If You Liked The Great Escape, Watch These Next
Finished The Great Escape (1963) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Great Escape, most of them are adventure, drama, war.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Way Back(2010)
7.0DramaAdventureHistoryAlso drama and adventure
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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2.Rescue Dawn(2007)
7.0AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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3.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)
7.8DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment,…
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4.Empire of the Sun(1987)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie…
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5.Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog(2020)
6.8FamilyDramaWarAlso drama and war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
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6.The Monuments Men(2014)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and…
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7.Passage to Marseille(1944)
6.7AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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8.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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9.Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin(2024)
6.7HistoryDramaWarAlso drama and war
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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10.Seven Years in Tibet(1997)
7.2AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the…
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11.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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12.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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13.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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14.Where Eagles Dare(1968)
7.5AdventureWarAlso adventure and war
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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15.Ice Cold in Alex(1958)
7.3WarAdventureDramaAlso war and adventure
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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16.I Am David(2003)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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17.Dunkirk(2017)
7.5WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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18.Escape to Victory(1981)
6.9DramaWarAlso drama and war
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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19.The Island on Bird Street(1997)
7.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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20.Paradise Road(1997)
6.3WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
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