On the Line
Last Battle of the Korean War
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Seminal Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Perkins, Bob Barr, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon & Father Roy Bourgeois | |
Directed by | Peter Glenn & Jason Schmidt | |
Composition by | Francisco Herrera, Stephen Childress & George Sarah | |
Hosted by | Brian Derouen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Jang's filmmaking weapons may be utterly conventional, but that does not prevent them from delivering a high-impact payload.
Little White Lies
Rating: B --
The action in The Front Line is bloody and tense, but the movie also reduces war to its simplest terms...
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AV Club
Rating: 2/4 --
Both brutal and sentimental, this Oscar-submitted Korean war drama offers up rusty tropes as telling ironies.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: B+ --
South Korea's impressive entry for the 2011 foreign-language Oscar race offers a different kind of war picture in its foreshadowed setting of the blood-soaked front line between North and South Korea during the 1950-53 war.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 8/10 --
If you like war movies, this one is a dandy. Sure, you'll recognize some of the genre's shopworn conventions, but there are enough unique twists and details to make "The Front Line" memorable.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/4 --
A potent anti-war movie with breathtaking battle sequences.
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New York Post
Rating: 2.5/5 --
A war movie not quite worth engaging.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Filmmakers Peter Glenn and Jason A. Schmidt explore the nonviolent movement to shut down the School of the Americas in this documentary detailing the challenges faced by protesters in the aftermath of 9/11. Also known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, The School of the Americas is an official Department of Defense facility that has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. Critics of the institution argue that graduates of the program are some of the biggest human-rights violators in the world. But what happens when regular Americans gather peacefully to protest a program that's staunchly defended by the U.S. government' Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, School of Americas Watch founder F. Roy Bourgeois, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN author John Perkins, and former U.S. Congressman Bob Barr reveal why some people are willing to face arrest and prosecution in order to challenge their government on a program that may ultimately do more harm than good.