The Great Escape (book) a live drama adaptation as an episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse", starring E.G. Marshall, Everett Sloane, Horace Braham, and Kurt Katch. The live broadcast was praised for engineering an ingenious set design for the live broadcast, including creating the illusion of underground tunnels. In 1963, the Mirisch brothers worked with United Artists to adapt the book to produce the film "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough. The film itself was also an inspiration for the film "Chicken Run". In 1986, Ocean Software released the first "Great Escape" video game for the Commodore 64, ZX
Papillion-La Vista South High School are offered in conjunction with Papillion-La Vista High School. Papilion-La Vista South has won eight state championships: girls' cross-country in 2010, 2014, and 2015; volleyball in 2010, 2011, and 2012; and baseball in 2010 and 2011. The Papillion South student section is known as the "Black Hole". Papillion-La Vista South is home to many clubs, sports, and activities, including forensics (speech), DECA, FBLA, Leo Club, National Honors Society, NJROTC, Skills USA, Future Educators Association, ProStart Culinary Arts, cheerleading, marching band, Student Council, International Thespian Society, foreign language clubs (associated with the secondary languages students can take), Football, Key Club, Step