For two Sundays – Feb. 2 and 9, 2014 – the Roxy Theatres of Uxbridge, Ont., return a 50-year-old blockbuster war film to the silver screen. Premiered in July 1963, the John Sturges feature recounts the most compelling Second World War POW escape story ever. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 360-foot-long tunnel, code-named “Harry.” Most slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as “The Great Escape.” What audiences who’ve seen/heard Ted Barris present the story have learned is that “The Great Escape” was in many ways “made in Canada.” Based on his original interviews, research and assembly of memoirs, letters, diaries and personal photos, Barris reveals that many of the escape’s key players were Canadians. His now National Bestselling book and his presentation come across like a Hollywood movie script, but they are in fact the true story!

Where: Roxy Theatres of Uxbridge, 48 Brock St. W., Uxbridge, Ont. L9P 1P3

When: 1 p.m., Sunday, February 2 & 9, 2014

Contact: 905-852-7699, roxytheatres.com