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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 812,423 | Gross: $6.10M
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,561 | Gross: $44.91M
3. The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
TV-14 | 62 min | Documentary
It honors the heroes of the 100th Bomb Group.
Directors: Laurent Bouzereau, Mark Herzog | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robert Rosenthal, Steven Spielberg, James Stewart
Votes: 1,303
4. The Railway Man (2013)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine
Votes: 42,674 | Gross: $4.44M
5. The Captain (2017)
118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes
Votes: 21,643 | Gross: $0.11M
6. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,062 | Gross: $2.31M
7. Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
Votes: 8,560
8. Uncommon Valor (1983)
R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Fred Ward
Votes: 11,671 | Gross: $30.50M
9. Trautmann (2018)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The love story of a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy.
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Stars: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling
Votes: 6,443
10. The Grand Illusion (1937)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 38,895 | Gross: $0.17M
11. Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 3,006
12. The One That Got Away (1957)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander
Votes: 2,489
13. Red Cherry (1995)
120 min | Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »
Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko
Votes: 748
14. Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala, Teru Shimada, Patricia Cutts
Votes: 831
15. Women of Valor (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a group of U.S. Army nurses in the Philippines are captured and imprisoned by Japanese troops.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol, Alberta Watson, Valerie Mahaffey
Votes: 465
16. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,746 | Gross: $0.07M
17. Serangoon Road (2013)
561 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Serangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.
Stars: Don Hany, Joan Chen, Maeve Dermody, Alaric
Votes: 693
18. P.O.W. the Escape (1986)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
Director: Gideon Amir | Stars: David Carradine, Charles Grant, Mako, Steve James
Votes: 764 | Gross: $2.50M
19. Summer of My German Soldier (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young American girl meets a German prisoner of war.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Rolle, Michael Constantine
Votes: 465
20. 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
21. The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Ryan | Stars: Billy Campbell, Chris 'Kit' Ryan, Jean Butler, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 626
22. Libel (1959)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,603
23. 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: 180
24. Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis (2021)
PG-13 | 36 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
At the height of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are sent to a secret POW camp near Washington, D.C. The recent refugees soon discover that the prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists.
Directors: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan | Stars: Alfred Bomberg, Arno Mayer, Rudolph Pins, Peter Wiess
Votes: 1,104
25. Pueblo (1973 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, War
A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Korean coast on January 23, 1968.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox, Andrew Duggan, Stephen Elliott
Votes: 153
26. When Hell Was in Session (1979 TV Movie)
98 min | Biography, Drama, War
In 1965, Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's jet is shot down over North Vietnam and he is captured by the enemy who holds him in various brutal POW camps for more than seven years.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Eva Marie Saint, Mako, Ronny Cox
Votes: 148
27. Strange Intruder (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a soldier is killed in action during the Korean War, his best friend returns home to fulfill his dying wish that he kill his two children if they are being raised by another man.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Ann Harding, Jacques Bergerac
Votes: 171
28. Baruto no gakuen (2006)
130 min | Drama, History, Music
German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.
Director: Masanobu Deme | Stars: Ken Matsudaira, Bruno Ganz, Hiroshi Abe, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 740
29. 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
30. 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
31. The Forgotten Man (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, War
Former Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Lois Nettleton, Anne Francis, Andrew Duggan
Votes: 95
32. Battle Flame (1959)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, War
The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley
Votes: 54
33. Forgotten Soldiers (2012)
87 min | Documentary, Drama, History
When the Japanese launched their Pacific attack, General Douglas MacArthur's United States Army Forces in the Far East included ten divisions of newly recruited and poorly equipped ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Plata | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bill Neveker, Eulalio Arzaga, Aniceto Bagley
Votes: 11
34. Obratnoy dorogi net (1971– )
198 min | War
The Red Army Major Toporkov, having escaped from the prisoners camp, gets in the partisan unit with the request of the prisoners: the uprising is being prepared in the camp, weapons are ... See full summary »
Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksandr Yanvaryov, Aleksey Chernov, Igor Yasulovich
Votes: 72
35. 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
36. The Making of 'The Railway Man' (2013 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
Stars: Lisa Ling, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Tanroh Ishida
37. 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
38. Alpiyskaya ballada (1966)
86 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic tale set during WW2 between a Soviet (Belarussian) soldier and Italian girl, who try to escape the horrors together.
Director: Boris Stepanov | Stars: Lyubov Rumyantseva, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Belokurov, Aleksey Kotrelyov
Votes: 82
39. Yellow Earth
Drama, War | Announced
The untold WWII story of 1100 captured Japanese soldiers who made a daring escape from a prisoner of war camp in Cowra, Australia in 1944.
40. The Railway Man: Cast and Crew Interviews (2013 Video)
69 min | History, Talk-Show, War
Stars: Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine
41. 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
42. The Old Camp Ground (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Music
At a Union-Army Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, a group of Union soldiers and their Confederate prisoners engage in a singing contest, each trying to outdo the previous offering.
Director: William Watson | Stars: Charles Carlile, The Foursome Quartet, The Buccaneers, The Six Mountain Melodeers
43. 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
45.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
The Man Who Wasn't There
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jeff is hired by a man who claims that his wife and doctor put him under psychiatric care when he said he saw an old army buddy who was known to have been killed in the Korean War.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Roger Smith, Louis Quinn, Jacqueline Beer, Robert Logan
Votes: 35
46.
Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Good Thief
(1955)
Drama
A Red prison is a priest's parish. Father Joseph Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain, must strive to bring meaning and inspiration to the lives of a small group of POWs.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: James Whitmore, Philip Ahn, Phillip Pine, Terry Frost
Votes: 11
47.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Battle of Stalag 13
(1966)
TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, War
As the Hammelburg Underground lodges a complaint against Hogan's success, Klink finds himself caught between the Gestapo and the Wehrmacht, each trying to take over Stalag 13.
Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 212
48.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Liberation & Revenge
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky
Votes: 168
49.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Orders & Initiatives
(2005)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
Hoss deals with complications arising from the makeshift gas chamber and increasing demand as the Nazis begin to scour all of Europe for more people to bring to Auschwitz and kill.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Kazimierz Smolen
Votes: 188
50.
Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode:
Part Six
(2024)
TV-MA | 61 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck | Stars: Callum Turner, Laszlo Garson, Alexander Squires, Julian M. Deuster
Votes: 2,148