Films about prisoners of war

Films about prisoners of war
List of the best films about prisoners of war according to the audience: V2. Escape from Hell, Persian Lessons, The Mauritanian, Rogue Warfare: The Hunt, Jarhead: Law of Return, The Last Rescue, Hacksaw Ridge, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, Imprisoned, The Hidden.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryRussia

Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military
CountryRussia, Germany, Belarus

1942, occupied Europe. Gilles Cremieux, a Belgian of Jewish origin, once in a concentration camp, pretends to be a Persian - for him this is the only opportunity to stay alive. This lie, indeed, saves him from being shot, but Gilles does not yet know what price he will have to pay for this salvation. German soldiers bring Gilles to Klaus Koch, a cook in a concentration camp who wants to leave for Iran and open a restaurant there as soon as the war ends. Koch is looking for a real Persian who will teach him how to speak Farsi. Thus begins the story of Gilles Cremier and Klaus Koch - a Jew and a German, a prisoner and a jailer, student and teacher.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genreaction
CountryUSA

The next installment of the Rogue Warfare Trilogy. Daniel has been captured and it is up to the TEAM to find him before it is to late.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel

Major Ronan Jackson (Devon Sawa), an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator (Robert Patrick), is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken captive by a group of Hezbollah militiamen. A gripping and powerful story packed with hard-hitting action, Jarhead: Law of Return follows a squad of elite soldiers, led by Gunnery Sergeant Dave Torres (Amaury Nolasco), as they risk their own lives in the hopes of saving an ally they've never met.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA

World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:29

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgiven him for an old crime.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA

    When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A Southern belle (Eleanor Parker) frees a Rebel officer (John Forsythe) and his men from a Union captain's (William Holden) Arizona fort.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:52

    The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
    Duration02:13

    Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration02:12

    As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Spain, USA
    Duration01:54

      During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA

      After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem - there seems to be a security leak. The Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For some in Barracks 4, especially the loud-mouthed Duke, the leaker is obvious: J.J. Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that no other prisoner seems to have. Sefton denies giving the Germans any information and makes it quite clear that he has no intention of ever trying to escape. He plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but it doesn't extend to spying for the Germans.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA, West Germany
      Duration01:59

      WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryDenmark, Germany
      Duration02:22

      In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys were forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of the Danish sergeant, Carl Leopold Rasmussen.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreadventure, family
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:49

      The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:02

      A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

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      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryRussia

      Fall of 1941. Freshly graduated from school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteers for a partisan unit. During an assignment, her comrades are ambushed, and she is captured by the Nazis. She endures hours of grueling interrogations and horrendous torture, but defiantly refuses to divulge any information that would compromise other units’ partisan missions. She doesn’t even tell her captors her real name. Zoya’s sacrifice was not in vain; it ignited fire in the hearts of millions of people and became the symbol of selfless heroism during WWII. She is one of the most celebrated heroes of that time.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

      The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:05

      The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration01:41

      After the end of World War II Karen, a young displaced woman from Lithuania, marries Italian fisherman Antonio to get away from her internment camp. But the life on Antonio's island, Stromboli, threatened by its volcano, is a tough one and Karen cannot get used to it.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryFinland, Belgium, Iceland
      Duration01:36

      The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:33

      Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to escape to. Included among the prisoners is the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed to established 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 day. His nemesis is Lt. Robin Grey, the camp Provost who attempts to keep good order and discipline. He knows that King is breaking camp rules by bartering with the Japanese but can't quite get the evidence he needs to stop him. King soon forms a friendship with Lt. Peter Marlowe an upper class British officer who is fascinated with King's Ă©lan and no rules approach to life...

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountrySweden
      Duration02:01

      December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, military, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Italy
      Duration01:49

      A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, crime, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:34

      John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return—the jungles of Vietnam.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:27

      In the third installment of the hit Nazi Zombie action horror movie, Outpost: Rise Of The Spetnaz, we discover the horrifying origins of these supernatural soldiers and see them in ferocious gladiatorial battle against the most ruthless and notorious of all military special forces: the Russian Spetsnaz.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:35

      The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryMexico, France

      In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, military
      CountryRussia, Kazakhstan
      Duration01:40

      Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA, Luxembourg
      Duration02:00

      A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryGermany

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