The Narrow Road to the Deep North — 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 at catastrophic human cost.
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 track. Australian POWs suffered particularly, with 8,000 deaths. Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel is dedicated to his father, a POW on the railway.