Burma Railway (Our world)

"The Burma Railway" traces the events after the surrender in 1942 of the ill-fated 8th Division. It tells of their internment in Changi Prison, the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand and the return of the few POW's to Changi after the completion of the railway. The story is told through interviews with those who were there - Colonel Charles Anderson, VC, Sir (Weary) Dunlop, Colonel Pond, Dr Kevin Fagan, Stan Arneill, Vern Toose and many more military figures. The main interviewee, Russell Braddon, the Australian author who wrote what is perhaps the most compelling account of these war years in his book "The Naked Island", retraces his steps to the inhospitable areas in which he worked as a POW. Film, photographs, drawings and paintings created during the construction of the railway have been taken from archives in Europe, USA, Australia and Japan.