Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are almost entirely fictional, but use the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as their historical setting ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
PG · 1957 ‧ War/Adventure ‧ 2h 41m
British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commanding officers orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion, but...
Release date: December 14, 1957 (USA)
Director: David Lean
Story by: Pierre Boulle
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Adapted from: The Bridge over the River Kwai
Oct 3, 2022 · Starring Alec Guinness, it depicts the struggles and defiance of Japanese prisoners of war building the fictional Burma railway between 1943-44.