The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · 156 min
Directed by David Lean. Written by Calder Willingham, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson. Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa.
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Critics 96% · audiences 93% · streaming on YouTube (free) · 8 Oscar nominations, 7 won