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The Railway Man (2013) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to stream on Howdy Amazon Channel.
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You can watch The Railway Man (2013) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
A survivor of the brutal Thai-Burma Death Railway seeks a reckoning with his former tormentor decades after the war. This quiet, devastating portrait of trauma follows a man struggling to bridge the gap between his haunting memories and a fragile present.
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Jonathan Teplitzky
Cast
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanroh Ishida, Michael MacKenzie, Jeffrey Daunton, Tom Stokes, Bryan Probets
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The Railway Man
You can watch The Railway Man (2013) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Jonathan Teplitzky
Cast
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanroh Ishida, Michael MacKenzie, Jeffrey Daunton, Tom Stokes, Bryan Probets
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