An absolutely heart wrenching movie, I'm 79 and I cried like a baby, to think that this actually happened humbles me,some great character acting.

The acting was incredible! This movie was phenomenal.... I have no words other than thank you for your sacrafice and thank you for your service!

Robert Carlyle is a fantastic actor that deserves as much praise for his ability, never saw him in a bad thing.

For all who survived or died in these camp's, I thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Truly an amazing effort under such cruelity. Thank you Mr Watts, an inspiration to me and the family. 😔

This was brilliant! A really good portraying of WW2 Japanese war camps if not toned down for audiences. The atrocities were extreme and indeed horribly terrible. The bravery and humanity of those POWs is so wonderfully shown in here. A salute to all WW2 veterans including my granddad who raised me. Thank you for your sacrifice.

All i can say is WOW, what a heart felt movie about the struggles of pow's during Japanese occupied lands, but to see those two come together in a token of friendship and peace gives me hope for mankind

At the end watching the greatest generation marching ,these men still had pride…you can see that in their faces ❤️🙏

Important production, that gives many clues on valour and survival.

“What about you, sir. What are you going to do after the war?” “Start preparing for the next war.” Exactly. Wise words.

Aside from The Passion, hardest movie I have ever seen...just cried and cried...the brotherly love, greatest of all gifts! I pray for brotherly love amoung men

Astounding film. Gut wrenching. Heart wrenching. The end had me sobbing like I haven't cried over a movie in years. Thank you so much for sharing this for free.

One the Best movie I watch

This movie is in a class of it's own. So good, so realistic, so balanced. There's nothing good about war

I have no words but Thank God for those that stood up and won WWII for our freedoms we have today.

Dam the powers that be to allow all this sadness and still don’t learn… Love and respect to all ❤🙏

I have no words... the world is facing to many conflicts and wars right now, and no solutions in sight. If only we humans could finally find peace in ourselves and the strength to forgive, instead of the power to destroy.

Great movie, thanks.

Incredibly moving and inspiring film. Philosophy, religion, and ethics are all given a completely new dimension through it. What destiny, what fate, what incomprehensible hardships suffered and depicted masterfully! It's an unforgettable and humbling experience to view this film.

Excellent movie a must watch if doesn’t touch your heart your already dead or it’s turned to stone. All respect to those men who endured and overcame.

Excellent film! Being a Vietnam veteran, it really was moving.

Speechless on this one

Saw this movie in a cinema, and overjoyed because I now can watch it again.

Thank you God for reminding me of forgiveness thank you this is a good movie

Such a very sad time and so evil. War is never good and takes so many lives on both sides. God Bless all our brave soldiers that fought and those who gave their lives for our freedom. 😢❤❤❤❤

There was a cross before the crown.. Amazing grace

This was a great movie. Very powerful and moving.

Wow. It's been such a long time that a movie had me captivated from the very beginning. One would hope to find meaning in the suffering of EVERY individual represented. Two thumbs up. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful movie with us. By far the best 2 plus hours I've spent in a long time.

An absolutely extraordinary movie!!! EVERYONE should watch this, to learn what WAR really is!!! 5+ stars!!! Great acting, KUDUS!!!! Db

The Bible teachings in this movie are awesome and truth. This is all about compassion, foregiveness and what Jesus Christ thaught. Such a powerfull movie. I seldom cry watching non Christian movies but this one i did. Praise the Lord GOD Allmighty! 🙏🏻❤

Honestly one the best movies out. So raw and gut wrenching. Brilliantly performed by all the cast members too. I have watched this several times over the years and it always breaks my heart to see what these men endured. Respect.

Absolutely brilliant movie 🎬 so much spiritual food for thought. Two enemies changed for good and hate and biterness was transfered to forgiveness. A true testimony to positive powerful change to a very nasty negative war.. They chose freedom rather than imprisonment to hate and bitterness. ❤❤🎉🎉❤❤ a very hard act to follow..

Overwhelming emotion portrayed by great actors.😪

To all the Women and Men Past and Present Who Served,Thank you for your Sacrifice.Thank you.

Very young men gave their lives.. 😢 like keifer Sutherland.. his dad Donald is great also.. and Canadian..

The best war movie I've seen. Beautiful! May our common humanity put an end to all wars. "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens". Baha'i Faith

What a great picture of the forgiveness and love that Christ has for us. I loved this movie.

Rarely ever do I find the time to see a movie but this one had my attention! One of the best ever I viewed.❤

Thank you for sharing this Wonderful Movie!!!

August 29th, 2023 - This is one Movie that is absolutely impossible, to forget. It is UNIQUE in its intensity. Two of my Uncles were P.O.W's of the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre.They were in the British Army:both, survived. Roland Singh, Canada 🇨🇦

Excellent movie Respect to fallen soldiers

My grandfather served in world War 1 and at his funeral had the bag pipes played for him being a military veteran myself it was very moving

Excellent movie. It shows what a war can do to humans and humanity. It underscores the horror of imperialism and dogma without any conscious rational thinking. Unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself.

This was a great role by Robert Carlyle, & this actually happened, building the Thai/Burma railway, & so many people suffered, the Japanese were very cruel to the p. o. w. 's in their custody, & I hope & pray that this never happens again, the Australians suffered, & the many allies that served in this horrible war, Lest We Forget.

As a former combat veteran I can assure you that their is no winners for we all suffered the hell all wars bring. The hollow of ones hart is a heavy price to pay.

What a good movie ....had everything in it .

To those who served, fought and sacrificed, may GOD bless you and your families. This is a powerful message about inhumane treatment and atrocities, vs forgiveness, sacrifice and how everyone, regardless of rank, deals with trying to survive. May GOD bless.

Compassion and empathy…..❤

Incredible depiction of what war offered to those who were captured. Very well done on all the actors involved in this film. 😔🙏🇨🇦💯

A heart wrenching story .

One of the Best War Films Ever!!! Tearjerking Film, If you have blood of a true Soldier you will feel the pain and sufferings and honour of what you believe is Right!! 👏👏👏Thank you.. Peace Now to all those Countries in War!!!

I just have no words.✝

I have no words.

WWII Veterans are the most bravery and generous generation!

most powerful movie ever made, while we may never understand the true hardship suffered i thank the surviving soldiers for the life that i have had, nothing in my life compares to the pain these men endured, i salute you all

I can't think of what to say but thank you

Interesting powerful film, you never hear much about this film when war films are discussed. The message was very powerful. Robert Carlyle was a class act throughout.

I watched this like a week or two ago and it immediately jumped into the top five best World War II films I've seen. I'm glad I watched the director's cut because reading the nuances between the two versions, the cuts seem an improvement.

An absolutely beautiful movie. Forever unforgettably beautiful.

Hoping this war won't happen again. We are lucky we didn't experience this world war

My father fought the Japanese in World War II at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service. From the little He shared, he always said that the Japanese soldiers were mean and cruel.

My great Grandfather worked on this railway. Very heartbreaking to see this. Greatings from the Netherlands

That is an awesome story and mov. Thank you

Masterpiece! Thanks for the upload...

Incredible, astonishing, horrific, depressing, yet still somehow lets through a glimmer of hope. Which is all we can ever cling to. Powerful and very well done.

What an astounding movie! Wow..

This film has an Excellent message. Thank you for posting:)

Good to see such a powerful heart-rending film spared the indignity of ad breaks. War turns common men into cruel sadistic monsters with no heart or conscience. That POWs could survive such horrors and then the trauma of trying to fit back into normal civilised life is beyond belief. Heavenly music (from Clannad’s founder member I think).

What is it that in some of the human race, the veneer of human decency is only tissue paper thin, as depicted by these savages, yet the men they captured remained civilised regardless of what was done to them. POW’s held in England were treated as human beings, not dogs to be beaten, as depicted in this factual record of events. Today, mankind is still splintered into these despicable levels of humankind, some never rise above a basic level, Darwinism in living reality.😢 Heartbreaking to watch this movie, knowing it did take place. I salute everyone of those brave prisoners.

Wow, such a powerful movie.

Wow. I visited Kanchanaburie , Hellfire Pass and the JEATH prisoner museum. Harrowing. GOD BLESS THEM. X

The horror of human behavior brings the best of human behavior....wow! This movie is a must watch

Wow! Very well made movie. The acting was superb!

The horror’s of war are never felt by the men who start them only by those who feel a duty to end wars.

Wonderful message

It has been long I had misty eyes after a movie......very moving.thanks

Very, touching and sad it gives us insight to what POW went through love this movie

Wow! A hidden masterpiece. Nothing trite about this picture.

We knew a man that's now buried in Ireland that was captured by the Germans he managed to be freed at some stage he was RAF he then went onto Japan got captured again he told us horrible stories Reginald Arthur green he was my aunt's father in law

One of the best movies I've ever watched 👏👏👏

An outstanding film from Ernest Gordon’s excellent book. Of course, no book can totally encapsulate a film because of length. In the case of this film’s topic, a 100 percent accurate depiction of the Imperial Japanese Army’s (IJA) extensive list of atrocities cannot be brought to the screen in a ‘theatrical’ motion picture and only rarely in older documentaries that would not, these days, be allowed to reach a mass audience because of the images of real, extreme, violence. My uncle D’arcy Banks, a Tasmanian farmer and expert axeman, joined the Australian Army’s 2nd/40th Battalion, virtually all of whom were captured before they ever could fire a shot in anger. Their heavy weapons and all of their vital supplies were on another ship which was sunk before reaching its destination. After a brief stay at the Changi Prison they were transported to the jungle to work on the Japanese Burma railroad, along with more than 60 thousand Allied prisoners, although the final number may never be accurately known. Forty-five years ago, after a stint in the RAAF, I began to study military history while working as a journalist and film critic. It was my privilege, not only to hear my uncle D’arcy’s POW stories (which he almost never spoke of) plus, some years after D’arcy’s death, meet many of his former 2nd/40th comrades at a reunion held at my local RSL Club, (similar to the American and British Legions etc.). D’arcy swore it was only his skill with an axe that kept him alive. The relatively few men who could use axes well had some value to the IJA and were allocated a tiny extra ration of, sometimes, maggot-ridden rice; necessary extra protein would often consist of rodent meat which, after a couple of years, was considered a ‘delicacy’. From these first-hand sources, I was able to record details of the unimaginable brutality and torture inflicted on these unarmed, defenceless men by IJA officers and troops. Almost impossible to imagine, I was told that the torture and murders committed by the Korean guards in these camps, were disapproved of even by some of the Japanese soldiers; although this was told to me without any sense of mitigation for the former group. In this film I was pleased to see a ‘composite’ character in the credited, ‘Camp Doctor’, played well by the late, Tasmanian actor John Gregg. His character was roughly based on the most well-known Australian Army, surgeon Captain Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop, who richly deserves a film about his impressive, selfless career. In one of my several part-time jobs, while a mature-age student, I was a Theatre Technician at the Royal Women’s’ Hospital and I had the great honour of working alongside Sir Edward Dunlop a few times as he was winding down his surgery; approaching an overdue retirement. When he discovered I was studying military history he gave me generous encouragement and material advice for some of my best essays. He earned his reverential nickname ‘Weary’ from fellow medical students, before the war, as he was “tired out as a Dunlop tire,” (tyre). Apart from his medical studies he also found time to play Aussie Rules football for Ormond college; he also took up Rugby Union rapidly rising to State level and then representing Australia in the early 1930s. Joining the Army as a Captain Doctor, many of his fellow POWs resurrected his nickname as they swore, he never slept. He was one of two youngest Army surgeons to command medical teams on Hospital ships. (The other being Dr William McIver Rose. Whom I also worked for at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.) ‘Weary’ advanced quickly in the Army Medical Corps and eventually commanded a hospital which was overrun by the enemy. He was taken to Java and as he held the temporary rank of Lt. Col. the Japanese made him oversee all the medical officer POWs on the Burma railway, merely so they could claim to the Red Cross they were looking after the welfare of their prisoners and then take over Red Cross supplies meant for the POWs. This sometimes backfired as ‘Weary’ was responsible for near daily medical ‘miracles’ by organising all POW doctors to look after their patients with virtually no medical equipment or drugs. This, essentially, is what ‘To End All Wars’ is about; improvisation, barter, theft and caring for one’s mates. Read Ernest Gordon’s book, it’s a moving, excellent story. It’s also well worth looking into the impressive career of the late (Mr*), Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop. A truly outstanding human being. No apologies for the length of this comment; I had to make many edits to get it down to this size, anyway, I hope some enjoy my memories. Sincerely, Bill H. * = Back then, specialist surgeons were referred to as "Mister". I am not aware of the origins of this 'tradition' nor do I know if this practice persists to this day. B.H.

A masterpiece. Thank you for sharing. Robert Carlyle is rather young in this one. Love, Rage, Compassion, Hate, Sorrow and Greed... All experiences from the proximity of the same blast furnace that is Passion. ~DreadfulBride

That was a damn good movie! thank you!!!

The Power of forgiveness and mercy is the ultimate lesson of this film....and it is only given by the ones who have been forgiven first ...THIS IS THE GOSPEL OF OUR SAVIOR AND LORD... War only shows our true nature as humans, but also our unending capacity to be changed forever!

From 2,000 yrs. ago, "Only the dead have seen the end of war!"

Fantastic movie, and excellently acted, presented and very though provoking.

Thanks a lot. One of the most interesting films i even seen on KZfaq. Maybe the best one. I hadn't even searched for any films at all that time, it has popped up itself. And I am almost sure i couldn't find anything similar myself for reasonable time. KZfaq algorithm pushed the envelope this time. I myself knew not much about that part of the history too, and all was really interesting.

Many thanks for a excellent film, kind regards from the UK

My uncle died i vistied his grave in 2008 he was a gordon highlannder as was i for a few years RIP all who gave there lifes also the men and woman of thailand india and burma many died at the hands of the japanese there are many cemeteries in thailand to honour them that died

01:53:26 is so powerful. That singing and the Japanese soldier killing himself and then the troop shouting at him in anger because he couldn’t get revenge and then starting to cry and holding him because no decent human wants to see another human die.

This is such an awesome movie. It sure shows the many levels of survival.

What a wonderful story

Bravo!👏👏👏

How did I miss this movie. As one who believed in God, Christ and The Holy Spirit this one touched the soul for what it means to believe in the bible and God. A+ movie.

Robert Carlyle is a terrific actor. I have seen him play Hitler, a Bond villain, a few secondary roles and now this. He is always outstanding.

Very moving and poignant, you would think humanity would have learned lessons since those dark days of history. Apparently not…thanks for sharing

I'm watching this movie right now so far enjoying thanks for the show

Ok😢, okay. Incredible movie about preservation and the Lord's hand in thi😢camp has me in tears throughout the movie.❤❤

I love this movie It's one of the best WWII movies ever

To this day the Japanese refuse to acknowledge their barbaric, subhuman treatment of POWs during WW2.

I KNEW A MAN WHO LIVED THROUGH THIS, HE HATED THE JAPANESE TO HIS DYING DAY FOR WHAT THEY DID TO HIM, HIS COMRADES AND OTHERS WHO NEVER CAME HOME. THE PHOTOS OF HIM DAYS AFTER HIS LIBERATION SHOWED A WALKING SKELETON. RIP