Topic: Korean War
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Korean War. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Repatriation
2003 · Documentary · 149 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Dong-won
Plot Repatriation is a documentary film about a 12 year relationship between the director and North Korean spies in South Korea. This film captures their suffering, their eventual return to North...
7.9
22 votes
7.9
22 votes
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 · Movie · 140 min. · South Korea
Direction Kang Je-gyu
Cast Jang Dong-gun · Won Bin · Lee Eun-ju · Ahn Gil-kang
Plot Jin-Tae (Jang Dong-Gun) shines shoes hoping to save money to send his younger brother Jin-Seok (Won Bin) to university. Their mother runs a noodle shop wishing the best for her...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Welcome to Dongmakgol
2005 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Kwang-hyun
Cast Jung Jae-young · Shin Ha-kyun · Kang Hye-jung · Lim Ha-ryong
Plot Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well...
7.2
775 votes
7.2
775 votes
M*A*S*H (MASH) (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Richard Hooker · Charles S. Dubin · Alan Alda · Burt Metcalfe
Cast Alan Alda · Loretta Swit · William Christopher · Gary Burghoff
Plot TV Series (1972-1983). 11 Seasons. 251 Episodes. War (Korean War). The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Frank Sinatra · Laurence Harvey · Janet Leigh · Angela Lansbury
Plot In Korea in 1952, a US Army patrol is ambushed by Communist soldiers. A year later the squad, having escaped, returns to the US, where Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Men in War
1957 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Robert Ryan · Aldo Ray · Robert Keith · Vic Morrow
Plot In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
M.A.S.H.
1970 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Donald Sutherland · Elliott Gould · Tom Skerritt · Sally Kellerman
Plot November, 1951. The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest...crack surgeons but lousy soldiers. Joined by renowned chest-cutter Trapper...
7.0
12K votes
7.0
12K votes
Time Limit
1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Karl Malden
Cast Richard Widmark · Richard Basehart · Dolores Michaels · June Lockhart
Plot Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently...
6.9
229 votes
6.9
229 votes
The Front Line (Battle of Highlands)
2011 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea
Direction Jang Hoon
Cast Shin Ha-kyun · Go Soo · Ryu Seung-soo · Ko Chang-seok
Plot Towards the end of the Korean War an uneasy ceasefire is ordered, but out on the Eastern front line of the Aerok Hills fierce fighting continues. A race to capture...
6.9
323 votes
6.9
323 votes
In Love and War
2011 · Movie · 135 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Geon-Yong
Cast Jeong Ryeo-won · Kim Ju-hyuk · Yoo Hae-jin · Byeon Hie-bong
Plot Young Park Seol-Hee is eagerly planning her wedding to a young anti-Communist activist when the North Koreans invade. Her fiancé is forced to flee, leaving her behind with her family...
6.8
25 votes
6.8
25 votes
71: Into the Fire
2010 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea
Direction John H. Lee
Cast Kwone Sang-woo · Cha Seung-won · T.O.P · Kim Seung-woo
Plot The (supposedly true) story revolves around 71 student soldiers who are left behind to protect an outpost against the approaching North Korean army, while the high command and remaining battalions...
6.8
425 votes
6.8
425 votes
Swing Kids
2018 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea
Direction Kang Hyeong-cheol
Cast Do Kyung-soo · Hye-soo Park · Jared Grimes · Oh Jung-se
Plot The story of Ro Gi-Soo, a tap dancing North Korean soldier who was held captive in the Geoje prison camp during the Korean War. Based on Korean musical "Rho Ki-Soo,"...
6.7
35 votes
6.7
35 votes
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Jennifer Jones · William Holden · Isobel Elsom · Richard Loo
Plot Jennifer Jones stars in this story about a widowed Eurasian doctor who falls in love with charming war reporter Mark Elliot (William Holden) in Hong Kong during the troubled time...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Sayonara
1957 · Movie · 147 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Logan
Cast Marlon Brando · Miiko Taka · Red Buttons · Miyoshi Umeki
Plot Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
The Steel Helmet
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Gene Evans · William Chun · Steve Brodie · Robert Hutton
Plot During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers....
6.6
597 votes
6.6
597 votes
Korea: The Unfinished War (TV Miniseries)
2003 · Documentary · 208 min. · Canada
Direction Brian McKenna
Cast Brian McKenna · Terence McKenna · Dominic Desjardins · Lisa Brownyn Moore
Plot Korea: the Unfinished War looks at the war which ended with a cease-fire but without a peace treaty. Huge armies still face each other across a forbidding no-man’s land. It...
6.5
48 votes
6.5
48 votes
The Hook
1963 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast Kirk Douglas · Robert Walker Jr. · Nick Adams · Nehemiah Persoff
Plot Only slightly murky around the edges of character delineation, this wartime drama by George Seaton focuses on three American soldiers on board a neutral Finnish vessel during the Korean War....
6.3
223 votes
6.3
223 votes
Ode to My Father
2014 · Movie · 126 min. · South Korea
Direction Yoon Je-kyun
Cast Hwang Jung-min · Kim Yoon-jin · Oh Dal-su · Jeong Jin-yeong
Plot Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track...
6.2
588 votes
6.2
588 votes
The Flower of Kim Jong II
2009 · Documentary · 75 min. · South Korea
Direction N.C. Heikin
Plot For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash...
6.1
41 votes
6.1
41 votes
Fixed Bayonets!
1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Basehart · Gene Evans · Michael O'Shea · Richard Hylton
Plot The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command...
6.1
426 votes
6.1
426 votes