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It's 1944 somewhere on a German-occupied Greek island. Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore) runs Stalag VII Z, a unique POW. camp where archeologists like Professor Blake (David Niven) excavate ancient treasures which are then looted by the Nazis. Hecht, a one-time shady art dealer himself is also skimming off the top, secretly shipping the most valuable treasures to a secret warehouse in Switzerland.

Director : George P. Cosmatos

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 114

Language : English

Von Ryan's Express

דרמת מלחמה המבוססת על רב המכר האוטוביוגראפי מאת דיויד וסטהיימר (David Westheimer), לשעבר טייס חיל האויר האמריקאי אשר שהה יותר משנתיים במחנה שבויים באיטליה לאחר שמטוסו הופל. הסרט, עם פרנק סינטרה בתפקיד הראשי, עוסק בבריחת שבויי מלחמה של בנות הברית ממחנה מעצר. איטליה 1943. הגרמנים באיטליה נסוגים צפונה בעקבות פלישת בנות הברית לדרום איטליה. שומרים איטלקים נוטשים את עמדותיהם במחנה ואסירים אמריקאים ובריטים מנצלים את המהומה לבריחה מן המחנה, אך נתפסים בבריחתם ע"י כוחות גרמנים שמעמיסים אותם על רכבת בדרכה למחנה ריכוז. בהנהגת טייס אמריקאי, קולונל ג'וזף רייאן, האסירים משתלטים על הרכבת ומשנים את כיוון מסלולה לשווייץ.

Director : Mark Robson

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 112

Language : English

Auschwitz - The Forgotten Witness

Documentary about Arthur Dodd, a former British soldier and prisoner of war at Auschwitz for 14 months. While in the camp, Dodd witnessed murder of Jews and other acts of Nazi brutality. Today, after years of suppressed memories, aged seventy, Dodd returns to Auschwitz to tell his story.

Director : Deborah Van Bishop

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 30

Language : English

מלך עכברוש

A feature film. When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied P.O.W.s, mostly British, but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a P.O.W. camp like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences, for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to which to escape. Included among the prisoners is the American Corporal King who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every...

Director : Bryan Forbes

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 134

Language : English

The Man, Who Overestimated Czech Soul. Escapes of Joseph Bryks

A life story of Czech R.A.F. pilot Josef Bryks, who had many times during the 2nd World War in the forces put his life great danger. Later in captiviti he was the sourse of everyone's hope, when he attempted to escape the camp seven times. The comunist back in the Czechoslovakia had rewarded him with jail and slave labor in uranium mines. In an inmates questionnaire he did not state that he'd regret his service for his country, he just said: "I have overestimated the Czech soul." In 1957 was Jan Bryks, aged 41 tortured to death in Jachymovov jail.

Director : Ján Novák

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 53

Language : Czech