To End All Wars

To End All Wars
To End All Wars
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David L. Cunningham
Written by	Brian Godawa; Ernest Gordon
Produced by	Jack Hafer; David L. Cunningham
Starring	Robert Carlyle; Kiefer Sutherland; Ciarán McMenamin; Mark Strong; Sakae Kimura; Masayuki Yui; James Cosmo;
Cinematography	Greg Gardiner
Edited by	Tim Silano
Music by	John Cameron; Moya Brennan
Distributed by	GMT Pictures
Release dates	September 2001 (Telluride); December 6, 2002 (United States);
Running time	125 minutes
Languages	English; Japanese

To End All Wars is a 2001 war film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and was directed by David L. Cunningham. The film is based on Through the Valley of the Kwai, an autobiography of Ernest Gordon, then a Scottish Captain, later the Presbyterian Dean of the Princeton University Chapel.

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.^[3] Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore before being captured and made a prisoner of war by the Japanese.