Stalag 17

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 144 minutes

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In this episode, Sean and James review the 1953 film Stalag 17, which tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube". The film focuses on one...

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.8	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:16.5	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.8	a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.8	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.3	Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to our final episode of key films of World War II in Europe.
0:48.6	This is our 30th film we've talked about.
0:51.3	We have tried to present a cross-section of films. Some of them are
0:55.7	not even American films. They're on a whole bunch of different topics. Some of them are
1:00.4	about battles. Some are not about battles. And wow, Sean, can you believe we've done 30 films
1:06.1	just in this series? 30 films. It's a lot of movies. Yeah. Listener, Sean had a minor heart attack when I told him that we were doing 30.
1:15.5	He was like, what?
1:16.6	But we made it through.
1:20.0	And in fact, by doing these 30, we have doubled the total number of film episodes we did.
1:25.6	So if you add up all the World War I films, Pacific War films, we did a couple of Texas
1:31.1	Revolution films.
1:32.9	I think that about covers it.
1:34.6	But all that together was 30.
1:36.3	So this is another 30.
1:38.0	So wow.
1:38.8	Wow.
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