| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; Dolby Digital, letterboxed; with pdf format documentation requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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DVD-ROM system information on container. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
The feature film 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Prisoners of war at Stalag Luft III -- Digging Tom, Dick, and Harry -- Escape equipment and supplies -- Excavation -- The great escape. |
| Note |
Special DVD-ROM features: printable materials for educators in pdf format, access to Nova web site. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. Described video for the visually impaired. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany.
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Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Żagań.
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Stalag Luft III.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
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| Added Author |
Dugan, David.
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Radice, Mark.
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Windfall Films (Firm)
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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WGBH Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Nova (Television program)
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| ISBN |
1593752016 |
| Standard No. |
783421381698 |
| Music No. |
WG38169 WGBH Boston Video |
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