A Far Cry (1959)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- South Korea, United Kingdom
How it feels
This documentary focuses on children and families displaced by the Korean War. It shows their living conditions in camps and their efforts to rebuild daily life.
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What happens
A Far Cry (also known as Children of Korea) is a 1958 British documentary film directed by Stephen Peet about displaced persons in South Korea following the Korean War (1950–1953). It was commissioned by the Save the Children Fund UK and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC in 1959. It appears on the programme of two International Film Festivals in 2015. Stephen Peet subsequently made many more documentary films for BBC TV, with the series title Yesterday's Witness. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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