Channel 4 to air a one-off documentary about an audacious plan devised by British prisoners held at Colditz Castle during the Second World War to escape from the Nazis in the 'Colditz Cock' - a glider ...

Colditz Castle, one of the most notorious prisoner of war camps in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up ...

Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for History Julia Harrington has commissioned Windfall Films to make Escape from Colditz (working title), due for transmission on Channel 4 in the summer. This 90-minute ...

The glider was never flown, as Colditz was liberated before its completion Art inspired by Barbara Cartland and a World War II escape glider has won a place at a major North West show. Manchester ...

Windfall Films has been commissioned to make Escape from Colditz (working title), a 90-minute doc on the escape plan of two British prisoners-of-war via homemade glider, which will air on Channel 4 in ...

On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...

Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...

Now as a team of engineers have reconstructed – and flown – the “Colditz Cock” for a Channel 4 programme Escape From Colditz ...

This film is about the most audacious plan ever devised to escape from a prison camp. In 1945, two British prisoners of war were to be catapulted from the roof of notorious Colditz Castle in a ...