Digging the Great Escape
- TV Movie
- 2011
- 1h 12m
The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels ... Read allThe classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join th... Read allThe classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world war. This documentary follows Archaeologists who are trying to find the original tunnels dug by the real prisoners of war who escaped. Some of the surviving prisoners also join the team to assist with the tunnel locations and to describe what it was really like to live... Read all
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
- Self - Historian
- (as Dr Howard Tuck)
- Self - Chief Engineer
- (as Lt Col Philip Westwood)
- Self - Chief Archaeologist
- (as Dr Tony Pollard)
- Self - Royal Air Force
- (as Flt Lt John 'Frenchie' Le Cornu)
- Self - Royal Air Force
- (as Flt Lt Jim Smith)
- Self - Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
- (as Dr Hugh Hunt)
- Self - Royal Air Force
- (as Flt Lt Tim Barlow)
- Self - Royal Air Force
- (as Flt Lt Mikey Robinson)
- Self - Stalag Luft III, 1942-45
- (as Stanley 'Gordie' King)
