Overview

• The five-part series, directed by Justin Kurzel, adapts Richard Flanagan’s novel about Australian POWs forced to build the Burma-Thailand Railway during WWII.
• Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds portray the younger and older versions of Dorrigo Evans, a surgeon grappling with wartime trauma and a forbidden love affair.
• The series premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and is now streaming on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, with U.S. distribution pending.
• Critics have highlighted the series’ unflinching depiction of POW suffering and the emotional resonance of its non-linear narrative structure.
• Elordi’s performance and his chemistry with Odessa Young, who plays his character’s illicit love interest, have been widely praised as central to the series’ impact.