In 1944, the Germans have developed a special Stalag, or the prisoner-of-war camp, destined in order to lodge their inner more borings, those that made the escape attempts repeated. Arriving to the new encampment, many immediately begin to the asses the relative emergency and calculate outside like obtaining via. A prisoner American, captain Hilts (Steve McQueen) throws with indifference always present its baseball in a dead band perceived between the protection turrets in order to examine the Germans and to make a step over tying d' warning obtains some bullets machine-gun made fire against its feet. Others try the different tactics of escape; several they hide in truck in full load of the brush while they guide towards the gate and two of the men even try to inflitrating a group of Russian laborers who march dall' encampment. All quickly are found and uprooted outside, with the else that they are jetties in the & amp; quot; Cooler& amp; quot; , a cell of isolation on the side far away dell' encampment. All this in first the 20 minuteren after that they arrive. After l' eccitamento begins them, the POW& #039; the s it begins to make the programs coesivi. L' official of place of the group, captain Ramsey (James Donald) has a reunion with the German commander, than it she assures escape is impossible and it would be in everyone& #039; interest of s if all accept their situation, deposited down and they were based outside the rest of the & amp of war; quot; comfortable how much possible& amp; quot;. Ramsey must however remember the commander who is the sworne duty of all the prisoners in order to generate much difficulty for the Germans like can and kind she goes. Between then, the POW& #039; the s it has considerable experience in the traforo and has made many attempts of escape. Squadrons. Head Bartlet (Richard Attenborough) organizes quickly all in the squares and all convince them in order to work. Some, like the Lt. & amp; quot; Traforo King& amp; quot; Velinski (Charles Bronson) begins to dig, while Lt. & amp; quot; Scrounger& amp; quot; Hendley (Garner of the James) begins to gather the materials be necessary in order to render all the job. After a brace of weeks in the cooling device, the else it is freed and it meets the others, that they are working to the programs in order to dig three trafori under the fencing. The else own program has its to dig outside, un' idea that is thus simple could work hardly and means to try it that night. Augurandogli the best, the main square rend to contoere that the else they cannot succeed, but he& #039; the ll it distracts at least the Germans from the other attempts. The else one set offs under the fencing that night, but the next morning he& #039; posterior part of s in the cooling device still, bouncing its baseball outside from the wall. Other prisoners are working to the attempt of main escape. Lt. Blythe (Donald Pleasence) is the forger of the group and works to the false papers of identification, while the Australian Sedgwick (James Coburn) around generates the narcotic tools from the scrap iron scavanged all' encampment. Lt. Pitt (David McCallum) has calculated outside a sense to get rid of all the soil they& #039; king to carry in on from the trafori and all seems to move in ahead. Bartlet has composed its mind that this will be the greatest escape of the war and the programs in order to obtain every single PRISONER OF WAR outside in a great night, all and the 250 men. The constant controls from the suspicious Germans hinder their progress, but the trafori cultivate some feet more than length every night and the men obtain more near their objective. The else, at last from the cooling device still, he begins to ferment a intruglio disowned from potatoes and on the fourth July he is strange all with l' distilled secret alcool of gallons. A necessary party as well as bursts like the POW& #039; gather of s all' outside for some drinks. All' inside of however, the protections have found that a hatch hidden under one stews of wood that one leads to the traforo main and all' height of their celebration the men are crushed without warning in order to learn that their greater hope of the escape now has gone. Discharged bitterly, Bartley says concise the men to continue calmly on the traforo #2.Hilts that it has other attempt in mind and it meets Bartlet, that sees little probability for happening, but asks its aid; if the else they can exit dell' encampment, also for some hours, the information have need of all that can obtain on the local roads, the railway station and the programs, else the etc says he& #039; the ll it is far away for the moment in which the others never they obtain theirs traforo dug, but naturally he& #039; the s it has blocked the next morning and has sent back to the cooling device. Blinking the eyelids to Bartley as they pass, he& #039; s obtained at least l' Info Bartlet be necessary. For the moment in which the else or still freed, the main group is nearly ready. Their cloth is adapted in order to render they l' to be similar the civilians, they have I.D.&amp counterfeiting; #039; the s and they know where to work, thanks to the else. That the night, else digs the last feet till the surface all' extremity of the traforo and prudently hits its heads outside, but it finds they& #039; the calculate VE badly; they& #039; with reference to 20 drink feet of the wood and now to it must try to rubacchiare through open earth without being seen. Cronometrare the men between the passages of the protections, beyond 70 prisoners transforms it the wood and the escape before the Germans to discover and to arrest the release. The next morning, the protections and the police abrade the campaign that tries the POW& #039; s. While the morning train pulls in the station, many of the men are attending in their disguises and obtain calmly to edge. Others are making their departure in boat, bicycle and two even steal an aerial little one from a near air force base. The else he is attending in the campaign and while a German soldier near guide on a motorcycle, puts with tying through the road, inducing the German to lose the control and to arrest themselves. The else quicky he steals its uniform and he guides outside towards Switzerland.As that the progredice day, the prisoners are resumed one by one, some easy, others after the long inseguimenti. Only some they more render it absent and at the end of the day than 50 have been rounded off in on from the Gestapo. As they guide behind towards l' encampment in truck, Bartlet, who& #039; the d it has lead all its men in the escape, confesses that one even if they& #039; the VE has come to lack l' transaction has been strengthening. & amp; quot; I& #039; the never be VE happier& amp; quot; , it says during l' arrest of rest in an open field. The prisoners turn to the sound of a bolt of the machine-gun and while they are raised in impotent feet, the custodice Gestapo shoots all down to them nell' homicide cold-blooded. The else it is accelerating around the campaign that eludes the Germans, but finally is set aside and in a deprived of hope attempt, ago an audacious motorcycle to jump over a slobber-metallic fencing. Nearly ago, but at the end also it is resumed. Chopped herbs, bleeding, but unbowed, march defiantly newly within l' encampment in order to only learn dell' homicide of the majority of the others fuggiaschi. Wavered to the news, it is transported outside to the cooling device. While the names of those assassinated are read outside in a commemorative ceremony, the Comandant of the Stalag is removed in the disonore and is replaced from an other official. The else it is blocked in on in its usual room and since the protection walks via, feels the sound of a baseball that it is bounced, repeatedly, against the walls of the cell.