Where was The Bridge on the River Kwai filmed?

1957 film directed by David Lean

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) was filmed in Kitulgala and Mount Lavinia Hotel, 2 places named in its Wikipedia article's Filming section, in Sri Lanka. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as United Kingdom. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 2 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Mount Lavinia Hotel Sri Lanka

  “In 1957 a number of scenes in the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, were filmed at the hotel.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in United Kingdom, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United Kingdom

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