In 1942, the Japanese army began construction of a railway linking Thailand and Burma ... of the railway in construction, Bridge on the River Kwai pieces together the real story behind the ...

KANCHANABURI, Thailand — The train to Nam Tok rumbles over the Bridge on the River Kwai, still in use all these years after Alec Guinness blew it up at the end of the movie. It didn’t really ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai was built by sheer brute force ... to Nakhon Nayok I was one of the first to ride on a train over the Bridge which, indeed, swayed somewhat! As the clothes wore ...

BUILD A BRIDGE. Not just any bridge ... see in films like The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. Surprisingly, well over 40 years later it still has a punch. This is no small part due to Lean's ...