Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014 · 59 MIN · IMDB 8.2 · DIR. Helen Langridge
Overview
Moving Half The Mountain documents the true stories of the survivors from one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War the brutal use of prisoners (POWs) and forced local labour by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma. These men are now in their twilight years but their memories are as clear as though it were yesterday.
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00:00:05 70 years ago in the jungles
00:02:19 Setback follows setback.
00:05:13 when we were going in there
00:06:39 even to clear a field so you could see what you were doing
00:08:33 It should never have happened.
00:10:08 literally brought out loads of barbed wire
00:13:12 to build a railway.
00:15:12 was a place called Ban Pong.
00:17:10 And that's called the death march.
00:20:49 full of weevils and such.
00:22:29 full time for around five months
00:25:16 because once you collapse on the ground,
00:28:03 in the north of Burma
00:30:26 One of the most difficult sections
00:32:33 cruel hits or death or, isn't so.
00:35:43 which was made in the camps
00:37:31 and a hole between my eyes,
00:40:10 We buried a lot of them where they fell.
00:43:06 The POW's are at last free men again.
00:46:26 We, there was no one there to meet us.
00:48:10 and the brutality that we had been experiencing.
00:50:10 several years after the war.
00:54:51 The one reason is it would do them no harm
00:56:39 Thank you today.
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Dialogue density11.6 lines / min
First line00:00:05
Final line00:56:39
Production Record
DirectorHelen Langridge
LanguageEnglish
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