To End All Wars

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name = To End All Wars


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director = David L. Cunningham
producer = Adam Abel Ryan Little
writer = Brian Godawa Ernest Gordon
starring = Robert Carlyle Kiefer Sutherland Ciaran McMenamin Mark Strong Sakae Kimura
music = Moya Brennan
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distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 2001
runtime = 125 min
language = English / Japanese
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imdb_id = 0243609

"To End All Wars", (formerly entitled "Miracle on the River Kwai") [http://www.pauladams.org/Stories/ErnestGordon.htm] is the autobiography of Ernest Gordon and recounts the experiences of faith and hope of the men held in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp, building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II.

The book was adapted into a film in 2001, starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Cunningham. It was filmed primarily in Waimea Canyon, on the island of Kauai, Hawai'i, with some excerpt shots of Thailand. The film was awarded the Crystal Heart Award and Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature at the Heartland Film Festival.

(The film was rated R in the U.S. for war violence and brutality, and for some language).

Cast overview (first billed only)

*Robert Carlyle ....... Campbell

*Kiefer Sutherland .... Lt. Jim Reardon

*Ciarán McMenamin ..... Ernest Gordon

*Mark Strong .......... Dusty

*Sakae Kimura ......... Ito

*Masayuki Yui ......... Noguchi

*James Cosmo .......... McLean

*John Gregg ........... Dr. Coates

*Shu Nakajima ......... Nagatomo

*Yugo Saso ............ Takashi Nagase

*Pip Torrens .......... Foxworth

*Adam Sinclair ........ Jocko

*Winton Nicholson ..... Duncan

*Greg Ellis ........... Primrose

*James McCarthy ....... Norman

*Daryl Bonilla ...... POW

*Joji Yoshida ......... Guard #1

ee also

*Dusty Miller
*The Bridge over the River Kwai - a novel with a similar theme
*Night (book) by Elie Wiesel
*Silence (novel) by Shusaku Endo

External links

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*" [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_end_all_wars/= To End All Wars] " at [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Rotten Tomatoes]
*" [http://artsandfaith.com/t100/2005/entry.php?film=139 To End All Wars] " at the [http://artsandfaith.com/top100/ Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films] list
* [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/01/15/page3/#6974 Review] on [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com DailyPrincetonian.com]