The Great EscapeMay 20, 2018

Winter, 1944. At the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 pilots - the British, the Canadians, the Norwegian and French, who were held in a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. The tunnel used for their flight was built in the greatest secrecy, under the nose of the German jailers. This historical epic, immortalised in 1963 by John Sturges’ movie ‘The Great Escape’ with Steve Mac Queen, went round the world. But the real story of these men overtakes by far the fiction imagined by Hollywood. Among the witnesses of this documentary is Jack Lyon, one of the last survivors of this adventure.

The Great Escape was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 24 April 2021, 07:35. This episode was initially placed on Sunday 20 May 2018.