3 real historical locations · Thailand
An Australian adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel following an Australian POW surgeon on the Burma-Thailand Railway and the decades-long trauma that follows him home. A meditation on survival, guilt, and what we owe the dead.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Thailand.
Australian POWs on the Thai-Burma Death Railway — the 2023 series follows surgeon Dorrigo Evans, commanding POWs forced to build a railway through the jungle...
The Thai-Burma Railway ('Death Railway') was built in 14 months in 1942-43 using 61,000 Allied POWs and approximately 200,000 Asian labourers. Death rates among Allied POWs reached 26% — one man for every kilometre of...
View location →Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans operates on dying men with no equipment, his professional identity the only thing he can maintain against the camp system's ...
Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel drew on his father's experience on the Death Railway. The title is from the haiku poet Bashō, giving the Pacific suffering a literary resonance beyond the historical record.
View location →Evans runs an improvised hospital at the base camp, performing amputations with a saw and sutures from patients' own hair. His wartime surgery becomes the de...
Medical officers on the Death Railway performed extraordinary improvised surgery under Japanese guards who denied adequate medical supplies as a matter of policy. POW death rates from cholera and tropical diseases wer...
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