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The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean

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The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 film about a British colonel who, after settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan...


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As Colonel Nicholson's captured British troops march into the Japanese P.O.W. camp on the River Kwai, they whistle the jaunty "Colonel Bogey March." Nicholson (Alec Guinness) soon enters into a battle of wills with the camp...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in...


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The Bridge on the River Kwai.
03/22/2001: 1,509 words, approx. 5 pages
Directed by David Lean; screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson. based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Color, 162 mins. Limited Edition DVD released by Columbia Pictures. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), David Lean's classic war film, keeps getting better...
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The Independent - London
THE CRITICS: Building bridges by the River Kwai
08/20/1995: 1,226 words, approx. 4 pages
HISTORY doesn't only repeat itself as farce: it also returns as drama, documentary and news. To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Asia, the BBC tried all three approaches. Charles Wheeler provided the establishing shots with a clear, sombre...
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1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...
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2007 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 493 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...
 


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