Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II, charts the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.
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00:00You a gambling man?
00:02Occasionally, yeah.
00:04Ten shillings, you make it through the entire year of life.
00:16Tell me, how did it feel going from a soldier into a prisoner of war?
00:22To be incarcerated when others are fighting is hard for soldier spirit.
00:26You are here to build a railway.
00:28What do you recall most of that time?
00:34We need to preserve the men.
00:38Do you not think that your empire was built on death?
00:41Stop this now!
00:52That time was a prisoner.
00:54What got you through?
01:02Be sure to enjoy your weekend, Dorigo.
01:04Oh, you dance, do you?
01:08Do you love him?
01:10I love the joy.
01:20Because people need to know what's going on here.
01:22Alive!
01:23Alive!
01:24You deserve someone who's gonna be with you.
01:28You will be with me.
01:30Why, Amy?
01:31Why with him?
01:32He knows.
01:34Take care, Dorigo.
01:36Very good.
01:50We all left part of ourselves...
01:52In that jungle.
01:58Memory is the only true justice.
02:06Memory is the only true justice.
02:20The End