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Movies: Best "prison camp" Movies


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Zero Dark Thirty(2012)

R
| 2h 37min | Thriller, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 2,099 votes)

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(1983)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 186 votes)

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

Grand Illusion(1937)

1h 54min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 283 votes)

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943)

NR
| 2h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, War, History
3.8/5 (with 93 votes)

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

The Blue Kite(1994)

2h 20min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 23 votes)

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang - With Zhang Lu, Li Xuejian, Lü Liping, Pu Cunxin, Guo Donglin

Sounder(1972)

G
| 1h 45min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

Nightmare in Badham County(1976)

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.

Instrument of War(2017)

1h 30min | War, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind Nazi barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POW's must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.

Albert R.N.(1953)

G
| 1h 28min | War, History
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.

Achtung! The Desert Tigers(1977)

1h 23min | Drama, Thriller, War
1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage.

Crucified Island(1968)

1h 25min | Action, Drama, War

Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland.

Directed by Shota Managadze

Penal Servitude(1928)

1h 12min | Drama

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

Directed by Yuli Raizman
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Lady Piranha(1982)

1h 25min | Action, War
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces to plan an attack to wipe out the camp and free the rest of the prisoners.

Honor Bound(1928)

1h 10min | Drama

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.

Tarrafal(2010)

1h 32min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary on the Tarrafal prison camp on the island of Santiago.

Those who returned from the Camps(1982)

25min | Documentary, War

Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.