Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain (2014)

- Directed by
- Helen Langridge
- Genre
- documentary, history
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary tells the stories of survivors from the construction of the Thai-Burma railway during World War II. Elderly former prisoners of war and forced laborers recount their brutal treatment by the Japanese military as they built the railway by hand.
hauntingsoberingfactualreflectivedevastatingslow-pacedintimatehistoricalgrim
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