Editing War film (section)

=== Korean War ===
{{See also|Category:Korean War films}}
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[[Samuel Fuller]]'s ''[[The Steel Helmet]]'' (1951) was made during the [[Korean War]] (1950–1953). The critic Guy Westwell notes that it questioned the conduct of the war, as did later films like ''[[The Bridges at Toko-Ri]]'' (1954) and ''[[Pork Chop Hill (film)|Pork Chop Hill]]'' (1959).{{sfn|Westwell|2006|pp=51–53}} Fuller agreed that all his films were anti-war. No Hollywood films about the Korean War did well at the box office; the historian Lary May suggested in 2001 that they reminded American viewers of "the only war we have lost".<ref name="WestSŏ2001">{{Cite book |last1=West |first1=Philip |last2=Sŏ |first2=Chi-mun |title=Remembering the 'Forgotten War': The Korean War Through Literature and Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ajmbslz-GacC&pg=PA127 |date=2001 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=978-0-7656-0696-9 |page=127}}</ref>

In 1955, after the fighting, the successful [[Republic of Korea|South Korean]] action film ''[[Piagol]]''  about leftist guerrilla atrocities encouraged other film-makers. The 1960s military government punished pro-communist film-makers and gave Grand Bell Awards to films with the strongest anti-communist message. ''[[The Taebaek Mountains]]'' (1994) dealt with leftists from the south who fought for the communists, while ''[[Silver Stallion (1991 film)|Silver Stallion]]'' (1991) and ''[[Spring in My Hometown]]'' (1998) showed the destructive impact of American military presence on village life. The violent action films ''[[Shiri (film)|Shiri]]'' (1999) and ''[[Joint Security Area (film)|Joint Security Area]]'' (2000) presented North Korea in a favourable light.<ref>{{Cite web | author=Paquet, Darcy | url=http://www.koreanfilm.org/warfilms.html |title=South Korean Films About the Korean War (1950–53): A Tool for Reference | publisher=Koreanfilm.org |access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref>

Films in [[Democratic Republic of Korea|North Korea]] were made by government film studios and had clear political messages. The first was ''[[My Home Village]]'' (1949), on the liberation of Korea from the Japanese, presented as the work of [[Kim Il Sung]] without help from the Americans. Similarly, the country's films about the Korean War show victory without help from the Chinese. The film scholar Johannes Schönherr concludes that the purpose of these films is "to portray North Korea as a country under siege", and that since the U.S. and its "puppet" South Korea invaded the North once, they would do so again.<ref>{{Cite book |last = Schönherr  |first = Johannes |year = 2012 |title = North Korean Cinema: A History |publisher = McFarland| location = Jefferson, N.C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6n0itIPmakC |isbn=978-0-7864-6526-2}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6n0itIPmakC&q=My+Home+Village pp. 4, 29–31]</ref>