originally broadcast under the Secret History banner. The film revealed the previously untold story of the remarkable achievements, against overwhelming odds, of doctors and medical orderlies ...

"The Bridge on the River Kwai" is an epic masterpiece that rests on the electric, black-comic relationship between British POW Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) and Japanese commandant Colonel ...

His first epic was his twelfth film: The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness and William Holden as P.O.W.'s working to build and/or destroy a bridge for the Japanese during World War II.

For his Treat, Carville reveals why he watches the opening of the 1957 classic The Bridge on the River Kwai almost every night. The film won multiple Oscars, including Best Director for David Lean and ...

“The Bridge on the River Kwai” is a gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments. Its potency stems only partly from the boxoffice draw of William Holden ...

People who have recourse to fingernail-biting in moments of stress are advised to grow them long in preparation for The Bridge on the River Kwai. In Pierre Boulle's screenplay, the bridge on the ...