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Burma-Siam Railroad History Drama DVDs Java (Indonesia) Lomax, Eric Drama Prisoners of war Great Britain Biography Drama Prisoners of war Thailand Biography Drama World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities Drama World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor Drama World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives Drama World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese DramaFilter By Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 535Summary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERSummary: Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014