The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel "Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï" (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast included William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa. It was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was later replaced by Michael Wilson. Both writers had to work in secret, as they were on the Hollywood blacklist and had fled to England in
The End of Time (Doctor Who) The End of Time (Doctor Who) The End of Time is a two-part story made up of the fourth and fifth of five special episodes of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" broadcast between December 2008 and January 2010. "The End of Time" was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010, and is the fifth "Doctor Who" Christmas special. This is the last story for lead actor David Tennant, who handed over the role of alien time traveller the Doctor to Matt Smith. It is also the last