It marks the efforts of Allied POWs who were worked to death as slave-laborers by the Japanese Army during WW2 .
The Bridge over the River Kwai was created in 1952.
The bridge was named after the river Khwae Yai in Thailand .
Pierre Boulle
Bridge Over the River Kwai
The film ends with the destruction of the bridge by a British team of commandos .
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the bridge over the river kwai.
The Japanese Empire during WW2 .
He suffered from delusions .
Alec Guiness .
Colonel Bogey March
'The Bridge Over The River Kwai' is actually the title of the novel. The film version was called 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' The film adaptation stars William Holden (as US Navy Commander Shears), Alec Guinness (Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson), Jack Hawkins (as Major Warden) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Colonel Saito).