- 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 
USAHitler, Beast of Berlin Sam Newfield German political prisoner 
UKThe 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 UKConvoy Pen Tennyson The Battle of the Atlantic 
GermanyFeinde (Enemies) Viktor Tourjansky Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland. 
JapanMoyuru ōzora Yutaka Abe UKSecret Journey John Baxter Espionage UKThe Big Blockade Charles Frend The Economic blockade of Germany USAThe Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel USAThe Long Voyage Home John Ford The Battle of the Atlantic USAWatch on the Rhine Herman Shumlin Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington. USAWaterloo Bridge Mervyn LeRoy While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance [1] USAWomen in War John H. Auer Nurses in the Battle of Britain. 1941
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted GermanyAnnelie Josef von Bákyn A heroic German mother during war. USACaught in the Draft David Butler Bob Hope gets drafted. UKDangerous Moonlight Brian Desmond Hurst The Battle of Britain UK49th Parallel Michael Powell Survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada to the neutral USA UKFreedom Radio Anthony Asquith German Resistance USSRFrontovye podrugi (The Girl from Leningrad) Viktor Eisymont UKPimpernel Smith Leslie Howard The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to World War II UKShips with Wings Sergei Nolbandov Battle of Taranto GermanySoldaten von morgen (Soldiers of Tomorrow) Alfred Weidenmann Nazi Hitler Youth film USASundown Henry Hathaway The North African Campaign GermanyU-Boote westwärts Günther Rittau U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic USAUnderground Vincent Sherman German Resistance USAA Yank in the RAF Henry King American volunteers in the RAF 1942
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 
ItalyAlfa Tau! Francesco De Robertis Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ItalyBengasi Augusto Genina The North Africa campaign USAThe Bugle Sounds S. Sylvan Simon Cavalry and tank warfare USACaptains of the Clouds Michael Curtiz Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, WWI ace Billy Bishop as himself USACasablanca Michael Curtiz Romantic film in Vichy France-controlled Morocco UKThe Day Will Dawn Harold French Norwegian resistance USADesperate Journey Raoul Walsh RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Holland USAEagle Squadron Arthur Lubin Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain UKThe First of the Few Leslie Howard Development of the Spitfire USA
UKFlying Fortress Walter Forde B-17 planes USA
ChinaFlying Tigers David Miller American Volunteer Group, the Second Sino-Japanese War UKThe Foreman Went to France Charles Frend The Battle of France GermanyFronttheater Arthur Maria Rabenalt The Battle of Greece? [2] GermanyDie große Liebe (The Great Love) Rolf Hansen Some part of battle between Nazi Germany and USSR. JapanHawai Mare oki kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya) Kajiro Yamamoto Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign. UKIn Which We Serve Noel Coward and David Lean Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly USALady from Chungking William Nigh The Second Sino-Japanese War USALet's Get Tough! Wallace Fox Juvenile delinquents battle the Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York USAMrs. Miniver William Wyler The British Home Front USANavy Comes Through A. Edward Sutherland The Second Battle of the Atlantic UKThe Next of Kin Thorold Dickinson Careless talk costs lives - message and fictional commando raid Italy
RomaniaOdessa in fiamme (Odessa in Flames) Carmine Gallone UKOne of Our Aircraft Is Missing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Allied aircrew escaping from the occupied Netherlands USAPacific Rendezvous George Sidney Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War ItalyUn Pilota ritorna Roberto Rossellini 
EstoniaPunane udu (The Red Fog) The Soviet occupation of Estonia USAReunion in France Jules Dassin The French Resistance helps a downed US pilot UKSabotage at Sea Leslie S. Hiscott USASomewhere I'll Find You Wesley Ruggles War correspondents in China and Pacific USAStand by for Action Robert Z. Leonard The Pacific War GermanyStukas Karl Ritter Stuka, German dive bomber USAThey Raid by Night Spencer Gordon Bennet Commando raids in occupied Norway USATo Be Or Not To Be Ernst Lubitsch Effects on Warsaw; Polish Air squadron in London USATo the Shores of Tripoli H. Bruce Humberstone JapanTsubasa no gaika (A Triumph of Wings) Satsuo Yamamoto Co-written by Akira Kurosawa USSRUchinari Jani Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov USAWake Island John Farrow The Battle of Wake Island UKWent the Day Well? Alberto Cavalcanti A fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion) USAA Yank on the Burma Road George B. Seitz The Burma Road 1943
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted USAAction in the North Atlantic Lloyd Bacon The Second Battle of the Atlantic USAAerial Gunner William H. Pine The B-17 bomber in the Pacific USAAir Force Howard Hawks B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines USABataan Tay Garnett The Battle of Bataan, Philippines USABehind the Rising Sun Edward Dmytryk UKThe Bells Go Down Basil Dearden Auxiliary Fire Service during The Blitz GermanyBesatzung Dora Karl Ritter All about Luftwaffe men. USABombardier Richard Wallace B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific USABombs Over Burma Joseph H. Lewis USAChetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Louis King Chetniks - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich USAChina John Farrow USACorregidor William Nigh The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines USACorvette K-225 Richard Rosson and Howard Hawks The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN corvette USACrash Dive Archie Mayo US submarine in the North Atlantic USAThe Cross of Lorraine Tay Garnett USACry 'Havoc' Richard Thorpe USADestination Tokyo Delmer Daves US submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid USADestroyer William A. Seiter The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning USAEdge of Darkness Lewis Milestone The Norwegian resistance movement UKFires Were Started Humphrey Jennings The Blitz USAFive Graves to Cairo Billy Wilder Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign UKThe Flemish Farm Jeffrey Dell Commando raids in occupied Belgium USAGuadalcanal Diary Lewis Seiler US Marines in Guadalcanal campaign USAGung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific USAA Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "guardian angel" of new pilots USAHangmen Also Die Fritz Lang Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance USAImmortal Sergeant John M. Stahl British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign USSR
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Georgian SSR)He will come back Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaia UKThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The Home Guard UKMillions Like Us Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat The Home Front USAMission to Moscow Michael Curtiz Various negotiations between Allies USAThe Moon is Down Irving Pichel Resistance USAThe More the Merrier George Stevens USAThe North Star Lewis Milestone Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front USAPilot #5 George Sidney Battle of the Java Sea USARookies in Burma Leslie Goodwins The Burma Campaign USASahara Zoltan Korda Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein USASalute to the Marines S. Sylvan Simon The Battle of the Philippines UKThe Silver Fleet Gordon Wellesley Dutch resistance USASo Proudly We Hail! Mark Sandrich The Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) USAThe Strange Death of Adolf Hitler James Patrick Hogan USAThis Land Is Mine Jean Renoir French Resistance USAThree Russian Girls Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep The Eastern Front UKUndercover Sergei Nolbandov Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia UKWe Dive at Dawn Anthony Asquith Submarine warfare during the Second Battle of the Atlantic 1944
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted UK2,000 Women Frank Launder Internment camps for British women in occupied France 
Italian Social RepublicAeroporto Piero Costa Italian aviators flying for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana; the only surviving film made in the Italian Social Republic USADays of Glory Jacques Tourneur Soviet partisans USADragon Seed Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway The Second Sino-Japanese war. USAFour Jills in a Jeep William A. Seiter The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves USAIn the Meantime, Darling Otto Preminger GermanyJunge Adler Alfred Weidenmann Germany during the war USSR
( Georgian SSR)Jurgais pari Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli JapanKato hayabusa sento-tai Kajiro Yamamoto USALadies Courageous John Rawlins Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron USALifeboat Alfred Hitchcock The Second Battle of the Atlantic 
Second Philippine RepublicLiwayway ng kalayaan (Dawn of Freedom) Gerardo de León, Yutaka Abe Propaganda film about Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. USSRMalakhov kurgan Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi Battle of Sevastopol USAMarine Raiders Harold D. Schuster The Battle of Guadalcanal USAMarriage Is a Private Affair Robert Z. Leonard USAMr. Winkle Goes to War Alfred E. Green JapanNichijô no tatakai Yasujiro Shimazu USAPassage to Marseille Michael Curtiz USAPassport to Destiny Ray McCarey JapanRaigekitai shutsudo Kajirô Yamamoto Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. USSRRainbow Mark Donskoy USARosie the Riveter Joseph Santley USASee Here, Private Hargrove Wesley Ruggles USASergeant Mike Henry Levin USASince You Went Away John Cromwell Home Front in the United States USASong of Russia Gregory Ratoff Italy
RomaniaSquadriglia bianca (The White Squadron) Ion Sava USASunday Dinner for a Soldier Lloyd Bacon USAThe Eve of St. Mark John M. Stahl USAThe Fighting Seabees Edward Ludwig The US Navy Seabees USAThe Impostor Julien Duvivier USAThe Master Race Herbert J. Biberman USAThe Navy Way William A. Berke USAThe Purple Heart Lewis Milestone Prisoners of war captured during the Doolittle Raid. 
AustraliaThe Rats of Tobruk Charles Chauvel Siege of Tobruk USAThe Story of Dr. Wassell Cecil B. DeMille Navy doctor in the Battle of Java USAThe Sullivans Lloyd Bacon The Sullivan brothers USAThirty Seconds Over Tokyo Mervyn LeRoy The Doolittle Raid USATill We Meet Again Frank Borzage USATo Have and Have Not Howard Hawks USATwo-Man Submarine Lew Landers USAU-Boat Prisoner Lew Landers USAWaterfront Steve Sekely UKThe Way Ahead [aka The Immortal Battalion] Carol Reed Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign USAThe White Cliffs of Dover Clarence Brown USAWing and a Prayer Henry Hathaway The Battle of Midway USAWinged Victory George Cukor 1945
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted USABack to Bataan Edward Dmytryk Battle of Bataan, guerilla warfare in the Philippines, in the Battle of Leyte USABlood on the Sun Frank Lloyd An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government USAChina's Little Devils Monta Bell USACornered Edward Dmytryk Ex-Nazis in Argentina USACounter-Attack Zoltan Korda The Eastern Front 
DenmarkDen usynlige hær (The Invisible Army) Johan Jacobsen Danish Partisan DenmarkDe røde Enge (The Red Meadows) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. Young Danish saboteur 
MexicoEscuadrón 201 Jaime Salvador Squadron 201 of the Mexican Air Force in the Battle of Luzon against the Japanese USAFirst Yank Into Tokyo Gordon Douglas USA
ChinaGod Is My Co-Pilot Robert Florey The Flying Tigers USAKeep Your Powder Dry Edward Buzzell Women's Army Corps GermanyDas 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 JapanMomotaro'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 USAObjective, Burma! Raoul Walsh The Burma Campaign USAOut of the Depths D. Ross Lederman Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony USAPride of the Marines Delmer Daves The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment USAPrison Ship Arthur Dreifuss ItalyRoma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City) Roberto Rossellini About the Italian resistance movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy USASamurai Raymond Cannon USAThe 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 USAThey Were Expendable John Ford PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) USAToo Young to Know Frederick De Cordova War in the South Pacific separates a young couple USAA Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone The Invasion of Salerno UKThe Way to the Stars Anthony Asquith RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England USAWhat 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 
PhilippinesDeath March Leopoldo Salcedo The Bataan Death March 1946 PhilippinesDugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan) Fernando Poe, Sr. Filipino Resistance. 1946 PhilippinesGarrison 13 Unknown [3] War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines. 1946 PhilippinesGuerilyera Octavio Silos The guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines 1946 UKJourney Together John Boulting Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat 1946 
FranceLa Bataille du rail René Clément Stories on railroad French resistance 1946 PhilippinesOrasang Ginto Manuel Conde The Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor. 1946 ItalyPaisà Roberto Rossellini About the Italian campaign 1946 UKSchool for Secrets Peter Ustinov Operation Biting 1946 USAThe Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war 1946 UKThe Captive Heart Basil Dearden British prisoners of war in Germany 1946 UKTheirs is the Glory Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young Operation Market Garden 1946 USSR
YugoslaviaV gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia) Abram Room Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks 1946 PhilippinesWalang Kamatayan Tor Villano The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1946 
Poland
ItalyWielka droga (La Grande strada) Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 1946 PolandZakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs) Leonard Buczkowski Polish Resistance 1939-1945 - the first post-war Polish film, and a musical 1947 ChinaThe Spring River Flows East Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1947 PolandOstatni etap (The Last Stop) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz-Birkenau 1947 DenmarkJenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) Johan Jacobsen 1947 UKFrieda Basil Dearden 1947 USA13 Rue Madeleine Henry Hathaway 1948 USACommand Decision Sam Wood Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force 1948 UKAgainst the Wind Charles Crichton A Commando raid into occupied Belgium 1948 UKA Piece of Cake John Irwin 1948 
NorwayKampen om tungtvannet Norwegian heavy water sabotage 1948 USAFighter Squadron Raoul Walsh P-47 fighters in the US air war in Europe 1948 USA
SwitzerlandThe Search Fred Zinnemann Displaced persons in postwar Germany 1948 
Occupied GermanyMorituri Eugen York The first post-1945 German film about the war 1948 PolandUlica Graniczna (Border Street) Aleksander Ford The Holocaust in occupied Poland 1948 PolandStalowe serca (The Steel Hearts) Stanisław Januszewski Silesia Poland 1944 / 45 1948 YugoslaviaNa svoji zemlji (On the own territory) France Štiglic People are fighting to kill Germans and Italians 1948 DenmarkStøt står den danske sømand (The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. Tells the true story about Danish sailors 1948 DenmarkTre år efter Johan Jacobsen Situation after the war termination 1949 USABattleground William A. Wellman The 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge 1949 DenmarkDet gælder os alle Alice O'Fredericks A young survivor from a concentration camp. 1949 FranceMission in Tangier André Hunebelle A journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers. 1949 USSRPadeniye Berlina Mikheil Chiaureli The Battle of Berlin 1949 USASands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan The Battle of Iwo Jima 1949 UKThe Small Back Room Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Bomb disposal 1949 USSRStalingradskaya Bitva Vladimir Petrov The Battle of Stalingrad 1949 UKThey Were Not Divided Terence Young The British Guards Armoured Division 1949 USATwelve O'Clock High Henry King B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force 1949 USSRVstrecha na Elbe Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin Elbe Day 1949 PolandZa wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow) Antoni Bohdziewicz Warsaw, Polish resistance 1949 USAHome 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 USAAmerican Guerrilla in the Philippines Fritz Lang The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1950 USAFrancis Arthur Lubin Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific 1950 PhilippinesMapuputing Kamay Fausto J. Galauran Filipina nurses in the battles in Bataan and Corregidor. 1950 PolandMiasto nieujarzmione (Unvanquished City) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland Warsaw 1944 1950 UKOdette Herbert Wilcox SOE agent Odette Samson. 1950 USAThree Came Home Jean Negulesco Battle of Borneo (1941-42) 1950 USAWhen Willie Comes Marching Home John Ford 1950 UKThe Wooden Horse Jack Lee True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany 1951 
ItalyAchtung! Banditi! Carlo Lizzani The Italian resistance movement 1951 UKAlbert Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis 1951 USADecision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945 1951 USAFighting Coast Guard Joseph Kane 1951 USAFlying Leathernecks Nicholas Ray A US Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific 1951 USAForce of Arms Michael Curtiz The US Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign 1951 USAGo For Broke! Robert Pirosh U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France 1951 PhilippinesMakapili [4] Makapili during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.[5]. 1951 USAOperation Pacific George Waggner A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War 1951 USASubmarine Command John Farrow 1951 USATarget Unknown George Sherman 1951 USAThe 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 USAThe Magic Face Frank Tuttle An actor takes Hitler's place 1951 USAThe Wild Blue Yonder Allan Dwan 1951 USAYou're in the Navy Now Henry Hathaway A US submarine chaser in development 1952 USAAbove and Beyond Melvin Frank, Norman Panama The 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 1952 UKAngels One Five George More O'Ferrall The Battle of Britain 1952 UKAppointment in London Philip Leacock RAF Bomber Command 1952 
JapanChildren of Hiroshima Kaneto Shindō The dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1952 UKGift Horse Compton Bennett The St Nazaire Raid 1952 FranceJeux interdits (Forbidden Games) René Clément The Occupation of France 1952 NorwayNødlanding (Emergency Landing) Arne Skouen American bomber shot down in Norway. Surviving crew hidden by Norwegian resistance Milorg and smuggled out of the country. 1952 USAOkinawa Leigh Jason The Battle of Okinawa 1952 USAOperation Secret Lewis Seiler Espionage 1952 USARed Ball Express Budd Boetticher Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II 1952 USAThunderbirds John H. Auer The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers. 1953 UKAlbert RN Lewis Gilbert British POWs in a German camp 1953 JapanAnatahan Josef von Sternberg Japanese soldiers on a remote Pacific island will not accept that the war has been over for years 1953 USAChina Venture Don Siegel 1953 USADestination Gobi Robert Wise A US Navy weather unit in Mongolia 1953 USAEl Alaméin Fred F. Sears The Second Battle of El Alamein 1953 USAFighter Attack Lesley Selander The Italian Campaign and Partisans 1953 USAFrom Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann The attack on Pearl Harbor 1953 USAGuerrilla Girl John Christian Greek Resistance 1953 UKMalta Story Brian Desmond Hurst The Siege of Malta 1953 UKSingle-Handed Roy Boulting Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution) 1953 USAStalag 17 Billy Wilder German Prisoner of War camp for US flyers 1953 JapanTaiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Pacific) Ishirō Honda Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto 1953 UKThe Cruel Sea Charles Frend The Battle of the Atlantic 1953 USAThe Desert Rats Robert Wise The Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, during the North African Campaign 1953 UKThe Red Beret Terence Young British paratroops Operation Biting 1953 
CanadaTit-Coq René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas A French Canadian serviceman comes home 1954 
West Germany08/15 Paul May 1954 USABetrayed Gottfried Reinhardt Dutch resistance in the Battle of Arnhem 1954 USAThe Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk Destroyer warfare in the Pacific 1954 West GermanyCanaris Alfred Weidenmann Admiral Canaris was head of the German military intelligence and was part of several plots against Hitler. 1954 UKThe Dam Busters Michael Anderson RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise 1954 
SpainLa patrulla Pedro Lazaga Spanish volunteers on the Eastern Front 1954 UKThe Purple Plain Robert Parrish RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign 1954 UKThe Sea Shall Not Have Them Lewis Gilbert Air Sea Rescue 1954 UK
NorwayShetlandsgjengen Michael Forlong Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves 1954 UKThey Who Dare Lewis Milestone SAS raid in occupied Greece 1954 
ChinaLetter 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 DenmarkDer kom en dag Sven Methling About the last days of the Occupation 1955 West Germany08/15 - In der Heimat Paul May 1955 West Germany08/15 - Zweiter Teil Paul May 1955 UKAbove Us the Waves Ralph Thomas Submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz 1955 USABattle Cry Raoul Walsh US Marines at the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan 1955 PolandBłękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross) Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Eastern Front in 1945 1955 UKThe Cockleshell Heroes José Ferrer Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton 1955 UKThe Colditz Story Guy Hamilton British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp 1955 West Germany
AustriaDer letzte Akt (The Last Act, Hitler: The Last Ten Days) Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1955 USAThe Eternal Sea John H. Auer Pacific War 1955 PolandGodziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope) Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski Poland 1945 1955 West GermanyJackboot Mutiny Georg Wilhelm Pabst The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler 1955 USAMister Roberts John Ford and Melvin LeRoy A US Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific 1955 PolandPokolenie (A Generation) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1955 
MalayaSergeant Hassan P. Ramlee war legend 1955 USATo Hell and Back Jesse Hibbs Combat biography of Audie Murphy 1955 
FinlandThe Unknown Soldier Edvin Laine Finno-Soviet Continuation War 1956 UKA Town Like Alice Jack Lee British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore 1956 USAAttack Robert Aldrich US infantry in France after D-Day 1956 USAAway All Boats Joseph Pevney US attack transport in the Pacific 1956 USABattle Stations Lewis Seiler US Navy battleship in the Pacific War 1956 USABetween Heaven and Hell Richard Fleischer A National Guard unit in the Philippines 1956 USAD-Day the Sixth of June Henry Koster The Normandy invasion 1956 YugoslaviaDolina miru (Quiet Valley) France Štiglic American soldier saves two children 1956 SpainEmbajadores en el infierno José María Forqué Spanish prisoners at a Russian camp 1956 PolandKanał Andrzej Wajda Warsaw Uprising 1944 1956 UKReach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain 1956 UKThe Battle of the River Plate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Battle of the River Plate 1956 UKThe Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst The North African campaign 1956 USAThe Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster The Italian Campaign 1956 JapanThe Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa The Burma Campaign 1956 UKThe Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame The Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat 1957 UK
Sri LankaThe Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean British POWs work on the Burma Railway 1957 PolandCon bravura Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Polish Resistance 1957 West GermanyDer Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris) Paul May The Battle of Normandy from the German soldiers' perspective 1957 West GermanyDer Stern von Afrika Alfred Weidenmann Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille, ace of the Luftwaffe. 1957 USAThe Enemy Below Dick Powell The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and a German submarine 1957 West GermanyHaie und kleine Fische Frank Wisbar The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats 1957 USAHeaven Knows, Mr. Allison John Huston A U.S. Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in the South Pacific 1957 USAHellcats of the Navy Nathan Juran Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre 1957 USSRЛетят журавли (Letyat zhuravli)
The Cranes Are FlyingMikhail Kalatozov Damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II. 1957 NorwayNi 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 UKThe One That Got Away Roy Ward Baker True story of German escaper Franz von Werra 1957 UKThe Steel Bayonet Michael Carreras 1957 USAThe Wings of Eagles John Ford A biography of Navy flier Frank W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater. 1958 UKCarve Her Name with Pride Lewis Gilbert SOE agent Violette Szabo 1958 USADarby's Rangers William Wellman The Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio. 1958 West GermanyDer Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) Géza von Radványi Battle of Stalingrad 1958 PolandDezerter (Deserter) Witold Lesiewicz A Pole from Silesia in the Wehrmacht 1958 UKDunkirk Leslie Norman Operation Dynamo; the Dunkirk Evacuation 1958 PolandEroica Andrzej Munk The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW Camp 1944/45 1958 PolandHistoria jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter) Hubert Drapella The Battle of Britain 1940 1958 West GermanyHunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!, Battle Inferno) Frank Wisbar The Battle of Stalingrad 1958 UKIce-Cold in Alex J. Lee Thompson North African campaign 1958 UKI Was Monty's Double John Guillermin General Montgomery 1958 PolandKrzyż walecznych (Cross of Valour) Kazimierz Kutz The Eastern Front, 1945 1958 UKOperation Amsterdam Michael McCarthy 1958 PolandOrzeł Leonard Buczkowski The story of ORP Orzeł 1958 PolandPigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia) Stanisław Lenartowicz Polish Resistance 1958 PolandPopiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1945 1958 USARun Silent, Run Deep Robert Wise Japanese submarine chase during the Pacific War 1958 UKSea of Sand (Desert Patrol) Guy Green Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign 1958 USASouth Pacific Joshua Logan Musical set in the Pacific Theater 1958 
CzechoslovakiaTenkrát o Vánocích Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front, Christmas 1944 1958 UKThe Battle of the V 1 Vernon Sewell Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests 1958 UKThe Camp on Blood Island Val Guest British and Dutch POWs in Malaya 1958 UKThe Key Carol Reed The Battle of the Atlantic 1958 USAThe Naked and the Dead Raoul Walsh The Pacific War 1958 UKThe Wind Cannot Read Ralph Thomas The RAF in Burma 1958 USAThe 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 USAImitation General George Marshall [Comedy] Europe. Sergeant impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers 1958 PolandWolne miasto (Free City) Stanisław Różewicz Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939 1958 ChinaYong bu xiao shi de dian bo Ping Wang Communist Party undercover agents operate in Shanghai in 1939 against the Japanese. 1959 USSRBallad of a Soldier Grigori Chukhrai 1959 PolandBiały niedźwiedź (White Bear) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain Zakopane, Holocaust 1959 PolandCafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe) Bronisław Brok Polish Resistance Comedy 1959 USAThe Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens The biography of Anne Frank. 1959 West GermanyDie Brücke Bernhard Wicki The Western Front 1959 Italy
FranceEstate Violenta Valerio Zurlini Dismissal of Benito Mussolini during the Allied invasion of Sicily. 1959 JapanFires on the Plain Kon Ichikawa War in the Philippines. 1959 ItalyGeneral 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
FranceHiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais 1959 PolandKamienne niebo (The Stone Sky) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1959 PolandLotna Andrzej Wajda The Polish Campaign, 1939 1959 USANever So Few John Sturges The Burma Campaign 1959 JapanNingen no joken I (The Human Condition: No Greater Love) Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance; Manchukuo 1959 JapanNingen no joken II (The Human Condition: Road to Eternity) Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance 1959 USSRSudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a Man) Sergei Bondarchuk Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov 1959 USATen Seconds to Hell Robert Aldrich A German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin 1959 PolandZamach Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance - Operation Kutschera, 1944 1960s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1960 DenmarkFrihedens Pris Annelise Hovmand 1960 DenmarkDen sidste vinter Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen 1960 CzechoslovakiaPráče Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front. 1960 JapanStorm 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 FranceUn 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 USAHell to Eternity Phil Karlson The Battle of Saipan; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II 1960 UKSink the Bismarck! Lewis Gilbert Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic 1960 ItalyEscape by Night Roberto Rossellini 1960 ItalyEverybody Go Home Luigi Comencini The Four days of Naples. 1960 ItalyLong Night in 1943 Florestano Vancini The Allied invasion of Italy. 1960 ItalyTwo Women Vittorio De Sica 1960 Italy
USAUnder Ten Flags Duilio Coletti The Battle of the Atlantic. 1961 DenmarkAlarm i Østersøen Sven Methling 1961 USA
FranceBridge to the Sun Etienne Périer The life of Gwendolen Terasaki. 1961 
East GermanyDer Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) Gerhard Klein The 1939 Gleiwitz incident. 1961 PolandDziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die) Jan Rybkowski Dresden, Germany, 1945 1961 
IndiaHum Dono Amarjeet Some part of Burma Campaign. 1961 PolandKwiecień (Spring) Witold Lesiewicz Germany Eastern Front, 1945 1961 PolandLudzie z pociągu (Night Train) Kazimierz Kutz Poland - The German Occupation 1961 PolandSamson Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in occupied Poland 1961 PolandŚwiadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate) Stanisław Różewicz The Polish Campaign, 1939 1961 ItalyThe Fascist Luciano Salce 1961 UKThe Guns of Navarone J. Lee Thompson The Mediterranean Theatre 1961 UKVery Important Person Ken Annakin Comedy - British POWs in a German camp 1962 
NetherlandsAls twee druppels water Fons Rademakers A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance 1962 NetherlandsDe Overval (The Raid) Paul Rotha Wartime prison raid 1962 USAHell Is for Heroes Don Siegel The Western front 1962 USAMerrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller Merrill's Marauders 1962 PhilippinesSuicide 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 ItalyThe Four Days of Naples Nanni Loy The Four Days of Naples. 1962 USAThe 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 USAThe Gallant Men Various American 5th Army in Italy 1962 USAThe Longest Day Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin The Normandy landings 1962 UKThe War Lover Philip Leacock American bomber crews station in England 1962 PolandWalter P-38 (TV) Edward Etler Polish Resistance 1962 
GreecePsila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler) Panos Glykofridis Black comedy about the Greek Resistance 1963 USA
PhilippinesCry of Battle Irving Lerner Mercenary fighting with partisans in The Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1963 PolandGdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?) Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy, Eastern Front, 1945 1963 PolandNa białym szlaku (On the White Trails) Jarosław Brzozowski War in Arctica 1963 PolandNaganiacz (Manhunter) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska The Holocaust in Poland 1963 PolandPasażerka Andrzej Munk Auschwitz-Birkenau 1963 PhilippinesPinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig Pablo Santiago An heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1963 USAPT 109 Leslie H. Martinson John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front 1963 USAThe 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 PhilippinesSierra Madre Armando A. Herrera The campaigns of two demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. 1963 PhilippinesSigaw ng Digmaan Efren Reyes, Sr. Philippine Army (1941) Resistance. 1963 FinlandSissit Mikko Niskanen Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War 1963 USAThe Great Escape John Sturges British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III 1963 UKThe Password is Courage Andrew Stone True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward 1963 Philippines
USAThe Raiders of Leyte Gulf Eddie Romero Philippines before the Battle of Leyte. 1963 UKThe Victors Carl Foreman American soldiers in Europe following D-Day 1964 UK633 Squadron Walter Grauman Occupied Norway 1964 USAThe Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller Planning for the Normandy landings 1964 CzechoslovakiaAtentát Jiří Sequens Operation Anthropoid 1964 USABack 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 PolandBarwy walki (Battle Colours) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance, 1944 1964 Japan
USAFlight from Ashiya Michael Anderson USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific 1964 PolandGiuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw) Stanisław Lenartowicz Cult comedy - Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 1964 Philippines
USAIntramuros (The Walls of Hell) Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León The Battle of Intramuros. 1964 PolandKoniec naszego świata (End of our World) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz 1964 PhilippinesMga Kanyon ng Corregidor Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres The Battle of Corregidor. 1964 PolandNieznany (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 PolandPierwszy dzień wolności (The First Day of Freedom) Aleksander Ford Germany, 1945, Polish POWs 1964 PolandRanny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance 1964 USAShell Shock John Hayes Italy during war. 1964 USAThe Thin Red Line Andrew Marton The Guadalcanal Campaign. 1964 USA
France
ItalyThe Train John Frankenheimer Resistance in Occupied France 1964 FranceWeek-end à Zuydcoote Henri Verneuil The Battle of Dunkirk 1965 USA36 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 USABattle of the Bulge Ken Annakin The Ardennes Offensive 1965 UKThe Heroes of Telemark Anthony Mann Norwegian resistance movement Operation Gunnerside 1965 UKThe Hill Sidney Lumet Life in a brutal military prison in North Africa 1965 USAIn Harm's Way Otto Preminger The Pacific Front 1965 USAKing Rat Otto Preminger POWs in asia. From James Clavell book. 1965 PhilippinesIginuhit ng Tadhana Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines 1965 USA
JapanNone But the Brave Frank Sinatra American and Japanese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island 1965 UKOperation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) Michael Anderson Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow 1965 PolandPotem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet) Janusz Morgenstern Polish Resistance, 1944 1965 Philippines
USAThe Ravagers Eddie Romero Filipino guerrillas take on the last of the Japanese forces remaining on their country. 1965 PhilippinesSa 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 UKThe Sound of Music Robert Wise Drama about the Von Trapp family in Austria 1965 JapanStory of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki Second Sino-Japanese War 1965 ChinaTunnel War Ren Xudong Tunnel warfare in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1965 USAVon Ryan's Express Mark Robson British and American POWs escape from Italian camps 1965 Poland
France
West GermanyCzas pokoju (TV) Tadeusz Konwicki Poland - German Occupation 1965 PolandButy (The Boots) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Eastern Front, military hospital 1965 PolandNazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV) Lech Lorentowicz Eastern Front, 1945 1965 PolandCóreczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland, 1944 1965 PolandŚmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV) Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki Poland - German Occupation 1965 PolandWózek (The Cart) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland Soviet POWs 1965 PolandPodziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series) Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki Polish Resistance, 1941–45 1966 UK
FranceThe Night of the Generals Anatole Litvak The July 20 plot 1966 FranceLa 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
FranceIs Paris Burning? René Clément The Liberation of Paris 1966 CzechoslovakiaClosely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) Jiří Menzel 1966 USAWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Blake Edwards The Allied invasion of Sicily 1966 PolandDon Gabriel Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy 1966 DenmarkDer var engang en krig (Once There Was a War) Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt About the life of a boy after the occupation 1966 PolandKontrybucja (Contribution) Jan Łomnicki Polish Resistance 1966 PolandMistrz (The Master) (TV) Jerzy Antczak Poland - German Occupation 1966 FranceLa Grande Vadrouille Gérard Oury Comedy about RAF aircrew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets 1967 UKAttack on the Iron Coast Paul Wendkos Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid 1967 USABeach Red Cornel Wilde The Pacific Theater of Operations 1967 PolandDługa noc (Long Night) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943 1967 Poland
West GermanyKiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime) Jan Rybkowski Germany during the war 1967 PolandMorderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Polish Resistance 1967 JapanNihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's Longest Day) Kihachi Okamoto The Kyūjō Incident. 1967 USAThe Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich Battle of Normandy 1967 PolandWesterplatte Stanisław Różewicz Battle of Westerplatte 1967 PolandZosia (Zosya) Jerzy Lipman Poland - Eastern Front - Love story 1967 PolandZwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) Zbigniew Kuźmiński Polish Resistance, Comedy 1968 PhilippinesAng Mangliligpit Pablo Santiago Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Makapili. 1968 ItalyAnzio Edward Dmytryk The Battle of Anzio 1968 USAHell 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 PolandKierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945 1968 PhilippinesManila, Open City Eddie Romero The Manila Massacre and the Battle of Manila. 1968 CzechoslovakiaNebeští jezdci Jindřich Polák Czech pilots in the RAF 1968 
AlbaniaPrita (Ambush) Mithat Fagu Albanian resistance under German occupation, 1943 1968 USSRShchit i mech (Shield and Sword) Vladimir Basov Soviet spy in German intelligence [6] 1968 UKSubmarine X-1 William A. Graham Royal Navy midget submarines 1968 USAThe Devil's Brigade Andrew V. McLaglen The Devil's Brigade 1968 USAThe 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 JapanThe Human Bullet Kihachi Okamato Story of a kamikaze soldier 1968 USAThe Secret War of Harry Frigg Jack Smight Comedy about Generals held in a special POW camp 1968 USAWhere Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Allied operation to rescue a captured American General 1969 France
ItalyArmy of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville French Resistance 1969 UKBattle of Britain Guy Hamilton The Battle of Britain 1969 PolandDzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944 1969 ItalyEagles Over London Enzo G. Castellari British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London. 1969 PolandJak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War) Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy - Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944 1969 PolandJarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Battle of Kolberg (1945), on the Eastern Front 1969 ItalyLa Battaglia di El Alamein Giorgio Ferroni The Second Battle of El Alamein 1969 USSRLiberation Yuri Ozerov Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin 1969 UKMosquito Squadron Boris Sagal A British bomber squadron must destroy Germany's new Vergeltungswaffe at a research camp 1969 AlbaniaNjësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit) Hysen Hakani Guerrilla resistance in Tirana during the occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy 1969 PolandOstatnie dni (The Last Days) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945 1969 PhilippinesPambihirang tatlo Felix Villar A mission to destroy the Japanese bastion along the San Bernardino Strait. 1969 UKPlay Dirty Andre de Toth The North African Campaign 1969 ItalySalt in the Wound Tonino Ricci 1969 PolandSąsiedzi (The Neighbours) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939 1969 YugoslaviaThe Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajić The Battle of Neretva 1969 USAThe Bridge at Remagen John Guillermin Operation Lumberjack, on the Western Front 1969 USAThe Secret of Santa Vittoria Stanley Kramer The aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini 1969 PolandWniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) Jan Rybkowski Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941 1970s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1970 DenmarkOktoberdage Bent Christensen 1970 USACatch-22 Mike Nichols The Italian Campaign 1970 JapanGekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' Hiromichi Horikawa Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War. 1970 UK
USAHell Boats Paul Wendkos British motor torpedo boats operating in the Mediterranean 1970 USA
ItalyHornet's Nest Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino Italian Campaign - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam 1970 USA
YugoslaviaKelly's Heroes Brian G. Hutton The Western Front 1970 PolandKolumbowie Janusz Morgenstern Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 1970 Poland
USSRLegenda Sylwester Chęciński Polish Resistance 1970 PhilippinesMaharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force) Jerry Hopper Japanese invasion of Manila Bay. 1970 USAPatton Franklin Schaffner General George S. Patton 1970 JapanSaigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) Yahagi Toshihiko Kamikaze attacks. 1970 PhilippinesSantiago! Lino Brocka Life in occupied Philippines. 1970 Italy
RussiaSunflower (I Girasoli) Vittorio De Sica The first Occidental film to be made in the USSR. 1970 UKThe Last Escape Walter Grauman British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist 1970 USAToo Late the Hero Robert Aldrich British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign 1970 USA
JapanTora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda The Attack on Pearl Harbor 1970 PolandTwarz anioła (Face of an Angel) Zbigniew Chmielewski Poland - Children in a German concentration camp 1970 PolandZnicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire) Lech Lorentowicz Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance 1971 PolandAgent nr 1 Zbigniew Kuźmiński Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, a Polish SOE agent in the Greek resistance 1971 USABedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson Disney children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic 1971 UKDad's Army Norman Cohen Comedy about the British Home Guard, based on the TV series. 1971 JapanGekido 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 UKMurphy's War Peter Yates The Battle of the Atlantic 1971 USSRProverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) Aleksei German Winter, 1942. A former Russian POW joins the partisans. 1971 USARaid on Rommel Henry Hathaway North African Campaign 1971 PhilippinesSangre Armando Garces Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. 1971 GreeceTi ekanes sto polemo Thanasi; (What did you do during the war Thanasis?) Dinos Katsourides Greek Resistance comedy 1971 PolandTrzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night) Andrzej Żuławski Polish Resistance 1972 IndiaLalkar Ramanand Sagar Burma Campaign, 1941–1945 1973 PhilippinesDugo ng Bayan Armando A. Herrera Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.[7] 1973 Italy
UKHitler: The Last Ten Days Ennio De Concini The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin 1973 PolandHubal Bohdan Poręba Polish Campaign, 1939/1940 1973 FranceLe 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 ChinaLittle 8th Route Army Lei You Chinese animated puppet film; The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1973 FranceMais 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 ItalyMassacre in Rome George P. Cosmatos The Ardeatine massacre. 1973 YugoslaviaThe Battle of Sutjeska Stipe Delić Battle of the Sutjeska. 1973 
Hong KongWhen Taekwondo Strikes Feng Huang 1973 PolandZasieki (Barbed Wire) Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943 1974 France
West Germany
ItalyLacombe Lucien Louis Malle French resistance and collaboration 1974 USSR
( Estonian SSR)Ohtlikud mängud Veljo Käsper The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany 1974 FranceLes 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 PolandGłowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) Janusz Kondratiuk Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944 1974 Poland
USSRZapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Name) Siergiej Kołosow Tragedy of children in war 1974 Republic of ChinaThe Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋) Tin Shan Sui Zhang Zizhong's biography movie during Second Sino-Japanese War. 1975 East Germany
CzechoslovakiaJacob, the Liar Frank Beyer 1975 USA
CzechoslovakiaOperation Daybreak Lewis Gilbert Operation Anthropoid 1975 FranceOn 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 GreeceThe Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos The German invasion and occupation of Greece 1975 FranceSection 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 ItalySalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 PolandW te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring) Andrzej Konic The Eastern Front, 1945 1975 PolandPartita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument) Janusz Zaorski Polish Resistance 1975 PolandMoja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Campaign 1939 1975 PolandOpadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance 1975 UKOverlord Stuart Cooper A young soldier trains with the East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for the Normandy landings 1975 USSRВ бой идут одни старики (V boy idut odni stariki)
Only Old Men Are Going to BattleLeonid Bykov Soviet World War II pilots. 1976 JapanBarefoot Gen Tengo Yamada Live-action depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1976 DenmarkDen korte sommer (The Brief Summer) Edward Fleming Woman gets in love with a German soldier 1976 USAFarewell to Manzanar (TV) John Korty The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar 1976 Republic of ChinaMei hua Chia Chang Liu The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). 1976 USAMidway (The Battle of Midway) Jack Smight The Battle of Midway 1976 France
ItalyMonsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) Joseph Losey French resistance and collaboration 1976 PolandOcalić miasto Jan Łomnicki Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945 1976 PolandPolskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series) Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern Poland, 1939–43 1976 PolandPtaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) Paweł Komorowski Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 1976 PhilippinesTatlong taong walang Diyos Mario O'Hara The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1976 UKThe Eagle Has Landed John Sturges A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill 1976 JapanZero Pilot Seiji Maruyama Based on the book Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero. 1977 UK
USAA Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough Operation Market Garden 1977 PolandAkcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) Jana Łomnicki Polish resistance, 1943 1977 UK
West GermanyCross of Iron Sam Peckinpah German soldiers on the Russian Front 1977 FranceLa septième compagnie au clair de lune Robert Lamoureux Comic story about three French veterans who resist the Germans. 1977 USAMacArthur Joseph Sargent General Douglas MacArthur 1977 PolandOstatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV) Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo 1977 PolandPalace Hotel Ewa Kruk Poland, 1939–44 1977 NetherlandsSoldier of Orange (Survival Run) Paul Verhoeven Dutch resistance 1977 USSRВосхождение (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 CzechoslovakiaZítra 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 PolandDo krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood) Jerzy Hoffman Eastern Front, 1943 1978 UKForce 10 from Navarone Guy Hamilton British commando raid in Yugoslavia 1978 USAHolocaust Marvin J. Chomsky Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust 1978 NetherlandsPastorale 1943 Wim Verstappen Dutch resistance 1978 ItalyQuel maledetto treno blindato Enzo G. Castellari 1978 PolandSto 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 PolandSzpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) Edward Żebrowski German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital 1978 PolandUmarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead) Julian Dziedzina Silesia Polish Resistance 1979 USSR
( Estonian SSR)Tuulte pesa Olev Neuland Forest Brothers 1979 UKYanks John Schlesinger Americans stationed in England 1979 UKEscape to Athena George Pan Cosmatos German-occupied Greece 1979 UK
USAHanover Street Peter Hyams American bomber crews based in England 1979 PolandElegia Paweł Komorowski Eastern Front 1945 1979 USAIke (miniseries) Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson Story (and love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. 1979 PolandGwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars) Henryk Bielski Eastern Front, 1944 1979 PolandDroga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go) Władysław Ślesicki Escape from a POW camp 1979 PolandZielone lata (Salad Days) Stanisław Jędryka Poland Sosnowiec, tragedy of children in war 1979 AlbaniaRadiostacioni Rikard Ljarja 1979 PolandSekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma) Roman Wionczek Poland, France, England - Enigma 1979 West GermanySergeant Steiner (Breakthrough) Andrew V. McLaglen The July 20 plot 1979 Italy
France
SpainFrom Hell to Victory "Hank Milestone"
(Umberto Lenzi)Occupied Europe 1979 USA1941 Steven Spielberg California, one week after the attack on Pearl Harbor 1980s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1980 PolandDzień Wisły (Vistula Day) Tadeusz Kijański Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 PolandGodzina "W" ('W' Hour) Janusz Morgenstern Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 PhilippinesKalibre .45 Nilo Saez A story of vengeance set during the near end of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1980 PolandOlimpiada '40 Andrzej Kotkowski A POW Camp, 1940 1980 USAThe Big Red One Samuel Fuller U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe 1980 USAThe 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 FranceThe Last Metro François Truffaut The German occupation of France during World War II. 1980 UK
Switzerland
USAThe Sea Wolves Andrew V. McLaglen Calcutta Light Horse 1980 PolandUrodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1980 PolandWyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) Witold Orzechowski Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance 1981 FranceAllons 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 PolandBołdyn (General Boldyn) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Resistance 1981 West GermanyDas Boot (The Boat) Wolfgang Petersen The Battle of the Atlantic 1981 USAEscape to Victory (Victory) John Huston A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs 1981 UKEye of the Needle Richard Marquand A German spy in England before D-Day 1981 NetherlandsHet meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) Ben Verbong Dutch resistance 1981 FranceLes 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 JapanRengo kantai (The Imperial Navy) Shûe Matsubayashi The Operation Ten-Go. 1981 PolandRyś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance 1981 USAThe Bunker George Schaefer Based on the book The Bunker; The last days of Adolf Hitler. 1982 AustraliaAttack Force Z Tim Burstall Z Special Unit 1982 West GermanyDie Weiße Rose Michael Verhoeven The execution of White Rose members. 1982 PolandDo góry nogami (Upside Down) Stanisław Jędryka Polish Silesia, tragedy of children in war 1982 PolandHaracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day) Krzysztof Prymek, Roman Wionczek Polish Resistance 1982 PhilippinesOro, Plata, Mata Peque Gallaga The Fall of Corregidor. 1982 PolandPopielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV) Ryszard Ber A Polish village during the German occupation 1982 USASophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula Holocaust 1982 AustraliaThe Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross) Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell Operation Rimau 1983 JapanBarefoot Gen Mori Masaki Anime film: depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan 1983 Hong KongHong Kong, 1941 Leong Po-Chih The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1983 DenmarkForræderne Ole Roos 1983 PolandKartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey) Waldemar Dziki Poland Holocaust 1983 PolandKatastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) Bohdan Poręba General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943 1983 UK
JapanMerry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Nagisa Oshima British POWs on Java Island 1983 PolandNie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs) Juliusz Janicki The Holocaust in Poland 1983 ChinaOne and Eight Zhang Junzhao Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China 1983 FrancePapy fait de la résistance Jean-Marie Poiré (Comedy) French Resistance in Occupied France 1983 PhilippinesRoman Rapido Argel Joseph Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. 1983 USA
UK
ItalyThe Scarlet and the Black Jerry London Biographical film about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. 1983 PolandTragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV) Stefan Szlachtycz The Holocaust in Poland 1983 Poland
West GermanyWedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee) Jerzy Hoffman The Holocaust in Poland 1983 USAWinds 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 PolandNa straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) Kazimierz Kutz Silesia, 1939-42 Polish Resistance 1984 PolandDzień czwarty (The Fourth Day) Ludmiła Niedbalska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 1984 PolandRomans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder) Waldemar Podgórski The Polish Campaign, 1939 1984 PolandUmarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV) Stanisław Jędryka Polish Resistance, 1941 1984 ChinaYellow Earth Chen Kaige The Second Sino-Japanese War. 1984 AustraliaThe Last Bastion Chris Thompson TV mini-series on WWII from the Australian perspective. 1985 USSRThe Battle for Moscow Yuri Ozerov Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Moscow 1985 USACode Name: Emerald Jonathan Sanger Battle of Normandy 1985 USSRCome and See Elem Klimov The Eastern Front 1985 NetherlandsDe IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour) Dimitri Frenkel Frank A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer 1985 NetherlandsHet bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet) Kees van Oostrum A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam 1985 Poland
CzechoslovakiaKukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) Antonín Moskalyk Children in war 1985 RomaniaNoi, cei din linia întâi Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary 1985 JapanSeburi Monogatari (The Seburi Story) Sadao Nakajima Hardships of nomadic Seburi people during wartime. 1985 PolandTate (Dad) Jan Rutkiewicz The Holocaust in Poland 1985 JapanThe Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa Remake Version; The Burma Campaign 1985 FinlandThe Unknown Soldier Rauni Mollberg The Finno-Soviet Continuation War 1985 PolandW cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred) Wojciech Żółtowski The Holocaust in Poland, 1943 1986 NetherlandsIn de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) Ate de Jong Dutch resistance 1986 Poland
SwitzerlandKołysanka (The Lullabye) Federo Sevella The Holocaust in Poland 1986 PolandOkruchy wojny (Crumbs of War) Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz Polish Resistance 1986 NetherlandsThe Assault (De Aanslag) Fons Rademakers An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation 1986 JapanUmi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison) Kei Kumai The Pacific War. 1987 UK
USA
YugoslaviaEscape from Sobibor Jack Gold Sobibor Uprising during the Holocaust 1987 UK
USA
YugoslaviaThe Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) Gordon Hessler 1987 FranceAu revoir, les enfants Louis Malle Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France 1987 USAEmpire of the Sun Steven Spielberg British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai 1987 UKHope and Glory John Boorman The Blitz 1988 ChinaEvening Bell Wu Ziniu Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China 1988 USAFarewell to the King John Milius Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo 1988 JapanGrave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata The Firebombing of Kobe 1988 Poland
USAI skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) Alexander Ramati Gipsy - The Holocaust 1988 PolandKornblumenblau Leszek Wosiewicz Auschwitz-Birkenau 1988 Hong KongMen Behind the Sun Mou Tun Fei The Japanese human experimentation on the Chinese. 1988 Poland
USSRPrzeprawa (Passage) Wiktor Turow Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans 1988 ChinaRed Sorghum Zhang Yimou Young woman's life working at a kaoliang distillery during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1988 UKReturn from the River Kwai Andrew V. McLaglen British POWs in Japan 1988 Netherlands
UKShadow Man Piotr Andrejew A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam 1988 JapanTomorrow Kazuo Kuroki The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1988 USAWar & Remembrance Dan Curtis The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. 1989 JapanBlack Rain Shohei Imamura The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 1989 PhilippinesComfort Women: A Cry for Justice Celso Ad. Castillo The life of a Filipina comfort women during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. 1989 USAFat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé The Manhattan project 1989 USSRStalingrad Yuri Ozerov The Battle for Stalingrad 1989 FinlandTalvisota Pekka Parikka The Winter War 1989 USATriumph of the Spirit Robert M. Young The story of Salamo Arouch 1989 PolandVirtuti Jacek Butrymowicz The Polish Campaign, 1939 1990s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 1990 AustraliaBlood Oath Stephen Wallace Japanese war crimes trial for the Laha massacre 1990 FranceDocteur Petiot Christian de Chalonge Serial killer Marcel Petiot in Occupied France 1990 GermanyEuropa Europa Agnieszka Holland A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth 1990 
SwedenGood Evening, Mr. Wallenberg Kjell Grede Story of Raoul Wallenberg 1990 PolandKorczak Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in Poland: life of Dr. Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto 1990 USAA Man Called Sarge Stuart Gillard Comedy - Western Desert Campaign, Second Battle of El Alamein and capture of Tobruk 1990 USAMemphis Belle Michael Caton-Jones Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle 1991 PolandJeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest) Jan Łomnicki The Holocaust 1991 DenmarkDrengene fra Sankt Petri (The Boys from St. Petri) Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Danish resistance group 1991 DenmarkDe nøgne træer Morten Henriksen 1991 Poland
Germany
FranceTragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703) Janusz Kijowski The Holocaust 1991 ItalyMediterraneo Gabriele Salvatores Italian soldiers on a Greek island 1992 Denmark
USAEn 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 PolandPierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance, 1945/46 1992 PolandWszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters) Robert Gliński Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag 1992 USAA Midnight Clear Keith Gordon The Western Front 1993 RomaniaOglinda Sergiu Nicolaescu Downfall of Ion Antonescu 1993 Estonia
PolandSaatana pisar (Satan's Tear) Marek Piestrak NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939. 1993 USASchindler's List Steven Spielberg The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust. 1993 GermanyStalingrad Joseph Vilsmaier The Battle of Stalingrad. 1993 USASwing Kids Thomas Carter A college student forced into the Hitler-Jugend but is also a Swing Kid. 1993 Republic of ChinaThe Puppetmaster Hou Hsiao-Hsien The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). 1994 FranceUn jour avant l'aube Jacques Ertaud Story of a French SAS commando in Brittany, during the Normandy battle in 1944. 1995 ChinaDon't Cry, Nanking Wu Ziniu Nanking Massacre 1995 
Canada
JapanHiroshima Roger Spottiswoode The atomic bombing of Hiroshima 1995 DenmarkKun en pige (Just a Girl) Peter Schrøder About Lise Tønder Jensens life until the end of the war 1995 USAThe Tuskegee Airmen Robert Markowitz The story of the first African-American pilots 1995 ChinaRed Cherry Ye Ying Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union 1995 USASahara Brian Trenchard-Smith The Western Desert Campaign 1995 
SerbiaUnderground Emir Kusturica German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia 1995 Yuri Ozerov Biopic about Marshal Georgy Zhukov. 1995 Poland
France
GermanyWielki tydzień (Holy Week) Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust 1996 USAThe Ring Armand Mastroianni During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis 1996 UKThe Brylcreem Boys Terence Ryan British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland 1996 UK
USAThe English Patient Anthony Minghella Tobruk 1996 USAMother Night Keith Gordon 1996 UKOver Here (TV) Tony Dow Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England 1996 
ThailandSunset at Chaophraya Euthana Mukdasanit The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement 1997 FranceLucie Aubrac Claude Berri The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France 1997 UKThe Land Girls David Leland Women's Land Army 1997 ItalyLa vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) Roberto Benigni The Holocaust 1997 Australia
USAParadise Road Bruce Beresford Allied women POWs in Sumatra 1998 JapanPride Shunya Ito A depiction of Tojo Hideki during the Tokyo Trials 1998 USAMiracle at Midnight (TV) Ken Cameron Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust 1998 USASaving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg The landing at Omaha Beach and fighting inland 1998 USAThe Thin Red Line Terrence Malick The Guadalcanal campaign 1998 USAWhen Trumpets Fade John Irvin The Battle of Huertgen Forest 1999 France
USA
HungaryJakob the Liar Peter Kassovitz A Jewish ghetto 1999 Russia
Germany
Japan
Italy
FranceMoloch Aleksandr Sokurov A visit by Adolf Hitler to the Berghof 1999 Finland
RussiaAmbush Olli Saarela The Continuation War 1999 
CroatiaČetverored Branko Schmidt The Bleiburg massacre 1999 GermanyAimée & Jaguar Max Färberböck While the Gestapo purge Berlin of Jews, a love affair blooms between two women, Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust. 1999 ChinaLover'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
UKBonhoeffer: Agent of Grace Eric Till German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 2000 ChinaDevils on the Doorstep Jiang Wen The Second Sino-Japanese War. 2000 ItalyJohnny the Partisan Guido Chiesa Partisan warfare in Northern Italy. 2000 
MalaysiaLeftenan Adnan Aziz M. Osman Story of Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang. 2000 ItalyMalèna Giuseppe Tornatore Set in Sicily in 1940 just as Italy enters the war. Malèna's husband leaves to serve in the military. 2000 
PhilippinesMarkova: 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 RepublicMusíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall) Jan Hrebejk Czechoslovakia - German occupation, collaboration, resistance 2000 USAU-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 PolandWyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Kłos) (TV) Andrzej Wajda Poland - German occupation, collaboration 2001 UK
USABand 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
USACaptain Corelli's Mandolin John Madden The Italian occupation of the Greek islands. 2001 UK
AustraliaCharlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong Special Operations Executive. 2001 UK
USAConspiracy (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
UKDark Blue World Jan Sverák Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain. 2001 USA
Germany
UK
IrelandEnemy 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
NetherlandsEnigma Michael Apted Enigma machine mystery. 2001 PhilippinesGatas... 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 JapanHotaru (Firefly) Yasuo Furuhata Based on the true story of a Korean kamikaze pilot. 2001 USAPearl Harbor Michael Bay The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. 2001 ChinaPurple Sunset Feng Xiaoning The unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito. 2001 Germany
RussiaSo 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 UKThe Bunker Rob Green The Battle of the Siegfried Line. 2001 USAThe Grey Zone Tim Blake Nelson The Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. 2001 USA
BurmaTo End All Wars David L. Cunningham The Burma Railway. 2001 USAUprising (TV) Jon Avnet The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 2001 PhilippinesYamashita: The Tiger's Treasure Chito S. Roño The burying of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in the Philippines. 2002 France
GermanyAmen. Costa-Gavras Alleged collusion between Nazis and the Roman Catholic Church. 2002 UKTwo Men Went to War John Henderson Based on a true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France. 2002 USAHart's War Gregory Hoblit A trial is conducted in a POW camp in Germany 2002 RussiaКукушка (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
GermanyLaissez passer (Safe Conduct) Bertrand Tavernier France under German occupation 2002 FranceMonsieur Batignole Gérard Jugnot A butcher hides and protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France 2002 France
Germany
UK
PolandThe Pianist Roman Polanski Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman 2002 USA
UKThe Gathering Storm Richard Loncraine Story of Winston Churchill before the war. 2002 RussiaZvezda Nikolai Lebedev Soviet scouts work behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration 2002 ItalyEl Alamein Enzo Monteleone The Second Battle of El Alamein 2002 USAWindtalkers John Woo Battle of Saipan 2003 FranceBon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau France under German occupation 2003 UKEntrusted 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 PolandPornografia (Pornography) Jan Jakub Kolski The German Occupation of Poland 2003 Germany
NetherlandsRosenstrasse Margarethe von Trotta Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin 2003 JapanSpy Sorge Masahiro Shinoda Biography of a Soviet spy Richard Sorge. 2003 FranceStrange Gardens Jean Becker French hostages held captive in a giant pit 2003 USASaints 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
ItalyThe Fallen (Letters From The Dead) Ari Taub German, Italian and US combatants on the Italian Front, 1944 2003 Czech RepublicŽelary Ondrej Trojan Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding after their group is exposed 2003 MalaysiaPaloh Adman Salleh Japanese occupation of Malaya 2004 PhilippinesAishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita Joel Lamangan The Battle of Bataan, and Bataan Death March. 2004 JapanChichi to Kuraseba Kazuo Kuroki The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 2004 GermanyDer 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
AustriaDer Untergang Oliver Hirschbiegel The last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin 2004 Germany
Switzerland
Netherlands
LuxembourgEdelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates) Niko von Glasow German resistance group, the Edelweiss Pirates 2004 USAIke: Countdown to D-Day Robert Harmon The organization and planning of Operation Overlord at SHAEF 2004 USAThe 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 UKIsland at War Occupation of the Channel Islands 2004 CroatiaLong Dark Night Antun Vrdoljak Croatia under both Fascism and Communism 2004 GermanyNapola (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 RussiaNesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) Vitaly Vorobyev Cossacks shoot; Fascists die. 2004 PhilippinesPanaghoy sa Suba Cesar Montano The Second Battle of Bohol - Part of Philippines Campaign (1944–45). 2004 ChinaPurple Butterfly Lou Ye Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai 2004 USASaints and Soldiers Ryan Little Survivors of the Malmedy massacre during the Ardennes Offensive 2004 GermanyStauffenberg (TV) Jo Baier The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler 2004 USAStraight Into Darkness Jeff Burr 2 American deserters and a group of orphans hold back a Nazi assault. 2005 
LithuaniaForest of the Gods Algimantas Puipa An artist and intellectual is imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Soviets 2005 Finland
SwedenFramom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines) Åke Lindman The Continuation War between the USSR and Finland from 1941-1944. 2005 JapanLorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck A Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo. 2005 IndiaNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Shyam Benegal Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. 2005 USAOnly the Brave Lane Nishikawa The rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. 2005 ChinaOn the Mountain of Tai Hang Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian The campaigns of the Eighth Route Army in China. 2005 GermanySophie Scholl – The Final Days Marc Rothemund The final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance. 2005 USA
AustraliaThe Great Raid John Dahl Japanese occupation of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan. 2005 UKThe Last Drop David Teague Operation Market Garden and a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi gold. 2005 Republic of ChinaThe Strait Story Yu-shan Huang 2005 Russia
France
Italy
Switzerland
JapanThe Sun Aleksandr Sokurov The life of Emperor Hirohito. 2005 UK
USA
ChinaThe White Countess James Ivory 2005 RussiaVnimaniye, govorit Moskva Artyom Nazarov ? Gorgeous Soviet women snipers [8] 2005 JapanYamato Junya Sato The Yamato's crew during the Pacific War. 2006 ChinaTokyo Trial Gao Qunshu Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) 2006 USAFlags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of American soldiers 2006 Germany
LithuaniaGhetto Audrius Juzėnas The Holocaust in Lithuania 2006 France
Morocco
Algeria
BelgiumDays of Glory Rachid Bouchareb Four North Africans enlist in the French Army to liberate France 2006 AustraliaKokoda Alister Grierson Kokoda Track Campaign 2006 USALetters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers 2006 RussiaSvolochi Aleksandr Atanesyan Teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission 2006 Netherlands
Germany
UK
BelgiumZwartboek (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 GermanyThe Last Train Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier A cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz in 1943. 2007 USAAmerican Pastime Desmond Nakano Love, jazz and baseball at the Topaz, Utah internment camp 2007 UKAtonement Joe Wright Dunkirk evacuation. 2007 AustraliaCurtin (TV) Jessica Hobbs The wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin 2007 JapanFor Those We Love Taku Shinjō Stories of kamikaze pilots 2007 PolandJutro idziemy do kina (Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies) Michał Kwieciński The Polish Campaign, 1939 2007 PolandKatyń Andrzej Wajda The Katyń massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by the Soviets in 1940. 2007 China
USA
Republic of ChinaLust, Caution Ang Lee An espionage thriller set in occupied Shanghai 2007 GermanyMein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler Dani Levy 2007 BelgiumSurviving with Wolves Véra Belmont A young Jewish girl combs Europe for her deported parents. 2007 FinlandTali Ihantala 1944 Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen Battles of the Continuation War 2007 AustriaThe Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky Operation Bernhard 2007 EstoniaÜhe metsa pojad Ats Surva Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944. 2007 JapanYunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 2008 GermanyAnonyma: A Woman in Berlin Max Färberböck Soviet occupation of Berlin 2008 AustraliaAustralia Baz Luhrmann A love story between an Australian soldier and a British aristocrat during the first attack on Darwin. 2008 USA
UKThe 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
GermanyThe Children of Huang Shi Roger Spottiswoode The Nanking Massacre, and Three Alls Policy. 2008 USADefiance Edward Zwick Bielski partisans 2008 DenmarkFlammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron) Ole Christian Madsen Two members of the Danish Resistance are sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators 2008 France
UKLes 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
DenmarkMax Manus Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg
The story of Max Manus, a resistance member fighting the Nazi occupation of Norway 2008 USAMiracle at St. Anna Spike Lee The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre 2008 NetherlandsOorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) Martin Koolhoven A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of the war 2008 
IsraelSpring 1941 Uri Barbash Warsaw female grocer falls in love with the husband of the jewish couple she is hiding 2008 Czech RepublicTobruk Václav Marhoul Siege of Tobruk 2008 USAValkyrie Bryan Singer The July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler 2009 FranceThe Army of Crime Robert Guédiguian The Manouchian resistance group and the Red Poster 2009 Russia
UKAttack on Leningrad Aleksandr Buravsky The Siege of Leningrad 2009 ChinaCity of Life and Death Lu Chuan The Nanking Massacre 2009 ChinaCow Guan Hu 2009 USAEveryman's War Thad Smith The US 94th Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge 2009 Japan
Russia
CanadaFirst Squad Yoshiharu Ashino Anime film about the Nazi-Soviet War. 2009 USAInglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to kill a group of Nazis. 2009 USA
UKInto the Storm Thaddeus O'Sullivan Biographical film about Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership (sequel to The Gathering Storm). 2009 
Hong KongIp Man Wilson Yip Yip Man's life in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War. 2009 Germany
China
FranceJohn Rabe Florian Gallenberger The Nanking Massacre 2009 JapanLast Operations Under the Orion Tetsuo Shinohara A naval battle between Japan and the USA 2009 RussiaPop (The Priest) Vladimir Khotinenko A priest in occupied Latvia 2010s
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted 2010 RussiaBrest Fortress Alexander Kott Defense of Brest Fortress by Soviet troops in June 1941 2010 JapanCaterpillar Kōji Wakamatsu Disfigured Japanese veteran returns home to Japan 2010 Poland
UKChristine: War My Love Agnieszka Holland Story of Polish spy Krystyna Skarbek 2010 People's Republic of ChinaDeath 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 ChinaEast Wind Rain Yunlong Liu 2010 Czech Republic
Germany
AustriaHabermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill) Juraj Herz Life in Nazi Czechoslovakia 2010 PolandJoanna Feliks Falk Krakow, Poland - German occupation and Holocaust 2010 UKThe King's Speech Tom Hooper King George VI 2010 FranceLa Rafle Roselyne Bosch The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup 2010 Hong KongLegend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Wai-keung Lau Shanghai prior to the Japanese invasion 2010 USAThe 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 FranceSarah's Key Kristen Scott Thomas Vel' d'Hiv 2010 USAThe Way Back Peter Weir A motley group of prisoners, including POWs, make a long escape from a Soviet Gulag 2010 PolandWenecja Jan Jakub Kolski Poland - German occupation, 1939-1945 2011 UKAge of Heroes Adrian Vitoria 2011 IndiaGandhi to Hitler Rakesh Ranjan Kumar Based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler 2011 SwedenGränsen (The Frontier) Richard Holm Two Swedish soldiers travel toward the border of Nazi-occupied Norway 2011 DenmarkHvidstens gruppen Regner Grasten A resistance group from Jutland 2011 USALittle Iron Men Jesse Kobayashi Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team 2011 JapanTaiheiyō 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 USASarah's Key Gilles Paquet-Brenner The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup 2011 USACaptain America: The First Avenger Joe Johnston Story of Captain America as he battles a nazi leader the red skull. 2012 USATruth & 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 USARed 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 USAAgent Zigzag Mike Newell Nazi spy Eddie Chapman turns himself in to the British and becomes a double agent 201X UK
USA
New ZealandDambusters Christian Rivers Operation Chastise 201X USAPanzer 88 Peter Briggs The crew of a King Tiger tank in the Eastern Front battles an unknown creature. 201X USA
GermanyThe Forgotten Soldier Paul Verhoeven Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography 201X 
South KoreaMy Way[9] Kang Je-gyu 201X EstoniaNemad (Them) Ilmar Raag A film about the Battle of the Tannenberg Line 201X 
BrazilA 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 UKO.S.S. The OSS in occupied France 1962 1966 USAMcHale's Navy The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew in the Pacific Campaign 1962 1967 USACombat! A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France 1964 1967 USATwelve O'Clock High 1965 1966 USAThe Wackiest Ship in the Army 1965 1971 USAHogan's Heroes Comedy about a POW camp 1966 1966 UKCourt Martial During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime 1966 1968 USAThe Rat Patrol Long Range Desert Patrol 1966 1970 PolandCzterej 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 PolandStawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945 1968 1977 UKDad's Army Comedy about the Home Guard 1972 1973 UKThe Pathfinders RAF pathfinding missions 1972 1974 UKColditz Colditz Castle POW camp 1973 1973 USSRSeventeen Moments of Spring A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany 1975 1975 Poland
HungaryTrzecia granica (Third Border) Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary 1976 1976 
IranMy Uncle Napoleon Comedy set in Tehran under Allied occupation 1976 1978 USABaa Baa Black Sheep Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific 1977 1978 UKBacks to the Land Comedy about the Land Girls 1977 1979 USAOperation Petticoat 1977 1979 UK
BelgiumSecret Army Belgian resistance 1978 1981 DenmarkMatador The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947 1981 1981 UKKessler 1982 1992 UK'Allo 'Allo! Comedy about a café in Occupied France 1985 1985 USAJenny's War A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941 1988 1988 UKPiece of Cake RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain 1992 1992 DenmarkMørklægning Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark. 1997 1997 
SingaporeThe Price of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore 2001 2001 AustraliaChangi Changi POW camp 2001 2001 SingaporeIn Pursuit of Peace Japanese occupation of Singapore 2001 2001 SingaporeA War Diary Japanese occupation of Singapore 2002 now UKFoyle's War 2004 2005 JapanZipang An anime TV series about Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2. 2006 2007 ChinaDàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 2007 2007 ChinaGongxun China, the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war 2007 2007 ChinaSentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵) The Eighth Route Army on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai 2007 2007 PolandTajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes) Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945 2007 2007 Hong KongWar and Destiny The Nanjing Massacre 2007 2007 Iran
Hungary
France
LebanonZero Degree Turn An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman 2007 2008 ChinaXie Se Xiang Xi The Battle of West Hunan 2007 now ChinaSoldiers Sortie 2008 2008 RussiaApostol Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence 2008 2008 EstoniaTuulepealne maa Two Estonian families from World War I until 1941 2008 2010 PolandCzas honoru Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance 2008 2010 JapanHetalia: Axis Powers An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII 2009 now UKLand Girls Drama about the Land Girls 2009 now ChinaMy Chief and My Regiment 2009 now FranceUn village français An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to...
1 month of war per episode.2010 now Hong KongNo 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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