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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: HISTORY LESSONS: The Great Escape (1963)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of prisoners of war, execution, war crimes, torture, concentration camps, Nazis, the SS and Gestapo, war, death, imprisonment.
We’re moving on to World War II this week with a film that more prison break than war movie. Though in this case, it also happens to be 100% real, and the real story might even be more wild than the movie. It’s a star-studded, solid cast with some outstanding writing. Unfortunately, the story is so sweeping, with so many characters, that even...