The stort of production that gives American made-for-TV movies a good name, the 1987 Escape from Sobibor won two Golden Globes (Best Mini-Series or or Motion Picture made for TV Best Performance by and Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Picture Made for TV for Rutger Hauer), a Writers of American award for the screenplay adaptation and was nominated in five of the major Emmy categories.

Adapted by Oscar nominee and multi-Emmy award winner Reginald Rose (12 Angry Men, Whose Life is it Anyway?) from Richard Rashike's book of the same name, Thomas Blatt's manuscript From the Ashes of Sobibor and Stanislaw Szmajzner's Inferno in Sobibor, the film was directed by British old hand Jack Gold (The Bofors Gun, The Naked Civil Servant, Aces High), scored by prolific French composer Georges Delerue (The Conformist, Day for Night, Day of the Jackal, Salvador, Platoon and over 300 others) and a fine cast headed by Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula and Rutger Hauer.

On 14th October 1943, inmates of 'death camp' Sobibor, in Eastern Poland, carried out a terrifyingly audacious plan to escape. Those organising the revolt knew that the plan must include every prisoner – leaving no one behind to face reprisals from the SS. With survivors of the escape working as consultants on the film, Escape from Sobibor was acclaimed for its accurate portrayal of the uprising.

Escape from Sobibor will be released on UK DVD on 26th January 2009 by Network at the RRP of £12.99.