Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain (2014)

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Director:

Helen Langridge

Star:

John Shrapnel

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John Shrapnel	...	Narrator

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Genres:

Documentary

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Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2014 (UK)

Also Known As:

Pohnút' horou: Stavba smrtonosnej zeleznice

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Color

User Reviews

Factual deeply moving

The sad story of the POWs. The deadly brutal use of British prisoners of war by the cruel Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, British POWs and their Japanese evil captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the 'Death Railway'. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, their Japanese guards tell of different horrors of war, some never disclosed before as far as i know. Exploring how they have survived the terrible memories, this is an often inspiring story that many of these men have waited a long time to tell. What emerges is a warm and emotional journey through the lives of men from different sides reflecting on a terrible event that still haunts them. 5 stars TV.