The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film that depicts an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp. The film stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and features James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and Hannes Messemer. It was filmed in Panavision. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first-hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. A heavily fictionalised
Great Escape (The Rifles album) the album was "The Pavement's Diaries". The album was released in North America on 15 September 2009 through Nettwerk Music Group. "The Great Escape" was used on the soundtrack of the 2011 video game "Test Drive Unlimited 2. "Winter Calls" was used on a "Dasani" water commercial, and in several episodes of the third series of BBC comedy "Gavin & Stacey". Great Escape (The Rifles album) Great Escape is the second studio album from The Rifles, released on 26 January 2009 after the initial release date of 13 October was delayed. The album delay was somewhat attributed to the length