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| Battle of Chosin Reservoir |
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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign (simplified Chinese: 长津湖战役; pinyin: Cháng Jīn Hū Zhàn Yì), was a decisive battle in the Korean War. Shortly after the People's Republic of...
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| The Manchurian Candidate |
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The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. It was directed by John...
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| Sayonara |
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Sayonara is 1957 color (Technicolor) American film. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was...
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| Battle of Kapyong |
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The Battle of Kapyong (also called Kap'yong) was waged during the Korean War. The battle began on 22 April and lasted until 25 April 1951. The Chinese People's Liberation Army assaulted positions held by United Nations (UN) forces from Australia,...
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| The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War. It was made into a motion picture by Paramount Pictures and won the Special...
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| Battle of the Imjin River |
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The Battle of the Imjin River took place 22 April – 25 April 1951 during the Korean War. Chinese Communist forces attacked UN positions on the lower Imjin River in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough and recapture the South Korean capital Seoul....
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MASH is a 1970 American Academy Award-winning satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A...
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Taegukgi Hwinallimyo (Hangul: 태극기 휘날리며) is a 2004 South Korean war film directed by Kang Je-gyu. It tells the story about the effect of the Korean War on two brothers. The film's title is the name of the pre-war Flag of Korea as well as the postwar...
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| Pork Chop Hill |
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Pork Chop Hill (1959), directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry...
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| Battle of Inchon |
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The Battle of Incheon (Korean: 인천 상륙 작전, Hanja: 仁川上陸作戰, Incheon Sangnyuk Jakjeon; code name: Operation Chromite) was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that was conducted with a nearly 40 to 1 troop ratio in favor of UN forces and...
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| A Hill in Korea |
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A Hill in Korea is a 1956 British war film. The original name was Hell in Korea, but was changed for distribution reasons. It was directed by Julian Amyes and the producer was Anthony Squire. Incidental music was written by Malcolm Arnold. In the U...
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| Inchon |
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Inchon (also called Inchon!) is a 1982 film directed by Terence Young about the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War. The protagonist of the film is General Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier), who led the United States surprise amphibious...
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| Operation Ripper |
Operation Ripper was a military operation conceived by General Ridgway during the Korean War, intended to destroy as much of the People's Volunteer Army and North Korean military from Seoul and of the towns of Hongch'on, fifty miles west of Seoul,...
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| Battle Circus |
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Battle Circus is a 1953 film directed by Richard Brooks, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson. and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith.
The film is set in Korea during the Korean War; Bogart plays a surgeon and...
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| Battle of the Hook |
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The third Battle of the Hook was a battle of the Korean War that took place between a United Nations force, consisting mostly of British troops, supported on their flanks by American and Turkish artillery units against a predominantly Chinese force....
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| Battle of Osan |
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The Battle of Osan was the first engagement between United States and North Korean forces during the Korean War. A US task force of 400 infantry supported by an artillery battery were moved to Osan, south of the South Korean capital Seoul, and...
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| Battle of the Twin Tunnels |
The Battle of the Twin Tunnels took place during the Korean War. In which the 1st Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment 3rd Brigade Combat Team 2nd Infantry Division and elements of the 21st Infantry Regiment 24th Infantry Division inflicted heavy...
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| Battle of Yultong Bridge |
The Battle of Yultong Bridge was a minor battle during the "Great Spring Offensive" fought in the Korean War, by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and the North Korean People's Army against the United Nations Command. It occurred on April 23, 1951...
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| Battle of Heartbreak Ridge |
The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was a month-long battle in the Korean War fought between September 13 and October 15, 1951. The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was one of several major engagements in an area known as "The Punchbowl", which served as an...
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| Battle of Bloody Ridge |
The Battle of Bloody Ridge was a ground combat battle that took place during the Korean War from August 18 to September 5, 1951.
Located in hills north of the 38th parallel north in the central Korean mountain range, the battle was fought between...
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| Operation Tomahawk |
Operation Tomahawk was an airborne military operation by the 187th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on 23 March 1951 at Munsan-ni as part of Operation Courageous in the Korean War.
Operation Courageous was designed to trap large numbers of Chinese and...
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| Battle of Pusan Perimeter |
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The Battle of Pusan Perimeter was fought in August and September 1950 between United Nations Command forces combined with South Korean forces against the forces of North Korea. The Pusan Perimeter was the area in extreme southeast Korea which was...
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| Retreat, Hell! |
Retreat, Hell! is a 1952 American film about the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
The film is the story of the putting together of a Marine Battalion sent to Korea who are gathered from various sources. It stars...
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| Welcome to Dongmakgol |
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Welcome to Dongmakgol (웰컴투 동막골) is a 2005 South Korean film set during the Korean War. It was South Korea's official entry for the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards in 2005, and as of 2005 it was the fourth-highest grossing South...
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| Battle of Pork Chop Hill |
The Battle of Pork Chop Hill comprises a pair of related Korean War infantry battles during the spring and summer of 1953. These were fought while the U.S. and the Communist Chinese and Koreans negotiated an armistice. In the U.S., they were...
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| Battle of Hill Eerie |
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The Battle of Hill Eerie refers to several Korean War engagements between the United Nations forces and the Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) in 1952 at the infamous Hill Eerie.
Hill Eerie was a military outpost at 38°15′12″N 127°3′8″E / 38.25333°N...
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| The Hunters |
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The Hunters is a 1958 feature film adapted from the novel The Hunters by James Salter. Produced by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner as two very different United States Air Force fighter pilots in the midst of the Korean War. It...
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| Operation Blue Hearts |
During the Korean War, Operation Bluehearts was the American amphibious landing conducted at Pohang on 18 July 1950 by the First Cavalry Division. The town was still in friendly hands, but was in the path of the rapid North Korean advance. The...
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| Operation Commando |
Operation Commando was an offensive undertaken by UN forces during the Korean War between 2–5 October 1951. The U.S. I Corps (including four U.S. Divisions, the 1st Commonwealth Division and the 1st South Korean Division) seized the Jamestown Line,...
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| War Hunt |
War Hunt is a 1962 war film starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford. The film was directed by Denis Sanders, produced by his brother, Terry Sanders for T-D Enterprises, and released by United Artists.
The movie features the film...
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| Battle Hymn |
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Battle Hymn (1957) is a Universal Studios feature film starring Rock Hudson as Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess's autobiography of the same name was published concurrently with the...
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| The Steel Helmet |
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The Steel Helmet (1951) is a war film directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Lippert Studios during the Korean War. It was the first film about the war, and the first of several war films by producer-director-writer Fuller.
When an American...
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| Battle of Sunchon |
The Battle of Sunchon was an air battle fought near the city of Sunchon during the Korean War. On 1 December 1951, 12 Gloster Meteor jets of the RAAF's 77 Squadron were on a sweep at 19,000 feet over Sunchon when they were attacked by 40-50 Soviet...
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| Siege of Wonsan |
Siege of Wonsan was the United Nations aerial and naval bombardment of Wonsan in North Korea for 861 days during the Korean war.
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| Shangganling Battle |
Battle on Shangganling Mountain is a 1956 Chinese war film. It is also known as Shangganling Battle.
The film depicts the Battle of Triangle Hill during the Korean War..
Battle on Shangganling Mountain follows a group of Chinese People's Volunteer...
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| Battle of Pakchon |
The Battle of Pakchon was a battle in the Korean War between the United Nations 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the Chinese 117th Division. The battle took place on 5 November 1950 around the small village of Pakchon and around the Taeryoung...
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| Outpost Harry |
Outpost Harry was a remote Korean War station located on a tiny hilltop in what was commonly referred to as the "Iron Triangle" on the Korean Peninsula. This was an area approximately 60 miles (100 km) north of Seoul and was the most direct route to...
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| Attack on the Sui-ho Dam |
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The attack on the Sui-ho Dam was the collective name for a large series of air attacks by United Nations Command air forces on thirteen hydroelectric generating facilities that took place June 23 and June 24, 1952, during the Korean War. Primarily...
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| Battle of Old Baldy |
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The Battle of Old Baldy refers to a series of five engagements over a period of 10 months for Hill 266 in west-central Korea, though there was also vicious fighting both before and after these engagements.
As May turned to June, Major General David...
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| All the Young Men |
All the Young Men is a 1960 Korean War feature film starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier.
Poitier plays a Korean War sergeant commanding a small, isolated and decimated platoon of American Marines. The film explores the racial integration of the...
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| Take the High Ground! |
Take the High Ground! is a Korean War film, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as drill instructors who must transform a batch of everyday civilians into soldiers.
In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas...
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| MacArthur |
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MacArthur is a 1977 film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the titular role as American General Douglas MacArthur.
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been...
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| Operation Courageous |
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Operation Courageous was a military operation performed by the United States Army during the Korean War designed to trap large numbers of Chinese and North Korean troops between the Han and Imjin Rivers north of Seoul, opposite the South Korean I...
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| One Minute to Zero |
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One Minute to Zero (1952) is a romantic war film starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth set during the Korean War. Victor Young's score includes the love theme "When I Fall In Love", which became a popular hit song recorded by a variety of artists....
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| Battle of Hill 282 |
The Battle of Hill 282 took place on September 23 during the Korean War, and involved the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in an assault on this position as part an operation by 27th British Commonwealth Brigade on the Naktong River....
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| Battle of White Horse |
The Battle of White Horse (or Baengma-goji, simplified Chinese: 白马山战役), was another in a series of bloody battles for dominant hilltop positions during the Korean War. Baengma-goji was a 395 meter hill in the Iron Triangle vicinity, formed by...
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| Battle of Uijeongbu |
The Battle of Uijeongbu was a battle fought in Uijeongbu during the Korean War. It began on the June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans invaded South Korea. The North Koreans' objective was divided into three lines. The first one was to pass Gaeseong,...
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| First Battle of Yeonpyeong |
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1st Western Sea |
The First Battle of Yeonpyeong was a battle between naval units of North and South Korea on June 9 and 15, 1999. It did little to settle the dispute about control of the area and was an embarrassment to the North Korean regime. Minor incidents and...
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| Second Battle of Yeonpyeong |
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2nd Western Sea |
The Second Battle of Yeonpyeong was a confrontation at sea between North Korean and South Korean patrol boats along a disputed boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea in 2002. This followed a similar confrontation in 1999. Two North Korean...
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| Fixed Bayonets! |
Fixed Bayonets! (1951) is a war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War. It is Fuller's second film about the Korean War. In his motion picture debut, James Dean appears briefly in the...
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| Battle of Daejeon |
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The Battle of Taejon was an early battle between United States and North Korean forces during the Korean War from July 14 to 21, 1950. Forces of the United States Army, attempting to defend the headquarters of the 24th Infantry Division and delay...
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| Operation Killer |
Operation Killer was the start of the second major counter offensive launched by United Nations forces against the People's Volunteer Army and the North Korean Army during the Korean War between 20 February and 6 March 1951. The offensive was...
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| Battle of Maryang San | Battle of Maryan San |
The Battle of Maryang San—codenamed Operation Commando—(5–8 October 1951) is chiefly known as Australia's greatest accomplishment in the Korean War.
In late September 1951, US General James Van Fleet called for British Commonwealth forces to advance...
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| Action of 17 December 1998 |
The Battle of Yosu, in December 1996, was a naval battle that began when the South Korean military intercepted a North Korean semi-submersible vessel attempting to land commandos on the South Korean coast.
Throughout 1998 there had been several...
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| Action of 2 July 1950 |
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| Hold Back the Night | ||||
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| Men In War | ||||
| Men of the Fighting Lady | ||||
