The Bridge on the River Kwai. In reality, there were hundreds of bridges that Allied prisoners of war were forced to build during the Second World War. A 1957 movie by that name told the story of Allied prisoners of war, forced to build a railway bridge in the jungles of Thailand for the Imperial Japanese Army. In a final act of defiance, the prisoners blew-up the bridge.
Truth is more fascinating than fiction.
Not one, but hundreds of bridges were built for a railway that was mapped through Thailand to the border of Burma.