Why Korea? (1950)

Directed by

Edmund Reek

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

30 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This short documentary uses newsreel footage to explain the Korean War. It was made for the U.S. Secretary of Defense. The film won an Oscar.

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What happens

Why Korea? is a 1950 American short documentary film produced by Edmund Reek at the request of the Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and used newsreel footage to explain the Korean War. In 1951, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 23rd Academy Awards. The Academy Film Archive preserved Why Korea? in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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