P.O.W.

This is a wonderful, well written, well acted series. Although only six episodes were made, the characters were well fleshed out...there were many touching moments, and interesting plot lines. While the realism of the show was doubted by some, many scenes were just heartbreaking. As usual, however, while the show centered on British POWs in a German stalag, the most interesting character was not the lead. Anatole Taubman's portrayal of 'Kommandant Dreiber' was outstanding...the character's growth over six episodes was a combination of great writing and great acting. In the end, he was the most sympathetic character. All-in-all, this is definitely worth viewing.

Loved this series.

A previous reviewer complained about mistakes in military procedures, who cares? It's escapism. No pun intended LOL.

There could easily have been a second series which I would have loved to have seen.

I thought this series was GOOD! Maybe i haven't seen many decent P.O.W films but i think i have! I found i couldn't wait for Friday when i could watch the next episode and i missed it when it finished! All my family thought it was good too.

I think they should do another series as they did another Rosemary and Thyme and that was RUBBISH! James D'Arcy is a great actor and deserves to be in more brilliant movies. I have seen him in Master and Commander and The Trench. He was better than Russell Crowe! All the acting was great and Joe Absolom was funny and should get more TV jobs as well. The critics slated it, HOW COULD THEY!

I adored watching that series. Now I want to know where I can buy the DVD of the series that will play in North America. I just ordered one from the US, but discovered that it is only in UK format. I want to watch it on TV, not on a computer. Any suggestions? I thought the acting was fantastic, and that each story told in the weekly programs was top- notch. It was gripping stuff to watch. When it first appeared on TV, I read that the writers had done their research and interviewed many prisoners of war. Although there are probably many small inadvertent errors in the filming and/or story lines, I still feel that, overall, the series is excellent. When it ended, I wanted another series to be written. So far that has not happened, alas. I suppose it's better to have a series end on a high note than have it continue and perhaps fizzle out!

I've just discovered these series which of course were not shown on the french television, we do prefer the stupid ones like The bold and the beautiful which runs and re-runs year after year!

Here at last the cast is great Darcy is the perfect for this role pilot with his "beau ténébreux" looks. I really enjoyed it and I think the directors or ITV were quite right to stop it after six episodes otherwise the story would have repeated itself. Here we just have to imagine what were the secrets to carry to London and may be others would have escaped from the camp.

Someone wrote "There are of course some moments of unimaginable cruelty". The poor guy is really naive. Do you think that the Nazis were following the Geneva bylaws concerning the POW? They were as ruthless in POW camps than in the other sinister camps discovered in 1944 and 1945. I'm not sure that there even has been a Captain of a camp ever so easy going as the one shown on the movie.