Best North Korean war movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch war films from North Korea, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Best in Hell

    The Best in Hell 2022

    Propaganda movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.

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  • Poster for Wolmi Island

    Wolmi Island 1982

    A small troop of North Korean soldiers, armed with just four guns among them, defeats General Douglas MacArthur and 50,000 American soldiers at Inch'on.

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  • Poster for Teen Guerrillas

    Teen Guerrillas 1951

    A group of boys decide to form a guerrilla unit in order to sabotage and spy on the American enemy after one of the communist-controlled cities falls to them.

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  • Poster for From Spring to Summer

    From Spring to Summer 1988

    This is a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics co-production. This film is set during World War II, and is about a female Russian soldier named Masha. She is on a mission to discover a secret Japanese base in Korea. Everybody who accompanies her on the mission shortly dies, and she’s forced to stay with a local fisherman. She is trying to get the information about the base location back to the Russian army, because if she doesn’t, the Japanese will unleash the “Sakura Plan”, which is an all-out biological warfare assualt on the world.

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  • Poster for Scouts

    Scouts 1953

    The film tells the story of a small group of the Korean People's Army, led by Hakcheol Lee, deputy chief of the reconnaissance division, which went behind enemy lines.

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  • Poster for On The Railway

    On The Railway 1960

    Having been arrested by the American forces, a Korean engineer tries to save a North-Korean engine from the possession of the enemy by pretending he is working for them.

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  • Poster for Moranbong

    Moranbong 1960

    At the beginning of the Korean war, the love story, in a remote village, between a young worker and the daughter of a traditional musician.

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  • A Pencil Cannonball 1983

    North Korea Animation that teaches the importance of learning Geometry.

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  • Poster for Village People

    Village People 1957

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  • Poster for The Unending Battle

    The Unending Battle 1957

    The Lysynmanovites planned to kill Lee Min Se, a prominent scientist living in North Korea, in order to take possession of his discovery. To this end, they sent Park Dong Gyun to Pyongyang. After getting a close look at life in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Park Dong-gyun couldn't go through with the crime and decided to tell the Korean counterintelligence folks everything. With his help, a gang of seasoned saboteurs was exposed and caught.

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  • Poster for The Miss of Guerrillas

    The Miss of Guerrillas 1954

    Against the backdrop of the time when North Korea was fighting the war for the liberation of the Korean peninsula (1950-1953), the main character, Ok-khi Cho, participates in a guerrilla war in a village occupied by the American military.

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  • Poster for Song of Retrospection

    Song of Retrospection 1986

    Mr. Komak, a musician from one foreign power, and Ra Sol Ju, Navy communicator of DPRK, who also does have a sense of music, met twice. First, on the Korean War, where she captured him, and then at the Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. Many years later, Komak is coming to the festival in Pyongyang, with hope to find her.

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  • Poster for Love the Future

    Love the Future 1959

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  • Poster for How can we live apart?

    How can we live apart? 1957

    Yong Nam was separated from his mother by the war on the Korean Peninsula (1950-1953): the boy remained in South Korea, while his mother left for the North. But how can they live apart?

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  • Poster for Her Life Path

    Her Life Path 1958

    Using the fate of an ordinary woman as an example, the film shows how life has changed in liberated Korea.

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  • Poster for Mt. Baekdu can be seen everywhere

    Mt. Baekdu can be seen everywhere 1956

    A screen adaptation of the novel by North Korean writer Yong Song. On the anti-Japanese partisan struggle of the Korean partisans in the 1930s.

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  • Poster for 한전사의 이야기

    한전사의 이야기 1965

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  • Poster for 그들의 모습에서

    그들의 모습에서 1985

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  • Poster for Defenders of the native land

    Defenders of the native land 1952

    The plot revolves around a pair of hunters, Moonil Lee and Sun-deok Kim, who wage an armed struggle to defend their homeland during the war on the Korean Peninsula (1950-1953).

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  • Poster for The Combat Unit of a Fighter Plane

    The Combat Unit of a Fighter Plane 1953

    The main character of the film, Man-sik Kim, is a fighter of the Korean People's Army. Through his bravery and resourcefulness in battle, he crushed the enemy's air superiority and dealt a crushing blow to the enemy.

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  • Poster for Red Flare

    Red Flare 1960

    About the struggle of the National Liberation Army of Korea against South Korean mercenaries, about the military operations of the People's Army scouts behind enemy lines.

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  • Poster for Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok

    Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok 1992

    Choe Hyon Dok indulged in anti-communism nearly all his life. At the end, he is forsaken by the nation and lives in exile in a foreign country. But in the embrace of his beloved home, his motherland, he finds the genuine way to resurrection and contribution to the nation at last.

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  • Poster for Guerrilla Cuckoos

    Guerrilla Cuckoos 1964

    Two teenagers were instructed to urgently deliver the enemy's action plan to the partisan detachment. Despite the various obstacles encountered on their way, the guys managed to deceive the Japanese sentries and complete the task.

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  • Poster for Red Buds

    Red Buds 1960

    About the heroic struggle of young Korean patriots against the Japanese invaders in 1930.

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  • Poster for Son of the Motherland

    Son of the Motherland 1956

    The story of a Korean who, since childhood, lived under the rule of Japanese invaders. During the Korean War, the hero devotes all his strength to the fight against the aggressors, worthily serving the homeland he loves.

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  • Pioneer honor 1959

    The story of how the pioneers helped to hide the equipment of the mine where gold was mined from the enemy, and thereby disrupted the restoration of the work.

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  • Poster for 애국자

    애국자 1959

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  • Poster for Return to Frontline

    Return to Frontline 1951

    The film tells the story of the heroic deeds of the Korean People's Army soldiers fighting for the independence and freedom of their homeland.

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  • Poster for Never Can Live Like That

    Never Can Live Like That 1956

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  • Poster for Jeon-u

    Jeon-u 1958

    During the Korean War, Chinese volunteers and the Korean People's Army supported each other and fought together. They shed blood in the name of friendship between the two peoples and praised the nobility, the spirit of internationalism.

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  • Poster for Notes of a War Correspondent

    Notes of a War Correspondent 1982

    During a diving drill, the North Korean army finds an UN patrol ship that was sunk in the Korean War and manages to salvage a document from a waterproof iron box that tells the story of several North Korean soldiers and the female army war correspondent who accompanied them on their fatal mission.

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  • Girls in My Hometown 1991

    Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend was engaged becomes blinded in an accident, she decides to put herself first, neglecting her duties to her fiancé and the community she lives in.

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