Resources

Links to videos about North Korea:

• Journeyman Pictures has 25 short documentaries on North Korea including interviews with defectors and former spies and stories on prison labor camps, a UN inquiry on human rights abuses and nuclear North Korea.

• PBS Frontline Secret State of North Korea (2014): Only available for viewing in the US.

• North Korean Motorcycle Diaries, Vice Magazine (2013)

• Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea, Ted Talks (2013)

• Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained, Ted Talks (2013)

• DPRK: The Land Of Whispers by Etherium Sky (2013)

• BBC Panorama North Korea Undercover (2013): This is the video that got Panorama in trouble for not telling students they were shooting a film

• CNN: Orphaned and homeless in North Korea (2013)

• Danny From North Korea (2013)

• North Korean Defector Beauties Now on my way to meet you (2013):  about the South Korean talk show hosted by female defectors

• Camp 14 – Total Control Zone (2012)

• The Red Chapel (2012)

• North Korean Labor Camps, Vice Magazine (2011)

• North Korean Film Madness, Vice Magazine (2011)

• Al Jazeera 101 East: North Korea’s cinema of dreams (2011)

• Al Jazeera 101 East: Learning Liberty (2011): about a school in South Korea helping North Korea defectors)

• BBC This World: Escaping North Korea (2009)

• PBS Wide Angle: Field Trip to the DMZ (2009)

• Unreported World Channel 4: China/North Korea: The Great Escape (2009)

• PBS Wide Angle: Crossing Heaven’s Border (2009)

• The Vice Guide to North Korea (2008)

• Seoul Train (2006): documentary follows NK refugees.

• North Korea “A Day In The Life”  (2006): a Dutch documentary generally considered a propaganda film

• Crossing the line (2006): A documentary on American soldiers who defected to North Korea, including Charles Jenkins who wrote a book about his time in NK.

• BBC Access to Evil (2004)

• A State of Mind (2004): A documentary following two young NK gymnasts who participates in the mass games.