Product Details

• Actors: Robert Stack
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: September 27, 2005
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AABL4E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,272 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 10/04/2005

Customer Reviews

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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Basic Documentary, January 28, 2008

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Keith Gander "Keith" (Rock Island, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Korea - The Forgotten War (History Channel) (DVD)

I have been fascinated with the Korean War since a grade schooler in the early 60's. I spent three seperate one year tours in South Korea in the 70's and 80's while in the U.S. Army, and toured some of the battlefields while there.
I purchased this in 1987 on VHS and really enjoyed it then. But, it does lack punch. There are no interviews of surviving veterans on either side. The work only covers the most basic points of the war and never goes into some of the more controversial incidents. (1). The brutality of the Rhee regime (Who the U.S. supported). (2). The poor performance of the U.S. Army combat units (3). The collaboration of U.S. POWs with their communist captors (which resulted in the Code of Conduct). (4). Why such a modern military force as the U.N., with all it's fire power, was forced to retreat from a bunch of "pajama clad" Chinese, who had no heavy artillery or air support. But, as always Robert Stack is an excellent narrator, and the war is presented in chronological order with decent (somewhat grainy) black and white footage.
The DVD is only 100 minutes long, so they did what they could in that amount of time.
There is so much more to that war than is covered here. For some good reading Donald Knox and Max Hastings both wrote excellent books. I give this DVD 3 1/2 stars.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my Dad's war, October 20, 2008

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Norma J. Bottoms (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Korea - The Forgotten War (History Channel) (DVD)

Bought this for my Dad and he loved it, gave us many hours of material for conversation and I learned a lot. Very worthwhile.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed basic facts, March 28, 2010

By 

Winston "Iran Blogger/Activist" (Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Korea - The Forgotten War (History Channel) (DVD)

A very detailed documentary/show on the Korean War (1950-53). So detailed at times it got boring but I truly enjoyed the dates, locations and month by month play of the battles and actions. It's a basic briefing of the war and doesn't get very technical. Names, places, dates and actions are talked about but other than that, not much is discussed. Again, it is highly recommended if you know little or nothing about the Korean war.