4 real historical locations · Belgium, Germany, Lithuania
A legal thriller set in a German POW camp in 1944, where an African-American officer is accused of murder. A young American lieutenant takes on the defence, only to discover the trial is a cover for an escape attempt — forcing him to choose between truth and survival.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Belgium, Germany, Lithuania.
In a German POW camp in 1944, young lawyer Lt. Hart defends a Black Tuskegee airman falsely accused of murder — exposing racism within Allied ranks even behi...
American POWs were held under the Geneva Convention in German Stalags, with officers and enlisted men in separate facilities. Black American soldiers were sometimes segregated even in captivity, reflecting the Jim Cro...
View location →Lieutenant Hart is captured during the Battle of the Bulge and processed through the German POW system before arriving at the camp where Tuskegee Airmen are ...
Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug was the northernmost German POW camp. It held thousands of Allied airmen. Black American officers were officially treated equally under the Geneva Convention but faced discrimination from f...
View location →Lieutenant Hart is captured during the chaos of the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne. His war becomes a different kind of conflict when he is put on trial i...
The Bulge generated massive numbers of American POWs — over 23,000 captured in the opening days. Many were processed through improvised holding facilities before reaching established camps.
View location →The in-camp military tribunal mirrors the Nuremberg process playing out beyond the wire — Hart's quest for justice inside the camp reflects the larger reckon...
The Nuremberg trials (1945–46) established the principle that war crimes and crimes against humanity carry individual criminal responsibility regardless of orders. The film uses the parallel explicitly.
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