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To End All Wars (2002)

108 min · Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, drama film, war film

Popularity4.5/5
12-month trend6.2k1.9kExpand

12-month trend

Monthly article views

6.2k02025-09: 2,017 views2025-10: 2,120 views2025-11: 6,193 views2025-12: 3,196 views2026-01: 2,863 views2026-02: 1,866 views2026-03: 2,046 views2026-04: 5,471 views2026-05: 3,881 views2026-06: 2,994 views2026-07: 2,266 views2026-08: 2,528 views
Sep2.0kOct2.1kNov6.2kDec3.2kJan2.9kFeb1.9kMar2.0kApr5.5kMay3.9kJun3.0kJul2.3kAug2.5k

2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

David L. Cunningham

Cast

Ciaran McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong, Sakae Kimura, James Cosmo, Masayuki Yui, John Gregg, Greg Ellis, Pip Torrens, James McCarthy, Brendan Cowell, Adam Sinclair, Sergio Jones, Ben Huddleston, Joji Yoshida

The story

The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II. Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore before being captured and made a prisoner of war by the Japanese.

Catalogue themes and tags

1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, Bushidō, Crucifixion, Erschießungskommando, Folter, Forced Labour, Forgiveness, Friendly Fire, Hinrichtung, Japanese, Japanese Army, Katana, Kopfschuss, Occupying Power, Paraplegic, Prisoner Of War Camp, Prisoner of War, Rach, Schotte, Seppuku, Shakespeare Quote, Soldatin, Strenger Lehrer, Thailand, Urwald, World War 2, abgeschlagenes Bein, severed head

Genres

Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, drama film, war film

Film metadata comes from the open sources listed in Credits & Contact. Catalogue details may be incomplete.

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