Seoul Train is a 2005 documentary that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China. These journeys are both dangerous and daring, since if caught, they face forced repatriation, torture and possible execution. Seoul Train has been broadcast on television around the world, including on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. In January 2007, "Seoul Train" was awarded the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. In April 2007, "Seoul Train" was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards. The film was produced, directed and filmed by Jim Butterworth, a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the U.S., and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions. It was co-directed and edited by Aaron Lubarsky, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker in New York.
Seoul Train has generally received positive reviews.
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Seoul Train was released in 2004 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 7 reviews, giving Seoul Train (2004) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 86%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Seoul Train a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 73%, Seoul Train is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2004, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2004 with similar scores include films like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Dawn of the Dead and District B13.
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