To End All Wars
2001 · Movie · R · 108 min · ★ 6.4 · 67% critics
A small group of Allied soldiers is held in a brutal Japanese prison camp in Burma, facing forced labor, hunger, and routine beatings. As tensions rise between those pushing for defiance and escape and those urging endurance, the men struggle to hold onto dignity, purpose, and hope in the midst of war.
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Details
- Years
- 2001
- Release date
- 2001-09-02
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 67/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (182 votes)
About
If you want a WWII POW story focused on endurance, ethics, and the human spirit more than big battles, this may land hard; Not for you if you avoid brutal scenes or faith-forward themes like in Defiance.
Pros: intense POW survival drama; thought-provoking moral questions; strong performances | Cons: heavy religious emphasis; uneven pacing and focus; some distracting visuals
Themes
- japan
- scotland
- traitor
- world war ii
- freight train
- railway car
- teacher
- jungle
- corporal punishment
- bushido
Cast & crew
Ciarán McMenamin
as Capt. Ernest Gordon
Robert Carlyle
as Major Ian Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland
as Lt. Jim 'Yanker' Reardon
Mark Strong
as Dusty Miller
Yugo Saso
as Takashi Nagase
Sakae Kimura
as Sgt. Ito
James Cosmo
as Col. Stuart McLean
Masayuki Yui
as Captain Noguchi
John Gregg
as Camp Doctor Coates
Shû Nakajima
as Nagatomo
Directed by David L. Cunningham