2022年10月3日 · The Bridge over the River Kwai met its fate in 1945. The events depicted in the film, of a chaotic Commando raid and Lt. Col Nicholson’s wounded body falling dramatically on the detonator and blowing the bridge up, are completely false.

2019年5月21日 · The Bridge on the River Kwai, commonly referred to as the Railroad of Death or Death Railway, which stands in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, was one of only eight steel bridges of the estimated 688 that were built. The rest were made of wood and local materials.

David Lean’s classic 1957 World War II movie Bridge on the River Kwai depicted the horrors endured by the Allied prisoners of war (POWs) forced to build the Thailand-Burma railway by the Japanese Imperial Army.

2022年3月24日 · "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is a wartime classic. However, the real-life events that inspired the film tell a story of unparalleled cruelty and horror.

2015年10月19日 · The construction of the railway has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and films including the 'The Railway Man', Australian Author, Richard Flanagan's award winning novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' and the celebrated 1957 film, 'The 'Bridge on the River Kwai''.

The bridge portrayed in the film is fictional: While the story refers to the construction of a bridge over the Mae Klong River (renamed River Kwai in the film), no such bridge existed during the war. Instead, the Japanese constructed two bridges, namely the Wampo and the Konyu, as part of the Death Railway project.

2010年11月15日 · You've probably seen the 1957 move The Bridge On the River Kwai, but you might not know how much of the film was real and how much was fictionalized. The real history of how the railway between Burma and China was built, including the bridge, is a horrific story.

2018年1月19日 · Although the film was shot in Sri Lanka, the Bridge on the River Kwai really exists, and still carries regular passenger trains from Bangkok as far as Nam Tok. For anyone interested in 20th century history, a visit to Kanchanaburi and the infamous Death Railway is …

Documentary that looks at the true story behind David Lean's 1957 film "Bridge on the River Kwai." Over 65,000 Allied prisoners battled torture, starvation and diseases to hack the 250-mile Thailand-Burma Railway through the harsh jungles of Southeast Asia in only 14 months, thousands losing...

The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai: Directed by David Devries. With Edward Woodward. What really happened is a long way removed from the Hollywood movie. This is the story of hardship almost beyond belief that was suffered by the Allied soldiers at the hands of their Japanese captors.