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- The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021) The Battle at Lake Changjin is the highest-grossing Chinese movie of all time and also the highest-grossing non-English movie.
- The Bamboo Prison (1954) The worst form of torture can erase any patriotism that a soldier has and in The Bamboo Prison, American POWs begin declaring allegiance to the Communist way of life after getting captured during the Korean War.
- Time Limit (1957) A Few Good Men proved that military legal dramas can be intriguing, yet such films rarely get made. Fans who have been scouring the streaming services for one such gem can check out True Limit, which follows the trial of Major Harry Cargill, who is being accused of collaborating with the enemy after being captured by North Koreans.
- The Hook (1963) In The Hook, the actual battle is between passion and empathy. Members of the Eighth U.S. Army feel strongly against the enemy during the war but when they capture a North Korean pilot and are ordered to execute him, most of them struggle to pull the trigger.
- Steel Rain
- Northern Limit Line
- White Badge
- Sunny
- Ode to My Father
- My Way
- Wolmido
- Operation Chromite
- A Little Pond
- The Long Way Home
Korean title: 강철비 (Gangcheolbi) | Conflict: Post-1953 Korean Conflict | Released: 2017 A blend of espionage thriller and war film, Steel Rain tells the (fictional) story of a North Korean spy (played by Jung Woo-sung) who teams up with a South Korean bureaucrat to prevent nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The movie starts with a coup in North Ko...
Korean title: 연평해전 (Yeonpyeong Haejeon) | Conflict: Post-1953 Korean Conflict | Released: 2015 Amidst the World Cup in June 2002 (co-hosted between South Korea and Japan), South and North Korea fought the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong. Northern Limit Linetells the story of this intense seaborne engagement. During the battle, North Korean patrol boats...
Korean title: 하얀전쟁(Hayan jeonjaeng) | Conflict: Vietnam War | Released: 1992 Many in the West aren’t aware that South Korea sent 300,000+ troops to fight in the Vietnam War, the second-largest foreign contribution to the conflict after the US. At the time, military dictator Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea, and used these Vietnam deployments to cur...
Korean title: 님은 먼곳에 (Nimeun meongose) | Conflict: Vietnam War | Released: 2008 Another excellent Korean movie about the Vietnam War is Sunny, which depicts the conflict from a very different perspective. Korean actress Soo Ae plays protagonist Soon-yi, a Korean woman who goes to Vietnam as a singer in order to find her husband. When in Vietnam, So...
Korean title: 국제시장 (Gukjesijang) | Conflict: Vietnam and Korean Wars | Released: 2014 As we separately explore with an in-depth review, Ode to My Father is like a Korean version of America’s Forrest Gump; it shows how an everyman makes his way through a country’s recent history. Therefore, while parts of the movie aren’t in wartime, many significan...
Korean title: 마이웨이(Maiwei) | Conflict: World War II | Released: 2011 During D-Day, American paratroopers captured a man of Asian descent wearing a German Wehrmacht uniform. This man was Yang Kyoungjong—a Korean who had the misfortuneof being conscripted into the Japanese, Soviet, and then German militaries during World War II. My Way is a Korean mo...
Korean title: 월미도 (Wolmido) | Conflict: Korean War| Released: 1982 To spice up this list, we’ve added Wolmido—one of North Korea’s most popular war movies. This 1982 feature tells a story from the other side of the September 1950 Battle of Incheon, in which Douglas MacArthur led 40,000 troops in an amphibious landing. Wolmido takes its name from an...
Korean title: 인천상륙작전 (Incheon Sangryuk Jakjeon) | Conflict: Korean War | Released: 2016 South Korea also made a movie about the Battle of Incheon. Named after the amphibious landing’s codename, Operation Chromite focuses on a small intelligence unit tasked with covertly scouting the landing area. Loosely inspired by the real-life Operation Trudy Ja...
Korean title: 작은 연못 (Jakeun yeonmot) | Conflict: Korean War | Released: 2009 A Little Pond delves into one of the Korean War’s most inglorious moments: the No Gun Ri Massacre. In July 1950 (before the Incheon landings), American forces fired upon a group of South Korean refugees suspected of harboring North Korean infiltrators, killing hundreds. Th...
Korean title: 서부전선 (Seobu Jeonseon) | Conflict: Korean War | Released: 2015 While war has combat, it also has camaraderie. Sometimes, as certain Korean war films show, this camaraderie exists even between enemies. 2015’s The Long Way Home is one of these movies. This comedic war movie pits middle-aged South Korean conscript Jang Nam-bok against tee...
1. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War. 2004 2h 20m R. 8.0 (41K) Rate. 64 Metascore. When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle. Director Kang Je-kyu Stars Jang Dong-gun Won Bin Eun-ju Lee. 2. Joint Security Area. 2000 1h 50m Not Rated.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Who won the Korean-U.S. war? The Korean War, lasting from 1950 to 1953, didn't have a clear winner. It ended in a stalemate, resulting in the division of the Korean Peninsula into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
- MacArthur (1977) Gregory Peck took time off from his late-career roles as a Nazi (“Boys from Brazil”) and father of the Antichrist (“The Omen”) to play Gen.
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” is probably the biggest prestige picture to feature the Korean War. Based on James Michener’s 1953 novel, the movie follows a crew of Navy aviators assigned to bomb bridges in North Korea.
- The Steel Helmet (1951) Samuel Fuller’s classic is a lowest-of-the-low budget movie, but it’s also the first Hollywood movie made about the Korean War.
- Pork Chop Hill (1959) “Pork Chop Hill” was one of the very last movies directed by Lewis Milestone, who won an Oscar for directing the World War I classic and 1930 Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
4 titles. 1. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) R | 140 min | Action, Drama, War. 8. Rate. 64 Metascore. When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle. Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Won Bin, Eun-ju Lee, Kong Hyeong-jin.
Aug 29, 2023 · 1. The Front Line. 2. TAEGUKGI: Brotherhood of War. 3. Operation Chromite. 4. 71: Into the Fire. 5. Battle of Jangsari. 6. Devotion. Humanity in the midst of Korean war. 7. Welcome to Dongmakgol. 8. Ode to My Father. 9. In Love and the War. 10. A Melody to Remember. 11. Ayla: The Daughter of War. The War That Never Ends. 12. Joint Security Area.
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