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  1. River Khwae Bridge. 4,315 reviews. #6 of 55 things to do in Kanchanaburi. Speciality Museums. Open now. 12:00 AM - 10:59 PM. Write a review. About. Allied prisoners of war during World War II were forced to build the 258-mile Death Railway by Japanese forces.

  2. Mar 23, 2022 · Not only was "The Bridge on the River Kwai" an awards juggernaut, it also was the highest grossing film of 1957. No need for the Oscars to do a stupid Twitter poll that year.

  3. David Lean. 1958 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Pierre Boulle. Carl Foreman. Michael Wilson. Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and received no screen credit. They were posthumously awarded Oscars in 1984. Pierre Boulle was not present at the awards ceremony.

  4. The Bridge on the River Kwai: Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

  5. May 21, 2019 · The Bridge on the River Kwai, commonly referred to as the Railroad of Death or Death Railway, which stands in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, was one of only eight steel bridges of the estimated 688 that were built. The rest were made of wood and local materials. The Japanese Railway Regiment forced thousands of allied POWs and natives to build the ...

  6. The Bridge on the River Kwai. A highly principled British colonel becomes obsessed with leading a band of P.O.W.s to build a bridge at the behest of their Japanese captors in World War II Burma. 6,268 IMDb 8.1 2 h 41 min 1957. PG.

  7. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI takes place in Japan-occupied Siam (later Thailand) in 1943, after the Imperial Japanese Empire has conquered vast territories of Asia. Over a muddy jungle river called Kwai, a Japanese colonel, Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), must complete a railroad bridge vital to Japan's war effort.

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