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
00:33:18 This was the first major Japanese defeat of the war.
00:34:57 By the time my father and the 82nd Division arrived here
00:36:45 There's a diary entry from March 3rd, from the regiment
00:38:37 of attacking at night...
00:40:01 "All attempts to gain the road were met by unyielding enemy resistance.
00:42:12 access to the usual airlifts that took the gravely injured
00:43:06 he had to do during the war
00:44:08 He almost plays God, you know, because there'll be legs
00:45:23 throughout April and into May.
00:46:31 And what did you feel?
00:47:52 of independence, it was going to be very hard to turn the clock back.
00:49:00 World War Two never ended.
00:51:03 and then they were not going to let us down.
00:52:22 and became a senior civil servant.
00:55:08 When he recovered, he joined the Gold Coast Police
00:56:04 they overturned the vehicle.
00:57:32 social plan which would transform my father's world.
70:00:00 or wounded in this war
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed442
Dialogue density7.5 lines / min
First line00:24:46
Final line70:00:00
Production Record
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes11