Korean War Movies
War Movies about the Korean War, 1950-1953
71-Into the Fire (2010)
Wow, just wow. I'd read a lot about this movie out of Korea, about a band of college students thrust onto the front lines during the start of the Korean War, but I had no idea what I was getting into here. Take elements from Saving Private Ryan, Letters from Iwo Jima, and some... »
Sabre Jet (1953)
I really, really wish I could find more information on this little-known movie, because as cliched and strange as it is, I found it highly interesting. Not so much for the plot, but for some of the subject matter therein. Quick plot summary: At a rear-ward fighter base in Japan during the Korean War,... »
Tank Battalion (1958)
Wow. Just wow. What a totally dreadful movie. OK, it starts out well enough, with a group of guys in a tank under fire in combat during the Korean war. Mission accomplished, they head back to base after about five minutes of screen time. And then they get stuck there shmoozing it up with... »
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Yet another addition to the "all time best classic war movies" list, 1954's The Bridges at Toko-Ri stands as a shining example of quite possibly *the* perfect war movie. Well, maybe that's stretching it, but man, this is really hard to beat. The film starts on board the aircraft carrier Savo Island in the... »
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Before the epic The Big Red One, director Samuel Fuller created another war picture, The Steel Helmet. "Helmet" was a film about the Korean War, made right smack in the middle of the war, and in it, he pulls no punches on a lot of subjects. However, the execution leaves quite a bit to... »
Marines, Let’s Go! (1961)
OK, so lets put on our imagination caps for a moment. Imagine that Porky's or Stripes or Animal House had been made in '61, and for some reason it'd been set in Tokyo during the Korean War with a bunch of misfit Marines. And lets say that they cast a bunch of nobody's and... »
M*A*S*H (1970)
So is M*A*S*H a "war movie" or an "anti-war movie?" It's been called both, and I think they're right on both counts. Robert Altman's 1970 masterpiece which spawned the spinoff TV series comes at you from both directions, dead serious and dead funny. All at the same time. It follows the doctors of the... »
