Overview
- The series premiered on BBC One on Sunday, July 20 at 9.15 pm and is available for streaming on BBC iPlayer.
- Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young and Ciarán Hinds lead the cast in a Shaun Grant adaptation directed by Justin Kurzel.
- Critics and viewers have praised its unflinching depiction of wartime hardship and the emotional depth of its forbidden love storyline.
- Spanning three interwoven timelines, the drama follows Dorrigo Evans’s pre-war life, POW ordeal on the Burma Railway and later years as a celebrated surgeon.
- While it has launched in Australia and the UK, a U.S. release for the series remains pending.