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The Bridge on the River Kwai: How Hollywood buried the grim truth of the Burma Death Railway
Australian drama series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, out now on Amazon Prime Video, takes viewers back to the horrors ...
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Return from the River Kwai
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it.
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6 Major Plot Points From the Planet of the Apes Book That Never Made it Into the Movies
A little over a decade after French author Pierre Boulle wrote the classic The Bridge over the River Kwai, he graced fans ... Now, if any of the movies gets close to the content of Boulle's ...
Exploring Thailand’s wild west: Kanchanaburi and the Death Railway
Compared to other regions of the country, Thailand’s west is wild and unexplored. Though it’s common for visitors to take a ...
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Top Gear: The Burma Special
They have to build a real, use able bridge over the River Kwai. On their way to the river they almost bring down Burma’s power supply, encounter the world’s least relaxing truck stop ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai: How Hollywood buried the grim truth of the Burma Death Railway
The Bridge on the River Kwai had its difficulties, though. Shot in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in punishing heat and humidity, it was a difficult production that required an actual bridge to be built ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
People who have recourse to fingernail-biting in moments of stress are advised to grow them long in preparation for The Bridge on the River Kwai ... that most war movies lack.