Timewatch · SEASON 11
Kwai
Episode 2 · 1992-01-29
- Documentary
Episode overview
Tells the full story of the "Death Railway", made famous by the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In just 15 months, 26,000 allied PoWs who were forced to labour on the project died from ill treatment, malnutrition and disease. A quarter of a million Asian labourers were conscripted by the Japanese to work alongside the PoWs. As many as 100,000 of them may have died.
50 minutes
Season 11 episodes
1. Battle of the Styles1992-01-15
2. Kwai1992-01-29
3. Tito: 1: Churchill's Man?1992-02-26
4. Tito: 2: His Own Man1992-03-04
5. Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back1992-03-11
6. The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 1: Forgotten Fatherland1992-04-01
7. The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 2: Mother of the Fatherland1992-04-08
8. SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich1992-06-03
9. Gladio: 1: The Ringmasters1992-06-10
10. Gladio: 2: The Puppeteers1992-06-17
11. Gladio: 3: The Foot Soldiers1992-06-24
12. The Un-Americans: 1: Five Minutes to Midnight1992-09-02
13. The Un-Americans: 2: No Place to Hide1992-09-09
14. The Un-Americans: 3: To Hell with Truth1992-09-16
15. A Diplomat in Japan: 1: A Clash of Cultures1992-09-23
16. A Diplomat In Japan: 2: Witness to a Revolution1992-09-30
17. Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1: Defying Uncle Sam1992-10-07
18. Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 2: Eyeball to Eyeball1992-10-14
19. Sold Down the River1992-10-21
20. Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness1992-10-28
