odanny
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I wondered why Kiefer Sutherland was in this movie, with a Japanese and British cast, but then realized the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are the unit portrayed, so it makes sense he has a familiar connection somehow. The movie is a morality tale, and is free on Prime Video, and after a slow start, it picks up momentum for a very powerful ending. Based on the real life experience of Ernest Gordon. These men built the Bridge on the River Kwai.
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Cana Academy — Ernest Gordon: Building Heaven in the Midst of POW Hell
In the almost indescribably horrific conditions of those camps, death was a daily reality for the prisoners. The cruelty of the guards, the wretched food, the dangerous and incessant labor, and disease left the prisoners in a state that would best be described as subhuman. At this nadir of the possi
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