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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 1 real historical location 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...
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