My grandad had this as the final song at his memorial service, we all walked out of the chapel with this playing. A moment I’ll never forget and great song choice!!!

I showed The Great Escape to a class of English as a Second Language students at the high school level. They loved it. They got so involved in the story. But what fascinated them the most were the ingenious inventions that the prisoners came up with to accomplish their goal. Both the boys and girls really got into this movie.

Lost my 18 years old brother to cancer 35 days ago. He loved this movie and the soundtrack. He watched it before he lost his consciousness and had to get hospitalized. My dad played this soundtrack while he was in the ICU, so my brother could enjoy it one more time. Hoping that he is with his favorite actors Steve McQueen and Gordon Jackson, enjoying the heaven. In memory of Hızır Yiğit Ardıçlı (05.05.2005 - 26.05.2023) You escaped the camp, pal.

If I watch it enough times, McQueen will jump that second fence !!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Saw the movie for the first time yesterday, damn was it a well spent 3 hours. Every character is likeable, it's entertaining, funny, action packed, sad, tragic, pretty much everything a masterpiece should be. 9,5/10

We played this at my dads funeral yesterday, a fitting tribute to a wonderful man rip dad love always and forever lindsey.xxxxxxx

when you're in detention but you see an open window

For more years than I can remember, this was my mother's ring tone on her phone. She passed away yesterday at the age of 53, following complications from a COPD related Heart Attack. Listening to this piece has given me some comfort, it really does embody her mischievous and stubborn nature, and I'll miss her.

Time to have this song stuck in my head all day.

My all time childhood film! This tune makes me emotional everytime! Raise a glass to the 50!

Seventy-five years ago today, on Friday March 24th, 1944, the actual mass-escape "The Great Escape" was based on took place.

Sitting here in Coronavirus quarantine, perfect tune for the times.

"Colin's not a blind man if he goes with me, AND HE'S GOING WITH ME!"

In Germany this film was called "The Great Capture"

One of the GREATEST movies EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When on long hikes with heavy packs as a boy scout in the '60's, we used to whistle THIS IDEAL tune as best we could, on an endless loop which I guess now, after military training, along with breath management, puts one into a light and positive mood and trance that melted our awareness of fatigue, boredom, hunger and pain - and bonded us together very pleasantly over the long miles and time. We were our own radios then, so to speak, and it was the BEST show in town at the time and we knew of no better.

I FINALLY FOUND IT! THIS TUNE HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD SINCE I WAS 9 AND I FOUND IT!

whistling this as i left school for the last time today :)

This was my inspiration to rescue my cat who got stuck on the other side of a security rail fence …I couldn’t go over but I could go under playing this while building the great escape cat tunnel 😂😂 no soil down my trouser leg though and relieved I now have a safe kitty ❤️

One of the best film themes ever.

Like so many, my father turned me on to this movie back when I was a kid. I've loved it all my life and for my 60th B-day my daughter took me to Sagan Poland to see the site of Stalag Luft III. This music ran in the back of my head the whole time there. For fans of the movie and history buffs of the whole story it is an incredible trip.

Schools should play this on their PA on the last day of classes for the year.

One of my all-time favourite films. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched it. ❤❤

This has to be one of the Best WW11 movies made. I had 4 co-workers who were POWs that were captured at Dunkirk and they loved the movie.Great Story Line, Wonderful Cast.

I like how the theme of this movie is uplifting patriotic when just about everything went wrong in the story.

My God, this is the most swashbucklingly brilliant theme ever. I always feel like taking on the world when I hear it. :))

Mitico, tutto: interpreti, storia, ambientazione, regia...e colonna sonora indimenticabile! Meditate, cinematografari odierni...

One of my favourite films of all time. Was just thinking that this is a film that I don’t think can be remade, at least in a good manner. Timeless classic

This great movie and theme always makes me think of my dad, who was a POW at Stalag Luft I at Barth Germany from 1944-1945

One of the best films ever made, Steve McQueen at his best

It was played every Christmas on the BBC for years... Never got bored of it

A great, classic theme tune to an all time classic film, never grow tired of listening to this, just fantastic. 👍🏼👍🏼

Like if you remember them Hilts 'The Cooler King'. Hendley 'The Scrounger'. Bartlett 'Big X'. Ramsey 'The SBO'. Danny 'Tunnel King'. Blythe 'The Forger'. Sedgewick 'Manufacturer'. Von Luger 'The Kommandant'. Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'. MacDonald 'Intelligence'. Willie 'Tunnel King'. Ives 'The Mole'. Cavendish 'The Surveyor' Werner 'The Ferret'. Griffith 'Tailor' "Dedicated to the 50ty".

Steven McQueen the Cooler King. I love this movie.

One of the best films of all time.

When I was little I remembered watching The Great Escape over and over and over.

Sent by the actual movie

Just finished my yearly Christmas-time viewing of the film.. such a great movie! To the fifty!

I'm 22 and I like this film. But it more strange and at the same time cool that my brother is 10 years old and he loves it too! And this music is so positive.Thanks for it!

Was on a bus once years ago and an elderly man's mobile went and this was the tune.... Often wondered if it had more of a meaning to him xx

"Cooler, 30 days...."

RIP William Ash (April 26, 2014), the real-life inspiration for the Cooler King.

I am still humming this after finally seeing The Great Escape. Very catchy.

My favourite war film of all time 🙂 R.I.P. Steve McQueen ❤️

Currently digging a tunnel to get out of my parents basement 😂😂😂👍🏼

Whenever exam seasons finish, this should be playing.

If this doesn’t motivate you through the roughest part of your day, nothing will.

one of the greatest movies of the 20th century

Possibly the best movie about World War II based on a true story ever.

TRULY, THE GREATEST GENERATION! Young people of this country: NEVER FORGET THEM!!!!!!!

Love this song. To me, this song embodies the spirt and bravery that those prisoners of war had. Add to that the planning and execution of that Great Escape. Great movie, great actors and characters.

hearing this for the first time after a VERY long time I only now realize what a HUGE obeisance to this score the Chicken Run soundtrack was...

German commander: "Cooler !" McQueen : "Cooler."

I was set here by the officer. He told me to go the cooler.

This was used as the the final March off for my passing out parade as we left the parade square at Swinderby

My dad watched the Movie with me when i was Young.. sadly he passed away Last year with 54..now im 27 and hearing this theme give me flashbacks of the Gold old times..😢❤️

My dad took me to see this when I was a kid, must have seen it a hundred times since!,as usual mqueen makes of with the entire film!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what this nerdcubed is but I'm ashamed most people aren't coming to this cause of the great escape :(

Every Christmas I always watch doesn’t matter how many times

I watched this when i was like 8. Amazing movie. Who can forget this catchy song? 🔥

This movie was full of stars and there will never be one like it again

The Great Escape is one of my Favorite Movies.

Elmer Bernstein, one of the greatest movie theme composers of all time!

Great movie and theme song, especially the motorcycle jump by Steve McQueen!

One of my favorite movies of all time.

RIP James Garner

Listening to this makes me feel i miss the old days so much.

Saw this film when I was 8 years old, loved it and so inspired by it so much that I tried to dig a tunnel in my backyard. Only got about 6inches into it when my dad told me to stop it in no uncertain terms.

I was just procrastinating

So bored Just sitting here Listening to this song Throwing my baseball at the wall Letting it bounce back Catching it Rinse Repeat

Had to look for this I had this tune in my head for the last couple hours.

Just watched this movie again for upteenth time! Such a great tribute to the 50 killed and "the Greatest Generation". Love it; even if I do know most of it by heart. This is the era they really knew how to put a great movie!

I used to watch this movie all day as a kid. Makes you appreciate your freedom.

I remember there was this school camp I went to at the start of Year 8, and at night, because everyone honestly wasn't tired on the first night, we all left our cabins and began running amok the entire camp-site. It was interesting, because eventually the staff caught onto us, so they were walking around torches as large as spotlights. It was very fun, just sneaking around the dark, one-by-one, we were getting caught and being sent to write lines in 'the cooler'. This theme was in my head.

This movie initiated my interest in Chemistry as a 13 years old guy.After receiving my MSc in Chemical Engineering I played this.

I'm French, i was in Saint Etienne for the Euro football game between England and Slovakia on June 20th. I was surrounded by English fans, and for the last 15-20 minutes of the game they were just singing the Great escape theme ! I asked one of the English guy who was next to me why they couldn't stop singing this and he told me : " Cause in three days we will escape from the EU!"

One of my top movies of all time. Love it.

Besides the fact it is one of the greatest WWII era movies with a great cast, the music score is also one of the greatest ever written. Many of the music cues heard in the nighttime shots of the men moving between prison barracks or out in the forest at night reflect the influence film composers Eric Korngold and Max Steiner had on Bernstein's music. That was the Hollywood "sound," created by refugees from Hitler's Germany, and powerfully translated in this film by Bernstein.

Remember my late grandma brought me to watch in the best cinema in Hong Kong back in the 60's. Digging a tunnel to escape.

Thank you for this motivational music to help me face something where I need courage. This music inspires.

Possibly the GREATEST MOVIE THEME EVER COMPOSED!!

I came here because when I was young I saw this about a bunch of prisoners of war trying the most daring prison escape of all time. Their leader was squadron leader Bartlett, aka Big X. Unfortunately he didn't make it to picadilly, so in honor of him I want to go to picadilly one day!

Maggie Simpsons's version always pop up in my mind

I was whistling this on the last day of high school as i left

IT'S COMING HOME LADS

The great escape is the kind of brilliant film that the filmmakers of today would not even try to remake(look at how they messed up Ben Hur...)

When you try to duck out of work 20 minutes early.

Suddenly I have the urge to dig tunnels.

This movie and music was obviously the inspiration for 'Chicken Run'.

STEVE McQUEEN a great spirit ! True men never die !

Great cast, great music, great film !

見所の沢山ある、いい映画でしたね。今は、こんな惹き付けられる映画はありませんね❗ 何回、観てもあきません😀

the legacy of the great escape will always live on

Prison guard -10 days in the cooler Hilts Hilts- "Captain Hilts" Prison guard- 20 days!

One of my favorite war movies. And my favorite war them song.

This movie had all the best actors put into one movie....A unique sound track that will never be forgotten 👍They don’t make movies like this anymore ☹️

reminds me of my late grandfather who was a ww2 vet.

My friend's name is Danilson, when we were young he left the school in secret because he was tired so everybody named him "Danny the Tunnel King" 😭😭😭😭

I remember watching this film with my dad as a boy. Now he’s gone I respect him so much more

This is my favorite theme I love Steve mcquin he was amazing actor in the great escape movie love Jeanette Vickry have a nice day