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  • i never knew that the music at the start is from this movie!!! ive heard it nice tune

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  • OMG 5 dislikes!! KILL THOSE PEOPLE

  • what is the tune lpaying underneath the credits? It's in Parent Trap, as well!!!!! :) PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIGUREIT OUT.

  • Great Movie full of stiff upper lips

  • a VERY great movie the people that did this did a great job o and i got the game the great escape

  • I watched this video just so I could hear the theme song. It makes me happy :)

  • This movie has an enormous amount of Stars...

  • imagine doing this on finger puppets...

  • After seeing Toy Story 3 last night, it made me want to watch the Great Escape :D

  • @EchoBoomer1987 Type Toy Story 3 great escape. They watched every war movie where someone escapes that was ever made. Including The Great Escape numerous time's. In Toy Story's escape scence, I saw alot of The Great Escape also lol. So thats awesome.

  • @EchoBoomer1987 Woody is Steve McQueen

  • love the theme tune:)

  • Thanks

  • this looks remaster d unfortunately the copy i have has been too remaster d all the texture has been lost But this copy looks good !!

  • simply the best

  • not to be a nitpicker, but those are never german uniforms. or are they? maybe airforce uniforms? what do the history buffs say?

  • @rafale1981 they made every thing in this movie what it looked like back then. from the camp to the uniform to the inviroment. im only 17 and i know that

  • @rafale1981

    They are Really German Uniforms. Most of them are Luftwaffe Uniforms since they are under control of the airforce who shot them down. The Luftwaffe's uniform is hardly as known as that of the Wehrmacht of Waffen-SS.

  • If this movie can be posted why can't "The Guns of Navrone" be posted and "Grand Prix" ect. ect.ect.?!!!!!!!!!

  • My favourite film ever made. I simply love it!

  • Great cast! Great script! Great lines! - One hellava flick!!

  • this shows that good war movies don't need blood, gore, sex or explosions

  • good quality a+ man good job

  • i like this movie very much

    awsome movie ever produced

    good work buddies.

  • this is a good classic

  • Love the theme song. Classic.

  • Estará en español?....

  • my all time favorite movie!!

  • One of the greatest movies of all time with the greatest cast! RIP Charles Bronson.

  • he he- i hafta giggle at old war movies a bit- everythings brand new- even the prisoners look like they just got back from the cleaners. Great movie though

  • To the response to my comment...I'm 53. My father was in his early 30s when working on the tunnel.

  • My father worked on the tunnel but was shipped out before the actual escape. He never said anything else about his experience in pow camps.

  • May I ask how old you are? I am 40 and my father had been to the WW2 aswell... as a very young HJ-boy... so it would be some kind of miracle if the US or british forces had boys in that age as soldiers.

  • And also Steve McQueen is the man

  • This is my all time favorite movie and it always will be

  • lol enough thumbs down??? this movie rocks!

  • This film is mayby the first film I copied on a VHS-cassette in the early 80's...

  • Let us all thank Nazi Germany for uniting the British Empire and the US, then

  • not in a million years

  • Long life England??? Hey Lady... without the Americans you would speak German!!!

  • Yeah? Without the British Empire you'd be speaking Japanese!!

    Because GB were involved Imperial Forces from Canada, India, Nepal, South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand and many more had to come along. You were 2 years late and not because you were all weepy eyed and thought we all needed a hand! The majority of the allied forces in the war were part of the British Empire, stop taking all the credit as per bloody usual yank.

  • I am a great admirer of Britain; my roots are English and I love her history. Had it not been for her standing alone and winning the Battle of Britain the war certainly would have been much more difficult. I do however disagree with you with regards to the Pacific. I cant think of one major engagement from Doolittle to Nagasaki where the U.S. was aided by any sizable force of the British Empire. If you know of one, please reply. As for the U.S. being late to the party, thats debatable.

  • Why would anyone admire a post WWI Britain? Talking about being proud of becoming an offshore financial satellite of a foreign country?

    Read up on war loans, the inability of GB and FR to repay them, resulting in reparation claims to GE, to assist the Allies debt, and the aftermath that we know as the rise of the NS regime, and subsequent WW2. During and after WW2, same shit. That's where 10 downing hoorah patriotism towards the US stems from. Debt. Lots of.

  • Im speaking in general terms regarding English history. All nations have periods when their behavior wasnt the best, yours more than most. As for WW I, be honest, at its base element WW I was, for all purposes, a family squabble among the monarchs of Europe; millions perished for Willie, Frankie, Nicky, Georgie, Petie, etc. WW II can be viewed as the second stage of WW I which really never ended. BTW, I also have German blood in my veins and have great admiration for her in many regards.

  • Not going to dispute that inter imperialist rivalry ultimately sparked WWI. It was the Austrian Habsburger who started it, and the German Empire, treaty or not, would have joined anyway. The US exploited this, and did stay out of the lethal circumference until it saw it's loan repayments at stake, caused by an allied defeat. Intolerable burdens the US imposed on its WWI Allies after the war, and through them, on the Germany, became the prelude to the most lethal war yet.

  • As noted, if it hadn't been for your ludicrous loyalty to monarchs and the imperialism of European nations i.e. Austria-Hungary's domination of Serbia there most likely wouldn't have been a Great War. No Great War no WW II. Besides, I'm as much inclined to believe the Zimmermann Telegraph and Germany's prompting of Mexico to declare War on the U.S. if the U.S. had not remained neutral in the face of unrestricted submarine warfare had as much to do with our entry into WW I as financial debts did.

  • Agreed. The telegraph clearly contributed to the escalation, US military commitment at that point, was inevitable.

  • All english people have and are proud to have this song in their heritage. and we know it off by heart

    Long live enlgand

  • wat is the song at the beggining?????

    ignore all typos

  • the theme tune to the great escape. you are obviously not from england. otherwise you would know it.

  • This film to me is one of the greatest WWII films ever made, its a classic, anybody who loves WWII (Like me) Can say that this is one of their Top Ten Favirotes, thanks for posting

  • This is a GREAT movie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting it. I do enjoy so much watching it. Great music, great actors, and such a great script!!! Well done job!!! Congratulations!!!

  • german luffwaffe officers had respect for their peers in other armies. they were professionals

  • one of the top 5 war Films Evermade

  • hi, im from Argentina and I think this is one of the best movies ever made

    Im a great fan of Metal Gear Solid, so I think this is the very inpiration to that game

    =)

  • Hello! I live in town where that war camp was located, in the south - west part of Poland, in Żagań.

  • lol hilts is based on my great uncle!eugene burrow.pissed the nazis off more than ANY soldier alive or dead.lo one time the dumbasses had him fixing a hole in a fence.he escaped.ill leave u to guess how.

  • Umm weren't they watching him when he was fixing the fence?? They couldn't have been that dumb lol.

  • erm... they were but he was sneaky rofl

  • haha I have a small subwoofer on my speakers here and the bass drum is making it go nuts, great movie/great soundtrack =)

  • wow talk about an all star cast.

  • how accurate is this movie? A lot of movies made during this time were not accurate

  • Everything that happened in this movie happened in real life. Just the characters' names are changed.

  • No it didn't.

    The American prisoners, some of whom had worked on the tunnel "Tom," had been moved to another compound seven months earlier. No American prisoners of war actually participated in the "great escape." as shown in the film.

  • i think this is actually pretty accurate.. except most of the P.O.W soldiers were starved in those camps, but they dont show this in this movie :-)

  • Acually the Germans ( until the Near End of the War ) Treated British and Comanwelth and American Airmen and Troop POW quiet well

    it was the Jewish and Soviet Soilders that Where Treated like Crap

    But Allied Men where Starved tortured and Beaten by Japanese Forces

  • fantastic soundtrack

    great movie

  • I read a book about this. NIce movie

  • yckss17 your full of shit if you say your granddad was 1 of the 23 whom where returned

    Barry Davidson from Canada was the scrounger played by James Garner.. Wally Flood as in his book "the tunnel King" was played by Charles Bronson...sorry noone from Singapore of asian decent made the escape as did 0 americans as they where all transfered to another camp before the tunnel was complete

  • An Asian would've had a bit of trouble traveling thru Nazi Germany- he certainly would've raised a bit of suspicion. Of course he possibly could've tried passing himself off as Japanese.

  • none of my grand dads or great grand dads were in prison camps, or even fought :( But one of them did hide ppl wanted by the naziz under his and my great grand ma's bed, and that was a big risk.

  • Don't worry, my family are from Ireland and part did not fight either because of neutrality

  • Don't know how many people know this (i just found out myself) but Richard Attenborough, who plays Roger Bartlett, is the same actor who plays the old guy from Jurassic Park. Just a little bit of trivia for you all. PS: GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE

  • Idk about the greatest MOVIE of all time...

    But greatest WAR movie of all time?...hell yeah...

  • yep, i know

  • this is the best movie ever :D

  • thx 4 uploading always wanted 2 watch after we played the music in band and the director said good movie

  • Thanks a lot for uploading!

    Never forget kids, sharing is caring!

  • My great uncle was captured and sent to the same prison camp at the same time as the great escape.

  • What was your uncle's rank?

  • Commander in the RAF

  • my great grandaddy was also there...he was part of the escape..and he been captured back..

  • Its a miracle how many granddads were there. My granddad was also in a StaLag... but he was a guard! (Not in this Camp of cause.)

  • oh ya...my grandad tell there a corrupt guard in the camp..maybe that is ur grandad

  • Best movie ever made. Best actors ever assembled for one film. Not only based on a true story, but fantastic soundtrack, fantastic acting.

  • steve mcqueen = the jesus christ of movies

  • true that man...

    coolest guy ever

  • they shouldn't make a reamake of this just because this version is the best, I love this movie

  • i think steve McQueen was in the original blob movie

  • hey can i have the mp3 this is one of my favorite movies

  • pure magic...brilliant..thanks...th­ey don't make films like this any more..

  • Brilliant film!!!

  • CLASSIC STEVE MCQUEEN

  • Great film and especially great intro theme.

  • ahhh they just dont make them like they used too anymore

  • best film ever

  • captured air crew were looked after luftwaffe

  • curious... did they make a newer version of this movie??

  • Not quite ... there was maid a version for TV in 1988, called "The Great Escape II: The Untold Story"

  • Sorry to burst your bubble,

    Samholdsworth but, The Great Escape is an American classic, shot in Europe but, produced in the United States.

  • Which is probably why they had Americans escaping, unlike real life.

  • no, they had brits escapeing to

  • Yes,but in real life it was ONLY Brits escaping-no Americans. However- they had to sell the movie in the US ,I suppose.( See also U-571, and Ben Affleck saving the RAF in Pearl Harbor)

  • Actually,when I say only Brits,I mean British / Commonwealth forces, including Canadians,NZ,S.Africans, and foreign aircrew in RAF (French,Czech,Norwegian,Dutch)­-- but definitely no US servicemen.

  • Thanks for upload this movie i love it best movie ever made!!

  • best british movie made, cheers bro.

  • It was called Stalag Luft not because it was run by the Luftwaffe, but because it was a camp for captured pilots and aircrews.

  • my understanding was there were more luffwaffe troops and officers in the german army. thats why they used them for prison guard duty.

  • One of the greatest movies ever.

    Anyone know where to find the original movie soundtrack?

    Thanks for posting the movie!

  • Yup it truly is one of the best movies ever made.

    If you like I could send you the mp3 by e-mail.

  • I would certainly appreciate an MP3

    Thanks

  • No problem, just give me your e-mail address, I'll be happy to send it to you.

  • GOD bless the greatest generation that ever lived.

  • Sad to hear that Alex Lees one of the last remaining POW who this film was based on dies RIP

  • Respect to those that lost their lives......Hitler might still have ruled for yrs and yrs w/o resistance.

  • Oh, thank you so very much for posting this!!

    This is one of my all time favorite movies. I keep driving my family nuts because every time that this comes on I have to watch it.

    Man, you just made my day... hold that, my ever loving Week!!!

    Thank you so much!!

  • This is the reson i took History in school because we get to watch movies like this.

  • wth i like the movie but pow camps and other camps never be leaded by the luftwaffe

  • i think that the men who could not fight at the front, they were send to guard this kind of camps.

  • Sure - "Stalag Luft" were all under supervision of the Luftwaffe. Please check wikipedia for "Stalag". This should provide you with some more information.

    Best regards from the Vasgovian Mountains

    Mark

  • cool

  • um...ur description kind of gave away what happens in the end...oh, wait, nvr mind. The title does that 4 u.

    My bad! srry. plz just ignore this comment. lol :-)

  • If you wanted him to ignore the comment, why did you even bother putting it on? Did you actually take the time to write: "My bad! srry. plz just ignore this comment. lol" :-) Shit bag!

  • Nope not all of them ^^

    We Dutchy's like this movie to, so not all of them ar from that Class.

  • i bet all these views came from mr. lorges class herricks high school

  • you mean schools watch these videos?

  • yeah for history and geography

  • like these videos on the web not the DVD

  • nahh my teacher just had his class watch this video one way or another for a movie quiz lol. i personally wouldnt speand money on somthing like that so here i was

  • I´m sorry!! I rated the video without wanting to with 1 star. Im´sorry!!

    This video deserves five stars

  • lol

  • and Donald Pleasance the man who played Blythe was a real P.O.W too,

  • donald pleasence  was an australian,what a great movie

  • The German actor who played the Luftwaffe kommandant was himself a prisoner of war, held by the Russians.

  • I LOVE Sir Richard & his accent!

    It's Conservative RP accent, isn't it?

    The one like Edward Fox, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Albert Finney, Sir Rex Harrison & more.

  • I love this film thanks a lot for uploading it

  • McQueen was so ahead of his time in terms of acting, I got all his films including this one on dvd.

  • This movie is excellent

  • BRILLIANT!!!!

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

  • this movie needs to be seen by the public.

    fanny it has been

  • This movie needs to be seen by the public.

    Thank you for uploading it!

  • Steve McQueen ROCKS SO MUCH IN THIS FILM! I loved him on motorcycle --see him in the ode to cycle documentary film On Any Sunday

  • Daniel Craig is a charmless,wooden actor who goes to the gym a lot. To compare him with Mc Queen is a bit comparing Blackpool with St Tropez

  • thanks for uploading

  • I love this movie!!!!!!!1

  • I can't help it, but Steve McQueen looks so similar to Daniel Craig in my eyes.

    And both are great actors.

  • daniel craig will NEVER be great, maybe in his own mind but that is about it.

    in 5 or 7 years he will be a HAS-BEEN!!

  • to tell you I have to disagree. McQueen is an okay actor but has a load of limits. While Daniel Craig is an accomplished actor with a wide range of parts he can play, he is my second favourite Bond.

  • i beg to differ in that daniel craig will NEVER be great in ANYTHING he does.

    as for the true james bond ONLY Sean Connery will do, NOBODY ELSE even is close to being second to him. ALL of the other actors are in LAST PLACE.

  • I beg to differ with you. Have you ever seen any of Roger Moore's or Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies.

  • I have seen all of them except Solace and to tell you the truth all of Moore's were terrible except the first 2 he was in. He tried to be funny all the time and it was just sad. But thats to Bond standards.

  • Sean Connery is the best no doubt about it. All the other actors were good too.

  • it was rumored that ian fleming before he died preferred sean connery to the other candidates being screened at the time. however, this may be an urban cinema legend. on the other extreme though george lazenby and timothy dalton are TIED for being equally horrible with the exception of the casino royale piece of shiite and shit from the mid 60s with woody dufus allen, david niven and peter sellers. i think that daniel craig is good but he is NOT sean connery :-}}

  • To SocratesTheGadfly. I disagree. I think Craig's a has-been now.

  • I am afraid that I must agree with you. daniel craig has just fizzled and it does PROVE my point though. ONLY Sean Connery can ever be james bond, 007!

  • I do see a similarity, in fact i was really bored one day and I decided to make a list of people to play these guys if they made a remake. I picked him as Hilts (McQueen). I also picked Michael York to play Ramsey.

  • Superb!

  • McQueen was king, and so is this movie

    my opinion there has NEVER been one better and there never will

  • AMEN

  • Real story & Real move . like it since 1980

    this film move in my blood. !

  • ok thanks!

  • Does anyone know if the movie "King Rat" is a sad movie similar to "The Great Escape"? Or if it is any good? Thanks for the thoughts!

  • I've heard it's good, but I haven't seen it. Look it up on IMDb, you can read user reviews. It's about soldiers in a WWII prison camp run by the Japanese.

  • It is very good, but depressing as hell.

  • 50 years young; my Favorite Movie, EVER! I was hooked watching it for the first time with my Dad, when I was just 13. Not enough superlatives to describe how terrific this movie is.... Dedicated to the "50" !!

  • great movie

  • Greatest WWII movie ever made! The all star cast was absolutely terrific. Just about everyone in the movie became a super star...James Garner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson...they couldn't afford a cast like that today!

  • This is a legend film. Great Movie and Great Music. Great Film 10/10

  • What the hell is that comedy noise added at 7:32??? Lol, brilliant!

  • At 7:32....In German he said "herein".

    He said "enter"

  • Steve Mcqueen is one of the coolest men dead

  • I love this film so much. I also find the noise the guy makes at 7.31 funny

  • Lol i never noticed that...it is hilarious

  • prison break is inspired by this? :/

  • Wow I love this movie...it's been a year since i posted this... and i have not watched it since.

  • Thanks for posting my favorite movie!

    Love the movie and Jim Donald.

  • Best movie ever created!

  • fucking good movie!

  • This is both a Great Movie and Great Video Game