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The True story of the bridge on the River Kwai

Devriès, David, 1881-1936 (Added Author). Browne, Kevin. (Added Author). Smith, Katherine. (Added Author). Woodward, Edward, 1930-2009 (Added Author). Stone, Christopher. (Added Author). Hubbard, Bess. (Added Author). History Channel (Television network) (Added Author). Arts and Entertainment Network. (Added Author). New Video Group. (Added Author).

Retells the story of Allied prisoners of WWII and Asian laborers who painfully built the Thailand-Burma Railway along the Khwae River of Burma. This filmed production reveals that the World War II engineering project consumed the lives of 100,000 men and was very different from the events depicted by the famous movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai."

2005
940.547252 Tru
1 copy / 0 on hold
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Victoria Available

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Subject
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Burma > History > Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives.
Genre
Video recordings.
Personal narratives.
  • ISBN: 0767083717
  • Physical Description 1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher New York : A&E Television Network : [Distributed ... by New Video Group], [2005]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The History Channel"
DVD.
GMD: videodisc.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Editors: Kevin Browne, Katherine Smith; narrator: Edward Woodward; original music: Christopher Stone; Researcher: Bess Hubbard.