War
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,131
79. Die Frau des Heimkehrers (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History, Romance
Germany, 1944: In the east the war is entering its final phase when the soldier Karlheinz Rombach is given another leave from the front and spends a few carefree hours with his attractive ... See full summary »
Director: Gabi Kubach | Stars: Christine Neubauer, Timothy Peach, Martin Feifel, Eva-Maria Hagen
Votes: 73
80. Deportees 2 (2009)
114 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In this sequel the deportees are now captured by the Iraqis and are living in a camp. On the other hand their families who are going to Mashad are imprisoned when their airplane is hijacked... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Dehnamaki | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Hamid Ahadi, Arzhang Amirfazli, Sepand Amirsoleimani
Votes: 5,956
81. Captured! (1933)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British prisoner of war becomes imprisoned alongside his best friend from home, unaware that while he was captured, the friend began an affair with his wife.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paul Lukas, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 443
82. Seven Thousand Souls (2020)
59 min | History
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech... See full synopsis »
Director: Sanjin Miric | Stars: Jelena Ciric, Srdjan Jablanovic, Jugoslav Josipovic, Milorad Lukovic
Votes: 80
83. History's Lost & Found (1999–2005)
150 min | Documentary, History, War
The Shroud of Turin. The Wright Brothers' plane. The treasures of King Tut. This is a captivating examination of some of the most famous objects and artifacts in human history. Some are ... See full summary »
Star: Edward Herrmann
Votes: 58
84. Berga: Soldiers of Another War (2003)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
Berga Soldiers of Another War reveals the untold story of 350 American prisoners of war caught in the tragedy of the Holocaust. It is the final work in the distinguished 50 year career of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Guggenheim | Stars: Charles Guggenheim, Al Abrams, Anthony Acevedo, Herschel Auerbach
Votes: 51
85. Fighting Tools (1943)
4 min | Animation, Short
Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 219
86. 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: 45
87. Eighty Acres of Hell (2006 TV Movie)
94 min | History
Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Foreman | Stars: Thomas Y. Cartwright, William C. Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, David Dixon
Votes: 26
88. Second Blood (2016)
105 min | Action
Yousef Rambu (Abdulhadi Al-Khayat) is a highly trained spy, and an ex-commando. As a member of the Kuwait Army Forces he was captured during a mission. Imprisoned by Chinese military ... See full summary »
Director: Fawzi Al-Khatib | Stars: Abdulhadi Al-Khayat, Massouma, Khaled Al-Buraiki, Mojeb Al-Qabandi
89. Campo 44 (1967 TV Movie)
30 min | Adventure, Comedy
Pilot for a proposed comedy/adventure series about hijinks in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Philip Abbott, Vito Scotti, Dino Fazio, Fred Smoot
90. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
91. Dawson Isla 10 (2008)
117 min | Drama
The ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krögh, Cristián de la Fuente
Votes: 382
92. Top Gunner (1986 Video Game)
Not Rated | Action, Adventure
A commando team (four soldiers on a jeep) are sent in to rescue POWs.
Votes: 50
93. Calling Scotland Yard: The Sable Scarf (1954)
Approved | 27 min | Short, Crime, Mystery
A fortune teller's husband, whom she thought dead, returns from the war, she gets the ideal of using the information he had about the relatives of townspeople he had gotten from the other ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Paul Douglas, Judy Campbell, Andrew Crawford, Hugh Latimer
94. Verta käsissämme (1958)
84 min | Drama
An ex-POW gets romantically involved with his friend's wife, but a get-together in the countryside results in tragedy that sends their illicit affair into a downward spiral.
Director: William Markus | Stars: Elina Pohjanpää, Jussi Jurkka, Tauno Palo, Pentti Siimes
Votes: 82
95. 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
96. The Flag (2006)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, War
Vietnam 1968. Several American soldiers are held prisoner within the depths of a Vietnamese war-camp. Fox has reached the limits of what he can endure and begins to contemplate suicide. His... See full summary »
Director: Rene Hinojosa | Stars: Paul Michael Bloodgood, Jeff Carley, Jason Harper, Kevin Kwok
Votes: 9
97. Camp 30 (2015)
3 min | Short, Biography, History
Retracing the history of Camp 30, a site in Ontario that began as a school for delinquent youths, became a Canadian POW camp for captured Nazi soldiers in World War 2 and is now a collection of abandoned, graffiti-ridden buildings.
Director: Calyx Passailaigue
98. Blutiger Freitag - Das Schicksal der Kurlandkämpfer (2011 Video)
55 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: Karl Höffkes | Stars: Eugen Blankenagel, Peter Fricke, Alfred Klemm, Rudolf Linnhöfer
99. Universal Newsreel (XVI) (1945)
Documentary, Short
The newsreel presents continuous coverage of the capture and liberation of Manila from the Imperial Japanese forces by the United States Army troops under the command of Gen. MacArthur.
100. Temuen - Prica (2004)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
In WW II Italian lieutenant Ezio Martin was enchanted by Slovenian singing at the Sunday mass in the church. He became fond of Slovenian people and fall in love with Maria. After the war ... See full summary »
Director: Klemen Dvornik | Stars: Ezio Martin, Branko Zavrsan