47 Films & TV Shows Set In Myanmar
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Code Name: Wild Geese
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 ThailandCommander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
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Lalkar (The Challenge)
🇲🇲 MyanmarIndia is in a state of war with Japan and former Colonel Kapoor's sons, Rajan and Ram are both with the Indian Armed Forces. While Rajan is a Wing Commander with the Indian Air Force, Ram is a Major with the Indian Army. Rajan is in love with a doctor named Usha Choudhury, and both plan to get married. Then Usha meets with Ram, who unknowingly falls head over heels in love with her. Before anything can be finalized, Rajan is asked to bomb a secret Japanes airport located in a mountainous valley. While carrying out his duties, he finds out that his mission has been compromised, unable to return, his plane is shot down and he is believed to be dead. The Indian Army wants to destroy this secret airport and sends a crack Commando unit under Major Ram, who sets out to carry out this task. What Ram does not know is that this mission has also been compromised and he and his men are all set to walk into a carefully planned trap by the Japanese - who will ensure that no one survives to tell.
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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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Escape to Burma
🇲🇲 MyanmarA searing story of sudden love . . . and sudden death . . . in the hot green hell of the Burma jungle. — A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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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.
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Bombs Over Burma
🇲🇲 MyanmarThe film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
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China Girl
🇲🇲 MyanmarCaptain Fifi...115 pounds of curses, crookedness and kisses! — Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
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A Yank on the Burma Road
🇲🇲 MyanmarA celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
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Burma Convoy
🇲🇲 MyanmarTERROR AT EVERY TURN! DEATH AT EVERY PASS! — A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Moon Over Burma
🇲🇲 MyanmarJungle love tease! Bob Preston tears the heart out of Preston Foster by making jungle love to exciting Dorothy Lamour beneath that burning Burma Moon! It's hot! It's dangerous! It's thrilling! — The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Mandalay
🇲🇲 MyanmarTHE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO SWORE TO LIVE HER FUTURE SO MADILY SHE WOULD FORGET THE MADNESS OF HER PAST! — Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.