02053cgm a2200457 4500 388808398 TxAuBib 20111206120000.0 050823s2000||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 043396052789 TxAuBib The Bridge on the River Kwai [DVD]. USA : Sam Spiegel , producer; Columbia Pictures/ TriStar Home Entertainment, distributor, 2000. 2 DVD (162 Minutes) : col., with Booklet. Based on the novel by Peirre Boulle. Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. 20050823. Academy Award Best Picture Winner, 1957. Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Nominee Sessue Hayakawa, 1957. Academy Award Best Actor Winner Alec Guinness, 1957. Burma-Siam Railroad History Drama. World War II, 1939-1945 Drama. Prisoners of War Drama. DVD. Film Adaptations. War Films. Holden, William, 1918-1981, Actor. Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000, Actor. Hawkins, Jack, 1985-, Actor. Hayakawa, Sessue, 1886-1973, Actor. Donald, James, 1917-1993, Actor. Morell, André, 1909-1978, Actor. Williams, Peter, 1915-2003, Actor. Goodwin, Harold, 1902-1987, Actor. Herbert, Percy, 1920-1992, Actor. Boxer, John, 1909-1982, Actor. Okawa, Heihachiro, 1905-1971, Actor. Sears, Ann, 1933-1992, Actor. Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994, Author.