• Prisoners arrive at camp.
• Prisoners familiarize themselves with their surroundings.

Danny Velinski

• SBO Ramsey meets with Von Lugar to discuss the past prisoner escapes.
• Von Lugar wants no escapes.

Group Captain Ramsey

• Hilts looks at the barbwire, tests the guards.
• Hilts and Ives are sent to the cooler for 20 days.

Hilts

Ives

• Hilts and Ives get to know each other.
• They talk about digging a tunnel.

Ives

• Bartlett (Leader of escapees) is introduced.

Ramsey

• Bartlett discusses with Hendley about a mass escape to distract the German troops so that they couldn’t fight at the line.

Hendley

• Bartlett calls a meeting in one of the barracks and plans the escape.
• Bartlett assigns tasks to the prisoners for building the tunnels.

Danny Velinski

The prisoners

• Blythe and Hendley chat about their responsibilities.

Blythe

• A soldier creates a diversion so that Hendley could steal some parts off a truck for a pickax for the tunnel.

Hendley

• Danny starts digging the first tunnel under the stove.
• A second tunnel is dug beginning in the shower drain.

Sedgwick

• Hilts and Ives are let out of the cooler.
• Hilts and Ives explain their individual plan to Bartlett about escaping.
• They get caught and are sent back to the cooler.

Ives

Bartlett

• Make plans on dispersing the dirt.

Ashley-Pitt

Danny Velinski

• The prisoners disperse the dirt on to the prison camp grounds.

Bartlett

• The prisoners create a diversion on the grounds by singing.
• Prisoners in the barracks begin fabricating the air ducts for the tunnels.

Bartlett

• Hendley picks Werner’s pocket and steals his wallet with his identification card.

Werner

• Hendley delivers the stolen ID card to Blythe.

Hendley

• The 'tailor' shows Bartlett the plans for the designs of clothing for the escapees.

The tailor

• Hilts and Ives are released from the cooler.
• Bartlett talks to Hilts about escaping to intentionally get caught to find out about the local area.

Bartlett

• Hendley plays chess with Blythe.
• Werner comes in looking for his lost wallet.
• Hendley tells Werner that he will find his wallet, but he wants a camera in return for the wallet.

Blythe

Hendley

• While digging the tunnel, part of it caves in on one of the workers.
• It was decided that more wood was needed to keep the tunnel shored up.

Bartlett

• Hilts 'steals' the wood from the bunk beds in the barracks for the tunnel.

• Danny and Cavendish measure the tunnel with a string.

Cavendish

Hendley

Blythe

• Hilts and Hendley make vodka from potatoes with a still.

Hendley

• Prisoners celebrate the Fourth of July.
• Prisoners drink the vodka that Hilts and Hendley made.
• Germans inspect the barracks while the prisoners drink.
• Germans discover the tunnel under the stove.
• Ives freaks out and crosses the line. He gets gunned down.

Hendley

Bartlett

Blythe

Ives

• Hilts escapes from the prison and is caught purposely and sent back to the cooler.
• The other prisoners continue to dig the tunnel in the shower.

Bartlett

• Part of the tunnel caves in on Danny.

• Blythe struggles to make the ID cards because his vision is going bad.

• Danny wants to escape through the wire rather than the tunnel.
• Danny is claustrophobic.
• Willie stops Danny from escaping.

Willie

• After a discussion about Blythe’s eyesight, Bartlett agrees to let Blythe be part of the escape plan.

Bartlett

Hendley

• The men get in position to escape.
• The men begin escaping through the tunnel.
• There is an air raid and a lot of men escape during it.
• The men still escaping are caught.

Blythe

Ashley-Pitt

Hilts

Danny

• The men that got clear find transportation to disperse throughout Germany.

MacDonald

Hendley

Blythe

Ashley-Pitt

• The Germans check ID’s on the train.
• Hendley and Blythe jump off the train.

Ashley-Pitt

MacDonald

Hendley

Blythe

• The Germans catch some of the men.
• Ashley-Pitt creates a diversion to get Bartlett and MacDonald through an ID check at a gate.

MacDonald

Ashley-Pitt

Blythe

Hendley

• Many escapees have been caught and put in a German jail.

• Hendley overpowers a German sentry.
• Hendley and Blythe escape in a German plane.

Blythe

• Hilts is chased by Germans on motorcycles.

German soldiers

• The plane runs out of fuel and crashes.
• Blythe is shot and killed after the crash.
• Hendley is captured.

Blythe

• Hilts is chased by Germans.
• Hilts is captured after crashing through the Swiss frontier barbwire fence.

German soldiers

• Sedgwick witnesses three Germans murdered by the French Resistance.

• MacDonald and Bartlett are discovered by the Germans while boarding a bus.

MacDonald

• MacDonald and Bartlett are transported to a field.
• They are killed there along with many other escape prisoners.

Bartlett

• Von Lugar informs Ramsey that 50 prisoners of the camp were shot and killed.

Ramsey

• Sedgwick escapes to Spain with the help of the French Resistance.

• Hendley and other prisoners are returned to the camp.
• Von Lugar is fired as the kommandant.
• Hilts is returned to the camp and sent to the cooler.

Hendley

Hilts