1941. Il giovane luogotenente Nikolay Ivushkin viene messo a capo di una missione suicida con un carro armato T-34 e un piccolo equipaggio di soldati per bloccare un gruppo di carri armati tedeschi. La missione ha successo ma Nikolay viene catturato e imprigionato in un campo di concentramento in Germania. Quattro anni dopo i tedeschi gli ordinano di addestrare una squadra di carri armati composta da prigionieri di guerra in modo che i tedeschi possano esercitarsi proprio contro di loro. Nikolay accetta di mettersi alla guida di un T-34 semi distrutto, ma solo perché ha in mente un piano molto più grande: una fuga audace e attentamente pianificata.
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.
The only two survivors of the Treblinka concentration camp recount the horrors they experienced and tell how their lives were after escaping during a revolt in 1943.
On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots who were held in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. Unique testimony from the last survivors, recreations and today’s digital images sheds new light on the audacious escape.
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live that situation. In an effort to understand the technical details of how this feet of ingenuity was achieved, the team recreate some of the equipment used by the prisoners.