The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)

Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.

• The Great Escape II is not a true sequel: it dramatizes the same escape the 1963 film did, but uses the real names of the men involved, where the original fictionalized them with composite characters.
• When The Great Escape II reached VHS, nearly an hour and a half was cut out of it; the complete two-episode, 178-minute cut did not appear on Blu-ray until Film Chest released it in September 2024.
• SPOILER

  The second half of the film is based on the postwar hunt for the killers of fifty escapees, shown as led by Major Johnnie Dodge and two fictional Americans, though the real investigation was run by the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch.
• The film largely follows Major Johnnie Dodge, played by Christopher Reeve, an American-born British Army officer and cousin of Winston Churchill, on his journey to freedom after the escape.