War by its very definition is a chaotic situation, whereas a prison is a place where chaos is something to be controlled or avoided. Having these two worlds collide raises a lot of moral questions, such as do prison rules still apply when war is raging outside the walls? David Lean’s classic The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) explores these questions and other complex ones on a grand scale while being highly entertaining. It is the sort of epic you rarely see now and that must have been quite something to behold on the big screen. Like the rest of the planet I can’t go out to see anything on the big screen right now, unless I can find a drive-through theater in the area. However, there are plenty of apps that give me access to free movies with commercial breaks, including Lean’s epic. With a running time of 161 minutes it consumes a big chunk of your afternoon, but I was never bored. With all the time we are spending indoors nowadays, why not spend some of those hours watchi