also known as the Death Railway and the Siam–Burma Railway, claimed the lives of many Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War. The POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the ...

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Captured during the Battle of Java he is taken as a prisoner of war (POW), where he is forced to lead his Australian soldiers on the building of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Rather than an executor ...

a torrid love affair in his 20s and his time as a POW on the Thai-Burma Railway in World War II. Flanagan's only request to Kurzel was to retain the book's non-linear structure, a wish the ...

who is haunted by memories of an affair with his uncle’s wife and his experiences as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Decades after the harrowing ...

In 1943, Dorrigo becomes a prisoner of war and is forced to endure unimaginable suffering while working on the Thai-Burma Railway — a ... time held captive in a POW camp, and his later years ...

who is drafted to the Philippines to aid in the construction of the Burma Railway. Prior to going to war, Dorrigo is engaged to Ella (Olivia DeJonge) but falls into an all-consuming affair with ...

Evans was forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway in the jungle of a Japanese ... when it came time to film the Japanese POW scenes. ''Being able to have those memories while we were shooting ...

Elordi is set to play medical officer Dorrigo Evans, who gets captured during World War II and is forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway in ... held captive in a POW camp, and his later ...

The story drew on Flanagan’s father’s experiences working as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma Railway. “The thing that fascinated me most about it, that struck me as so original ...