The First Great Escape

Directed by Max Jourdan
PG-13
2014    42mDocumentary
7.5
The extraordinary and little known story of 29 prisoners who escaped from a POW camp in Holzminden Germany during WW1, a feat that inspired The Great Escape years later.

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Cast of The First Great Escape

  • Johnny DaukesSelf - Narrator
  • Stephen ArmstrongSelf - Journalist
  • Angus Castle-DoughtyCast
  • Saul DavidSelf - Historian
  • Rex DuisCast
  • Ross ElliottCast
  • Emily FordCast
  • Bill FranklinSelf - Grandson of 2nd Lieut. John 'Jock' Tullis
  • Oliver GyaniCast
  • Neil HansonSelf - Author, Escape from Germany
  • George JohnCast
  • Heather JonesSelf - Associate Professor in International History, LSE
  • John Lewis-StempelSelf - Historian
  • Alex MaxwellCast
  • Oliver PschererCast
  • Dan WhitlamCast
  • Max JourdanDirector / Producer
  • David Notman-WattExecutive Producer
  • Sarah CunninghamCinematographer
  • Nick Norton SmithComposer

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