To End All Wars

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To End All Wars ★★ 2001 (R)

Based on Ernest Gordon's autobiographical 1962 novel “Through the Valley of the Kwai,” bares the horrors that a group of WWII Allied soldiers suffered at the hands of their Japanese captors who torture the POWs during the erecting of the socalled “Railway of Death” in the nasty Burmese jungle. Related to events depicted in “The Bridge of the River Kwai” but not nearly so well imitated. 117m/C VHS, DVD . Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciaran McMenamin, Mark Strong, Masayuki Yui, James Cosmo, John Gregg, Pip Torrens, Sakae Kimura, Shu Nakajima, Yugo Saso, Greg Ellis, Adam Sinclair, Winton Nicholson, James McCarthy, Brendan Cowell, Duff Armour, Sergio Jones, Christopher White, Jeremy Pippin, Robert Jobe; Cameos: Ernest Gordon, Takashi Nagase; C: Greg Gardiner; M: John Cameron, Maire Brennan. VIDEO

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