1968年，宾夕法尼亚州，五名俄裔青年经常在狩猎季节去阿勒格尼山猎鹿取乐，越战前夕，其中的三位男猎鹿人迈克尔、尼可和斯蒂芬应征入伍。猎鹿人出发前，斯蒂芬和安琪拉结了婚，而对迈克尔有好感的琳达，则同意等尼克归来后和他结婚。两年之后，迈克尔等三人先后被越军俘获，在那里，他们共同受尽了各种惨绝人寰的折磨。一天，看守他们的越军强迫他们和其他战俘进行“俄罗斯轮盘赌”。迈克尔和尼克伺机夺枪打死了看守，同斯蒂芬一起逃跑。

　　二战时期，一批美国战俘被关押在德军的监狱里，故事就发生在17号监狱（Stalag 17）。有两名囚犯想要越狱，却被德军所杀，监狱里的囚犯们开始怀疑他们其中有人出卖了他们。大家都把嫌疑集中在一个人身上——狡猾的Sefton身上。Sefton虽然也是个囚犯，但他靠组织“赛马”、卖酒还有出租望远镜赚了不少钱。不久，一位美国中尉Dunbar被抓进狱中。他在法兰克福火车站制造了爆炸案炸死了不少德军。然而此事随即被德军军官Oberst von Scherbach所获悉。Sefton被认为就是那个泄露了消息的内奸，挨了一顿揍。然而他依旧宣称自己是无辜的。Dunbar即将被纳粹军处死。到底谁才是真正的内奸？到底中尉Dunbar能否逃过一劫？

Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

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.

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.

During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.