South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning (2024)

May 28th, 20241h 23min

Documentary
0%

Overview

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over decades.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon


Released on: 2017-03-07
Documentary, History

How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitz...

Not Flammable

Not Flammable


Released on: 2001-02-01
Documentary

A documentary with a mystical-criminal air about a man who studies the story of a photographer from ...

Silver's Uprising

Silver's Uprising


Released on: 2023-05-11
Documentary, Crime, Animation

Raised in an orthodox home, Amos Dov Silver dreams of becoming Prime Minister. But when the State co...

The Killing of a Journalist

The Killing of a Journalist


Released on: 2022-08-23
Documentary, Crime

A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Th...

Korea: The Never-Ending War

Korea: The Never-Ending War


Released on: 2019-04-29
Documentary, War

Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and na...

It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks

It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks


Released on: 2008-09-17
Documentary, History, Crime, Drama

The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...

Given Away

Given Away


Released on: 2019-07-23
Documentary

What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” th...

Vandales Du rail : Les graffeurs Face A La Justice

Vandales Du rail : Les graffeurs Face A La Justice


Released on: 2023-05-01
Documentary, TV Movie, Crime

King of Clones

King of Clones


Released on: 2023-06-23
Documentary

From groundbreaking human cloning research to a scandalous downfall, this documentary tells the capt...

Les Derniers Secrets du Sphinx de Gizeh

Les Derniers Secrets du Sphinx de Gizeh


Released on: 2023-05-26
Documentary, History, TV Movie

MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage

MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage


Released on: 2020-10-01
Documentary

At age 31, after experiencing her second miscarriage, Tahyna MacManus was devastated, lost, angry an...

Lilja 4 real

Lilja 4 real


Released on: 2003-01-09
Documentary

Lukas Moodysson's acclaimed film Lilja 4-ever, seen by 100,000's of moviegoers is based on a real li...

Baiae, the Atlantis of Rome

Baiae, the Atlantis of Rome


Released on: 2022-03-24
Documentary, History

With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic ...

Smiling Jockey

Smiling Jockey


Released on: 2022-03-29
Documentary

The challenging daily routine of Ceará-born jockey Antonio Davielson and his family living in a fore...

Geographies of Kinship

Geographies of Kinship


Released on: 2019-11-10
Documentary

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return ...

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror


Released on: 2022-05-17
Documentary, Crime

Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to ...

Titanic: The New Evidence

Titanic: The New Evidence


Released on: 2017-01-21
Documentary

This documentary draws on new evidence to reveal that a fire was raging in Titanic's boiler rooms be...

Ingrid Chauvin : notre combat pour adopter

Ingrid Chauvin : notre combat pour adopter


Released on: 2019-06-10
Documentary

Island Being

Island Being


Released on: 2007-12-31
Documentary

Sorokdo is an island of Korea where the scars of the wars are visible. Wars that sowed confusion, su...

Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Unlocked

Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Unlocked


Released on: 2020-03-31
Documentary, Mystery

The most famous UFO case of all time is the alleged UFO crash in the desert of Roswell, New Mexico i...