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P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, released in Japan as Datsugoku -Prisoners of War-(脱獄 -Prisoners of War-, Prison Break: Prisoners of War), is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game produced by SNK and originally released as an arcade game in 1988.
Prisoner of War is no exception, in that the key to a successful escape attempt is through the player interacting with the other inmates in the camp. This interaction is portrayed in the game by allowing the player to choose from a number of dialogue options for which his fellow inmates will respond.
Keepers: The Key Of Life aka Guardians: The Key To Life (Хранители: Ключ Жизни) is a 2006 Russian video game by FalcorMedia, built by an internal gaming engine. [1] Presented at the KRI 2006, it is a three-dimensional game with anime-style graphics. The game features a branching narrative based on the player's choices. [1]
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .
No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. [1] [2] It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. [3] [4] The 1994 film The Ascent is based on this book.
It was a fictionalized account based on a proposed scheme for prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle by a clandestinely constructed glider christened the Colditz Cock. The film appeared on the ABC Movie of the Week on September 18, 1971. [1] The film was shot at Universal Studios Hollywood and released theatrically in several countries.
The 1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympics (Chinese: 1952年战俘营奥运会), also known as Inter-Camp POW Olympic Games, [2] was a mock Olympic Games held at the Pyuktong Prisoner-of-War Camp (碧潼战俘营) [3] of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War. The athletes were all United Nations POWs.
Eric Williams MC (13 July 1911 – 24 December 1983) was an English writer and former Second World War RAF pilot and prisoner of war (POW) who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, most famously in his 1949 novel The Wooden Horse, made into a 1950 movie of the same name.