To End All Wars

For the book the film is based on, see Through the Valley of the Kwai.

To End All Wars
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Directed by	David L. Cunningham
Produced by	Jack Hafer David L. Cunningham
Written by	Brian Godawa Ernest Gordon
Starring	Robert Carlyle Kiefer Sutherland Ciaran McMenamin Mark Strong Sakae Kimura Masayuki Yui James Cosmo
Music by	Moya Brennan
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	2 September 2001
Running time	125 minutes
Language	English Japanese

To End All Wars is a 2001 war film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Cunningham.

Plot

The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II.

Cast

• Robert Carlyle as Maj. Ian Campbell
• Kiefer Sutherland as Lt. Jim "Yanker" Reardon, an American Merchant Mariner in Singapore at the time of capture.
• Ciarán McMenamin as Capt. Ernest "Ernie" Gordon
• Mark Strong as Dusty Miller
• Sakae Kimura as Sgt. Ito
• Masayuki Yui as Cpt. Noguchi
• James Cosmo as Col. Stuart McLean
• John Gregg as Dr. Coates
• Shu Nakajima as Nagatomo
• Yugo Saso as Takashi Nagase
• Pip Torrens as Lt. Foxworth
• Adam Sinclair as Jocko
• Winton Nicholson as Duncan
• Brendan Cowell as Pte. Wallace Hamilton
• Greg Ellis as Sgt. Roger Primrose
• James McCarthy as Norman
• Daryl Bonilla as POW

Production

It was filmed primarily on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, with some excerpt shots of Thailand. The film was rated R in the U.S. for war violence and brutality, and for some language.

The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Ernest Gordon and recounts the experiences of faith and hope of the interned men. The autobiography was originally published under the name Through the Valley of the Kwai, then later as Miracle on the River Kwai (not to be confused with the separate novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle). Gordon's book was finally re-issued with the title To End All Wars to tie in with the film.

Reception

As of May 2012, the movie was at 58% ("rotten") on the Tomatometer on the Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator website. However, the site did not consider the number of reviews from "Approved Tomatometer Critics" to be sufficient to form a consensus about the film. The film was awarded the Crystal Heart Award and Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature at the Heartland Film Festival.

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was never released as a stand-alone release. Various songs have been re-recorded by Moya Brennan on her subsequent solo albums, most recently 'Mo Mhian' on My Match Is A Makin'.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mo Mhian (Healing Heart)"	Moya Brennan
2.	"I Will Go (Campbell's Theme)"	Moya Brennan
3.	"Lá na Cruinne"	Moya Brennan
4.	"Find The Place"	John Cameron & Moya Brennan
5.	"Amazing Grace"	John Newton / Traditional
6.	"Pomp And Circumstance"	Edward Elgar
7.	"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"	Johann Sebastian Bach
8.	"Yankee Doodle Boy"	George M. Cohan

External links

• To End All Wars at IMDb
• To End All Wars at Rotten Tomatoes
• To End All Wars at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list