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Movies: Best "prisoner of war camp" Movies


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Stalag 17(1953)

3.9/5 (with 241 votes)

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

The Deer Hunter(1978)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 4min | Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 1,727 votes)

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

P.O.W. The Escape(1986)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 30min | Action, War
2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

Directed by Gideon Amir - With David Carradine, James Acheson, Mako, Steve James

Libel(1959)

1h 40min | Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.

Three Came Home(1950)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | War, Drama
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

The Camp on Blood Island(1958)

1h 21min | War, Action, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.

Frozen Hell(2011)

1h 25min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.

Directed by Ville Suhonen