The Bridge on the River Kwai
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British POWs in a brutal Japanese labor camp in Burma are forced to construct a strategic railway bridge over the River Kwai, with their obsessed, proud senior officer commanding his men to build a flawless monument to British engineering discipline, completely unaware that an Allied commando team is trekking through the jungle to blow it up. David Lean's seven-time Oscar-winning monumental war epic.
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