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Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of what happened on the 'Death Railway' built to link Thailand to Burma in 1943, one of the worst atrocities of WWII. Show more

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