<Tr> <Td> 13 . </Td> <Td> "The River Kwai March / Colonel Bogey March" (feat . Mitch Miller & his orchestra) </Td> <Td> Malcolm Arnold </Td> <Td> 2: 28 </Td> </Tr> <P> The plot and characters of Boulle's novel and the screenplay were almost entirely fictional . </P> <P> The conditions to which POW and civilian labourers were subjected by the Japanese military on the historical Burma Railway were far worse than the film depicted. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: </P> <P> The notorious Burma - Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma . During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway . An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma . Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma, worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre . </P>

Actors in the movie bridge over the river kwai