Sentences with phrase «years in a prison camp»

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A former pastor of one of Canada's largest churches has been released after spending two years in forced labour camps and prisons in North Korea.

The others were his two - year stint at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and his internment in a Nazi prison camp («If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what Lower Silesia must be like»).

He died at the age of thirty - nine, after about two years of imprisonment, just several days before his prison camp was liberated by the Allies, and less than a month before the conclusion of the war in Europe.

Some years ago, Arthur Koestler remembered his arrival in the UK in 1940 after months of imprisonment in Spanish prisons and French internment camps.

As if pulling a page from a well - worn cliche prison drama, Gonzalez with a laugh revealed that sometime during the course of his five years 7 months and 9 days in prison, he became supervisor of his camp's law library.

Meanwhile, Republicans support re-opening some of the shock prison camps that were closed in recent years as well as potentially revisiting the Rockefeller - era drug laws.

Duly impressed by Tyner's work, Newman brought his theatrical coworker to Hollywood eight years later to play Boss Higgins, the sadistic prison camp guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

But for those who found the play as tedious as a 19 - year stint in a French prison camp, be warned: There's no intermission, and someone will have to wake you when the revolution is over.

This film is set in the Philippines of 1945, where a band of American soldiers have languished for three years in the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan.

The affecting drama, now in post and set for a February release, is set in the 1950s and seen through the eyes of a 6 - year - old, whose mother is sent to a prison camp during the Stalinist repressions.

Kyle Patrick Alvarez («C.O.G.») will direct a film «based on the landmark experiment conducted at Stanford University in the summer of 1971, in which randomly - chosen 19 and 20 - year - old students were divided into camps of either prison guards or prisoners.

«Unbroken» tells the true story of Olympian and WWII veteran Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash that put him and two fellow soldiers adrift at sea for 47 days, and then two years in the brutal conditions of Japanese prison camps.

Although life in this new camp was initially easier, the now 16 - year - old Barbara soon had to endure numerous unwanted sexual advances from prison guards and the brutal beatings that would follow her refusals.

The Allies struggled for long years to break through the German lines until the atrocities were discovered and rescue of those in the prison camps was begun.

Presented by Hideo Kojima himself, it seems Snake has taken some cues from Sam Fisher for his latest sneaking mission which takes place in the same Cuban prison camp featured in last year's Meal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes reveal.