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Recommended Korean War Movies

posted 15 years ago by eThink
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The following list are my favorite Korean War Movies. All were made in the 1950s, tell the story from an infantry perspective and are in B&W:

1. Pork Chop Hill (1959) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053183/

2. Fixed Bayonets (1951) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043540/

3. The Steel Helmet (1951) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044072/

4. Retreat Hell (1952) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045082/

5. Men in War (1957) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050699/

6. A Hill in Korea (1956) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049302/

7. Target Zero (1955) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048698/

[–] Mr_Sea 11 years ago

A Hill In Korea (1956)- British made.
Retreat Hell (1954)
Time Limit (1957)
Prisoner Of War (1954)

[–] mingusal 11 years ago

One I always rather liked was the rarely seen All The Young Men with Sidney Poitier, Alan Ladd, James Darren, and an unlikely movie appearance by Mort Sahl. It's more a character study than an action film, but it does have some very tense battlefield scenes and is an interesting examination of the frictions in the then-newly integrated Army.

My Dad is a Korean War veteran, and he long maintained that that movie, the Steel Helmet, and Pork Chop Hill, were the only ones that really caught the feeling of what it was like there.

[–] jamesbwill 11 years ago

The Hunters with Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner

The Men of the Fighting Lady, a 1954 film with an ensemble cast about carrier pilots supporting the ground war.

[–] jamesbwill 11 years ago

Battle Flame (1959)

An interesting, very hard to find, movie starring Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, and Robert Blake.

It concerns five army nurses taken prisoner by the Chinese. American Marines led by Scott Brady go on a rescue mission. Things are complicated by the fact that the head nurse, played by Elaine Edwards, is Brady's former love interest.

It was made on a very low budget and most of the battle scenes are stock footage of actual battles films during both the Korean War and World War II.

[–] jamesbwill 11 years ago

Sniper's Ridge (1961)

An interesting b/w low budget film about a captain who orders a dangerous night patrol even though everyone knows the peace treaty will be signed in a day or two. It stars Jack Ging, John Goddard, and Douglas Henderson.

Sniper's Ridge will be shown on the Fox Movie Channel on Thursday, August 22, 2013, at 10 AM central time.

[–] scarabine 8 years ago

How about The Reluctant Heroes (1971)?

[–] scarabine 8 years ago

How about The Reluctant Heroes (1971)?