The Great Escape (1963) (available to stream for rent or purchase on iTunes)Īmerican Air Force Captain Hilts (Steve McQueen) and RAF pilot Ives (Angus Lennie)-Allied POWs who have escaped German custody and been recaptured-are incarcerated together in a high-security POW camp. Red Army soldier Vasily Zaitsev ( Jude Law) is a crack shot thanks to training from his grandfather he uses his skills to save himself and his comrade, Danilov ( Joseph Fiennes), which draws the attention of Major König ( Ed Harris), a Nazi sniper-school director who journeys to Stalingrad to assassinate Zaitsev to harm Soviet morale. Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film takes viewers to the Russian front for a view of the Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective.
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