Seven prisoners hatch a plan to escape from a Siberian gulag in Stalin-era Russia, but the break out is only the very beginning, for those that survive there is a 4,000 mile journey across some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world until their hoped for destination of India.
‘The Way Back’ is an epic adaption from the supposedly true story 'The Long Walk' by Slawomir Rawicz. find out more...

A truly terrible sub-TV film, supposedly based round the diaries of Captain Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the infamous "Railway of Death". Despite the reality of the experiences these British, Aussie and American prisoners stay remarkably well fed, free of jungle sores etc, while occasionally acting incredibly stupidly, having very nasty things done to them, making self-sacrifices, learning the harsh side of Bushido and spouting incredibly rubbishy meaning of life statements. find out more...

Bresson's remarkable and detailed account of the brilliantly conceived escape of imprisoned and condemned to death real-life resistance fighter Andre Devigny. The intensity of the direction is augmented superbly by the music; Mozart's Mass in C Minor. Superb. find out more...

Olympian Louis “Louie” Zamperini, along with two other crewmen, survive in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash while on a bombing raid in WWII, but it is when they are caught by the Japanese and sent to prisoner of war camp that Louis’ endurance test really begins. A rather ‘worthy’ dramatisation of the man’s biopic. 

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