The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war.  The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country’s civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause.  In many ways the […]

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I was led to the subject of Korean War movies by Lee Marvin.  As I was finishing Lee Marvin: His Films and Career and looking around for a second project to tackle, I kept returning to the fact that Marvin had […]

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There are ninety-one English-language movies made and released before 2000 in my Korean War Filmography, all of which dramatize some aspect of the Korean War. Some are fictional representations of the war; others are historically authentic. Some take place solely […]

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