"American Experience" The Battle of Chosin (TV Episode 2016) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • At the beginning, a beach landing. Scenes of artillery, infantry storming enemy positions, mortars being fired. Mild.
  • A brief scene of a jeep driving around a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the road. Bodies are disfigured.
  • Depiction of a suicidal attack by hundreds of enemy soldier,. A battle ensues with many people firing massive amounts of ammunition, explosions going off, though some is dramatized, most is not. All the while, veterans describe in detail killing soldiers with guns and knives, descriptions of Americans deaths.
  • Another series of dramatized North Korean footage showing them charging in mass with fake explosions going off.
  • While footage of real combat is shown, two veterans brutally and emotionally describe losing their legs.
  • An extended sequence showing footage and many pictures of injured, dying, and dead men. While its disturbing, most of the dead bodies are covered with tarps. Little blood.
  • War footage showing Americans under fire, footage of a dead man covered in blood being loaded on to a truck when they are struck by a mortar.
  • Scenes of fighter aircraft dropping napalm bombs very close to friendly troops, also scenes of strafing enemy positions, filmed from the point of view of the aircraft's nose, enemy vehicles are visibly shot up.
  • Graphic descriptions of the effects of napalm on the human body.
  • Another sequence of photos of dead soldiers, but this time more graphic, bodies are missing faces, they are disfigured, the are lined up next to each other in rows. Soon after is a lot of footage of wounded and dead soldiers being carried in on stretchers.
  • A disturbing description of man beating prisoners with severe wounds such as shrapnel and missing limbs.
  • Several graphic photos of "trench foot", frozen feet are black and eaten down to the bone.
  • Very disturbing footage of soldier unloading dozens of dead soldiers, when they move the bodies, the bodies are frozen stiff in t he position the died in. A very large pile of frozen bodies, limbs sticking up in the air.

Profanity

  • Only one swear word. It is "bullshit".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Soldiers are occasionally seen smoking cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • soldier suffering horible injuries and ghastly deths. Men transformed into people they don't know anymore.

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