And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly terrain with hundreds of rivers, including the Kwae Noi River ...

Jacob Elordi hit the Berlin Festival on Saturday with Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which ...

Between 1942 and 1945, around a quarter million romusha — the Japanese term for conscripted Asian workers — were forced to ...

A new five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel gives an unsparing account of life as a prisoner ...

The Death Railway in Thailand isn’t just a historic site; it’s a poignant reminder of sacrifice, resilience, and a testimony to human endurance. Officially called the Burma Railway, this 415 ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

Told over multiple time periods, the five-part drama follows Dorrigo as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Decades later, he finds his growing celebrity at ...