To mark the anniversary, David Parker will be screening two films he produced about that most dreadful theatre of conflict on ’The Forgotten Front’. Sailors and soldiers confronting the might of the Japanese army and airforce tell their owns stories of the worst disaster in British naval history, with the loss of two battle ships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales on the morning of December 10th 1941 and the subsequent capitulation of Singapore, in February the following year. That defeat led to the incarceration of thousands of allied troops by the Japanese and slave labour on the Burma Railway. One of those captured, artist and one time head of Bristol School of Art, Jack Chalker, sketched and painted the experiences of those prisoners, and his testimony and art, of the work done to save thousands of men’s lives on the railway, form the basis of the second film, ‘Miracle on the River Kwai’.

12th August 7.00pm - until 9.00pm (120 mins)