List of World War II films
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Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini-series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
A separate list of full-fledged TV series appears at the end.
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[edit] Restrictions
- The film or mini-series must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
- For short films, see List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films.
[edit] Films made during the war
Further information: List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
Note: 
Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the 
Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
[edit] 1939
| Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|
 USA |
Hitler, Beast of Berlin | Sam Newfield | German political prisoner |
 UK |
The Lion Has Wings | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst | RAF mobilization - the first British propaganda film of the war |
[edit] 1940
| Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK |
The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | The Economic blockade of Germany |
| UK |
Convoy | Pen Tennyson | The Battle of the Atlantic |
 Germany |
Feinde (Enemies) | Viktor Tourjansky | Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland |
| USA |
The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel |
| USA |
The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | The Battle of the Atlantic |
 Japan |
Moyuru ōzora | Yutaka Abe | |
| UK |
Secret Journey | John Baxter | Espionage |
| USA |
Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington |
| USA |
Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance[1] |
| USA |
Women in War | John H. Auer | Nurses in the Battle of Britain |
[edit] 1941
[edit] 1942
[edit] 1943
[edit] 1944
[edit] 1945
[edit] Late 1940s
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[edit] 1960s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 |  Denmark |
Frihedens Pris | Annelise Hovmand | |
| 1960 | Denmark |
Den sidste vinter | Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen | |
| 1960 |  Czechoslovakia |
Práče | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front. |
| 1960 |  Japan |
Storm Over the Pacific | Shuei Matsubayashi | A story about a pilot who serves on the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway |
| 1960 |  France |
Un taxi pour Tobrouk | Denys de La Patellière | A group of Free French commandos in North Africa try to reach Allied lines and capture a German officer. |
| 1960 | USA |
Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | The Battle of Saipan; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II |
| 1960 | UK |
Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1960 |  Italy |
Escape by Night | Roberto Rossellini | |
| 1960 | Italy |
Everybody Go Home | Luigi Comencini | The Four days of Naples. |
| 1960 | Italy |
Long Night in 1943 | Florestano Vancini | The Allied invasion of Italy. |
| 1960 | Italy |
Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | |
| 1960 | Italy USA |
Under Ten Flags | Duilio Coletti | The Battle of the Atlantic. |
| 1961 | Denmark |
Alarm i Østersøen | Sven Methling | |
| 1961 | USA France |
Bridge to the Sun | Etienne Périer | The life of Gwendolen Terasaki. |
| 1961 |  East Germany |
Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) | Gerhard Klein | The 1939 Gleiwitz incident. |
| 1961 |  Poland |
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die) | Jan Rybkowski | Dresden, Germany, 1945 |
| 1961 |  India |
Hum Dono | Amarjeet | Some part of Burma Campaign. |
| 1961 | Poland |
Kwiecień (Spring) | Witold Lesiewicz | Germany Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1961 | Poland |
Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train) | Kazimierz Kutz | Poland - The German Occupation |
| 1961 | Poland |
Samson | Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda | The Holocaust in occupied Poland |
| 1961 | Poland |
Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate) | Stanisław Różewicz | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1961 | Italy |
The Fascist | Luciano Salce | |
| 1961 | UK |
The Guns of Navarone | J. Lee Thompson | The Mediterranean Theatre |
| 1961 | UK |
Very Important Person | Ken Annakin | Comedy - British POWs in a German camp |
| 1962 |  Netherlands |
Als twee druppels water | Fons Rademakers | A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance |
| 1962 | Netherlands |
De Overval (The Raid) | Paul Rotha | Wartime prison raid |
| 1962 | USA |
Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | The Western front |
| 1962 | USA |
Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Merrill's Marauders |
| 1962 | UK |
Operation Snatch | Robert Day | Comedic WWII farce of British officer in charge of care for Barbary Apes on Gibraltar going behind German lines to kidnap a Barbary Ape that will help prevent the strategic departure of the British from Gibraltar |
| 1962 |  Philippines |
Suicide Commandoes | Armando Garces | Six Filipino Guerrilas received a task to bring their Lieutenant safe to a Japanese airport in order to destroy it during Battle of Bessang Pass. |
| 1962 | Italy |
The Four Days of Naples | Nanni Loy | The Four Days of Naples. |
| 1962 | USA |
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | Story of a German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism. |
| 1962 | USA |
The Longest Day | Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin | The Normandy landings |
| 1962 | UK |
The War Lover | Philip Leacock | American bomber crews station in England |
| 1962 | Poland |
Walter P-38 (TV) | Edward Etler | Polish Resistance |
| 1962 |  Greece |
Psila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler) | Panos Glykofridis | Black comedy about the Greek Resistance |
| 1963 | USA Philippines |
Cry of Battle | Irving Lerner | Mercenary fighting with partisans in The Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | Poland |
Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?) | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1963 |  Hungary |
Két félidő a pokolban (Two half-times in hell) | Zoltán Fábri | Drama, Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans, |
| 1963 | Poland |
Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails) | Jarosław Brzozowski | War in Arctica |
| 1963 | Poland |
Naganiacz (Manhunter) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1963 | Poland |
Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1963 | Philippines |
Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pablo Santiago | An heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | USA |
PT 109 | Leslie H. Martinson | John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front |
| 1963 | USA |
The Quick and the Dead | Robert Totten | The Fantastic Story of a Handful of Men and Two Girls Fighting Against Unbelievable Odds! Italian Campaign 1944. |
| 1963 | Philippines |
Sierra Madre | Armando A. Herrera | The campaigns of two demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | Philippines |
Sigaw ng Digmaan | Efren Reyes, Sr. | Philippine Army (1941) Resistance. |
| 1963 |  Finland |
Sissit | Mikko Niskanen | Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War |
| 1963 | USA |
The Great Escape | John Sturges | British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III |
| 1963 | UK |
The Password is Courage | Andrew Stone | True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward |
| 1963 | Philippines USA |
The Raiders of Leyte Gulf | Eddie Romero | Philippines before the Battle of Leyte. |
| 1963 | UK |
The Victors | Carl Foreman | American soldiers in Europe following D-Day |
| 1964 | UK |
633 Squadron | Walter Grauman | Occupied Norway |
| 1964 | USA |
The Americanization of Emily | Arthur Hiller | Planning for the Normandy landings |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia |
Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1964 | USA |
Back Door to Hell | Monte Hellman | Three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. |
| 1964 | Poland |
Barwy walki (Battle Colours) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish Resistance, 1944 |
| 1964 | Japan USA |
Flight from Ashiya | Michael Anderson | USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific |
| 1964 | Poland |
Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw) | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Cult comedy - Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 |
| 1964 | Philippines USA |
Intramuros (The Walls of Hell) | Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León | The Battle of Intramuros. |
| 1964 | Poland |
Koniec naszego świata (End of our World) | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz |
| 1964 | Philippines |
Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres | The Battle of Corregidor. |
| 1964 | Poland |
Nieznany (The Unknown) | Witold Lesiewicz | Soviet Gulag / Eastern Front, 1943/44 |
| 1964 | USSR (  Georgian SSR) |
Otets soldata (Father of a Soldier) | Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze) | |
| 1964 | Poland |
Pierwszy dzień wolności (The First Day of Freedom) | Aleksander Ford | Germany, 1945, Polish POWs |
| 1964 | Poland |
Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Resistance |
| 1964 | USA |
Shell Shock | John Hayes | Italy during war. |
| 1964 | USA |
The Thin Red Line | Andrew Marton | The Guadalcanal Campaign. |
| 1964 | USA France Italy |
The Train | John Frankenheimer | Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1964 | France |
Week-end à Zuydcoote | Henri Verneuil | The Battle of Dunkirk |
| 1964 | USA |
McHale's Navy | Edward Montagne | American PT boat crew in South Pacific Theatre (WWII); motion picture comedy |
| 1965 | USA |
36 Hours | George Seaton | On early June 1944, Germans kidnap an American officer and try to convince him that they are in 1948, that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe. |
| 1965 | USA |
Battle of the Bulge | Ken Annakin | The Ardennes Offensive |
| 1965 | UK |
The Heroes of Telemark | Anthony Mann | Norwegian resistance movement Operation Gunnerside |
| 1965 | Hungary |
A tizedes meg a többiek | Márton Keleti | War comedy A group of hungarian soldiers is trying to surrender themselves to the russian army |
| 1965 | UK |
The Hill | Sidney Lumet | Life in a brutal military prison in North Africa |
| 1965 | USA |
In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | The Pacific Front |
| 1965 | USA |
King Rat | Otto Preminger | POWs in asia. From James Clavell book. |
| 1965 | Philippines |
Iginuhit ng Tadhana | Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde | Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 1965 | USA Japan |
None But the Brave | Frank Sinatra | American and Japanese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island |
| 1965 | UK |
Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) | Michael Anderson | Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow |
| 1965 | Poland |
Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet) | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance, 1944 |
| 1965 | Philippines USA |
The Ravagers | Eddie Romero | Filipino guerrillas take on the last of the Japanese forces remaining on their country. |
| 1965 | Philippines |
Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Armando A. Herrera | Five Filipino guerrillas is on a mission to rescue two American soldiers who have an important information that can help the guerrilla movement. |
| 1965 | UK |
The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | Drama about the Von Trapp family in Austria |
| 1965 | Japan |
Story of a Prostitute | Seijun Suzuki | Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 |  People's Republic of China |
Tunnel War | Ren Xudong | Tunnel warfare in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 | USA |
Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | British and American POWs escape from Italian camps |
| 1965 | Poland France West Germany |
Czas pokoju (TV) | Tadeusz Konwicki | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1965 | Poland |
Buty (The Boots) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Eastern Front, military hospital |
| 1965 | Poland |
Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV) | Lech Lorentowicz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1965 | Poland |
Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland, 1944 |
| 1965 | Poland |
Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV) | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1965 | Poland |
Wózek (The Cart) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland Soviet POWs |
| 1965 | Poland |
Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series) | Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki | Polish Resistance, 1941–45 |
| 1965 | USA |
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force | Edward Montagne | American PT boat crew in South Pacific Theatre (WWII); motion picture comedy sequel to McHale's Navy |
| 1966 | UK France |
The Night of the Generals | Anatole Litvak | The July 20 plot |
| 1966 | France |
La ligne de démarcation | Claude Chabrol | In 1941, the life in a little town cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the unoccupied zone |
| 1966 | USA France |
Is Paris Burning? | René Clément | The Liberation of Paris |
| 1966 | Czechoslovakia |
Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) | Jiří Menzel | |
| 1966 | USA |
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Blake Edwards | The Allied invasion of Sicily |
| 1966 | Poland |
Don Gabriel | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy |
| 1966 | Denmark |
Der var engang en krig (Once There Was a War) | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | About the life of a boy after the occupation |
| 1966 | Poland |
Kontrybucja (Contribution) | Jan Łomnicki | Polish Resistance |
| 1966 | Poland |
Mistrz (The Master) (TV) | Jerzy Antczak | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1966 | France |
La Grande Vadrouille | Gérard Oury | Comedy about RAF aircrew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets |
| 1967 | UK |
Attack on the Iron Coast | Paul Wendkos | Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid |
| 1967 | USA |
Beach Red | Cornel Wilde | The Pacific Theater of Operations |
| 1967 | Poland |
Długa noc (Long Night) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943 |
| 1967 | Poland West Germany |
Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime) | Jan Rybkowski | Germany during the war |
| 1967 | Poland |
Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace) | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Polish Resistance |
| 1967 | Japan |
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's Longest Day) | Kihachi Okamoto | The Kyūjō Incident. |
| 1967 | USA |
The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | Battle of Normandy |
| 1967 | Poland |
Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | Battle of Westerplatte |
| 1967 | Poland |
Zosia (Zosya) | Jerzy Lipman | Poland - Eastern Front - Love story |
| 1967 | Poland |
Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Polish Resistance, Comedy |
| 1968 | Philippines |
Ang Mangliligpit | Pablo Santiago | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Makapili. |
| 1968 | Italy |
Anzio | Edward Dmytryk | The Battle of Anzio |
| 1968 | USA |
Hell in the Pacific | John Boorman | Marooned American and Japanese soldiers on an unnamed Japanese island |
| 1968 | USSR (  Estonian SSR) |
Inimesed sõdurisinelis | Jüri Müür | Mobilized Estonians in the Red Army |
| 1968 | USSR ( Georgian SSR) |
Jvartsmuli kundzuli | Shota Managadze | |
| 1968 | Poland |
Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1968 | Philippines |
Manila, Open City | Eddie Romero | The Manila Massacre and the Battle of Manila. |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia |
Nebeští jezdci | Jindřich Polák | Czech pilots in the RAF |
| 1968 |  Albania |
Prita (Ambush) | Mithat Fagu | Albanian resistance under German occupation, 1943 |
| 1968 | USSR |
Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword) | Vladimir Basov | Soviet spy in German intelligence[6] |
| 1968 | UK |
Submarine X-1 | William A. Graham | Royal Navy midget submarines |
| 1968 | USA |
The Devil's Brigade | Andrew V. McLaglen | The Devil's Brigade |
| 1968 | USA |
The Hell with Heroes | Joseph Sargent | In 1946 North Africa, two former USAF pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life |
| 1968 | Japan |
The Human Bullet | Kihachi Okamato | Story of a kamikaze soldier |
| 1968 | USA |
The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Jack Smight | POW escape comedy about American Generals held in a special Italian camp |
| 1968 | USA |
Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | Allied operation to rescue a captured American General |
| 1969 | France Italy |
Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | French Resistance |
| 1969 | UK |
Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | The Battle of Britain |
| 1969 |  Yugoslavia |
"Bitka na Neretvi (The Battle of Neretva) | Veljko Bulajić | The Battle of Neretva |
| 1969 | Poland |
Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Italy |
Eagles Over London | Enzo G. Castellari | British officers pursue a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London. |
| 1969 | UK |
Hannibal Brooks | Michael Winner | POW escapes to Switzerland with an elephant |
| 1969 | Italy |
I diavoli della guerra (War Devils) | Bitto Albertini | Action/Drama - North African & European campaigns (France); small units in desert battle and French villa raid |
| 1969 | Poland |
Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War) | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy - Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Poland |
Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Battle of Kolberg (1945), on the Eastern Front |
| 1969 | Italy |
La Battaglia di El Alamein | Giorgio Ferroni | The Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1969 | USSR |
Liberation | Yuri Ozerov | Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin |
| 1969 | UK |
Mosquito Squadron | Boris Sagal | A British bomber squadron must destroy Germany's new Vergeltungswaffe at a research camp |
| 1969 | Albania |
Njësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit) | Hysen Hakani | Guerrilla resistance in Tirana during the occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy |
| 1969 | Poland |
Ostatnie dni (The Last Days) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1969 | Philippines |
Pambihirang tatlo | Felix Villar | A mission to destroy the Japanese bastion along the San Bernardino Strait. |
| 1969 | UK |
Play Dirty | Andre de Toth | The North African Campaign |
| 1969 | Italy |
Salt in the Wound | Tonino Ricci | |
| 1969 | Poland |
Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours) | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1969 | USA |
The Bridge at Remagen | John Guillermin | Operation Lumberjack, on the Western Front |
| 1969 | USA |
The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | The aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini |
| 1969 | Poland |
Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) | Jan Rybkowski | Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941 |
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Denmark |
Oktoberdage | Bent Christensen | |
| 1970 | USA |
Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | The Italian Campaign |
| 1970 | Italy |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio de Sica | |
| 1970 | Japan |
Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' | Hiromichi Horikawa | Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War. |
| 1970 | UK USA |
Hell Boats | Paul Wendkos | British motor torpedo boats operating in the Mediterranean |
| 1970 | USA Italy |
Hornet's Nest | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | Italian Campaign - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam |
| 1970 | USA Yugoslavia |
Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | The Western Front |
| 1970 | Poland |
Kolumbowie | Janusz Morgenstern | Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 |
| 1970 | Poland USSR |
Legenda | Sylwester Chęciński | Polish Resistance |
| 1970 | Philippines |
Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force) | Jerry Hopper | Japanese invasion of Manila Bay. |
| 1970 | USA |
Patton | Franklin Schaffner | General George S. Patton |
| 1970 | Japan |
Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) | Yahagi Toshihiko | Kamikaze attacks. |
| 1970 | Philippines |
Santiago! | Lino Brocka | Life in occupied Philippines. |
| 1970 | Italy Russia |
Sunflower (I Girasoli) | Vittorio De Sica | The first Occidental film to be made in the USSR. |
| 1970 | UK |
The Last Escape | Walter Grauman | British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist |
| 1970 | USA |
Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign |
| 1970 | USA Japan |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda | The Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1970 | Poland |
Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel) | Zbigniew Chmielewski | Poland - Children in a German concentration camp |
| 1970 | Poland |
Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire) | Lech Lorentowicz | Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance |
| 1971 | Poland |
Agent nr 1 | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, a Polish SOE agent in the Greek resistance |
| 1971 | USA |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Robert Stevenson | Disney children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic |
| 1971 | UK |
Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Comedy about the British Home Guard, based on the TV series. |
| 1971 | Japan |
Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen | Kihachi Okamoto | The Battle of Okinawa from the eyes of the Army, Navy, Air Force, civilians, and the Generals who commanded them |
| 1971 | UK |
Murphy's War | Peter Yates | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1971 | USSR |
Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) | Aleksei German | Winter, 1942. A former Russian POW joins the partisans. |
| 1971 | USA |
Raid on Rommel | Henry Hathaway | North African Campaign |
| 1971 | Philippines |
Sangre | Armando Garces | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. |
| 1971 |  Greece |
Ti ekanes sto polemo Thanasi; (What did you do during the war Thanasis?) | Dinos Katsourides | Greek Resistance comedy |
| 1971 | Poland |
Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night) | Andrzej Żuławski | Polish Resistance |
| 1972 | India |
Lalkar | Ramanand Sagar | Burma Campaign, 1941–1945 |
| 1972 | Japan |
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Kinji Fukasaku | Veterans recall their experiences for a war widow on a quest to exonerate her husband who was executed for desertion. |
| 1973 | Philippines |
Dugo ng Bayan | Armando A. Herrera | Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.[7] |
| 1973 | Italy UK |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Ennio De Concini | The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin |
| 1973 | Poland |
Hubal | Bohdan Poręba | Polish Campaign, 1939/1940 |
| 1973 | France |
Le Train (The Last Train or The Train) | Pierre Granier-Deferre | A Frenchman and a Jewish German woman met on a train while escaping the German army entering France |
| 1973 | People's Republic of China |
Little 8th Route Army | Lei You | Chinese animated puppet film; The Second Sino-Japanese War. [animated film] |
| 1973 | France |
Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?) | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 débâcle |
| 1973 | Italy |
Massacre in Rome | George P. Cosmatos | The Ardeatine massacre. |
| 1973 | Yugoslavia |
The Battle of Sutjeska | Stipe Delić | Battle of the Sutjeska. |
| 1973 |  Hong Kong |
When Taekwondo Strikes | Feng Huang | |
| 1973 | Poland |
Zasieki (Barbed Wire) | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943 |
| 1973 | USA |
Death Race | David Lowell Rich | North African Campaign, 1942, German panzer chases American P-40 across North African desert, AKA 'State of Division' |
| 1974 | France West Germany Italy |
Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | French resistance and collaboration |
| 1974 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Ohtlikud mängud | Veljo Käsper | The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany |
| 1974 | France |
Les guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | The first big roundup of Jews in 1942 Paris, and the story of a man who tries to save as many Jews as he can. |
| 1974 | Poland |
Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) | Janusz Kondratiuk | Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1974 | Poland USSR |
Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Name) | Siergiej Kołosow | Tragedy of children in war |
| 1974 |  Republic of China (Taiwan) |
The Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋) | Tin Shan Sui | Zhang Zizhong's biography movie during Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1975 | East Germany Czechoslovakia |
Jacob, the Liar | Frank Beyer | |
| 1975 | USA Czechoslovakia |
Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1975 | France |
On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle, and in an officers POW camp, in a castle. |
| 1975 | Greece |
The Travelling Players | Theodoros Angelopoulos | The German invasion and occupation of Greece |
| 1975 | France |
Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | During the French Occupation, hours in a special court room where judges are asked to condemn to death penalty people who didn't do anything, to please Germans. |
| 1975 | Italy |
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1975 | Poland |
W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring) | Andrzej Konic | The Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1975 | Poland |
Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument) | Janusz Zaorski | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Poland |
Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Campaign 1939 |
| 1975 | Poland |
Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen) | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | UK |
Overlord | Stuart Cooper | A young soldier trains with the East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for the Normandy landings |
| 1975 | USSR |
В бой идут одни старики (V boy idut odni stariki) Only Old Men Are Going to Battle |
Leonid Bykov | Soviet World War II pilots. |
| 1976 | Japan |
Barefoot Gen | Tengo Yamada | Live-action depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1976 | Denmark |
Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer) | Edward Fleming | Woman gets in love with a German soldier |
| 1976 | USA |
Farewell to Manzanar (TV) | John Korty | The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar |
| 1976 | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Mei hua | Chia Chang Liu | The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). |
| 1976 | USA |
Midway (The Battle of Midway) | Jack Smight | The Battle of Midway |
| 1976 | France Italy |
Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) | Joseph Losey | French resistance and collaboration |
| 1976 | Poland |
Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1976 | Poland |
Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series) | Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern | Poland, 1939–43 |
| 1976 | Poland |
Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) | Paweł Komorowski | Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1976 | Philippines |
Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Mario O'Hara | The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1976 | UK |
The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill |
| 1976 | Japan |
Zero Pilot | Seiji Maruyama | Based on the book Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero. |
| 1977 | UK USA |
A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Operation Market Garden |
| 1977 | Poland |
Akcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) | Jana Łomnicki | Polish resistance, 1943 |
| 1977 | UK West Germany |
Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | German soldiers on the Russian Front |
| 1977 | France |
La septième compagnie au clair de lune | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about three French veterans who resist the Germans. |
| 1977 | USA |
MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | General Douglas MacArthur |
| 1977 | Poland |
Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV) | Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska | Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo |
| 1977 | Poland |
Palace Hotel | Ewa Kruk | Poland, 1939–44 |
| 1977 | Netherlands |
Soldier of Orange (Survival Run) | Paul Verhoeven | Dutch resistance |
| 1977 | USSR |
Восхождение (Voskhozhdeniye) The Ascent |
Larisa Shepitko | During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. On their way back they were spotted by a German patrol. |
| 1977 | Czechoslovakia |
Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem | Jindrich Polák | |
| 1978 | Poland |
... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie (Wherever You Are, Mr. President) | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1978 | Poland |
Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood) | Jerzy Hoffman | Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1978 | UK |
Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | British commando raid in Yugoslavia |
| 1978 | USA |
Holocaust | Marvin J. Chomsky | Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust |
| 1978 | Netherlands |
Pastorale 1943 | Wim Verstappen | Dutch resistance |
| 1978 | Italy |
Quel maledetto treno blindato | Enzo G. Castellari | |
| 1978 | Poland |
Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores) | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | A courier travelling through Europe has to deliver a special letter to London |
| 1978 | Poland |
Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) | Edward Żebrowski | German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital |
| 1978 | Poland |
Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead) | Julian Dziedzina | Silesia Polish Resistance |
| 1979 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Tuulte pesa | Olev Neuland | Forest Brothers |
| 1979 | UK |
Yanks | John Schlesinger | Americans stationed in England |
| 1979 | UK |
Escape to Athena | George Pan Cosmatos | German-occupied Greece |
| 1979 | UK USA |
Hanover Street | Peter Hyams | American bomber crews based in England |
| 1979 | Poland |
Elegia | Paweł Komorowski | Eastern Front 1945 |
| 1979 | USA |
Ike (miniseries) | Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Story (and love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. |
| 1979 | Poland |
Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars) | Henryk Bielski | Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1979 | Poland |
Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go) | Władysław Ślesicki | Escape from a POW camp |
| 1979 | Poland |
Zielone lata (Salad Days) | Stanisław Jędryka | Poland Sosnowiec, tragedy of children in war |
| 1979 | Albania |
Radiostacioni | Rikard Ljarja | |
| 1979 | Poland |
Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma) | Roman Wionczek | Poland, France, England - Enigma |
| 1979 | West Germany |
Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough) | Andrew V. McLaglen | The July 20 plot |
| 1979 | Italy France Spain |
From Hell to Victory | "Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi) |
Occupied Europe |
| 1979 | USA |
1941 | Steven Spielberg | California, one week after the attack on Pearl Harbor |
[edit] 1980s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Poland |
Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day) | Tadeusz Kijański | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland |
Godzina "W" ("W" Hour) | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Philippines |
Kalibre .45 | Nilo Saez | A story of vengeance set during the near end of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1980 | Poland |
Olimpiada '40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | A POW Camp, 1940 |
| 1980 | USA |
The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe |
| 1980 | USA |
The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific) | Don Taylor | Science fiction movie. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz is lost in a storm, then arrives at the same place in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and meets Japanese aircraft en route to Pearl Harbor. |
| 1980 | France |
The Last Metro | François Truffaut | The German occupation of France during World War II. |
| 1980 | UK Switzerland USA |
The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Calcutta Light Horse |
| 1980 | Poland |
Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland |
Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) | Witold Orzechowski | Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | France |
Allons Z'enfants | Yves Boisset | A cadet in a French military school doesn't like the army and is taken in the 1939-40 war. |
| 1981 | Poland |
Bołdyn (General Boldyn) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | West Germany |
Das Boot (The Boat) | Wolfgang Petersen | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1981 | USA |
Escape to Victory (Victory) | John Huston | A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs |
| 1981 | UK |
Eye of the Needle | Richard Marquand | A German spy in England before D-Day |
| 1981 | Netherlands |
Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) | Ben Verbong | Dutch resistance |
| 1981 | France |
Les uns et les autres (Bolero: dance of life) | Claude Lelouch | Four families with different backgrounds and nationalities are followed from the 1930s to the 1980s as their paths cross time and again. |
| 1981 | Japan |
Rengo kantai (The Imperial Navy) | Shūe Matsubayashi | The Operation Ten-Go. |
| 1981 | Poland |
Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye) | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | USA |
The Bunker | George Schaefer | Based on the book The Bunker; The last days of Adolf Hitler. |
| 1982 |  Australia |
Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall | Z Special Unit |
| 1982 | West Germany |
Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | The execution of White Rose members. |
| 1982 | Poland |
Do góry nogami (Upside Down) | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Silesia, tragedy of children in war |
| 1982 | Poland |
Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day) | Krzysztof Prymek, Roman Wionczek | Polish Resistance |
| 1982 | Philippines |
Oro, Plata, Mata | Peque Gallaga | The Fall of Corregidor. |
| 1982 | Poland |
Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV) | Ryszard Ber | A Polish village during the German occupation |
| 1982 | USA |
Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Holocaust |
| 1982 | Australia |
The Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross) | Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell | Operation Rimau |
| 1983 | Japan |
Barefoot Gen | Mori Masaki | Anime film: depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan [animated film] |
| 1983 | Hong Kong |
Hong Kong, 1941 | Leong Po-Chih | The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong |
| 1983 | Denmark |
Forræderne | Ole Roos | |
| 1983 | Poland |
Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey) | Waldemar Dziki | Poland Holocaust |
| 1983 | Poland |
Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) | Bohdan Poręba | General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943 |
| 1983 | UK Japan |
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | British POWs on Java Island |
| 1983 | Hungary |
Jób lázadása | Imre Gyöngyössy | Story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy |
| 1983 | Poland |
Nie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs) | Juliusz Janicki | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | People's Republic of China |
One and Eight | Zhang Junzhao | Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China |
| 1983 | France |
Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | (Comedy) French Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1983 | Philippines |
Roman Rapido | Argel Joseph | Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. |
| 1983 | USA UK Italy |
The Scarlet and the Black | Jerry London | Biographical film about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. |
| 1983 | Poland |
Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV) | Stefan Szlachtycz | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Poland West Germany |
Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee) | Jerzy Hoffman | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | USA |
Winds of War | Dan Curtis | The saga of a family and events leading up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. |
| 1984 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Võõra nime all | Peeter Urbla | Estonians in a Soviet camp |
| 1984 | Poland |
Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) | Kazimierz Kutz | Silesia, 1939-42 Polish Resistance |
| 1984 | Poland |
Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day) | Ludmiła Niedbalska | The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1984 | Poland |
Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder) | Waldemar Podgórski | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1984 | Poland |
Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV) | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Resistance, 1941 |
| 1984 | People's Republic of China |
Yellow Earth | Chen Kaige | The Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1984 | Australia |
The Last Bastion | Gearge Miller | TV mini-series on WWII from the Australian perspective. |
| 1985 | USSR |
The Battle for Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Moscow |
| 1985 | USA |
Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | Battle of Normandy |
| 1985 | USSR |
Come and See | Elem Klimov | The Eastern Front |
| 1985 | Netherlands |
De IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour) | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer |
| 1985 | Netherlands |
Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet) | Kees van Oostrum | A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Poland Czechoslovakia |
Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) | Antonín Moskalyk | Children in war |
| 1985 |  Romania |
Noi, cei din linia întâi | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary |
| 1985 | Japan |
Seburi monogatari (The Seburi Story) | Sadao Nakajima | Hardships of nomadic Seburi people during wartime. |
| 1985 | Poland |
Tate (Dad) | Jan Rutkiewicz | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1985 | Japan |
The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa | Remake Version; The Burma Campaign |
| 1985 | Finland |
The Unknown Soldier | Rauni Mollberg | The Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1985 | Poland |
W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred) | Wojciech Żółtowski | The Holocaust in Poland, 1943 |
| 1986 | Netherlands |
In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) | Ate de Jong | Dutch resistance |
| 1986 | Poland Switzerland |
Kołysanka (The Lullabye) | Federo Sevella | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1986 | Poland |
Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War) | Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1986 | Netherlands |
The Assault (De Aanslag) | Fons Rademakers | An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation |
| 1986 | Japan |
Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison) | Kei Kumai | The Pacific War. |
| 1987 | UK USA Yugoslavia |
Escape from Sobibor | Jack Gold | Sobibor Uprising during the Holocaust |
| 1987 | UK USA Yugoslavia |
The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) | Gordon Hessler | |
| 1987 | France |
Au revoir, les enfants | Louis Malle | Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France |
| 1987 | USA |
Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai |
| 1987 | UK |
Hope and Glory | John Boorman | The Blitz |
| 1988 | People's Republic of China |
Evening Bell | Wu Ziniu | Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China |
| 1988 | USA |
Farewell to the King | John Milius | Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo |
| 1988 | Japan |
Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | The Firebombing of Kobe [animated film] |
| 1988 | Poland USA |
I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) | Alexander Ramati | Gipsy - The Holocaust |
| 1988 | Poland |
Kornblumenblau | Leszek Wosiewicz | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1988 | Hong Kong |
Men Behind the Sun | Mou Tun Fei | The Japanese human experimentation on the Chinese. |
| 1988 | Poland USSR |
Przeprawa (Passage) | Wiktor Turow | Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans |
| 1988 | People's Republic of China |
Red Sorghum | Zhang Yimou | Young woman's life working at a kaoliang distillery during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1988 | UK |
Return from the River Kwai | Andrew V. McLaglen | British POWs in Japan |
| 1988 | Netherlands UK |
Shadow Man | Piotr Andrejew | A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1988 | Japan |
Tomorrow | Kazuo Kuroki | The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 1988 | USA |
War & Remembrance | Dan Curtis | The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. |
| 1989 | Japan |
Black Rain | Shohei Imamura | The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. |
| 1989 | Philippines |
Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice | Celso Ad. Castillo | The life of a Filipina comfort women during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1989 | USA |
Fat Man and Little Boy | Roland Joffé | The Manhattan project |
| 1989 | USSR |
Stalingrad | Yuri Ozerov | The Battle for Stalingrad |
| 1989 | Finland |
Talvisota | Pekka Parikka | The Winter War |
| 1989 | USA |
Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young | The story of Salamo Arouch |
| 1989 | Poland |
Virtuti | Jacek Butrymowicz | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2010s
[edit] In development
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Russia |
Stalingrad | Fyodor Bondarchuk | The Battle of Stalingrad |
| 201X | USA |
Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes a British double agent |
| 201X |  Brazil |
A Montanha – O Filme (The Mountain – The Film) | Vicente Ferraz | Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
| 201X | UK USA New Zealand |
Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise |
| 201X | USA Germany |
The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography |
| 201X |  South Korea |
My Way[9] | Kang Je-gyu | |
| 201X |  Estonia |
Nemad (Them) | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
| 201X | USA |
Panzer 88 | Peter Briggs | King Tiger tank crewmen on the Eastern Front battle an unknown creature |
[edit] Science fiction and fantasy
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Japan |
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck | A Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo |
| 2012 | Finland |
Iron Sky | Timo Vuorensola | Nazis attack Earth from their Moon base |
[edit] TV series
| Years | Country | Title | Battles, campaigns, events depicted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1958 | UK |
O.S.S. | The OSS in occupied France |
| 1962 | 1963 | USA |
The Gallant Men | American 5th Army company in WWII Italy - drama |
| 1962 | 1966 | USA |
McHale's Navy | The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew in the Pacific Campaign |
| 1962 | 1967 | USA |
Combat! | A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France |
| 1964 | 1965 | USA |
Broadside | B&W comedy about WAVES (navy females) transferred to South Pacific theatre to run motorpool on island; McHale's Navy spinoff |
| 1964 | 1967 | USA |
Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1965 | 1965 | USA |
Convoy | B&W drama about supply convoys and German U-Boats in the Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and the lead convoy freighter |
| 1965 | 1966 | USA |
The Wackiest Ship in the Army | B&W comedy about an observation/spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific theatre; The Wackiest Ship in the Army motion picture spinoff |
| 1965 | 1971 | USA |
Hogan's Heroes | Comedy about a POW camp |
| 1966 | 1966 | UK |
Court Martial | During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime |
| 1966 | 1968 | USA |
The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol |
| 1966 | 1970 | Poland |
Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank men and a dog) | A tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army on the Eastern Front, 1943–45 |
| 1967 | 1968 | Poland |
Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) | Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945 |
| 1968 | 1977 | UK |
Dad's Army | Comedy about the Home Guard |
| 1972 | 1973 | UK |
Pathfinders | RAF pathfinding missions |
| 1972 | 1974 | UK |
Colditz | Colditz Castle POW camp |
| 1973 | 1973 | USSR |
Seventeen Moments of Spring | A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany |
| 1973 | 1974 | USA |
Roll Out | Comedy/Drama about 5050th Quartermaster Trucking Company of the U.S. Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in European theatre and France |
| 1975 | 1975 | Poland Hungary |
Trzecia granica (Third Border) | Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary |
| 1976 | 1976 |  Iran |
My Uncle Napoleon | Comedy set in Tehran under Allied occupation |
| 1976 | 1978 | USA |
Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific |
| 1977 | 1978 | UK |
Backs to the Land | Comedy about the Land Girls |
| 1977 | 1979 | USA |
Operation Petticoat | Comedy about the USS Sea Tiger, a pink submarine in the South Pacific theatre (AKA "Life in the Pink"); Operation Petticoat motion picture spinoff |
| 1977 | 1979 | UK Belgium |
Secret Army | Belgian resistance |
| 1978 | 1981 | Denmark |
Matador | The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947 |
| 1981 | 1981 | UK |
Kessler | |
| 1982 | 1992 | UK |
'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy about a café in Occupied France; German occupation, French resistance, Communist resistance, RAF pilots, POW camp, Italian expeditionary forces |
| 1985 | 1985 | USA |
Jenny's War | A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941 |
| 1988 | 1988 | UK |
Piece of Cake | RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain |
| 1988 | 1988 | Poland |
Pogranicze w ogniu | |
| 1992 | 1992 | Denmark |
Mørklægning | Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark. |
| 1994 | 1994 | UK |
Which Way to the War | Comedy about British Desert Rats, Australians and Italian nurses in WWII North Africa; pilot only |
| 1997 | 1997 |  Singapore |
The Price of Peace | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Australia |
Changi | Changi POW camp |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore |
In Pursuit of Peace | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore |
A War Diary | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2002 | now | UK |
Foyle's War | Police mystery set in WWII southern England |
| 2003 | 2003 | UK |
P.O.W. | Drama series set in Germany's Stalag XXXIX in the year 1940 and following an RAF bomber crew member captured after bailing out from a bombing raid over Normandy |
| 2004 | 2005 | Japan |
Zipang | Anime about a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2. |
| 2006 | 2007 | People's Republic of China |
Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù | The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | People's Republic of China |
Gongxun | China, the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war |
| 2007 | 2007 | Denmark |
Nazitübbies | Nazi Teletubbies parody |
| 2007 | 2007 | People's Republic of China |
Sentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵) | The Eighth Route Army on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai |
| 2007 | 2007 | Poland |
Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes) | Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 |  Hong Kong |
War and Destiny | The Nanjing Massacre |
| 2007 | 2007 | Iran Hungary France Lebanon |
Zero Degree Turn | An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman |
| 2007 | 2008 | People's Republic of China |
Xie Se Xiang Xi | The Battle of West Hunan |
| 2007 | now | People's Republic of China |
Soldiers Sortie | |
| 2008 | 2008 | Russia |
Apostol | Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence |
| 2008 | 2008 | Estonia |
Tuulepealne maa | Two Estonian families from World War I until 1941 |
| 2008 | 2010 | Poland |
Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance |
| 2008 | 2010 | Japan |
Hetalia: Axis Powers | An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII [animated film] |
| 2009 | now | UK |
Land Girls | Drama about the Land Girls |
| 2009 | now | People's Republic of China |
My Chief and My Regiment | |
| 2009 | now | France |
Un village français | An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to... 1 month of war per episode. |
| 2010 | now | Hong Kong |
No Regrets | Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in Canton, China during Japanese occupation. |
| 2012 | 2012 |  Canada |
Bomb Girls | Women working in a Toronto munitions plant |
[edit] See also
- List of World War II short films
- List of World War II documentary films
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of Holocaust films
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
- List of partisan films - films about World War II on Yugoslav front
[edit] References
- ^ Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
- ^ Some details about the film appear here.
- ^ The "director". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471179/. of this title is still unknown (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ The "director". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903888. of this title is still unknown (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ A 1951 film starring Justina David.
- ^ The film is in four parts, and runs to over five hours in length.
- ^ Some details of this film appears "here". http://fpj-daking.blogspot.com/2008/09/two-versions-of-dugo-ng-bayan.html. This title is not currently (as of November 2010) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ Miniseries starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007. This title is not currently (as of October 2010) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_My_Way.php
[edit] External links
- wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular WWII movies.
