DEATH RAILWAY

Kanchanaburi -The Death Railway is the way to call this stretch of railway that has now become legendary. The story tells of terrible working conditions where more than 50,000 people were employed, most of whom were American, Dutch, Australian and British prisoners of war, as well as Thai and Burmese civilians. The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle.
Initially it was written by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was later replaced by Michael Wilson. Both writers had to work in secret, since they were on Hollywood's blacklist and had fled to England to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who does not speak English, was accredited and received the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson received the Oscar posthumously. You will see and visit all of this with our private and group tours offered below