A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 British epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman. It was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine and directed by Richard Attenborough. The film tells the story of Operation Market-Garden during World War II, and its ultimate failure, the Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges, including the bridge over the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River, in the occupied Netherlands, w ...