Timewatch
Season 16 Episode 6 - Forgotten Allies
6.9 ?
1982
Documentary
When war broke out in South East Asia in 1941, one hill tribe - the Christian, English-speaking Karen - distinguished itself in the fight against Japan. Karen helped halt the Japanese, taught British Army regulars to fight in the jungle, and worked with Force 136 - the British sabotage unit immortalised in the fiction film 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Fifty years later they are fighting for their independence. Using newly unearthed archive material and documents, Timewatch tells why the Karen feel abandoned by the British and how they remain in a brutal civil war with the Burmese.
Episodes in Season 16
1
Love Story
50 min
2
Before Columbus
50 min
3
Secret Memories
50 min
4
The Boer War: The First Media War
50 min
5
Birth Story
50 min
6
Forgotten Allies
50 min
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7
Back to the Iron Age
50 min
8
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
50 min
9
Lords of the Maya
50 min
10
Alison: A Personal History
50 min
11
The Gentlemen Spies
50 min
12
The African Trade
50 min
13
Lenin's Secret Files
50 min
14
Remember the Ugandan Asians
50 min
15
In Search of Cleopatra
50 min
