The Bridge on the River Kwai

Quality:

The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957 film directed by David Lean. This film is the 1084^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 264^th most popular film in Basque Wikipedia. Article “The Bridge on the River Kwai” in Basque Wikipedia has 6.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Basque Wikipedia:

The 264^th most popular in films in Basque Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1084^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Basque Wikipedia:

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The 2327^th most editable in Basque Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8371^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was edited by 1 authors in Basque Wikipedia (2327^th place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8371^st place).

Since the creation of article “The Bridge on the River Kwai”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 2335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Bridge on the River Kwai is on the 264^th place in local ranking of films in Basque Wikipedia and on the 1084^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 107 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 9418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #1222 in August 2014
• Global: #263 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #6799 in March 2014
• Global: #6578 in January 2016

There are 45 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Bridge on the River Kwai		82.485
2	French (fr) Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (film)		57.9608
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Broen over Kwai		54.2002
4	Greek (el) Η γέφυρα του ποταμού Κβάι		53.8509
5	Croatian (hr) Most na rijeci Kwai		46.2775
6	Hebrew (he) הגשר על הנהר קוואי		40.5692
7	Catalan (ca) El pont del riu Kwai		37.8005
8	Romanian (ro) Podul de pe râul Kwai (film)		34.948
9	Spanish (es) El puente sobre el río Kwai		34.5894
10	Bulgarian (bg) Мостът на река Куай		34.2677

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bridge on the River Kwai		9 870 330
2	Japanese (ja) 戦場にかける橋		1 375 401
3	German (de) Die Brücke am Kwai		1 310 145
4	French (fr) Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (film)		1 068 521
5	Spanish (es) El puente sobre el río Kwai		861 023
6	Russian (ru) Мост через реку Квай		579 980
7	Italian (it) Il ponte sul fiume Kwai (film)		552 299
8	Chinese (zh) 桂河大桥		386 957
9	Portuguese (pt) A Ponte do Rio Kwai		282 624
10	Dutch (nl) The Bridge on the River Kwai		240 825

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bridge on the River Kwai		49 618
2	Italian (it) Il ponte sul fiume Kwai (film)		5 928
3	Japanese (ja) 戦場にかける橋		4 062
4	German (de) Die Brücke am Kwai		3 538
5	French (fr) Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (film)		3 372
6	Chinese (zh) 桂河大桥		2 076
7	Russian (ru) Мост через реку Квай		1 979
8	Spanish (es) El puente sobre el río Kwai		1 953
9	Hungarian (hu) Híd a Kwai folyón (film)		876
10	Swedish (sv) Bron över floden Kwai		715

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Bridge on the River Kwai		649
2	French (fr) Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (film)		203
3	German (de) Die Brücke am Kwai		187
4	Italian (it) Il ponte sul fiume Kwai (film)		105
5	Japanese (ja) 戦場にかける橋		104
6	Spanish (es) El puente sobre el río Kwai		84
7	Russian (ru) Мост через реку Квай		79
8	Dutch (nl) The Bridge on the River Kwai		73
9	Hebrew (he) הגשר על הנהר קוואי		69
10	Hungarian (hu) Híd a Kwai folyón (film)		58

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Bridge on the River Kwai		6
2	German (de) Die Brücke am Kwai		5
3	Spanish (es) El puente sobre el río Kwai		2
4	French (fr) Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (film)		2
5	Polish (pl) Most na rzece Kwai (film)		2
6	Basque (eu) The Bridge on the River Kwai		1
7	Galician (gl) A ponte sobre o río Kwai		1
8	Italian (it) Il ponte sul fiume Kwai (film)		1
9	Japanese (ja) 戦場にかける橋		1
10	Georgian (ka) ხიდი მდინარე კვაიზე (ფილმი)		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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