List of films set in or about North Korea

Documentaries

• Defilada
• Travelogue. The first travel film in the nation hosted by Andy Kershaw alongside Koryo Tours.
• Pyongyang Diaries. A 71-minute documentary directed by Solrun Hoaas.
• Decades Apart: North Korea. A 24-minute documentary about family reunifications of North and South Koreans in North Korea.
• Discovery Times: Children of the Secret State
• Welcome to North Korea, original title: Noord-Korea is a 50-minutes Dutch documentary directed by Raymond Feddema and Peter Tetteroo. The film won the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary.
• North Korea - Shadows And Whispers. A 52-minute documentary by filmmaker Kim Jung-Eun for Journeyman Pictures about a North Korean family defecting to China.
• Living Hell. A 41-minute follow-up documentary to North Korea - Shadows And Whispers.
• Intérieur Nord, English title: Day for Night in Pyongyang or Inside North Korea. A 53-minute French documentary by film maker David Carr-Brown about the film industry of North Korea.
• The Game of Their Lives
• Frontline/World: Suspicious Minds
• Frontline: Kim's Nuclear Gamble. A 55-minute American documentary.
• Secret Nation
• Nuclear Nightmare: Understanding North Korea. A 45-minute Discovery Channel documentary which has been criticized for its superficiality.
• North Korea - The Juche Era. A 46-minute Bulgarian documentary distributed by Journeyman Pictures.
• North Korea: Beyond The DMZ. A 60-minute documentary by J.T. Takagi & Hye Jung Park.
• Repatriation . A 148-minute documentary by Kim Dong-won.
• A State of Mind
• North Korea: A Day in the Life
• North Korea : the Border and the War
• Access to Evil
• Return To The Border
• Dispatches: Undercover in the Secret State. Smugglers traverse the border between China and North Korea.
• Dear Pyongyang
• ', BBC, PBS, Fuji TV, An 85-minute American documentary..
• Seoul Train. Broadcast on television around the world, including on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Awarded the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism, and was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards.
• 60 Minutes: The Hermit Kingdom
• Crossing the Line
• ABC News: A rare look inside North Korea
• Friends of Kim. A 71-minute documentary about a group of members of the Korean Friendship Association, who travel to North Korea to demonstrate their support for the North Korean regime.
• Nordkorea: Einblicke in ein verschlossenes Land which translates to North Korea: Insights into a secretive country. A 43-minute German documentary about a changing society. The film covers i.a. the following topics: the Kimchi harvest, energy shortages, the North Korean preschool system, the North Korean famine, English lessons in North Korean schools, private farm markets and restaurants, demand driven shoe production, a Buddhist temple, a Bowling alley and the International Friendship Exhibition.
• Kims Reich: Unterwegs in Nordkorea which translates to Kim's Kingdom: Travelling in North Korea. A 27-minute German documentary about a Swiss tourist group. The film covers i.a. the Arirang Festival, a visit to a Buddhist temple, the demilitarized zone and the mountains of Kuwŏlsan and Myohyang-san.
• Our School, a documentary film about the lives of ethnic Korean students in a Chongryon-run pro-North Korean highschool in Hokkaido, Japan.
• National Geographic: Inside North Korea
• Undercover in North Korea
• An American in North Korea
• North Korea: Hell on earth
• National Geographic: Don't Tell My Mother I'm In...
• North Korea a legacy of tension
• The Vice Guide to North Korea
• Kimjongilia
• Vítejte v KLDR! is a 71-minute Czech documentary about a Czech tourist group travelling to North Korea.
• Seven Days In North Korea is a documentary by David Pluth focusing on North Korea's history, present and culture.
• Yodok Stories
• Themepark 1984
• Kim Jong Il's Comedy Club
• Unreported World: China/North Korea: The Great Escape. North Koreans flee the border north to China.
• Hana, dul, sed, an Austrian documentary about North Korea's national women's soccer team.
• This World: Escaping North Korea. North Koreans risk everything to reach South Korea.
• North Korean Film Madness, about the North Korean film industry.
• Departures
• The Red Chapel. A Danish documentary about a fictional theatre group who want to perform in North Korea. The same footage was used in the 4-part documentary Det Røde Kapel and Kim Jong Il's Comedy Club.
• Dictature, paranoïa, famine : bienvenue en Corée du Nord. A 68-minute French documentary about a French tourist group visiting North Korea.
• Wide Angle: Crossing Heaven's Border
• Seoul Sisters. A Canadian documentary about the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Similar to Seoul Train and hosted by Max Jones, a 13-year-old Felice News co-host and North Korea activist.
• North Korean Labor Camps, about North Korean camps in Siberia.
• 3 op Reis
• '. Director Marc Wiese's portrait of inhumanity chronicles the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who was born in a North Korean prison camp but escaped at age 23.
• The People's Crisis. A documentary produced by Liberty in North Korea.
• DPRK: The Land of Whispers
• Aim High In Creation!
• Danny from North Korea. A documentary produced by Liberty in North Korea.
• , a 2013 Canadian documentary
• Panorama: North Korea Undercover. John Sweeney for the BBC.
• Vice On HBO: The Hermit Kingdom includes a segment on North Korea and also includes documentation of Dennis Rodman meeting Kim Jong-un at a basketball game and then later on for drinks and celebration
• Panorama: Educating North Korea, about Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, North Korea's first privately funded university.
• Frontline: Secret State of North Korea
• 10 Days in North Korea
• Songs from the North
• Enter Pyongyang Rob Whitworth and Koryo Studio
• 3DPRK Matt Hulse, Vicky Mohieddeen Koryo Studio
• North Korea, the great illusion, a 52-minute French documentary, which includes footage from a newly built ski resort as well as interviews with defectors.
• Reizen Waes
• The Propaganda Game
• Under the Sun
• Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang
• Diary from North Korea, Documentaries, ORF III, Luca Faccio
• Cash For Kim: North Koreans Are Working to Their Death in Poland reports about North Korean forced laborers in working in shipyards, on construction sites as well as on farms in Poland.
• Meine Brüder und Schwestern im Norden, a German documentary by Sung-Hyung Cho.
• MRS. B. A North Korean woman, a Korean/French documentary by Jéro Yun
• The Happiest People on Earth, RT Documentaries,
• Michael Palin In North Korea

  Drama or fiction

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Target Zero
• Jet Attack
• The Manchurian Candidate
• M*A*S*H
• The Rescue
• Provocateur
• Shiri
• Joint Security Area
• Die Another Day
• North Korean Guys
• Double Agent
• Love Impossible
• Silmido
• Spy Girl
• Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War
• '
• Stealth
• Welcome to Dongmakgol
• '
• Comrades in Dreams
• The Juche Idea. A 62-minute fictionalized mockumentary about the Juche ideology.
• Crossing Film
• Salt
• Secret Reunion
• Dance Town
• Poongsan
• Winter Butterfly
• Red Dawn
• Comrade Kim Goes Flying
• Meet in Pyongyang
• Secretly, Greatly
• Commitment
• Olympus Has Fallen
• The Berlin File
• Red Family
• The Interview
• Diplomats
• Northern Limit Line
• Steel Rain
• The Spy Gone North
• Ashfall

  Reality

• The Amazing Race Vietnam 2019