The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), The Young Philadelphians (1959), The Bamboo Prison (1955), Time Limit (1957), Sayonara (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), The Rack (1956), Going All the Way (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Korean War movies.
Storyline: Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Plot Keywords: pilot, wife, military officer, dark, tense, aircraft carrier, military base ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.—Mike Welsch <mike.welsch@bull.com>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, mother, sweetheart, alcoholic, birth father, melodramatic, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell.—Norman L Cook <cook@ssdgwy.mdc.com>
Plot Keywords: corporal, sergeant, priest, traitor, wife, prisoner of war, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Military investigator Colonel William Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Harry Cargill, a Korean War prisoner of war who is accused of aiding the enemy. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing him to move this case to court-martial, Edwards doubts eventually convinces him of Cargill's innocence.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: colonel, major, soldier, prisoner of war, lieutenant, captain, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: pilot, military officer, soldier, wife, girlfriend, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, soldier, general, enemy, bleak, raw, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: military officer, father, widow, prisoner of war, lawyer, psychiatrist, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman (Ben Affleck) and "Sonny" Burns (Jeremy Davies) reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty (Rachel Weisz) is good enough for him, while Sonny, who was stationed stateside, is torn between loyal Buddy (Amy Locane) and tempting Gale Ann (Rose McGowan). As they commiserate, the men realize that they're outgrowing the lives they lived before the war.
Plot Keywords: veteran, young man, friend, girlfriend, love interest, mother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: marine, army commander, soldier, intense, brooding, gory, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During an evacuation in the waning days of the Korean War, three American soldiers retrieve an enemy airman and take him prisoner aboard the civilian ship returning them to their lines. When an order comes down from their superiors to kill the prisoner, the sergeant in charge, Briscoe, orders his men, Dennison and Hackett, to carry out the execution. But first one and then the other refuse to follow the order. A tense stand-off ensues between the seemingly heartless sergeant and his conscience-stricken men.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sergeant, private, prisoner of war, enemy, soldier, gripping, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II and contacts singer/dancer Dixie Leonard for help. They become the perfect team and tour from North Africa to the Pacific to perform for "the boys." They continue their work after the war, but when Eddie fires author Silver for getting involved in McCarthy's campaign, Dixie also turns away from him.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: performer, entertainer, writer, soldier, husband, uncle, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mac's plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. His neighbors have built a home for Mac and his devoted wife and their three children. Now he has an offer to test pilot new Sabre Jets. His wife is uneasy but knows she cannot ground her man.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: army recruit, teen boy, pilot, young woman, newlywed, army officer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: reverend, wife, volunteer, friend, military officer, orphan, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: marine, sergeant, lieutenant, private, soldier, emotional, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then the Korean War begins, and the Greer family starts to worry: kid brother Jack, courting the lovely daughter of the draft board chairman, is next on the list. A character study examining American attitudes of that era.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: veteran, father, son, mother, girlfriend, gripping, emotional ...
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