The Great Escape (1963)






Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Great Escape

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Sixties
London, 1983

Tony Thomas
The Great Adventure Films
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Articles on The Great Escape

Nicholas J. Cull, Great Escapes: 'Englishness' and the Prisoner of War genre, in: Film History, vol. 14, 2002 pp. 282-295

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Great Escape

Simon Braund, The Top 10 Prison Breaks, in: Empire, nr. 210 (December), 2006 pp. 184-185

Rob Fraser, Your 10 Best '60s Movies, in: Empire, nr. 199 (January), 2006 pp. 150-151