- List of World War II films
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Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini-series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
A separate list of full-fledged TV series appears at the end.
Contents
Restrictions
- The film or mini-series must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
- For short films, see List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films.
Films made during the war
Further information: List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
Note:Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the
Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
1939
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted USA
Hitler, Beast of Berlin Sam Newfield German political prisoner UK
The Lion Has Wings Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst RAF mobilization - the first British propaganda film of the war 1940
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted UK
Convoy Pen Tennyson The Battle of the Atlantic Germany
Feinde (Enemies) Viktor Tourjansky Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland. Japan
Moyuru ōzora Yutaka Abe UK
Secret Journey John Baxter Espionage UK
The Big Blockade Charles Frend The Economic blockade of Germany USA
The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel USA
The Long Voyage Home John Ford The Battle of the Atlantic USA
Watch on the Rhine Herman Shumlin Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington. USA
Waterloo Bridge Mervyn LeRoy While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance [1] USA
Women in War John H. Auer Nurses in the Battle of Britain. 1941
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted Germany
Annelie Josef von Bákyn A heroic German mother during war. USA
Caught in the Draft David Butler Bob Hope gets drafted. UK
Dangerous Moonlight Brian Desmond Hurst The Battle of Britain UK
49th Parallel Michael Powell Survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada to the neutral USA UK
Freedom Radio Anthony Asquith German Resistance USSR
Frontovye podrugi (The Girl from Leningrad) Viktor Eisymont UK
Pimpernel Smith Leslie Howard The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to World War II UK
Ships with Wings Sergei Nolbandov Battle of Taranto Germany
Soldaten von morgen (Soldiers of Tomorrow) Alfred Weidenmann Nazi Hitler Youth film USA
Sundown Henry Hathaway The North African Campaign Germany
U-Boote westwärts Günther Rittau U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic USA
Underground Vincent Sherman German Resistance USA
A Yank in the RAF Henry King American volunteers in the RAF 1942
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted Italy
Alfa Tau! Francesco De Robertis Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II Italy
Bengasi Augusto Genina The North Africa campaign USA
The Bugle Sounds S. Sylvan Simon Cavalry and tank warfare USA
Captains of the Clouds Michael Curtiz Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, WWI ace Billy Bishop as himself USA
Casablanca Michael Curtiz Romantic film in Vichy France-controlled Morocco UK
The Day Will Dawn Harold French Norwegian resistance USA
Desperate Journey Raoul Walsh RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Holland USA
Eagle Squadron Arthur Lubin Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain UK
The First of the Few Leslie Howard Development of the Spitfire USA
UK
Flying Fortress Walter Forde B-17 planes USA
China
Flying Tigers David Miller American Volunteer Group, the Second Sino-Japanese War UK
The Foreman Went to France Charles Frend The Battle of France Germany
Fronttheater Arthur Maria Rabenalt The Battle of Greece? [2] Germany
Die große Liebe (The Great Love) Rolf Hansen Some part of battle between Nazi Germany and USSR. Japan
Hawai Mare oki kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya) Kajiro Yamamoto Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign. UK
In Which We Serve Noel Coward and David Lean Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly USA
Lady from Chungking William Nigh The Second Sino-Japanese War USA
Let's Get Tough! Wallace Fox Juvenile delinquents battle the Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York USA
Mrs. Miniver William Wyler The British Home Front USA
Navy Comes Through A. Edward Sutherland The Second Battle of the Atlantic UK
The Next of Kin Thorold Dickinson Careless talk costs lives - message and fictional commando raid Italy
Romania
Odessa in fiamme (Odessa in Flames) Carmine Gallone UK
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Allied aircrew escaping from the occupied Netherlands USA
Pacific Rendezvous George Sidney Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War Italy
Un Pilota ritorna Roberto Rossellini Estonia
Punane udu (The Red Fog) The Soviet occupation of Estonia USA
Reunion in France Jules Dassin The French Resistance helps a downed US pilot UK
Sabotage at Sea Leslie S. Hiscott USA
Somewhere I'll Find You Wesley Ruggles War correspondents in China and Pacific USA
Stand by for Action Robert Z. Leonard The Pacific War Germany
Stukas Karl Ritter Stuka, German dive bomber USA
They Raid by Night Spencer Gordon Bennet Commando raids in occupied Norway USA
To Be Or Not To Be Ernst Lubitsch Effects on Warsaw; Polish Air squadron in London USA
To the Shores of Tripoli H. Bruce Humberstone Japan
Tsubasa no gaika (A Triumph of Wings) Satsuo Yamamoto Co-written by Akira Kurosawa USSR
Uchinari Jani Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov USA
Wake Island John Farrow The Battle of Wake Island UK
Went the Day Well? Alberto Cavalcanti A fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion) USA
A Yank on the Burma Road George B. Seitz The Burma Road 1943
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted USA
Action in the North Atlantic Lloyd Bacon The Second Battle of the Atlantic USA
Aerial Gunner William H. Pine The B-17 bomber in the Pacific USA
Air Force Howard Hawks B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines USA
Bataan Tay Garnett The Battle of Bataan, Philippines USA
Behind the Rising Sun Edward Dmytryk UK
The Bells Go Down Basil Dearden Auxiliary Fire Service during The Blitz Germany
Besatzung Dora Karl Ritter All about Luftwaffe men. USA
Bombardier Richard Wallace B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific USA
Bombs Over Burma Joseph H. Lewis USA
Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Louis King Chetniks - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich USA
China John Farrow USA
Corregidor William Nigh The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines USA
Corvette K-225 Richard Rosson and Howard Hawks The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN corvette USA
Crash Dive Archie Mayo US submarine in the North Atlantic USA
The Cross of Lorraine Tay Garnett USA
Cry 'Havoc' Richard Thorpe USA
Destination Tokyo Delmer Daves US submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid USA
Destroyer William A. Seiter The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning USA
Edge of Darkness Lewis Milestone The Norwegian resistance movement UK
Fires Were Started Humphrey Jennings The Blitz USA
Five Graves to Cairo Billy Wilder Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign UK
The Flemish Farm Jeffrey Dell Commando raids in occupied Belgium USA
Guadalcanal Diary Lewis Seiler US Marines in Guadalcanal campaign USA
Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific USA
A Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "guardian angel" of new pilots USA
Hangmen Also Die Fritz Lang Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance USA
Immortal Sergeant John M. Stahl British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign USSR
(Georgian SSR)
He will come back Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaia UK
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The Home Guard UK
Millions Like Us Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat The Home Front USA
Mission to Moscow Michael Curtiz Various negotiations between Allies USA
The Moon is Down Irving Pichel Resistance USA
The More the Merrier George Stevens USA
The North Star Lewis Milestone Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front USA
Pilot #5 George Sidney Battle of the Java Sea USA
Rookies in Burma Leslie Goodwins The Burma Campaign USA
Sahara Zoltan Korda Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein USA
Salute to the Marines S. Sylvan Simon The Battle of the Philippines UK
The Silver Fleet Gordon Wellesley Dutch resistance USA
So Proudly We Hail! Mark Sandrich The Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) USA
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler James Patrick Hogan USA
This Land Is Mine Jean Renoir French Resistance USA
Three Russian Girls Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep The Eastern Front UK
Undercover Sergei Nolbandov Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia UK
We Dive at Dawn Anthony Asquith Submarine warfare during the Second Battle of the Atlantic 1944
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted UK
2,000 Women Frank Launder Internment camps for British women in occupied France Italian Social Republic
Aeroporto Piero Costa Italian aviators flying for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana; the only surviving film made in the Italian Social Republic USA
Days of Glory Jacques Tourneur Soviet partisans USA
Dragon Seed Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway The Second Sino-Japanese war. USA
Four Jills in a Jeep William A. Seiter The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves USA
In the Meantime, Darling Otto Preminger Germany
Junge Adler Alfred Weidenmann Germany during the war USSR
(Georgian SSR)
Jurgais pari Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli Japan
Kato hayabusa sento-tai Kajiro Yamamoto USA
Ladies Courageous John Rawlins Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron USA
Lifeboat Alfred Hitchcock The Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Philippine Republic
Liwayway ng kalayaan (Dawn of Freedom) Gerardo de León, Yutaka Abe Propaganda film about Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. USSR
Malakhov kurgan Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi Battle of Sevastopol USA
Marine Raiders Harold D. Schuster The Battle of Guadalcanal USA
Marriage Is a Private Affair Robert Z. Leonard USA
Mr. Winkle Goes to War Alfred E. Green Japan
Nichijô no tatakai Yasujiro Shimazu USA
Passage to Marseille Michael Curtiz USA
Passport to Destiny Ray McCarey Japan
Raigekitai shutsudo Kajirô Yamamoto Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. USSR
Rainbow Mark Donskoy USA
Rosie the Riveter Joseph Santley USA
See Here, Private Hargrove Wesley Ruggles USA
Sergeant Mike Henry Levin USA
Since You Went Away John Cromwell Home Front in the United States USA
Song of Russia Gregory Ratoff Italy
Romania
Squadriglia bianca (The White Squadron) Ion Sava USA
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Lloyd Bacon USA
The Eve of St. Mark John M. Stahl USA
The Fighting Seabees Edward Ludwig The US Navy Seabees USA
The Impostor Julien Duvivier USA
The Master Race Herbert J. Biberman USA
The Navy Way William A. Berke USA
The Purple Heart Lewis Milestone Prisoners of war captured during the Doolittle Raid. Australia
The Rats of Tobruk Charles Chauvel Siege of Tobruk USA
The Story of Dr. Wassell Cecil B. DeMille Navy doctor in the Battle of Java USA
The Sullivans Lloyd Bacon The Sullivan brothers USA
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Mervyn LeRoy The Doolittle Raid USA
Till We Meet Again Frank Borzage USA
To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks USA
Two-Man Submarine Lew Landers USA
U-Boat Prisoner Lew Landers USA
Waterfront Steve Sekely UK
The Way Ahead [aka The Immortal Battalion] Carol Reed Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign USA
The White Cliffs of Dover Clarence Brown USA
Wing and a Prayer Henry Hathaway The Battle of Midway USA
Winged Victory George Cukor 1945
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted USA
Back to Bataan Edward Dmytryk Battle of Bataan, guerilla warfare in the Philippines, in the Battle of Leyte USA
Blood on the Sun Frank Lloyd An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government USA
China's Little Devils Monta Bell USA
Cornered Edward Dmytryk Ex-Nazis in Argentina USA
Counter-Attack Zoltan Korda The Eastern Front Denmark
Den usynlige hær (The Invisible Army) Johan Jacobsen Danish Partisan Denmark
De røde Enge (The Red Meadows) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. Young Danish saboteur Mexico
Escuadrón 201 Jaime Salvador Squadron 201 of the Mexican Air Force in the Battle of Luzon against the Japanese USA
First Yank Into Tokyo Gordon Douglas USA
China
God Is My Co-Pilot Robert Florey The Flying Tigers USA
Keep Your Powder Dry Edward Buzzell Women's Army Corps Germany
Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On) Wolfgang Liebeneiner About how the V-2 rocket would turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour Japan
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors Mitsuyo Seo The first full length anime film; shows Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island USA
Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh The Burma Campaign USA
Out of the Depths D. Ross Lederman Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony USA
Pride of the Marines Delmer Daves The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment USA
Prison Ship Arthur Dreifuss Italy
Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City) Roberto Rossellini About the Italian resistance movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy USA
Samurai Raymond Cannon USA
The Story of GI Joe William A. Wellman Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino USA
They Were Expendable John Ford PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) USA
Too Young to Know Frederick De Cordova War in the South Pacific separates a young couple USA
A Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone The Invasion of Salerno UK
The Way to the Stars Anthony Asquith RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England USA
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Richard Thorpe The final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe Late 1940s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1946 Philippines
Death March Leopoldo Salcedo The Bataan Death March 1946 Philippines
Dugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan) Fernando Poe, Sr. Filipino Resistance. 1946 Philippines
Garrison 13 Unknown [3] War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines. 1946 Philippines
Guerilyera Octavio Silos The guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines 1946 UK
Journey Together John Boulting Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat 1946 France
La Bataille du rail René Clément Stories on railroad French resistance 1946 Philippines
Orasang Ginto Manuel Conde The Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor. 1946 Italy
Paisà Roberto Rossellini About the Italian campaign 1946 UK
School for Secrets Peter Ustinov Operation Biting 1946 USA
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war 1946 UK
The Captive Heart Basil Dearden British prisoners of war in Germany 1946 UK
Theirs is the Glory Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young Operation Market Garden 1946 USSR
Yugoslavia
V gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia) Abram Room Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks 1946 Philippines
Walang Kamatayan Tor Villano The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1946 Poland
Italy
Wielka droga (La Grande strada) Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 1946 Poland
Zakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs) Leonard Buczkowski Polish Resistance 1939-1945 - the first post-war Polish film, and a musical 1947 China
The Spring River Flows East Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1947 Poland
Ostatni etap (The Last Stop) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz-Birkenau 1947 Denmark
Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) Johan Jacobsen 1947 UK
Frieda Basil Dearden 1947 USA
13 Rue Madeleine Henry Hathaway 1948 USA
Command Decision Sam Wood Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force 1948 UK
Against the Wind Charles Crichton A Commando raid into occupied Belgium 1948 UK
A Piece of Cake John Irwin 1948 Norway
Kampen om tungtvannet Norwegian heavy water sabotage 1948 USA
Fighter Squadron Raoul Walsh P-47 fighters in the US air war in Europe 1948 USA
Switzerland
The Search Fred Zinnemann Displaced persons in postwar Germany 1948 Occupied Germany
Morituri Eugen York The first post-1945 German film about the war 1948 Poland
Ulica Graniczna (Border Street) Aleksander Ford The Holocaust in occupied Poland 1948 Poland
Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts) Stanisław Januszewski Silesia Poland 1944 / 45 1948 Yugoslavia
Na svoji zemlji (On the own territory) France Štiglic People are fighting to kill Germans and Italians 1948 Denmark
Støt står den danske sømand (The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. Tells the true story about Danish sailors 1948 Denmark
Tre år efter Johan Jacobsen Situation after the war termination 1949 USA
Battleground William A. Wellman The 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge 1949 Denmark
Det gælder os alle Alice O'Fredericks A young survivor from a concentration camp. 1949 France
Mission in Tangier André Hunebelle A journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers. 1949 USSR
Padeniye Berlina Mikheil Chiaureli The Battle of Berlin 1949 USA
Sands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan The Battle of Iwo Jima 1949 UK
The Small Back Room Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Bomb disposal 1949 USSR
Stalingradskaya Bitva Vladimir Petrov The Battle of Stalingrad 1949 UK
They Were Not Divided Terence Young The British Guards Armoured Division 1949 USA
Twelve O'Clock High Henry King B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force 1949 USSR
Vstrecha na Elbe Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin Elbe Day 1949 Poland
Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow) Antoni Bohdziewicz Warsaw, Polish resistance 1949 USA
Home of the Brave Mark Robson Black soldier is paralyzed after recon unit is attacked on Pacific island 1950s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1950 USA
American Guerrilla in the Philippines Fritz Lang The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1950 USA
Francis Arthur Lubin Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific 1950 Philippines
Mapuputing Kamay Fausto J. Galauran Filipina nurses in the battles in Bataan and Corregidor. 1950 Poland
Miasto nieujarzmione (Unvanquished City) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland Warsaw 1944 1950 UK
Odette Herbert Wilcox SOE agent Odette Samson. 1950 USA
Three Came Home Jean Negulesco Battle of Borneo (1941-42) 1950 USA
When Willie Comes Marching Home John Ford 1950 UK
The Wooden Horse Jack Lee True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany 1951 Italy
Achtung! Banditi! Carlo Lizzani The Italian resistance movement 1951 UK
Albert Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis 1951 USA
Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945 1951 USA
Fighting Coast Guard Joseph Kane 1951 USA
Flying Leathernecks Nicholas Ray A US Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific 1951 USA
Force of Arms Michael Curtiz The US Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign 1951 USA
Go For Broke! Robert Pirosh U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France 1951 Philippines
Makapili [4] Makapili during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.[5]. 1951 USA
Operation Pacific George Waggner A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War 1951 USA
Submarine Command John Farrow 1951 USA
Target Unknown George Sherman 1951 USA
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel Henry Hathaway Biopic of Erwin Rommel from the Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 plot 1951 USA
The Magic Face Frank Tuttle An actor takes Hitler's place 1951 USA
The Wild Blue Yonder Allan Dwan 1951 USA
You're in the Navy Now Henry Hathaway A US submarine chaser in development 1952 USA
Above and Beyond Melvin Frank, Norman Panama The 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 1952 UK
Angels One Five George More O'Ferrall The Battle of Britain 1952 UK
Appointment in London Philip Leacock RAF Bomber Command 1952 Japan
Children of Hiroshima Kaneto Shindō The dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1952 UK
Gift Horse Compton Bennett The St Nazaire Raid 1952 France
Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) René Clément The Occupation of France 1952 Norway
Nødlanding (Emergency Landing) Arne Skouen American bomber shot down in Norway. Surviving crew hidden by Norwegian resistance Milorg and smuggled out of the country. 1952 USA
Okinawa Leigh Jason The Battle of Okinawa 1952 USA
Operation Secret Lewis Seiler Espionage 1952 USA
Red Ball Express Budd Boetticher Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II 1952 USA
Thunderbirds John H. Auer The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers. 1953 UK
Albert RN Lewis Gilbert British POWs in a German camp 1953 Japan
Anatahan Josef von Sternberg Japanese soldiers on a remote Pacific island will not accept that the war has been over for years 1953 USA
China Venture Don Siegel 1953 USA
Destination Gobi Robert Wise A US Navy weather unit in Mongolia 1953 USA
El Alaméin Fred F. Sears The Second Battle of El Alamein 1953 USA
Fighter Attack Lesley Selander The Italian Campaign and Partisans 1953 USA
From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann The attack on Pearl Harbor 1953 USA
Guerrilla Girl John Christian Greek Resistance 1953 UK
Malta Story Brian Desmond Hurst The Siege of Malta 1953 UK
Single-Handed Roy Boulting Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution) 1953 USA
Stalag 17 Billy Wilder German Prisoner of War camp for US flyers 1953 Japan
Taiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Pacific) Ishirō Honda Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto 1953 UK
The Cruel Sea Charles Frend The Battle of the Atlantic 1953 USA
The Desert Rats Robert Wise The Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, during the North African Campaign 1953 UK
The Red Beret Terence Young British paratroops Operation Biting 1953 Canada
Tit-Coq René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas A French Canadian serviceman comes home 1954 West Germany
08/15 Paul May 1954 USA
Betrayed Gottfried Reinhardt Dutch resistance in the Battle of Arnhem 1954 USA
The Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk Destroyer warfare in the Pacific 1954 West Germany
Canaris Alfred Weidenmann Admiral Canaris was head of the German military intelligence and was part of several plots against Hitler. 1954 UK
The Dam Busters Michael Anderson RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise 1954 Spain
La patrulla Pedro Lazaga Spanish volunteers on the Eastern Front 1954 UK
The Purple Plain Robert Parrish RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign 1954 UK
The Sea Shall Not Have Them Lewis Gilbert Air Sea Rescue 1954 UK
Norway
Shetlandsgjengen Michael Forlong Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves 1954 UK
They Who Dare Lewis Milestone SAS raid in occupied Greece 1954 China
Letter with Feather Shi Hui A story of a young boy who, through his wits, delivers an important message to the 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1955 Denmark
Der kom en dag Sven Methling About the last days of the Occupation 1955 West Germany
08/15 - In der Heimat Paul May 1955 West Germany
08/15 - Zweiter Teil Paul May 1955 UK
Above Us the Waves Ralph Thomas Submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz 1955 USA
Battle Cry Raoul Walsh US Marines at the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan 1955 Poland
Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross) Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Eastern Front in 1945 1955 UK
The Cockleshell Heroes José Ferrer Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton 1955 UK
The Colditz Story Guy Hamilton British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp 1955 West Germany
Austria
Der letzte Akt (The Last Act, Hitler: The Last Ten Days) Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1955 USA
The Eternal Sea John H. Auer Pacific War 1955 Poland
Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope) Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski Poland 1945 1955 West Germany
Jackboot Mutiny Georg Wilhelm Pabst The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler 1955 USA
Mister Roberts John Ford and Melvin LeRoy A US Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific 1955 Poland
Pokolenie (A Generation) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1955 Malaya
Sergeant Hassan P. Ramlee war legend 1955 USA
To Hell and Back Jesse Hibbs Combat biography of Audie Murphy 1955 Finland
The Unknown Soldier Edvin Laine Finno-Soviet Continuation War 1956 UK
A Town Like Alice Jack Lee British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore 1956 USA
Attack Robert Aldrich US infantry in France after D-Day 1956 USA
Away All Boats Joseph Pevney US attack transport in the Pacific 1956 USA
Battle Stations Lewis Seiler US Navy battleship in the Pacific War 1956 USA
Between Heaven and Hell Richard Fleischer A National Guard unit in the Philippines 1956 USA
D-Day the Sixth of June Henry Koster The Normandy invasion 1956 Yugoslavia
Dolina miru (Quiet Valley) France Štiglic American soldier saves two children 1956 Spain
Embajadores en el infierno José María Forqué Spanish prisoners at a Russian camp 1956 Poland
Kanał Andrzej Wajda Warsaw Uprising 1944 1956 UK
Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain 1956 UK
The Battle of the River Plate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Battle of the River Plate 1956 UK
The Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst The North African campaign 1956 USA
The Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster The Italian Campaign 1956 Japan
The Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa The Burma Campaign 1956 UK
The Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame The Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat 1957 UK
Sri Lanka
The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean British POWs work on the Burma Railway 1957 Poland
Con bravura Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Polish Resistance 1957 West Germany
Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris) Paul May The Battle of Normandy from the German soldiers' perspective 1957 West Germany
Der Stern von Afrika Alfred Weidenmann Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille, ace of the Luftwaffe. 1957 USA
The Enemy Below Dick Powell The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and a German submarine 1957 West Germany
Haie und kleine Fische Frank Wisbar The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats 1957 USA
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison John Huston A U.S. Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in the South Pacific 1957 USA
Hellcats of the Navy Nathan Juran Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre 1957 USSR
Летят журавли (Letyat zhuravli)
The Cranes Are FlyingMikhail Kalatozov Damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II. 1957 Norway
Ni Liv Arne Skouen Story of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian resistance man who's forced to make an epic escape to neutral Sweden following a failed sabotage operation in Tromsø, Norway. 1957 UK
The One That Got Away Roy Ward Baker True story of German escaper Franz von Werra 1957 UK
The Steel Bayonet Michael Carreras 1957 USA
The Wings of Eagles John Ford A biography of Navy flier Frank W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater. 1958 UK
Carve Her Name with Pride Lewis Gilbert SOE agent Violette Szabo 1958 USA
Darby's Rangers William Wellman The Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio. 1958 West Germany
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) Géza von Radványi Battle of Stalingrad 1958 Poland
Dezerter (Deserter) Witold Lesiewicz A Pole from Silesia in the Wehrmacht 1958 UK
Dunkirk Leslie Norman Operation Dynamo; the Dunkirk Evacuation 1958 Poland
Eroica Andrzej Munk The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW Camp 1944/45 1958 Poland
Historia jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter) Hubert Drapella The Battle of Britain 1940 1958 West Germany
Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!, Battle Inferno) Frank Wisbar The Battle of Stalingrad 1958 UK
Ice-Cold in Alex J. Lee Thompson North African campaign 1958 UK
I Was Monty's Double John Guillermin General Montgomery 1958 Poland
Krzyż walecznych (Cross of Valour) Kazimierz Kutz The Eastern Front, 1945 1958 UK
Operation Amsterdam Michael McCarthy 1958 Poland
Orzeł Leonard Buczkowski The story of ORP Orzeł 1958 Poland
Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia) Stanisław Lenartowicz Polish Resistance 1958 Poland
Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1945 1958 USA
Run Silent, Run Deep Robert Wise Japanese submarine chase during the Pacific War 1958 UK
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) Guy Green Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign 1958 USA
South Pacific Joshua Logan Musical set in the Pacific Theater 1958 Czechoslovakia
Tenkrát o Vánocích Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front, Christmas 1944 1958 UK
The Battle of the V 1 Vernon Sewell Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests 1958 UK
The Camp on Blood Island Val Guest British and Dutch POWs in Malaya 1958 UK
The Key Carol Reed The Battle of the Atlantic 1958 USA
The Naked and the Dead Raoul Walsh The Pacific War 1958 UK
The Wind Cannot Read Ralph Thomas The RAF in Burma 1958 USA
The Young Lions Edward Dmytryk Story of 3 soldiers during World War II. One is German, Two others are American (one of them is Jewish) 1958 USA
Imitation General George Marshall [Comedy] Europe. Sergeant impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers 1958 Poland
Wolne miasto (Free City) Stanisław Różewicz Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939 1958 China
Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo Ping Wang Communist Party undercover agents operate in Shanghai in 1939 against the Japanese. 1959 USSR
Ballad of a Soldier Grigori Chukhrai 1959 Poland
Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain Zakopane, Holocaust 1959 Poland
Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe) Bronisław Brok Polish Resistance Comedy 1959 USA
The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens The biography of Anne Frank. 1959 West Germany
Die Brücke Bernhard Wicki The Western Front 1959 Italy
France
Estate Violenta Valerio Zurlini Dismissal of Benito Mussolini during the Allied invasion of Sicily. 1959 Japan
Fires on the Plain Kon Ichikawa War in the Philippines. 1959 Italy
General della Rovere Roberto Rossellini A petty thief, who is hired by the Nazis, impersonating an Italian resistance leader. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli. 1959 Japan
France
Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais 1959 Poland
Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1959 Poland
Lotna Andrzej Wajda The Polish Campaign, 1939 1959 USA
Never So Few John Sturges The Burma Campaign 1959 Japan
Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition: No Greater Love) Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance; Manchukuo 1959 Japan
Ningen no joken II (The Human Condition: Road to Eternity) Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance 1959 USSR
Sudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a Man) Sergei Bondarchuk Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov 1959 USA
Ten Seconds to Hell Robert Aldrich A German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin 1959 Poland
Zamach Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance - Operation Kutschera, 1944 1960s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1960 Denmark
Frihedens Pris Annelise Hovmand 1960 Denmark
Den sidste vinter Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen 1960 Czechoslovakia
Práče Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front. 1960 Japan
Storm Over the Pacific Shuei Matsubayashi A story about a pilot who serves on the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway 1960 France
Un taxi pour Tobrouk Denys de La Patellière A group of Free French commandos in North Africa try to reach Allied lines and capture a German officer. 1960 USA
Hell to Eternity Phil Karlson The Battle of Saipan; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II 1960 UK
Sink the Bismarck! Lewis Gilbert Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic 1960 Italy
Escape by Night Roberto Rossellini 1960 Italy
Everybody Go Home Luigi Comencini The Four days of Naples. 1960 Italy
Long Night in 1943 Florestano Vancini The Allied invasion of Italy. 1960 Italy
Two Women Vittorio De Sica 1960 Italy
USA
Under Ten Flags Duilio Coletti The Battle of the Atlantic. 1961 Denmark
Alarm i Østersøen Sven Methling 1961 USA
France
Bridge to the Sun Etienne Périer The life of Gwendolen Terasaki. 1961 East Germany
Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) Gerhard Klein The 1939 Gleiwitz incident. 1961 Poland
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die) Jan Rybkowski Dresden, Germany, 1945 1961 India
Hum Dono Amarjeet Some part of Burma Campaign. 1961 Poland
Kwiecień (Spring) Witold Lesiewicz Germany Eastern Front, 1945 1961 Poland
Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train) Kazimierz Kutz Poland - The German Occupation 1961 Poland
Samson Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in occupied Poland 1961 Poland
Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate) Stanisław Różewicz The Polish Campaign, 1939 1961 Italy
The Fascist Luciano Salce 1961 UK
The Guns of Navarone J. Lee Thompson The Mediterranean Theatre 1961 UK
Very Important Person Ken Annakin Comedy - British POWs in a German camp 1962 Netherlands
Als twee druppels water Fons Rademakers A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance 1962 Netherlands
De Overval (The Raid) Paul Rotha Wartime prison raid 1962 USA
Hell Is for Heroes Don Siegel The Western front 1962 USA
Merrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller Merrill's Marauders 1962 Philippines
Suicide Commandoes Armando Garces Six Filipino Guerrilas received a task to bring their Lieutenant safe to a Japanese airport in order to destroy it during Battle of Bessang Pass. 1962 Italy
The Four Days of Naples Nanni Loy The Four Days of Naples. 1962 USA
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vincente Minnelli Story of a German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism. 1962 USA
The Gallant Men Various American 5th Army in Italy 1962 USA
The Longest Day Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin The Normandy landings 1962 UK
The War Lover Philip Leacock American bomber crews station in England 1962 Poland
Walter P-38 (TV) Edward Etler Polish Resistance 1962 Greece
Psila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler) Panos Glykofridis Black comedy about the Greek Resistance 1963 USA
Philippines
Cry of Battle Irving Lerner Mercenary fighting with partisans in The Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1963 Poland
Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?) Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy, Eastern Front, 1945 1963 Poland
Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails) Jarosław Brzozowski War in Arctica 1963 Poland
Naganiacz (Manhunter) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska The Holocaust in Poland 1963 Poland
Pasażerka Andrzej Munk Auschwitz-Birkenau 1963 Philippines
Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig Pablo Santiago An heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1963 USA
PT 109 Leslie H. Martinson John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front 1963 USA
The Quick and the Dead Robert Totten The Fantastic Story of a Handful of Men and Two Girls Fighting Against Unbelievable Odds! Italian Campaign 1944. 1963 Philippines
Sierra Madre Armando A. Herrera The campaigns of two demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1963 Philippines
Sigaw ng Digmaan Efren Reyes, Sr. Philippine Army (1941) Resistance. 1963 Finland
Sissit Mikko Niskanen Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War 1963 USA
The Great Escape John Sturges British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III 1963 UK
The Password is Courage Andrew Stone True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward 1963 Philippines
USA
The Raiders of Leyte Gulf Eddie Romero Philippines before the Battle of Leyte. 1963 UK
The Victors Carl Foreman American soldiers in Europe following D-Day 1964 UK
633 Squadron Walter Grauman Occupied Norway 1964 USA
The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller Planning for the Normandy landings 1964 Czechoslovakia
Atentát Jiří Sequens Operation Anthropoid 1964 USA
Back Door to Hell Monte Hellman Three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. 1964 Poland
Barwy walki (Battle Colours) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance, 1944 1964 Japan
USA
Flight from Ashiya Michael Anderson USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific 1964 Poland
Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw) Stanisław Lenartowicz Cult comedy - Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 1964 Philippines
USA
Intramuros (The Walls of Hell) Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León The Battle of Intramuros. 1964 Poland
Koniec naszego świata (End of our World) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz 1964 Philippines
Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres The Battle of Corregidor. 1964 Poland
Nieznany (The Unknown) Witold Lesiewicz Soviet Gulag / Eastern Front, 1943/44 1964 USSR
(Georgian SSR)
Otets soldata (Father of a Soldier) Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze) 1964 Poland
Pierwszy dzień wolności (The First Day of Freedom) Aleksander Ford Germany, 1945, Polish POWs 1964 Poland
Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance 1964 USA
Shell Shock John Hayes Italy during war. 1964 USA
The Thin Red Line Andrew Marton The Guadalcanal Campaign. 1964 USA
France
Italy
The Train John Frankenheimer Resistance in Occupied France 1964 France
Week-end à Zuydcoote Henri Verneuil The Battle of Dunkirk 1965 USA
36 Hours George Seaton On early June 1944, Germans kidnap an American officer and try to convince him that they are in 1948, that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe. 1965 USA
Battle of the Bulge Ken Annakin The Ardennes Offensive 1965 UK
The Heroes of Telemark Anthony Mann Norwegian resistance movement Operation Gunnerside 1965 UK
The Hill Sidney Lumet Life in a brutal military prison in North Africa 1965 USA
In Harm's Way Otto Preminger The Pacific Front 1965 USA
King Rat Otto Preminger POWs in asia. From James Clavell book. 1965 Philippines
Iginuhit ng Tadhana Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines 1965 USA
Japan
None But the Brave Frank Sinatra American and Japanese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island 1965 UK
Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) Michael Anderson Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow 1965 Poland
Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet) Janusz Morgenstern Polish Resistance, 1944 1965 Philippines
USA
The Ravagers Eddie Romero Filipino guerrillas take on the last of the Japanese forces remaining on their country. 1965 Philippines
Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib Armando A. Herrera Five Filipino guerrillas is on a mission to rescue two American soldiers who have an important information that can help the guerrilla movement. 1965 UK
The Sound of Music Robert Wise Drama about the Von Trapp family in Austria 1965 Japan
Story of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki Second Sino-Japanese War 1965 China
Tunnel War Ren Xudong Tunnel warfare in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1965 USA
Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson British and American POWs escape from Italian camps 1965 Poland
France
West Germany
Czas pokoju (TV) Tadeusz Konwicki Poland - German Occupation 1965 Poland
Buty (The Boots) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Eastern Front, military hospital 1965 Poland
Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV) Lech Lorentowicz Eastern Front, 1945 1965 Poland
Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland, 1944 1965 Poland
Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV) Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki Poland - German Occupation 1965 Poland
Wózek (The Cart) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland Soviet POWs 1965 Poland
Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series) Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki Polish Resistance, 1941–45 1966 UK
France
The Night of the Generals Anatole Litvak The July 20 plot 1966 France
La ligne de démarcation Claude Chabrol In 1941, the life in a little town cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the unoccupied zone 1966 USA
France
Is Paris Burning? René Clément The Liberation of Paris 1966 Czechoslovakia
Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) Jiří Menzel 1966 USA
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Blake Edwards The Allied invasion of Sicily 1966 Poland
Don Gabriel Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy 1966 Denmark
Der var engang en krig (Once There Was a War) Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt About the life of a boy after the occupation 1966 Poland
Kontrybucja (Contribution) Jan Łomnicki Polish Resistance 1966 Poland
Mistrz (The Master) (TV) Jerzy Antczak Poland - German Occupation 1966 France
La Grande Vadrouille Gérard Oury Comedy about RAF aircrew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets 1967 UK
Attack on the Iron Coast Paul Wendkos Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid 1967 USA
Beach Red Cornel Wilde The Pacific Theater of Operations 1967 Poland
Długa noc (Long Night) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943 1967 Poland
West Germany
Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime) Jan Rybkowski Germany during the war 1967 Poland
Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Polish Resistance 1967 Japan
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's Longest Day) Kihachi Okamoto The Kyūjō Incident. 1967 USA
The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich Battle of Normandy 1967 Poland
Westerplatte Stanisław Różewicz Battle of Westerplatte 1967 Poland
Zosia (Zosya) Jerzy Lipman Poland - Eastern Front - Love story 1967 Poland
Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) Zbigniew Kuźmiński Polish Resistance, Comedy 1968 Philippines
Ang Mangliligpit Pablo Santiago Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Makapili. 1968 Italy
Anzio Edward Dmytryk The Battle of Anzio 1968 USA
Hell in the Pacific John Boorman Marooned American and Japanese soldiers on an unnamed Japanese island 1968 USSR
(Estonian SSR)
Inimesed sõdurisinelis Jüri Müür Mobilized Estonians in the Red Army 1968 USSR
(Georgian SSR)
Jvartsmuli kundzuli Shota Managadze 1968 Poland
Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945 1968 Philippines
Manila, Open City Eddie Romero The Manila Massacre and the Battle of Manila. 1968 Czechoslovakia
Nebeští jezdci Jindřich Polák Czech pilots in the RAF 1968 Albania
Prita (Ambush) Mithat Fagu Albanian resistance under German occupation, 1943 1968 USSR
Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword) Vladimir Basov Soviet spy in German intelligence [6] 1968 UK
Submarine X-1 William A. Graham Royal Navy midget submarines 1968 USA
The Devil's Brigade Andrew V. McLaglen The Devil's Brigade 1968 USA
The Hell with Heroes Joseph Sargent In 1946 North Africa, two former USAF pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life 1968 Japan
The Human Bullet Kihachi Okamato Story of a kamikaze soldier 1968 USA
The Secret War of Harry Frigg Jack Smight Comedy about Generals held in a special POW camp 1968 USA
Where Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Allied operation to rescue a captured American General 1969 France
Italy
Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville French Resistance 1969 UK
Battle of Britain Guy Hamilton The Battle of Britain 1969 Poland
Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944 1969 Italy
Eagles Over London Enzo G. Castellari British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London. 1969 Poland
Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War) Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy - Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944 1969 Poland
Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Battle of Kolberg (1945), on the Eastern Front 1969 Italy
La Battaglia di El Alamein Giorgio Ferroni The Second Battle of El Alamein 1969 USSR
Liberation Yuri Ozerov Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin 1969 UK
Mosquito Squadron Boris Sagal A British bomber squadron must destroy Germany's new Vergeltungswaffe at a research camp 1969 Albania
Njësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit) Hysen Hakani Guerrilla resistance in Tirana during the occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy 1969 Poland
Ostatnie dni (The Last Days) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945 1969 Philippines
Pambihirang tatlo Felix Villar A mission to destroy the Japanese bastion along the San Bernardino Strait. 1969 UK
Play Dirty Andre de Toth The North African Campaign 1969 Italy
Salt in the Wound Tonino Ricci 1969 Poland
Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939 1969 Yugoslavia
The Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajić The Battle of Neretva 1969 USA
The Bridge at Remagen John Guillermin Operation Lumberjack, on the Western Front 1969 USA
The Secret of Santa Vittoria Stanley Kramer The aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini 1969 Poland
Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) Jan Rybkowski Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941 1970s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1970 Denmark
Oktoberdage Bent Christensen 1970 USA
Catch-22 Mike Nichols The Italian Campaign 1970 Japan
Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' Hiromichi Horikawa Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War. 1970 UK
USA
Hell Boats Paul Wendkos British motor torpedo boats operating in the Mediterranean 1970 USA
Italy
Hornet's Nest Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino Italian Campaign - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam 1970 USA
Yugoslavia
Kelly's Heroes Brian G. Hutton The Western Front 1970 Poland
Kolumbowie Janusz Morgenstern Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 1970 Poland
USSR
Legenda Sylwester Chęciński Polish Resistance 1970 Philippines
Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force) Jerry Hopper Japanese invasion of Manila Bay. 1970 USA
Patton Franklin Schaffner General George S. Patton 1970 Japan
Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) Yahagi Toshihiko Kamikaze attacks. 1970 Philippines
Santiago! Lino Brocka Life in occupied Philippines. 1970 Italy
Russia
Sunflower (I Girasoli) Vittorio De Sica The first Occidental film to be made in the USSR. 1970 UK
The Last Escape Walter Grauman British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist 1970 USA
Too Late the Hero Robert Aldrich British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign 1970 USA
Japan
Tora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda The Attack on Pearl Harbor 1970 Poland
Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel) Zbigniew Chmielewski Poland - Children in a German concentration camp 1970 Poland
Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire) Lech Lorentowicz Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance 1971 Poland
Agent nr 1 Zbigniew Kuźmiński Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, a Polish SOE agent in the Greek resistance 1971 USA
Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson Disney children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic 1971 UK
Dad's Army Norman Cohen Comedy about the British Home Guard, based on the TV series. 1971 Japan
Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen Kihachi Okamoto The Battle of Okinawa from the eyes of the Army, Navy, Air Force, civilians, and the Generals who commanded them 1971 UK
Murphy's War Peter Yates The Battle of the Atlantic 1971 USSR
Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) Aleksei German Winter, 1942. A former Russian POW joins the partisans. 1971 USA
Raid on Rommel Henry Hathaway North African Campaign 1971 Philippines
Sangre Armando Garces Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. 1971 Greece
Ti ekanes sto polemo Thanasi; (What did you do during the war Thanasis?) Dinos Katsourides Greek Resistance comedy 1971 Poland
Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night) Andrzej Żuławski Polish Resistance 1972 India
Lalkar Ramanand Sagar Burma Campaign, 1941–1945 1973 Philippines
Dugo ng Bayan Armando A. Herrera Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.[7] 1973 Italy
UK
Hitler: The Last Ten Days Ennio De Concini The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin 1973 Poland
Hubal Bohdan Poręba Polish Campaign, 1939/1940 1973 France
Le Train (The Last Train or The Train) Pierre Granier-Deferre A Frenchman and a Jewish German woman met on a train while escaping the German army entering France 1973 China
Little 8th Route Army Lei You Chinese animated puppet film; The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1973 France
Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?) Robert Lamoureux Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 débâcle 1973 Italy
Massacre in Rome George P. Cosmatos The Ardeatine massacre. 1973 Yugoslavia
The Battle of Sutjeska Stipe Delić Battle of the Sutjeska. 1973 Hong Kong
When Taekwondo Strikes Feng Huang 1973 Poland
Zasieki (Barbed Wire) Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943 1974 France
West Germany
Italy
Lacombe Lucien Louis Malle French resistance and collaboration 1974 USSR
(Estonian SSR)
Ohtlikud mängud Veljo Käsper The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany 1974 France
Les guichets du Louvre Michel Mitrani The first big roundup of Jews in 1942 Paris, and the story of a man who tries to save as many Jews as he can. 1974 Poland
Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) Janusz Kondratiuk Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944 1974 Poland
USSR
Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Name) Siergiej Kołosow Tragedy of children in war 1974 Republic of China
The Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋) Tin Shan Sui Zhang Zizhong's biography movie during Second Sino-Japanese War. 1975 East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Jacob, the Liar Frank Beyer 1975 USA
Czechoslovakia
Operation Daybreak Lewis Gilbert Operation Anthropoid 1975 France
On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie Robert Lamoureux Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle, and in an officers POW camp, in a castle. 1975 Greece
The Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos The German invasion and occupation of Greece 1975 France
Section spéciale Costa-Gavras During the French Occupation, hours in a special court room where judges are asked to condemn to death penalty people who didn't do anything, to please Germans. 1975 Italy
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Poland
W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring) Andrzej Konic The Eastern Front, 1945 1975 Poland
Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument) Janusz Zaorski Polish Resistance 1975 Poland
Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Campaign 1939 1975 Poland
Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance 1975 UK
Overlord Stuart Cooper A young soldier trains with the East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for the Normandy landings 1975 USSR
В бой идут одни старики (V boy idut odni stariki)
Only Old Men Are Going to BattleLeonid Bykov Soviet World War II pilots. 1976 Japan
Barefoot Gen Tengo Yamada Live-action depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1976 Denmark
Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer) Edward Fleming Woman gets in love with a German soldier 1976 USA
Farewell to Manzanar (TV) John Korty The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar 1976 Republic of China
Mei hua Chia Chang Liu The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). 1976 USA
Midway (The Battle of Midway) Jack Smight The Battle of Midway 1976 France
Italy
Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) Joseph Losey French resistance and collaboration 1976 Poland
Ocalić miasto Jan Łomnicki Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945 1976 Poland
Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series) Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern Poland, 1939–43 1976 Poland
Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) Paweł Komorowski Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 1976 Philippines
Tatlong taong walang Diyos Mario O'Hara The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1976 UK
The Eagle Has Landed John Sturges A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill 1976 Japan
Zero Pilot Seiji Maruyama Based on the book Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero. 1977 UK
USA
A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough Operation Market Garden 1977 Poland
Akcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) Jana Łomnicki Polish resistance, 1943 1977 UK
West Germany
Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah German soldiers on the Russian Front 1977 France
La septième compagnie au clair de lune Robert Lamoureux Comic story about three French veterans who resist the Germans. 1977 USA
MacArthur Joseph Sargent General Douglas MacArthur 1977 Poland
Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV) Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo 1977 Poland
Palace Hotel Ewa Kruk Poland, 1939–44 1977 Netherlands
Soldier of Orange (Survival Run) Paul Verhoeven Dutch resistance 1977 USSR
Восхождение (Voskhozhdeniye)
The AscentLarisa Shepitko During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. On their way back they were spotted by a German patrol. 1977 Czechoslovakia
Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem Jindrich Polák 1978 Poland
... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie (Wherever You Are, Mr. President) Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939 1978 Poland
Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood) Jerzy Hoffman Eastern Front, 1943 1978 UK
Force 10 from Navarone Guy Hamilton British commando raid in Yugoslavia 1978 USA
Holocaust Marvin J. Chomsky Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust 1978 Netherlands
Pastorale 1943 Wim Verstappen Dutch resistance 1978 Italy
Quel maledetto treno blindato Enzo G. Castellari 1978 Poland
Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores) Zbigniew Kuźmiński A courier travelling through Europe has to deliver a special letter to London 1978 Poland
Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) Edward Żebrowski German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital 1978 Poland
Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead) Julian Dziedzina Silesia Polish Resistance 1979 USSR
(Estonian SSR)
Tuulte pesa Olev Neuland Forest Brothers 1979 UK
Yanks John Schlesinger Americans stationed in England 1979 UK
Escape to Athena George Pan Cosmatos German-occupied Greece 1979 UK
USA
Hanover Street Peter Hyams American bomber crews based in England 1979 Poland
Elegia Paweł Komorowski Eastern Front 1945 1979 USA
Ike (miniseries) Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson Story (and love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. 1979 Poland
Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars) Henryk Bielski Eastern Front, 1944 1979 Poland
Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go) Władysław Ślesicki Escape from a POW camp 1979 Poland
Zielone lata (Salad Days) Stanisław Jędryka Poland Sosnowiec, tragedy of children in war 1979 Albania
Radiostacioni Rikard Ljarja 1979 Poland
Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma) Roman Wionczek Poland, France, England - Enigma 1979 West Germany
Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough) Andrew V. McLaglen The July 20 plot 1979 Italy
France
Spain
From Hell to Victory "Hank Milestone"
(Umberto Lenzi)Occupied Europe 1979 USA
1941 Steven Spielberg California, one week after the attack on Pearl Harbor 1980s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1980 Poland
Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day) Tadeusz Kijański Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 Poland
Godzina "W" ('W' Hour) Janusz Morgenstern Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 Philippines
Kalibre .45 Nilo Saez A story of vengeance set during the near end of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1980 Poland
Olimpiada '40 Andrzej Kotkowski A POW Camp, 1940 1980 USA
The Big Red One Samuel Fuller U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe 1980 USA
The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific) Don Taylor Science fiction movie. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz is lost in a storm, then arrives at the same place in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and meets Japanese aircraft en route to Pearl Harbor. 1980 France
The Last Metro François Truffaut The German occupation of France during World War II. 1980 UK
Switzerland
USA
The Sea Wolves Andrew V. McLaglen Calcutta Light Horse 1980 Poland
Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 Poland
Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) Witold Orzechowski Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance 1981 France
Allons Z'enfants Yves Boisset A cadet in a French military school doesn't like the army and is taken in the 1939-40 war. 1981 Poland
Bołdyn (General Boldyn) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Resistance 1981 West Germany
Das Boot (The Boat) Wolfgang Petersen The Battle of the Atlantic 1981 USA
Escape to Victory (Victory) John Huston A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs 1981 UK
Eye of the Needle Richard Marquand A German spy in England before D-Day 1981 Netherlands
Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) Ben Verbong Dutch resistance 1981 France
Les uns et les autres (Bolero: dance of life) Claude Lelouch Four families with different backgrounds and nationalities are followed from the 1930s to the 1980s as their paths cross time and again. 1981 Japan
Rengo kantai (The Imperial Navy) Shûe Matsubayashi The Operation Ten-Go. 1981 Poland
Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance 1981 USA
The Bunker George Schaefer Based on the book The Bunker; The last days of Adolf Hitler. 1982 Australia
Attack Force Z Tim Burstall Z Special Unit 1982 West Germany
Die Weiße Rose Michael Verhoeven The execution of White Rose members. 1982 Poland
Do góry nogami (Upside Down) Stanisław Jędryka Polish Silesia, tragedy of children in war 1982 Poland
Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day) Krzysztof Prymek, Roman Wionczek Polish Resistance 1982 Philippines
Oro, Plata, Mata Peque Gallaga The Fall of Corregidor. 1982 Poland
Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV) Ryszard Ber A Polish village during the German occupation 1982 USA
Sophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula Holocaust 1982 Australia
The Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross) Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell Operation Rimau 1983 Japan
Barefoot Gen Mori Masaki Anime film: depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1983 Hong Kong
Hong Kong, 1941 Leong Po-Chih The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1983 Denmark
Forræderne Ole Roos 1983 Poland
Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey) Waldemar Dziki Poland Holocaust 1983 Poland
Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) Bohdan Poręba General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943 1983 UK
Japan
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Nagisa Oshima British POWs on Java Island 1983 Poland
Nie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs) Juliusz Janicki The Holocaust in Poland 1983 China
One and Eight Zhang Junzhao Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China 1983 France
Papy fait de la résistance Jean-Marie Poiré (Comedy) French Resistance in Occupied France 1983 Philippines
Roman Rapido Argel Joseph Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. 1983 USA
UK
Italy
The Scarlet and the Black Jerry London Biographical film about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. 1983 Poland
Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV) Stefan Szlachtycz The Holocaust in Poland 1983 Poland
West Germany
Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee) Jerzy Hoffman The Holocaust in Poland 1983 USA
Winds of War Dan Curtis The saga of a family and events leading up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. 1984 USSR
(Estonian SSR)
Võõra nime all Peeter Urbla Estonians in a Soviet camp 1984 Poland
Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) Kazimierz Kutz Silesia, 1939-42 Polish Resistance 1984 Poland
Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day) Ludmiła Niedbalska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1984 Poland
Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder) Waldemar Podgórski The Polish Campaign, 1939 1984 Poland
Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV) Stanisław Jędryka Polish Resistance, 1941 1984 China
Yellow Earth Chen Kaige The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1984 Australia
The Last Bastion Chris Thompson TV mini-series on WWII from the Australian perspective. 1985 USSR
The Battle for Moscow Yuri Ozerov Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Moscow 1985 USA
Code Name: Emerald Jonathan Sanger Battle of Normandy 1985 USSR
Come and See Elem Klimov The Eastern Front 1985 Netherlands
De IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour) Dimitri Frenkel Frank A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer 1985 Netherlands
Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet) Kees van Oostrum A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam 1985 Poland
Czechoslovakia
Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) Antonín Moskalyk Children in war 1985 Romania
Noi, cei din linia întâi Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary 1985 Japan
Seburi Monogatari (The Seburi Story) Sadao Nakajima Hardships of nomadic Seburi people during wartime. 1985 Poland
Tate (Dad) Jan Rutkiewicz The Holocaust in Poland 1985 Japan
The Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa Remake Version; The Burma Campaign 1985 Finland
The Unknown Soldier Rauni Mollberg The Finno-Soviet Continuation War 1985 Poland
W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred) Wojciech Żółtowski The Holocaust in Poland, 1943 1986 Netherlands
In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) Ate de Jong Dutch resistance 1986 Poland
Switzerland
Kołysanka (The Lullabye) Federo Sevella The Holocaust in Poland 1986 Poland
Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War) Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz Polish Resistance 1986 Netherlands
The Assault (De Aanslag) Fons Rademakers An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation 1986 Japan
Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison) Kei Kumai The Pacific War. 1987 UK
USA
Yugoslavia
Escape from Sobibor Jack Gold Sobibor Uprising during the Holocaust 1987 UK
USA
Yugoslavia
The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) Gordon Hessler 1987 France
Au revoir, les enfants Louis Malle Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France 1987 USA
Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai 1987 UK
Hope and Glory John Boorman The Blitz 1988 China
Evening Bell Wu Ziniu Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China 1988 USA
Farewell to the King John Milius Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo 1988 Japan
Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata The Firebombing of Kobe 1988 Poland
USA
I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) Alexander Ramati Gipsy - The Holocaust 1988 Poland
Kornblumenblau Leszek Wosiewicz Auschwitz-Birkenau 1988 Hong Kong
Men Behind the Sun Mou Tun Fei The Japanese human experimentation on the Chinese. 1988 Poland
USSR
Przeprawa (Passage) Wiktor Turow Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans 1988 China
Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou Young woman's life working at a kaoliang distillery during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1988 UK
Return from the River Kwai Andrew V. McLaglen British POWs in Japan 1988 Netherlands
UK
Shadow Man Piotr Andrejew A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam 1988 Japan
Tomorrow Kazuo Kuroki The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1988 USA
War & Remembrance Dan Curtis The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. 1989 Japan
Black Rain Shohei Imamura The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 1989 Philippines
Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice Celso Ad. Castillo The life of a Filipina comfort women during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1989 USA
Fat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé The Manhattan project 1989 USSR
Stalingrad Yuri Ozerov The Battle for Stalingrad 1989 Finland
Talvisota Pekka Parikka The Winter War 1989 USA
Triumph of the Spirit Robert M. Young The story of Salamo Arouch 1989 Poland
Virtuti Jacek Butrymowicz The Polish Campaign, 1939 1990s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1990 Australia
Blood Oath Stephen Wallace Japanese war crimes trial for the Laha massacre 1990 France
Docteur Petiot Christian de Chalonge Serial killer Marcel Petiot in Occupied France 1990 Germany
Europa Europa Agnieszka Holland A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth 1990 Sweden
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg Kjell Grede Story of Raoul Wallenberg 1990 Poland
Korczak Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in Poland: life of Dr. Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto 1990 USA
A Man Called Sarge Stuart Gillard Comedy - Western Desert Campaign, Second Battle of El Alamein and capture of Tobruk 1990 USA
Memphis Belle Michael Caton-Jones Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle 1991 Poland
Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest) Jan Łomnicki The Holocaust 1991 Denmark
Drengene fra Sankt Petri (The Boys from St. Petri) Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Danish resistance group 1991 Denmark
De nøgne træer Morten Henriksen 1991 Poland
Germany
France
Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703) Janusz Kijowski The Holocaust 1991 Italy
Mediterraneo Gabriele Salvatores Italian soldiers on a Greek island 1992 Denmark
USA
En dag i oktober (A Day in October) Kenneth Madsen About the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940s 1992 Poland
Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance, 1945/46 1992 Poland
Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters) Robert Gliński Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag 1992 USA
A Midnight Clear Keith Gordon The Western Front 1993 Romania
Oglinda Sergiu Nicolaescu Downfall of Ion Antonescu 1993 Estonia
Poland
Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear) Marek Piestrak NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939. 1993 USA
Schindler's List Steven Spielberg The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust. 1993 Germany
Stalingrad Joseph Vilsmaier The Battle of Stalingrad. 1993 USA
Swing Kids Thomas Carter A college student forced into the Hitler-Jugend but is also a Swing Kid. 1993 Republic of China
The Puppetmaster Hou Hsiao-Hsien The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). 1994 France
Un jour avant l'aube Jacques Ertaud Story of a French SAS commando in Brittany, during the Normandy battle in 1944. 1995 China
Don't Cry, Nanking Wu Ziniu Nanking Massacre 1995 Canada
Japan
Hiroshima Roger Spottiswoode The atomic bombing of Hiroshima 1995 Denmark
Kun en pige (Just a Girl) Peter Schrøder About Lise Tønder Jensens life until the end of the war 1995 USA
The Tuskegee Airmen Robert Markowitz The story of the first African-American pilots 1995 China
Red Cherry Ye Ying Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union 1995 USA
Sahara Brian Trenchard-Smith The Western Desert Campaign 1995 Serbia
Underground Emir Kusturica German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia 1995 Yuri Ozerov Biopic about Marshal Georgy Zhukov. 1995 Poland
France
Germany
Wielki tydzień (Holy Week) Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust 1996 USA
The Ring Armand Mastroianni During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis 1996 UK
The Brylcreem Boys Terence Ryan British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland 1996 UK
USA
The English Patient Anthony Minghella Tobruk 1996 USA
Mother Night Keith Gordon 1996 UK
Over Here (TV) Tony Dow Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England 1996 Thailand
Sunset at Chaophraya Euthana Mukdasanit The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement 1997 France
Lucie Aubrac Claude Berri The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France 1997 UK
The Land Girls David Leland Women's Land Army 1997 Italy
La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) Roberto Benigni The Holocaust 1997 Australia
USA
Paradise Road Bruce Beresford Allied women POWs in Sumatra 1998 Japan
Pride Shunya Ito A depiction of Tojo Hideki during the Tokyo Trials 1998 USA
Miracle at Midnight (TV) Ken Cameron Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust 1998 USA
Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg The landing at Omaha Beach and fighting inland 1998 USA
The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick The Guadalcanal campaign 1998 USA
When Trumpets Fade John Irvin The Battle of Huertgen Forest 1999 France
USA
Hungary
Jakob the Liar Peter Kassovitz A Jewish ghetto 1999 Russia
Germany
Japan
Italy
France
Moloch Aleksandr Sokurov A visit by Adolf Hitler to the Berghof 1999 Finland
Russia
Ambush Olli Saarela The Continuation War 1999 Croatia
Četverored Branko Schmidt The Bleiburg massacre 1999 Germany
Aimée & Jaguar Max Färberböck While the Gestapo purge Berlin of Jews, a love affair blooms between two women, Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust. 1999 China
Lover's Grief over the Yellow River Feng Xiaoning A story of an American pilot about to pay his respects to the communist-led Chinese army who rescued him. Example Example Example Example Example 2000s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 2000 Canada
Germany
UK
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace Eric Till German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 2000 China
Devils on the Doorstep Jiang Wen The Second Sino-Japanese War. 2000 Italy
Johnny the Partisan Guido Chiesa Partisan warfare in Northern Italy. 2000 Malaysia
Leftenan Adnan Aziz M. Osman Story of Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang. 2000 Italy
Malèna Giuseppe Tornatore Set in Sicily in 1940 just as Italy enters the war. Malèna's husband leaves to serve in the military. 2000 Philippines
Markova: Comfort Gay Gil Portes A story based on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving comfort gay from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 2000 Czech Republic
Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall) Jan Hrebejk Czechoslovakia - German occupation, collaboration, resistance 2000 USA
U-571 Jonathan Mostow American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate a German U-boat with orders to capture an Enigma machine that could turn the tide of the war. 2000 Poland
Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Kłos) (TV) Andrzej Wajda Poland - German occupation, collaboration 2001 UK
USA
Band of Brothers (TV) Steven Spielberg Easy Company, 506th Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division from D-Day through Holland, Belgium and Germany. 2001 UK
France
USA
Captain Corelli's Mandolin John Madden The Italian occupation of the Greek islands. 2001 UK
Australia
Charlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong Special Operations Executive. 2001 UK
USA
Conspiracy (TV) Frank Pierson In 1942, 15 German officials attend a conference in Wannsee headed by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss the Final Solution to the Jewish question 2001 Czech Republic
UK
Dark Blue World Jan Sverák Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain. 2001 USA
Germany
UK
Ireland
Enemy at the Gates Jean-Jacques Annaud Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and a German sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad. 2001 UK
USA
Germany
Netherlands
Enigma Michael Apted Enigma machine mystery. 2001 Philippines
Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway Gil Portes A Filipina offers to be a wet nurse to a Japanese soldier's new son for the conditional freedom of her husband. 2001 Japan
Hotaru (Firefly) Yasuo Furuhata Based on the true story of a Korean kamikaze pilot. 2001 USA
Pearl Harbor Michael Bay The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. 2001 China
Purple Sunset Feng Xiaoning The unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito. 2001 Germany
Russia
So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me) Hardy Martins Adaptation of Clemens Forell's book: a German soldier walks over 11,000 km to escape from the Siberian gulag. 2001 UK
The Bunker Rob Green The Battle of the Siegfried Line. 2001 USA
The Grey Zone Tim Blake Nelson The Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. 2001 USA
Burma
To End All Wars David L. Cunningham The Burma Railway. 2001 USA
Uprising (TV) Jon Avnet The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 2001 Philippines
Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure Chito S. Roño The burying of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in the Philippines. 2002 France
Germany
Amen. Costa-Gavras Alleged collusion between Nazis and the Roman Catholic Church. 2002 UK
Two Men Went to War John Henderson Based on a true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France. 2002 USA
Hart's War Gregory Hoblit A trial is conducted in a POW camp in Germany 2002 Russia
Кукушка (Kukushka)
The CuckooAleksandr Rogozhkin A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to a Finnish sniper and a captain of the Soviet army at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men. 2002 France
Germany
Laissez passer (Safe Conduct) Bertrand Tavernier France under German occupation 2002 France
Monsieur Batignole Gérard Jugnot A butcher hides and protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France 2002 France
Germany
UK
Poland
The Pianist Roman Polanski Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman 2002 USA
UK
The Gathering Storm Richard Loncraine Story of Winston Churchill before the war. 2002 Russia
Zvezda Nikolai Lebedev Soviet scouts work behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration 2002 Italy
El Alamein Enzo Monteleone The Second Battle of El Alamein 2002 USA
Windtalkers John Woo Battle of Saipan 2003 France
Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau France under German occupation 2003 UK
Entrusted Giacomo Battiato An 11-year-old chess prodigy, son of a mother working with the underground resistance, is entrusted with a life-saving secret 2003 Poland
Pornografia (Pornography) Jan Jakub Kolski The German Occupation of Poland 2003 Germany
Netherlands
Rosenstrasse Margarethe von Trotta Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin 2003 Japan
Spy Sorge Masahiro Shinoda Biography of a Soviet spy Richard Sorge. 2003 France
Strange Gardens Jean Becker French hostages held captive in a giant pit 2003 USA
Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little A group of Allied soldiers is trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save thousands of American lives 2003 Germany
USA
Italy
The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) Ari Taub German, Italian and US combatants on the Italian Front, 1944 2003 Czech Republic
Želary Ondrej Trojan Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding after their group is exposed 2003 Malaysia
Paloh Adman Salleh Japanese occupation of Malaya 2004 Philippines
Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita Joel Lamangan The Battle of Bataan, and Bataan Death March. 2004 Japan
Chichi to Kuraseba Kazuo Kuroki The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 2004 Germany
Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day) Volker Schlöndorff An SS officer tries to coerce a Catholic priest into writing to the Vatican on behalf of the Church of Luxembourg demanding that the Pope support Hitler 2004 Germany
Italy
Austria
Der Untergang Oliver Hirschbiegel The last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin 2004 Germany
Switzerland
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Edelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates) Niko von Glasow German resistance group, the Edelweiss Pirates 2004 USA
Ike: Countdown to D-Day Robert Harmon The organization and planning of Operation Overlord at SHAEF 2004 USA
The Aryan Couple John Daly Eastern Europe in 1944 - An undercover Jewish couple's attempt to escape under the name of the Third Reich's "Europa Plan", then being enacted throughout Eastern Europe 2004 UK
Island at War Occupation of the Channel Islands 2004 Croatia
Long Dark Night Antun Vrdoljak Croatia under both Fascism and Communism 2004 Germany
Napola (Before the Fall) Dennis Gansel Two former Hitler Youth form an unsuspecting bond at a Reich National-Political institution at the height of the war 2004 Russia
Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) Vitaly Vorobyev Cossacks shoot; Fascists die. 2004 Philippines
Panaghoy sa Suba Cesar Montano The Second Battle of Bohol - Part of Philippines Campaign (1944–45). 2004 China
Purple Butterfly Lou Ye Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai 2004 USA
Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little Survivors of the Malmedy massacre during the Ardennes Offensive 2004 Germany
Stauffenberg (TV) Jo Baier The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler 2004 USA
Straight Into Darkness Jeff Burr 2 American deserters and a group of orphans hold back a Nazi assault. 2005 Lithuania
Forest of the Gods Algimantas Puipa An artist and intellectual is imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Soviets 2005 Finland
Sweden
Framom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines) Åke Lindman The Continuation War between the USSR and Finland from 1941-1944. 2005 Japan
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck A Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo. 2005 India
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Shyam Benegal Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. 2005 USA
Only the Brave Lane Nishikawa The rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. 2005 China
On the Mountain of Tai Hang Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian The campaigns of the Eighth Route Army in China. 2005 Germany
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Marc Rothemund The final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance. 2005 USA
Australia
The Great Raid John Dahl Japanese occupation of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan. 2005 UK
The Last Drop David Teague Operation Market Garden and a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi gold. 2005 Republic of China
The Strait Story Yu-shan Huang 2005 Russia
France
Italy
Switzerland
Japan
The Sun Aleksandr Sokurov The life of Emperor Hirohito. 2005 UK
USA
China
The White Countess James Ivory 2005 Russia
Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva Artyom Nazarov ? Gorgeous Soviet women snipers [8] 2005 Japan
Yamato Junya Sato The Yamato's crew during the Pacific War. 2006 China
Tokyo Trial Gao Qunshu Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) 2006 USA
Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of American soldiers 2006 Germany
Lithuania
Ghetto Audrius Juzėnas The Holocaust in Lithuania 2006 France
Morocco
Algeria
Belgium
Days of Glory Rachid Bouchareb Four North Africans enlist in the French Army to liberate France 2006 Australia
Kokoda Alister Grierson Kokoda Track Campaign 2006 USA
Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers 2006 Russia
Svolochi Aleksandr Atanesyan Teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission 2006 Netherlands
Germany
UK
Belgium
Zwartboek (Black Book) Paul Verhoeven A young Jewish woman joins the Dutch Resistance and becomes entangled in a deadly web of collaboration and betrayal in the final months of the war 2006 Germany
The Last Train Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier A cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz in 1943. 2007 USA
American Pastime Desmond Nakano Love, jazz and baseball at the Topaz, Utah internment camp 2007 UK
Atonement Joe Wright Dunkirk evacuation. 2007 Australia
Curtin (TV) Jessica Hobbs The wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin 2007 Japan
For Those We Love Taku Shinjō Stories of kamikaze pilots 2007 Poland
Jutro idziemy do kina (Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies) Michał Kwieciński The Polish Campaign, 1939 2007 Poland
Katyń Andrzej Wajda The Katyń massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by the Soviets in 1940. 2007 China
USA
Republic of China
Lust, Caution Ang Lee An espionage thriller set in occupied Shanghai 2007 Germany
Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler Dani Levy 2007 Belgium
Surviving with Wolves Véra Belmont A young Jewish girl combs Europe for her deported parents. 2007 Finland
Tali Ihantala 1944 Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen Battles of the Continuation War 2007 Austria
The Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky Operation Bernhard 2007 Estonia
Ühe metsa pojad Ats Surva Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944. 2007 Japan
Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 2008 Germany
Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin Max Färberböck Soviet occupation of Berlin 2008 Australia
Australia Baz Luhrmann A love story between an Australian soldier and a British aristocrat during the first attack on Darwin. 2008 USA
UK
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Mark Herman The Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of a death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew 2008 Australia
China
Germany
The Children of Huang Shi Roger Spottiswoode The Nanking Massacre, and Three Alls Policy. 2008 USA
Defiance Edward Zwick Bielski partisans 2008 Denmark
Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron) Ole Christian Madsen Two members of the Danish Resistance are sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators 2008 France
UK
Les Femmes De L'Ombre (Female Agents) Jean-Paul Salomé Five female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate the German head of counter-intelligence) and rescue a Briton with information on the D-Day invasion 2008 Norway
Germany
Denmark
Max Manus Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg
The story of Max Manus, a resistance member fighting the Nazi occupation of Norway 2008 USA
Miracle at St. Anna Spike Lee The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre 2008 Netherlands
Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) Martin Koolhoven A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of the war 2008 Israel
Spring 1941 Uri Barbash Warsaw female grocer falls in love with the husband of the jewish couple she is hiding 2008 Czech Republic
Tobruk Václav Marhoul Siege of Tobruk 2008 USA
Valkyrie Bryan Singer The July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler 2009 France
The Army of Crime Robert Guédiguian The Manouchian resistance group and the Red Poster 2009 Russia
UK
Attack on Leningrad Aleksandr Buravsky The Siege of Leningrad 2009 China
City of Life and Death Lu Chuan The Nanking Massacre 2009 China
Cow Guan Hu 2009 USA
Everyman's War Thad Smith The US 94th Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge 2009 Japan
Russia
Canada
First Squad Yoshiharu Ashino Anime film about the Nazi-Soviet War. 2009 USA
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to kill a group of Nazis. 2009 USA
UK
Into the Storm Thaddeus O'Sullivan Biographical film about Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership (sequel to The Gathering Storm). 2009 Hong Kong
Ip Man Wilson Yip Yip Man's life in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War. 2009 Germany
China
France
John Rabe Florian Gallenberger The Nanking Massacre 2009 Japan
Last Operations Under the Orion Tetsuo Shinohara A naval battle between Japan and the USA 2009 Russia
Pop (The Priest) Vladimir Khotinenko A priest in occupied Latvia 2010s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 2010 Russia
Brest Fortress Alexander Kott Defense of Brest Fortress by Soviet troops in June 1941 2010 Japan
Caterpillar Kōji Wakamatsu Disfigured Japanese veteran returns home to Japan 2010 Poland
UK
Christine: War My Love Agnieszka Holland Story of Polish spy Krystyna Skarbek 2010 People's Republic of China
Death and Glory in Changde City Dong Shen Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War, "Death and Glory in Changde" depicts the 1943 Battle of Changde (a city in the province of Hunan, China). A Chinese division of 8,000-9,000 soldiers defended the city from the attack of 30,000 Japanese soldiers. 2010 People's Republic of China
East Wind Rain Yunlong Liu 2010 Czech Republic
Germany
Austria
Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill) Juraj Herz Life in Nazi Czechoslovakia 2010 Poland
Joanna Feliks Falk Krakow, Poland - German occupation and Holocaust 2010 UK
The King's Speech Tom Hooper King George VI 2010 France
La Rafle Roselyne Bosch The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup 2010 Hong Kong
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Wai-keung Lau Shanghai prior to the Japanese invasion 2010 USA
The Pacific Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To 1st Division of the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations 2010 France
Sarah's Key Kristen Scott Thomas Vel' d'Hiv 2010 USA
The Way Back Peter Weir A motley group of prisoners, including POWs, make a long escape from a Soviet Gulag 2010 Poland
Wenecja Jan Jakub Kolski Poland - German occupation, 1939-1945 2011 UK
Age of Heroes Adrian Vitoria 2011 India
Gandhi to Hitler Rakesh Ranjan Kumar Based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler 2011 Sweden
Gränsen (The Frontier) Richard Holm Two Swedish soldiers travel toward the border of Nazi-occupied Norway 2011 Denmark
Hvidstens gruppen Regner Grasten A resistance group from Jutland 2011 USA
Little Iron Men Jesse Kobayashi Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team 2011 Japan
Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox) Hideyuki Hirayama Story of Japanese holdout Captain Sakae Ōba following the Battle of Saipan (1944). 2011 USA
Sarah's Key Gilles Paquet-Brenner The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup 2011 USA
Captain America: The First Avenger Joe Johnston Story of Captain America as he battles a nazi leader the red skull. 2012 USA
Truth & Treason Matt Whitaker Story of Helmuth Hübener, youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof and executed for high treason 2012 USA
Red Tails Anthony Hemingway It is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American combat pilots during World War II In development
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 201X USA
Agent Zigzag Mike Newell Nazi spy Eddie Chapman turns himself in to the British and becomes a double agent 201X UK
USA
New Zealand
Dambusters Christian Rivers Operation Chastise 201X USA
Panzer 88 Peter Briggs The crew of a King Tiger tank in the Eastern Front battles an unknown creature. 201X USA
Germany
The Forgotten Soldier Paul Verhoeven Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography 201X South Korea
My Way[9] Kang Je-gyu 201X Estonia
Nemad (Them) Ilmar Raag A film about the Battle of the Tannenberg Line 201X Brazil
A Montanha - O Filme (The Mountain - The movie) Vicente Ferraz A film about the Brazilian Expedition Force in Italy. TV series
Years Country Title Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1957 1958 UK
O.S.S. The OSS in occupied France 1962 1966 USA
McHale's Navy The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew in the Pacific Campaign 1962 1967 USA
Combat! A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France 1964 1967 USA
Twelve O'Clock High 1965 1966 USA
The Wackiest Ship in the Army 1965 1971 USA
Hogan's Heroes Comedy about a POW camp 1966 1966 UK
Court Martial During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime 1966 1968 USA
The Rat Patrol Long Range Desert Patrol 1966 1970 Poland
Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank men and a dog) A tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army on the Eastern Front, 1943–45 1967 1968 Poland
Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945 1968 1977 UK
Dad's Army Comedy about the Home Guard 1972 1973 UK
The Pathfinders RAF pathfinding missions 1972 1974 UK
Colditz Colditz Castle POW camp 1973 1973 USSR
Seventeen Moments of Spring A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany 1975 1975 Poland
Hungary
Trzecia granica (Third Border) Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary 1976 1976 Iran
My Uncle Napoleon Comedy set in Tehran under Allied occupation 1976 1978 USA
Baa Baa Black Sheep Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific 1977 1978 UK
Backs to the Land Comedy about the Land Girls 1977 1979 USA
Operation Petticoat 1977 1979 UK
Belgium
Secret Army Belgian resistance 1978 1981 Denmark
Matador The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947 1981 1981 UK
Kessler 1982 1992 UK
'Allo 'Allo! Comedy about a café in Occupied France 1985 1985 USA
Jenny's War A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941 1988 1988 UK
Piece of Cake RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain 1992 1992 Denmark
Mørklægning Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark. 1997 1997 Singapore
The Price of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore 2001 2001 Australia
Changi Changi POW camp 2001 2001 Singapore
In Pursuit of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore 2001 2001 Singapore
A War Diary Japanese occupation of Singapore 2002 now UK
Foyle's War 2004 2005 Japan
Zipang An anime TV series about Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2. 2006 2007 China
Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 2007 2007 China
Gongxun China, the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war 2007 2007 China
Sentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵) The Eighth Route Army on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai 2007 2007 Poland
Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes) Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945 2007 2007 Hong Kong
War and Destiny The Nanjing Massacre 2007 2007 Iran
Hungary
France
Lebanon
Zero Degree Turn An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman 2007 2008 China
Xie Se Xiang Xi The Battle of West Hunan 2007 now China
Soldiers Sortie 2008 2008 Russia
Apostol Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence 2008 2008 Estonia
Tuulepealne maa Two Estonian families from World War I until 1941 2008 2010 Poland
Czas honoru Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance 2008 2010 Japan
Hetalia: Axis Powers An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII 2009 now UK
Land Girls Drama about the Land Girls 2009 now China
My Chief and My Regiment 2009 now France
Un village français An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to...
1 month of war per episode.2010 now Hong Kong
No Regrets Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in Canton, China during Japanese occupation. See also
- List of World War II short films
- List of World War II documentary films
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of Holocaust films
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
- List of partisan films - films about World War II on Yugoslav front
References
- ^ Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
- ^ Some details about the film appear here.
- ^ The "director". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471179/. of this title is still unknown (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ The "director". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903888. of this title is still unknown (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ A 1951 film starring Justina David.
- ^ The film is in four parts, and runs to over five hours in length.
- ^ Some details of this film appears "here". http://fpj-daking.blogspot.com/2008/09/two-versions-of-dugo-ng-bayan.html. This title is not currently (as of November 2010) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ Miniseries starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007. This title is not currently (as of October 2010) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_My_Way.php
External links
- wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular WWII movies.
Categories:- Lists of films by genre
- World War II films
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