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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).
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AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors.
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Angus Lennie
Angus Wilson Lennie (18 April 1930 – 14 September 2014) was a Scottish film and theatre character actor with a 50-year career span.
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Żagań
Żagań (French and Sagan, Zahań, Zaháň, Saganum) is a town on the Bóbr river in western Poland, with 26,253 inhabitants (2010).
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.
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Bavaria
Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.
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Bavaria Film
Bavaria Film in Munich, Germany is one of Europe's largest film production companies, with some 30 subsidiaries.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Bill Ash
William Franklin Ash MBE (30 November 1917 – 26 April 2014), most commonly known as Bill Ash, was an American-born British writer and Marxist who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II.
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Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.
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Bram van der Stok
Bram van der Stok, (13 October 1915 – 8 February 1993), also known as Bob van der Stok, was a World War II fighter pilot and flying ace, and is the most decorated aviator in Dutch history.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Bud Ekins
James Sherwin "Bud" Ekins (May 11, 1930 – October 6, 2007) was an American professional stuntman in the U.S. film industry.
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Captain (United States O-3)
In the United States Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), and U.S. Air Force (USAF), captain (abbreviated "CPT" in the USA and "Capt" in the USMC and USAF) is a company grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3.
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Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor.
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Charlie's Angels (2000 film)
Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film that is based on the television series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.
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Chicken Run
Chicken Run is a 2000 stop motion animated comedy film produced by the British studio Aardman Animations.
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Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor.
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Claustrophobia
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Color photography
Color (or colour) photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors.
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Commandant
Commandant is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C. (April 21, 1904 – July 19, 1986) was an American cinematographer, best known as director of photography for West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Great Escape (1963).
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David M. Jones
David M. Jones (December 18, 1913 – November 25, 2008) was a United States Air Force pilot and general officer who served with distinction during World War II.
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David McCallum
David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish-American actor and musician.
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Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores.
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England national football team
The England national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in England.
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Epic film
Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.
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Escapology
Escapology is the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps.
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Füssen
Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu, situated from the Austrian border.
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Ferris Webster
Ferris Webster (April 29, 1912 – February 4, 1989) was an American film editor with approximately seventy-two film credits.
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Film poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.
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Flight lieutenant
Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt in the RAF and IAF; FLTLT in the RAAF and RNZAF—formerly sometimes F/L in all services) is a junior commissioned air force rank that originated in the Royal Naval Air Service and is still used in the Royal Air Force and many other countries, especially in the Commonwealth.
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Flying officer
Flying officer (Fg Off in the RAF and IAF; FLGOFF in the RAAF; FGOFF in the RNZAF; formerly F/O in all services and still frequently in the RAF) is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.
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Frank McCarthy (artist)
Frank McCarthy (born 30 March 1924 — 17 November 2002) was an American artist and realist painter known for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West.
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Freeview (UK)
Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform.
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau
Friedrich-Wilhelm Franz Max Erdmann Gustav von Lindeiner genannt von Wildau (12 December 1880 – 22 May 1963) was a German Staff Officer of the Luftwaffe during World War II best known today as the commandant of Stalag Luft III, famous for a prisoner escape depicted in the movie The Great Escape.
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George Mikell
George Mikell (born Jurgis Mikelaitis; 4 April 1929) is a Lithuanian-Australian actor and writer best known for his performances as German Officers in The Guns of Navarone (1961) and The Great Escape (1963).
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Gestapo
The Gestapo, abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
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Get Smart
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time.
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Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.
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Gordon Jackson (actor)
Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals.
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Group captain
Group captain is a senior commissioned rank in many air forces.
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Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses.
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Hannes Messemer
Hannes Messemer (17 May 1924 – 2 November 1991) was a German actor.
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Hans Reiser (actor)
Hans Reiser (born 3 June 1919 in Munich; d. 10 June 1992 in Munich) was a German film and television actor.
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Harry Day
Group Captain Harry Melville Arbuthnot Day GC, DSO, OBE (3 August 1898 – 11 March 1977) was a Royal Marine and later an RAF pilot during the Second World War.
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Harry Riebauer
Harry Riebauer (4 July 1921 – 8 November 1999) was a German film and television actor.
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Hauptmann
Hauptmann is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German, Austrian and Swiss armies.
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Heinz Weiss
Heinz Weiss (12 June 192120 November 2010) was a German film actor.
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Herbert Massey
Air Commodore Herbert Martin Massey, (19 January 1898 – c. 1976) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.
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Hinckley
Hinckley is a market town in southwest Leicestershire, England.
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Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II.
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Independence Day (United States)
Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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Independent News & Media
Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.
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James Clavell
James Clavell (10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was a British (and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.
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James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American actor.
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James Donald
James Donald (18 May 1917 – 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor.
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James Garner
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.
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Jens Müller (pilot)
Jens Einar Müller (30 November 1917 – 30 March 1999) was a Norwegian pilot trained in Little Norway in Canada and POW in the German POW camp called Stalag Luft III.
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John Leyton
John Dudley Leyton (born 17 February 1936 in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex) is an English actor and singer.
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John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.
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Jud Taylor
Judson Taylor (February 25, 1932 – August 6, 2008) was an American actor, television director and television producer.
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Judd Hirsch
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series NUMB3RS (2005–2010).
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Karl-Otto Alberty
Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, born 13 November 1933 in Berlin) is a German actor.
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Korean War
The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).
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Lawrence Montaigne
Lawrence Montaigne (February 26, 1931 – March 17, 2017) was an American actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman. As an actor, he was known for his appearances on many 1960s-era television shows.
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Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.
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Leslie Halliwell
Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television impresario who in 1965 compiled The Filmgoer's Companion, the first one-volume encyclopaedia devoted to all aspects of the cinema.
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Lieutenant commander
Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated LCdr, LCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies.
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List of American films of 1963
A list of American films released in 1963.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
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MailOnline
MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk) is the website of the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday.
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin (pronounced; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.
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Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Moskóvskiy myezhdoonaródniy kinofyestivál; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first held in Moscow in 1935 and became regular since 1959.
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Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse.
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National Board of Review
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is an organization dedicated to discuss and select what their members regard as the best film works of each year.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Near-sightedness
Near-sightedness, also known as short-sightedness and myopia, is a condition of the eye where light focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina.
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Neuschwanstein Castle
Neuschwanstein Castle (Schloss Neuschwanstein,, "New Swanstone Castle") is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany.
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Nigel Stock (actor)
Nigel Hector Munro Stock (21 September 1919 – 23 June 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played character roles in many films and television dramas.
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NRK
NRK (an abbreviation of the Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS, generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway.
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Oberst
Oberst is a military rank in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel.
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Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer ("senior storm leader") was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.
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Odeon Leicester Square
The Odeon Leicester Square is a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square in London, dominating the square with its huge black polished granite facade and high tower displaying its name.
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Panavision
Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California.
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Paul Brickhill
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 191623 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky.
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Per Bergsland
Sgt Per Bergsland (17 January 1918 – 9 June 1992) was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape".
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Pfronten
Pfronten is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Prisoner-of-war camp
A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by a belligerent power in time of war.
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Province of Lower Silesia
The Province of Lower Silesia (Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Niederschläsing; Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślůnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945.
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Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.
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Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American heist thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut.
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Resistance during World War II
Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014), was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician.
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Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns is a British television adventure comedy anthology series.
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Robert Desmond
Robert Desmond (1928 - 2002) was a British film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Robert Freitag
Robert Peter Freytag (7 April 1916 in Vienna – 8 July 2010 in Munich), known professionally as Robert Freitag, was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director.
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Robert Graf (actor)
Robert Graf (November 18, 1923 - February 4, 1966) was a German actor who played the role of Werner, "The Ferret" in the 1963 movie The Great Escape.
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Roger Bushell
Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African-born British military aviator, who became famous as the organiser of a mass escape from a German prisoner of war camp in 1944.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998.
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Spain during World War II
The Spanish State under the dictatorship of General Franco did not officially join the Axis Powers during World War II.
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Squadron leader
Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr in the RAF; SQNLDR in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly sometimes S/L in all services) is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.
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St. Nikolaus parish church (Pfronten)
The St.
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Stabsfeldwebel
Stabsfeldwebel (StFw or SF) is the second highest Non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in German Army and German Air Force.
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Stalag
In Germany, stalag was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps.
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Stalag Luft I
Stalag Luft I was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany, for captured Allied airmen.
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Stalag Luft III
Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
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Steve McQueen
Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The England Band
The England Band are the official supporters band of the England national football team, from Sheffield and are led by John Hemmingham.
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The Great Escape (book)
(For the book on economic development, see The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality) The Great Escape is an insider's account by Australian writer Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 1988 American made-for-television action-adventure drama film and a sequel to The Great Escape (1963) starring Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Denison, Ian McShane, Charles Haid and Donald Pleasence (who appeared as an escapee in the original), this time as a Gestapo officer.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Mirisch Company
The Mirisch Company was an American film production company owned by Walter Mirisch and his brothers, Marvin and Harold Mirisch.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Numbers (website)
The Numbers is a movie industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
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The Parent Trap (1998 film)
The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Tom Adams (actor)
Anthony Frederick Charles "Tom" Adams (9 March 1938 – 11 December 2014) was an English actor with roles in adventure, horror and mystery films and several TV shows.
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Tom, Dick and Harry
The phrase "Tom, Dick and Harry" is a placeholder for multiple unspecified people; "Tom, Dick or Harry" plays the same role for one unspecified person.
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Top Secret!
Top Secret! is a 1984 American action comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.
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Tre kom tilbake
Tre kom tilbake (Three Returned) is an autobiographical book from 1946 written by Norwegian pilot Jens Müller on his war experiences during World War II.
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Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest British motorcycle manufacturer, established in 1983 by John Bloor after the original company Triumph Engineering went into receivership.
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Triumph TR6 Trophy
The TR6 Trophy is a motorcycle that was made by Triumph, in Meriden, from 1956 to 1973, when it was replaced by the five-speed 750-cc Triumph Tiger TR7V.
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UEFA Euro 2000
The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship, which is held every four years and organised by UEFA, association football's governing body in Europe.
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Ulrich Beiger
Ulrich Beiger (26 August 1918 – 18 September 1996) was a German actor.
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United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.
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Untersturmführer
Untersturmführer ("junior storm leader") was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) first created in July 1934.
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W. R. Burnett
William Riley "W.
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Wally Floody
Flight Lieutenant Clarke Wallace Chant Floody (April 28, 1918 – September 25, 1989) was an imprisoned Canadian World War II pilot who was instrumental in organizing and implementing the "Great Escape" from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.
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Walter Newman (screenwriter)
Walter Newman (11 February 1916 – 14 October 1993) was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
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Walter Riml
Walter Riml (September 23, 1905 – June 21, 1994) was an Austrian cameraman and actor.
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William Russell (actor)
William Russell Enoch (bornBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com 19 November 1924), better known as William Russell, is an English actor.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers.
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1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror ''The Birds'', and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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1998 FIFA World Cup
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams.
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3rd Moscow International Film Festival
The 3rd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1963.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)
