To End All Wars

Sep 2, 2001

1h 48m

★ 6.4

Overview

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

Genres

Drama

War

Action

Production Companies

Argyll Film Partners

Gummshoe Productions

Integrity Partners

Pray For Rain Pictures

To End All Wars Trailers

Cast

Capt. Ernest Gordon

Ciarán McMenamin

Major Ian Campbell

Robert Carlyle

Lt. Jim 'Yanker' Reardon

Kiefer Sutherland

Dusty Miller

Mark Strong

Takashi Nagase

Yugo Saso

Sgt. Ito

Sakae Kimura

Col. Stuart McLean

James Cosmo

Captain Noguchi

Masayuki Yui

Camp Doctor Coates

John Gregg

Nagatomo

Shû Nakajima

Lt. Foxworth

Pip Torrens

Norman

James McCarthy

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