One super-power, Japan, had been waiting for a long time, expecting an opportunity to realise its plan of creating a 'Greater Asia'.

Immediately, Japan decided to carry out its plans of creating a Greater Asia, basically an area under Japanese control.

On 22 June 1942, the work of laying the railways began from Kanchanapuri, about 80 km away from Thailand's capital Bangkok and Thanbyuzayat about 55 miles away from Moulmein, a major city of south Burma.

About 60,000 prisoners of war of Allied Forces guided by 12,000 Japanese engineers, began the work of laying the railway line for about 415 km.

Thousands of Indian Tamil and Burmese labourers working in the Malay rubber estates caught their attention and they were brought to Thanbyuzayat, with a promise of higher wages and comfortable stay.

The number of Asian labourers (Malaysian Tamils, Burmese, and Javanese) who died building the Death railway is estimated to be more than 100,000.

But researchers of World War II are of the opinion that the exact number of Asian labourers who died at the Death Railway is known only to the Japanese government.

The film focuses on the "survivors", those who worked the railway and lived to bear witness to the historical reality of this enduring atrocity.

A principal source of this documentary's strength are the views of researchers Dr David Boggett, Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University, Japan; Mr Rod Beattie, Director, Thai-Burma Railway Museum, Thailand, and Professor M. Annamalai, India.