| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (41 min. 17 sec.) ; 249308210 bytes |
| Summary |
Based on Eric Lomax's memoir 'The Railway Man', a naive young man who's a railway enthusiast and radio buff - becomes caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942 and is put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making acrude radio, Lomax is emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life is changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpretor, is still alive - and their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story. (From the UK) (Documentary) CC **Premiere** |
| Event |
Broadcast 2014-01-17 at 21:40:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
| Subject |
Lomax, Eric.
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Prisoners of war -- Family relationships.
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Prisoners of war -- Psychology.
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Reconciliation.
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World War (1939-1945)
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Prisoners of war -- Abuse of.
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Japan.
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Thailand -- Bangkok.
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England.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Finlason, Mike, director
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Murley, Diana, cast
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Bamber, Helen, contributor
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Lomax, Eric, contributor
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Lomax, Patti, contributor
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Takashi, Nagase, contributor
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