'One of the best war films ever made' is now free to stream on BBC iPlayer - and fans are still heaping praise on it as 'a genuine timeless classic'. The Great Escape, based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 novel of the same name, premiered back in 1963. The movie follows the story of a group of men who try to escape German camp Stalag Luft III, in Sagan, Poland (now called ?aga?) in 1944. IMDB's synopsis reads: 'Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds...