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
Papillion-La Vista South High School won by a landslide, due in large part to the then-popularity of the movie "Remember The Titans". The students also voted for the new school's black, blue and silver color scheme. In 2007, the Papillion-LaVista school board voted on a new mascot for PLS. The name was chosen to be the "Fightin' Titan." According to an August 18, 2004 report published in the "Omaha World Herald", PLS had one of the ten highest average ACT scores out of the Omaha Metro Area and the Lincoln, NE area. Papillion South offers French, German, and Spanish as secondary languages. PLS offers the