The Great Escapes of WWII

Starring:Edward Asner, Lucie Aubrac, Paul Riviere, Winston Churchill, Steve Hoza, Raymond Aubrac, Jean Triomphe
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

No walls could hold them. No punishment could scare them. No enemy could stop them.In this unforgettable collection, former POWs, resistance fighters, soldiers and guards tell the incredible stories of their thrilling adventures. Through dramatic re-creations, rare photographs and films, you'll race for the last train out of Paris, risk certain death in Europe's underground railroad, and crawl through the tunnels of the real-life breakout now known as The Great Escape.THE GREAT ESCAPE: This fascinating program tells the complete account of the legendary escape, from the designs of tunnel king Wally Floody to the actual flight of 76 men in 1944.ESCAPE FROM ARIZONA: The story of the largest escape from a U.S. WWII P.O.W. camp--a 25-man breakout lead by a resourceful German U-boat commander.ESCAPE FROM DUNKIRK: Trapped on the coast by the German Army, an overwhelmed British force manages to escape destruction by crossing the English Channel.ESCAPE FROM THE OKLAHOMA: Pearl Harbor survivors recall their 36 hour ordeal trapped in the sunken battleship Oklahoma, where 404 men drowned or suffocated.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Great Escapes of WWII DVD.......2007-01-09

The History Channel generally offers good productions on WWII subjects, and this DVD is no different. It is entertaining and accurate, and well worth the price of admission.

A Variety of Escape Experiences.......2006-05-10

This two-part DVD presents escape experiences from situations as varied as POW camps, evacuations of land troops (Dunkirk) and overturned ship hulls (the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor). Some of the escapes cited, in my opinion, do not belong together in this DVD. Thus, for instance, the repeated escapes of one German POW (Luftwaffe pilot Steinhilper from a Canadian POW camp) hardly deserve mention together with the Great Escape of European POWs from Stalag Luft III. Individual escapes from German POW camps, each a counterpart of Steinhilper's experiences, were a common occurrence. In addition, German POWs in Allied custody had much better conditions for escaping than did their Allied counterparts in German hands, and did not face potential death upon recapture, but that is another story.

Detailed scenes of the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor are provided, and survivors of the bombing of the USS Oklahoma are interviewed. One is also heartened to learn that several times as many soldiers were evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk as had been originally planned.

Much detail is presented about the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. A number of ageing veterans of the Great Escape were interviewed. Their memories appear to be very crisp despite the passage of all this time. Some of them were still brought to tears when the murder of 50 of the 73 recaptured airmen was recounted.

Escapes are okay.......2004-01-09

But in retrospect, they all seem to choose the same escape, a tunnel, which becomes boring.

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