History Main / POWCamp

* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' has a video game version for the PlayStation2.

* ''Literature/KingRat'' by James Clavell tells the story of a WWII Japanese camp for multi-national [=POWs=]. The story focuses around the elaborate schemes and followings of one of the American [=POWs=].

* ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' begins in a POW camp in Italy. After Italy surrenders, the guards flee and the prisoners escape, only to be recaptured by the Germans and placed on [[PrisonTransport a train to be transported to a new POW camp]] in Germany.

* ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet'' parodies films like ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' in the first series, and a later series contains various ShoutOuts to ''Film/BridgeOnTheRiverKwai''.

* ''Very Important Person'' is a comedy about a scientist vital to British aircraft research who is shot down on a ride-along on a bombing raid. Imprisoned according to his false identity as a Naval officer, he initially riles up his fellow inmates but when his true identity is revealed, they agree to help him escape.
* ''Film/{{Unbroken}}'': After crashing at sea, US Olympian turned military aviator Louis Zamperini finds himself in a liferaft before being captured by the Japanese Navy.

* 'King Rat' by James Clavell tells the story of a WWII Japanese camp for multi-national [=POWs=]. The story focuses around the elaborate schemes and followings of one of the American [=POWs=].

* ‘’Series/AufWiedersehenPet’’ parodies films like ‘’TheGreatEscape’’ in the first series, and a later series contains various ShoutOuts to ‘’BridgeOnTheRiverKwai’’

* ''Escape to Victory'' (''Victory'' in North America). Most of the movie takes place in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi [=PoW=] camp, where a group of Allied prisoners train to play in a soccer game vs. a German team.

* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' has a chapter that involves [[spoiler:Kara]] being sent to the Android version of one of these.

* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' has one that you need to rescue all of the prisoners from, as well as two of your squad. This is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor McQueen]] [[spoiler: as well as a [[TheMole mole]].]] ''Commandos 2: Men Of Courage'' follows suit with a camp [[Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai on the river Kwai]] complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/AlecGuinness Colonel Guinness]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' has one that you need to rescue all of the prisoners from, as well as two of your squad. This is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor McQueen]] [[spoiler: as well as a [[TheMole mole]].]] ''Commandos 2: Men Of Courage'' follows suit with a camp [[Film/BridgeOnTheRiverKwai on the river Kwai]] complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/AlecGuinness Colonel Guinness]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' has one that you need to rescue all of the prisoners from, as well as two of your squad. This is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor McQueen]] [[spoiler: as well as a [[TheMole mole]].]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' has one that you need to rescue all of the prisoners from, as well as two of your squad. This is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', complete with a prisoner named [[Creator/SteveMcQueen McQueen]] [[spoiler: as well as a [[TheMole mole]].]]

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII'', Zussman is captured and Red fights like hell to go after him, even disobeying direct orders and passing up a ticket home (due to his wounds).

* 'King Rat' by James Clavell tells the story of a WWII Japanese camp for multi-national POWs. The story focuses around the elaborate schemes and followings of one of the American POWs.

* In ''AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', one of the missions revolves around storming an enemy [=PoW=] camp to free your soldiers in the middle of a snowstorm.

* ''Film/{{Hunger}}'' is about Bobby Sands' hunger strike in protest of human rights violations against Irish internees by the British government during TheTroubles.

* ''Andersonville'' is a novel by [=MacKinlay=] Kantor concerning the Andersonville prison.

* ''Tenko'' is a BBC TV Series about an internment camp for women in the far east during the second world war.

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* ''Allegience'', a stage musical starring Creator/GeorgeTakei, is about Japanese-Americans who were forced to live in Internment Camps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* Important to remember: [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar the Geneva Conventions are treaties that set standards for how [=PoW=]s are supposed to be treated]]. They haven't always been honored -- both in fiction and in RealLife. Camp guards have figured that it's NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught -- but if someone does get caught, it's SeriousBusiness of the "kiss your military career goodbye" variety. Similarly, most military members are taught that the first duty of any prisoner of war is to attempt to escape their captors and return to their unit. The more successful escape artists have figured that it's NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught -- but if someone does get caught, it's SeriousBusiness of the "kiss your freedom or even your life goodbye" variety.

* Important to remember: the Geneva Conventions are treaties that set standards for how [=PoW=]s are supposed to be treated. They haven't always been honored -- both in fiction and in RealLife. Camp guards have figured that it's NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught -- but if someone does get caught, it's SeriousBusiness of the "kiss your military career goodbye" variety.

* The British war film ''Film/TheCaptiveHeart'' (1946), starring Creator/MichaelRedgrave and his [[RealLifeRelative real life wife]], Rachel Kempson, is about a Czech soldier who escapes from a German concentration camp and steals the identity of a dead British soldier to mingle in with British PoWs.