Miracle on the River Kwai
The classic movie starring Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai, depicts life in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. This 1957 movie was fictional, but the more recent movie To End All Wars tells the true story of Ernest Gordon, a British Army captain captured at sea by the Japanese at the age of twenty-four. Gordon was sent to work on a railway line which the Japanese were building through the dense Thai jungle. For labor, ...