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After settling his differences with a Japanese POW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, this classic war epic from legendary British director David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) is nothing short of being one of the greatest films ever made. An awe-inspiringly grand production with finely-tuned performances that existentially exposes the human cost of war.