Where to Watch The Bridge on the River Kwai Online

Fancy watching 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' in the comfort of your own home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the David Lean-directed movie via subscription can be challenging, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' right now, here are some specifics about the Horizon Pictures history flick.

Released December 14th, 1957, 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa The PG movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 41 min, and received a user score of 78 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 2,115 well-known users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans."

'The Bridge on the River Kwai' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Microsoft Store, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, and Google Play Movies .