The movie Hart's war is about a POW camp located in Germany, housing American and other allied soldiers.
Lieutenant Hart is taken captive and tortured so he will talk. After he talks, he and a bunch of other American POWs are transferred by train to a camp. Life really isn't very fun or good for them there.
Two African American pilots are brought to this camp and treated very poorly because of their skin color. Someone plants a tent stake in one of their bunks and it is found, so he is killed for "plotting to escape." The sargeant who found the tent stake mysteriously ends up dead, so of course the other African American is blamed for it. Because Hart studied law at Yale before he went to war, he is assigned to defend the remaining pilot. Late one night, Hart follows a soldier acting strangely and finds that there are soldiers plotting to escape. The trial itself is just a distraction so they can escape.
On the final night of the trial, a lot of men are excused because of "food poisoning" but actually are planning to escape, but McNamara (the head American soldier) comes back because Hart admitted to killing Bedford (the sargeant who found the tent spike) and he couldn't let him take the blame. The Germans figure it out and blow up the tunnel, but by then most of the escapees are gone.
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