Asian Studies

This pioneering volume navigates cultural memory of the Korean War through the lens of contemporary arts and film in South Korea for the last two decades....

The renowned war correspondent breaks down this barrier with a jaw-dropping collection of color photographs of the Korean War, perhaps the finest collection of color images of the conflict anywhere. In vivid hues of blue, green and red....

This filmography details more than 90 English-language films that chronicle or depict the Korean War and its consequences...

Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory...

Photographs depict the people who lived through the "forgotten war" in the early fifties in moving portraits that present an indelible witness to the upheaval which caught all on the peninsula--Korean, GI, POW--in an irresistible tide of change...

Comprising more than 100 rare photos - most never before seen in print - "North Korea Caught in Time" documents the country's destruction and painful rebirth...

Examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations--hypervisible and deeply sensed--become everyday formations delinked from militarization...

This book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices...

This richly illustrated survey of Korean art from the Korean War (1950-1953) introduces a missing chapter in the history of Korean modern art through selected pieces from the collection of Chester and Wanda Chang...

With some 500 bandw photos, this is a photodocumentary; most text is found in the captions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This collection of essays is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960...

Songs and music about the Korean War

A historical and sociological investigation into the photographs of the Korean War that are entrenched in our memories.

Illustrated work about Chinese's involvement in the Korean War.

Phoenix TV followed veterans of the People's Volunteer Army, now in their eighties, and their family members across Yalu Riber and stepped onto the land of North Korea for a second time.

Discover how the CIA, with its attention drawn to Asia, failed to rein in the growing emphasis on covert operations and restore its focus on intelligence gathering and analysis.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula to drive North Korea's Communist army out of democratically held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.

This episode shows how soldiers battled winter cold as well as communists and how thousands of lives were saved by the quick evacuation of wounded by helicopter.

About the Battle of Kapyong in late April 1951 between the Chinese People Volunteer Army and United Nations troops.

This series shows through U.S. Government footage and newsreel cameramen the dramatic moments from the earliest days of the U.S. intervention in the Korean War.

Presents an analysis of the achievements and failures of the three-year-old war in Korea. Includes eye-witness accounts of the war by Brigadier General Michaelis, Time magazine correspondent Frank Bibney, and former Marine Sergeant Hector Cafferata...

Presents rare archival film footage, combined with interviews of American veterans of the Korean War.

This Episode of The Big Picture, produced by the US Army Pictorial Service, is about the Korean War.

Stories of Medal of Honor recipients of the Korean War

Covers all phases of the "police action" in Korea and the problems encountered by American and United Nations forces during the major phases of the battle from the initial gunfire on June 25, 1950 to the armistice on July 27, 1953. Includes combat footage and narration by the men who were doing the fighting

This episode the The Big Picture, produced by the Army Pictorial Service, is about the third winter campaign in the Korean War.

Army battalion is caught up in territorial drama taking place near the end of the Korean War.

This North Korean film on the Korean War tells a story about injured soldiers who return to the front to fight against invaders for the motherland's independence and freedom.

In this swinging musical drama set during the Korean War, the soldiers at a POW camp plan a tap show to distract both themselves and the prisoners from the hardships of war. Led by a former Broadway dancer and a rebellious North Korean soldier, the band of prisoners find a new sense of freedom in dancing.

A film about two brothers drafted into the army during the Korean War (1950-1953).

Interviews 72-year-old activist Park Soonja and other Korean women who fought in the mountains during the Korean War...

A film based upon a true story of courage, conflict and faith during the Korean War.

A documentary about the Korean War that was originally broadcasted on June 26, 1999 on the KBS Television.

Two South Korean soliders, three North Korean soldiers, and an American pilot all get stranded in a remote mountain village during the Korean War.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Based on the novel of the same title by Yi Tʻae.

Early summer of 1953, in the weeks leading up to the Armistice, North and South Korea were engaged in fierce battle as they alternately pushed forward and were pushed back again. After the Armistice is signed, two children who were caught in the back-and-forth shifting of the front line find themselves abandoned in the demilitarized zone (DMZ)...

A story of 71 student soldier trainees who fought an impossible war against seasoned North Korean army during Korean War which broke out in 1950. Based on real history, the film delicately depicts the fierce battle that teenage student soldiers fall into...

A drama about a Battle of Inchon during the Korean War on September 15-19, 1950 and the Navy X-ray spy team and a group of Koreans who played a crucial role behind the scene by providing assistance to make the battle successful

The North Korean film tells a story during Korean War. Some wounded North Korea soldiers are escorted to a rear hospital. On the way they hear that enemy troops will be air-dropped to attack the rear of their front-line units. Although no order has been given and their unit affiliations are different, soldiers voluntarily form a unit together with the villagers and fight a death-defying battle.

"A platoon leader, Lt. Han Sang-ryul, is devastated after losing his beloved family due to the Korean War. He is assigned to a new base and meets war-orphans who are as hurt as him. With the help of Ju-mi, the caretaker, Lt. Han decides to create a choir with orphans to protect them and children are also healed by singing."--KMDb.

The tragedy of the Korean War unfolds through the eyes of a 10-year old boy.

Story about the friendship of marine soldiers and their romance during the Korean War.

Korean marines advance on Seoul following the hugely successful In-ch'ŏn landing operations. Lieutenant Kang, a squad leader, leads his men in battle against the Chinese army, but the situation worsens because of infiltration tactics of Chinese army.

A North Korean film about a small troop of North Korean soldiers, armed with just four guns among them, holds General Douglas MacArthur and 50,000 American soldiers' landing at Inch'on for three days

A story of a family torn apart by conflicting loyalties during and after the Korean War.

During the Korean War (1950-1953), twelve church ministers have been abducted and killed in the occupied territory. But two ministers survive and return to their place, while becoming to doubt the existence of God...

Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her...

During the Korean War, the Chinese Airforce uses Mao Zedong's military tactics to defeat the American Airforce.

Story of a famous battle of Triangle Hill fought in the Korean war between the Chinese volunteer army and the UN army led by the US.

A love story about how a Chinese military adviser finds his missing daughter in Korea during Korean War.

During the Korean War, the young Chinese woman announcer Bailu helps defeat the enemy by encouraging the morale of the troops through broadcasting on the battleground.

Story about a train driver Liu Feng who successfully transport military supplies to the front line during the Korean war period.

During the Korean War, a unit from the People's Liberation Army's railroad division undertakes the arduous trask of constructing a bridge over a gorge across a nameless river...

In the Korean war, Chinese army tried to interfere American military's radar function.

A story about the voluntary army in North Korea blew down the Kangping Bridge with the help of the Korean people

A reform style of Chinese opera "yang ban xi" about the story of Yan Weicai, a hero of militia volunteer, who fights and wins one of the battles with the assistant of Korean people during Korean War.