Great escape / a Windfall Films production for Nova/WGBH Boston ; produced by David Dugan ; written and directed by Mark Radice.

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The feature film The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Rovi K-12 education materials.
Corporate Authors:	Windfall Films (Firm) WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) WGBH Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Dugan, David Radice, Mark
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned. Described video for the visually impaired.
Published:	[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2005]
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war > Germany. Prisoner-of-war escapes > Poland > Żagań. Stalag Luft III. Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentary > Television.
Genre:	Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentary Television.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD Software

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