I am somehow morbidly fascinated by movies about WW2 POW camps.
I have seen quite a lot of them:
Japanese Camps:
To End All Wars
King Rat
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Empire Of The Sun
Prisoners Of The Sun
Three Came Home
The Great Raid
German Camps:
Hart's War
The Great Escape
The Wooden Horse
Von Ryan's Express
Stalag 17
Le Caporal Epingle
La Vache et le Prisonnier
The Colditz Story
Have I missed out on anything?
Well not really a POW movie persay, but Jakob the Liar, it was about a German Camp
shareNice list! but you forgot a few:
Escape from Sobibor (with Rutger Hauer)
La Tregua ("The Truce" with John Turturro)
also a WWII must-see mini-series that was on TV:
"The Winds of War" and its sequel
"Of War and Remembrance"
those were great books as well!!
Cheers...
Some stories that center around Japanese WWII female detention camps:
Masterpiece Theatre's A Town Like Alice with Australian Bryan Brown
BBC drama Tenko from the 80's
really crappy made-for-tv Guests of the Emperor (book was pretty good)
Paradise Road with Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett
Assuming you want realistic fare ....
PWs / internees - Asia
"A Town Like Alice" - original version with Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna.
"Changi" - an Australian television mini-series.
"Blood Oath" - an Australian television mini-series.
"The Dunera Boys" - an Australian television mini-series about interned Europeans sent to Australia
PW - Europe
"The Captive Heart" - the first PW film made after WW2, used a real camp as a set
PW - Canada
"The McKenzie Break"
PW - Australia
"The Cowra Breakout" - an Australian television mini-series, about Japanese as PWs
World War 1
"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" - a section of this film
"La Grande Illusion"
"The Fountain" - internees in Holland
If you are interested in Concentration Camps
"Fateless"
"The Ninth Day"
"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"
"The Counterfeiters"
Addition to above:
"Bent" - set in a concentration camp (more theatrical than realistic)
How about ''The one that got away'' with Hardy Kruger, quite a good one.
Pow camp in the Uk, generally the Germans quite liked it here. Not surprising really.
Ok I am going to say it. Hogans Heroes
But seriously there is a movie called Night Porter and it is about how a woman who was a POW ran into one of her Nazi torturers and they have a very strange relationship.
Also remember Paths of Glory which about French prisoners in a French POW camp. It is from WW1
There's also "Victory", with Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pele'. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083284/ (1981)
shareWomen of Valor - Kristy McNichol and Susan Sarandon. WWII Female Japanese prison camp movie.
shareI loved the Railroad Man ... not only about those who worked on this Burma/Thailand RR ... but PTSD of being POW. Very powerful film!
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Unbroken as well!!!!
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