While there’s still some important combat scenes, the movie offers a more hopeful look at how universal humanity transcends wartime divisions. Korean title: 웰컴 투 동막골 (Welkeom tu dongmakgol) | Conflict: Korean War | Released: 2005Īlso set in an idyllic village, Welcome to Dongmakgol is probably the most popular civilian-focused Korean War film of all time. While this isn’t your traditional war movie, it’s a rare, important look at a controversial moment in the Korean War.īuy this film’s DVD on Amazon 6. In A Little Pond, an ensemble cast of South Korean actors plays characters inspired by those who died during the No Gun Ri Massacre. Knowledge of the incident sparked anti-American sentiment in South Korea, even after President Bill Clinton expressed remorse. Their reportage ended up winning a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a book called The Bridge at No Gun Ri. The incident stayed unknown until 1999, when a group of Associated Press journalists published a report based on the testimony of both survivors and US troops. 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. Korean title: 작은 연못 (Jakeun yeonmot) | Conflict: Korean War | Released: 2009Ī Little Pond delves into one of the Korean War’s most inglorious moments: the No Gun Ri Massacre. Furthermore, the movie’s name comes from the “steel rain” ammunition of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems that US forces deploy on the Korean peninsula. Without giving too much away: look out for B-1 and B-52 bombers, Aegis destroyers, attack helicopters, and even ICBMs. While Steel Rain doesn’t have mass infantry battle scenes, it shows off plenty of other military hardware. Our protagonists must combat the conspirators behind the coup and restore more conciliatory leadership to North Korea. A belligerent cohort of generals seizes power, sparking tensions through a false flag attack and threatening to launch nukes. The movie starts with a coup in North Korea.

Korean title: 강철비 (Gangcheolbi) | Conflict: Post-1953 Korean Conflict | Released: 2017Ī blend of espionage thriller and war film, Steel Raintells 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.

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