The Way Back — Russia
A group of prisoners escape a Siberian gulag in 1940 and walk 6,500 kilometres through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to reach India — one of history's most extraordinary survival stories.
The 2010 film is loosely based on Slavomir Rawicz's memoir 'The Long Walk' (1956), though the true story's authenticity has been disputed. The Soviet gulag system held approximately 1.8 million prisoners in 1941. Polish citizens deported after the Soviet invasion of 1939 included military officers, intellectuals and civilians sent to camps in Siberia and Central Asia.