A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ...
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Title: To End All Wars (2001)
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| Ciarán McMenamin | ... | Capt. Ernest 'Ernie' Gordon | |
| Robert Carlyle | ... | Maj. Ian Campbell | |
| Kiefer Sutherland | ... | Lt. Jim 'Yankee' Reardon | |
| Mark Strong | ... | Dusty Miller | |
| Yûgo Sasô | ... | Takashi Nagase | |
| Sakae Kimura | ... | Sgt. Ito | |
| James Cosmo | ... | Lt. Col. Stuart McLean | |
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Masayuki Yui | ... | Capt. Noguchi |
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John Gregg | ... | Camp Doctor Coates |
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Shû Nakajima | ... | Nagatomo (as Shu Nakajima) |
| Greg Ellis | ... | Sgt. Roger Primrose | |
| Pip Torrens | ... | Lt. Foxworth | |
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James McCarthy | ... | Norman |
| Brendan Cowell | ... | Wallace Hamilton | |
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Winton Nicholson | ... | Duncan |
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A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately they find true freedom by forgiving their enemies. Based on the true story of Ernest Gordon. Written by Anonymous
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japanese prison camp | jungle | escape | tarsau burma | railway of death |Taglines:
In war, you have to survive See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
2 September 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Última das Guerras See more »Edit
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$14,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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The autobiography of which the film is based on was originally published under the name 'Through the Valley of the Kwai' (and later as 'Miracle on the River Kwai') and then when this film was made, the same as this film's title ('To End All Wars'). This book also acted as a basis for David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). See more »Goofs
The real commander of the 2nd battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Stewart, was not killed in a POW camp. He, and some others, managed to escape to India. See more »Quotes
Ernest Gordon: How I miss Scotland and the sea. The sea. There's nothing like it in all the earth. Salt in your face, the wind at your back, and all the world before you, and you're freer than a bird in the air or a fish in the ocean. To be free - I reckon that's why I joined the second war to end all wars. I was at the university studying to be a teacher when the call to arms occurred. I was only too eager to put aside my studies for the glory of action. I stopped reading history and became a part of it.See more »
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Most of the reviews I've read of this film use the word "powerful" to describe it, and I will too. It's powerful because it's realistic; no stereotyped good guys or bad guys here (it's based on a true story, after all), and yet plenty of cruelty and some kindness, which leads to an exploration of themes such as justice and mercy in a way that (at last) doesn't lead to boredom or cynicism. It's *not* a light relief to watch this -- but nor was Schindler's List, possibly the only other prison-camp movie which matches this one for exploration of human motivation and hope.
Oh, and it stars a crop of very respectable (and largely British) actors. Why, oh why has this never had a cinema release in the UK?