TY - GEN N2 - The feature film The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh man coming out of the tunnel, but seventy-six prisoners made their escape. AB - The feature film The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh man coming out of the tunnel, but seventy-six prisoners made their escape. T1 - Great escape DA - [2005] CY - [Boston] : AU - Dugan, David. AU - Radice, Mark. CN - D805.P7 CN - D805.P7 PB - WGBH Boston Video, PP - [Boston] : PY - [2005] N1 - Closed captioned. Described video for the visually impaired. N1 - Special DVD-ROM features: printable materials for educators in pdf format, access to Nova web site. ID - 290701 KW - Concentration camp escapes KW - Documentary films. SN - 1593752016 TI - Great escape ER -