Although the story is fictional, this movie successfully presents the complex relations between PoW captives and their captors. Short review, basic movie info, trailer and full movie The Bridge on the River Kwai online free.
After long "persuasion", British Colonel Nicholson agrees he and his men, held in a Japanese PoW camp in 1943 Burma, to participate in the construction of a railroad bridge over the river Kwai that would be used for transportation of Japanese munition. In an attempt to provide his men some purpose in time of ordeal, Nicholson becomes obsessed with the construction of the bridge. Little do they know that the Allies plan to destroy the bridge.
Director: David Lean
Writer: Pierre Boulle (novel), Michael Wilson (screenplay) and Carl Foreman (screenplay)
Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins
Ratings: IMDB 8.4 RottenTomatoes 8.8
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