Digging The Great Escape
Overview
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.
Release date
28/11/2011
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Jack Lyon
Himself
Richard Osgood
Self - MoD Archaeologist
Paul McGann
narrator
Frank Stone
Self Stalag Luft III, 1943-45
Alan Bryett
Self Stalag Luft III, 1943-45
Howard Tuck
Self Historian
Philip Westwood
Self - Chief Engineer
Tony Pollard
Self - Chief Archaeologist
John Le Cornu
Self - Royal Air Force
Original Soundtrack
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The Longest Day
They Came to Blow Up America
Léon Degrelle, Autoportrait d'un fasciste
Hitler from Our Street
What the War Meant
The Caine Mutiny
Echo on the Seashore
The Ambush
Where Eagles Dare
Stalingrad
Tora! Tora! Tora!
My Soul Is a Witness
Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
B-17 Flying Legend
Cross of Iron
Suite Française
Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt
Paper City
Two Women