Why Korea?

Last updated

Why Korea?
Written byUlric Bell
Produced byEdmund Reek
Narrated byJoe King
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • 1950 (1950)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Why Korea? is a 1950 American short documentary film produced by Edmund Reek at the request of the Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and used newsreel footage to explain the Korean War. [1] In 1951, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 23rd Academy Awards. [2] The Academy Film Archive preserved Why Korea? in 2005. [3]

Contents

Cast

References

  1. ↑ FitzGerald, Michael Ray (July 2, 2016). "'Adjuncts of Government': Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox in Service to the Executive Branch, 1935–1971" . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36 (3): 373–391. doi:10.1080/01439685.2015.1100387. ISSN   0143-9685. S2CID   146717257 . Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ "The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.


Shortfilm2.svg

This article about a short documentary film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.