Synopsis
The hospital created by the doctors and medical orderlies among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand.
- Programme: Secret History
- Series: 7
- Episode: 08: Miracle On The River Kwai
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 1999
- History
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