The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1943 · Resource
The Burma Railway. Accuracy note: The real Colonel Toosey behaved nothing like the film's Nicholson; survivors objected.
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Around 1943
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)