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Hogan's Heroes(1965-1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 25min per episode | War & Politics, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 72 votes)

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

With Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, ...

Tenko(1981-1984)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Directed by Pennant Roberts - With Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Stephanie Beacham, Louise Jameson, Patricia Lawrence, Veronica Roberts, ...

'Allo 'Allo!(1984-1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 97 votes)

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Directed by David Croft, Susan Belbin, Richard Boden, Mike Stephens - With Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner, Rose Hill, Vicki Michelle, ...

Changi(2001)

58min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they are marched off to Changi prison camp. Together, the six boys survive three and a half years of incarceration. Almost sixty years later, the six prepare to get together for what may be their last hurrah.

Directed by Kate Woods - With Stephen Curry

Colditz(2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof. The most accomplished escape artists are gathered there, brave soldiers who view escape not only as a challenge but as a duty, in order to harass and irritate German forces as much as they can.

Directed by Stuart Orme - With Damian Lewis, Tom Hardy, Sophia Myles, James Fox, Jason Priestley, Guy Henry, ...
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A Town Like Alice(1981)

2h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

Directed by David Stevens - With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson