6. The Bridge on River Kwai

Year: 1957

Directed by: David Lean

If managing employees has ever been a problem to you then this David Lean masterpiece is an undoubted prescription. The movie moves around a group of American soldiers who are imprisoned at a Japanese PoW camp and their fight to build a bridge over the river Kwai that would remain as a symbol of pride for generations of Americans to come. The movie portrays how faulty management can often ruin great ideas and greater prospects.