Prisoner of war plays music for prison guards

In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Filmmaker John Milius discusses David Lean's classic Academy Award winner "The Bridge on the River Kwai."

From Europe to Asia and America, music has been written in secret by prisoners of all origins and religions in the concentration camps of the Second World War. Professional composers or amateur musicians, they left gems in all styles and genres: songs and masses, sonatas and tangos. Written on toilet paper, by night at candle light, sometimes destroyed, most of these works have never been heard.

GayChannel, the ultimate live report where the reporters search for the interesting and unusual. In this episode, they run a portrait on a sensible musician that faces the rough daily routine of prison. Guitar blasting sounds and running camera action is just a small part of the real version of “to take” and “be taken” in this sexual penitentiary! A wonderful story of full submission and sex-power that teaches new lessons in prison.

A music video.

Inmates at a women's prison find way to distract the opposing team of guards before a benefit baseball game.

A traumatized prisoner lives through two interwoven days of his life, between his time incarcerated and his time as a free man.

In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.