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作者：搬运工 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Korea: The Unfinished War -- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Sunday November 9 from 8:00 p.m. EST to midnight in back-to-back episodes
Monday November 10 through Thursday November 13 at 10:00 p.m.
4 / 60 minutes
Directed and written by Brian McKenna; produced in association with Galafilm Productions Inc. (Arnie Gelbart, Christine LeGoff, Stephen Phizicky); narrated by Brian McKenna and Terence McKenna
Korea is an unfinished war, still laden with secrets. Secrets about biological warfare. Secrets about cold-blooded orders given to UN troops to bomb and shoot Korean civilians. Secrets about a clandestine nuclear battle plan that saw Soviet cities targeted with atomic weapons from a Canadian base.
Fifty years later, as North Korea declares itself a nuclear power, it's appropriate to revisit this overlooked slice of history. Noted Canadian journalist and documentary maker Brian McKenna gained rare access to North Korea to pursue the hidden stories in a war that has played out as a stark prelude to Vietnam. Korea: The Unfinished War combines new combat footage (shot in colour) with re-enactments to offer sharp insight into the warís crucial moments. A must-see for students and enthusiasts of history, the four-hour series features chilling testimonies of Canadian and American veterans and a Korean Canadian family, who like the country itself, saw their lives sundered by the war. Even more disturbing are documents obtained from Canadian, U.S., and Korean archives that shed a dramatic new light on war crimes and other atrocities.
Program One: The Land of the Morning Calm
In Korea, to its people ìthe land of morning calm,î war has been raging since 1950 ñ and even before. Years of unofficial civil war and politically sanctioned murder erupted into a North Korean assault on the 38th parallel. Today 1.7 million armed soldiers still face each other there. On June 25, 1950, the forces of Kim II Sung easily pushed back ill-prepared South Korean and American troops. American-led assaults on civilian targets and refugee columns did not stem the tide. In the seriesí opener, military commanders, civilians, and spies recount the tumultuous first days of the conflict, leading up to General Douglas MacArthurís brilliant aquatic assault on Inchon.
Program Two: Enter the Dragon
Marines revisit the beaches at Inchon where they were ordered to shoot wounded enemy troops during the assault. Plans were underway for an atomic campaign in North Korea should the attack fail. Records reveal plans for an American base with nuclear capabilities in Labrador. MacArthur pushed on to recapture Seoul and despite warnings from the Chinese, to invade North Korea. Though lacking Soviet support, Chinese General Peng Duhaiís devastating counterattack was the largest American defeat in history. Unwilling to admit a blunder, MacArthur would try to set up a nuclear retaliation against China.
Program Three:Silent Night
The U.S. dead were only beginning to be shipped home when Canadian soldiers were called to Korea. The new forces trained before joining the front, where the Chinese were using night attacks and sheer numbers against their technologically-superior enemy. Just as MacArthur was planning nuclear cover for his retreat from Korea, President Truman removed him from duty. In 1951, Chinese forces recaptured Seoul, but as Canadian troops joined the offensive, a UN army held the 38th parallel against the oncoming Chinese. In this third episode, former soldiers tell of the strange truce of Christmas, sending music instead of bullets across a barren No Manís Land.
Program Four: Burnt Ground
Did the U.S. use Japanese biological warfare research in Korea? Were there leaflet bombs filled with rotting animal corpses contaminated with plague? or anthrax? Historian Stephen Endicott (York University) investigates charges that the Americans used biological warfare. These charges were levelled by his father, a respected Canadian United Church missionary. Americans would label James Endicott as a subversive, a Communist. China inoculated five million people in 1951-52 against various biological agents, and U.S. war policies targeted civilians and refugees -- serious war crimes.
An armistice was signed in 1953, but plans for a nuclear strike on North Korea still exist. Today, air raid drills ring through Pyongyang. Troops still guard the 38th parallel. The Korean War is far from over.
Brian McKenna
Brian McKenna, who directed and wrote the series, has relentlessly pursued diverse and controversial issues throughout his career as an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker (The Valour and the Horror, War of 1812). For his outstanding contribution to Canadian journalism, he is being honoured with the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism at the Geminis in October.
TVO and TFO are airing Korea: The Unfinished War as a special joint presentation. It premieres on The View From Here in a four-hour block, Sunday, November 9, from 8:00 p.m. to midnight; then again Monday through Thursday November 10 through 13 at 10:00 p.m. A panel discussion, hosted by Ian Brown will follow the final program on Thursday. The French version La Guerre de Corèe will premiere on TFO, Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., starting November 5, and Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. Korea: The Unfinished War was commissioned by TVO.
Curriculum Links
Canadian and World StudiesóAmerican history: the development of a world power: analyze the role of the United States in international affairs since 1945, Grade 11
óworld history: the west and the world: the key factors that have led to conflict and war and the consequences of war (e.g., destruction of human life and property, changes in power balances and regimes, entrenchment of attitudes of superiority and resistance, changes in social structure and in gender relations and expectations, technological and medical advances), Grade 12
óCanada: history, identity and culture: communities: local, national, and global; how Canadaís participation in significant international conflicts changed the way the country was perceived by the international community, Grade 12
Media contact:
Rosanne Meandro
416.484.2600 or 1.800.613.0513 ext. 2389 fax: 416.484.6285
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.tvontario.org/mediakit/current/documentaries/koreaunfinished.html >TVO
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