In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar ... and the ways that the prisoners who built it managed to stay alive is a fascinating case study in making ...

One of the most notorious examples was the construction of the Burma or Death ... Russian and American prisoners who entered the Unit 731's camps during World War II were killed while being ...

The railway in question was to run from Ban Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma (now Myanmar), for ... Asian civilians and 60,000 Allied prisoners-of-war. Mr Jennings found himself in ...

Four unidentified Australian soldiers, prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese suffering from severe malnutrition and beri-beri. These men were deemed fit for continued work on the Burma-Thailand ...

This is a documentary film about the Asian Labourers (Indian Tamils, Burmese and Javanese) who worked like slaves at Siam (Thailand) - Burma death railway line during WWII. The names of the above ...

A prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942, he was initially interned at the POW camp established at Changi gaol. In April 1943 he was assigned to Japanese prisoner group ...