The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, and William Holden.
In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and sele...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, and William Holden.
In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in western Thailand. They are American Navy Commander Shears (William Holden) and Australian Army Corporal Weaver, who have only survived in the camp this long because they bribe guards to get sick duty and avoid hard labour. A large contingent of British prisoners arrives, marching in defiantly whistling the "Colonel Bogey March" under the leadership of Colonel...
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