POW films
A popular sub-genre
of war films in the
1950s and '60s was
the
prisoner of war
film. This was a
form popularised in
Britain
and recounted
stories of real
escapes from
(usually
German)
P.O.W.
camps in World War
II. Examples include
The Wooden Horse
(1950),
Albert R.N.
(1953) and
The Colditz Story
(1955). Hollywood
also made its own
contribution to the
genre with
The Great Escape
(1963) and the
fictional
Stalag 17
(1953). Other
fictional P.O.W.
films include
The Captive Heart
(1947),
Bridge on the River
Kwai
(1957),
King Rat
(1965),
Danger Within
(1958),
The Secret War of
Harry Frigg
(1968) and
Hart's War
(2002). Unusually,
the British industry
also produced a film
based on German
escaper
Franz von Werra,
The One That Got
Away
in (1957).