95 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea During The 1950s
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Underwater Warrior
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBased upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.
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Sayonara
🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..." — Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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Men in War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s"One more step and I'll fill your guts with lead!" — In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.
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Battle Hymn
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe true story of Col. Dean Hess, clergyman turned fighter pilot! — Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess establishes a large home for orphans. The preacher's efforts are threatened when the Korean "police action" breaks out in 1950.
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Battle on Shangganling Mountain
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s(From Wikipedia)- "Battle on Shangganling Mountain follows a group of Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers who are holding Triangle Hill for several days against US forces. Short of both food and water, they hold their ground until the relief troops arrive. The movie portray the battle as a Chinese victory over an American invasion, and the People's Volunteer Army soldiers were shown as Chinese war heroes."
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A Hill in Korea
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sAnd They Blended That Courage and Their Cowardice to Fight an Enemy for 72 Nightmare Hours! — Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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Hold Back the Night
🇰🇷 South Korea California The 1950sIn Frisco, Guadalcanal, Melbourne, Korea ... you'll hear about Capt. Sam MacKenzie ... and you'll hear it best from a woman ! — A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 1940sThe price they pay when they come out of their secret garden and face the world in modern-day Hong Kong - makes this one of the screen's unforgettable experiences! — A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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The McConnell Story
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA Stirring Salute to the Great American Spirit AND NOW a Stiring Tribute from a Great American — Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.
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Heartbreak Ridge
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sGarcet, a young French officer just out of military school, joins the French Batallion of the United Nations Forces fighting in Korea.
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Piagol
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA group of communist guerillas encounter jealousy and rivalry among themselves because of the presence of the female compatriot while one of their members plots to desert their band.
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Target Zero
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sOn target! — Drama set during the Korean War, released in 1955.
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Air Strike
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sTasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.
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An Annapolis Story
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sTwo brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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The Eternal Sea
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBiography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
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Hell's Horizon
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sJets Dare Danger Over Korea! — A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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Men of the Fighting Lady
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sM-G-M presents the heroic story of what happened to the MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY
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Dragonfly Squadron
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
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Return from the Sea
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe fleet's in...and ready for action! — A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
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The Glory Brigade
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sYou'll Never Love So Hard In Your Life... as these hard-hitting guys hit the dirt... and come up fighting! — During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.
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Battle Circus
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sM-G-M's great drama of desire under fire! — A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.
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Forward March Hare
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBugs Bunny gets a draft notice by mistake and joins the army, with disastrous results, especially for the sergeant of his platoon.
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Sabre Jet
🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sTHE HIGH AND MIGHTY SAGA OF THE JET-BLASTING ACES WHO FLY THE WORLD'S HOTTEST SKIES ! — The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
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Sky Commando
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe Coolest Customers You Ever Saw in the hottest planes that ever flew! — Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
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