Focuses on a prison camp during WWII. The main character of the book, although a prisoner of war, becomes totally committed to building the best bridge possible eventhough it is for the enemy. After the bridge is complete, soldiers from his country are brought in to destroy it.

Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...

A naive young man, a radio enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the Railway of Death -- the Japanese line from Thailand and Burma. The most disastrous engineering project in history, it killed 250,000 Allied prisoners and Thai laborers. Lomax helped to build a radio so that he and his comrades could follow news of the war. The radio was discovered and he was brutally...