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Release year: 2001

Storyline

During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

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Directors

David L. Cunningham

Writers

Cast

Robert Carlyle — Maj. Ian Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland — Lt. Jim 'Yankee' Reardon
Ciarán McMenamin — Capt. Ernest 'Ernie' Gordon
Mark Strong — Dusty Miller

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Did you know

• The autobiography of which the film is based on was originally published under the name 'Through the Valley of the Kwai' (and later as 'Miracle on the River Kwai') and then when this film was made, the same as this film's title ('To End All Wars'). This book also acted as a basis for David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

• According to the film's closing epilogue, after World War 2, Captain Ernest Gordon became Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University for twenty-six years (becoming the Reverend Ernest Gordon) whilst former Japanese Imperial Translator Takashi Nagase became a Buddhist monk. Moreover, fifty-five years after World War II, Gordon and former Nagase met at the Death Railway Cementery in Thailand, which is depicted in-part at the end of this film.

• Filmed in chronological order.