North Korea Movies

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

In the summer of 1989, the 13th edition of the World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Pyongyang. Thousands of socialist youth from 177...

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

In the near future, North Korea has established full diplomatic relations with the United States. The Lims, the family of the first North Korean...

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory...

Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi (Korean: 양영희, Hanja: 梁英姬)...

A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team...

Hyun-sung arrives at his girl friends house to ask for permission to marry from her parents. And then, He begins to find things strange.

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, including the kidnapping of a director.

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When...

Mark Fischbach learns about his grandfather's escape from North Korea and his family's history through stories passed down by his mother. He meets...

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them...

A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.

Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North...

Dragon smuggles North Korean defectors across borders for a living, and his latest undercover trip with Sook-Ja and Yong-hee takes an unexpected turn...

Operating under a pseudonym which means 'no boundaries' - North Korean defector Sun Mu creates political pop art based on his life, homeland, and...

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and...

After 15 years of knowing Chosun people in Japan I met on Mt. Geumgang in 2002, I face the history of colonization and division that I had not known...

Caught in forbidden love, Yong Joon defects from North Korea, leaving Jae Sung behind. Years later, a reunion forces him to choose between past and...