Sponsored by Dean Prigmore and Patrice Taylor, this classic film is based on a true story and features Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough. This screening is to honor our POW/MIA soldiers (those who came home and those who did not).

The mass escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp in March 1944 remains one of history’s most famous prison breaks.  When the Nazis built the maximum-security camp 100 miles southeast of Berlin to house Allied aviators captured in World War II — many of whom had made previous escapes — they took elaborate measures to prevent tunneling, such as raising prisoners’ huts off the ground and burying microphones nine feet underground along the camp’s perimeter fencing. In addition, the camp was built atop yellow sand that would be tough to tunnel through and difficult to conceal by anyone who tried.  The Nazis, however, didn’t account for the daring and ingenuity of the British, American, Canadian and other Allied flyboys who toiled for nearly a year to construct a tunnel that would allow them to flee from captivity.

This event is free to all. State Theatre Concessions will be available.

To view the trailer, visit: https://youtu.be/M2bEzJFVdQ4

The screening will take place Veterans Day, Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. with doors opening at 1 p.m. The film runs for 2hr 49 min with a 10 minute intermission. Admission is free to vets and anyone else who would like to honor POW/MIA soldiers. Reserve your seat online at auburnstatetheatre.org or call the theatre at 530-885-0156.

Veterans Memorial Hall is located at 100 East Street, Auburn CA.