Five years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan, a new menace to freedom arose in the East! Communist North Korean forces, backed by the might of a newly victorious Red China, crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea. The violation of this agreed-upon treaty line caused the United Nations to spring into action, triggering the first heated action of the “Cold War.” Three years later, the conflict ground to an inconclusive halt, as the political will of the exhausted Western democracies bled out on the battlefield of Pork Chop Hill. This extraordinary series captures the ferocity and the futility of a war America never fully committed to, incorporating expert commentary, shocking combat footage. THE UNFINISHED WAR offers a terrifying lesson in military and diplomatic history.

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 1: The Land Of The Morning Calm
2010
The Korean Peninsula had been a battlefield for centuries and this episode begins with an overview of the wars fought from the first through the 19th century…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 2: Blocking The Red Tide
2010
All through the late 1940’s North Korean leader Kim Il Sung pushed on Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, to sanction and support an invasion of…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 3: No Place To Go
2010
American, Republic of Korea and U.N. troops were holding the Pusan Perimeter in the summer of 1950 as the North Korean invasion had pushed through all…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 4: The Gamble
2010
General MacArthur devised a bold plan to outflank the NKA forces and retake Seoul and cut off the NKA forces from their supplies lines from the north…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 5: Home Before Christmas
2010
With U.N., and especially American forces, now in the North, the political leaders of Communist China and the Soviet Union became quite concerned; fearing…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 6: Retreat, Hell
2010
U.N. forces were moving through North Korea, having pushed the NKA back across the 38thth Parallel. The 1st Marine and 7th Infantry divisions, comprising…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 7: The Big Bug Out
2010
The U.N. forces in the eastern part of North Korea, mostly U.S. Marines and Army infantry, were being pulled out of North Korea to the coast to Hungnam…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 8: War Of Attrition
2010
During the withdrawal from the North, the vastly outnumbered U.N. forces – mostly U.S. Marines and Army infantry – fought 4 Communist Chinese armies…

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 9: Blood In The Hills
2010
In 1951 General MacArthur was advocating an escalation, including an attack into Communist China, besides and embargo and air attacks.

Korea The Unfinished War (1950-2010) – Episode 10: A Conflict Frozen In Time
2010
At the end of 1951 and into 1952, the Korean War looked like World War I: Static front lines. A Main Line of Resistance (for both sides). A No Man’s…