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The Roku Channel
87
8.0
/56236/
76
/999/
76
/736/
4.2
/82829/
98
/115/
89
/953/
93
/15/
cc age 17+

The Last Picture Show (1971)
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
7.9
/83934/
75
/1210/
75
/768/
4.0
/54532/
97
/67/
90
/1500/
94
/20/
cc age 13+

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.6
/4784/
76
/159/
73
/71/
3.8
/5310/
93
/27/
85
/159/

The Atomic Cafe (1982)
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
poster
79
7.3
/81635/
72
/1799/
69
/1107/
3.5
/66489/
86
/58/
82
/1982/
80
/8/
cc age 15+

M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
poster
80
78
7.6
/17450/
74
/343/
73
/307/
3.9
/21179/
93
/40/
89
/257/

Pickup on South Street (1953)
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/1233/
72
/41/
73
/20/
3.6
/1344/
100
/68/
79
/45/
83
/27/

Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
Ethan Hawke directs this intimate documentary portrait of classical pianist, composer, author, teacher and sage Seymour Bernstein.
poster
78
8.0
/42156/
78
/696/
79
/740/
3.8
/11729/
79
/43/
93
/1545/
64
/19/

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
When 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.
poster
78
7.5
/234443/
75
/4744/
71
/2314/
3.6
/103457/
86
/183/
87
/13171/
71
/36/
cc age 16+

Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/2369/
70
/48/
71
/39/
3.7
/3567/
93
/59/
68
/127/
81
/9/

Of Time and the City (2008)
British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century.
poster
76
7.3
/34011/
70
/520/
69
/379/
3.6
/15918/
96
/70/
82
/607/
74
/32/
cc age 15+

Gods and Monsters (1998)
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.4
/5360/
74
/267/
71
/116/
3.7
/5469/
94
/32/
70
/15/
81
/14/

Under the Sun (2015)
Over 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.
poster
74
6.6
/31819/
71
/2643/
70
/791/
3.2
/38889/
81
/126/
92
/679/
66
/30/
cc age 13+

Devotion (2022)
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
poster
74
7.9
/475117/
78
/11131/
77
/7546/
3.9
/506867/
76
/220/
89
/26325/
58
/42/
cc age 12+

Big Fish (2003)
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.7
/5022/
71
/252/
65
/119/
3.4
/3521/
87
/119/
82
/65/
69
/25/
cc age 15+

What They Had (2018)
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
74
7.6
/7862/
74
/188/
75
/192/
3.7
/4892/
88
/8/
92
/256/

Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.
poster
77
72
8.2
/6127/
77
/273/
71
/112/
3.9
/5963/

The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020)
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
poster
72
7.1
/3510/
70
/40/
64
/36/
3.4
/523/
70
/93/
85
/195/
68
/28/

Off the Map (2003)
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.
poster
Hoopla
71
6.9
/1978/
67
/44/
62
/27/
3.5
/1311/
76
/71/
71
/43/
73
/23/

Down in the Delta (1998)
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
70
7.8
/6758/
76
/238/
74
/128/
3.8
/7375/
75
/8/
86
/29/

Ode to My Father (2014)
Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
69
7.4
/5103/
69
/79/
69
/83/
3.8
/6640/
100
/16/
84
/90/

The Steel Helmet (1951)
A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.8
/7549/
67
/141/
65
/112/
3.4
/4651/
65
/20/
74
/124/
62
/21/

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
69
7.5
/3161/
79
/136/
81
/80/
4.0
/14066/
63
/8/
96
/52/

Swing Kids (2018)
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
poster
75
68
7.3
/6070/
73
/184/
75
/201/
3.3
/2685/
90
/84/

71: Into the Fire (2010)
In August 1950, waiting for UN troops to arrive, the South Korean army assembled to protect Nakdong River. Only 71 student-soldiers are left behind to guard the city of Pohang. Now they are on a mission to defend the country from North Korean troops.
poster
80
67
8.2
/47353/
79
/524/
80
/381/
3.8
/35273/
85
/8/

Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.
poster
Kanopy
66
7.0
/1728/
71
/137/
67
/50/
3.4
/1310/
72
/39/
61
/35/
64
/18/

Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)
The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
66
7.3
/7477/
76
/195/
72
/191/
3.6
/3109/
71
/17/
79
/43/
59
/10/

The Front Line (2011)
In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
poster
72
65
7.0
/8662/
70
/128/
66
/139/
3.3
/4927/
82
/56/
79
/143/

Sayonara (1957)
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver 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, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
poster
74
65
6.8
/4590/
70
/330/
69
/146/
3.5
/3813/
93
/14/
77
/15/

The Propaganda Game (2015)
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
poster
72
64
7.0
/5684/
72
/134/
66
/68/
3.5
/1719/
88
/8/
72
/64/

Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
poster
74
62
7.3
/7549/
70
/141/
70
/142/
3.6
/1306/
86
/330/

Assembly (2007)
Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang.
poster
73
60
7.4
/4557/
74
/51/
74
/51/
3.4
/1523/
71
/7/
81
/47/

The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
6.4
/6390/
70
/118/
62
/80/
3.1
/1996/
40
/15/
74
/173/

For the Boys (1991)
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
poster
Fandor
74
58
7.1
/3393/
71
/73/
66
/63/
3.7
/1972/
88
/8/
76
/24/

Men in War (1957)
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.
poster
58
6.4
/35173/
66
/1160/
64
/541/
3.0
/16679/
46
/24/
64
/1067/
44
/14/

The Prophecy (1995)
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
poster
73
57
6.9
/2256/
66
/72/
65
/35/
3.6
/1833/
100
/7/
71
/33/

Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
poster
65
57
6.7
/6833/
65
/94/
60
/83/
3.1
/2167/
80
/10/
59
/67/

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind enemy lines during the Korean War.
poster
54
6.2
/6652/
66
/526/
58
/217/
2.7
/2457/
40
/20/
53
/36/
50
/8/

Operation Chromite (2016)
A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
poster
60
52
6.4
/5767/
64
/89/
59
/87/
3.1
/2569/
53
/17/
56
/110/

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
52
6.2
/3649/
62
/316/
58
/77/
3.0
/3488/
51
/26/

Killer Legends (2014)
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
poster
fuboTV
51
6.3
/2642/
59
/50/
56
/44/
3.1
/1083/
9
/11/
50
/47/

Chattahoochee (1990)
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
poster
61
51
6.5
/5532/
71
/146/
63
/86/
3.1
/1328/
45
/11/
60
/89/

MacArthur (1977)
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
poster
Kanopy
74
50
7.4
/2042/
68
/52/
69
/28/
3.8
/1759/
85
/35/

In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
poster
Kanopy
78
50
7.7
/1079/
77
/38/
77
/22/
3.6
/504/
89
/28/
92
/95/
63
/14/

A State of Mind (2005)
Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration.
poster
77
47
7.4
/885/
78
/37/
72
/20/
3.5
/411/
90
/21/
85
/46/
71
/8/

Crossing the Line (2006)
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, after 45 years, the story of James Dresnok, the last American defector in North Korea, is being told for the first time. Crossing the Line follows Dresnok as he recalls his childhood, desertion, and life in the DPRK.
poster
65
45
6.4
/2330/
66
/49/
62
/51/
3.3
/1205/
67
/1735/

The Geisha Boy (1958)
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
poster
MGM Plus
44
5.8
/18914/
63
/708/
62
/453/
3.2
/15923/
14
/21/
53
/525/
18
/9/

Death Wish 3 (1985)
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
43
5.5
/4744/
63
/246/
62
/132/
2.9
/4140/
36
/11/
100
/2/

The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.
poster
Kanopy
76
43
7.3
/644/
68
/29/
72
/27/
3.6
/860/
100
/10/
78
/8/
73
/6/

Approved for Adoption (2012)
This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. Animated vignettes – some humorous and some poetic – track Jung from the day he first meet his new blond siblings, through elementary school, and into his teenage years, when his emerging sense of identity begins to create fissures at home and ignite the latent biases of his adoptive parents. The filmmaker tells his story using his own animation intercut with snippets of super-8 family footage and archival film. The result is an animated memoir like no other: clear-eyed and unflinching, humorous, and above all, inspiring in the capacity of the human heart.


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