On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in ...

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 ...

But even before either of these TV shows hit the airwaves, McCallum starred in one of the most famous Hollywood films of the 1960s: the World War II prison film The Great Escape. The 1963 movie ...

Steve McQueen, who would have been 95 today, starred in several World War 2 films in addition to The Great Escape.

The Great Escape, John Sturges's 1963 film about the breakout, is a much-loved classic starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and James Garner. But it contains many inaccuracies.