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Movies: Best "prisoner of war" Movies


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Rambo: First Blood Part II(1985)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
3.3/5 (with 1,711 votes)

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

The Pianist(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Black Hawk Down(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 25min | Action, History, War
3.7/5 (with 2,485 votes)

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

The Great Escape(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 53min | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
4.0/5 (with 1,090 votes)

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

SS Experiment Love Camp(1976)

1h 34min | Horror, War
2.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.

Grand Illusion(1937)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Unbroken(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 1,874 votes)

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

The English Patient(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 916 votes)

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

The Great Raid(2005)

2h 12min | Action, History, War
3.3/5 (with 151 votes)

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, War
2.9/5 (with 115 votes)

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Escape to Athena(1979)

2h 5min | Adventure, Comedy, War
2.8/5 (with 42 votes)

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Von Ryan's Express(1965)

3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 41min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 945 votes)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Swing Kids(2018)

2h 13min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 31 votes)

Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named ‘Swing Kids’. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.

Directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol - With D.O., Jared Grimes, Park Hye-soo, Oh Jung-se, Kim Min-ho

Empire of the Sun(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 33min | Drama, History, War
3.8/5 (with 822 votes)

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

Night and Fog(1956)

4.1/5 (with 189 votes)

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Michel Bouquet

Land of Mine(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | War, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 620 votes)

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Suite Française(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 531 votes)

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(1983)

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.

Missing in Action(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
2.9/5 (with 196 votes)

American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.

Men Behind the Sun(1988)

1h 45min | War, History, Horror, Drama
3.1/5 (with 81 votes)

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.

Directed by Mou Tun-fei

Hart's War(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 5min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 400 votes)

Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwafe vetran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.

In Enemy Hands(2005)

1h 34min | War, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 43 votes)

At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

Rolling Thunder(1977)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.

Mrs. Miniver(1942)

2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 104 votes)

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Paradise Road(1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | War, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story(1988)

2h 58min | TV Movie, War, Drama
2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With Christopher Reeve

Act of Violence(1949)

1h 22min | Thriller
3.5/5 (with 37 votes)

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

Major Dundee(1965)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Western
3.3/5 (with 63 votes)

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

In Tranzit(2008)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
2.9/5 (with 24 votes)

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.

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