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.
On these timelines: Historical films, Resources: Combined
Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)