‘Pork Chop Hill’: A Gritty Korean War Film With a Great Cast

The Korean War gets its due in cinema history in a film with realistic battle scenes.

Lts. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck, L) and Suki Ohashi (George Shibata), in "Pork Chop Hill." United Artists

R | 1h 37m | Drama, War | 1959

Before I was stationed in South Korea (not far from the DMZ, or demilitarized zone), I didn’t know that much about the Korean War. We were taught about the Vietnam War and World Wars I and II in school, but the Korean War seemed absent from academia, in general.