23 Films & TV Shows Set In Myanmar During The 20th Century
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Rangoon
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sLove. War. Deceit — Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.
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Anegan
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1960s The 2010sGame Begins. — Madhumitha is convinced that she and her colleague Ashwin were lovers in their past lives and have been brought together by fate. Is there any truth to this or is she merely hallucinating?
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Siam Burma Death Railway
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sThis is a documentary film about the Asian Labourers (Indian Tamils, Burmese and Javanese) who worked like slaves at Siam (Thailand) - Burma death railway line during WWII. The names of the above Labourers are unknown to the world till date. The Books and memoirs written by the Australian and British POWs are the main evidences to trace the root of Asian Labourers pathetic history.
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The Railway Man
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980s The 1940sRevenge is never a straight line. — A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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The Lady
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1990sFrom House Arrest to Parliament — The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
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To End All Wars
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sBased 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 (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) 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.
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Beyond Rangoon
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980sTruth has a witness — Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
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A Home Too Far
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1950sA Home Too Far — In 1950s, Chinese Civil War ends with the defeat of Republic of China and the establishment of Communist China. The 93rd Division's soldiers take their families with them, exit southwestern China and enter northern Burma (Myanmar). The hike through forest is full of disasters and short of supplies, but the survivors reach and settle within border of Burma. They build a village, and ally with local armed gang to resist Burmese government's attacks. Later, the relocated government of Republic of China offers to take the soldiers and dependents to Taiwan, but some are disappointed with the government and decide to stay.
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Return from the River Kwai
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sA group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
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The Burmese Harp
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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Merrill's Marauders
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sHow they fought those last 500 miles will remain forever in your memory! — Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sRaw emotions bared ! — Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface
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Operation Bottleneck
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sSin Girls Help Two GI's Blast Enemy Lifelines! — WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.
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Never So Few
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sKiss by kiss the time ran out and never so few were the moments left for love! — A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
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Yesterday's Enemy
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sWar Is Hell! — Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted
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The Wind Cannot Read
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sDirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle.
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The Burmese Harp
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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The Purple Plain
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sHis peak of adventure! — A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
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Penn
🇮🇳 India 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1950sThe action revolves around two friends played by Vyjayanthimala and Anjali Devi. In Tamil.
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Francis
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sA Talking Mule....the funniest film surprise in 5 years! — The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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The Hasty Heart
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sIt's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation".
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Objective, Burma!
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sAn American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost — A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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Rookies in Burma
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sIn the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
