List of World War II films

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.

Scene from Zakazane Piosenki,
a 1946 Polish film

Restrictions

• The film or mini-series must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
• For short films, see List of World War II short films.
• For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films.

Films made during the war

Further information: List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.

1939

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Hitler, Beast of Berlin	Sam Newfield	German political prisoner
UK	The Lion Has Wings	Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst	RAF mobilization - the first British propaganda film of the war

1940

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK	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	Waterloo Bridge	Mervyn LeRoy	While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance
USA	Women in War	John H. Auer	Nurses in the Battle of Britain

1941

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK	49th Parallel	Michael Powell	Survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada to the neutral USA
USA	All Through the Night	Vincent Sherman	Lighthearted mystery-thriller depicting Nazi Fifth Columnists
Germany	Annelie	Josef von Bákyn	A heroic German mother during war; AKA Annelie-Die Geschichte einer Liebe
USA	Caught in the Draft	David Butler	Bob Hope gets drafted
UK	Cottage to Let	Anthony Asquith	Lighthearted mystery depicting kidnap of bombsight inventor from World War II Scotland by Nazi agents; AKA Bombsight Stolen
USA	Confirm or Deny	Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited)	Dramedy based on story by Samuel Fuller & Henry Wales depicting the London Blitz
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	Technicolor film depicting flight surgeons & medical flight research on pilots in Pacific
UK	Freedom Radio	Anthony Asquith	German Resistance
Soviet Union	Фронтовые подруги (The Girl from Leningrad)	Viktor Eisymont	Young Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Eastern Front where she becomes emotionally involved with injured soldiers; AKA Frontovye podrugi; remade in US as Three Russian Girls
USA	Great Guns	Monty Banks	Laurel and Hardy join the US Army
USA	Man Hunt	Fritz Lang	Prewar assassination attempt of Hitler
USA	Parachute Battalion	Leslie Goodwins	Three individuals sign up for a parachute battalion (full movie on Internet Archive)
UK	Pimpernel Smith	Leslie Howard	The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to World War II
UK	Ships with Wings	Sergei Nolbandov	Battle of Taranto
Germany	Soldaten von morgen (Soldiers of Tomorrow)	Alfred Weidenmann	Nazi Hitler Youth film
USA	Sundown	Henry Hathaway	The North African Campaign
Germany	U-Boote westwärts (U-Boat, Course West!)	Günther Rittau	U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
USA	Underground	Vincent Sherman	German Resistance
USA	A Yank in the RAF	Henry King	American volunteers in the RAF

1942

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Italy	Alfa Tau!	Francesco De Robertis	Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II
USA	Atlantic Convoy	Lew Landers	Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic
Italy	Bengasi	Augusto Genina	The North Africa campaign
USA	The Bugle Sounds	S. Sylvan Simon	Cavalry and tank warfare
USA	Captains of the Clouds	Michael Curtiz	Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, WWI ace Billy Bishop as himself
USA	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	Romantic film in Vichy France-controlled Morocco
UK	The Day Will Dawn	Harold French	Norwegian resistance
USA	Desperate Journey	Raoul Walsh	RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Holland
USA	Eagle Squadron	Arthur Lubin	Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
UK	The First of the Few	Leslie Howard	Development of the Spitfire http://www.archive.org/details/TheFirstOfTheFew
USA UK	Flying Fortress	Walter Forde	B-17 planes
USA China	Flying Tigers	David Miller	American Volunteer Group, the Second Sino-Japanese War
UK	The Foreman Went to France	Charles Frend	The Battle of France
Germany	Fronttheater	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	The Battle of Greece?
Germany	Die große Liebe (The Great Love)	Rolf Hansen	Some part of battle between Nazi Germany and USSR
Japan	Hawai Mare oki kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya)	Kajiro Yamamoto	Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign
USA	Hillbilly Blitzkrieg	Roy Mack	Nazi Spies steal rocket formula in the US http://www.archive.org/details/HillbillyBlitzkrieg
UK	In Which We Serve	Noël Coward and David Lean	Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly http://www.archive.org/details/In_Which_We_Serve
USA	Jungle Siren	Sam Newfield	Free French, with two Americans, are sent to a small village in Africa to build an airfield http://www.archive.org/details/JungleSiren
USA	Lady from Chungking	William Nigh	The Second Sino-Japanese War http://www.archive.org/details/LadyfromChungking
UK	Lady from Lisbon	Leslie S. Hiscott	Comedic farce depicting Nazi agents, Allied counterspies & several copies of The Mona Lisa
USA	Let's Get Tough!	Wallace Fox	Juvenile delinquents battle the Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York
USA	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	The British Home Front
USA	Navy Comes Through	A. Edward Sutherland	The Battle of the Atlantic
UK	The Next of Kin	Thorold Dickinson	Careless talk costs lives - message and fictional commando raid
Italy Romania	Odessa in fiamme (Odessa in Flames)	Carmine Gallone
UK	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Allied aircrew escaping from the occupied Netherlands http://www.archive.org/details/OneofOurAircraftIsMissing
USA	Pacific Rendezvous	George Sidney	Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War
USA	The Phantom Plainsmen	John English	"The Three Mesquiteers" battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch
Italy	Un Pilota ritorna	Roberto Rossellini
Estonia	Punane udu (The Red Fog)	?	The Soviet occupation of Estonia
USA	Reunion in France	Jules Dassin	The French Resistance helps a downed US pilot
UK	Sabotage at Sea	Leslie S. Hiscott
USA	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
USA	Stand by for Action	Robert Z. Leonard	The Pacific War
Germany	Stukas	Karl Ritter	Stuka, German dive bomber http://www.archive.org/details/1941-Stukas
USA	They Raid by Night	Spencer Gordon Bennet	Commando raids in occupied Norway
USA	To Be Or Not To Be	Ernst Lubitsch	Effects on Warsaw; Polish Air squadron in London
USA	To the Shores of Tripoli	H. Bruce Humberstone
Japan	Tsubasa no gaika (A Triumph of Wings)	Satsuo Yamamoto	Co-written by Akira Kurosawa
Soviet Union	Uchinari Jani	Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov
USA	Wake Island	John Farrow	The Battle of Wake Island
UK	Went the Day Well?	Alberto Cavalcanti	A fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion)
USA	A Yank in Libya	Albert Herman	US journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa a Full Movie Internet Archive
USA	A Yank on the Burma Road	George B. Seitz	The Burma Road

1943

Country	Title	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
USA	Aerial Gunner	William H. Pine	The B-17 bomber in the Pacific http://www.archive.org/details/aerial_gunner
UK	The Adventures of Tartu	Harold S. Bucquet	British spy aids Czech partisans http://www.archive.org/details/TheAdventuresofTartu_
USA	Air Force	Howard Hawks	B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines
USA	Air Raid Wardens	Edward Sedgwick	Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the United States
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
Germany	Besatzung Dora	Karl Ritter	Luftwaffe men
USA	Bombardier	Richard Wallace	B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific
USA	Bombs Over Burma	Joseph H. Lewis	http://www.archive.org/details/BombsOverBurma
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 and Howard Hawks	The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN corvette
USA	Crash Dive	Archie Mayo	US submarine in the North Atlantic
USA	The Cross of Lorraine	Tay Garnett
USA	Cry 'Havoc'	Richard Thorpe	US army nurses on Bataan work with civilians during the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
USA	Destination Tokyo	Delmer Daves	US submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid
USA	Destroyer	William A. Seiter	The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning
USA	Edge of Darkness	Lewis Milestone	The Norwegian resistance movement
UK	Fires Were Started	Humphrey Jennings	The Blitz
USA	Five Graves to Cairo	Billy Wilder	Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign
UK	The Flemish Farm	Jeffrey Dell	Commando raids in occupied Belgium
Vichy France	Forces occultes	Jean Mamy	Freemasons work with Jews to bring France into the war http://www.archive.org/details/occultForces1943--NationalSocialistAnti-freemasonryFilm
USA	Gangway for Tomorrow	John H. Auer	Anthology film depicting five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory
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 http://www.archive.org/details/Gung_Ho
USA	A Guy Named Joe	Victor Fleming	The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "guardian angel" of new pilots
USA	Hangmen Also Die	Fritz Lang	Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance
USA	Hitler's Madman	Douglas Sirk	Film depicting Operation Anthropoid, assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich & revenge taken by the Germans; AKA Hitler's Hangman
USA	Immortal Sergeant	John M. Stahl	British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)	Is kidev dabrundeba (He Would Come Back)	Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaia	Depicts Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus ; AKA On eshchyo vernyotsa
USA	Journey Into Fear	Norman Foster, Orson Welles (uncredited)	Spy film based on Eric Ambler novel depicting an American engineer, in neutral Turkey to help upgrade the Turkish navy, that is targeted by Nazi agents
UK	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	The Home Guard
UK	Millions Like Us	Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat	The Home Front
USA	Mission to Moscow	Michael Curtiz	Various negotiations between Allies
USA	The Moon is Down	Irving Pichel	Resistance
USA	The More the Merrier	George Stevens	Comedy depicting US soldier on American homefront & US housing shortage during WWII; remade as Walk, Don't Run in 1966
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	Lewis Milestone	Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front http://www.archive.org/details/TheNorthStar
USA	Pilot #5	George Sidney	Battle of the Java Sea; AKA Pilot No. 5
USA	Rookies in Burma	Leslie Goodwins	The Burma Campaign
USA	Sahara	Zoltan Korda	Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein
USA	Salute to the Marines	S. Sylvan Simon	The Battle of the Philippines
UK	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	Roy William Neill	Sherlock Holmes matches wits with Nazi agents & Moriarty; AKA Secret Weapon http://www.archive.org/details/secret_weapon
UK	The Silver Fleet	Gordon Wellesley	Dutch resistance
USA	So Proudly We Hail!	Mark Sandrich	US army nurses & the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
USA	The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler	James Patrick Hogan	Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity
USA	This Land Is Mine	Jean Renoir	French Resistance
USA	Three Russian Girls	Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep	The Eastern Front
UK	Undercover	Sergei Nolbandov	Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia
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

1944

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK	2,000 Women (Two Thousand Women)	Frank Launder	Internment camps for British women in occupied France; AKA House of 1,000 Women
USA	Action in Arabia	Léonide Moguy	Intrigue involving Nazis in Damascus
Italian Social Republic	Aeroporto	Piero Costa	Italian aviators flying for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana; the only surviving film made in the Italian Social Republic
USA	Days of Glory	Jacques Tourneur	Soviet partisans
USA	Dragon Seed	Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway	The Second Sino-Japanese war
USA	The Eve of St. Mark	John M. Stahl
USA	The Fighting Seabees	Edward Ludwig	The US Navy Seabees
USA	Four Jills in a Jeep	William A. Seiter	The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves
USA	The Impostor	Julien Duvivier
USA	In the Meantime, Darling	Otto Preminger
Germany	Junge Adler	Alfred Weidenmann	Germany during the war
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)	Jurgais pari	Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli	AKA Shchit Dzhurgaya
Japan	Kato hayabusa sento-tai (Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron)	Kajiro Yamamoto	AKA Colonel Kato's Flying Squadron
USA	Ladies Courageous	John Rawlins	Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
USA	Lifeboat	Alfred Hitchcock	The Battle of the Atlantic
Second Philippine Republic	Liwayway ng kalayaan (Dawn of Freedom)	Gerardo de León, Yutaka Abe	Propaganda film about Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines
Soviet Union	Malakhov kurgan	Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi	Battle of Sevastopol
USA	Marine Raiders	Harold D. Schuster	The Battle of Guadalcanal
USA	Marriage Is a Private Affair	Robert Z. Leonard
USA	The Master Race	Herbert J. Biberman
USA	Mr. Winkle Goes to War	Alfred E. Green
USA	The Navy Way	William A. Berke
Japan	Nichijô no tatakai (The Daily Battle)	Yasujiro Shimazu
USA	Passage to Marseille	Michael Curtiz
USA	Passport to Destiny	Ray McCarey
USA	The Purple Heart	Lewis Milestone	Prisoners of war captured during the Doolittle Raid
Japan	Raigekitai shutsudo	Kajirō Yamamoto	Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war
Soviet Union	Rainbow	Mark Donskoy
Australia	The Rats of Tobruk	Charles Chauvel	Siege of Tobruk
USA	Rosie the Riveter	Joseph Santley
USA	See Here, Private Hargrove	Wesley Ruggles	Lighthearted adaptation of book by Marion Hargrove depicting U.S. Army training at Fort Bragg during World War II
USA	Sergeant Mike	Henry Levin
USA	Since You Went Away	John Cromwell	Home Front in the United States
USA	Song of Russia	Gregory Ratoff
Italy Romania	Squadriglia bianca (The White Squadron)	Ion Sava	AKA Escadrila alba
USA	The Story of Dr. Wassell	Cecil B. DeMille	Navy doctor in the Battle of Java
USA	The Sullivans	Lloyd Bacon	The Sullivan brothers
USA	Sunday Dinner for a Soldier	Lloyd Bacon
USA	Tampico	Lothar Mendes	Depiction of U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico & sinking of Mexican oil tankers that lead Mexico's Allied entrance into WWII
USA	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Mervyn LeRoy	The Doolittle Raid
USA	Till We Meet Again	Frank Borzage
USA	To Have and Have Not	Howard Hawks
USA	Two-Man Submarine	Lew Landers
USA	U-Boat Prisoner	Lew Landers	Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare; AKA Dangerous Mists
USA	Waterfront	Steve Sekely
UK	The Way Ahead [aka The Immortal Battalion]	Carol Reed	Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign http://www.archive.org/details/The_Way_Ahead_1944
USA	The White Cliffs of Dover	Clarence Brown
USA	Wing and a Prayer	Henry Hathaway	The Battle of Midway
USA	Winged Victory	George Cukor	Training of US Army Air Forces

Japanese naval personnel from Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors

1945

Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Back to Bataan	Edward Dmytryk	Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte
USA	Blood on the Sun	Frank Lloyd	An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government http://www.archive.org/details/BloodontheSun
USA	China's Little Devils	Monta Bell
USA	Cornered	Edward Dmytryk	Ex-Nazis in Argentina
USA	Combat Fatigue: Insomnia	Dick York	US soldiers dealing with insomnia, post traumatic stress disorder, and homosexual temptation http://www.archive.org/details/CombatFa1945
USA	Counter-Attack	Zoltan Korda	The Eastern Front
Denmark	Den usynlige hær (The Invisible Army)	Johan Jacobsen	Danish partisan
Denmark	De røde Enge (The Red Meadows)	Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr.	Young Danish saboteur
Mexico	Escuadrón 201	Jaime Salvador	201st Air Fighter Squadron of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana in the Battle of Luzon & Philippines Campaign against Japan
USA	First Yank Into Tokyo	Gordon Douglas
USA China	God Is My Co-Pilot	Robert Florey	The Flying Tigers
USA	Keep Your Powder Dry	Edward Buzzell	Women's Army Corps
Germany	Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On)	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	About how the V-2 rocket would turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour
Japan	Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors	Mitsuyo Seo	The first full length anime film; shows Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island  [animated film]
USA	Objective, Burma!	Raoul Walsh	The Burma Campaign
USA	Out of the Depths	D. Ross Lederman	Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
USA	The Last Chance	D. Leopold Lindtberg	Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border http://www.archive.org/details/TheLastChance_
USA	Pride of the Marines	Delmer Daves	The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment
USA	Prison Ship	Arthur Dreifuss
Italy	Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City)	Roberto Rossellini	About the Italian resistance movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
USA	Samurai	Raymond Cannon
USA	The Story of GI Joe	William A. Wellman	Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino
USA	They Were Expendable	John Ford	PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
USA	Too Young to Know	Frederick De Cordova	War in the South Pacific separates a young couple
USA	A Walk in the Sun	Lewis Milestone	The Invasion of Salerno
UK	The Way to the Stars	Anthony Asquith	RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
USA	What Next, Corporal Hargrove?	Richard Thorpe	The final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe

Late 1940s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1946	Philippines	Death March	Leopoldo Salcedo	The Bataan Death March
1946	Philippines	Dugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan)	Fernando Poe, Sr.	Filipino Resistance.
1946	Philippines	Garrison 13	Unknown	War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines.
1946	Philippines	Guerilyera	Octavio Silos	The guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1946	UK	Journey Together	John Boulting	Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946	France	La Bataille du rail	René Clément	Stories on railroad French resistance
1946	Philippines	Orasang Ginto	Manuel Conde	The Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor.
1946	Italy	Paisà	Roberto Rossellini	About the Italian campaign
1946	UK	School for Secrets	Peter Ustinov	Operation Biting
1946	USA	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war
1946	UK	The Captive Heart	Basil Dearden	British prisoners of war in Germany
1946	UK	Theirs is the Glory	Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young	Operation Market Garden
1946	Soviet Union Yugoslavia	V gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia)	Abram Room	Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks
1946	Philippines	Walang Kamatayan	Tor Villano	The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
1946	Poland Italy	Wielka droga (La Grande strada)	Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi	Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
1946	Poland	Zakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs)	Leonard Buczkowski	Polish Resistance 1939-1945 - the first post-war Polish film, and a musical
1947	China	The Spring River Flows East	Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli	The Second Sino-Japanese War.
1947	Poland	Ostatni etap (The Last Stop)	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1947	Denmark	Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny)	Johan Jacobsen
1947	UK	Frieda	Basil Dearden
1947	USA	13 Rue Madeleine	Henry Hathaway
1948	USA	Command Decision	Sam Wood	Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force
1948	UK	Against the Wind	Charles Crichton	A Commando raid into occupied Belgium
1948	UK	A Piece of Cake	John Irwin
1948	Norway	Kampen om tungtvannet		Norwegian heavy water sabotage
1948	USA	Fighter Squadron	Raoul Walsh	P-47 fighters in the US air war in Europe
1948	USA Switzerland	The Search	Fred Zinnemann	Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948	Occupied Germany	Morituri	Eugen York	The first post-1945 German film about the war
1948	Poland	Ulica Graniczna (Border Street)	Aleksander Ford	The Holocaust in occupied Poland
1948	Poland	Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts)	Stanisław Januszewski	Silesia Poland 1944 / 45
1948	Yugoslavia	Na svoji zemlji (On the own territory)	France Štiglic	People are fighting to kill Germans and Italians
1948	Denmark	Støt står den danske sømand (The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman)	Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr.	Tells the true story about Danish sailors
1948	Denmark	Tre år efter	Johan Jacobsen	Situation after the war termination
1949	USA	Battleground	William A. Wellman	The 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949	Denmark	Det gælder os alle	Alice O'Fredericks	A young survivor from a concentration camp.
1949	USA	Home of the Brave	Mark Robson	Black soldier is paralyzed after recon unit is attacked on Pacific island
1949	France	Mission in Tangier	André Hunebelle	A journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers.
1949	Soviet Union	Padeniye Berlina	Mikheil Chiaureli	The Battle of Berlin
1949	UK	Private Angelo	Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov	Light-hearted story of a reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier during World War II
1949	USA	Sands of Iwo Jima	Allan Dwan	The Battle of Iwo Jima
1949	UK	The Small Back Room	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Bomb disposal
1949	Soviet Union	Stalingradskaya Bitva	Vladimir Petrov	The Battle of Stalingrad
1949	UK	They Were Not Divided	Terence Young	The British Guards Armoured Division
1949	USA	Twelve O'Clock High	Henry King	B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force
1949	Soviet Union	Vstrecha na Elbe	Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin	Elbe Day
1949	Poland	Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow)	Antoni Bohdziewicz	Warsaw, Polish resistance

1950s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1950	USA	The Admiral Was a Lady	Albert S. Rogell	Comedy depicting end of war readjustment of returning American service women & men
1950	USA	American Guerrilla in the Philippines	Fritz Lang	Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1950	USA	Francis	Arthur Lubin	Francis the Talking Mule unmasks Japanese spy in South West Pacific Theatre
1950	USA	Halls of Montezuma	Lewis Milestone	US Marines attack Japanese held island in South West Pacific Theatre
1950	Philippines	Mapuputing Kamay	Fausto J. Galauran	Filipina nurses in battles of Bataan & Corregidor.
1950	USA	The Men	Fred Zinnemann	Injured American veteran's struggles reentering society; AKA Battle Stripe
1950	Poland	Miasto nieujarzmione (Unvanquished City)	Jerzy Zarzycki	Warsaw, Poland, 1944
1950	UK	Odette	Herbert Wilcox	SOE agent Odette Samson
1950	USA	Three Came Home	Jean Negulesco	Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
1950	USA	When Willie Comes Marching Home	John Ford	Comedy depicting failed pilot's escapades, from homefront to German occupied France & back
1950	UK	The Wooden Horse	Jack Lee	True story of British POWs' escape attempts from Stalag
1951	Italy	Achtung! Banditi! (Attention! Bandits!)	Carlo Lizzani	Italian Resistance
1951	USA	Decision Before Dawn	Anatole Litvak	Allies use German POWs as spies in Nazi Germany, 1945
1951	USA	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Henry Hathaway	Biopic of Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein-July 20 plot
1951	USA	Fighting Coast Guard	Joseph Kane	US Coast Guard prepares for war
1951	USA	Flying Leathernecks	Nicholas Ray	US Marine fighter pilot in South West Pacific Theatre
1951	USA	Force of Arms	Michael Curtiz	US Fifth Army in Italian Campaign
1951	USA	The Frogmen	Lloyd Bacon, Dick Mayberry	US Navy underwater demolition team divers/commandos in South West Pacific Theatre
1951	USA	Go For Broke!	Robert Pirosh	US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy & France
1951	USA Austria	The Magic Face	Frank Tuttle	Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him & takes his place
1951	Philippines	Makapili	[unknown]	Makapili Japanese sympathizers during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines; AKA Makabayan Katipunan Ñg Mg̃a Pilipino
1951	USA	Operation Pacific	George Waggner	US Navy submarine in South West Pacific Theatre
1951	USA	Submarine Command	John Farrow	Drama depicts career of US submarine commander from WWII-Korean War
1951	USA	Target Unknown	George Sherman	Drama depicts tense & discontented American bomber squadron forced to parachute over France before being interrogated by Nazis
1951	USA	The Wild Blue Yonder	Allan Dwan	Drama depicting US Air Force; AKA Thunder Across the Pacific
1951	USA	You're in the Navy Now	Henry Hathaway	Comedy depicting unexperienced crew assigned to experimental US submarine chaser
1952	USA	Above and Beyond	Melvin Frank, Norman Panama	509th Composite Group & atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
1952	UK	Angels One Five	George More O'Ferrall	Battle of Britain
1952	UK	Appointment in London	Philip Leacock	RAF Bomber Command
1952	USA	Flat Top	Lesley Selander	Pilot training aboard US Navy carriers
1952	Japan	原爆の子 (Children of Hiroshima)	Kaneto Shindō	Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan; AKA Genbaku no ko
1952	UK	Gift Horse	Compton Bennett	St Nazaire Raid
1952	France	Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)	René Clément	Occupation of France
1952	Norway	Nødlanding (Emergency Landing)	Arne Skouen	American bomber crew shot down in Norway & aided by Milorg (Norwegian Resistance)
1952	USA	Okinawa	Leigh Jason	Battle of Okinawa
1952	USA	Operation Secret	Lewis Seiler	Espionage
1952	USA	Red Ball Express	Budd Boetticher	Transportation units in European Theater of Operations
1952	USA	Thunderbirds	John H. Auer	Code talkers of 45th Infantry Division in Italy
1953	UK	Albert R.N.	Lewis Gilbert	British POWs in German Stalag; AKA Break to Freedom
1953	Japan	Anatahan (Ana-ta-han)	Josef von Sternberg	Japanese soldiers on South West Pacific Theatre island battle after end of war
1953	USA	China Venture	Don Siegel	Adventure-Drama depicts American commandos sent to South China to rescue prisoner held by Chinese guerrillas
1953	UK	The Cruel Sea	Charles Frend	Battle of the Atlantic
1953	USA	The Desert Rats	Robert Wise	Australian 7th Division at Tobruk during North African Campaign
1953	USA	Destination Gobi	Robert Wise	US Navy weather unit in Mongolia
1953	USA	El Alaméin	Fred F. Sears	Second Battle of El Alamein
1953	USA	Fighter Attack	Lesley Selander	Partisans in Italian Campaign
1953	USA	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Attack on Pearl Harbor
1953	USA	The Girls of Pleasure Island	Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert	Comedy depicting Pacific Theatre & English family living on atoll invaded by US Marines near end of war; AKA The Marines Had a Word for It
1953	USA	Guerrilla Girl	John Christian	Greek Resistance
1953	USA	Little Lost Boy	George Seaton	Drama depicting American war correspondent stationed in Paris before Battle of Dunkirk searching for his French family lost during war
1953	UK	Malta Story	Brian Desmond Hurst	Siege of Malta
1953	UK	The Red Beret	Terence Young	British paratroopers & Operation Biting
1953	UK	Single-Handed (Sailor of the King)	Roy Boulting	Action-Drama based on adapted CS Forester novel Brown on Resolution depicting Royal Navy
1953	USA	South Sea Woman	Arthur Lubin	Comedy depicting Pacific Theatre escapades of US Marine court martialed for events leading to Pearl Harbor; AKA The Marines Had a Word for It
1953	USA	Stalag 17	Billy Wilder	Allies in German Stalag Luft
1953	Japan	Taiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Pacific)	Ishirō Honda	Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1953	Canada	Tit-Coq	René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas	French-Canadian soldier returns home; AKA Little Rooster
1953	France USA	Un acte d'amour (Act of Love)	Anatole Litvak	Romantic-Drama depicting Parisian woman falling in love with American soldier near end of war
1954	West Germany	08/15	Paul May	Drama depicting end of war for German soldiers; first of three parts; AKA 08/15 - In der Kaserne
1954	USA	Beachhead	Stuart Heisler	Four U.S. Marines on a reconnaissance mission in the Solomon Islands
1954	USA	Betrayed	Gottfried Reinhardt	Dutch resistance in Battle of Arnhem
1954	USA	The Caine Mutiny	Edward Dmytryk	Destroyer warfare in South West Pacific Theatre
1954	West Germany	Canaris (Canaris: Master Spy)	Alfred Weidenmann	Drama depicting Abwehr Chief Admiral Canaris & Widerstand; AKA Deadly Decision
1954	Spain	La patrulla	Pedro Lazaga	Spanish volunteers on Eastern Front; AKA The Patrol
1954	UK	The Purple Plain	Robert Parrish	RAF evaders in Burma Campaign
1954	UK	The Sea Shall Not Have Them	Lewis Gilbert	Channel Air Sea Rescue of Allied bomber crew
1954	UK Norway	Shetlandsgjengen (Suicide Mission)	Michael Forlong	Docu-drama depicting Shetland bus, Norwegian smugglers in North Sea; AKA Shetland Gang
1954	UK	They Who Dare	Lewis Milestone	SAS raid in occupied Greece
1954	People's Republic of China	鸡毛信	Shi Hui	Boy attempts to deliver important message to 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Jī máo xìn
1955	Denmark	Der kom en dag	Sven Methling	Based on novel by Flemming B. Muus depicting last days of Danish Occupation; AKA There Came One Day
1955	West Germany	08/15 - In der Heimat (08/15 at Home)	Paul May	Drama depicting end of war for German soldiers; third of three parts
1955	West Germany	08/15 - Zweiter Teil (08/15 Part 2)	Paul May	Drama depicting end of war for German soldiers; second of three parts; AKA 08/15 - Im Krieg
1955	UK	Above Us the Waves	Ralph Thomas	Submarine attacks on German battleship Tirpitz
1955	USA	Battle Cry	Raoul Walsh	US Marines & battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
1955	Poland	Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross)	Andrzej Munk	Tatra Mountains, Poland on Eastern Front, 1945
1955	UK	The Cockleshell Heroes	José Ferrer	Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton
1955	UK	The Colditz Story	Guy Hamilton	British, Dutch & French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp
1955	UK	The Dam Busters	Michael Anderson	RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise
1955	West Germany Austria	Der letzte Akt (Hitler: The Last Ten Days)	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Drama based on novel by Nuremberg judge Michael Musmanno depicting Hitler's last days in Reichstag bunker through perspective of bunker guard; AKA The Last Act
1955	West Germany Austria	Des Teufels General (The Devil's General)	Helmut Käutner	Drama based on German Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet depicting successful Luftwaffe General courted by Widerstand
1955	USA	The Eternal Sea	John H. Auer	Pacific War
1955	Poland	Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope)	Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski	Poland, 1945
1955	West Germany	Hanussen (08/15 Part 2)	O.W. Fischer, Georg Marischka	Drama depicting well known psychic collaborating with Nazis; AKA Hanussen, Hitler's Astrologer
1955	West Germany	Jackboot Mutiny	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
1955	USA	Mister Roberts	John Ford, Melvin LeRoy	Dramedy depicting US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific
1955	Poland	Pokolenie (A Generation)	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Resistance
1955	Malaya	Sarjan Hassan (Sergeant Hassan)	Lamberto V. Avellana, P. Ramlee	Action-Drama depicting Malayan Occupation & Royal Malay Regiment
1955	USA	To Hell and Back	Jesse Hibbs	Autobiopic of Audie Murphy
1955	Finland	Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)	Edvin Laine	Finno-Soviet Continuation War
1956	UK	A Town Like Alice	Jack Lee	British & Australian POWs after Battle of Singapore; AKA Rape of Malaya
1956	USA	Attack	Robert Aldrich	US infantry in France after D-Day
1956	USA	Away All Boats	Joseph Pevney	US attack transport in Pacific
1956	UK	The Battle of the River Plate	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	Battle of the River Plate
1956	USA	Battle Stations	Lewis Seiler	US Navy battleship in Pacific War
1956	USA	Between Heaven and Hell	Richard Fleischer	US Army National Guard unit in Philippines
1956	Japan	ビルマの竪琴 (The Burmese Harp)	Kon Ichikawa	Burma Campaign; AKA Biruma no tategoto
1956	UK	The Black Tent	Brian Desmond Hurst	North African campaign
1956	USA	The Bold and the Brave	Lewis R. Foster	Italian Campaign
1956	USA	D-Day the Sixth of June	Henry Koster	Normandy invasion
1956	Yugoslavia	Dolina miru (Valley of Peace)	France Štiglic	African-American pilot forced down behind enemy lines rescues two orphaned children; AKA Dolina mira
1956	Spain	Embajadores en el infierno	José María Forqué	Spanish volunteers imprisoned in Bolshevik Gulag; AKA Ambassadors in Hell
1956	Poland	Kanał (Canal)	Andrzej Wajda	Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1956	UK	The Man Who Never Was	Ronald Neame	Battle of Sicily & Operation Mincemeat
1956	Yugoslavia	Opsada (The Siege)	Branko Marjanovic	Dramedy depicting Zagreb Underground & Yugoslav Front
1956	UK	Private's Progress	John Boulting	Comedy depicting reluctantly conscripted/commissioned British soldier focusing on art recovery/heist behind German lines
1956	UK	The Proud and Profane	George Seaton	Romance-Drama of Red Cross volunteer in South Pacific husband's death at Battle of Guadalcanal
1956	UK	Reach for the Sky	Lewis Gilbert	Douglas Bader & Battle of Britain
1957	France	Amère victoire (Bitter Victory)	Nicholas Ray	Action-Drama depicts Allied commando mission behind enemy lines in Benghazi & Western Desert Campaign
1957	UK	The Betrayal	Ernest Morris	Crime-Thriller depicts Allied pilot captured & tortured by Nazi's & postwar search for his betrayer
1957	UK	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	British POWs work on Burma Railway
1957	West Germany	Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris)	Paul May	Battle of Normandy from Wehrmacht perspective
1957	West Germany	Der Stern von Afrika (The Star of Africa)	Alfred Weidenmann	Docu-drama depicting Luftwaffe ace (Experten) Hans-Joachim Marseille
1957	USA	Don't Go Near the Water	Charles Walters	Comedy-Romance depicting US Navy public relations unit stationed on South West Pacific Theatre island
1957	USA	The Enemy Below	Dick Powell	South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer & U-boat
1957	West Germany	Haie und kleine Fische (Sharks and Little Fish)	Frank Wisbar	Drama depicting young German naval cadets entering Kriegsmarine & unterseeboot service, 1940; AKA Sharks and Small Fish
1957	USA	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	John Huston	US Marine & Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in South West Pacific Theatre
1957	USA	Hellcats of the Navy	Nathan Juran	Submarine warfare in Pacific Theatre
1957	USA	Kiss Them for Me	Stanley Donen	Comedy depicting US Navy pilots tired of Pacific War on four-day leave in San Francisco
1957	Soviet Union	Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying)	Mikhail Kalatozov	Romance-Drama depicts human behavior in times of war & damage suffered to Soviet psyche from war
1957	Norway	Ni Liv (Nine Lives)	Arne Skouen	[Drama depicting biography of [Jan Baalsrud]], Norwegian Resistance fighter's epic escape to Neutral Sweden following Tromsø, Norway sabotage operation
1957	USA	Operation Mad Ball	Richard Quine	Comedy-Romance depicting closing of US Army surgical hospital in France at end of war
1957	UK	The One That Got Away	Roy Ward Baker	True story of German escapee Franz von Werra
1957	UK	The Steel Bayonet	Michael Carreras	Small British recce force surrounded by overwhelming forces of Afrika Korps during Tunisia Campaign
1957	USA	The Wings of Eagles	John Ford	Drama depicting biography of US Navy pilot Frank W. "Spig" Wead's Pacific Theater service
1958	UK	The Battle of the V 1	Vernon Sewell	Polish Resistance spies on German rocket tests
1958	UK	The Camp on Blood Island	Val Guest	British & Dutch POWs in Malaya
1958	UK	Carve Her Name with Pride	Lewis Gilbert	SOE agent Violette Szabo
1958	Poland	Con Bravura	Andrzej Munk	Third part of Eroica cut by director, depicts wartime couriers crossing Polish/Slovak Tatra Mountains; AKA With Bravery
1958	USA	Darby's Rangers	William Wellman	Battle of Cisterna & Battle of Anzio.
1958	West Germany	Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad)	Géza von Radványi	Battle of Stalingrad
1958	Poland	Dezerter (Deserter)	Witold Lesiewicz	Silesian Pole conscripted in Wehrmacht
1958	UK	Dunkirk	Leslie Norman	Operation Dynamo & Dunkirk Evacuation
1958	Poland	Eroica (Heroism)	Andrzej Munk	Warsaw Uprising & POW Camp, 1944–45
1958	USA	Fräulein	Henry Koster	Comedy-Romance depicting escaped American POW hiding in Berlin near end of war
1958	Poland	Historia jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter)	Hubert Drapella	Battle of Britain, 1940
1958	UK	Ice Cold in Alex	J. Lee Thompson	North African campaign
1958	USA	Imitation General	George Marshall	[Comedy] depicting US Army Sergeant impersonating fallen general in hope of inspiring fellow soldiers in France
1958	USA	In Love and War	Philip Dunne	Drama depicting US Marines on shore leave in San Francisco before returning to battle
1958	UK	The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Mark Robson	English missionary in China during Second Sino-Japanese War
1958	UK	I Was Monty's Double	John Guillermin	General Montgomery
1958	UK	The Key	Carol Reed	Battle of the Atlantic
1958	Poland	Krzyż Walecznych (Cross of Valour)	Kazimierz Kutz	Eastern Front, 1945
1958	USA	The Naked and the Dead	Raoul Walsh	Pacific War
1958	UK	Operation Amsterdam	Michael McCarthy	British commandos on mission to occupied Holland hope to keep fortune in diamonds from Nazis
1958	Poland	Orzeł (The Eagle)	Leonard Buczkowski	Polish submarine ORP Orzeł & Orzeł incident, Baltic Sea escape attempt from neutral Estonian internment & German navy
1958	Poland	Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia)	Stanisław Lenartowicz	Polish Resistance
1958	Poland	Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds)	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Resistance, 1945
1958	USA	Run Silent, Run Deep	Robert Wise	US submarine & Japanese destroyer chase in South West Pacific Theatre
1958	UK	Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol)	Guy Green	Long Range Desert Group in North Africa Campaign
1958	USA	South Pacific	Joshua Logan	Musical-Romance depicting South West Pacific Theater
1958	Czechoslovakia	Tenkrát o Vánocích (At That Time, at Christmas...)	Karel Kachyňa	Czechoslovak Army on Eastern Front, Christmas 1944
1958	UK	The Wind Cannot Read	Ralph Thomas	RAF in Burma
1958	Poland	Wolne miasto (Free City)	Stanisław Różewicz	Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939
1958	People's Republic of China	永不消逝的电波 (The Eternal Wave)	Ping Wang	Drama based on true story depicting Chinese undercover agents operating against Japan in Shanghai, 1939; AKA Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo, AKA Continuous Wave
1958	USA	The Young Lions	Edward Dmytryk	Action-Drama depicting three soldiers during war: one German, two American (one Jewish)
1959	Soviet Union	Баллада о солдате (Ballad of a Soldier)	Grigori Chukhrai	Poetic story of young soldier receiving home leave as reward for heroic act along the Eastern Front; AKA Ballada o soldate
1959	Poland	Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear)	Jerzy Zarzycki	Tatra Mountains & Zakopane, Poland Holocaust, 1941
1959	Poland	Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe)	Bronisław Brok	Comedy depicting Polish Resistance
1959	UK	Danger Within (AKA Breakout)	Don Chaffey	Allied escape from POW camp in Northern Italy, Summer 1943
1959	USA	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens	Biopic of Anne Frank.
1959	West Germany	Die Brücke (The Bridge)	Bernhard Wicki	Young boys conscripted into Wehrmacht service on Western Front near end of war, 1945
1959	Italy France	Estate Violenta (Violent Summer)	Valerio Zurlini	Benito Mussolini during Allied invasion of Sicily
1959	Japan	野火 (Fires on the Plain)	Kon Ichikawa	Decimated Japanese Imperial Army in Philippines, 1945; AKA Nobi
1959	Italy	Il generale della Rovere (General della Rovere)	Roberto Rossellini	Drama based on novel by Indro Montanelli depicts petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian Resistance leader
1959	France Japan	Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima, My Love)	Alain Resnais	Drama depicts Hiroshima bomb; AKA Nijuuyojikan no jouji; remade in 2001 film H Story
1959	West Germany	Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?)	Frank Wisbar	Drama depicting Romanian Army component of German 6th Army & Battle of Stalingrad; AKA Battle Inferno
1959	Poland	Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1959	Poland	Lotna (Speed)	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Cavalry & Polish Campaign, 1939
1959	USA	Never So Few	John Sturges	Burma Campaign
1959	Japan	人間の條件 (The Human Condition: No Greater Love)	Masaki Kobayashi	Manchukuo & Japanese Resistance in China; AKA Ningen no jôken I; part one of The Human Condition film trilogy
1959	Japan	人間の條件 (The Human Condition: Road to Eternity)	Masaki Kobayashi	Imperial Japanese Army basic training; AKA Ningen no jôken II; part two of The Human Condition film trilogy
1959	USA	Paratroop Command	William Witney	US Army paratroopers in North Africa, Sicily, & Italy
1959	West Germany	So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me) (TV Mini-series)	Fritz Umgelter	Drama based on German POW Cornell Rost depicting Eastern Front, escape from Siberian Gulag & eventful journey home; six-part series; remade in 2001 film So weit die Füße tragen
1959	UK	The Square Peg	John Paddy Carstairs	Comedy depicting British council workmen drafted into service in France & mistaken for spies by Nazis
1959	Soviet Union	Sudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a Man)	Sergei Bondarchuk	Drama based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov depicting Soviet POWs in German Stalag
1959	USA	Ten Seconds to Hell	Robert Aldrich	German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin
1959	Poland	Zamach (Answer to Violence)	Jerzy Passendorfer	Operation Kutschera & Polish Resistance, 1944; AKA Partisan Mission

1960s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1960	Denmark	Den sidste vinter (The Last Winter)	Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen	Local resistance group on Denmark's Lolland Island attempts to liberate wounded British officer in Winter of 1944–45
1960	Italy	Era notte a Roma (Escape by Night)	Roberto Rossellini	Escaped allied POWs in pre-liberated Italy
1960	Denmark	Frihedens Pris (Price of Freedom)	Annelise Hovmand
1960	USA	Hell to Eternity	Phil Karlson	The Battle of Saipan; depicts WWII discrimination of Japanese-Americans
1960	Italy	La ciociara (Two Women)	Vittorio De Sica	Escape of Italian citizens from Allied bombing of Rome & subsequent post-liberation return
1960	Italy	La lunga notte del '43 (It Happened in '43)	Florestano Vancini	Allied invasion of Italy.
1960	Czechoslovakia	Práče (Prace)	Karel Kachyňa	Story of Czechoslovak children participating in homeland liberation after Czechoslovak army rescue from concentration camps on the Eastern Front; AKA Slingshot Bearer
1960	UK	Sink the Bismarck!	Lewis Gilbert	Operation Rheinübung & Battle of the Atlantic
1960	Italy USA	Sotto dieci bandiere (Under Ten Flags)	Duilio Coletti	Depicts 665-day pursuit of German surface raider Atlantis & Battle of the Atlantic.
1960	Japan	Storm Over the Pacific	Shuei Matsubayashi	Pilot serving on Japanese carrier Hiryu in battles of Pearl Harbor & Midway
1960	Italy France	Tutti a casa (Everybody Go Home)	Luigi Comencini	Dark comedy (Commedia all'italiana) depicting Four days of Naples & double occupation and subsequent chaos; AKA La grande pagaille
1960	France	Un taxi pour Tobrouk (Taxi for Tobruk)	Denys de La Patellière	Free French commandos in North Africa try to reach Allied lines and capture German officer
1961	Denmark	Alarm i Østersøen	Sven Methling	Depicts Baltic naval battle & escape to neutral Sweden; AKA Sorte Shara
1961	USA	Battle at Bloody Beach	Herbert Coleman	Civilian contractor (Audie Murphy) working for US Navy supplies Philippines guerilla insurgents while searching for his spouse
1961	USA France	Bridge to the Sun	Etienne Périer	Life of Gwendolen Terasaki.
1961	East Germany	Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case)	Gerhard Klein	1939 Gleiwitz incident.
1961	Poland	Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die)	Jan Rybkowski	Dresden, 1945
1961	UK	The Guns of Navarone	J. Lee Thompson	Mediterranean Theatre
1961	India	Hum Dono	Amarjeet	Some part of Burma Campaign.
1961	France Italy	Il federale (The Facist)	Luciano Salce	Comedy depicting member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) & sojourn with captive opponent of fascist regime
1961	Poland	Kwiecień (Spring)	Witold Lesiewicz	Wehrmacht on Eastern Front, 1945
1961	USA	The Last Time I Saw Archie	Jack Webb	Comedy depicting enlistment, training & commissioning of Civilian Air Corps into Army Air Force near end of war
1961	West Germany	Lebensborn (Ordered to Love)	Werner Klingler	Nazi exploitation film depicting Nazi Lebensborn programme
1961	Poland	Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train)	Kazimierz Kutz	Poland - The German Occupation
1961	USA	On the Double	Melville Shavelson	Comedy depicting Allied soldier awaiting D-Day & impersonation of Allied general to foil assassination by German agents
1961	USA	The Outsider	Delbert Mann	Depiction of Ira Hayes, Native American Marine who Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima
1961	Poland	Samson	Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda	Holocaust in occupied Poland
1961	Poland	Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate)	Stanisław Różewicz	Polish Campaign, 1939
1961	Italy	Una vita difficile (A Difficult Life)	Dino Risi	Dark comedy depicting Italian resistance movement & postwar readjustment
1961	UK	Very Important Person	Ken Annakin	Comedy depicting British POWs in Stalag
1962	Netherlands	Als twee druppels water	Fons Rademakers	Mystery novel adaptation about Dutch resistance
1962	Netherlands	De Overval (The Raid)	Paul Rotha	Wartime prison raid
1962	USA	Hell Is for Heroes	Don Siegel	Western front
1962	Italy	Le quattro giornate di Napoli (The Four Days of Naples)	Nanni Loy	Four Days of Naples.
1962	USA	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Vincente Minnelli	Story of German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism & anti-Nazism; AKA The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962	USA Philippines	Lost Battalion	Eddie Romero	Guerilla leader with vast knowledge of island jungle attempts rescue of American refugees pinned by Japanese in Philippines
1962	USA	The Longest Day	Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin	Normandy landings
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	Greece	Psila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler)	Panos Glykofridis	Dark comedy depicting Greek Resistance
1962	Philippines	Suicide Commandoes	Armando Garces	Six Filipino Guerrilas aide Lieutenant in destroying Japanese airport during Battle of Bessang Pass.
1962	Poland	Walter P-38 (TV)	Edward Etler	Polish Resistance
1962	UK	The War Lover	Philip Leacock	American bomber crews in England
1963	USA Philippines	Cry of Battle	Irving Lerner	Mercenary fighting with partisans in Philippines during Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
1963	Poland	Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?)	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy depicting Eastern Front, 1945
1963	USA	The Great Escape	John Sturges	Allied POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III
1963	Hungary	Két félidő a pokolban (Two half-times in hell)	Zoltán Fábri	Drama depicting soccer match between POWs & Germans
1963	Poland	Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails)	Jarosław Brzozowski	Nazi & Polish forces in Arctic at end of war
1963	East Germany	Nackt unter Wölfen (Naked Among Wolves)	Frank Beyer	Film based on Bruno Apitz novel depicting hidden child in Buchenwald Concentration Camp until self-liberation
1963	Poland	Naganiacz (Manhunter)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Holocaust in Poland
1963	Poland	Pasażerka (Passenger)	Andrzej Munk	Female SS officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau & her relationship with inmate
1963	UK	The Password is Courage	Andrew Stone	True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward
1963	Philippines	Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig	Pablo Santiago	Heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
1963	USA	PT 109	Leslie H. Martinson	John F. Kennedy's Naval service on Pacific Front
1963	USA	The Quick and the Dead	Robert Totten	American soldiers attempt return to friendly lines aided by partisans during Italian Campaign, 1944.
1963	Philippines USA	The Raiders of Leyte Gulf	Eddie Romero	Philippines before Battle of Leyte.
1963	Philippines	Sierra Madre	Armando A. Herrera	Campaigns of demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
1963	Philippines	Sigaw ng Digmaan	Efren Reyes, Sr.	Philippine Army (1941) Resistance
1963	Finland	Sissit (Commando Assault)	Mikko Niskanen	Guerrilla warfare during Continuation War
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; AKA 10 Uhr 30: Attentat
1964	USA	Back Door to Hell	Monte Hellman	American commandos prepare way for Gen. MacArthur's return to Philippines
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 & Pacific
1964	Poland	Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw)	Stanisław Lenartowicz	Comedy depicting Italian soldier in Poland, 1943
1964	Philippines USA	Intramuros (The Walls of Hell)	Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León	Battle of Intramuros.
1964	Italy Soviet Union	Italiani brava gente (Attack and Retreat)	Giuseppe De Santis	Depicts unheralded & unsuccessful Eastern Front invasion of Soviet Union by Italian army; AKA Oni shli na vostok
1964	Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)	ჯარისკაცის მამა (Father of a Soldier)	Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze)	Peasant leaves Georgian village for front lines to find wounded soldier son; AKA Jariskatsis mama, AKA Otets soldata
1964	Poland	Koniec naszego świata (End of our World)	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz
1964	USA	McHale's Navy	Edward Montagne	Comedy depicting American PT boat crew in Southwest Pacific Theatre
1964	Philippines	Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor	Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres	Battle of Corregidor
1964	Poland	Nieznany (The Unknown)	Witold Lesiewicz	Soviet Gulag & Eastern Front, 1943–44
1964	Poland	Pierwszy dzień wolności (The First Day of Freedom)	Aleksander Ford	Polish POWs in Germany, 1945
1964	Poland	Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Resistance
1964	USA	The Secret Invasion	Roger Corman	Allied convicts recruited for mission to capture Nazi-imprisoned Italian general planning to switch sides & turnover army to Allies
1964	UK	The Secret of Blood Island	Quentin Lawrence	British POWs help wounded female agent escape Japanese; loosely-based sequel to 1958 film, The Camp on Blood Island
1964	USA	Shell Shock	John Hayes	Italian Campaign
1964	USA	The Thin Red Line	Andrew Marton	Guadalcanal Campaign.
1964	USA France Italy	The Train	John Frankenheimer	Resistance in Occupied France
1964	France	Week-end à Zuydcoote (Weekend at Dunkirk)	Henri Verneuil	Battle of Dunkirk
1965	USA	36 Hours	George Seaton	Germans kidnap American officer to convince him it is 1948 & war is over, early June 1944
1965	Czechoslovakia	A pátý jezdec je strach (...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear)	Zbyněk Brynych	Holocaust film examines debilitating mental effects of oppression in Prague during Nazi occupation
1965	Hungary	A tizedes meg a többiek (The Corporal and Others)	Márton Keleti	Comedy depicting Hungarian soldiers attempting surrender to Russian army
1965	USA	Battle of the Bulge	Ken Annakin	Ardennes Offensive
1965	Poland	Buty (The Boots) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Eastern Front military hospital
1965	Poland	Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Poland, 1944
1965	Poland France West Germany	Czas pokoju (TV) (The Moment of Peace)	Georges Franju, Tadeusz Konwicki, Egon Monk, Wojciech Solarz	Anthology film depicting occupation stories in France, Germany & Poland
1965	UK	The Heroes of Telemark	Anthony Mann	Norwegian resistance movement & Operation Gunnerside
1965	UK	The Hill	Sidney Lumet	Life in North African military prison
1965	Philippines	Iginuhit ng Tadhana (The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story)	Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde	Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
1965	USA	In Harm's Way	Otto Preminger	Pacific Theater of Operations
1965	USA	King Rat	Otto Preminger	Adaptation of James Clavell novel depicting Allied POWs under Japanese
1965	USA	McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force	Edward Montagne	American PT boat crew in Pacific Theatre of Operations; motion picture comedy sequel to McHale's Navy
1965	Poland	Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV)	Lech Lorentowicz	Eastern Front, 1945
1965	USA Japan	None But the Brave	Frank Sinatra	American & Japanese soldiers temporarily unite to survive on Pacific Island
1965	Czechoslovakia	Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street)	Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos	Slovak film depicting Aryanization of Slovak State
1965	UK	Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission)	Michael Anderson	Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow
1965	Poland	Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series)	Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki	Polish Resistance, 1941–45
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	Filipino guerrillas on mission to rescue American soldiers with important information that may aide guerrilla movement.
1965	Poland	Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV)	Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki	German occupation of Poland
1965	UK	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	Musical-drama depicting Von Trapp family during Nazi Anschluss
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 Second Sino-Japanese War
1965	USA	Von Ryan's Express	Mark Robson	British & American POWs escape Italian camps
1965	Poland	Wózek (The Cart) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Soviet POWs in Poland
1966	Japan	Akai tenshi (Red Angel)	Yasuzo Masumura	Japanese Army nurse serving in field hospitals of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war
1966	Soviet Union (Latvian SSR)	Akmens un šķembas (Rocks and Splinters; uncut version)	Rolands Kalnins	Latvian Legion on Leningrad Front; AKA Es visu atceros, Ricard! (I Remember Everything, Richard; cut version), AKA Dzimtene, piedod
1966	USA	Ambush Bay	Ron Winston	US Marine Corps amphibious reconnaissance scouts prior to 1944 American invasion of The Philippines
1966	Denmark	Der var engang en krig (Once There Was a War)	Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt	Life of Danish boy after occupation
1966	Poland	Don Gabriel	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Comedy depicting Polish Campaign, 1939
1966	Israel UK USA	Judith	Daniel Mann	Woman betrayed by her Nazi husband is interred in Dachau concentration camp & seeks revenge; AKA Conflict
1966	Poland	Kontrybucja (Contribution)	Jan Łomnicki	Polish Resistance
1966	France	La Grande Vadrouille	Gérard Oury	Comedy depicting RAF crew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets
1966	France	La ligne de démarcation (Line of Demarcation)	Claude Chabrol	Life in small town cut in half by river that forms border between Nazi-occupied France & unoccupied zone, 1941
1966	USA	Mission to Death	Kenneth W. Richardson	American commandos infiltrate German lines in Northern France to destroy secret target, 1945
1966	Poland	Mistrz (The Master) (TV)	Jerzy Antczak	German Occupation of Poland
1966	UK France	The Night of the Generals	Anatole Litvak	July 20 plot
1966	Czechoslovakia	Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains)	Jiří Menzel	Unlikely hero takes stand against German occupation
1966	USA France	Paris brûle-t-il? (Is Paris Burning?)	René Clément	Liberation of Paris
1966	USA	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?	Blake Edwards	Allied invasion of Sicily
1967	UK	Attack on the Iron Coast	Paul Wendkos	Canadian Commando plans Combined Operations raid on Nazi held French port; loosely based on St. Nazaire Raid
1967	USA	Beach Red	Cornel Wilde	Pacific Theater of Operations
1967	USA	The Dirty Dozen	Robert Aldrich	Battle of Normandy
1967	Poland	Długa noc (Long Night)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Resistance during German Occupation, 1943
1967	Poland West Germany	Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime)	Jan Rybkowski	German homefront
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	Kyūjō Incident.
1967	Poland	Westerplatte	Stanisław Różewicz	Battle of Westerplatte
1967	Poland	Zosia (Zosya)	Jerzy Lipman	Romantic-war film depicting Poland's Eastern Front
1967	Poland	Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night)	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	Comedy depicting Polish Resistance
1968	Philippines	Ang Mangliligpit	Pablo Santiago	Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with Makapili.
1968	Italy	Anzio	Edward Dmytryk	Battle of Anzio
1968	USA	The Devil's Brigade	Andrew V. McLaglen	Devil's Brigade
1968	USA	Hell in the Pacific	John Boorman	Marooned American & Japanese soldiers on Japanese island
1968	USA	The Hell with Heroes	Joseph Sargent	Former USAAF pilots forced to work for international smuggler in North Africa to earn money needed for return to civilian life, 1946
1968	Japan	The Human Bullet	Kihachi Okamato	Kamikaze soldier
1968	East Germany	Ich war neunzehn (I was Nineteen)	Konrad Wolf	Based on director's diary, film depicts young German's flight from Nazis to Moscow & return to Berlin as Russian Army Officer
1968	Soviet Union (Estonian SSR)	Inimesed sõdurisinelis (People in Soldier’s Uniforms)	Jüri Müür	Mobilized Estonian conscripts in Red Army at battles of Velikiye Luki & Tehumardi; AKA Ljudi b soldatskikh shinelyah
1968	Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)	Jvartsmuli kundzuli (Chained Island)	Shota Managadze
1968	Poland	Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin)	Jerzy Passendorfer	Eastern Front, 1945
1968	West Germany	Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life)	Werner Herzog	Wounded German soldiers assigned to Greek island of Kos to convalesce
1968	Philippines	Manila, Open City	Eddie Romero	Manila Massacre & Battle of Manila.
1968	Czechoslovakia	Nebeští jezdci (Riders in the Sky)	Jindřich Polák	Czech pilots in RAF; AKA Heaven Riders
1968	Albania	Prita (Ambush)	Mithat Fagu	Albanian Resistance under German occupation, 1943
1968	USA	The Secret War of Harry Frigg	Jack Smight	Comedy depicting POW escape of American Generals held in a special Italian camp
1968	Soviet Union	Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword)	Vladimir Basov	Soviet spy in German intelligence
1968	UK	Submarine X-1	William A. Graham	Royal Navy midget submarines
1968		Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (Hell in Normandy)	Alfonso Brescia	American paratrooper commandos in France prior to D-Day
1968	USA	Where Eagles Dare	Brian G. Hutton	Allied operation to rescue captured "American General"
1969	Italy	36 ore all'inferno (36 Hours in Hell)	Roberto Bianchi Montero	Marine platoon scouts Japanese held island before Allied occupation for launch of invasion of Rabaul
1969	Italy	5 per l'inferno (Five for Hell)	Gianfranco Parolini	Lighthearted film depicting oddball GIs with mission to find secret German plans behind enemy lines; AKA Five into Hell
1969	UK	Battle of Britain	Guy Hamilton	Battle of Britain
1969	Yugoslavia	"Bitka na Neretvi (The Battle of Neretva)	Veljko Bulajić	Battle of Neretva
1969	USA	The Bridge at Remagen	John Guillermin	Operation Lumberjack on Western Front
1969	Poland	Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification)	Jerzy Passendorfer	Polish Resistance & Soviet Partisans in Poland, 1944
1969	Italy	Eagles Over London	Enzo G. Castellari	British officers pursue Nazi saboteurs though London
1969	UK	Hannibal Brooks	Michael Winner	POW escapes to Switzerland with elephant
1969	Italy	I diavoli della guerra (War Devils)	Bitto Albertini	Action-Drama depicting small units in North African desert battle and French villa raid
1969	Italy	Il Dito nella piaga (Salt in the Wound)	Tonino Ricci	Condemned American soldiers survive Nazi ambush on way to execution & defend Italian village from invading Nazi force; AKA The Dirty Two
1969	Poland	Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War)	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy depicting Polish Campaign (1939), Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, & Poland (1944)
1969	Poland	Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan)	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Battle of Kolberg (1945) on Eastern Front
1969	Italy	La Battaglia di El Alamein (The Battle of El Alamein)	Giorgio Ferroni	Second Battle of El Alamein
1969	Italy Germany	La caduta degli dei (The Damned)	Luchino Visconti	First of trilogy depicting wealthy, industrialist family during Hitler's rise to power; AKA Götterdämmmerung
1969	France Italy	L'Armée des Ombres (Army of Shadows)	Jean-Pierre Melville	French Resistance
1969	Soviet Union	Освобождение (Liberation)	Yuri Ozerov	Film series depicting Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin; AKA Osvobozhdenie
1969	USA	Love Camp 7	Lee Frost	Female British officers infiltrate Nazi internment camp to reach inmate scientist; AKA Nazi Love Camp 7
1969	UK	Mosquito Squadron	Boris Sagal	British bomber squadron targets German research camp & Vergeltungswaffe
1969	Albania	Njësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit)	Hysen Hakani	Guerrilla resistance in Tirana during occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy
1969	Poland	Ostatnie dni (The Last Days)	Jerzy Passendorfer	Eastern Front, 1945
1969	Philippines	Pambihirang tatlo	Felix Villar	Filipino mission to destroy Japanese bastion along San Bernardino Strait.
1969	UK	Play Dirty	Andre de Toth	North African Campaign
1969	Poland	Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours)	Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski	Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939
1969	USA	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Stanley Kramer	Aftermath of fall of Fascist government of Benito Mussolini
1969	USA	The Thousand Plane Raid	Boris Sagal	Fictionalized account of largest air armada on daytime mission targeting German fighter plane production; AKA The 1,000 Plane Raid
1969	Poland	Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day)	Jan Rybkowski	Lwów, Poland during Soviet & German Occupation, 1941

1970s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1970	USA	Catch-22	Mike Nichols	Italian Campaign
1970	UK USA	Hell Boats	Paul Wendkos	British motor torpedo boats operating in Mediterranean
1970	Japan	Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' (Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists)	Hiromichi Horikawa	Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War.
1970	USA Italy	Hornet's Nest	Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino	Commando & partisan raid to destroy dam during Italian Campaign
1970	Italy	I Leopardi di Churchill (Churchill's Leopards)	Maurizio Pradeaux	English agent posing as his dead German officer twin brother assists French Resistance and British commandos against Nazi SS, 1944
1970	Italy West Germany	Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)	Vittorio de Sica	Drama depicts wealthy Jewish-Italian family in pre-war Italy
1970	USA Yugoslavia	Kelly's Heroes	Brian G. Hutton	Western Front
1970	Poland	Kolumbowie	Janusz Morgenstern	Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944
1970	UK	The Last Escape	Walter Grauman	Allied commandos on mission/race to kidnap German scientists, 1945
1970	Poland Soviet Union	Legenda	Sylwester Chęciński	Polish Resistance
1970	Ireland UK	The McKenzie Break	Lamont Johnson	Irish intelligence officer investigates German POW camp disturbances in Scotland near end of war; AKA Escape
1970	Philippines	Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force)	Jerry Hopper	Japanese invasion of Manila Bay
1970	Denmark	Oktoberdage	Bent Christensen
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 Soviet Union	Sunflower (I Girasoli)	Vittorio De Sica	Romantic-drama depicts end of war search for Italian soldier lost on Eastern Front; first Occidental film made in USSR
1970	USA	Too Late the Hero	Robert Aldrich	British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign; AKA Suicide Run
1970	USA Japan	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda	Attack on Pearl Harbor
1970	Poland	Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel)	Zbigniew Chmielewski	Drama depicting children in Nazi concentration camp in Lodz, Poland
1970	Poland	Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire)	Lech Lorentowicz	Zakopane Polish Resistance in Tatra Mountains
1971	Poland	Agent nr 1 (Top Agent)	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Polish SOE agent in Greek Resistance
1971	USA	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Robert Stevenson	Disney children's musical depicting German raid on England repulsed with magic, 1940
1971	UK	Dad's Army	Norman Cohen	Comedy based on Dad's Army TV series depicting British Home Guard
1971	Japan	Gekido no Showashi: Okinawa kessen (The Battle of Okinawa)	Kihachi Okamoto	Battle of Okinawa from eyes of Japanese Army, Navy, Air Force, civilians, and Generals who commanded them
1971	UK	Murphy's War	Peter Yates	Battle of the Atlantic
1971	Soviet Union	Проверка на дорогах (Trial on the Road)	Aleksei German	Former Russian POW joins partisans, Winter 1942; AKA Proverka na dorogakh
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	Comedy depicting Greek Resistance
1971	Poland	Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night)	Andrzej Żuławski	Polish Resistance
1972	Soviet Union	А зори здесь тихие (The Dawns Here are Quiet)	Stanislav Rostotsky	Film based on eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev depicts female Soviet anti-aircraft squad encounter with platoon of Nazi paratroopers on Karelian Front, 1941; AKA A zori zdes tikhie
1972	Soviet Union	Горячий снег (The Hot Snow)	Gavriil Yegiazarov	Adaptation of Yuri Bondarev novel depicting German attempt to extract Sixth Army from Stalingrad in Winter of 1942; AKA Goryachiy Sneg
1972	Japan	軍旗はためく下に (Under the Flag of the Rising Sun)	Kinji Fukasaku	Japanese veterans recall experiences of war widow on quest to exonerate husband executed for desertion; AKA Gunki hatameku motoni
1972	India	Lalkaar [Lalkar (The Challenge)]	Ramanand Sagar	Burma Campaign, 1941–1945
1973	USA	Death Race (TV)	David Lowell Rich	German panzer chases American P-40 across North African desert, 1942; 'State of Division'
1973	Philippines	Dugo ng Bayan	Armando A. Herrera	Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.
1973	UK Italy	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Ennio De Concini	Last days of Adolf Hitler during Battle of Berlin; AKA Gli ultimi 10 giorni di Hitler
1973	Poland	Hubal	Bohdan Poręba	Polish Campaign, 1939–1940
1973	France	Le Train (The Last Train)	Pierre Granier-Deferre	Frenchman & Jewish-German woman meet on train while escaping German army to France; AKA The Train
1973	France	Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?)	Robert Lamoureux	Comedy depicting French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle; first of trilogy
1973	Italy	Massacre in Rome	George P. Cosmatos	Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine
1973	Yugoslavia	Sutjeska (The Battle of Sutjeska)	Stipe Delić	Battle of the Sutjeska
1973	Hong Kong South Korea	跆拳震九州 (When Taekwondo Strikes)	Feng Huang	Martial arts film depicting Japanese occupation of Korea; AKA Tai quan zhen jiu zhou, AKA Heuggwon
1973	People's Republic of China	小八路 (Little 8th Route Army)	Lei You	Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Xiaobalu [animated film]
1973	Poland	Zasieki (Barbed Wire)	Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski	Polish Campaign, 1939; Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front, 1943
1974	UK	Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall	Norman Cohen	Comedy depicting early WWII basic training of British conscripts
1974	USA	The Execution of Private Slovik (TV)	Lamont Johnson	Film based on nonfiction book by William Bradford Huie depicts Polish-American Private Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion during WWII
1974	Poland	Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars)	Janusz Kondratiuk	Eastern Front & German Occupation of Poland, 1944
1974	France West Germany Italy	Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien)	Louis Malle	French Resistance & collaboration
1974	France	Les guichets du Louvre (Black Thursday)	Michel Mitrani	Story of first large-scale roundup of Jews in Paris & man saving as many Jews as possible, 1942
1974	Soviet Union (Estonian SSR)	Ohtlikud mängud (The Dangerous Games)	Veljo Käsper	Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
1974	Republic of China (Taiwan)	英烈千秋 (The Everlasting Glory)	Tin Shan Sui	Biography of Zhang Zizhong during Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Ying lie qian qiu
1974	Poland Soviet Union	Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Remember Your Name)	Siergiej Kołosow	Tragedy of children in war; AKA Pomni imya svoye
1975	East Germany Czechoslovakia	Jacob, the Liar	Frank Beyer	Depiction of East-European Jewish ghetto, 1944
1975	Poland	Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Campaign, 1939
1975	France	On a retrouvé la septième compagnie (The Seventh Company Has Been Found)	Robert Lamoureux	Comedy depicting French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle & in officers POW camp/castle; second of trilogy
1975	Soviet Union	Они сражались за Родину (They Fought for Their Country)	Sergey Bondarchuk	Rearguard action of Soviet platoon during German drive on Stalingrad; AKA Oni srazhalis' za Rodinu
1975	Poland	Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen)	Stanisław Różewicz	Polish Resistance
1975	USA Czechoslovakia	Operation Daybreak	Lewis Gilbert	Operation Anthropoid
1975	Greece	O thiasos (The Travelling Players)	Theodoros Angelopoulos	German invasion & occupation of Greece
1975	UK	Overlord	Stuart Cooper	Young soldier trains with East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for Normandy landings
1975	Poland	Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument)	Janusz Zaorski	Polish Resistance
1975	Italy	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom)	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Film depicting four wealthy, corrupted, fascist libertines after the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò, 1944
1975	Italy	Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties)	Lina Wertmüller	Satirical dark comedy depicting Neapolitan mobster conscripted in Italian army to avoid prison & service on Eastern Front
1975	France	Section spéciale (Special Section)	Costa-Gavras	Special court room where judges condemn innocents to death penalty to please Germans during French Occupation
1975	Soviet Union	В бой идут одни старики (Only Old Men Are Going to Battle)	Leonid Bykov	Dramedy depicting Soviet pilots; AKA V boy idut odni stariki
1975	Poland	W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring)	Andrzej Konic	Eastern Front, 1945
1976	Denmark	Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer)	Edward Fleming	Woman falls in love with German soldier
1976	UK	The Eagle Has Landed	John Sturges	Based on novel by Jack Higgins depicting German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill
1976	USA	Farewell to Manzanar (TV)	John Korty	Story of Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar
1976	Japan	はだしのゲン (Barefoot Gen)	Tengo Yamada	Live-action depiction of dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan; AKA Hadashi no Gen
1976	Republic of China (Taiwan)	電影 (Victory)	Chia Chang Liu	Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945); AKA Mei hua
1976	USA	Midway (The Battle of Midway)	Jack Smight	Battle of Midway
1976	France Italy	Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein)	Joseph Losey	French Resistance & collaboration
1976	Poland	Ocalić miasto (To Save the City)	Jan Łomnicki	Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945
1976	Japan	天空的武士 (Zero Pilot)	Seiji Maruyama	Based on novel Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero; AKA Ôzora no samurai
1976	Poland	Polskie drogi (Polish Roads TV Mini-series)	Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern	Poland, 1939–43; in four-parts
1976	Poland	Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds)	Paweł Komorowski	Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939
1976	Italy	Salon Kitty (Madam Kitty)	Tinto Brass	Film based on actual events depicting Nazi use of Salon Kitty brothel for espionage & Allied counter-espionage
1976	Philippines	Tatlong taong walang Diyos	Mario O'Hara	Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
1976	UK	Voyage of the Damned	Stuart Rosenberg	Depicts Captain Gustav Schröder's attempts to find home for 937 German-Jewish refugees aboard German ocean liner MS St. Louis after being denied entry into Cuba, US & Canada, 1939
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; AKA Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz
1977	France	La septième compagnie au clair de lune (The Seventh Company Outdoors)	Robert Lamoureux	Comedy depicting French signal corpsmen resisting German invasion/occupation; last of trilogy
1977	USA	MacArthur	Joseph Sargent	General Douglas MacArthur
1977	Poland	Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV)	Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska	German Occupation of Poland & Gestapo murder of Olympic gold-medalist Janusz Kusociński
1977	Poland	Palace Hotel	Ewa Kruk	Poland, 1939–44
1977	Netherlands	Soldier of Orange (Survival Run)	Paul Verhoeven	Dutch Resistance
1977	France Spain	Train spécial pour SS (Hitler's Last Train)	Alain Payet	Rail journey of nightclub singer & young women in her charge drafted by Hitler for SS service; AKA Tren especial para Hitler
1977	Soviet Union	Восхождение (The Ascent)	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet partisans search for food in Belarusian village & are spotted by German patrol; AKA Voskhozhdeniye
1977	Czechoslovakia	Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea)	Jindrich Polák	Comedy sci-fi film depicting time travel by aging former Nazis conspiring to alter results of Second World War
1978	Poland	... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie (Wherever You Are, Mr. President)	Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki	Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939
1978	Poland	Akcja pod Arsenalem (Operation Arsenal)	Jan Lomnicki	Szare Szeregi & Operation Arsenal during Nazi occupation of Poland
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	Five-part miniseries about a family enduring the Holocaust
1978	Netherlands	Pastorale 1943	Wim Verstappen	Dutch Resistance
1978	Italy	Quel maledetto treno blindato (The Inglorious Bastards)	Enzo G. Castellari	American soldiers escape military prison & aide French resistance on mission to steal Nazi V-2 prototype gyroscope; AKA Counterfeit Commandos
1978	Poland	Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores)	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	Polish soldier escapes Stalag & tasked with delivering special information across Europe to London while narrowly evading Gestapo
1978	Poland	Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration)	Edward Żebrowski	Drama depicting Polish psychiatric hospital & its Gestapo roundup for Concentration camps, 1943
1978	Poland	Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow Dead)	Julian Dziedzina	Silesia Polish Resistance
1979	USA	1941	Steven Spielberg	Comedy depicting California coast one week after attack on Pearl Harbor
1979	Poland	Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go)	Władysław Ślesicki	Polish soldier's escape from Stalag
1979	Poland	Elegia (Elegy)	Paweł Komorowski	Eastern Front, 1945
1979	UK	Escape to Athena	George Pan Cosmatos	German-occupied Greece
1979	Poland	Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars)	Henryk Bielski	Eastern Front, 1944
1979	UK USA	Hanover Street	Peter Hyams	American bomber crews based in England
1979	USA	Ike (TV miniseries)	Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson	Story (& love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II
1979	Albania	Radiostacioni	Rikard Ljarja	Film based on novel Novembre d'une capitale by Ismail Kadare depicting Albanian Resistance attempt to take over Tirana Radio, November 1944; AKA The Radio Station
1979	Poland	Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma)	Roman Wionczek	Enigma machine; Poland, France, England
1979	West Germany	Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough)	Andrew V. McLaglen	July 20 plot
1979	Italy Spain France	From Hell to Victory	"Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi)	Occupied Europe; AKA Contro 4 bandiere
1979	Soviet Union (Estonian SSR)	Tuulte pesa (Nest in the Winds)	Olev Neuland	Forest Brothers
1979	UK	Yanks	John Schlesinger	Americans stationed in England
1979	Poland	Zielone lata (Salad Days)	Stanisław Jędryka	Drama depicting tragedy of Polish, Jewish & German children in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1939

1980s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1980	USA	The Big Red One	Samuel Fuller	US 1st Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, & Europe, 1942–45
1980	Poland	Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day)	Tadeusz Kijański	Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980	USA	The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific)	Don Taylor	Sci-fi film depicting modern US nuclear aircraft carrier lost in storm & arriving in South West Pacific Theatre on December 7, 1941
1980	Poland	Godzina "W" ("W" Hour)	Janusz Morgenstern	Polish Resistance & Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980	Philippines	Kalibre .45	Nilo Saez	Story of vengeance near end of Japanese occupation of the Philippines; AKA .45-Caliber
1980	France	Le dernier métro (The Last Metro)	François Truffaut	German occupation of France
1980	Poland	Olimpiada '40	Andrzej Kotkowski	Clandestine Olympiad held by Allied prisoners in German Stalag, 1940; AKA '40 Olympics
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	Polish Resistance & Zamość, Poland
1981	France	Allons Z'enfants (Let's Go Children)	Yves Boisset	Drama depicting young Cadet in French military school that doesn't like soldiering but conscripted into Phony War service, 1939–40
1981	Poland	Bołdyn (General Boldyn)	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Polish Resistance
1981	USA	The Bunker	George Schaefer	Based on novel The Bunker depicting last days of Adolf Hitler
1981	West Germany	Das Boot (The Boat)	Wolfgang Petersen	Battle of the Atlantic
1981	Switzerland West Germany Austria	Das Boot ist voll (The Boat is Full)	Markus Imhoof	German & Austrian refugees escape to Neutral Switzerland hoping to find asylum by posing as family
1981	USA	Escape to Victory (Victory)	John Huston	Football match between German soldiers & Allied POWs
1981	UK	Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand	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	Music-Drama depicting four musical families of different backgrounds & nationalities followed from 1930s–1980s as their paths cross; film also released as TV Mini-series, 1981
1981	Japan	連合艦隊 (The Imperial Navy)	Shūe Matsubayashi	Operation Ten-Go; AKA Rengo kantai
1981	Poland	Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye)	Stanisław Różewicz	Polish Resistance
1982	Australia	Attack Force Z	Tim Burstall	Z Special Unit; AKA Z Force
1982	West Germany	Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose)	Michael Verhoeven	Execution of White Rose members
1982	Poland	Do góry nogami (Upside Down)	Stanisław Jędryka	Drama depicting Polish Silesia & tragedy of children in war
1982	Poland	Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute to a Gray Day)	Roman Wionczek, Krzysztof Prymek	Polish Resistance; AKA Tribute of Grey Day
1982	Australia	The Highest Honour (The Southern Cross)	Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell	Operation Rimau; AKA Heroes of the Krait
1982	Italy	La Notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars)	Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani	Dramedy depicting Italians & rumors Nazis plan to raze their town & that Americans are about liberate them, 1944
1982	Philippines	Oro, Plata, Mata (Gold, Silver, Death)	Peque Gallaga	Fall of Corregidor
1982	Poland	Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV)	Ryszard Ber	Polish village under German occupation
1982	USA	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	Holocaust
1983	Japan	Barefoot Gen	Mori Masaki	Anime film depicting dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan [animated film]
1983	Hong Kong	等待黎 (Hong Kong, 1941)	Leong Po-Chih	Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; AKA Dang doi lai ming
1983	Denmark	Forræderne	Ole Roos	Drama depicting Free Corps Denmark deserters from Eastern Front, 1945; AKA Traitors
1983	Hungary	Jób lázadása (The Revolt of Job)	Imre Gyöngyössy	Story of childless Jewish couple in Hungary who adopt Hungarian boy during war; AKA Job's Revolt
1983	Poland	Kartka z podróży (Postcard From a Journey)	Waldemar Dziki	Holocaust in Poland
1983	Poland	Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar)	Bohdan Poręba	Drama depicting biography of General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces, 1943
1983	UK Japan	Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (戦場のメリークリスマス)	Nagisa Oshima	British POWs on Java Island; AKA Senjô no merî Kurisumasu, AKA Furyo
1983	Poland	Nie było słońca tej wiosny (There Was No Sun That Spring)	Juliusz Janicki, Slawomir Janicki	Holocaust in Poland; AKA There Was No Sun
1983	France	Papy fait de la résistance (Gramps is in the Resistance)	Jean-Marie Poiré	Comedy depicting French Resistance in Occupied France
1983	Philippines	Roman Rapido	Argel Joseph	Battle of Filipino soldiers & guerrillas with Imperial Japanese Army
1983	USA UK Italy	The Scarlet and the Black (TV)	Jerry London	Drama depicting biography of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty & anti-Nazi activity, 1943–45
1983	USA	To Be or Not to Be	Alan Johnson	Dramedy depicting Polish actor & Nazi invasion of Poland; AKA Mel Brooks' To Be or Not to Be; remake of 1942 film, To Be or Not to Be
1983	Poland	Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV)	Stefan Szlachtycz	Holocaust in Poland
1983	Poland West Germany	Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee)	Jerzy Hoffman	Holocaust in Poland
1983	USA	Winds of War (TV Mini-series)	Dan Curtis	Drama series based on novel by Herman Wouk depicting saga of family & events leading to Attack on Pearl Harbor
1983	People's Republic of China	一个和八个 (One and Eight)	Zhang Junzhao	Criminals & deserters from Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China; AKA Yīge hé bāge
1984	Poland	Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day)	Ludmiła Niedbalska	Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1984	People's Republic of China	黄土地 (Yellow Earth)	Chen Kaige	Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Huáng tǔdì
1984	Australia	The Last Bastion (TV mini-series)	Gearge Miller	War from Australian perspective
1984	Poland	Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard)	Kazimierz Kutz	Polish Resistance in Silesia, 1939–42
1984	Poland	Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder)	Waldemar Podgórski	Polish Campaign, 1939
1984	Poland	Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV)	Stanisław Jędryka	Polish Resistance, 1941
1984	Soviet Union (Estonian SSR)	Võõra nime all	Peeter Urbla	Estonians in Soviet gulag; AKA Under a False Name
1984	West Germany	Die Wannseekonferenz (The Wannsee Conference) (TV)	Heinz Schirk	German officials attend Wannsee Conference in 1942 by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss Final Solution to Jewish question
1985	Soviet Union	The Battle for Moscow	Yuri Ozerov	Operation Barbarossa to Battle of Moscow
1985	Japan	The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa	Burma Campaign; remake version
1985	USA	Code Name: Emerald	Jonathan Sanger	Battle of Normandy
1985	Netherlands	De IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour)	Dimitri Frenkel Frank	Drama depicting romance between Dutch woman and Wehrmacht officer
1985	USA	The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (TV)	Andrew V. McLaglen	Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" mission to "prevent" assassination of Hitler; AKA Dirty Dozen 2
1985	Netherlands	Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet)	Kees van Oostrum	Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam
1985	Soviet Union	Иди и смотри (Come and See)	Elem Klimov	Eastern Front; AKA "Idi i smotri
1985	Poland Czechoslovakia	Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo In a Dark Forest)	Antonín Moskalyk	Drama depicting German occupation of Czechoslovakia, concentration camp kommandant & child in war; AKA Kukačka v temném lese, AKA ''Cuckoo In the Dark Forest
1985	Japan	瀬降り物語 (The Seburi Story)	Sadao Nakajima	Hardships of culturally isolated & nomadic Seburi people of western Japan during war; AKA Seburi monogatari
1985	Romania	Noi, cei din linia întâi (Us, The Frontline)	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Romanians fighting on Western Front & Hungary; AKA The Last Assault
1985	Poland	Tate (Dad)	Jan Rutkiewicz	Holocaust in Poland
1985	Finland	Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)	Rauni Mollberg	Finno-Soviet Continuation War; remake of 1955 film, Tuntematon sotilas
1985	Poland	W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred)	Wojciech Żółtowski	Holocaust in Poland, 1943
1986	Netherlands	De Aanslag (The Assault)	Fons Rademakers	Romance-Drama based on novel by Harry Mulisch depicting family killed by Germans as retribution for Dutch Resistance assassination, 1945; Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
1986	Netherlands	In de schaduw van de overwinning (Shadow Of Victory)	Ate de Jong	Dutch Resistance
1986	Poland Switzerland	Kołysanka (The Lullabye)	Efraim Sevela	Holocaust in Poland
1986	Poland	Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War)	Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz	Polish Resistance
1986	Japan	海と毒薬 (映画) (The Sea and Poison)	Kei Kumai	Pacific War; AKA Umi to dokuyaku
1987	France	Au revoir, les enfants (Au Revoir Les Enfants)	Louis Malle	Jewish boys given shelter & new identity at Catholic boarding school in Vichy France; AKA Goodbye Children
1987	USA Yugoslavia	The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV)	Lee H. Katzin	Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" mission to halt enemy production of nerve gas in France; AKA Dirty Dozen 3
1987	USA	Empire of the Sun	Steven Spielberg	Allied prisoners in Shanghai Japanese internment camp
1987	UK Yugoslavia	Escape from Sobibor (Bekstvo iz Sobibora) (TV)	Jack Gold	Sobibor Uprising during Holocaust
1987	UK	Hope and Glory	John Boorman	The Blitz
1987	USA UK Yugoslavia	The Misfit Brigade	Gordon Hessler	Lighthearted film depicting armored Strafbattalion of 27th Panzers on Eastern Front; AKA Wheels of Terror
1988	USA	Biloxi Blues	Mike Nichols	Lighthearted adaptation of semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon depicting wartime US Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi
1988	USA Yugoslavia Italy	The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV)	Lee H. Katzin	Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" mission to halt formation of Fourth Reich in Macedonia; AKA Dirty Dozen 4
1988	USA	Farewell to the King	John Milius	Anti-Japanese Resistance on Borneo
1988	Japan	火垂るの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies)	Isao Takahata	Firebombing of Kobe; AKA Hotaru no Haka [animated film]
1988	Poland USA	I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing)	Alexander Ramati	Romani people forced to flee from Nazis at height of Porajmos (Romani Holocaust)
1988	Poland	Kornblumenblau	Leszek Wosiewicz	Based on true story depicting Polish musician surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp because he could play "Kornblumenblau" on accordion; AKA Blue Cornflower
1988	Japan	明日 (Tomorrow)	Kazuo Kuroki	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; AKA Míngrì
1988	Hong Kong	黑太阳731 (Men Behind the Sun)	Mou Tun Fei	731部隊, or "Nana-san-ichi butai" (Unit 731) & Japanese human experimentation on Chinese; AKA Hēi tài yáng 731
1988	Poland Soviet Union	Przeprawa (Passage)	Wiktor Turow	Polish Resistance, Soviet partisans & Operation Sturmwind, 1944
1988	People's Republic of China	红高粱 (Red Sorghum)	Zhang Yimou	Young woman working at kaoliang distillery during Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Hóng gāoliáng
1988	UK	Return from the River Kwai	Andrew V. McLaglen	Loosely based on events of Burma-Thailand Death Railway depicting British POWs force-marched from Thailand to Japan
1988	Netherlands UK	Schaduwman (Shadowman)	Piotr Andrejew	Polish-Jewish refugee hiding in Occupied Amsterdam; AKA Shadow Man)
1988	People's Republic of China	晚钟 (Evening Bell)	Wu Ziniu	Immediate aftermath of Second Sino-Japanese War in China; AKA Wǎn zhōng
1988	USA	War and Remembrance (TV Mini-series)	Dan Curtis	Drama series based on novel by Herman Wouk depicting saga of family & events after Attack on Pearl Harbor; sequel to Winds of War (TV Mini-series)
1989	Philippines	Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice	Celso Ad. Castillo	Life of Filipina comfort women under Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
1989	USA	Fat Man and Little Boy	Roland Joffé	Manhattan project
1989	Japan	黒い雨 (Black Rain)	Shohei Imamura	Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima; AKA Kuroi ame
1989	Soviet Union	Stalingrad	Yuri Ozerov	Battle for Stalingrad
1989	Finland	Talvisota	Pekka Parikka	Winter War
1989	USA	Triumph of the Spirit	Robert M. Young	Story of Salamo Arouch
1989	Poland	Virtuti	Jacek Butrymowicz	Polish Campaign, 1939

1990s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1990	Australia	Blood Oath	Stephen Wallace	Japanese war crimes trial for the Laha massacre
1990	France	Docteur Petiot	Christian de Chalonge	Serial killer Marcel Petiot in Occupied France
1990	Germany	Europa Europa	Agnieszka Holland	A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth
1990	Sweden	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	Kjell Grede	Story of Raoul Wallenberg
1990	Poland	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda	The Holocaust in Poland: life of Dr. Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto
1990	USA	A Man Called Sarge	Stuart Gillard	Comedy - Western Desert Campaign, Second Battle of El Alamein and capture of Tobruk
1990	USA	Memphis Belle	Michael Caton-Jones	Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle
1991	Denmark	De nøgne træer (The Naked Trees)	Morten Henriksen	Depicts small group of Danish resistance fighters against German occupation, 1943–44
1991	Denmark	Drengene fra Sankt Petri (The Boys from St. Petri)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Danish resistance group
1991	Poland	Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest)	Jan Łomnicki	The Holocaust
1991	Italy	Mediterraneo	Gabriele Salvatores	Italian soldiers on a Greek island
1991	Poland Germany France	Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703)	Janusz Kijowski	The Holocaust
1992	Denmark USA	En dag i oktober (A Day in October)	Kenneth Madsen	About the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940s
1992	USA	A Midnight Clear	Keith Gordon	The Western Front
1992	Poland	Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle)	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Resistance, 1945/46
1992	Poland	Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters)	Robert Gliński	Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag
1993	Romania	Oglinda	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Downfall of Ion Antonescu
1993	Estonia Poland	Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear)	Marek Piestrak	NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939.
1993	USA	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust.
1993	Germany	Stalingrad	Joseph Vilsmaier	The Battle of Stalingrad.
1993	USA	Swing Kids	Thomas Carter	A college student forced into the Hitler-Jugend but is also a Swing Kid.
1993	Republic of China (Taiwan)	戲夢人生 (The Puppetmaster)	Hou Hsiao-Hsien	The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945); AKA Xi meng ren sheng
1994	USA Canada	The Ascent	Donald Shebib	Film based on actual events depicting Italians escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya
1994	France	Un jour avant l'aube	Jacques Ertaud	Story of a French SAS commando in Brittany, during the Normandy battle in 1944.
1995	Canada Japan	Hiroshima	Roger Spottiswoode	The atomic bombing of Hiroshima
1995	Denmark	Kun en pige (Just a Girl)	Peter Schrøder	About Lise Tønder Jensens life until the end of the war
1995	Australia	The Last Bullet	Michael Pattinson	Australian and Japanese soldiers fight in the last day of the war
1995	People's Republic of China	南京１９３７ (Don't Cry, Nanking)	Wu Ziniu	Nanking Massacre; AKA Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī; AKA Nanjing 1937
1995	Serbia	Подземље (Underground)	Emir Kusturica	German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia; AKA Podzemlje
1995	People's Republic of China	红樱桃 (Red Cherry)	Ye Ying	Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union; AKA Hóng yīng táo
1995	USA	Sahara	Brian Trenchard-Smith	The Western Desert Campaign
1995	USA	The Tuskegee Airmen	Robert Markowitz	The story of the first African-American pilots
1995	Russia	Великий полководец Георгий Жуков (Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov) The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov	Yuri Ozerov	Biopic about Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
1995	Poland France Germany	Wielki tydzień (Holy Week)	Andrzej Wajda	The Holocaust
1996	UK	The Brylcreem Boys	Terence Ryan	British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland
1996	UK USA	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Tobruk
1996	USA	Mother Night	Keith Gordon
1996	UK	Over Here (TV)	Tony Dow	Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England
1996	USA	The Ring	Armand Mastroianni	During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis
1996	Thailand	Sunset at Chaophraya	Euthana Mukdasanit	The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement
1997	UK	The Land Girls	David Leland	Women's Land Army
1997	Italy	La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)	Roberto Benigni	The Holocaust
1997	France	Lucie Aubrac	Claude Berri	The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France
1997	Australia USA	Paradise Road	Bruce Beresford	Allied women POWs in Sumatra
1998	USA	Miracle at Midnight (TV)	Ken Cameron	Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust
1998	Japan	Puraido: Unmei no toki (Pride)	Shunya Ito	A depiction of Tojo Hideki during the Tokyo Trials
1998	USA	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	The landing at Omaha Beach and fighting inland
1998	USA	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	The Guadalcanal campaign
1998	USA	When Trumpets Fade	John Irvin	The Battle of Huertgen Forest
1999	Germany	Aimée & Jaguar	Max Färberböck	While the Gestapo purge Berlin of Jews, a love affair blooms between two women, Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust.
1999	Croatia	Četverored (Bleiburg)	Branko Schmidt	The Bleiburg massacre
1999	People's Republic of China	黄河绝恋 (Grief Over the Yellow River)	Feng Xiaoning	A story of an American pilot about to pay his respects to the communist-led Chinese army who rescued him; AKA Húanghé júeliàn; AKA Heart of China
1999	France USA Hungary	Jakob the Liar	Peter Kassovitz	A Jewish ghetto
1999	Russia Germany Japan Italy France	Moloch	Aleksandr Sokurov	A visit by Adolf Hitler to the Berghof
1999	Finland Russia	Rukajärven tie (Ambush)	Olli Saarela	The Continuation War
1999	Slovakia Czech Republic Poland	Všichni moji blízcí (All My Loved Ones)	Matej Minac	Story of Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton & the escape of 669 children from The Holocaust

2000s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000	Canada Germany UK	Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace	Eric Till	Biopic depicting German Lutheran pastor, theologian & martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer; AKA Bonhoeffer - Die letzte Stufe
2000	People's Republic of China	鬼子来了 (Devils on the Doorstep)	Jiang Wen	Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Guizi lai le
2000	Italy	Il Partigiano Johnny (Johnny the Partisan)	Guido Chiesa	Partisan warfare in Northern Italy
2000	Malaysia	Leftenan Adnan (Lt. Adnan)	Aziz M. Osman	Story of Adnan Bin Saidi & Battle of Pasir Panjang.
2000	Italy	Malèna	Giuseppe Tornatore	Romance-Dramedy depicting Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940
2000	Philippines	Markova: Comfort Gay	Gil Portes	Drama based on Walter Dempster Jr., depicting last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines
2000	Czech Republic	Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall)	Jan Hrebejk	Collaboration & resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia
2000	Canada USA	Nuremberg (TV Mini-series)	Yves Simoneau	Docu-Drama based on novel by Joseph E. Persico depicting Nuremberg Trials
2000	Czech Republic	Pramen zivota (Spring of Life)	Milan Cieslar	Nazi SS & Lebensborn e.V. (eingetragener Verein, "registered association")
2000	USA	U-571	Jonathan Mostow	American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate U-boat with orders to capture Enigma machine
2000	Poland	Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement of Franciszek Klos) (TV)	Andrzej Wajda	Collaboration under German occupation of Poland
2001	UK USA	Band of Brothers (TV)	Steven Spielberg	Easy Company, 506th Infantry of 101st Airborne Division from D-Day through Holland, Belgium & Germany
2001	UK	The Bunker	Rob Green	Horror-Mystery depicting Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line; AKA The Bunker: The Evil Is Within
2001	UK France USA	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	John Madden	Italian occupation of Greece; AKA Capitaine Corelli
2001	UK Australia	Charlotte Gray	Gillian Armstrong	Romance-Thriller depicting Special Operations Executive & Scottish woman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance
2001	UK USA	Conspiracy (TV)	Frank Pierson	German officials attend Wannsee Conference in 1942 by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of the 1984 German film Die Wannseekonferenz)
2001	USA Burma	To End All Wars	David L. Cunningham	Burma Railway
2001	USA Germany UK Ireland	Enemy at the Gates	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev & German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad; AKA Duell - Enemy at the Gates
2001	UK USA Germany Netherlands	Enigma	Michael Apted	Enigma machine mystery; AKA Enigma - Das Geheimnis
2001	Philippines	Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway (In the Bosom of the Enemy)	Gil Portes	Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband
2001	USA	The Grey Zone	Tim Blake Nelson	Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp, October 1944
2001	Japan	Hotaru (Firefly)	Yasuo Furuhata	Drama based on true story depicting Korean kamikaze pilot
2001	Japan	H Story	Nobuhiro Suwa	Drama depicting remake of 1959 War-Drama film Hiroshima mon amour
2001	UK Germany Ireland USA	Invincible (Unbesiegbar)	Werner Herzog	Drama based on lives of Zishe Breitbart & Hanussen depicting Jewish strongman & Jewish clairvoyant/con-man in pre-war Nazi Germany
2001	Germany	Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)	Caroline Link	Adaptation of autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig depicting Jewish family emigrating to Kenyan farm to escape Nazis
2001	USA	Pearl Harbor	Michael Bay	Attack on Pearl Harbor & Doolittle Raid
2001	Germany Russia	So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me)	Hardy Martins	Adaptation of Clemens Forell's book depicts German soldier walking over 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag
2001	Czech Republic UK	Tmavomodrý svet (Dark Blue World)	Jan Sverák	Action-Drama depicting Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain
2001	USA	Uprising (TV)	Jon Avnet	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2001	Philippines	Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure	Chito S. Roño	Burying of Yamashita treasure & execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines
2001	People's Republic of China	紫日 (Purple Sunset)	Feng Xiaoning	Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito; AKA Zĭrì
2002	France Germany Romania	Amen. (Der Stellvertreter)	Costa-Gavras	Alleged collusion between Nazis & Roman Catholic Church; AKA Le vicaire
2002	USA	Below	Gregory Hoblit	Mystery-Thriller depicting American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission that encounters German warship
2002	Netherlands	De Tweeling (Twin Sisters)	Ben Sombogaart	Drama depicts twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands & serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany & married to Wehrmacht soldier serving in Waffen SS
2002	Italy	El Alamein	Enzo Monteleone	Second Battle of El Alamein
2002	USA UK	The Gathering Storm	Richard Loncraine	Biopic of Winston Churchill before war
2002	USA Italy	The Good War (Texas)	Giorgio Serafini	Drama based on true story depicting Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946; AKA Texas 46
2002	USA	Hart's War	Gregory Hoblit	POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft
2002	Russia	Кукушка (The Cuckoo)	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Young Lapp woman gives shelter to Finnish sniper & captain of Soviet army on her farm; AKA Kukushka
2002	France Germany	Laissez passer (Safe Conduct)	Bertrand Tavernier	German occupation of France
2002	France	Monsieur Batignole	Gérard Jugnot	Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France; AKA Monsieur Batignole - Held wider Willen'
2002	France Poland Germany UK	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	Biopic of Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman
2002	UK	Two Men Went to War	John Henderson	Dramedy based on true story depicting amateur/improvisational commando raid into occupied France; AKA 2 Men Went to War
2002	USA	Windtalkers	John Woo	Battle of Saipan
2002	Russia	Звезда (The Star)	Nikolai Lebedev	Soviet scouts work behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration; AKA Zvezda
2003	France	Bon Voyage	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France under German occupation
2003	France	Effroyables jardins (Strange Gardens)	Jean Becker	French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans
2003	UK	Entrusted	Giacomo Battiato	Drama depicting 11-year-old chess prodigy, son of a mother working with underground resistance is entrusted with life-saving secret
2003	Germany USA Italy	The Fallen (Letters From The Dead)	Ari Taub	German, Italian & US forces on Italian Front, 1944
2003	Malaysia	Paloh	Adman Salleh	Japanese occupation of Malaya
2003	Poland	Pornografia (Pornography)	Jan Jakub Kolski	[[German Occupation of Poland
2003	USA Netherlands	Resistance	Todd Komarnicki	American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi occupied Belgium & is assisted by Maquis Resistance
2003	Germany Netherlands	Rosenstrasse	Margarethe von Trotta	Holocaust & Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin
2003	USA	Saints and Soldiers	Ryan Little	Action-Drama depicts survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information
2003	Japan Germany	Spy Sorge	Masahiro Shinoda	Biopic of Soviet spy Richard Sorge; AKA Richard Sorge - Spion aus Leidenschaft
2003	Czech Republic Slovakia Austria	Želary	Ondrej Trojan	Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed
2004	Philippines	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita	Joel Lamangan	Battle of Bataan & Bataan Death March.
2004	USA	The Aryan Couple	John Daly	Drama depicting undercover East-European Jewish couple's attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944
2004	Japan	Chichi to Kuraseba (The Face of Jizo)	Kazuo Kuroki	Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2004	Germany	Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day)	Volker Schlöndorff	SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler
2004	Germany Italy Austria	Der Untergang (Downfall)	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Last days of Adolf Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin
2004	Croatia	Duga mračna noć (Long Dark Night)	Antun Vrdoljak	Croatia under both Fascism & Communism
2004	UK	Dunkirk (TV Mini-series)	Alex Holmes	Docu-Drama depicting Battle of Dunkirk & Dunkirk evacuation; three-part series
2004	Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg	Edelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates)	Niko von Glasow	German Resistance & Edelweiss Pirates
2004	USA	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	Robert Harmon	SHAEF organization & planning of Operation Overlord
2004	Canada	Il Duce Canadese (TV Mini-series)	Giles Walker	Italian-Canadian fascism & internment; AKA Il duce canadese: Le Mussolini canadien
2004	UK	Island at War (TV Mini-series)	Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Occupation of the Channel Islands
2004	Russia	Курсанты (Cadets) (TV Mini-series)	Andrei Kavun	Drama depicts recruit training of young Russian boys into artillery soldiers before Eastern Front service, 1942; AKA Kursanty
2004	Germany	Napola - Elite für den Führer (Before the Fall)	Dennis Gansel	Former Hitler Youth bond at Reich National-Political institution; AKA Napola, AKA Napola: Hitler's Elite
2004	Russia	Неслужебное задание (Nesluzhebnoe zadanie)	Vitaly Vorobyev	Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945; "Cossacks shoot; Fascists die"; AKA Todeskommando Russland 3, AKA Freelance Assignment
2004	Philippines	Panaghoy sa Suba (The Call of the River)	Cesar Montano	Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign (1944–45).
2004	Germany	Stauffenberg (TV)	Jo Baier	July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
2004	USA	Straight Into Darkness	Jeff Burr	American deserters & Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault
2004	People's Republic of China	紫蝴蝶 (Purple Butterfly)	Lou Ye	Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai; AKA Zǐ Húdié
2005	Singapore Japan	1942 (Men in White)	Kelvin Tong	Comedy-Horror film depicting Japanese Sixth Army soldiers & war photographer in Malayan jungle
2005	Finland Sweden	Äideistä parhain (Mother of Mine)	Klaus Härö	Film based on novel by Heikki Hietamies depicting evacuation 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden; AKA Den bästa av mödrar
2005	Lithuania	Dievų miškas (Forest of the Gods)	Algimantas Puipa	Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis & Soviets
2005	USA	Everything Is Illuminated	Liev Schreiber	Jewish-American man searches for woman who saved his grandfather during Holocaust in small Ukrainian town of Trachimbrod, wiped off map when Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls
2005	Finland Sweden	Framom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines)	Åke Lindman	Continuation War between USSR & Finland, 1941–1944; AKA Beyond the Front Line
2005	Republic of China (Taiwan)	Fu shih kuang ying (The Strait Story)	Yu-shan Huang	Sinking of passenger liner Takachiho Maru by American submarine USS Kingfish (SS-234), 1943
2005	USA Australia	The Great Raid	John Dahl	Japanese occupation of Philippines & Raid at Cabanatuan
2005	USA	The Last Days	Eric Bryan	Drama depicting US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender
2005	UK	The Last Drop	David Teague	Operation Market Garden & secret mission by British forces to recover Nazi gold
2005	Russia	ru:Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете (Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete)	Vitaly Vorobyev	Postwar commandos in WWII mine field hope to be saved by soldier who was in field back in 1943; AKA Freelance Assignment 2
2005	India	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero	Shyam Benegal	Biopic of Subash Chandra Bose & Indian National Army; AKA Bose: The Forgotten Hero
2005	USA	Only the Brave	Lane Nishikawa	Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team
2005	Germany	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)	Marc Rothemund	Biopic of final days & trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance; AKA Sophie Scholl
2005	Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan	Сóлнце (The Sun)	Aleksandr Sokurov	Life of Emperor Hirohito; AKA Solntse
2005	People's Republic of China	太行山上 (On the Mountain of Tai Hang)	Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian	Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China; AKA Tài Háng shān shàng
2005	UK	Valiant	Gary Chapman	British war pigeons face German falcons [animated film]
2005	Russia	Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (TV mini-series)	Aleksandr Surin	Gorgeous female Russian snipers; AKA Moscow Says, Please Note; four-part TV miniseries
2005	UK USA Germany People's Republic of China	The White Countess	James Ivory	Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Second Sino-Japanese War
2005	Japan	男たちの大和 (Yamato)	Junya Sato	Yamato's crew during Pacific War; AKA Otoko-tachi no Yamato
2006	USA	Beautiful Dreamer	Terri Farley-Teruel	Romance-Drama depicting American amnesiac B-24 bomber pilot captured by enemy & assumed to be MIA
2006	Germany	Der letzte Zug (The Last Train)	Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier	Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943
2006	Germany	Die letzten Tage (The Last Days)	Oliver Frohnauer	American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of German Volkssturm unit near end of war, 1945
2006	People's Republic of China	Dong Jing shen pan (Tokyo Trial)	Gao Qunshu	Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
2006	Germany	Dresden (TV)	Roland Suso Richter	German civilian assists downed & 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	Audrius Juzėnas	Holocaust in Lithuania
2006	UK	The Haunted Airman	Chris Durlacher	Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war
2006	France Morocco Algeria Belgium	Indigènes (Days of Glory)	Rachid Bouchareb	North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France
2006	Australia	Kokoda	Alister Grierson	Kokoda Track Campaign
2006	USA	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood	Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers; AKA Iô-Jima kara no tegami
2006	USA	Military Intelligence and You!	Dale Kutzera	Comedy depicting analyst for US Army Intelligence attempting to locate Nazi "Ghost Squadron" fighter base
2006	Russia	Сволочи (Bastards)	Aleksandr Atanesyan	Russian teenaged convicts conscripted for guerrilla mission against Nazis; AKA Svolochi
2006	Netherlands Germany UK Belgium	Zwartboek (Black Book)	Paul Verhoeven	Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance
2007	USA	American Pastime	Desmond Nakano	Love, jazz & baseball in Topaz, Utah internment camp
2007	UK	Atonement	Joe Wright	Dunkirk evacuation
2007	Austria	Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Operation Bernhard
2007	Australia	Curtin (TV)	Jessica Hobbs	Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin
2007	Poland	Jutro idziemy do kina (Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies)	Michał Kwieciński	Polish Campaign, 1939
2007	Poland	Katyń	Andrzej Wajda	Katyń massacre of Polish POWs & civilians by Soviets, 1940
2007	USA People's Republic of China Republic of China (Taiwan) Hong Kong	色，戒 (Lust, Caution)	Ang Lee	Espionage-Thriller set in occupied Shanghai; AKA Sè, Jiè
2007	Germany	Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler)	Dani Levy	Dramedy depicting depressed Hitler & his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945; AKA My Führer
2007	Japan	Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (For Those We Love)	Taku Shinjō	Stories of kamikaze pilots
2007	Canada	The Poet	Damian Lee	German soldiers gathering information on partisan cells in Eastern Front & Jewish refugees; AKA Hearts of War
2007	Belgium	Survivre avec les loups (Surviving with Wolves)	Véra Belmont	Young Jewish girl combs Europe for her deported parents
2007	Finland	Tali Ihantala 1944	Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen	Battles of the Continuation War
2007	Estonia	Ühe metsa pojad (Sons of One Forest)	Ats Surva	Metsavennad in battles of Southern Estonia, August 1944
2007	Belgium Ireland	Waiting for Dublin	Roger Tucker	Comedy depicting Allied & Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland
2007	Japan	夕凪の街 桜の国 (Yunagi City, Sakura Country)	Kiyoshi Sasabe	Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima; AKA Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni
2008	Poland	11 listopada (11th of November)	Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata	Drama depicting Zielonka boy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland
2008	Germany Poland	Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin)	Max Färberböck	Soviet occupation of Berlin; AKA Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin
2008	Australia USA UK	Australia	Baz Luhrmann	Romance depicting Australian soldier & British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin
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	Australia People's Republic of China Germany USA	The Children of Huang Shi	Roger Spottiswoode	Nanking Massacre & Three Alls Policy; AKA Huang Shi de hai zi
2008	USA	Defiance	Edward Zwick	Bielski partisans
2008	Denmark	Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron)	Ole Christian Madsen	Depicts members of Danish Resistance sent to assassinate Nazis & collaborators
2008	France UK	Les Femmes De L'Ombre (Female Agents)	Jean-Paul Salomé	Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German head of counter-intelligence) & rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information
2008	Norway Germany Denmark	Max Manus	Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg	Biopic of Norwegian Resistance member Max Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway
2008	USA	Miracle at St. Anna	Spike Lee	Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
2008	Netherlands	Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime)	Martin Koolhoven	Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance during last winter of war, 1944–45
2008	Germany Austria Switzerland	Nordwand (North Face)	Philipp Stölzl	Rival teams of climbers risk their lives to be first team to scale deadly "North Face" of Swiss Alps' Eiger as part of competitive challenge for glory of Hitler's Nazi Germany
2008	USA Germany	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	Woman's war crimes trial stemming from her actions as guard at Nazi concentration camp
2008	Czech Republic Slovakia	Tobruk	Václav Marhoul	Siege of Tobruk
2008	USA	Valkyrie	Bryan Singer	July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
2008	USA	Watch on the Rhine	Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson	Action-Comedy depicting soldier of US 106th Infantry Division attempting to survive Battle of the Bulge
2008	Israel	Wiosna 1941 (Spring 1941)	Uri Barbash	Romance between Warsaw grocer & Jewish man she is hiding
2008	Hong Kong People's Republic of China	Yip Man (Ip Man)	Wilson Yip	Yip Man's life in city of Foshan during Second Sino-Japanese War
2009	Russia	1941 (TV)	Valery Shalyga	Depicts Nazi invasion of Russia & partisans surviving in Russian forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942
2009	UK	The Diary of Anne Frank (Mini-series)	Jon Jones	Adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl by Deborah Moggach depicting Jewish teenage girl hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
2009	People's Republic of China	Dòu niú (Cow)	Guan Hu	Dramedy depicting Chinese villager given responsibility of protecting village's special dairy cow during Second Sino-Japanese War
2009	USA	Everyman's War	Thad Smith	US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge
2009	Russia Japan Canada	Первый отряд (First Squad)	Yoshiharu Ashino	Anime depicting Nazi-Soviet War; AKA Pervyy otryad [animated film]
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 & his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm
2009	Germany People's Republic of China France	John Rabe	Florian Gallenberger	Nanking Massacre
2009	France	L'armée du crime (The Army of Crime)	Robert Guédiguian	Manouchian resistance group & Red Poster
2009	Japan	Manatsu no Orion	Tetsuo Shinohara	Naval battle between Japan & US near end of war; AKA Battle Under Orion
2009	Russia UK	Leningrad (Attack on Leningrad)	Aleksandr Buravsky	Siege of Leningrad
2009	People's Republic of China	Nanjing! Nanjing! (City of Life and Death)	Lu Chuan	Nanking Massacre
2009	Russia	Pop (The Priest)	Vladimir Khotinenko	Priest in occupied Latvia
2009	Czech Republic Germany	Protektor (Protector)	Marek Najbrt	Romance-Drama depicting Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia & effects of Operation Anthropoid

2010s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	Russia	Брестская крепость (Fortress of War)	Alexander Kott	Action-Drama depicting Soviet Defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941; AKA Brestskaya krepost, AKA The Brest Fortress
2010	People's Republic of China	한국 부제 (Death and Glory in Changde City)	Dong Shen	Action-Drama depicts Hunan's Battle of Changde; AKA Die Xue Gu Cheng
2010	People's Republic of China	东风雨 (East Wind Rain)	Yunlong Liu	Drama depicting Shanghai based espionage & attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor Attack; AKA Dong feng yu
2010	France	Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key)	Kristen Scott Thomas	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942; AKA Her Name was Sarah
2010	Czech Republic Germany Austria	Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill)	Juraj Herz	Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
2010	Hong Kong People's Republic of China	精武风云－陈真 (Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen)	Wai-keung Lau	Shanghai prior to Japanese invasion; AKA Jīng Wǔ Fēng Yún－Chén Zh
2010	Poland	Joanna	Feliks Falk	German occupation & Holocaust in Krakow, Poland
2010	UK	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	King George VI
2010	Japan	キャタピラー (Caterpillar)	Kōji Wakamatsu	Drama depicting wounded Japanese veteran of Second Sino Japanese War returns home; AKA Kyatapirâ
2010	France Germany Hungary	La rafle (The Round Up)	Roselyne Bosch	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942; AKA Die Kinder von Paris
2010	Russia	Небо в огне (Heaven is on Fire) (TV Mini-series)	Dmitry Cherkasov	Action-Drama depicting Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939–1945; AKA Nebo v ogne; AKA The Sky is On Fire
2010	USA	The Pacific (TV Mini-series)	Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To	Action-Drama depicting US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre
2010	Czech Republic Germany Austria	Sotto il cielo di Roma (Pope Pius XII) (TV)	Christian Duguay	Pope Pius XII & Roman razzia; AKA Pius XII., AKA Under the Roman Sky
2010	USA	Spoils of War	Jean Liberté	Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian enemy lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent & destroy counterfeit money
2010	USA	The Way Back	Peter Weir	Prisoners & POWs escape Soviet Gulag
2010	Poland	Wenecja (Venice)	Jan Jakub Kolski	German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945
2011	UK	Age of Heroes	Adrian Vitoria	Action-Thriller depicting British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to Neutral Norway
2011	Latvia	Dancis pa trim (Three to Dance)	Arvīds Krievs	Drama depicting tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis & independence seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS
2011	India	Gandhi to Hitler	Rakesh Ranjan Kumar	Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; AKA Dear Friend Hitler
2011	Sweden	Gränsen (The Frontier)	Richard Holm	Swedish soldiers travel toward Nazi occupied Norwegian border
2011	Denmark	Hvidstens gruppen	Regner Grasten	Jutland Danish Resistance
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	마이웨이 (My Way)	Kang Je-gyu	Young Korean man conscripted in Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union & Germany; AKA Maiwei
2011	Japan	Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (Oba: The Last Samurai)	Hideyuki Hirayama	Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944; AKA Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox
2011	Poland Germany Canada	W ciemnosci (In Darkness)	Agnieszka Holland	Drama depicting Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi occupied Lvov, Poland
2012	People's Republic of China Hong Kong	金陵十三钗 (The Flowers Of War)	Zhang Yimou	Rape of Nanjing; AKA Jin líng shí san chai
2012	USA	Red Tails	Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas	Tuskegee Airmen & 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre
2012	USA	Truth & Treason	Matt Whitaker	Biopic of Helmuth Hübener depicting youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof

In development

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2013	Russia	Stalingrad	Fyodor Bondarchuk	Battle of Stalingrad
201X	USA	Agent Zigzag	Mike Newell	Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes British double agent
201X	Mexico USA	Águilas Aztecas (Aztec Eagles)	Alfonso Arau	Action-Dramedy film depicting WWII training/service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana & Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign
201X	Portugal Brazil Italy	A Montanha (The Mountain)	Vicente Ferraz	Drama depictingBrazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy
201X	USA	The Bleeding	Josef Rusnak	Horror-Thriller depicting American spy in Romania infiltrating German SS fighting partisans in Carpathians & encounter vampires; AKA The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen
201X	Poland UK	Christine: War My Love	Agnieszka Holland	Biopic of Polish Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek
201X	UK USA New Zealand	Dambusters	Christian Rivers	Operation Chastise
201X	USA Japan	East Wind, Rain (東の風、雨)	Masato Harada	Drama based on Caroline Paul novel depicting Japanese family on Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau & crash-landing of Japanese pilot after Pearl Harbor Attack; AKA Azuma no kaze, ame
201X	Canada Germany	Fangs of War	Jim Donovan	Horror-Thriller depicting Nazi Supernatural Division secret lab at Castle Dracula, Transylvania unlocking secrets of Count Dracula’s immortality, 1944
201X	USA Germany	The Forgotten Soldier	Paul Verhoeven	Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography
201X	USA Mexico	Little Boy	Alejandro Monteverde	Dramedy depicting young American boy attempting to reunite with father/soldier serving in Europe
201X	Estonia	Nemad (Them)	Ilmar Raag	Battle of the Tannenberg Line
201X	USA	Panzer 88	Peter Briggs	Action-Thriller depicting Eastern Front King Tiger tank crewmen battle creature
201X	USA	Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed	Ryan Little	Drama depicting US Army Airborne & French Resistance on Western Front; followup to 2003 film Saints and Soldiers
201X	USA	Toon Patrol: Roger Rabbit II	Ryan Little	Comedy & live-action/animated depicting kidnapping of Jessica by Nazi spies; prequel to 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Science fiction and fantasy

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1964	USA	The Incredible Mr. Limpet	Arthur Lubin, Robert McKimson	Comedy & live-action/animated depicting man who turns into talking fish & helps US Navy locate/destroy U-boats, 1941
1975	USA	Wonder Woman (TV)	Leonard Horn	Dogfight with Nazi plane leads to crashlanding of US pilot on uncharted Paradise Island inhabited by women in Bermuda Triangle; AKA The New Original Wonder Woman, AKA The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
1983	UK	The Keep	Michael Mann	German Army & "Einsatzkommandos" occupy Romanian citadel with demonic forces
2004	USA	Angel (TV Series Episode)	Terrence O'Hara, Joss Whedon	Why We Fight (Season 5, Episode 13); vampires encounter undead U-boat crew
2004	USA	Hellboy	Guillermo del Toro	Infant summoned from Hell to Earth by Nazi occultists discovered by Allied Forces
2005	Japan	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	Shinji Higuchi, Cellin Gluck	Experimental Japanese submarine attempts to prevent atomic bombing of Tokyo
2008	USA	WarBirds (TV)	Kevin Gendreau	American air crew in Pacific Theatre meet Pterosaurs
2009	USA	The Land That Time Forgot	C. Thomas Howell	Sci-fi film adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs novel depicting stranded U-boat crew in time void on island inside Bermuda Triangle; loosely made re-make of similarly titled 1975 film
2010	USA Canada Germany	Bloodrayne: The Third Reich	Uwe Boll	Fantasy-thriller depicting dhamphir battling vampire Nazi officer bent on making Hitler immortal; Bloodrayne video game spinoff
2010	UK	Jackboots on Whitehall	Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry	Satirical animatronic film depicting alternate history of WWII where Nazi Germany occupies London
2010	UK	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Nanny McPhee Returns)	Susanna White	Comedy-Fantasy depicting Operation Pied Piper & governess who uses magic to aid farm family in need of assistance
2011	USA Canada Germany	Blubberella	Uwe Boll	Action-Comedy depicts dhamphir battling Nazis bent on eliminating Resistance group on Eastern Front; spoof of BloodRayne 3: The Third Reich
2011	USA	Captain America: The First Avenger	Joe Johnston	American soldier transformed into super soldier aids war effort against Hitler's head of advanced weaponry
2012	Finland	Iron Sky	Timo Vuorensola	Nazis attack Earth from Moon base

TV series

Years		Country	Title	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1957	1958	UK	O.S.S.	OSS in occupied France
1961	1962	USA	Alcoa Premiere (TV Series Episode)	B&W Dramedy Seven Against the Sea (Season 1, Episode 22) depicts US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for McHale's Navy (TV series)
1962	1963	USA	The Gallant Men	Drama dipicting US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign
1962	1966	USA	McHale's Navy	B&W Comedy depicting misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign & (later) Italian Campaign
1962	1967	USA	Combat!	B&W (final season in color) Drama depicting frontline American infantry squad battling across France
1964	1964	People's Republic of China	霓虹灯下的哨兵 (Sentry Under the Neon Lights)	Eighth Route Army on Shanghai's Nanjing Road; AKA Sentinel Under the Neon Lights
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	B&W Drama depicting missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base & equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High
1965	1965	USA	Convoy	B&W drama depicting supply convoys & German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort & lead convoy freighter
1965	1966	USA	Mister Roberts	B&W Comedy depicting US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 Dramedy film Mister Roberts
1965	1966	USA	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	B&W comedy depicting 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 depicting Allied prisoners in German Stalag
1966	1966	UK	Court Martial	Drama depicting Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war
1966	1968	USA	The Rat Patrol	Long Range Desert Patrol
1966	1970	Poland	Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank men and a dog)	Tank crew, their dog, & their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45
1967	1968	Poland	Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake)	Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland & Germany, 1941–45
1968	1977	UK	Dad's Army	Comedy depicting English Home Guard
1972	1973	UK	Pathfinders	RAF pathfinding missions
1972	1974	UK	Colditz	Colditz Castle POW camp
1973	1973	Soviet Union	Seventeen Moments of Spring	Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany
1973	1974	USA	Roll Out	Dramedy depicting Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France
1975	1976	USA	The New Original Wonder Woman	Diana Prince battles Nazi villains (Season 1 only); Wonder Woman (TV) spinoff; AKA The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
1975	1975	Poland Hungary	Trzecia granica (Third Border)	Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary
1976	1976	Iran	My Uncle Napoleon	Comedy depicting Tehran under Allied occupation
1976	1978	USA	Baa Baa Black Sheep	Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington & Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War
1977	1978	UK	Backs to the Land	Comedy depicting Land Girls
1977	1979	USA	Operation Petticoat	Comedy depicting USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; (AKA "Life in the Pink"), Operation Petticoat motion picture spinoff
1977	1979	UK Belgium	Secret Army	Belgian Resistance; prequel to 1981 Drama series Kessler
1978	1981	Denmark	Matador	Fictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947
1981	1981	UK	Kessler	Follows former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 Drama series Secret Army
1982	1992	UK	'Allo 'Allo!	Comedy depicting café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces & art heists, 1940–44
1985	1985	USA	Jenny's War	Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941
1988	1988	USA Yugoslavia	Dirty Dozen: The Series	Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; The Dirty Dozen motion picture series spinoff
1988	1988	UK	Piece of Cake	RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain
1988	1991	Poland	Pogranicze w ogniu	Action-Drama series depicting German & Polish counter-espionage from 1918–1939; AKA The Burning Border
1992	1992	Denmark	Mørklægning	Thriller depicting German occupation of Denmark & Danish war-tired & sick; AKA Blackout
1994	1994	UK	Which Way to the War	Comedy depicting British & Australian Desert Rats and female Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only
1997	1997	Singapore	和平的代價 (The Price of Peace)	Japanese occupation of Singapore; AKA Hépíng de dàijià
2001	2001	Australia	Changi	Changi POW camp
2001	2001	Singapore	何日军再来 (In Pursuit of Peace)	Japanese occupation of Singapore; AKA Hérì Jūn Zàilái
2001	2001	Singapore	战争日记 (A War Diary)	Romance-Drama depicts Chinese family during Battle of Singapore & Japanese occupation of Singapore; AKA Zhànzhēng rìjì
2002	now	UK	Foyle's War	Mystery depicting English police solving crime amid war in Southern England
2003	2003	UK	P.O.W.	War-Drama depicting German Stalag Luft & follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940
2004	2005	Japan	ジパング (Zipang)	Anime depicting Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer traveling through time to early days of WWII; AKA Jipangu
2006	2007	People's Republic of China	大刀向鬼子的头上砍去	Action-Drama titled after Dadao March, depicts last battle during Sino-Japanese War, 1945; AKA Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù, AKA Cut the Devil's Head Off With the Dadao
2007	2007	People's Republic of China	功勋 (Meritorious)	Drama depicts near end of Second Sino-Japanese War & launching of win-or-die espionage war to invade Japan by China & USSR, 1945; AKA Gōngxūn
2007	2007	Denmark	Nazitübbies	Parody depicting Nazi Teletubbies
2007	2007	Poland	Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes)	Thriller depicting Polish & German espionage, 1945
2007	2007	Hong Kong	亂世佳人 (War and Destiny)	Nanjing Massacre; AKA Leun sai gai yan
2007	2007	Iran Hungary France Lebanon	مدار صفر درجه (Zero Degree Turn)	Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari depicting Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman; AKA Madâr-e sefr darajeh
2007	2008	People's Republic of China	简体中文 (Legend of Xiangxi)	Battle of West Hunan & Second Sino-Japanese War; AKA Xie Se Xiang Xi
2007	now	People's Republic of China	士兵突击 (Soldiers Sortie)	Drama depicting young soldier forced into service by his father & subsequent Chinese military training; AKA Shìbīng tújí
2008	2010	Japan	ヘタリア (Hetalia: Axis Powers)	Anime depicting characters as national personifications displaying characteristics of WWII nations; AKA Akushisu Pawāzu Hetaria [animated film]
2008	2008	Russia	Апостол (Apostle)	Life & treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent; AKA Apostol
2008	2008	Estonia	Tuulepealne maa	History of Estonia depicted through two Estonian families, World War I–1941; AKA Windward Land
2008	2011	Poland	Czas honoru (Time of Honor)	Cichociemni (SOE agents) & Polish Resistance
2009	now	UK	Land Girls	Drama depicting Land Girls
2009	now	People's Republic of China	我的团长我的团 (My Chief and My Regiment)	Drama depicting Chinese National Revolutionary Army Expeditionary Force in Burma battling Imperial Japanese Army during Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in Second Sino-Japanese War, 1942
2009	now	France	Un village français	Occupied French village, from May, 1940–... (one month/episode); AKA A French Village
2010	now	Hong Kong	巾幗梟雄之義海豪情 (No Regrets)	Drama depicting Canton, China during Japanese occupation; AKA Jīn Guó Xiāo Xióng Zhī Yì Hǎi Háo Qíng, AKA Rosy Business II
2011	2011	Russia	1942	Drama depicting German invasion of Russia & partisans surviving in Russian forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941 (TV)
2011	2011	People's Republic of China	我的娜塔莎 (Natasha)	Romance-Drama depicting Japanese Kwantung Army siege of Chinese Dongbeikanglian Wolong Mountain Battalion, Soviet espionage training & Chinese Resistance against Japanese occupation, 1941; AKA Wǒ de nàtǎshā
2012	now	Canada	Bomb Girls	War-Drama depicting Canadian Homefront & women working in Toronto munitions plant; six-parts

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

External links

• wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
• World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular WWII movies.