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
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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