The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh man coming out of the tunnel, but seventy-six prisoners made their escape.
Publisher:[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2005], c2004.
General Note: Closed-captioned. Described video for the visually impaired.Public performance.Special DVD-ROM features: printable materials for educators in pdf format, access to Nova web site.Letterboxed format.