Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, British POWs and their Japanese captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the 'Death Railway'. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, their Japanese guards tell of different horrors of war, some never disclosed before. Exploring how they have survived the terrible memories, this is an often inspiring story that many of these men have waited a long time to tell. What emerges is a warm and emotional journey through the lives of men from different sides reflecting on a terrible event that still haunts them.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 283483
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired April 1, 2014
  • Recent April 1, 2014
  • Airs Tuesday,
  • Network BBC Four
  • Average Runtime 60 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
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Helen Langridge 1 04/01/2014

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