15 Films & TV Shows Set In North Korea (DPRK) During The 21st Century
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Steel Rain 2: Summit
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sA War Begins With The Summit For Peace — A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
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Ashfall
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sOnly one chance to save the nation. — A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Take Point
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sStateless. Honorless. War for Money. — On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
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Under the Sun
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sOver the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
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Northern Limit Line
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2000sWhat I can do for my country I am willing to do — In this true story from 2002, South Korean patrol boats engaged in a deadly battle with North Korean patrol boats who crossed the maritime border known the Northern Limit Line and attacked.
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The Interview
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) Virginia 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sThe Film Hackers Tried To Get Banned — Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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Olympus Has Fallen
District of Columbia Maryland 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sWhen our flag falls our nation will rise. — When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
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Salt
New York District of Columbia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sWho is Salt? — As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
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Crossing
🇨🇳 China 🇲🇳 Mongolia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000sYong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2000sThe fate of the world hangs in the balance in this explosive action-thriller. — Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
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Heaven's Soldiers
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2000s The 16th CenturyModern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
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Team America: World Police
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France New York South Dakota District of Columbia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇵🇦 Panama The 2000sFreedom Hangs By A Thread — Team America World Police follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that dictator Kim Jong il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save it in time? It stars… Samuel L Jackson, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Helen Hunt, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin… or does it?
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000s The 1950sWhen two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
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Repatriation
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000sIn the spring of 1992 documentary filmmaker Dong-won Kim met Cho Chang-son and Kim Seak-hyoung, two North Koreans arrested by South Korean authorities years before. Convicted of spying for the North, they were incarcerated and spent thirty years as political prisoners. These men, and many others like them, underwent conversion schemes in prison that involved torture: those who renounced their communist beliefs were released from prison early. The others, known as "the unconverted," served their full terms. None could return home to the North, however, until the turn of this century, when tensions between North and South eased significantly. Director Dong-won Kim followed these men for ten years, documenting how they survived -both physically and psychologically, the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home.
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Die Another Day
England 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 2000sHe's never been cooler. — James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
