The Bridge on the River Kwai

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 drama adventure movie directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.1/10 from 248,959 votes and runs 2h 41m.