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