Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

Escape to Athena

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.

: George P. Cosmatos

: 1979

: 114

: English

The Great Escape

Based upon the factual book of the same name (1950) by Paul Brickhill, this acclaimed war drama recounts the events of the 1944 Allied officers escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Although the film features several fictional events, it is usually regarded as true to the real story. One of the film’s projecting inaccuracies, though, is its failure to show how cold, hungry and sore prison life really was. Featuring an all-star cast including McQueen (whose motorcycle chase is the film's most remembered action scene), James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and...

: John Sturges

: 1963

: 167

: English, French, German

Der Unhold המשחית

A feature film.Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp. Based on the novel The Erl King by Michel Tournier.

: Volker Schlöndorff

: 1996

: 117

: English