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== Film ==
* ''[[The Bridge Onon the River Kwai]]'': Captured British soldiers are forced to build a railroad bridge by a Japanese officer.
* ''[[The Great Escape]]'' Dramatized account of a major breakout by mostly British prisoners from a German POW Camp.
* In ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly]]'', Blondie and Tuco end up in a Union POW camp after their scavenging of Confederate uniforms backfires on them. Angel Eyes is running the show. It's nasty.
* ''[[Harts War]]'': Immediately after the start of the Battle Of The Bulge, Lt. Hart is sent to a camp where there is an escape attempt brewing. One prisoner murders another to keep him silent and Hart must conduct the court martial.
** Interestingly, the adjoining camp filled with Polish POWs is run more like a concentration camp, complete with prisoners not being fed and being forced to work in a nearby munitions factory.
* ''[[Stalag 17]]'' After a failed escape attempt, American prisoners suspect a traitor tipped off the Germans.
* ''Escape to Victory'' (''Victory'' in North America). Most of the movie takes place in a [[World War II]] Nazi POW camp, where a group of Allied prisoners train to play in a soccer game vs. a German team.
* ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'', being a spoof of WWII prison escape movies, depicts Tweedy's chicken farm as this.
 
== Literature ==
* ''Andersonville'' is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Andersonville prison.
* The beta plot of [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan (Literature)|Without Remorse]]'' is about a group of American prisoners in a secret POW camp in North Vietnam during [[The Vietnam War]], and an attempt to rescue them. The prisoners are kept in isolation from each other, however they are not tortured, because the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) officer there believes that the best way to get information from them is to get the prisoners to let down their guard by treating the prisoners well and acting friendly.
* ''Red Cap'' is a [[Historical Fiction]] [[Children's Literature]] novel by G. Clifton Wisler. The main character is a drummer boy that ends up in the Andersonville prison cap.
 
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* In ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'', one of the missions revolves around storming an enemy POW camp to free your soldiers in the middle of a snowstorm.
* More than one game in the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' franchise have featured POW camps.
* The final level of ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'' is set in a concentration camp.
* The aptly named cult classic 6th generation game ''[[Prisoner Of War]]'' was set in a POW camp, and cast the player as an American airman with the objective of escaping.
 
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* ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'': Easy Company found and liberated a concentration camp in one episode.
* ''[[Empire of the Sun (Filmfilm)|Empire of the Sun]]'' tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young boy who goes from living in a wealthy British family in Shanghai, to becoming a prisoner in the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, a Japanese run internment camp in occupied China, during [[World War II]].
* ''[[Escape Fromfrom Sobibor]]'' is a 1987 prison escape/war/Holocaust movie set in 1943, in the Sobibor extermination camp, where inmates who have been selectively spared for their skills in manufacturing material goods plot their escape from the camp, in part utilizing the skills they possess.
* The end of ''The Hiding Place'' was set in a concentration camp.
* ''Tenko'' is a BBC TV Series about an internment camp for women in the far east during the second world war.
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