I really loved that movie as a kid too.
I was disappointed to see how factionalized it really was.
Still a great fun film, just not real (although based on something real).
If you read the book, you will see that most of the movie was true to the book except for Steve McQueen’s motorcycle scenes and the early removal of the americans before the escape.
According to the book the British attempted to accelerate the date of the escape buy shutting down two of the three tunnels and working round the clock on tunnel “tom”.
Unfortunately, the Americans were moved to another camp in spite of great efforts to finish tom before the Germans moved the Americans.
I provided links to several youtube documentary about the escape and the movie earlier in this thread.
The rest of the movie was true to Paul Brickhill’s book.
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