71: Into the Fire

Key Battles of American History

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 2010 South Korean film 71: Into the Fire. This film is based on a true story of a group of 71 undertrained, underarmed, and outgunned student volunteer soldiers of South Korea during the Korean War, most of whom were killed on August 11, 1950, during the Battle of P'ohang-dong. For 11 hours, they defended the local P'ohang girls' middle school, a strategic point for safeguarding the struggling Nakdong River perimeter, from an attack by overwhelming North Korean forces, including the feared 766th Unit.

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.7	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size,
0:17.1	and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:23.9	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.7	a podcast in which we discuss American history
0:28.9	through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.7	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.3	Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to key films of the Korean War.
0:46.4	I'm your host, James Early, as always.
0:49.4	And as always, I am accompanied by my good buddy, Sean McIver.
0:54.2	And this week, we are going to do something that we have never done before.
0:58.4	We're going to look at a South Korean film.
1:01.6	This is a new ground, isn't it, Sean?
1:03.9	Yeah.
1:04.8	Yes, it is.
1:05.7	Well, that's appropriate, though, since we're talking about the Korean War,
1:08.6	and I don't know that the North Koreans have
1:11.1	made any films about it.
1:12.6	They probably have.
1:13.6	They're probably super propagandistic, and I don't know.
1:17.1	They probably can't get a hold of it.
1:18.5	But there have been quite a few South Korean films in recent years about the Korean War,
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