Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
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Restrictions[edit]
- The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events that feature as a part of the war effort.
- For short films, see the List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.
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Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.
Common topics[edit]
Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:
- Europe
- Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
- Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
- Gestapo and SS
- Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
- Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
- Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
- Asia–Pacific
- Non-geographical
Before 1990[edit]
Early 1990s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1990 | Canada France China | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | [1] | Phillip Borsos | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in the Spanish Civil War, then his death aiding Mao Zedong's army |
1990 | Australia | Blood Oath | Stephen Wallace | War-crimes trial of Japanese for Laha massacre | |
1990 | France | Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot | Christian de Chalonge | Crime drama. Serial killerMarcel Petiot in occupied France |
1990 | West Germany France Poland | Europa Europa | Hitlerjunge Salomon‹See Tfd›(in German) | Agnieszka Holland | Jewish boy conceals identity by joining Hitler Youth |
1990 | Sweden Hungary Norway | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten‹See Tfd›(in Swedish) | Kjell Grede | Drama. Biography of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Hungarian Holocaust |
1990 | USA | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV) | Peter Werner | Hiroshima after Enola Gay drops atomic bomb | |
1990 | Poland West Germany UK | Korczak | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | Drama. Biography of Dr. Korczak in Warsaw ghetto |
1990 | USA | A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Comedy. Western Desert Campaign, battles of El Alamein and Tobruk | |
1990 | UK Japan USA | Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | Crew of US B-17 bomberMemphis Belle on 25th mission, 1943 | |
1990 | West Germany | The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | Comedy-drama based on Anna Rosmus. Young woman's research into her German village's history during Third Reich |
1990 | USA | Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming | Ferdinand Fairfax | Biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond | |
1991 | Sweden Norway Denmark Finland | The Boys from St. Petri | Drengene fra Sankt Petri‹See Tfd›(in Danish) | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Students form Danish Resistance group Churchill Club under German occupation of Denmark |
1991 | Latvia | The Child of Man (Son of Man) | Cilvēka bērns | Jānis Streičs | Adventure romance based on Jānis Klīdzējs novel. Latgalian boy's attempts to prevent young woman from marrying shortly before Soviet and Nazi occupations |
1991 | USA | December (An Innocent War) | Stuart Gillard | US homefront and prep school boys debating military service after Pearl Harbor, 1941 | |
1991 | Spain Denmark Sweden France Germany Switzerland | Europa (Zentropa) | Europa | Lars von Trier | American with German railway job at end of war finds his position politically sensitive |
1991 | USA | For the Boys | Mark Rydell | Musical comedy-drama. USO performer entertains US troops from World War II to Vietnam War | |
1991 | Poland | Just Beyond That Forest | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Łomnicki | Holocaust |
1991 | Japan | Kayoko's Diary | Ushiro no shoumen daare (うしろの正面だあれ) | Seiji Arihara | Anime. Japanese home front and bombing of Tokyo of 10 March 1945 |
1991 | Italy | Mediterraneo | Mediterraneo | Gabriele Salvatores | Comedy-drama. Italian soldiers occupying Greek island |
1991 | Sweden Denmark | The Naked Trees | De nøgne træer | Morten Henriksen | Based on Tage Skou-Hansen novel. Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark |
1991 | Canada | The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Holocaust survivors and estranged friends resume argument from years earlier | |
1991 | Japan | Rhapsody in August | Hachi-gatsu no kyōshikyoku (Hachigatsu no rapusodī) (八月の狂詩曲) | Akira Kurosawa | Nagasaki family after Bockscar drops atomic bomb |
1991 | France Germany Poland | Warsaw – Year 5703 | Warszawa. Année 5703‹See Tfd›(in French) Tragarz puchu‹See Tfd›(in Polish) Der Daunenträger‹See Tfd›(in German) | Janusz Kijowski | Holocaust |
1992 | Poland | All That Really Matters | Wszystko, co najważniejsze | Robert Gliński | Lwów, Poland under Soviet occupation then Gulag |
1992 | Denmark USA | A Day in October | En dag i oktober | Kenneth Madsen | Danish-Jewish relocation from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden |
1992 | USA | A Midnight Clear (Section 44) | Keith Gordon | Western Front | |
1992 | Poland | Ring with a Crowned Eagle | Pierścionek z orłem w koronie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance, 1945–46 |
1992 | USA | Shining Through | David Seltzer | Romance/Thriller. Irish-Jewish-German woman recruited as OSS agent in Nazi Germany | |
1993 | Canada | For the Moment | Aaron Kim Johnston | Airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada | |
1993 | Norway | The Last Lieutenant (The Second Lieutenant) | Secondløitnanten | Hans Petter Moland | Retired Norwegian sea-captain volunteers for duty after Operation Weserübung and coordinates volunteers against German occupation of Norway |
1993 | Romania | The Mirror | Oglinda (Începutul adevarului) | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Downfall of Ion Antonescu |
1993 | Taiwan | The Puppetmaster | Xi meng ren sheng (戲夢人生) | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937–1945) |
1993 | Japan | Rail of the Star | O-Hoshisama no Rail (お星さまのレール) | Toshio Hirata | Anime. Japanese family in Korea during World War 2 |
1993 | USA | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 Best Picture drama chronicling Oskar Schindler's rescue of nearly 1,200 Jews in occupied Poland from the Holocaust | |
1993 | UK | Stalag Luft | Adrian Shergold | Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft | |
1993 | Germany | Stalingrad | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | Battle of Stalingrad |
1993 | USA | Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | Musical drama. High school Swing Kids in the Hitler-Jugend | |
1993 | Estonia Poland Russia | Tear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear) | Saatana pisar(in Estonian) Lza ksiecia ciemnosci‹See Tfd›(in Polish) Слеза князя тьмы‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Marek Piestrak | Horror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939 |
1994 | USA Canada | The Ascent | Donald Shebib | Based on actual events. Italian escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya | |
1994 | France | A Day Before Dawn | Un jour avant l'aube | Jacques Ertaud | French SAS commando in Brittany during Operation Overlord and Normandy Campaign, 1944 |
1994 | Italy | Dear Goddamned Friends | Cari fottutissimi amici | Mario Monicelli | Comedy. A group of boxers, including an American black deserter, travel from town to town in Tuscany during the summer of 1944 |
Late 1990s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1995 | Italy | Childhood Enemies | Nemici d'infanzia | Luigi Magni | Italian Civil War in Rome, 1944 |
1995 | China | Don't Cry, Nanking (Nanjing 1937) | Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī (南京1938) | Wu Ziniu | Nanking Massacre |
1995 | Russia | The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov | Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (Великий полководец Георгий Жуков) | Yuri Ozerov | Docudrama (художественно-документальный). Biopic of MarshalGeorgy Zhukov |
1995 | Canada Japan | Hiroshima (TV) | Roger Spottiswoode | Decision-making processes regarding use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
1995 | Poland Germany France | Holy Week | Wielki tydzień‹See Tfd›(in Polish) | Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust |
1995 | Denmark | Just a Girl | Kun en pige | Peter Schrøder | German occupation of Denmark |
1995 | Australia Japan | The Last Bullet (TV) | Rasutobaretto (ラストバレット) | Michael Pattinson | Australian and Japanese soldiers battle in South Pacific jungle on last day of war |
1995 | USA | Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV) | Robert Iscove | Sinking of USS Indianapolis and struggle of surviving crewmen in open water | |
1995 | China | Red Cherry | Hóng yīng táo (红樱桃) | Daying Ye | Chinese boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union |
1995 | USA | Sahara (Desert Storm) (TV) | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Western Desert Campaign; remake of 1943 film Sahara | |
1995 | USA | Truman (TV) | Frank Pierson | Drama. Biopic of US President Harry S. Truman from infantry service in World War I | |
1995 | USA | The Tuskegee Airmen | Robert Markowitz | First African-American combat pilots of the war[2] | |
1995 | Yugoslavia France Germany | Underground | Podzemlje (Подземље) | Emir Kusturica | German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia |
1995 | Netherlands | The Partisans (TV miniseries) | De Partizanen | Theu Boermans | Dutch resistance unit capture a group of German soldiers, just weeks before the liberation of The Netherlands. Based on true facts |
1996 | Italy | The Border | La Frontiera | Franco Giraldi | Drama. Italian officer born in Dalmatia spends his convalescence in a Dalmatian island occupied by the Italian Army |
1996 | UK | The Brylcreem Boys | Terence Ryan | Comedy-drama. British and German pilots in POW camp in neutral Ireland during Battle of Britain | |
1996 | UK USA | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 Best Picture romantic-drama. Biography of Hungarian Count László Almásy, injured cartographer who charts Sahara Desert in Italian Campaign | |
1996 | Germany Norway Sweden Denmark | Hamsun | Hamsun | Jan Troell | Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and wife during German occupation of Norway |
1996 | USA | Mother Night | Keith Gordon | Based on Kurt Vonnegut novel | |
1996 | France Germany UK | The Ogre | Der Unhold‹See Tfd›(in German) | Volker Schlöndorff | French POW recruiting children for Nazis believing he is protecting them |
1996 | Canada UK Luxembourg | On Dangerous Ground (TV) | Lawrence Gordon-Clark | Thriller based on Jack Higgins novel. Secret wartime agreement between Mountbatten and Mao | |
1996 | UK | Over Here (TV) | Tony Dow | Comedy-drama. British and American aircrew rivalry in England | |
1996 | USA | The Ring (Danielle Steel's The Ring) (TV) | Armand Mastroianni | Romance/Drama. Young German woman separated from her family and imprisoned by Nazis | |
1996 | Italy Hungary | The Seventh Chamber | La settima stanza‹See Tfd›(in Italian) A hetedik szoba‹See Tfd›(in Hungarian) | Márta Mészáros | Drama. Saint Edith Stein |
1996 | Thailand | Sunset at Chaophraya | Khu gam (คู่กรรม) | Euthana Mukdasanit | Free Thai Movement and Siam under Japanese occupation of Thailand, 1939–1944 |
1997 | UK Japan | Bent | [1] | Sean Mathias | Drama based on Martin Sherman play. Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany |
1997 | Germany | The Devil's General (TV) | Des Teufels General | Frank Castorf | Drama based on Carl Zuckmayer play. Successful Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet courted by Widerstand; remake of 1955 film Des Teufels General |
1997 | Denmark UK Germany | The Island on Bird Street | Øen i Fuglegaden‹See Tfd›(in Danish) Die Insel in der Vogelstrasse‹See Tfd›(in German) | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Polish-Jewish boy hiding in ghetto from Nazis |
1997 | UK | The Land Girls | David Leland | Women's Land Army | |
1997 | Italy | Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Comedy-drama. Holocaust under German occupation of Italy |
1997 | France | Lucie Aubrac | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | Lucie and Raymond Aubrac under German occupation of France |
1997 | Australia USA | Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Allied women POWs in Japanese occupied Sumatra | |
1998 | Poland | Deserter's Gold | Złoto dezerterów | Janusz Majewski | Heist comedy. World War I buddies reuniting with Polish Underground to liberate Nazi gold; sequel to 1986 film C.K. dezerterzy |
1998 | Japan France | Dr. Akagi | Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生) | Shohei Imamura | Comedy-drama. rural Japanese physician trying to eradicate hepatitis while at odds with Imperial Japanese Army |
1998 | Italy | Little Teachers | I piccoli maestri | Daniele Luchetti | Italian resistance movement in Veneto |
1998 | USA | Miracle at Midnight (TV) | Ken Cameron | Holocaust, Danish Resistance, and rescue of Danish Jews during German occupation of Denmark | |
1998 | Japan | Pride: The Fateful Moment | Puraido: Unmei no toki (プライド – 運命のトキません) | Shunya Ito | Hideki Tojo during post-war Tokyo Trials |
1998 | USA | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | Team of U.S. Army Rangers search for single U.S. soldier during the Normandy Campaign | |
1998 | USA | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | US infantrymen and Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal Campaign | |
1998 | USA | When Trumpets Fade | John Irvin | Battle of Hürtgen Forest | |
1999 | Germany | Aimée & Jaguar (Aimee and Jaguar) | Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Romance between lesbians Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust amidst Gestapo purge of Jews in Berlin |
1999 | Czech Republic Poland Slovakia | All My Loved Ones | Všichni moji blízcí‹See Tfd›(in Czech) | Matej Minac | Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton, and escape of 669 children from the Holocaust |
1999 | Finland | Ambush | Rukajärven tie | Olli Saarela | Finnish Army and Women's Auxiliary Corps Lotta Svärd during Continuation War, 1941 |
1999 | Croatia | Bleiburg | Četverored | Branko Schmidt | Bleiburg repatriations |
1999 | UK USA | The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | Based on Graham Greene novel. British homefront and illicit romance; remake of 1955 film The End of the Affair | |
1999 | Germany Hungary | Gloomy Sunday | Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod‹See Tfd›(in German) | Rolf Schübel | Romance drama based on Nick Barkow novel. |
1999 | France USA Hungary | Jakob the Liar | [1] | Peter Kassovitz | Comedy-drama. 'Secret radio' in Jewish ghetto of Poland and Holocaust |
1999 | China | Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (Heart of China) | Húanghé júeliàn (黄河绝恋) | Feng Xiaoning | American pilot returns to pay respects to communist-led Chinese army that rescued him |
1999 | Russia Germany Japan Italy France | Moloch | Molokh (Молох) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Aleksandr Sokurov | Hitler visits Bavarian Berghof, 1942 |
1999 | Germany Austria Canada Hungary | Sunshine | [1] | István Szabó | Three generations of Jewish family including Holocaust, Operation Margarethe and German occupation of Hungary |
1999 | Italy UK | Tea with Mussolini | [1] | Franco Zeffirelli | Comedy-drama. Italian boy's upbringing by English and American women before and during war in Fascist Italy |
Early 2000s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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2000 | Canada Germany UK | Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace | [1] | Eric Till | German Lutheran pastor and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
2000 | China | Devils on the Doorstep | Guizi lai le (鬼子来了) | Jiang Wen | Sino-Japanese War |
2000 | Czech Republic | Divided We Fall | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia |
2000 | Italy | Johnny the Partisan | Il partigiano Johnny | Guido Chiesa | Partisan warfare in North Italy |
2000 | Poland | Judgement of Franciszek Klos (TV) | Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa | Andrzej Wajda | Collaboration under German occupation of Poland |
2000 | Malaysia | Lt. Adnan | Leftenan Adnan | Aziz M. Osman | Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang |
2000 | Italy | Malena | Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Romance/Comedy-drama. Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940 |
2000 | Philippines | Markova: Comfort Gay | Tagalog please | Gil Portes | Drama based on Walter Dempster, Jr., account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines |
2000 | Canada USA | Nuremberg (TV miniseries) | Yves Simoneau | Nuremberg Trials | |
2000 | Italy | The Sky Is Falling | Il cielo cade | Andrea Frazzi Antonio Frazzi | German occupation in Tuscany and the murder of Albert Einstein's relatives |
2000 | Czech Republic | Spring of Life | Pramen zivota | Milan Cieslar | Nazi SS and Lebensborn |
2000 | USA | U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine | |
2001 | Germany Russia | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me | So weit die Füße tragen‹See Tfd›(in German) | Hardy Martins | Based on Clemens Forell book. German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag |
2001 | UK USA | Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) | Steven Spielberg | E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war | |
2001 | UK | The Bunker (The Bunker: The Evil Is Within) | Rob Green | Horror-Mystery.[3] Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line | |
2001 | UK France USA | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | [1] | John Madden | Italian occupation of Greece and massacre of the Acqui Division |
2001 | UK Australia | Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Romance/Thriller. Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance | |
2001 | UK USA | Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of The Wannsee Conference) | |
2001 | Czech Republic UK | Dark Blue World | Tmavomodrý svet | Jan Sverák | Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain |
2001 | Italy | The Days of Rage: Cefalonia | I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio | Claver Salizzato | Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia |
2001 | USA Germany UK Ireland | Enemy at the Gates | [1] | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad |
2001 | UK USA Germany Netherlands | Enigma | [1] | Michael Apted | Enigma machine mystery |
2001 | Japan | Firefly | Hotaru (蛍) | Yasuo Furuhata | Based on true story of Korean kamikaze pilot |
2001 | USA | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp | |
2001 | Japan | H Story | Japanese please (Kanji please) | Nobuhiro Suwa | Remake of 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour |
2001 | Philippines | In the Bosom of the Enemy | Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway | Gil Portes | Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband |
2001 | Italy | The Ones With White Lips - The Forgotten | Sos laribiancos - I dimenticati | Piero Livi | Sardinian soldiers are dispatched to the Russian Front |
2001 | USA | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Doolittle Raid | |
2001 | China | Purple Sunset | Zĭrì (紫日) | Feng Xiaoning | Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito |
2001 | France UK Germany Austria | Taking Sides | [1] | István Szabó | Wilhelm Furtwängler, controversial conductor of Berlin Philharmonic during Nazi era and Allied occupation |
2001 | USA | To End All Wars | David L. Cunningham | Drama based on Ernest Gordon book. Allied POWs build Burma Railway through jungle | |
2001 | USA | Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
2001 | UK USA Canada | Varian's War (TV) | Lionel Chetwynd | Varian Fry builds underground rescue network in Vichy France saving 2–4,000 anti-Nazi/Jewish refugees and cultural figures from Holocaust | |
2001 | UK Canada | The War Bride (Love and War) | Lyndon Chubbuck | Drama. English war bride in Canada without husband | |
2001 | Philippines | Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure | Tagalog please | Chito S. Roño | Burial of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines |
2002 | USA | Below | Gregory Hoblit | American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission encounters German warship | |
2002 | Italy | Black Angel | Senso '45 | Tinto Brass | Erotic drama. The love affair of an Italian woman and an SS officer in German-occupied Venice |
2002 | Russia | The Cuckoo | Kukushka (Кукушка) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Young Lapp woman shelters Finnish sniper and Red Army captain on her farm |
2002 | Italy | El Alamein: The Line of Fire (El Alamein: Bound of Honour, DVD) | El Alamein – La linea del fuoco | Enzo Monteleone | Italian volunteer assigned to Pavia Division in Egypt and Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942 |
2002 | USA UK | The Gathering Storm | Richard Loncraine | Winston Churchill before outbreak of war | |
2002 | USA Italy | The Good War (Texas '46) | [1] | Giorgio Serafini | Based on true story of Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946 |
2002 | USA | Hart's War | Gregory Hoblit | POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft | |
2002 | France | Monsieur Batignole | Monsieur Batignole | Gérard Jugnot | Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France |
2002 | Italy | Perlasca, The Courage of a Just Man (TV miniseries) | Perlasca, un eroe italiano | Alberto Negrin | Giorgio Perlasca, pretending to be a Spanish diplomat, saves Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust |
2002 | France Poland Germany UK | The Pianist | [1] | Roman Polanski | Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman years of searching for shelter during World War II. |
2002 | France Germany | Safe Conduct | Laissez passer | Bertrand Tavernier | German occupation of France |
2002 | Canada | Silent Night | Rodney Gibbons | Based on true event during the Battle of the Bulge between German and American soldiers on Christmas Eve 1944 | |
2002 | Russia | The Star | Zvezda (Звезда) | Nikolai Lebedev | Soviet scouts behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration |
2002 | Netherlands | Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Ben Sombogaart | Twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands and serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany and married to Waffen SS soldier |
2002 | UK | Two Men Went to War | John Henderson | Comedy-drama based on Raymond Foxall book. Amateur improvisational commando raid into occupied France | |
2002 | Italy | The War Is Over (TV miniseries) | La guerra è finita | Lodovico Gasparini | Drama. Two Italian friends and soldiers on the Greek front, then on the Russian front and finally in the Italian Civil War |
2002 | USA | Windtalkers | John Woo | Battle of Saipan | |
2003 | France | Bon Voyage | Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France under German occupation |
2003 | UK | Entrusted | Giacomo Battiato | 11-year-old chess prodigy, whose mother is in underground resistance, is entrusted with life-saving secret | |
2003 | Malaysia | Paloh | Paloh | Adman Salleh | Japanese occupation of Malaya |
2003 | Poland | Pornography | Pornografia | Jan Jakub Kolski | German Occupation of Poland |
2003 | USA Netherlands | Resistance | [1] | Todd Komarnicki | American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi-occupied Belgium and is assisted by Maquis resistance |
2003 | Germany Netherlands | Rosenstrasse | Rosenstrasse‹See Tfd›(in German) | Margarethe von Trotta | Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin |
2003 | USA | Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little | Survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information | |
2003 | Japan Germany | Spy Sorge | Supai Sorge (スパイ・ゾルゲ) ‹See Tfd›(in Japanese) | Masahiro Shinoda | Soviet spy Richard Sorge |
2003 | France | Strange Gardens | Effroyables jardins | Jean Becker | French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans |
2003 | France UK | Strayed | Les égarés (Le garçon aux yeux gris) | André Téchiné | Romance-drama. French family escapes Battle of France and German occupation of Paris aided by young man, June 1940 |
2003 | Czech Republic Slovakia Austria | Želary | Želary | Ondrej Trojan | Drama based on Květa Legátová novel. Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed |
2004 | Philippines | Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita | Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (Aishite Imasu (Mahal Kita) 1941) | Joel Lamangan | Romance-Drama. Philippine Resistance during Battle of Bataan, Bataan Death March, and Japanese occupation |
2004 | USA | The Aryan Couple | John Daly | Undercover Eastern European Jews attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944 | |
2004 | Finland Sweden | Beyond the Front Line (Beyond Enemy Lines) | Framom främsta linjen‹See Tfd›(in Swedish) | Åke Lindman | Continuation War between USSR and Finland, 1941–1944 |
2004 | Russia | The Cadets (TV miniseries) | Kursanty (Курсанты) | Andrei Kavun | Training of Russian boys as artillerymen for Eastern Front, 1942 |
2004 | Philippines | The Call of the River | Panaghoy sa Suba | Cesar Montano | Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign |
2004 | Germany Italy Austria | Downfall | Der Untergang‹See Tfd›(in German) | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Last days of Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin |
2004 | UK | Dunkirk (TV miniseries) | Alex Holmes | Docudrama. Battle of Dunkirk and Dunkirk evacuation | |
2004 | Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg | Edelweiss Pirates | Edelweisspiraten‹See Tfd›(in German) | Niko von Glasow | German Resistance and Edelweiss Pirates |
2004 | Japan | The Face of Jizo | Chichi to Kuraseba (父と暮らせば) | Kazuo Kuroki | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
2004 | USA Germany Italy | The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) | [1] | Ari Taub | German, Italian and US forces on Italian Front, 1944 |
2004 | Russia | Freelance Assignment | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945 |
2004 | UK Canada | Head in the Clouds | John Duigan | Romance-drama. Friends' divergent paths and fight against Fascism in pre-war Europe | |
2004 | Russia | Our Own | Свои | Dmitry Meshiev | Drama on occupied territory, early years of war |
2004 | USA | Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Robert Harmon | SHAEF organization and planning of Operation Overlord | |
2004 | Canada | Il Duce Canadese (TV miniseries) | ‹See Tfd›(in English) | Giles Walker | Italian-Canadian fascism and internment |
2004 | USA | In Enemy Hands (U-Boat) | Tony Giglio | Crew of US submarine returns home after months at sea as POWs aboard U-boat | |
2004 | UK | Island at War (TV miniseries) | Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Occupation of the Channel Islands | |
2004 | Croatia | Long Dark Night | Duga mračna noć | Antun Vrdoljak | Croatia under both Fascism and Communism |
2004 | Germany | Napola: Hitler's Elite (Before the Fall) | Napola – Elite für den Führer | Dennis Gansel | Former Hitler Youths bond at Reich National-Political institution |
2004 | Germany | The Ninth Day | Der neunte Tag | Volker Schlöndorff | SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler |
2004 | Germany Austria | Operation Valkyrie (TV) | Stauffenberg | Jo Baier | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
2004 | China | Purple Butterfly | Zǐ Húdié (紫蝴蝶) | Lou Ye | Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai |
2004 | USA | Straight Into Darkness | Jeff Burr | American deserters and Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault |
Movie set from Black Book in The Hague, 2005
Late 2000s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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2005 | Italy | Cephalonia (TV miniseries) | Cefalonia | Riccardo Milani | Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia |
2005 | USA | Everything Is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Jewish American searches for woman who saved his grandfather during the Ukrainian Holocaust | |
2005 | Lithuania | Forest of the Gods | Dievų miškas | Algimantas Puipa | Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis and Soviets |
2005 | Russia | Freelance Assignment 2 | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete (Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Postwar commandos in wartime minefield hope to be saved by soldier who was in field in 1943 |
2005 | USA Australia | The Great Raid | John Dahl | Japanese occupation of Philippines and Raid at Cabanatuan | |
2005 | Italy | The Heart in the Pit (TV miniseries) | Il cuore nel pozzo | Alberto Negrin | Foibe massacres |
2005 | USA | The Last Days | Eric Bryan | US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender | |
2005 | UK | The Last Drop | David Teague | Operation Market Garden and secret mission to recover Nazi gold | |
2005 | Singapore Japan | Men in White | 1942 | Kelvin Tong | Comedy horror. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle |
2005 | Russia | Moscow Says, Please Note (TV miniseries) | Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (Внимание, говорит Москва) | Aleksandr Surin | Female Russian snipers[4] |
2005 | Finland Sweden | Mother of Mine | Äideistä parhain(in Finnish) Den bästa av mödrar‹See Tfd›(in Swedish) | Klaus Härö | Based on Heikki Hietamies novel. Evacuation of 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden |
2005 | Italy | Mussolini's Daughter (TV miniseries) | Edda | Giorgio Capitani | Edda Mussolini |
2005 | India | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (Bose: The Forgotten Hero) | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: ek bhoola hua naayak (नेताजी सुभाषचन्द्र बोस: एक भूला हुआ नायक) | Shyam Benegal | Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army |
2005 | USA | Only the Brave | Lane Nishikawa | Rescue of Lost Battalion in France by US 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
2005 | China | On the Mountain of Tai Hang | Tài Háng shān shàng (太行山上) | Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian | Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China |
2005 | Finland | Promise | Lupaus (Uskolliset – Suomen lotat / Lotta) | Ilkka Vanne | Finnish women's Lotta Svärd during war |
2005 | Germany | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance |
2005 | Germany | Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (TV miniseries) | Speer und Er | Heinrich Breloer | Docudrama. Hitler's minister Albert Speer |
2005 | Taiwan | The Strait Story | Fu shih kuang ying (南方紀事之浮世光影) | Huang Yu-shan | Sinking of Japanese passenger liner Takachiho Maru by USS Kingfish, 1943 |
2005 | Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan | The Sun | Solntse (Солнце) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Aleksandr Sokurov | Emperor Hirohito's life during the first days of Allied occupation |
2005 | UK | Valiant | Gary Chapman | Animated. British war pigeons face German falcons | |
2005 | UK USA Germany China | The White Countess | [1] | James Ivory | Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Sino-Japanese War |
2005 | Japan | Yamato | Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和) | Junya Sato | Yamato's crew during Pacific War |
2006 | Russia | Bastards | Svolochi (Сволочи) | Aleksandr Atanesyan | Teenaged convicts conscripted for partisan mission against Nazis |
2006 | USA | Beautiful Dreamer | Terri Farley-Teruel | Romance-drama. Amnesiac bomber pilot captured by enemy[who?] and assumed to be MIA | |
2006 | Netherlands Germany UK Belgium | Black Book | Zwartboek‹See Tfd›(in Dutch) | Paul Verhoeven | Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance |
2006 | France Morocco Algeria Belgium | Days of Glory | Indigènes‹See Tfd›(in French) | Rachid Bouchareb | North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France |
2006 | Germany | Dresden (TV) | Dresden | Roland Suso Richter | German civilian assists downed and injured RAF pilot after bombing of Dresden |
2006 | USA | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of American soldiers | |
2006 | Germany Lithuania | Ghetto | Ghetto | Audrius Juzėnas | Holocaust in Lithuania |
2006 | Italy | The Good Battle - Don Pietro Pappagallo (TV miniseries) | La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo | Gianfranco Albano | Catholic priest Pietro Pappagallo, member of resistance, executed in the Ardeatine caves |
2006 | USA | The Good German | Steven Soderbergh | Mystery set in Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations just after the surrender of Nazi Germany | |
2006 | UK | The Haunted Airman | Chris Durlacher | Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war | |
2006 | Australia | Kokoda | Alister Grierson | Kokoda Track Campaign | |
2006 | Germany | The Last Days | Die letzten Tage | Oliver Frohnauer | American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of Volkssturm unit near end of war |
2006 | Germany | The Last Train | Der letzte Zug | Dana Vávrová, Joseph Vilsmaier | Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943 |
2006 | USA | Letters from Iwo Jima | Iōjima kara no tegami (硫黄島からの手紙)[5] | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers |
2006 | Italy | Mafalda of Savoy (TV miniseries) | Mafalda di Savoia – Il coraggio di una principessa | Maurizio Zaccaro | Princess Mafalda of Savoy |
2006 | USA | Military Intelligence and You! | Dale Kutzera | Comedy. US Army Intelligence analyst attempts to locate Nazi 'Ghost Squadron' fighter base | |
2006 | Canada | Remembrance: A Soldier's Story (TV) | Andrew Forster | Drama. Canada's last surviving decorated World War II hero and Remembrance Day[6] | |
2006 | Russia | Transit | Peregon (Перегон) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Lend-Lease shipping through the ALSIB |
2006 | China | The Tokyo Trial | Dōngjīng Shěnpàn (东京审判) | Gao Qunshu | Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) |
2007 | USA | American Pastime | Desmond Nakano | Japanese-American jazz and baseball in Topaz, Utahinternment camp | |
2007 | UK | Atonement | Joe Wright | The Battle for France and Dunkirk evacuation | |
2007 | Austria | The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Operation Bernhard |
2007 | Australia | Curtin (TV) | Jessica Hobbs | Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin | |
2007 | Japan | For Those We Love | Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく ) | Taku Shinjō | Kamikaze pilots |
2007 | Poland | Katyn | Katyń | Andrzej Wajda | Katyn massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by Soviets, 1940 |
2007 | USA China Taiwan Hong Kong | Lust, Caution | Sè, Jiè (色,戒) | Ang Lee | Spy thriller. Occupied Shanghai |
2007 | Germany | Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (My Führer) | Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler | Dani Levy | Comedy-drama. Depressed Hitler and his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945 |
2007 | Canada | The Poet (Hearts of War) | Damian Lee | German soldiers gather information on Eastern Front partisans and Jewish refugees | |
2007 | Canada | The Great War | Brian McKenna | Award-winning documentarian's portrayal of Canada in the battle of Vimy Ridge, with many descendants portraying ancestors and Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau portraying his fifth cousin, twice removed, Talbot Mercer Papineau. | |
2007 | Belgium | Surviving with Wolves | Survivre avec les loups | Véra Belmont | Drama based on fake Misha Defonseca memoir. Jewish girl searches for deported parents while living among wolves |
2007 | Finland | Tali-Ihantala 1944 | Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Mihin vapaat miehet pystyvät) | Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Continuation War, June 1944 |
2007 | Poland | Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies | Jutro idziemy do kina | Michał Kwieciński | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
2007 | Japan | Yunagi City, Sakura Country | Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (夕凪の街 桜の国) | Kiyoshi Sasabe | Drama based on Fumiyo Kōno manga. Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
2007 | Belgium Ireland | Waiting for Dublin | Roger Tucker | Comedy. Allied and Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland | |
2008 | Australia USA UK | Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Romance. Australian soldier and British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin | |
2008 | USA | Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 | Keith J. Crocker | Horror drama. Captured USO showgirls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant | |
2008 | Italy | Blood of the Losers | Il sangue dei vinti | Michele Soavi | Italian civil war |
2008 | USA UK | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) | Mark Herman | Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew | |
2008 | Germany | The Bridge (TV) | Die Brücke | Wolfgang Panzer | Drama based on Manfred Gregor novel. Youths defend bridge; remake |
2008 | Australia | Broken Sun | Brad Haynes | Drama based on the Cowra breakout | |
2008 | Romania | Gruber's Journey | Călătoria lui Gruber | Radu Gabrea | Iaşi pogrom |
2008 | Australia China Germany USA | The Children of Huang Shi | [1] | Roger Spottiswoode | Nanking Massacre and Three Alls Policy |
2008 | USA | Defiance | Edward Zwick | Bielski partisans | |
2008 | Poland | 11th of November | 11 listopada | Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata | Zielonkaboy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland |
2008 | France UK | Female Agents | Les Femmes de l'ombre | Jean-Paul Salomé | Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German officer and rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information |
2008 | Denmark | Flame and Citron | Flammen og Citronen | Ole Christian Madsen | Danish Resistance team sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators |
2008 | UK Germany Hungary | Good | [1] | Vicente Amorim | Drama based on C. P. Taylor play. |
2008 | Hong Kong | Ip Man | Yip Man (葉問) | Wilson Yip | Ip Man in Foshan, Sino-Japanese War |
2008 | Norway Germany Denmark | Max Manus: Man of War | Max Manus | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Norwegian Resistance leaderMax Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway |
2008 | USA | Miracle at St. Anna | Spike Lee | Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | |
2008 | USA Germany | The Reader | Stephen Daldry | War crimes trial of female guard at Nazi concentration camp | |
2008 | Israel | Spring 1941 | [7] | Uri Barbash | Romance between Warsaw grocer and Jewish man she is hiding |
2008 | Czech Republic Slovakia | Tobruk | Tobruk | Václav Marhoul | Siege of Tobruk |
2008 | USA | Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler | |
2008 | USA | Watch on the Rhine | Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson | Action/Comedy. US 106th Inf. Div. soldier in Battle of the Bulge | |
2008 | France Tunisia | The Wedding Song | Le Chant des mariées | Karin Albou | Friendship between Muslim woman and Sephardic Jewish woman during Nazi occupation of Tunisia |
2008 | Italy | Wild Blood | Sanguepazzo | Marco Tullio Giordana | Drama. The involvement of actors Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida with the Italian Social Republic and their murder by partisans |
2008 | Netherlands | Winter in Wartime | Oorlogswinter | Martin Koolhoven | Drama based on Jan Terlouw novel. Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance, 1944–45 |
2008 | Germany Poland | A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin) | Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin‹See Tfd›(in German) | Max Färberböck | Drama based on Marta Hillers book. Journalist's relationship with Soviet officer during Soviet occupation of Berlin |
2009 | France | The Army of Crime | L'Armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | Manouchian resistance group and Red Poster |
2009 | Russia UK | Attack on Leningrad (Leningrad) | Aleksandr Buravsky | Siege of Leningrad | |
2009 | China | City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!) | Pinyin please (漢字 hanzi please) | Lu Chuan | Nanking Massacre |
2009 | China | Cow | Dòu niú (斗牛) | Guan Hu | Comedy-drama. Chinese peasant protects village's dairy cow during Sino-Japanese War |
2009 | UK | The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries) | Jon Jones | Anne Frank hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands | |
2009 | USA | Everyman's War | Thad Smith | US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge | |
2009 | USA | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | Jewish-American soldiers on mission to kill Nazis | |
2009 | USA UK | Into the Storm | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Biopic of Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm | |
2009 | Germany China France | John Rabe | John Rabe | Florian Gallenberger | Nanking Massacre |
2009 | Japan | Last Operations Under the Orion (Battle Under Orion) | Manatsu no Orion (真夏のオリオン) | Tetsuo Shinohara | Naval battle between Japan and US near end of war |
2009 | Italy | The Man Who Will Come | L'uomo che verrà | Giorgio Diritti | Marzabotto massacre |
2009 | China | The Message | Fēngshēng (风声) | Chen Kuo-fu, Gao Qunshu | Espionage in Nanking in 1942 |
2009 | Russia | 1941 (TV) | 1941 | Valery Shalyga | Nazi invasion of Russia and partisans in forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942 |
2009 | Russia | The Priest | Pop (Поп) | Vladimir Khotinenko | Priest in occupied Latvia |
2009 | Czech Republic Germany | Protector | Protektor | Marek Najbrt | Romance/Drama. Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia and effects of Operation Anthropoid |
2009 | UK | Small Island (TV miniseries) | John Alexander | Drama. Jamaican airman in England |
Director Elisabeth Scharang at In Another Lifetime première, 2011
2010s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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2010 | Russia | Brest Fortress (Fortress of War) | Brestskaya krepost (Брестская крепость) | Alexander Kott | Action-drama. Soviet defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941 |
2010 | Russia | Burnt by the Sun 2 | Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2) | Nikita Mikhalkov | Action-drama. Eastern Front |
2010 | Japan | Caterpillar | Kyatapirā (キャタピラー) | Kōji Wakamatsu | Drama. Wounded Japanese veteran of Sino-Japanese War returns home |
2010 | China | Death and Glory in Changde | Die Xue Gu Cheng (喋血孤城) | Dong Shen | Action-drama. Hunan's Battle of Changde |
2010 | USA | The Debt | John Madden | Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities; remake of 2007 film | |
2010 | China | East Wind Rain | Dong feng yu (东风雨) | Yunlong Liu | Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded 'weather forecasts' prior to Pearl Harbor attack |
2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria | Habermann | Habermannův mlýn‹See Tfd›(in Czech) | Juraj Herz | Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia |
2010 | Russia | Heaven is on Fire (The Sky is On Fire) (TV miniseries) | Nebo v ogne (Небо в огне) | Dmitry Cherkasov | Action-drama. Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939–1945 |
2010 | China | A Jewish Girl in Shanghai | You tai nu hai zai shang hai (猶太女孩在上海) | Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui | Animated. Girl and little brother in Shanghai, with parents in Europe |
2010 | Poland | Joanna | Joanna | Feliks Falk | German occupation and Holocaust in Kraków, Poland |
2010 | UK | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 Best Picture depicting King George VI during the war | |
2010 | Hong Kong China | Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | Zing1 Mou5 Fung1 Wan4-Can4 Zan1 (精武風雲-陳真) (in Yue Chinese) | Andrew Lau Wai-Keung | Japanese invasion of Shanghai |
2010 | Russia | The Edge | Kray (Край) | Alexei Uchitel | Gulag camp shortly after the end of the war |
2010 | USA Australia | The Pacific (TV miniseries) | Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To | Action-drama. US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre | |
2010 | France Germany Hungary | The Round Up | La rafle‹See Tfd›(in French) | Roselyne Bosch | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
2010 | France | Sarah's Key (Her Name was Sarah) | Elle s'appelait Sarah | Kristin Scott Thomas | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
2010 | Australia | Sisters of War (TV) | Brendan Maher | Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese during the New Guinea campaign | |
2010 | USA | Spoils of War | Jean Liberté | Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent and destroy counterfeit money | |
2010 | Canada | Storming Juno (TV) | Tim Wolochatiuk | Docudrama. Regina Rifles and 1st Hussars at Juno Beach on D-Day | |
2010 | Italy Germany | Under the Roman Sky (Pope Pius XII) (TV) | Sotto il cielo di Roma‹See Tfd›(in Italian) Pius XII.‹See Tfd›(in German) | Christian Duguay | Pope Pius XII and Roman razzia |
2010 | Poland | Venice | Wenecja | Jan Jakub Kolski | German occupation of Poland, 1939–1945 |
2010 | USA | The Way Back | Peter Weir | Prisoners and POWs escape Soviet Gulag | |
2011 | UK | Age of Heroes | Adrian Vitoria | Action-Thriller. British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to neutral Norway | |
2011 | Spain Hungary | Angel of Budapest (TV miniseries) | El ángel de Budapest‹See Tfd›(in Spanish) | Luis Oliveros | Drama based on Diego Carcedo book. Spanish ambassador Ángel Sanz Briz rescues Jews in Budapest |
2011 | Germany | Auschwitz | Uwe Boll | Drama | |
2011 | Portugal | The Consul of Bordeaux | O Consul de Bordeus‹See Tfd›(in Portuguese) | The story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews | |
2011 | Brazil | Webseries: Heroes | Websérie: Herois | Drama. Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy, 1944. | |
2011 | Sweden | The Frontier | Gränsen | Richard Holm | Swedish soldiers travel toward German-occupied Norwegian border |
2011 | India | Gandhi to Hitler (Dear Friend Hitler) | Priya Mitra Hitler (प्रिय मित्र हिटलर) | Rakesh Ranjan Kumar | Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler |
2011 | Italy Germany | General Della Rovere (TV miniseries) | Il generale Della Rovere‹See Tfd›(in Italian) | Carlo Carlei | Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader |
2011 | Austria Hungary Germany | In Another Lifetime | Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben‹See Tfd›(in German) | Elisabeth Scharang | Drama based on Peter Turrini play. Hungarian Jews marched to Mauthausen |
2011 | Poland Germany Canada | In Darkness | W ciemnosci‹See Tfd›(in Polish) | Agnieszka Holland | Drama. Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
2011 | Japan | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六) | Izuru Narushima | Isoroku Yamamoto |
2011 | Spain | Ispansi! | Ispansi! (¡Españoles!) | Carlos Iglesias | Drama. Spanish war orphans in USSR in time for another war |
2011 | Philippines Japan | Liberation | Liberacion | Adolfo Alix Jr. | Drama. Japanese holdout hiding in Philippine jungle for 20 years after war |
2011 | Czech Republic | Lidice | Petr Nikolaev | Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the destruction of the village of Lidice | |
2011 | USA | Little Iron Men | Jesse Kobayashi | Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
2011 | UK | The Lost Valentine | Darnell Martin | Woman's quest for husband declared MIA | |
2011 | South Korea | My Way | Maiwei[8] (마이웨이) | Kang Je-gyu | Young Korean man conscripted into Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union and Germany |
2011 | Japan | Oba: The Last Samurai (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox) | Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (太平洋の奇跡-フォックスと呼ばれた男) | Hideyuki Hirayama | Japanese holdoutSakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944 |
2011 | UK Germany | The Sinking of the Laconia (TV miniseries) | [1] | Uwe Janson | Drama. RMS Laconia incident |
2011 | Denmark | This Life | Hvidstens gruppen | Regner Grasten | Danish Resistance in Jutland |
2011 | Latvia | Three to Dance | Dancis pa trim | Arvīds Krievs | Drama. Tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis and independence-seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS |
2012 | China | Back to 1942 | Yī Jǐu Sì Èr (一九四二) | Feng Xiaogang | |
2012 | China Hong Kong | The Flowers of War | Jin líng shí san chai (金陵十三钗) | Zhang Yimou | Rape of Nanjing |
2012 | Norway Sweden | Into the White (Comrade) | [1] | Petter Næss | Action-drama based on true story. Crashed German and English aircrew trying to survive Norwegian winter in wilderness, 1940 |
2012 | AustraliaUK Sweden | Lore | Cate Shortland | Based loosely on the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room, this film focused on five German siblings forced to flee to Hamburg once their Nazi-level parents are presumably killed in combat with the Allied forces | |
2012 | USA | Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas (uncredited) | Tuskegee Airmen and 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre | |
2012 | USA | Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed | Ryan Little | Invasion of Southern France in World War II | |
2012 | Russia | White Tiger | Belyy tigr (Белый тигр) | Karen Shakhnazarov | A Russian tank crew is ordered to take out a German Tiger tank in the new T-34-85 |
2013 | USA | The Book Thief | Brian Percival | The fictional story of young Liesel Meminger. After she finds her first book beside her brother's graveside, she is sent to foster parents. While in the comfort of her new found parents, World War II breaks out and her foster parents shelter a Jewish refugee | |
2013 | Poland Lithuania | 1939 Battle of Westerplatte | Tajemnica Westerplatte | Pawel Chochlew | September 1, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland |
2013 | Philippines | Death March | Death March | Adolfo Alix, Jr. | Bataan Death March |
2013 | USA | Emperor | Peter Webber | General Douglas MacArthur begins an investigation of the role of Emperor Shōwa in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor | |
2013 | Australia UK | The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | Drama based on true story of Eric Lomax. Victim from Burmese Death Railway setting out to find those responsible for his torture | |
2013 | Portugal Brazil Italy | Road 47 | A Estrada 47 | Vicente Ferraz | Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
2013 | Russia | Stalingrad | Stalingrad (Сталинград) | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Battle of Stalingrad |
2013 | Japan | The Wind Rises | Kaze Tachinu (風立ちぬ) | Hayao Miyazaki | Animated historical drama animated by Studio Ghibli. Fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft |
2014 | Canada | Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (TV movies of Bomb Girls) | Jerry Ciccoritti | Canadian home front and Battle of the St. Lawrence | |
2014 | Hungary | Dear Elza! | Drága Elza! | Zoltán Füle | A Hungarian soldier is captured by the Russians and made a mine trampler |
2014 | France Germany | Diplomacy | Diplomatie | Volker Schlöndorff | The Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling persuades gen. Dietrich von Choltitz to avoid the destruction of Paris |
2014 | USA | Fury | David Ayer | Allied final offensive in Germany in the view of a tank crew of the 2nd Armored Division, April 1945 | |
2014 | Japan | Giovanni's Island | Joban'ni no Shima (ジョバンニの島) | Mizuho Nishikubo | Anime. Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands in 1945 and expulsion of the Japanese population |
2014 | Italy | Head High. The Martyrs of Fiesole (TV) | A testa alta. I martiri di Fiesole | Maurizio Zaccaro | Carabinieri's sacrifice to avoid a German reprisal on civilians in Fiesole |
2014 | USA UK | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | Alan Turing decoding German cyphers at Bletchley Park | |
2014 | Italy | Italia's Secret† | Il segreto di Italia | Antonello Bellucco | Massacre of Codevigo, 1945 |
2014 | USA | The Monuments Men | George Clooney | Allied platoon made up of seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, tasked with going into Germany in the closing stages of World War II to rescue artworks requisitioned by the Nazis and returning them to their rightful owners | |
2014 | Australia | Parer's War (TV movie) | Alister Grierson | Story of Australian wartime cameraman Damien Parer | |
2014 | USA | Saints and Soldiers: The Void | Ryan Little | A fateful mission through the Harz Mountains of Germany | |
2014 | Poland | Stones for the Rampart | Robert Glinski | Three Warsaw friends, whose plans for the future are interrupted by the life-changing advent of the Second World War in Poland. | |
2014 | UK France Belgium | Suite Française | Suite Française‹See Tfd›(in French) | Saul Dibb | Romance between a French villager and a German officer during the German occupation of France |
2014 | USA | Unbroken | Angelina Jolie | Based on true life of Louis Zamperini | |
2014 | USA | Walking with the Enemy | Mark Schmidt | A young man (Elek Cohen) disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer | |
2014 | Poland | Warsaw 44 | Miasto 44 | Jan Komasa | Warsaw Uprising 1944. |
2015 | Denmark | 9. April | Roni Ezra | Danish bicycle infantry sent as vanguard to slow down the German invasion until reinforcements can arrive | |
2015 | Estonia | 1944 | 1944 | Elmo Nüganen | Battle of Tannenberg Line |
2015 | Russia Ukraine | Battle for Sevastopol | Bitva za Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь) | Sergey Mokritskiy | A biographical film about the life path of the Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko |
2015 | Japan | The Emperor in August | Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (日本のいちばん長い日) | Masato Harada | Imperial Japan's government, military, and war council under Hirohito in the immediate period before the surrender of Japan in World War II between April 1945 to August 15, 1945 |
2015 | Philippines | Felix Manalo | Felix Manalo | Joel Lamangan | Biography of Felix Manalo during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
2015 | India | The Fence | Kanche | Krish | A rivalry between two men, based on caste and social status, extends from an Indian village onto war torn Europe during WW2 |
2015 | China | Hundred Regiments Offensive | Bǎi tuán dà zhàn (百團大戰) | Ning Haiqiang, Zhang Yuzhong | Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan during the Hundred Regiments Offensive |
2015 | Denmark | Land of Mine | Under sandet | Martin P. Zandvliet | German POWs in Denmark at the end of the war |
2015 | USA Mexico | Little Boy | Alejandro Monteverde | Comedy-drama about a young American boy attempting to reunite with his father serving in the Pacific Theater any way possible. | |
2015 | Hungary | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | A day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz concentration camp |
2015 | USA | War Pigs | Ryan Little | A US Army rag tag unit of misfits behind German lines | |
2016 | Russia | 28 panfilovtsev | 28 panfilovtsev (28 панфиловцев) | Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Drama about the act of bravery of a group of Soviet soldiers from the Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen |
2016 | USA | Allied | Robert Zemeckis | Espionage | |
2016 | UK France Czech Republic | Anthropoid | Sean Ellis | Operation Anthropoid | |
2016 | UK | Dad's Army | Oliver Parker | Comedy | |
2016 | France Belgium | Fanny's Journey | Le Voyage de Fanny | Lola Doillon | Œuvre de secours aux enfants, Jewish children fleeing France for Switzerland |
2016 | USA | Hacksaw Ridge | Mel Gibson | Historical drama about Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who became the only conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II | |
2016 | Italy | My Honor Was Loyalty | Onore e lealtà | Alessandro Pepe | Fictionalized account of the SS Leibstandarte |
2016 | China | Railroad Tigers | Tiědào fēi hǔ (铁道飞虎) | Ding Sheng | Comedy-drama. A group of Chinese train engineers attempt to blow up a Japanese military railway during the Sino-Japanese war |
2016 | UK | Their Finest | Lone Scherfig | The story of a British Ministry of Information film team making a morale-boosting film about the Dunkirk evacuation during the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz | |
2016 | Japan | In This Corner of the World | Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (この世界の片隅に) | Sunao Katabuchi | Animated drama based on real facts. A young Japanese woman has to endure the bombings of Kure and the aftermath the atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
2016 | Philippines Japan | Tomodachi | Joel Lamangan | A Japanese merchant residing in the Philippines suddenly conscripted in Imperial Japanese Army during Pre-Pacific War | |
2016 | USA | USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | Mario Van Peebles | The USS Indianapolis, torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese in 1945 | |
2016 | Poland | Volhynia | Wołyń | Wojciech Smarzowski | Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and extermination of Jews |
2016 | Italy | At War with Love | In guerra per amore | Pierfrancesco Diliberto | Comedy-drama. Italo-American soldier takes part to the Invasion of Sicily |
2017 | UK USA | Darkest Hour | Joe Wright | Account of the early days of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister while Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht swept across Western Europe | |
2017 | UK USA France Netherlands | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | Evacuation of Allied soldiers, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 27 & June 4, 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II | |
2017 | France Belgium | The Man with the Iron Heart | Cédric Jimenez | Based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH, and focuses on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II | |
2017 | India | Raag Desh (Love the Country†) | Raag Desh (राग देश) | Tigmanshu Dhulia | Drama based on the Indian National Army and the Red Fort Trials |
2017 | India | Rangoon | Rangoon (रंगून) | Vishal Bhardwaj | Drama based on Burma Campaign and India's war for Independence |
2017 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Aku Louhimies | Drama based on the 1954 Finnish classic novel of the same name by Väinö Linna, that follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War |
2018 | China | Air Strike (Unbreakable Spirit) | Dà Hōngzhà (大轰炸) | Xiao Feng | Set in 1943 during the World War II, the story revolves around the Japanese bombing of Chongqing, which started in 1938. |
2018 | UK | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mike Newell | Romance/Drama based on novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Writer forms unexpected bond with Guernsey island residents in aftermath of war and writes a book about their wartime experiences[9] | |
2018 | Poland UK | Hurricane (Hurricane: 303 Squadron, Mission of Honor) | 303: Bitwa o Anglię‹See Tfd›(in Polish) | David Blair | A group of Polish pilots of 303 Squadron in the Battle of Britain |
2018 | Italy | Red Land | Rosso Istria | Maximiliano Hernando Bruno | Foibe massacres by Tito's partisans in the autumn of 1943 |
2019 | Russia | T-34 | Т-34 | Alexey Sidorov | A soviet tank commander gets captured by the Germans |
In development[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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201X | USA | Truth and Treason | Matt Whitaker | Biopic of Helmuth Hübener, youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof | |
201X | USA | Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Comedy. Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes British double agent | |
201X | Mexico USA | Aztec Eagles | Águilas Aztecas | Alfonso Arau | Action comedy-drama. Training and service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana and Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign |
201X | UK | The Battle of Britain | To be determined | Action-adventure. Battle of Britain[10][11][12] | |
201X | USA | Brothers in Arms | Denzel Washington | Action-drama based on true story. US 761st tank battalion and their 183 days on frontline including Battle of the Bulge and Siegfried Line[13][14][15] | |
201X | Poland UK | Christine: War My Love | Agnieszka Holland | Biopic of Polish Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek[16] | |
201X | USA | Citizen Soldiers | To be determined | Action-drama. Ardennes Forest and Battle of the Bulge, 1944[17][18] | |
201X | UK USA New Zealand | Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise | |
201X | USA Japan | East Wind, Rain | Azuma no kaze, ame (東の風、雨) | Masato Harada | Drama based on Caroline Paul novel. Japanese family on Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau and crash-landing of Japanese pilot after Pearl Harbor Attack[19][20] |
201X | USA Germany | The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography | |
201X | Poland | Garrison 100 | Garnizon 100 | Jarosław Banaszek | Action-drama. Polish defense of Przebraze against Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) campaign to purge Volhynia from Polish inhabitants under German occupation, Spring 1943[21] |
201X | UK | Grace and Danger | Rhys Hayward | Action-drama. Allied soldiers rescue young woman from village massacre and Nazi SS[22][23] | |
201X | Finland | Mannerheim | Mannerheim | Renny Harlin (resigned) | Drama. Marshal Mannerheim |
201X | UK | Monte Cassino | John Irvin | Romance based on true story. American soldier behind enemy lines and Italian nurse at Monte Cassino monastery during Battle of Monte Cassino and Italian campaign[24][25][26] | |
201X | Estonia | Them | Nemad | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
201X | Poland | 303 Squadron | Dywizjon 303 (303 Dywizjon Myśliwski) | Jerzy Skolimowski | Action-adventure based on Arkady Fiedler novel. Exploits of Polish pilots of RAF's 303 Squadron during Battle of Britain[27] |
201X | Australia Japan | Yellow Earth | Kiiro no chikyū (黄色の地球) | Max Mannix | Action-drama based on true story. Cowra breakout and attempted escape of captured Japanese soldiers from Cowra, Australia POW camp, 1944[28][29][30] |
201X | Russia | Steel | Сталь | Alexey Silyanov | Operation Barbarossa, tank battles |
2017 | Norway | 12th Man | Den 12. mann | Harald Zwart | Action-drama. They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away... |
2017 | Spain | The Chess Player[31] | El jugador de ajedrez | Luis Oliveros | Diego wins the Spanish Championship of Chess in 1934. Later, in France, Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison |
2017 | Italy | The second way | La seconda via[32] | Alessandro Garilli | Retreat of the Italian Army in Russia |
2017 | UK | Pegasus Bridge | Lance Nielsen | Operation Deadstick | |
2018 | USA | Atlantic Wall | Gavin O’Connor | D-Day paratroops operation | |
2019 | USA | Midway | Roland Emmerich | Battle of Midway |
Science fiction, fantasy and horror[edit]
TV series[edit]
See also[edit]
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
- List of partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia
References[edit]
Note[edit]
- ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrsThis film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ^First African-American combat pilots fought in World War I; see Eugene Bullard, 'The Black Swallow of Death' and Ahmet Ali (Arap Ahmet)
- ^The Bunker is evidently a psychological horror film, not a monster movie.
- ^This four-part miniseries, starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007, is not currently (as of March 2012) listed by the IMDb.
- ^Letters from Iwo Jima is an American film in Japanese.
- ^The film was a recipient of a Leo Award for best special effects. Colourwheels – Meet the ArtistsArchived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Wheels in Motion, Rick Hansen Institute. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ^The Israeli film Spring 1941 is in English and stars Joseph Fiennes. Its Hebrew title is Hebrew text please.
- ^https://web.archive.org/web/20120607043507/http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_My_Way.php. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.Missing or empty
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- ^Fleming, Mike. 'GK Films Plans WWII 'Battle Of Britain''. Deadline.com. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^'Towne Writing The Battle Of Britain | Movie News | Empire'. Empireonline.com. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^'Sand to Rewrite Denzel Washington's Brothers'. ComingSoon.net. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
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- ^'Interview with director states this is in development as of February 2012'. Popbytes.com. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
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External links[edit]
- World War 2 movies – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
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This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
There is a separate list of World War II TV series.
- 3Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War
- 4Films made during the Second World War
- 6Films made during the Cold War
- 7Films made since the Cold War
Restrictions[edit]
- The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
- For short films, see the List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.
Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.
Common topics[edit]
Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:
- Europe
- Adolf Hitler, National Socialists and National Socialism
- National Socialist Germany (Third Reich)
- Gestapo and SS
- Death camps, concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
- Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
- Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
- Asia–Pacific
- Non-geographical
Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War[edit]
Before the Second World War explicitly began with the Nazi German, then later Soviet (Russian) invasions of Poland in September 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovakian lands of Bohemia and Moravia. Meanwhile, Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union were involved in the Spanish Civil War,[1] (1936-1939), and Italy had conquered Ethiopia (1935-1936) and Albania (1939).China had been fighting against Japan since the 1931 invasion of their northeastern province of Manchuria in a war that completely opened in 1937, called the Second Sino-Japanese War, until Japan attacked the U.S.A. at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. then the British Empire and the Dutch East Indies colonial possessions also in December 1941.
1936[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | The Great Appeal | Il grande appello | Mario Camerini | Italian father and son in the War of Ethiopia |
Germany | The Traitor | Verräter | Karl Ritter | Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
1937[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | Sentinels of Bronze | Sentinelle di bronzo | Romolo Marcellini | Italian colonial soldiers defeat the Ethiopian attack on Walwal |
Japan | Song of Marching† | Shingun no uta (進軍の歌) | Yasushi Sasaki | Volunteer in the Japanese Army fighting in China |
1938[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Japan | Chocolate and Soldiers | Chocolate to heitai (チョコレートと兵隊) | Takeshi Sato | Japanese Army soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China |
Soviet Union | Concentration Camp (Bog Soldiers / Soldiers of the Swamp) | Bolotnye soldaty (Болотные солдаты) | Aleksandr Macheret | Nazi concentration camp guards attempt to break spirits of Communists |
China | The Eight Hundred Heroes | Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士) | Ying Yunwei | Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
France | It Happened in Gibraltar | Gibraltar | Fedor Ozep | British officer in Gibraltar pretends to be traitor |
Japan | Invisible Invader | Sugata-naki shinnyūsha (姿無き侵入者) | Shuzo Fukuda | Foreign spies in Japan pretend to be travelers |
Italy | Luciano Serra, Pilot | Luciano Serra pilota | Goffredo Alessandrini | Italo-Abyssinian War |
Japan Korea | Military Train | Gun'yō ressha (軍用列車) Gun-yong-yeolcha (군용열차) | Gwang-je Seo | A Korean train conductor is involved in espionage on a Japanese military train |
Japan | A Pay by the Wayside (Five Scouts) | Gonin no sekkôhei (五人の斥候兵) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines |
Japan | The Road to Peace in the Orient | Tōyō heiwa no michi (東洋平和の道) | Shigeyoshi Suzuki | Chinese farmers overcame their distrust of Japan after being helped by Japanese soldiers |
France | The Shanghai Drama | Le drame de Shanghaï | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Japanese Black Dragon agents in Shanghai |
Films made during the Second World War[edit]
Note:Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
1939[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | Battles in the Shadow† | Lotte nell'ombra | Domenico Gambino | Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive |
USA | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Anatole Litvak | Nazi spy ring in the United States | |
USA | Hitler, Beast of Berlin (Hell's Devils / Beasts of Berlin) | Sam Newfield | Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner | |
UK | The Lion Has Wings | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda | RAF mobilization [2] | |
Italy | The Little Adventurers | Piccoli naufraghi | Flavio Calzavara | Adventure. Twelve Italian boys embark on a merchantman ship to fight in the War of Ethiopia, but are shipwrecked on an island. Then they manage to take control of another merchantman smuggling weapons to Ethiopia. |
Japan | Mud and Soldiers | Tsuchi to heitai (土と兵隊) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama based on Ashihei Hino novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War |
UK | Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft [3] | |
UK | Secret Journey (Among Human Wolves) | John Baxter | Based on Charles Robert Dumas' short story. British secret service agent on mission | |
Japan | Shanghai Landing Squad | Shanhai Rikusentai (上海陸戦隊) | Hisatora Kumagaya | Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces |
Germany | Shoulder Arms | Das Gewehr über | Jürgen von Alten | German emigrant in Australia returns to his country for military service in the Army |
USA | South of the Border | George Sherman | Action/Western. US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution | |
Germany | Three Non-Coms† | Drei Unteroffiziere | Werner Hochbaum | Luftwaffe NCO's |
UK | Traitor Spy (The Torso Murder Mystery) | Walter Summers | Mystery thriller based on T. C. H. Jacobs novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory | |
USA | Wings of the Navy | Lloyd Bacon | Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy |
1940[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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USA | Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940 | |
Germany | Attention! The Enemy Is Listening!† | Achtung! Feind hört mit! | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
UK | The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | Economic blockade of Germany | |
Japan | The Blazing Heavens† (The Burning Sky / Flaming Sky) | Moyuru ōzora (燃ゆる大空) | Yutaka Abe | Action-drama. Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during Sino-Japanese War |
Italy | The Cavalier from Kruja† | Il cavaliere di Kruja | Carlo Campogalliani | Adventure. An Italian journalist gets involved in the Albanian opposition to King Zog and is finally saved by the Italian invasion of Albania |
USA | Comrade X | King Vidor | Spy drama. US journalist in the Soviet Union moonlights as spy. | |
UK | Convoy | Pen Tennyson | Battle of the Atlantic | |
Germany | Enemies† | Feinde | Viktor Tourjansky | Invasion of Poland justified by Polish persecution of ethnic Germans |
USA | Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain on the eve of World War II. | |
USA | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | Satire. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel is replaced by identical Jew | |
USA | The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | Battle of the Atlantic | |
USA | The Man I Married (I Married a Nazi) | Irving Pichel | Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies | |
UK | Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) | Carol Reed | Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent | |
USA | The Phantom Submarine | Charles Barton | Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy frogman investigate U-boat terror | |
Germany | Request Concert | Wunschkonzert | Eduard von Borsody | Luftwaffe airmen fighting over Poland and then the Atlantic |
USA | Ski Patrol | Lew Landers | Olympians oppose each other again in the Winter War | |
Japan | The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi | Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking |
UK | Ten Days in Paris | Jeremy Brown | Comedy mystery. | |
USA | Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance [4] | |
USA | Women in War | John H. Auer | Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk Battle of France front |
1941[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Germany | Above All in the World† | Über alles in der Welt | Karl Ritter | German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II |
USA | All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi Fifth Columnists | |
Germany | Annelie | Annelie | Josef von Báky | Heroic German mother during war |
Germany | Bomber Wing Lützow | Kampfgeschwader Lützow | Hans Bertram | A bomber crew takes part in invasion of Poland and attacks on British shipping |
USA | Buck Privates | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Abbott and Costello enlist in the Army | |
USA | Caught in the Draft | David Butler | Comedy. Bob Hope gets drafted | |
USA | Confirm or Deny | Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited) | Comedy-drama. London Blitz | |
UK | Cottage to Let (Bombsight Stolen) | Anthony Asquith | Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of bombsight inventor from Scotland by Nazi agents | |
USA | Dangerously They Live | Robert Florey | Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast | |
UK | Dangerous Moonlight | Brian Desmond Hurst | The Battle of Britain | |
USA | Dive Bomber | Michael Curtiz | Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific | |
Hungary | Europe Doesn't Answer† | Európa nem válaszol | Géza von Radványi | Spies on board of a transatlantic at the beginning of World War 2 |
UK | 49th Parallel (The Invaders) | Michael Powell | Battle of the St. Lawrence and survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada | |
UK | Freedom Radio | Anthony Asquith | German Resistance | |
Soviet Union | The Girl from Leningrad | Frontovye podrugi (Фронтовые подруги) | Viktor Eisymont | Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as Three Russian Girls |
Germany | Goodbye, Franziska | Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska! | Helmut Käutner | A German globetrotting reporter is drafted into a Wehrmacht Propagandakompanie |
USA | Great Guns | Monty Banks | Comedy. Laurel and Hardy are drafted into the US Army | |
Germany | Hallgarten's Reconnaissance Patrol | Spähtrupp Hallgarten | Herbert B. Fredersdorf | Two German soldiers in the Norwegian Campaign |
Germany | Homecoming | Heimkehr | Gustav Ucicky | Drama. Poles persecute ethnic Germans |
USA | International Lady | Tim Whelan | Spy drama. | |
Germany | In the Eye of the Storm | Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Drama. Serbs persecute ethnic Germans[5] |
Soviet Union | In the Rear of the Enemy | V tylu vraga (В тылу врага) | Yevgeni Shneider | Comedy. Finnish War [6] |
USA | Man Hunt | Fritz Lang | Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler | |
Italy | Men on the Sea Floor | Uomini sul fondo | Francesco De Robertis | The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom |
USA | Parachute Battalion | Leslie Goodwins | Three men join a parachute battalion [3] | |
UK | Pimpernel Smith | Leslie Howard | The Scarlet Pimpernel updated | |
Japan | Prayer to Mother Earth† | Daichi ni inoru (大地に祈る) | Takeo Murata | Japanese military nurses in China |
UK | Ships with Wings | Sergei Nolbandov | Battle of Taranto | |
Germany | Six Days of Leave† | Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub | Jürgen von Alten | German soldiers on leave |
Germany | Soldiers of Tomorrow† | Soldaten von morgen | Alfred Weidenmann | Hitler Youth |
USA | Sundown | Henry Hathaway | The North African Campaign[3] | |
Germany | U-Boat, Course West! | U-Boote westwärts | Günther Rittau | U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic[7] |
USA | Underground | Vincent Sherman | German Resistance | |
Japan Korea | Volunteer† | Shiganhei (志願兵) Chiwŏnbyŏng (지원병) | Seok-yeong Ahn | Korean volunteers in the Japanese Army |
Vichy France | The Well-Digger's Daughter | La fille du puisatier | Marcel Pagnol | A girl becomes pregnant by a military pilot, then shot down behind German lines during the Battle of France |
Italy | The White Ship | La nave bianca | Francesco De Robertis, Roberto Rossellini | Sailors on a hospital ship after wounds in battle (depicted by footage filmed during the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spartivento) |
USA | A Yank in the RAF | Henry King | American volunteers in the RAF | |
Japan Korea | You and Me† | Kimi to boku (君と僕) Nŏ wa na (너와 나) | 'Eitaro Hinatsu' (Hae Yeong), Tomotaka Tasaka | Korean volunteer in the Japanese Army marries a Japanese woman |
1942[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|
Germany | 5 June | Der 5. Juni | Fritz Kirchhoff | Battle of France |
USA | Across the Pacific | John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Spy drama. Japanese plot against the Panama Canal | |
Italy | Alpha Tau!† | Alfa Tau! | Francesco De Robertis | Italian submarine warfare in Mediterranean Theatre |
USA | Atlantic Convoy | Lew Landers | Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic | |
Japan | The Battle of Hong Kong | Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) | Shigeo Tanaka | Battle of Hong Kong |
Italy | Bengasi | Bengasi (Bengasi anno '41)[8] | Augusto Genina | Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941 |
USA | Black Dragons | William Nigh | Japan's Black Dragon Society, in collaboration with Nazis, recruits a mad scientist to create likenesses of Western leaders[3] | |
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[9] | |
USA | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1943 Best picture romantic-thriller set in Vichy-controlled Morocco | |
USA | Commandos Strike at Dawn | John Farrow | Norwegian resistance | |
USA | The Dawn Express | Albert Herman | A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula | |
UK | The Day Will Dawn (The Avengers) | Harold French | Norwegian resistance | |
USA | Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Netherlands | |
Italy | Document Z-3 | Documento Z-3 | Alfredo Guarini | Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the invasion |
USA | Eagle Squadron | Arthur Lubin | Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain | |
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR) | Elusive Ian† | Uchinari Jani (Georgian please) (in Georgian) Neulovimyy Yan (Неуловимый Ян) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Isidor Annensky, Vladimir Petrov | |
Japan | Fear of the Fifth Column | Daigoretsu no kyofu (第五列的恐怖) | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine |
UK | The First of the Few (Spitfire) | Leslie Howard | Development of the Spitfire[3] | |
USA UK | Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | B-17 bombers | |
USA | Flying Tigers | David Miller | American Volunteer Group in the Sino-Japanese War | |
UK | The Foreman Went to France | Charles Frend | Battle of France | |
Germany | Front Theater† | Fronttheater | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Battle of Greece |
Japan | General, Staff Officer and Soldiers† | Shōgun to sanbō to hei (将軍と参謀と兵) | Taguchi Satoshi | Sino-Japanese war |
Italy | Giarabub | Giarabub | Goffredo Alessandrini | The Siege of Giarabub in 1941 |
Germany | The Great Love | Die große Liebe | Rolf Hansen | War between Nazi Germany and USSR |
Japan Korea | Here We Go!† | Warera imazo yuku (吾等今ぞ征く) Nanŭn kanda (나는 간다) | Ki-chae Park | Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
USA | Hillbilly Blitzkrieg | Roy Mack | Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US [3] | |
USA | Hitler – Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | Three American gangsters set out to collect the million-dollar reward for bringing Hitler to justice.[3] | |
UK | In Which We Serve | Noël Coward, David Lean | Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly[3] | |
USA | Joan of Paris | Robert Stevenson | Downed RAF aircrew meets the French Resistance | |
USA | Jungle Siren | Sam Newfield | Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield [3] | |
UK | King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Marcel Varnel | Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht | |
USA | Lady from Chungking | William Nigh | Sino-Japanese War [3] | |
UK | Lady from Lisbon | Leslie S. Hiscott | Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the Mona Lisa | |
USA | Let's Get Tough! | Wallace Fox | Juvenile delinquents battle Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York [3] | |
Italy | MAS | MAS | Romolo Marcellini | MAS (Italian torpedo boat) |
USA | Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | 1942 Best picture depicting the British home front | |
USA | The Navy Comes Through | A. Edward Sutherland | Battle of the Atlantic | |
UK | The Next of Kin | Thorold Dickinson | Message that careless talk costs lives, and fictional commando raid | |
Italy Romania | Odessa in Flames | Odessa in fiamme‹See Tfd›(in Italian), Odessa în flăcări‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) | Carmine Gallone | Battle of Odessa, 1941 [3] |
UK | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands [3] | |
USA | Pacific Rendezvous | George Sidney | Spy drama. Cryptography in the Pacific War | |
Japan | Patriotic Flowers | Aikoku no hana (愛國の花) | Keisuke Sasaki | Japanese military nurses |
USA | The Phantom Plainsmen | John English | 'The Three Mesquiteers' battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch | |
USA | The Pied Piper | Irving Pichel | Drama based on Nevil Shute novel. Holidaymaker rescues French children, 1940 | |
Italy | A Pilot Returns | Un pilota ritorna | Roberto Rossellini | Greco-Italian War |
USA | Private Buckaroo | Edward F. Cline | Musical.[3] | |
Germany | The Red Terror | GPU | Karl Ritter | GPU's plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the German occupation |
USA | Reunion in France | Jules Dassin | French Resistance helps a downed US pilot | |
UK | Sabotage at Sea | Leslie S. Hiscott | ||
USA | Saboteur | Alfred Hitchcock | Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage | |
USA | Seven Days' Leave | Tim Whelan | Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit | |
USA | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Roy William Neill | Sherlock Holmes vs Nazi agents and Professor Moriarty | |
USA | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | John Rawlins | Sherlock Holmes vs. Nazi saboteurs | |
USA | Somewhere I'll Find You | Wesley Ruggles | War correspondents in China and Pacific | |
Japan | The Spy Isn't Dead Yet | Kanchō imada shisezu (間諜未だ死せず) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Chinese and American spies in Japan |
USA | Stand by for Action | Robert Z. Leonard | US Navy in the Pacific War | |
Germany | Stukas | Stukas | Karl Ritter | German dive bomber, the Stuka[3] |
USA | They Raid by Night | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Commando raids in occupied Norway[3] | |
Italy | The Three Pilots | I tre aquilotti | Mario Mattoli | Three young pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
USA | To Be Or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | Occupied Warsaw, and Polish air squadron in London | |
USA | To the Shores of Tripoli | H. Bruce Humberstone | ||
Japan | A Triumph of Wings | Tsubasa no gaika (翼の凱歌) | Satsuo Yamamoto | Two young Japanese become pilots of the Army Air Service[10] |
Germany | Two in a Big City | Zwei in einer großen Stadt | Volker von Collande | Luftwaffe pilot meets a nurse while on leave in Berlin |
USA | Wake Island | John Farrow | Battle of Wake Island | |
Japan | The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya | Hawai Marē oki kaisen (ハワイまれ沖回線) | Kajiro Yamamoto | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign |
UK | Went the Day Well? | Alberto Cavalcanti | Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion) | |
USA | A Yank in Libya | Albert Herman | Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa [3] | |
USA | A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | Burma Road | |
USA | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | George M. Cohan |
1943[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|
USA | Above Suspicion | Richard Thorpe | Honeymooners spy on the Nazis | |
USA | Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon | The Battle of the Atlantic | |
UK | The Adventures of Tartu (Sabotage Agent) | Harold S. Bucquet | British spy posing as Romanian Iron Guard officer aids Czech partisans[3] | |
USA | Aerial Gunner | William H. Pine | The B-17 bomber in the Pacific [3] | |
USA | Air Force | Howard Hawks | B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines | |
Japan | The Air Raid by Enemy Aircraft† | Tekki raishū (敵機空襲) | Hiromasa Nomura | Air war over Japan |
USA | Air Raid Wardens | Edward Sedgwick | Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the USA | |
Japan | All-out Attack on Singapore† | Shingapōru sōkōgeki (シンガポール総攻撃) | Koji Shima | Japanese conquest of Singapore |
USA | Background to Danger | Raoul Walsh | Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey | |
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 | |
USA | Bombardier | Richard Wallace | B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific | |
USA | Bomber's Moon | Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster | ||
USA | Bombs Over Burma | Joseph H. Lewis | [3] | |
USA | The Boy from Stalingrad | Sidney Salkow | Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the Battle of Stalingrad | |
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, Howard Hawks | The Battle of the Atlantic, RCNcorvette | |
USA | Crash Dive | Archie Mayo | USN submarine in the North Atlantic | |
Germany | The Crew of the Dora | Besatzung Dora | Karl Ritter | The crew of a Ju 88 bomber is forced to land in the desert and is saved by an Italian SM.79 |
USA | The Cross of Lorraine | Tay Garnett | French Resistance | |
USA | Cry 'Havoc' | Richard Thorpe | Drama based on Allan Kenward play. Army nurses on Bataan work with civilians during the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) | |
USA | Destination Tokyo | Delmer Daves | USN submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid | |
USA | Destroyer | William A. Seiter | Fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning | |
USA | Edge of Darkness | Lewis Milestone | The Norwegian resistance movement | |
Japan Korea | Figure of Youth† | Wakaki sugata (若き姿) Chŏlmŭn mosŭp (젊은 모습) | Shirō Toyoda | Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
UK | Fires Were Started (I Was a Fireman) | Humphrey Jennings | Docudrama.[11] Firemen during the Blitz[12] | |
USA | First Comes Courage | Dorothy Arzner | Norwegian resistance | |
USA | Five Graves to Cairo | Billy Wilder | Spy drama set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign depicting an English soldiers interactions with Erwin Rommel | |
UK | The Flemish Farm | Jeffrey Dell | Commando raids in occupied Belgium | |
USA | Gangway for Tomorrow | John H. Auer | Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory | |
USA | Ghosts on the Loose | William Beaudine | Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband buy a house next door to a nest of Nazi spies, but the East Side foil the Nazis' evil plot[3] | |
USA | G-Men vs the Black Dragon (serial) | Spencer Gordon Bennet, William Witney, William J. O'Sullivan | ||
Germany | The Golden Spider† | Die goldene Spinne | Erich Engels | Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank |
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[3] | |
USA | Hangmen Also Die! | Fritz Lang | Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance | |
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR) | He Would Come Back | Is kidev dabrundeba (Georgian please) (in Georgian) On eshchyo vernyotsa (Он ещё вернётся) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Diomide Antadze, Nikoloz Shengelaia | Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus |
USA | Hitler's Madman (Hitler's Hangman) | Douglas Sirk | Operation Anthropoid, assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and revenge taken by the Germans | |
USA | Immortal Sergeant | John M. Stahl | British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign | |
USA | Journey Into Fear | Norman Foster, Orson Welles (uncredited) | Spy drama based on Eric Ambler novel. An American engineer, in neutral Turkey to help upgrade the Turkish navy, that is targeted by Nazi agents | |
Italy | Letters to the Second Lieutenant† | Lettere al sottotenente | Goffredo Alessandrini | Comedy. A girl writes letters to a young officer, but she does not want to meet him because she feels ugly |
UK | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | The Home Guard | |
Japan | The Man from Chungking | Jūkei kara kita otoko (重慶から来た男) | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | Enemy agents try to sabotage Japanese war production |
Italy | The Man with a Cross | L'uomo della croce | Roberto Rossellini | A chaplain of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia |
Italy | Men of the Mountain | Quelli della montagna | Aldo Vergano | Alpini against France |
UK | Millions Like Us | Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat | The home front | |
USA | Minesweeper | William Berke | [3] | |
USA | Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | A biopic of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. | |
USA | The Moon Is Down | Irving Pichel | Resistance | |
USA | The More the Merrier | George Stevens | Comedy. Soldier on American home front with housing shortage | |
Japan | Navy† | Kaigun (海軍) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese midget submarines |
USA | Night Plane from Chungking | Ralph Murphy | ||
USA | Northern Pursuit | Raoul Walsh | Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials | |
USA | The North Star (Armored Attack) | Lewis Milestone | Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front[3] | |
Vichy France | Occult Forces | Forces occultes | 'Paul Riche' | Freemasons work with Jews to bring France into the war [3] |
Japan | On the Eve of War | Kaisen no zenya (开战前夜) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan |
Japan | Our Planes Fly South† | Aiki minami e tobu (愛機南へ飛ぶ) | Yasushi Sasaki | The young pilot of a recon plane is shot down but survives |
Italy | People of the Air† | Gente dell'aria | Esodo Pratelli | Two brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
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 | |
USA | Secret Service in Darkest Africa (serial) | Spencer Gordon Bennet | ||
Italy | Spies Among the Propellers† | Spie tra le eliche | Ignazio Ferronetti | An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory |
USA | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Roy William Neill | Sherlock Holmes travels to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document that must be delivered to Congress from falling into Nazi hands. | |
UK | The Silver Fleet | Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley | Dutch resistance [12] | |
USA | So Proudly We Hail! | Mark Sandrich | Army nurses and the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) | |
Italy | Special Correspondents† | Inviati speciali | Romolo Marcellini | An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt during World War II |
Japan Korea | Straits of Chosun† | Chōsen Kaikyō (朝鮮海峡) Joseonhaehyeob (조선해협) | Ki-chae Park | Korean man volunteers to serve in the Japanese Army |
USA | The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | James P. Hogan | Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity | |
Japan | Suicide Squad at the Watchtower† | Bōrō no kesshitai (望楼の決死隊) | Tadashi Imai | Japanese, Koreans and Chinese cooperate against bandits near the Yalu river |
USA | This Land Is Mine | Jean Renoir | French Resistance | |
Italy | The Three-hundred of the Seventh† | I trecento della Settima | Mario Baffico | Alpini on the Greek front |
USA | Thousands Cheer | George Sidney | Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman | |
USA | Three Russian Girls | Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep | The Eastern Front | |
USA | Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of Malayan tigers [3] | |
Japan | The Tiger of Malaya† | Marai no Tora (マライの虎) | Koga Masato | The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka, known as 'Harimau' (Malay word for 'Tiger') |
USA | Tonight We Raid Calais | John Brahm | ||
Japan | Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky† | Kessen no ōzora e (決戦の大空へ) | Kunio Watanabe | Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy |
Italy | The Train with the Cross† | Il treno crociato | Carlo Campogalliani | Italian hospital-train on the Russian front |
UK | Undercover (Underground Guerrillas) | Sergei Nolbandov | Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia | |
USA | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington | |
UK | We Dive at Dawn | Anthony Asquith | Submarine warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic | |
USA | We've Never Been Licked (Texas to Tokyo / Fighting Command) | John Rawlins | Japanese spies at Texas A&M University |
1944[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|
USA | Action in Arabia | Léonide Moguy | Intrigue involving Nazis in Damascus, Syria | |
USA | Address Unknown | William Cameron Menzies | German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America | |
Italian Social Republic | Air Base† | Aeroporto | Piero Costa | Italian aviators flying for the Regia Aeronautica in the summer of 1943 and then, after the armistice, for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana |
Japan | Battle Troop | Raigekitai shutsudo (来撃退しゅつど) | Kajirō Yamamoto | Torpedo bomber squadron at war |
UK | Bees in Paradise | Val Guest | Musical comedy. Allied bomber crashes on mysterious Atlantic island [3] | |
Japan | Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron (Colonel Kato's Flying Squadron) | Kato hayabusa sento-tai (過渡ハヤブサ線と歌い) | Kajiro Yamamoto | |
USA | The Conspirators | Jean Negulesco | Spy drama | |
Japan | The Daily Battle | Nichijō no tatakai (日常の戦い) | Yasujirō Shimazu | Japanese teacher of English language serves as an Army interpreter in South-East Asia |
Second Philippine Republic Japan | Dawn of Freedom (Fire on That Flag!) | Liwayway ng kalayaan(in Tagalog) Ano hata o ute (あの旗を撃て) | Gerardo de León, Yutaka Abe | Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
USA | Days of Glory | Jacques Tourneur | Soviet partisans | |
Japan | The Decisive Battle | Kessen (決戦) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Japanese war production |
Germany | The Degenhardts | Die Degenhardts | Werner Klingler | Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 |
USA | Dragon Seed | Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway | The Sino-Japanese War | |
Argentina | End of the Night | El Fin de la Noche | Libertad Lamarque Homero Cárpena | A female Argentinetango singer in occupied France gets romantically involved with a Resistance member |
USA | The Eve of St. Mark | John M. Stahl | Philippines Campaign (1941–1942) | |
Italian Social Republic | Everyday Is Sunday† | Ogni giorno è domenica | Mario Baffico | An Italian soldier is wounded on the Greek front and his leg is amputated, but when he returns home his girlfriend still loves him |
Sweden | Excellency† | Excellensen | Hasse Ekman | Austrian poet opposes Nazism and therefore is imprisoned in a concentration camp |
Japan | Field Army Band† | Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊) | Masahiro Makino | Music band of the Imperial Japanese Army in an occupied Chinese village |
USA | The Fighting Seabees | Edward Ludwig | US Navy Seabees in the Pacific War | |
USA | The Fighting Sullivans (The Sullivans) | Lloyd Bacon | The Sullivan brothers | |
USA | Four Jills in a Jeep | William A. Seiter | Female stars of USO shows [13] | |
USA | Going My Way | Leo McCarey | Ted Haines Jr. fights in Africa | |
USA | Hail the Conquering Hero | Preston Sturges | Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines | |
Japan | Hot Wind† | Neppū (熱風) | Satsuo Yamamoto | War production in a Japanese steel foundry |
USA | The Hour Before the Dawn | Frank Tuttle | Drama based on W. Somerset Maugham novel. Austrian refugee is Nazi spy preparing for German invasion of England | |
Japan | The Human Bullet Volunteer Corps | Nikudan teishintai (肉弾挺身隊) | Shigeo Tanaka | Guadalcanal Campaign |
USA | The Impostor | L'Imposteur | Julien Duvivier | Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in Chad |
USA | In the Meantime, Darling | Otto Preminger | Stateside military housing | |
Sweden | The Invisible Wall† | Den osynliga muren | Gustaf Molander | In an unnamed country occupied by Nazis a girl becomes indirectly involved in a terrorist attack and helps Jews to escape |
Soviet Union | Jurgais pari | Jurgais pari (ჯურღაის ფარი) (in Georgian) (Щит Джургая) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) | Siko Dolidze, Davit Rondeli | |
USA | Ladies Courageous | John Rawlins | Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron | |
USA | Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Drama. Survivors adrift in Battle of the Atlantic | |
Sweden | Live Dangerously | Lev farligt | Lauritz Falk | Norwegian resistance movement |
Soviet Union | Malakhov Hill | Malakhov kurgan (Малахов курган) | Iosif Kheifits, Aleksandr Zarkhi | Siege of Sevastopol |
USA | Marine Raiders | Harold D. Schuster | Battle of Edson's Ridge during Battle of Guadalcanal, then Australian R&R | |
USA | Marriage Is a Private Affair | Robert Z. Leonard | ||
USA | The Master Race | Herbert J. Biberman | ||
USA | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Preston Sturges | Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers | |
Japan | Mr. Sailor† | Suihei-san (水兵さん) | Kenkichi Hara | |
Japan Korea | Mr. Soldier† | Heitai-san (兵隊さん) Byeongjeongnim (병정님) | Han-jun Bang | Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army |
USA | Mr. Winkle Goes to War | Alfred E. Green | ||
Japan | The Most Beautiful | Ichiban utsukushiku (一番美しく) | Akira Kurosawa | Japanese female workers in a war production factory |
USA | The Navy Way | William A. Berke | [3] | |
USA | Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | ||
USA | Passport to Destiny | Ray McCarey | Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler | |
USA | The Purple Heart | Lewis Milestone | POWs captured during Doolittle Raid | |
Soviet Union | Rainbow | Raduga (Радуга) | Mark Donskoy | Drama based on Wanda Wasilewska novel. |
Australia | The Rats of Tobruk (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) | Charles Chauvel | Siege of Tobruk | |
USA | Rosie the Riveter | Joseph Santley | Musical. | |
Japan | Santarō Pitches In† | Santarō gambaru (三太郎頑張る) | Hiromasa Nomura | Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing Zero fighters |
USA | See Here, Private Hargrove | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy based on Marion Hargrove book. US Army training at Fort Bragg | |
USA | Sergeant Mike | Henry Levin | Dog handler in the Pacific War | |
USA | Since You Went Away | John Cromwell | Home front | |
Japan | Sinking the Unsinkable† | Fuchinkan gekichin (不沈艦撃沈) | Masahiro Makino | Japanese workers in a factory increase their production of aerial torpedoes for the Japanese Navy after the sinking of the Prince of Wales |
USA | Song of Russia | Gregory Ratoff | ||
USA | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Cecil B. DeMille | Navy doctor in the Battle of Java | |
Italian Social Republic | Stronghold† | Caposaldo | Andrea Miano | Italian and German soldiers of the Army Group Liguria fighting against partisans[14] |
USA | Sunday Dinner for a Soldier | Lloyd Bacon | Drama. Home front | |
USA | Tampico | Lothar Mendes | U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico with sinking of Mexican oil tankers make Mexico an Allied nation | |
USA | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Mervyn LeRoy | Doolittle Raid | |
USA | Till We Meet Again | Frank Borzage | ||
USA | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | ||
USA | Two-Man Submarine | Lew Landers | ||
UK | 2,000 Women (Two Thousand Women / House of 1,000 Women) | Frank Launder | Internment camps for British women in occupied France | |
USA | U-Boat Prisoner (Dangerous Mists) | Lew Landers | Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare | |
USA | Uncertain Glory | Raoul Walsh | Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance | |
USA | Waterfront | Steve Sekely | [3] | |
UK | The Way Ahead (The Immortal Battalion) | Carol Reed | Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign[3] | |
USA | The White Cliffs of Dover | Clarence Brown | ||
Italian Social Republic Romania | The White Squadron | Squadriglia bianca‹See Tfd›(in Italian) Escadrila albă‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) | Ion Sava | Royal Romanian Air Force squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women |
USA | Wing and a Prayer (The Story of Carrier X) | Henry Hathaway | Battle of Midway | |
USA | Winged Victory | George Cukor | Training of US Army Air Forces | |
Germany | Young Eagles | Junge Adler | Alfred Weidenmann | Young boy in a factory of warplanes |
1945[edit]
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|
USA | Back to Bataan | Edward Dmytryk | Raid at Cabanatuan, Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte | |
Japan | Believe That Others Will Follow† | Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu (後に続くを信ず) | Kunio Watanabe | The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, Singapore and Guadalcanal |
USA | Blood on the Sun | Frank Lloyd | Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government [3] | |
British India | Queen of Burma† | Burma Rani | T. R. Sundaram | An Indian spy ring in Japanese-occupied Burma |
USA | China's Little Devils | Monta Bell | A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese | |
USA | Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey | Comedy. A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero. | |
USA | Cornered | Edward Dmytryk | Ex-Nazis in Argentina | |
USA | Counter-Attack | Zoltan Korda | Eastern Front | |
Mexico | Escuadrón 201 | Escuadrón 201 | Jaime Salvador | 201st Air Fighter Squadron of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana in the Battle of Luzon and Philippines Campaign |
USA | First Yank Into Tokyo | Gordon Douglas | American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb. | |
Japan | Girls of the Air Base† | Otome no iru kichi (乙女のゐる基地) | Yasushi Sasaki | Girl mechanics work in a Kamikaze air base |
USA | God Is My Co-Pilot | Robert Florey | Drama based on Robert Lee Scott, Jr. book. Flying Tigers | |
USA | The House on 92nd Street | Henry Hathaway | Docudrama. Duquesne Spy Ring | |
Denmark | The Invisible Army | Den usynlige hær | Johan Jacobsen | Danish partisan |
USA | Keep Your Powder Dry | Edward Buzzell | Women's Army Corps | |
Switzerland | The Last Chance | Die letzte Chance | Leopold Lindtberg | Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland [3] |
Japan | The Last Visit Home† | Saigo no kikyō (最後の桔梗) | Shigeo Tanaka Misao Yoshimura | Kamikaze |
Germany | Life Goes On | Das Leben geht weiter | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | German home frontV-2 rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favour[15] |
Japan Korea | Love and the Vow† | Ai to chikai (愛と誓ひ) Sarang kwa maengsŏ (사랑과 맹서) | Tadashi Imai In-kyu Ch'oe | Korean orphan living with Japanese parents volunteers in a Kamikaze unit |
Japan | Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors | Momotaro no koumi no senshi (百田炉の香味の戦士) | Mitsuyo Seo | Anime. Japanese folk hero and animal buddies drive British soldiers off an island [16] |
USA | Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | Burma Campaign | |
USA | Out of the Depths | D. Ross Lederman | Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missourisurrender ceremony | |
USA | Pride of the Marines | Delmer Daves | Battle of Guadalcanal and civilian readjustment | |
USA | Prison Ship | Arthur Dreifuss | Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship | |
Denmark | The Red Meadows | De røde enge | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Young Danish saboteur |
Italy | Rome, Open City | Roma città aperta | Roberto Rossellini | Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
USA | Samurai | Raymond Cannon | Japanese spy in California | |
Italy | The Song of Life† | Il canto della vita | Carmine Gallone | Italian partisan hiding in the countryside |
Japan | Spy Ship 'Sea Rose' | Kanchō Umi no bara (間諜海の薔薇) | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kempeitai discover an American spy ring and help sinking the enemy spy-submarine Sea Rose |
USA | The Story of GI Joe | William A. Wellman | Journalist Ernie Pyle with 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 | This Man's Navy | William A. Wellman | Adventure. US Navy airships | |
Italy | The Timeless House† | La casa senza tempo | Andrea Forzano | Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane [17] |
USA | Too Young to Know | Frederick De Cordova | War in the South Pacific separates young couple | |
Italy | Two Anonymous Letters | Due lettere anonime | Mario Camerini | Italian resistance and collaboration in German-occupied Rome |
USA | A Walk in the Sun | Lewis Milestone | 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 | Comedy. Final adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe |
Late 1940s[edit]
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1946 | France | Battle of the Rails | La bataille du rail | René Clément | Resistance on French railways |
1946 | Italy | Before Him All Rome Trembled | Avanti a lui tutta Roma tremava | Carmine Gallone | Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
1946 | USA | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 Best Picture depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian live after the war | |
1946 | UK | The Captive Heart | Basil Dearden | British POWs in Germany | |
1946 | Italy | A Day in Life | Un giorno nella vita | Alessandro Blasetti | A group of Italian partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent |
1946 | Philippines | Death March | Leopoldo Salcedo | Bataan Death March | |
1946 | Poland | Forbidden Songs | Zakazane piosenki | Leonard Buczkowski | Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 [18] |
1946 | Philippines | Garrison 13 | Gregorio Fernandez | War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines | |
1946 | Philippines | Golden Clock | Orasang Ginto | Manuel Conde | Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor |
1946 | Poland Italy | The Great Road† | Wielka droga‹See Tfd›(in Polish) | Michał Waszyński | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 |
1946 | Philippines | Guerilyera | Guerilyera | Octavio Silos | Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
1946 | Philippines | I Remember Bataan | Dugo ng Bayan | Fernando Poe, Sr. | Filipino resistance |
1946 | Soviet Union Yugoslavia | In the Mountains of Yugoslavia | V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии) ‹See Tfd›(in Russian) U planinama Jugoslavije(in Serbo-Croatian) | Abram Room | Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks |
1946 | UK | Journey Together | John Boulting | Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat | |
1946 | Italy | Monte Cassino | Montecassino (Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco) | Arturo Gemmiti | Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey |
1946 | Italy | O sole mio | O sole mio | Giacomo Gentilomo | Four days of Naples |
1946 | USA | O.S.S. | Irving Pichel | US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France | |
1946 | USA | Rendezvous 24 | James Tinling | Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons | |
1946 | Italy | Outcry | Il sole sorge ancora | Aldo Vergano | Italian disbanded soldiers after the armistice and resistance |
1946 | UK | School for Secrets | Peter Ustinov | Operation Biting | |
1946 | USA | The Stranger | Orson Welles | A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut | |
1946 | UK | Theirs is the Glory | Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young | Operation Market Garden | |
1946 | Philippines | Walang Kamatayan | Walang Kamatayan | Tor Villano | Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
1947 | Italy | Christmas at Camp 119 | Natale al campo 119 | Pietro Francisci | Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation |
1947 | UK | Frieda | Basil Dearden | ||
1947 | Italy | How I Lost the War | Come persi la guerra | Carlo Borghesio | Comedy. An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the Second Italo-Ethiopian War |
1947 | Denmark | Jenny and the Soldier | Soldaten og Jenny | Johan Jacobsen | |
1947 | Poland | The Last Stop | Ostatni etap | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
1947[19] | Italy | Men and Skies† | Uomini e cieli | Francesco De Robertis | Regia Aeronautica |
1947 | Occupied Germany | Seven Journeys (In Those Days) † | In jenen Tagen | Helmut Käutner | Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car |
1947 | China | The Spring River Flows East | Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú (一江春水向東流) | Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli | Sino-Japanese War |
1947 | USA | 13 Rue Madeleine | Henry Hathaway | US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France | |
1947 | Italy | To Live in Peace | Vivere in pace | Luigi Zampa | Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944 |
1947 | Japan | War and Peace | Sensō to heiwa (戦争と平和) | Fumio Kamei | Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home |
1948 | Italy | ...And Not Say Goodbye† | ...E non dirsi addio | Silvio Laurenti Rosa | Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943 |
1948 | UK | Against the Wind | Charles Crichton | Commando raid into occupied Belgium | |
1948 | Austria | The Angel with the Trumpet (The Angel with the Trombone) | Der Engel mit der Posaune | Karl Hartl | Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Salzburg through both world wars |
1948 | Poland | Border Street | Ulica Graniczna | Aleksander Ford | Holocaust in occupied Poland |
1948 | UK Netherlands | But Not in Vain | Niet Tevergeefs | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama.[20] |
1948 | USA | Command Decision | Sam Wood | Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force | |
1946 | Italy | Damned War!...† | Accidenti alla guerra!... | Giorgio Simonelli | Comedy. An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the Lebensborn |
1948 | USA | Fighter Squadron | Raoul Walsh | P-47 fighters in the air war in Europe | |
1948 | Italy | The Great Road† | La grande strada | Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 [21] |
1948 | USA | Jungle Patrol | Joseph M. Newman | P-40 fighters in the air war in the New Guinea campaign | |
1948 | Italy | The Mascot of the Blue Devils† | La mascotte dei Diavoli Blu | Carlo Baltier | An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians |
1948 | Occupied Germany | Morituri | Morituri‹See Tfd›(in Latin) (Freiwild‹See Tfd›(in German)) | Eugen York | [22] |
1948 | Yugoslavia | On Their Own Territory | Na svoji zemlji | France Štiglic | Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on Eastern Front (World War 2) |
1948 | Norway France | Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water | La Bataille de l'eau lourde‹See Tfd›(in French) Kampen om tungtvannet‹See Tfd›(in Norwegian) | Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller | Docudrama. Norwegian heavy water sabotage |
1948 | Italy | Phantoms of the Sea | Fantasmi del mare | Francesco De Robertis | The effects of the Italian armistice on an Italian warship (based upon the facts happened on the battleship Giulio Cesare) |
1948 | USA Switzerland | The Search | [23] | Fred Zinnemann | Displaced persons in postwar Germany |
1948 | Poland | The Steel Hearts | Stalowe serca | Stanisław Januszewski | Silesia, Poland 1944 / 1945 |
1948 | Denmark | The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman | Støt står den danske sømand | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Docudrama. Danish sailors |
1949 | USA | Battleground | William A. Wellman | 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge | |
1949 | Soviet Union | The Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingradskaya bitva (Сталинградская битва) | Vladimir Petrov | Battle of Stalingrad |
1949 | Philippines | Capas | Capas | Gregorio Fernandez | Bataan Death March survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity |
1949 | Soviet Union | Encounter at the Elbe | Vstrecha na Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе) | Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksei Utkin | Elbe Day |
1949 | Soviet Union | The Fall of Berlin | Padeniye Berlina (Падение Берлина) | Mikheil Chiaureli | Battle of Berlin |
1949 | Italy | The Flame That Will Not Die | La fiamma che non si spegne | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italian hero Salvo D'Acquisto |
1949 | UK USA | The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | British and US wounded soldiers in the Burma campaign | |
1949 | USA | Home of the Brave | Mark Robson | Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island | |
1949 | USA | Lost Boundaries | Alfred L. Werker | Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro | |
1949 | USA | Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held Malaya | |
1949 | France | Mission in Tangier | Mission à Tanger | André Hunebelle | Journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers |
1949 | Italy | Monastery of Santa Chiara† | Monastero di Santa Chiara | Mario Sequi | Drama. Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations |
1949 | Spain | Neutrality | Neutralidad (Los caballeros del mar) | Eusebio Fernández Ardavín | A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship |
1949 | Poland | The Others Will Follow | Za wami pójdą inni | Antoni Bohdziewicz | Warsaw, Polish resistance |
1949 | UK | Private Angelo | Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov | Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier | |
1949[24] | Italy | Sailors Without Stars† | Marinai senza stelle | Francesco De Robertis | Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a Gabbiano-class corvette) |
1949 | USA | Sands of Iwo Jima | Allan Dwan | Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Iwo Jima | |
1949 | UK | The Small Back Room | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Bomb disposal | |
1949 | Denmark | That applies to us all†· | Det gælder os alle | Alice O'Fredericks | Young survivor from a concentration camp |
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 |
Films made during the Cold War[edit]
Early 1950s[edit]
Late 1950s[edit]
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Late 1960s[edit]
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Late 1970s[edit]
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Late 1980s[edit]
Films made since the Cold War[edit]
Early 1990s[edit]
Late 1990s[edit]
Early 2000s[edit]
Late 2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
In development[edit]
Science fiction, fantasy and horror[edit]
TV series[edit]
Dramatised documentaries[edit]
A dramatised documentary is a documentary film which includes dramatised scenes using actors in costume.
This format is distinct from a docudrama, which is a fully dramatised fact-based fictional work in a documentary style.
This format is distinct from a docudrama, which is a fully dramatised fact-based fictional work in a documentary style.
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1940 | France | My Crimes After Mein Kampf | Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes | 'Jean-Jacques Valjean' | Assassinations of Ernst Röhm and Kurt von Schleicher on Night of the Long Knives, 1934, then Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, also 1934 |
1940 | UK | Mein Kampf - My Crimes (After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler) | Norman Lee (uncredited) | ||
1992 | Canada | A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941 | |
1992 | Canada | Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. RCAFLancaster bombing of German cities | |
1992 | Canada | In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944 | |
1995 | Canada | War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. | |
1995 | Canada | War at Sea: The Black Pit (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. | |
1996 | Canada | A Web of War | Brian McKenna | Drama. Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Anders | |
2003 | UK | Killing Hitler (TV) | Jeremy Lovering | Drama. Operation Foxley plan to kill Hitler, 1944 |
Spanish Civil War[edit]
In the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists (the rebel side) are supported by Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and a small number of international rightist volunteers. The Republicans (government side) are supported by Stalin's Soviet Union and a large number of leftist volunteers, the International Brigades.
The Nationalists under Francisco Franco win.
During World War II, Franco remains neutral – so Gibraltar is never overrun – but nevertheless he sends the Blue Division to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front.
For films about the Blue Division, see the List of World War II films since 1950.
See also[edit]
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
- List of partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia
- Of related interest
Notes[edit]
- ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.
- ^For movies set during the Spanish Civil War please refer to List of Spanish Civil War films
- ^This is the first World War II British propaganda film.[citation needed]
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafThis film is available at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
- ^The IMDb, on the other hand, identifies the villainous Yugoslavs in Menschen im Sturm as Slovenians rather than Serbs.
- ^The IMDb lists In the Rear of the Enemy as V tylu vraga (1942) based on its 1942 release date in New York City.
- ^Available for viewing is this public domain World War II film[dead link] at Google Videos. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^New edition of the movie, released in theaters in 1955, with the addition of scenes before and after the original Bengasi, which now becomes a long flash-back recalled by an Italian woman visiting the cemetery of El-Alamein with a British officer ten years after the end of the war.
- ^Canadian World War I flying ace Billy Bishop appears as himself.
- ^A Triumph of Wings (1942) was co-written by Akira Kurosawa.
- ^Fires Were Started is often regarded as a documentary film.
- ^ abAvailable for viewing – from British libraries and universities only – are clips from this British World War II film at the BFI's Screenonline. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^Actresses Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves.
- ^Released only to Italian fascist military units and maybe a few theaters around Genoa in the last months of the war
- ^Never released in theaters.
- ^The first feature-length anime film.
- ^Filmed in 1943, before the Italian Armistice, but released in theaters in 1945 after a relevant editing, which changed the nationality of the enemies.
- ^The first post-war Polish film.
- ^Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1947 after a slight editing
- ^This film is currently considered to be lost.
- ^Italian remake of Wielka droga
- ^First German film to show a concentration camp.
- ^This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ^Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1949 after a slight editing
References[edit]
- Sources
- Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp. ISBN0-691-00346-7
External links[edit]
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
- Top 10 World War 2 Movies - List by Topyaps
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