Prisoner of war camp movies and TV shows – page 3

List of prisoner of war camp movies

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Shenandoah (1965)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
Style: retro, black and white, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, wartime, military, anti war, bittersweet, war, interracial relations, wild west, father son relationship, family drama, cowboy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: virginia, usa
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 5.3
 306
The Last Blood (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: vietnam war, escape, green beret, jungle, vietcong, pow, journalist, reporter, frustration, prisoner of war camp, military officer, torture ...
Place: vietnam
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On Wings of Eagles (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
Style: captivating, tense, thought provoking, suspense, christian film
Plot: japanese occupation of china, japanese occupation, world war two, japanese soldier, race, pow, world war, social problems, life is a bitch, historical character, historical figure, athlete's life ...
Place: china
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Commitment (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, hitman, danger, undercover, murder, kidnapping, teenager, asian, inter-korean relations, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, asia, korea, seoul
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 7.1
 86
Boomerang (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story, written by former George Stransky former political prisoners and today's chairman Pen Club is situated to 50 years and uranium camp of political prisoners in Pribram, where after the fall of the Stalinist cult comes at the end of ...
Plot: prisoner of war camp, uranium, repression, prison guard, barracks, cold war, prisoner, barbed wire, watchtower, bunk bed
Time: 1950s
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At First Sight (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, lesbianism, partisan, girl power, women, woman ...
Time: year 1983, 1950s, year 1942, year 1952
Place: paris france, france, lyon, europe, alps ...
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 6.9
 520
Shivers (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style: political
Plot: coming of age, exploitation, love letter, renaissance, boy, train, teenage boy, young boy, school, indoctrination, polish history, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, poland
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 8.5
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Tenko (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, jungle, military prison, prisoners of war, women's prison, soldier, prison, war, pow, prisoner of war camp, death, torture ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: singapore
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Escape to Athena (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, chase, soldier, danger, survival, daring rescue, military, archaeologist, relic, world war, archeological dig ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, year 1944
Place: greece, europe, balkan
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 6.5
 5K
MacArthur (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in ...
Style: melancholic, intense, epic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, war, biopic, politics, president, korean war, revolution, police investigation, wartime, world war, pow ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, japan, the philippines, australia, korea ...
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Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during the 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb)
Style: epic, pre war
Plot: love, nazi, prisoner, grave, women, family relations, guilt, flashback, death, father daughter relationship, soldier, female nudity ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
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25 Fireman's Street (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and ...
Style: serious, realistic, surreal, talky, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, world war, age-gap relationship, immigrant, family relations, attic, bride and groom, life is a bitch, confined, introspection, soldier, against humanity ...
Place: hungary, former yugoslavia, central europe, eastern europe
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The Blockhouse (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
Style: grindhouse, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: world war two, chess, world war, bunker, d day, survival, claustrophobia, battles, holocaust, wartime life, prison, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
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Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1973)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As a favour for the late Jeremy Scott, who had saved his life while in prison, Roy Koster comes to Silvertown, where he clears the name of the wrongly accused man.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: town, prison, prisoner of war camp, gunfight, card playing, sheriff, redhead, safe, prisoner, street shootout, kiss, forced kiss ...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Norway, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
Style: depressing, political, independent film
Plot: prison, anti communist, iron curtain, communism, communist, prisoner of war camp, job, world war two veteran, food, prisoner, snow, punishment ...
Time: 1950s
Place: russia, soviet union
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Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot: world war two, escape, world war, prison escape, military prison, historical event, caper, prisoner, castle, broken leg, chess, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: year 1943
Place: germany
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The Condor (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apache, woman with a gun, combat, cowboy, redsploitation, native american, gold, interracial sex, gold bar, apache tribe, renegade, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona
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Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although ...
Style: epic
Plot: finnish civil war, rural setting, family relations, high society, prisoner of war camp, class society, labor union, priest, marriage, labor movement, inequality, execution ...
Time: 1890s, 1910s, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: finland
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Love Camp 7 (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, controversial, suspense, terrifying ...
Plot: swastika, women in prison, nazi, world war two, lesbian sex, women's prison, rape, female prisoner, sexual cruelty, prostitution, nazi officer, sexual assault ...
Time: 1940s
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 5.1
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, world war, wartime, exploitation, holocaust, prisoner, battles, escapades, soldier, danger, confined, chases and races ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam, netherlands
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, ...
Style: laugh out loud, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, world war, surrender, village, soldier, anti war, culture clash, wartime life, officers and cadets, military life, village life, against the odds ...
Time: year 1966, year 1943
Place: italy, sicily, europe
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The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 140 min.
Story: To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organized between the Germans and prisoners of war.
Style: thought provoking, black and white
Plot: world war two, soccer, football, escape, prison, machine gun, battlefield, musician, escape plan, abuse of power, death sentence, communist ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: ukraine
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Mysterious Island (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: stranded, giant bird, american civil war, island, submarine, survival, civil war, castaway, ocean, monster, balloon, giant monster ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, jungle, military, one man army, martial arts, explosions, survival, cannon, war, vietcong, betrayal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
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Black Tigers (1978)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vietnam war, revenge, kung fu, politics, rescue mission, military, rescue, machine gun, conspiracy, one against many, one man army ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles, washington d.c., california ...
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 5.9
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Red Tails (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Style: epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, fighter pilot, airplane, war, interracial relations, aerial combats, military life, black history, discrimination, african american, soldier, military base ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2012, year 1944, year 1942
Place: europe, cuba, italy, pentagon
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Some Kind of Hero (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Style: sad, funny, black comedy, intelligent, realistic ...
Plot: vietnam war, torture, homecoming, blaxploitation, black, ex soldier, self discovery, prostitute, infidelity, african american, bank, redemption ...
Time: year 1982, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, rape ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: bosnia, eastern europe, croatia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina ...
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The Wolverine (2013)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Style: exciting, tense, epic, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick
Plot: superhero, immortality, mutant, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, yakuza, x men, fight scenes, chase, healing power, comic book, immortal ...
Time: future, year 2013, year 1945, 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, canada, seattle
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