PRISONER OF WAR THEMED MOVIES

The Pianist
2002
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the ci...
Black Hawk Down
2001
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk h...
Prisoner of War
2025
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-ha...
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd wan...
Monster Island
2025
In the Pacific, 1944, a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a de...
The English Patient
1996
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanse...
The Great Escape
1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners...
Unbroken
2014
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. Bri...
Andersonville
1996
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The dr...
In Tranzit
2008
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out ...
Empire of the Sun
1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into pri...
Seven Years in Tibet
1997
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But whe...
Suite Française
2015
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her con...
Bon Voyage
1944
After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with t...
Rescue Dawn
2007
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Missing in Action
1984
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering...
Land of Mine
2015
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to t...
Men Behind the Sun
1988
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured...
Hart's War
2002
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even fro...