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What was the 1963 film The Great Escape based on?

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The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision. read more

Much of the movie was dramatized from actual events, for example I don't believe anyone attempted to escape by plane but certainly nobody did the Steve McQueen thing on the motorcycle. Probably the most inaccurate bit was they were not all shot at once but by ones and twos over a period of time. read more

The Great Escape Steve McQueen in The Great Escape (1963), directed by John Sturges. © 1963 United Artists Corporation with the Mirisch Company The film’s central protagonists are American, British, and Australian POWs who are confined to a prison camp deep inside Nazi Germany. read more

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