A Far Cry (also known as Children of Korea) is a 1958 British documentary film directed by Stephen Peet, about displaced persons in South Korea, following the Korean War (1950–1953).[1] It was commissioned by the Save the Children Fund UK and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC in 1959.[2] It appears on the programme of two International Film Festivals in 2015.
Stephen Peet subsequently made many more documentary films for BBC TV, with the series title Yesterday's Witness.
The Save the Children UK archive records:
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015 brochure adds:
The 1959 Radio Times account of the film gives more information:
The Melbourne International Film Festival 2015 brochure adds:
The film was a success. Save the Children continued using film to inform and fund-raise.