War Prisoners - Movie Recommendations

Michael Ortiz68 said:😁 The Great Illusion I haven't watched it yet, even though The Great Escape has been sitting on my hard drive for months. Two and a half hours feels like a massive commitment, and honestly, what am I going to do when I’m already such a lazy slob? 😬
Anyway, first item on my shopping list is... Escape from Sobibor Thanks, briskhound2. I’ve been digging into the actual facts surrounding this event, and I have to say, it's going to be on my watchlist starting tomorrow. 🙂

Edit: Does anyone know of any movies about an escape, or an attempted escape, from the Siberian gulags? The only one that comes to mind is this one: As far as the feet will carry you.Look, a frozen wasteland isn't exactly the ideal setting for an Escape, but I've read that people still managed to pull it off.

I caught something similar on ABC back in 2000:



There’s also a great documentary out there: Gulag (2000).

Well, it’s not quite the Gulag/Siberia vibe, but it’s a damn good Russian film regardless:


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Quote : Prisoner of The Mountains received a very good score of 87 % "fresh" (positive) reviews at Rotten Tomatoes (including 100% "fresh" by the top critics), with the average rating of 8.3/10. As of December 2008, it has also the user rating of 7.7/10 at IMDb.

Thank you Family👍

"Empire of the Sun," "The Great Escape" (Steve McQueen is the man!), "Rescue Dawn," and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (absolute classics)....

The Deer Hunter (though I wouldn't exactly call it a prisoner movie), to end All Wars, and Rescue Dawn

So, briskhound2, I was just sitting here watching something... 🤔 If we're already including Life is Beautiful, then why on earth isn't Schindler's List part of the conversation? 🤷

The Grand Illusion, The Deer Hunter, and Stalag 17... in that exact order.

Christian Taylor3 said:So, briskhound2, I was just sitting here watching something... 🤔 If we're already including Life is Beautiful, then why on earth isn't Schindler's List part of the conversation? 🤷

😢 Oops. Totally missed adding that one. It’s been hovering in the back of my mind this whole time... Look, nothing against Spielberg or the movie itself, but neither of them—nor even Life is Beautiful—really hit me as hard as Sobibor did... but you've got a point there... it could definitely fit under a different category. Weirdly enough, you're actually the first person to bring it up so far.👍 It's pretty interesting because it doesn't really show up on those lists of POW movies either (I scrolled through quite a few before the poll) and none of them ever framed it in that context.

briskhound2 said:😢 Oops. Totally missed adding that one. It’s been hovering in the back of my mind this whole time... Look, nothing against Spielberg or the movie itself, but neither of them—nor even Life is Beautiful—really hit me as hard as Sobibor did... but you've got a point there... it could definitely fit under a different category. Weirdly enough, you're actually the first person to bring it up so far.👍 It's pretty interesting because it doesn't really show up on those lists of POW movies either (I scrolled through quite a few before the poll) and none of them ever framed it in that context.

Yeah, you've got a point there—Life is Beautiful and Schindler's List aren't usually hanging out on P.O.W. lists, probably just because they always get shoved into their own little category called the list of Holocaust films. In other words, if you were already including Benigni's movie in the poll, you could have easily tossed in Spielberg's masterpiece too. But hey, no big deal, the poll is still great (sorry, I know I'm being a total nitpicker, but I just had to weigh in 🙂)

Christian Taylor3 said:Yeah, you've got a point there—Life is Beautiful and Schindler's List aren't usually hanging out on P.O.W. lists, probably just because they always get shoved into their own little category called the list of Holocaust films. In other words, if you were already including Benigni's movie in the poll, you could have easily tossed in Spielberg's masterpiece too. But hey, no big deal, the poll is still great (sorry, I know I'm being a total nitpicker, but I just had to weigh in 🙂)

Honestly, it’s just some solid motivation for me to make sure the next poll is even more spot-on. No hard feelings at all—we all mess up sometimes... 🤣

The Grand Illusion (1937) - Jean Renoir intro

"Frontiers are an invention of men. Nature doesn't give a hoot."

-- Lieutenant Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio), The Grand Illusion (1937), screenplay and dialogue by Charles Spaak & Jean Renoir



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