1. The Soul of the Battlefield (Stalag 17, Cell 17, USA, 1953)
Early World War II classics. Prisoner of war fugitive theme. At the end of World War II, the so-called "unbreakable" Nazi German prisoner of war concentration camp, the story of the US prisoners of war planning to escape from prison and eliminate the traitors, created a seemingly heartless, lungless, innocent anti-heroic figure. The battle is endless. Starring William Hutton and others. Academy Award for Best Actor.
2. The Great Escape, or Escape (Third Concentration Camp, Dragon and Tiger List, Desperate Circumstances, USA, 1963)
A classic of the theme of prisoner of war escape. Based on real historical events. In 1943, at the heavily guarded Third Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany, where "there was absolutely no way to escape," a group of Allied prisoners of war were told the story of a mass escape program led by an American hero. However, only a few of the more than 70 prisoners of war who escaped from the camp were lucky enough to survive... Freedom is the result of indomitable perseverance. Starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn and more.
3. King Rat (Rat King, USA, 1965)
A classic of the theme of prisoner of war escape. Based on the novel of the same name by the British popular fiction writer. The legendary story of the seemingly selfish, self-serving American anti-hero in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore during the war. Prisoner of War specimen of the American way of survival. George Siegel and other starring.
4. The Bridge On The River Kwai (UK, USA, 1957)
Prisoner of War theme classic. In 1941, Allied prisoners of war in the Japanese concentration camp in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, were forced to build the Bridge over the River Kwai for the Japanese army. A classic specimen of the collision of Eastern and Western cultures in the war, the English gentleman encounters the Japanese hooligans. The characterization and psychological portrayal are excellent, and the different styles and personalities of British, American and Japanese officers are very distinct. In the film, the "March on the Bridge of the Kwai River" blown out by the British officers and soldiers with whistles is impressive. The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been awarded seven times. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked 58th among the 100 most thrilling American films.
5. To End All Wars (To End All Wars, UK, USA, Thailand, 2001)
Based on real historical events. After the Japanese captured Singapore during the Pacific War, a group of Allied prisoners of war were sent to Burma to build a death railway, maintain the will to survive in extremely harsh living conditions, and continue to fight until the end of the war. The concept of the film is that only when all ethnic groups understand each other and tolerate each other, will the war truly end. Starring Robert Carlisle, Kiefer Sutherland and others.
6. Hart's War (Hart's War, Battle of Judgment, USA, 2002)
Prisoner of war fugitive theme. Racial discrimination in prisoner-of-war camps. Based on the American writer's documentary novel of the same name. In the wartime Nazi German prisoner-of-war camp, the story of the Us prisoners of war led by the colonel distracted the German Nazis and carried out the escape operation by trying murder suspects. Starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell and others.
7. The McKenzie Break (Prisoner of War Camp, Prisoner of War Camp, Riot Prisoner of War Camp, Ireland, United Kingdom, 1970)
Prisoner of war fugitive theme. The story of the escape of German prisoners of war in the British prisoner-of-war camp in McKinsey, Scotland. The self-made Clever British army and the German prisoners of war play a game of cat and mouse, and the ending is that the British army "steals chickens and does not make a handful of rice"...
8. Victory (The Great Victory, USA, 1981)
Prisoner of war fugitive theme. In Paris at the end of World War II, a special football game - the Nazi German national team against the Allied POW team, a lively Allied prisoner of war escape operation. In the meantime, due to the king of football Pele and many European football masters joining to play prisoners of war, the film has largely become a personal stunt show of world football superstars
9. Raid on Rommel (Raid on Rommel, USA, 1971)
In the North African theater of 1943, when the British and German armies were facing each other, British officers risked releasing Allied prisoners of war held in German barracks and leading them to launch a surprise attack. Starring Richard Burton, John Corricos and others. (Or mixed with Desert Fox.) )
10. The Great Raid (Cabanatu Rescue, USA, 2005)
Based on the american author's best-selling novel of the same name. A POW rescue operation during the U.S. counterattack on Bataan Island during the Pacific War to rescue more than 500 Allied prisoners of war in the Kabanatu POW camp that could be slaughtered by the Japanese army, which was greatly assisted by the Philippine guerrillas and claimed to be the most successful rescue operation in the history of the U.S. military. Starring Benjamin Blatter, Joseph Faynes, Connie Nelson and others.
11. Von Ryan's Express (Prisoner of War Train, The Great Escape, USA, 1965)
A classic of the theme of prisoner of war escape. In 1943, British prisoners of war in the Italian prisoner-of-war camp were unfortunately discovered by German Nazi reconnaissance planes after the defeat and freedom of Italy, and were collectively loaded onto trains and transported to Germany. The U.S. Air Force colonel, who had previously been captured by the Italians for the plane crash, was also among them. He led LinkedIn prisoners of war to seize the train, and through the guidance of captured German officers, he deceived the German Nazis all the way and drove the train to Switzerland. And he himself unfortunately fell at the last moment at the guns of the German Nazis... Starring Frank Sinatra and others.
Escape from Sobibor, or Les rescapes de Sobibor (UK, Yugoslavia, 1987)
TV movies. Classic memories of the horrors of the Dark Ages in European cinema. Based on the British writer's historical novel of the same name. In 1943, the escape of Jewish and Jewish Soviet prisoners of war in the death camp in Sobiburg, Poland, voluntarily chose a natural fate at gunpoint: more than 600 people escaped from prison, more than 300 succeeded, and the scale and performance set a record for the collective escape of the German Nazi death camp. Alain Akin, Rutger Hal and Joanna Pakula co-starred in sexy Polish beauty.
13. Colditz, or Escape from Colditz (Curtisburg, UK, 2005)
A classic of the theme of prisoner of war escape. During the war, three Allied officers and men escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany, but on the border between Germany and Switzerland, two of them were unfortunately arrested by the German army and imprisoned in another prisoner-of-war concentration camp, the Fortress of Cordiz... The Dutch corporal who successfully escaped and arrived in England was a conceited shameless person, and after being lucky enough to join the British "MI9" in London and promoted to lieutenant, he despicablely betrayed the instructions of his British lieutenant comrades-in-arms, unscrupulously pursued his comrade-in-arms' beautiful and elegant girlfriend and used his position to make him marry himself deadly... Starring Demien Lewis, Sophia Miles and others.
14. Slaughterhouse-Five (Slaughterhouse No. 5, USA, 1972)
Black humor, surrealist allegory of the end times. Based on the classic novel of the american author of the same name. The experience of American prisoners of war at the Dresden Slaughterhouse in 1945 before and after the Anglo-American Allied bombing of Dresden. The cruelty of war and the madness of human nature manifest themselves in absurd truths: the German fascists are brutal, the Anglo-American Allies are equally barbaric... Nightmares wandering between the past and the future: the past is a Nazi concentration camp, the future is an alien zoo ... Psychopathic vague, chaotic, absurd, obscure perspectives and thinking.
15.《极地重生》(As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me, or So weit die Fü e tragen,德国,2001)
A classic of the theme of prisoner of war escape that moves the world and shines with human brilliance. Based on a best-selling biographical novel by a German author. Freedom and love are 14,000 kilometers away in three years. From 1949 to 1952, after the war, a German lieutenant sentenced by a Soviet military tribunal to a labor camp in eastern Siberia for 25 years had almost no hope of success. However, the good guys with compassion (including the young widow of Eskimo who threw her arms around), the incredible good fortune (including the Last Minute By the Soviet Captain who chased him all the way to the Iranian border) and the strong will to survive finally fulfilled him. Starring Michael Mandel, Berthad Bateman, Elena Pattawa and others. Best Actor at the Milan Film Festival.
16. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (USA, 1966)
Classic of war humor. During the fictional World War II, the US army effortlessly captured the town of Sicily, but after a night of revelry, it was counterattacked by the German army, and the US officers and soldiers were imprisoned in the order. At this time, the superior commander of the US army had received the good news and wanted to come to the town to taste the fruits of victory. The imprisoned Officers and Men of the US Army had to flee in a strange way, and performed a fake war in front of their superiors... The story of the film is strangely conceived, reflecting the absurd theme of war, and doing its best to satirize it.
17 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (No War Tonight/Merry Christmas/Merry Christmas/Merlin Freud, Mr. Lawrence, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan, 1983)
Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's "internationalist" war-themed work. Based on a novel by an English writer. The humanity and homosexuality of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the island of Java in Southeast Asia through the eyes of British prisoners of war. It embraces a variety of political positions and moral concepts, reflecting the director's understanding of the spiritual world of Japanese soldiers.
18. The Good War, or Texas Devil's Curtain,Italy, USA,2002

Prisoner of war fugitive theme. In 1946, the ill-behaved Italian captain, who was imprisoned in 1943 with more than 1,200 Italian prisoners of war in the Texas Heath, escaped from the camp alone and was discovered by the local sheriff while hanging out with his youthful and sexy American girlfriend. When he was escorted back to the camp again, the camp had been disbanded, leaving only the american commander who was guarding the camp to leave... Subsequently, the two turned enemies into friends in the process of facing the dilemma of survival together... The plot of the relationship change and emotional performance of the two people is slightly more elaborate and pretentious
People-oriented, reflecting on war, facing history squarely, excavating human nature, unobtrusive, broad vision...