Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army
2013 · 59 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 11 VOTES
Overview
Apart from a few fragmentary stories, Griff Rhys Jones's father never talked about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled 15,000 miles from Wales to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then, accompanied by 90-year-old veteran Joshua, he goes to jungles of Burma. It is known as the forgotten war, but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from children of the British Empire into masters of their own destiny.
Dialogue Timeline — 442 lines
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00:24:46 to British rule that was put down at the cost of thousands of lives
00:26:27 more resources to wage war.
00:28:02 Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you for your help.
00:29:17 There were cliffs covered in jungle and rivers running through them?
00:30:28 'who had worked the land...'
00:32:22 While Joshua and his comrades held Arakan
00:33:15 'and soon the battle was joined.'
00:34:45 and they would continue on until they died.
00:36:41 Sometimes the going was pretty difficult.
00:38:30 For one thing, the Japanese had a habit
00:39:58 That's the Second Brigade, that's the brigade my father was in.
00:42:09 Completely cut off, my father and his medical team had no
00:43:01 You're in a real tricky spot.
00:44:03 where, effectively, he's only got limited resources
00:45:14 The West Africans seem to have continued to have been engaged
00:46:24 Everybody heard that now the Japanese had given up
00:47:44 sort of ignited this extreme nationalist feeling, and I think
00:48:54 is hailed as the champion of democracy in Burma.
00:50:55 - The whole of the regiment was lined up. - Yes.
00:52:05 That was the time that some of us also felt that emotion...
00:54:39 gathered in the capital
00:55:55 Just dead, dead.
00:57:22 was disintegrating.
01:09:04 injured in the battle for An Road.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed442
Dialogue density7.5 lines / min
First line00:24:46
Final line01:09:04
Production Record
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes11