W ar, as they say, can be hell — but it has certainly inspired some amazing movies! For example, 1963’s The Great Escape, a film based on the true story of a mass escape by Al ...

Alamy In The Great Escape, Donald Pleasence's character (pictured ... Two of the men who managed to avoid execution were Jimmy James and Sydney Dowse. In a 2012 documentary, Dowse gave his ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...