Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Temmuz, 1943: Japon ordusu kaçmakta. Burma’daki bir müfreze moral bulmak için şarkı söylemektedir. İlham, kopuzu kendi başına öğrenen kopuzcudan, Mizushima’dan gelir. Savaşın sonunda, müfreze Mudon esir kampından ülkelerine geri gönderilmeyi beklerken, Mizushima, bir dağın etrafını sarması gereken bir Japon topluluğunu ortada kalmaları için ikna etmek üzere gönderilir. Fakat bunu başaramaz, İngilizler saldırıda bulunur, bir çok kişi ölür ve arkadaşları Mizushima’nın öldürüldüğünü sanır. Fakat o kurtulur ve bir Budist rahip kılığına bürünür. Arkadaşlarına katılmak için Mudon yolundayken, sürekli gördüğü ölü Japon askerleri onu çok etkiler. Bunun üzerine, arkadaşları onun kendileriyle birlikte Japonya’ya dönmesini isterken; o, kemik ve bedenleri gömen bir dindar hayatı yaşamaya yemin eder.
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack.
Colditz Castle was a maximum security prison from which no one was meant to escape... but escape they did. Take a fresh look at the legendary escapes, featuring stories from both Colditz survivors and their extended families.
A U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton leading a plane sortie into North Vietnam was shot down and captured as a POW. For 8 years of his life, he was a prisoner at Hanoi Hilton where he and other POWs were tortured. In a press conference, being forced by the North Vietnamese to say he was being treated well he blinked out the letters TORTURE in Morse code.