The Real Great Escape
Episode 10 · 2012-05-29
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
They really should remake The Great Escape - one of the all-time classic war films - and this time get it right. Perhaps it should begin on the cadet grounds of a Sydney school and focus on two young students, feature Manly Beach and an encounter with a German surfer suspected of being a Nazi sympathiser - and move through its dramatic crescendo as the two Aussies emerge from a tunnel they'd helped build - against-all-odds - under and out of a super-secure POW camp. Then it should lose the Hollywood ending. The real story of the Great Escape is rich with coincidence, determination, grit and endurance. But is it triumphant? Judge for yourself as Foreign Correspondent tells the untold story of The Real Great Escape. We even find that German surfer - now 93 - and correct generations of misunderstanding.
30 minutes
Season 21 episodes
1. The Ka-Ching! Dynasty2012-02-07
2. A Bavarian Fairy Tale2012-02-14
3. Girlpower!2012-02-21
4. Meet the Frackers2012-02-28
5. The Almighty's Dollar2012-03-06
6. Building the Perfect Bug2012-03-13
7. The Road to Mandalay2012-03-20
8. They Paved Paradise2012-05-15
9. Sayonara Baby2012-05-22
10. The Real Great Escape2012-05-29
11. Miss Tibet2012-06-05
12. England Swings2012-06-12
13. That Was Then This Is Now2012-06-19
14. Globesity - Fat's New Frontier2012-07-24
15. Wired2012-07-31
16. The Wandering Souls2012-08-07
17. Two Hearts2012-08-14
18. Revenge of the Nerds2012-08-21
19. Lords of the Ring2012-08-28
20. Rise of the Machines2012-09-04
21. Tick, Tick, Boom!2012-10-23
22. Adrenalin Nation2012-10-30
23. Goin' Up Around the Bend - Truth, Votes and the American Way2012-11-06
24. The Odyssey2012-11-13
25. The Big Dig2012-11-20
26. We Will Not Be Moved2012-11-27
