A War Story

A War Story

🎞️ Movie 82 min CA
โ˜… 7.9 /10 1981

Major Ben Wheeler was a Canadian doctor assigned to Singapore when the Japanese forced an unconditional surrender of the British and took him prisoner in 1942. He was taken to the notorious Kinkaseki Japanese POW mining camp in Formosa (Taiwan) and given the task of maintaining the mental and physical health of the British POWs. Wheeler kept detailed diaries of his experiences during his three and a half years at the camp and excerpts are narrated with dramatized scenes of the traumatic experiences of daily life. The working conditions in the mines caused innumerable injuries, and disease and malnutrition were rampant, but Wheeler had to make do with very few medical supplies and equipment. Also featured is newsreel footage of related events, archival footage of the camp, interviews with fellow survivors of the camp who unanimously praised Wheeler for his good work and provide their perspectives on the events described by him, and finally snippets of Wheeler's family life back home in Canada, before and after the war.

Cast

Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Narrated by
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David Edney
Ben Wheeler
Frank C. Turner
Frank C. Turner
Peter Seed
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Doug Kier
Medical Orderly
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Doug Bagot
Medical Orderly
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W. Forrest MacDonald
Prisoner of War
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Brian Laird
Prisoner of War
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Patrick McGuigan
Prisoner of War
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Grant Carmichael
Prisoner of War
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Dean Stoker
Prisoner of War
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Maurice Marshall
Composer
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Robert Nichol
Cinematographer
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Ron Orieux
Cinematographer

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