Democratization Movement Movies
- 2017
A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver8.0762017HD
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreig...
- 2017
1987: When the Day Comes
1987: When the Day Comes8.12017HD
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of offic...
- 2000
Peppermint Candy
Peppermint Candy7.52000HD
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demea...
- 2013
The Attorney
The Attorney7.82013HD
In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney...
- 1996
A Petal
A Petal71996HD
A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country...
- 2007
May 18
May 186.92007HD
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and clai...
- 2004
The President's Barber
The President's Barber7.12004HD
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequ...
- 2017
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower7.32017HD
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands...
- 2017
Excavator
Excavator7.72017HD
20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Up...
- 2012
National Security
National Security7.52012HD
On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the nex...
- 2018
The March for the Lost
The March for the Lost42018HD
This is the story of a father who died mysteriously in May of 1980, a mother who lives in the shadows with a bullet in her head and not being able to...
- 2007
Scout
Scout7.12007HD
1980, Kwang-ju is fired up about a genius pitcher, a senior in high school. Ho-chang takes confident strides across the field making his way by cuttin...
- 2024
1980: The Unforgettable Day
1980: The Unforgettable Day4.32024HD
There is HWAPYONG Restaurant with full of hopes of the family of three generations. Grandfather, the first-generation owner, and the first son, the se...
- 2018
The Hinzpeter Story
The Hinzpeter Story82018HD
In May of 1980, the city is locked down and phone lines are dead because of protests and struggles in demand of democracy. Just when Gwangju was being...
- 2023
Swallow
Swallow6.72023HD
Mother disappeared. Son faces the truth that was hidden for thirty years. In 1983, a twisted love story among a woman, a revolutionary, and a fraktsiy...
- 2019
Kim-Gun
Kim-Gun82019HD
KIM-GUN searches for the whereabouts of a young man whose identity has sparked a national controversy over the 1980 May 18 Gwangju Uprising. Starting...
- 2020
Gwangju Video: The Missing
Gwangju Video: The Missing5.52020HD
There are people whose lives have been shaken by the 'Gwangju Video'. On May of 1980, the course of their lives changed in front of a huge wave of tru...
- 2020
The Price of Democracy
The Price of Democracy02020HD
The expressions of democratization are usually interpreted by elites from two different parties but neglect the real faces/ life of every individual a...
- 2022
Blooming over the line
Blooming over the line62022HD
Born in 1918 in the ideal village of independence activists in the northern part of Manchuria, pastor Moon Ik-hwan lost his childhood friend Yun Dong-...
- 2011
No Name Stars
No Name Stars02011HD
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Democratization Movement. Though the country commemorates the event as the official historical record...