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 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