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Below is an incomplete list of full-length films or mini-series to feature events of World War II in the narrative.

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.
  • Short films are excluded.
  • 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

1939

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 United Kingdom 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
 United Kingdom The Big Blockade Charles Frend The Economic blockade of Germany
 United Kingdom Convoy Pen Tennyson The Second Battle of the Atlantic
 United States The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel
 United States The Long Voyage Home John Ford The Second Battle of the Atlantic
 United Kingdom Secret Journey John Baxter Espionage
 United States Waterloo Bridge Mervyn LeRoy While mobilizing for World War II, a British officer reminisces about a romance in World War I *Released May 17, 1940 -- arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
 United States Women in War John H. Auer Nurses in the Battle of Britain.

1941

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 United Kingdom 49th Parallel Michael Powell Survivors of a sunken U-Boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada to the neutral US
 United States Caught in the Draft David Butler Bob Hope gets drafted.
 United Kingdom Dangerous Moonlight Brian Desmond Hurst The Battle of Britain
 Soviet Union Frontovye podrugi Viktor Eisymont The Girl from Leningrad
 Germany Soldaten von morgen Alfred Weidenmann
 United Kingdom Freedom Radio Anthony Asquith German Resistance
 United Kingdom Pimpernel Smith Leslie Howard The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to World War II
 United Kingdom Ships with Wings Sergei Nolbandov Battle of Taranto
 United States Sundown Henry Hathaway The North African Campaign
 United States Underground Vincent Sherman German Resistance
 United States A Yank in the RAF Henry King American volunteers in the RAF

1942

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 Italy Alfa Tau! Francesco De Robertis Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II
 Italy Bengasi Augusto Genina The North Africa campaign
 United States The Bugle Sounds S. Sylvan Simon Cavalry and tank warfare
 United States Captains of the Clouds Michael Curtiz Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, ace Billy Bishop as himself
 United States Casablanca Michael Curtiz Romantic film in Vichy France-controlled Morocco
 United Kingdom The Day Will Dawn Harold French Norwegian resistance
 United States Desperate Journey Raoul Walsh Allied aircrew escaping from occupied France
 United States Eagle Squadron Arthur Lubin Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
 United Kingdom The First of the Few Leslie Howard Development of the Spitfire
 United States
 United Kingdom 		Flying Fortress Walter Forde B-17 planes
 United States
 Republic of China 		Flying Tigers David Miller American Volunteer Group, the Second Sino-Japanese War
 United Kingdom The Foreman Went to France Charles Frend The Battle of France
 Germany Fronttheater Arthur Maria Rabenalt The Battle of Greece?
 Japan Hawai mare oki kaisen Kajiro Yamamoto The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
 United Kingdom In Which We Serve Noel Coward and David Lean Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly
 United States Lady from Chungking William Nigh The Second Sino-Japanese War
 United States Let's Get Tough! Wallace Fox Juvenile delinquents battle the Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York
 United States Mrs. Miniver William Wyler The British Home Front
 United States Navy Comes Through A. Edward Sutherland The Second Battle of the Atlantic
 United Kingdom The Next of Kin Thorold Dickinson Careless talk costs lives - message and fictional commando raid
 Italy Odessa in fiamme Carmine Gallone Odessa in Flames
 United Kingdom One of Our Aircraft is Missing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Allied aircrew escaping from the occupied Netherlands
 United States Pacific Rendezvous George Sidney Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War
 Italy Un Pilota ritorna Roberto Rossellini
 Estonia Punane udu The Red Fog; the Soviet occupation of Estonia
 United States Reunion in France Jules Dassin The French Resistance helps a downed US pilot
 United Kingdom Sabotage at Sea Leslie S. Hiscott
 United States Somewhere I'll Find You Wesley Ruggles War correspondents in China and Pacific
 United States Stand by for Action Robert Z. Leonard The Pacific War
 Germany Stukas Karl Ritter Stuka, German dive bomber
 United States They Raid by Night Spencer Gordon Bennet Commando raids in occupied Norway
 United States To Be Or Not To Be Ernst Lubitsch Effects on Warsaw; Polish Air squadron in London
 Japan Tsubasa no gaika Satsuo Yamamoto A Triumph of Wings ; co-written by Akira Kurosawa
 Soviet Union Uchinari Jani Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov
 United States Wake Island John Farrow The Battle of Wake Island
 United Kingdom Went the Day Well? Alberto Cavalcanti The fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sealion)
 United States A Yank on the Burma Road George B. Seitz The Burma Road

1943

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 United States Action in the North Atlantic Lloyd Bacon The Second Battle of the Atlantic
 United States Aerial Gunner William H. Pine The B-17 bomber in the Pacific
 United States Air Force Howard Hawks B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
 United States Bataan Tay Garnett The Battle of Bataan, Philippines
 United States Behind the Rising Sun Edward Dmytryk
 United Kingdom The Bells Go Down Basil Dearden Auxiliary Fire Service during The Blitz
 United States Bombardier Richard Wallace B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific
 United States Bombs Over Burma Joseph H. Lewis
 United States Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Louis King Chetniks - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich
 United States China John Farrow
 United States Corregidor William Nigh The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines
 United States Corvette K-225 Richard Rosson and Howard Hawks The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN corvette
 United States Crash Dive Archie Mayo US submarine in the North Atlantic
 United States Cross of Lorraine, The Tay Garnett
 United States Cry 'Havoc' Richard Thorpe
 United States Destination Tokyo Delmer Daves US submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid
 United States Destroyer William A. Seiter The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning
 United States Edge of Darkness Lewis Milestone The Norwegian resistance movement
 United Kingdom Fires Were Started Humphrey Jennings The Blitz
 United States Five Graves to Cairo Billy Wilder Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign
 United Kingdom The Flemish Farm Jeffrey Dell Commando raids in Europe
 United States Guadalcanal Diary Lewis Seiler US Marines in Guadalcanal campaign
 United States Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific
 United States A Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "guardian angel" of new pilots
 United States Hangmen Also Die Fritz Lang Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance
 United States Immortal Sergeant John M. Stahl British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign
 Soviet Union He will come back Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaia
 United Kingdom The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The Home Guard
 United Kingdom Millions Like Us Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat The Home Front
 United States Mission to Moscow Michael Curtiz Various negotiations between Allies
 United States The Moon is Down Irving Pichel Resistance
 United States The North Star Lewis Milestone Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front
 United States Pilot no. 5 George Sidney Battle of the Java Sea
 United States Rookies in Burma Leslie Goodwins The Burma Campaign
 United States Sahara Zoltan Korda Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein
 United States Salute to the Marines S. Sylvan Simon The Battle of the Philippines
 United Kingdom The Silver Fleet Gordon Wellesley Dutch resistance
 United States So Proudly We Hail! Mark Sandrich The Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
 United States The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler James Patrick Hogan
 United States This Land Is Mine Jean Renoir French Resistance
 United States Three Russian Girls Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep The Eastern Front
 United Kingdom Undercover (film) Sergei Nolbandov Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia
 United Kingdom We Dive at Dawn Anthony Asquith Submarine warfare during the Second Battle of the Atlantic

1944

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 United Kingdom 2,000 Women Frank Launder Internment camps for British women in occupied France
 Italy Aeroporto Piero Costa Italian aviators flying for the Salo Republic; the only surviving film made in the Republic of Salo
 United States Days of Glory Jacques Tourneur Soviet partisans
 Germany Junge Adler Alfred Weidenmann Germany during the war
 United States The Eve of St. Mark John M. Stahl
 United States The Fighting Seabees Edward Ludwig The US Navy Seabees
 United States Four Jills in a Jeep William A. Seiter The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves
 United States The Impostor Julien Duvivier
 United States In the Meantime, Darling Otto Preminger
 Soviet Union Jurgais pari Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli
 United States Ladies Courageous John Rawlins Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
 United States Lifeboat Alfred Hitchcock The Second Battle of the Atlantic
 Soviet Union Malakhov kurgan Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi Battle of Sevastopol
 United States Marine Raiders Harold D. Schuster The Battle of Guadalcanal
 United States Marriage Is a Private Affair Robert Z. Leonard
 United States The Master Race Herbert J. Biberman
 United States Mr. Winkle Goes to War Alfred E. Green
 United States The Navy Way William A. Berke
 United States Passage to Marseille Michael Curtiz
 United States Passport to Destiny Ray McCarey
 United States The Purple Heart Lewis Milestone Prisoners of war captured during the Doolittle Raid.
 Soviet Union Rainbow Mark Donskoy
 Australia The Rats of Tobruk Charles Chauvel Siege of Tobruk
 United States Rosie the Riveter Joseph Santley
 United States See Here, Private Hargrove Wesley Ruggles
 United States Sergeant Mike Henry Levin
 United States Since You Went Away John Cromwell Home Front in the United States
 United States Song of Russia Gregory Ratoff
 Italy
 Romania 		Squadriglia bianca Ion Sava The White Squadron
 United States The Story of Dr. Wassell Cecil B. DeMille Navy doctor in the Battle of Java
 United States The Sullivans Lloyd Bacon The Sullivan brothers
 United States Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Lloyd Bacon
 United States Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Mervyn LeRoy The Doolittle Raid
 United States Till We Meet Again Frank Borzage
 United States To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks
 United States Two-Man Submarine Lew Landers
 United States U-Boat Prisoner Lew Landers
 United States Waterfront Steve Sekely
 United Kingdom The Way Ahead Carol Reed Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign
 United States The White Cliffs of Dover Clarence Brown
 United States Wing and a Prayer Henry Hathaway The Battle of Midway
 United States Winged Victory George Cukor

1945

Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
 United States Back to Bataan Edward Dmytryk Battle of Bataan, guerilla warfare in the Philippines, in the Battle of Leyte
 United States Blood on the Sun Frank Lloyd An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government
 United States China's Little Devils Monta Bell
 United States Cornered Edward Dmytryk Ex-Nazis in Argentina
 United States Counter-Attack Zoltan Korda The Eastern Front (World War II)
 Mexico Escuadrón 201 Jaime Salvador Squadron 201 of the Mexican Air Force in the Battle of Luzon against the Japanese
 United States First Yank Into Tokyo Gordon Douglas
 United States
 China 		God Is My Co-Pilot Robert Florey The Flying Tigers
 United States Keep Your Powder Dry Edward Buzzell Women's Army Corps
 Germany Das Leben geht weiter Wolfgang Liebeneiner Life Goes On; 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
 United States Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh The Burma Campaign
 United States Out of the Depths D. Ross Lederman Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
 United States Pride of the Marines Delmer Daves The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment
 United States Prison Ship Arthur Dreifuss
 Italy Roma, Città Aperta Roberto Rossellini Rome, the Open City; About the Italian resistance movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
 United States Samurai Raymond Cannon
 United States 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
 United States They Were Expendable John Ford PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
 United States Too Young to Know Frederick De Cordova War in the South Pacific separates a young couple
 United States A Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone The Invasion of Salerno
 United Kingdom The Way to the Stars Anthony Asquith RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
 United States 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  Poland Zakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs) Leonard Buczkowski Polish Resistance 1939-1945 - musical (the first post-war Polish film)
1946  France La Bataille du rail René Clément Stories on railroad French resistance
1946  United States The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war
1946  United Kingdom Journey Together John Boulting Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946  Poland
 Italy 		Wielka droga (La Grande strada) Michał Waszyński , Vittorio Cottafavi Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
1946  United Kingdom The Captive Heart Basil Dearden British prisoners of war in Germany
1946  United Kingdom Theirs is the Glory Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young Operation Market Garden
1946  United Kingdom School for Secrets Peter Ustinov Operation Biting
1946  Italy Paisà Roberto Rossellini About the Italian campaign
1946  Soviet Union
 Yugoslavia 		V gorakh Yugoslavii Abram Room In the Mountains of Yugoslavia ; Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks
1947  Poland Ostatni etap (The Last Stop) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz - Birkenau
1947  United Kingdom Frieda Basil Dearden
1948  United States Command Decision Sam Wood Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force
1948  United Kingdom Against the Wind Charles Crichton A Commando raid into occupied Belgium
1948  Norway Kampen om tungtvannet Norwegian heavy water sabotage
1948  United States Fighter Squadron Raoul Walsh P-47 fighters in the US air war in Europe
1948  United States /   Switzerland The Search Fred Zinnemann Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948  West Germany Morituri Eugen York The first post-1945 German film about the war
1948  Poland Ulica Graniczna (Border Street) Aleksander Ford The Polish Holocaust
1948  Poland Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts) Stanisław Januszewski Silesia Poland 1944 / 45
1949  Poland Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow) Antoni Bohdziewicz Poland Warsaw, Polish Resistance
1949  United States Battleground William A. Wellman The 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949  United States Sands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan The Battle of Iwo Jima
1949  United Kingdom They Were Not Divided Terence Young The British Guards Armoured Division
1949  United States Twelve O'Clock High Henry King B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force
1949  United Kingdom The Small Back Room Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Bomb disposal
1949  Soviet Union Stalingradskaya bitva Vladimir Petrov The Battle of Stalingrad
1949  Soviet Union Padeniye Berlina Mikheil Chiaureli The Battle of Berlin
1949  Soviet Union Vstrecha na Elbe Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin Elbe Day

1950s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1950  United States Francis Arthur Lubin Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific
1950  United States Three Came Home Jean Negulesco Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
1950  United States When Willie Comes Marching Home John Ford
1950  United Kingdom Odette Herbert Wilcox SOE agent Odette Samson.
1950  United Kingdom The Wooden Horse Jack Lee True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
1950  Poland Miasto nieujarzmione (Unvanquished City) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland Warsaw 1944
1951  Italy Achtung! Banditi! Carlo Lizzani The Italian resistance movement
1951  United States You're in the Navy Now Henry Hathaway A US submarine chaser in development
1951  United Kingdom Albert(TV) Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis
1951  United States The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel Henry Hathaway Biopic of Erwin Rommel from the Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 plot
1951  United States Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945
1951  United States Fighting Coast Guard Joseph Kane
1951  United States Flying Leathernecks Nicholas Ray A US Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific
1951  United States Force of Arms Michael Curtiz The US Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign
1951  United States Go For Broke! Robert Pirosh U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France
1951  United States The Magic Face Frank Tuttle An actor takes Hitler's place
1951  United States Operation Pacific George Waggner A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War
1951  United States Submarine Command John Farrow
1951  United States Target Unknown George Sherman
1951  United States The Wild Blue Yonder Allan Dwan
1952  Norway Nødlanding Arne Skouen American bomber shot down in Norway. Surviving crew hidden by Norwegian resistance Milorg and smuggled out of the country.
1952  United States Above and Beyond Melvin Frank, Norman Panama The 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
1952  United Kingdom Angels One Five George More O'Ferrall The Battle of Britain
1952  United Kingdom Appointment in London Philip Leacock RAF Bomber Command
1952  France Jeux interdits René Clément The Occupation of France
1952  United Kingdom Gift Horse Compton Bennett The St Nazaire Raid
1952  United States Okinawa Leigh Jason The Battle of Okinawa
1952  United States Operation Secret Lewis Seiler Espionage
1952  United States Red Ball Express Budd Boetticher Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II
1952  United States Thunderbirds John H. Auer The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers.
1953  Japan Anatahan Josef von Sternberg Japanese soldiers on a remote Pacific island will not accept that the war has been over for years
1953  United States Guerrilla Girl John Christian Greek Resistance
1953  United States Stalag 17 Billy Wilder German Prisoner of War camp for US flyers
1953  United Kingdom The Cruel Sea Charles Frend The Battle of the Atlantic
1953  United States From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann The attack on Pearl Harbor
1953  United Kingdom Malta Story Brian Desmond Hurst The Siege of Malta
1953  United States Destination Gobi Robert Wise A US Navy weather unit in Mongolia
1953  United Kingdom The Red Beret Terence Young British paratroops Operation Biting
1953  United States Fighter Attack Lesley Selander The Italian Campaign andPartisans
1953  United Kingdom Single-Handed Roy Boulting Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution)
1953  United States China Venture Don Siegel
1953  United Kingdom Albert RN Lewis Gilbert British POWs in a German camp
1953  United States El Alaméin Fred F. Sears The Second Battle of El Alamein
1953  United States The Desert Rats Robert Wise The Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, during the North African Campaign
1953  Japan Taiheiyo no washi Ishirô Honda Eagle of the Pacific; Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1953  Canada Tit-Coq René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas A French Canadian serviceman comes home
1954  United States Betrayed Gottfried Reinhardt Dutch resistance in the Battle of Arnhem
1954  United States The Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk Destroyer warfare in the Pacific
1954  West Germany Canaris Alfred Weidenmann Admiral Canaris was head of the German military intelligence and was part of several plots against Hitler.
1954  Spain La patrulla Pedro Lazaga Spanish volunteers on the Eastern Front
1954  United Kingdom
 Norway 		Shetlandsgjengen Michael Forlong Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves
1954  United Kingdom The Dam Busters Michael Anderson RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise
1954  United Kingdom The Purple Plain Robert Parrish RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign
1954  United Kingdom They Who Dare Lewis Milestone SAS raid in occupied Greece
1954  West Germany 08/15 Paul May
1954  United Kingdom The Sea Shall Not Have Them Lewis Gilbert Air Sea Rescue
1955  United Kingdom Above Us the Waves Ralph Thomas The sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz
1955  Poland Pokolenie (Generation) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance
1955  United States Battle Cry Raoul Walsh US Marines at the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan
1955  United Kingdom The Cockleshell Heroes José Ferrer Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton
1955  United Kingdom The Colditz Story Guy Hamilton British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp
1955  United States The Eternal Sea John H. Auer Pacific War
1955  United States To Hell and Back Jesse Hibbs Combat biography of Audie Murphy
1955  United States Mister Roberts John Ford and Melvin LeRoy A US Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific
1955  West Germany Jackboot Mutiny Georg Wilhelm Pabst The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
1955  West Germany
 Austria 		Der letzte Akt Georg Wilhelm Pabst The Last Act; Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1955  Finland The Unknown Soldier Edvin Laine Finno-Soviet Continuation War
1955  West Germany 08/15 - In der Heimat Paul May
1955  Poland Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross) Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Eastern Front in 1945
1955  Poland Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope) Stanisław Bareja , Jan Rybkowski Poland 1945
1955  West Germany 08/15 - Zweiter Teil Paul May
1956  United States Attack Robert Aldrich US infantry in France after D-Day
1956  United States Away All Boats Joseph Pevney US attack transport in the Pacific
1956  Spain Embajadores en el infierno José María Forqué Spanish prisoners at a Russian camp
1956  United Kingdom The Battle of the River Plate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Battle of the River Plate
1956  United States Battle Stations Lewis Seiler US Navy battleship in the Pacific War
1956  United States Between Heaven and Hell Richard Fleischer A National Guard unit in the Philippines
1956  Japan Biruma no tategoto Kon Ichikawa The Harp of Burma;the Burma Campaign
1956  United States The Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster The Italian Campaign
1956  United Kingdom The Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst The North African campaign
1956  United Kingdom The Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame The Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat
1956  United Kingdom Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain
1956  United States D-Day the Sixth of June Henry Koster The Normandy invasion
1956  Poland Kanal Andrzej Wajda Warsaw Uprising 1944
1956  United Kingdom A Town Like Alice Jack Lee British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore
1957  United Kingdom The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean British POWs work on the Burma Railway
1957  West Germany Fuchs von Paris, Der (aka "The Fox of Paris") Paul May The Battle of Normandy from the German soldiers perspective
1957  West Germany Haie und kleine Fische Frank Wisbar The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats
1957  United States Hellcats of the Navy Nathan Juran Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre
1957  United States Hellcats of the Navy Nathan Juran Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre
1957  Germany Der Stern von Afrika Alfred Weidenmann Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille, ace of the Luftwaffe.
1957  Norway Ni Liv Arne Skouen Story of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian resistance man who's forced to make an epic escape to neutral Sweden following a failed sabotage operation in Tromsø, Norway.
1957  United Kingdom The One That Got Away Roy Ward Baker True story of German escaper Franz von Werra
1957  United Kingdom The Steel Bayonet Michael Carreras
1957  United States The Enemy Below Dick Powell The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and a German submarine
1957  United States The Wings of Eagles John Ford A biography of Navy flier Frank W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater.
1957  Poland Con bravura Andrzej Munk The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Polish Resistance
1958  United Kingdom Operation Amsterdam Michael McCarthy
1958  Czechoslovakia Tenkrát o Vánocích Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front, Christmas 1944
1958  Poland Dezerter (Deserter) Witold Lesiewicz A Pole from Silesia in the Wehrmacht
1958  West Germany Arzt von Stalingrad, Der Géza von Radványi The Doctor of Stalingrad; Battle of Stalingrad
1958  United Kingdom The Camp on Blood Island Val Guest British and Dutch POWs in Malaya
1958  United Kingdom Dunkirk Leslie Norman Operation Dynamo; the Dunkirk Evacuation
1958  United Kingdom Carve Her Name with Pride Lewis Gilbert SOE agent Violette Szabo
1958  West Germany Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben(Battle Inferno) Frank Wisbar Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!; the Battle of Stalingrad
1958  United Kingdom Ice-Cold in Alex J. Lee Thompson North African campaign
1958  United Kingdom I Was Monty's Double John Guillermin General Montgomery
1958  United States Run Silent, Run Deep Robert Wise Japanese submarine chase during the Pacific War
1958  United Kingdom The Battle of the V 1 Vernon Sewell Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests
1958  United Kingdom The Key Carol Reed The Battle of the Atlantic
1958  Poland Krzyż walecznych (Cross of Valor) Kazimierz Kutz The Eastern Front, 1945
1958  United States The Young Lions Edward Dmytryk Story of 3 soldiers during World War II. One is German, Two others are American (one of them is Jewish)
1958  Poland Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia) Stanisław Lenartowicz Polish Resistance
1958  Poland Wolne miasto (Free City) Stanisław Różewicz Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939
1958  Poland Historia jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter) Hubert Drapella The Battle of Britain 1940
1958  United States The Naked and the Dead Raoul Walsh The Pacific War
1958  Poland Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1945
1958  United Kingdom Sea of Sand (aka "Desert Patrol") Guy Green Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign
1958  Poland Eroica Andrzej Munk The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW Camp 1944/45
1958  United Kingdom The Wind Cannot Read Ralph Thomas The RAF in Burma
1958  Poland Orzeł Leonard Buczkowski The story of ORP Orzeł
1959  United States Ten Seconds to Hell Robert Aldrich A German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin
1959  Poland Lotna Andrzej Wajda The Polish Campaign, 1939
1959  West Germany Die Brücke Bernhard Wicki The Western Front
1959  United States Never So Few John Sturges The Burma Campaign
1959  Poland Zamach Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance - Operation Kutschera, 1944
1959  Japan Ningen no joken I Masaki Kobayashi The Human Condition (film trilogy) No Greater Love; Japanese resistance; Manchukuo
1959  Japan Ningen no joken II Masaki Kobayashi The Human Condition (film trilogy) Road to Eternity; Japanese resistance
1959  Poland Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1959  Poland Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear) Jerzy Zarzycki Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain Zakopane, Holocaust
1959  Poland Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe) Bronisław Brok Polish Resistance Comedy
1959  Soviet Union Sudba Cheloveka Sergei Bondarchuk Destiny of a Man, Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov

1960s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1960  Czechoslovakia Práče Karel Kachyňa Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front.
1960  Japan Storm Over the Pacific Shuei Matsubayashi A story about a pilot who serves on the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway
1960  France Un taxi pour Tobrouk Denys de La Patellière A Free French commando in North Africa desert try to reach its lines and meets a German pilot. 5 destinies.
1960  United States Hell to Eternity Phil Karlson The Battle of Saipan; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II
1960  United Kingdom Sink the Bismarck! Lewis Gilbert Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic
1960  Italy
 United States 		Under Ten Flags Duilio Coletti The Battle of the Atlantic
1961  United Kingdom The Guns of Navarone J. Lee Thompson The Mediterranean Theatre
1961  United Kingdom Very Important Person Ken Annakin Comedy - British POWs in a German camp
1961  Poland Samson Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in Poland
1961  Poland Kwiecień (Spring) Witold Lesiewicz Germany Eastern Front, 1945
1961  Poland Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate) Stanisław Różewicz The Polish Campaign, 1939
1961  Poland Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die) Jan Rybkowski Dresden, Germany, 1945
1961  Poland Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train) Kazimierz Kutz Poland - The German Occupation
1962  Poland Walter P-38 (TV) Edward Etler Polish Resistance
1962  United States Hell Is for Heroes Don Siegel The Western front
1962  United States McHale's Navy (series) Edward Montagne The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew during World War II
1962  Netherlands De Overval (The Raid) Paul Rotha Wartime prison raid
1962  United States Merrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller Merrill's Marauders
1962  United States The Gallant Men Various American 5th Army in Italy
1962  United Kingdom The War Lover Philip Leacock American bomber crews station in England
1962  Netherlands Als Twee Druppels Water Fons Rademakers A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance
1962  United States Combat! Vic Morrow, Rick Jason A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France
1962  United States The Longest Day Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin The Normandy landings
1962  United States The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vincente Minnelli Story of a German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, nazism and anti-nazism.
1963  Poland Pasażerka Andrzej Munk Auschwitz-Birkenau
1963  Finland Sissit Mikko Niskanen Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War
1963  United States The Great Escape John Sturges British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III
1963  United States PT 109 Leslie H. Martinson John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front
1963  Poland Gdzie jest generał...(Where Is General?) Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy, Eastern Front, 1945
1963  Poland Naganiacz (Manhunter) Czesław Petelski , Ewa Petelska The Holocaust in Poland
1963  Poland Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails) Jarosław Brzozowski War in Arctica
1963  United Kingdom The Password is Courage Andrew Stone True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward
1963  United Kingdom The Victors Carl Foreman American soldiers in Europe following D-Day
1964  United Kingdom 633 Squadron Walter Grauman Occupied Norway
1964  United States The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller Planning for the Normandy landings
1964  France Week-end à Zuydcoote Henri Verneuil The Battle of Dunkirk
1964  United States
 France
 Italy 		The Train John Frankenheimer Resistance in Occupied France
1964  Poland Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw) Stanisław Lenartowicz Cult Comedy - Italian Soldier in Poland, 1943
1964  Poland Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance
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 Germany, 1945, Polish POWs
1964  Poland Barwy walki (Battle Colours) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance, 1944
1964  Poland Koniec naszego świata (End of our World) Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz
1964  Czechoslovakia Atentát Jiří Sequens Operation Anthropoid
1964  Japan
 United States 		Flight from Ashiya Michael Anderson USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific
1965  United States Battle of the Bulge Ken Annakin The Ardennes Offensive
1965  United States Court Martial (series) During World War II, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime.
1965  United States 36 Hours George Seaton On early June 1944, Germans kidnap an American officer and try to convince him that they are in 1948, that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe.
1965  United Kingdom The Heroes of Telemark Anthony Mann Norwegian resistance movement Operation Gunnerside
1965  United Kingdom The Sound of Music Robert Wise Austria drama about the Von Trapp family
1965  United Kingdom The Hill Sidney Lumet The North African campaign
1965  Poland
 France
 West Germany 		Czas pokoju (The Moment of Peace) (TV) Tadeusz Konwicki Poland - German Occupation
1965  United States
 Japan 		None But the Brave Frank Sinatra American and Japanese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island during World War II
1965  United Kingdom Operation Crossbow (aka "The Great Spy Mission") Michael Anderson Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow
1965  Japan Story of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki Second Sino-Japanese War
1965  China Tunnel War Ren Xudong Tunnel warfare in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
1965  Poland Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet) Janusz Morgensterni Polish Resistance, 1944
1965  United States Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson British and American POWs escape from Italian camps
1966  United Kingdom
 France 		The Night of the Generals Anatole Livtak The July 20 plot
1966  France La ligne de Démarcation Claude Chabrol In 1941, the life in a little town cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the Non-occupied zone
1966  United States
 France 		Is Paris Burning? René Clément The Liberation of Paris
1965  Poland Buty (The Boots) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Eastern Front, military hospital
1965  Poland Nazajutrz po wojnie (Day after the War) (TV) Lech Lorentowicz Eastern Front, 1945
1965  Poland Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland, 1944
1965  Poland Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV) Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki Poland - German Occupation
1965  Poland Wózek (The Cart) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland Soviet POWs
1965  Poland Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV serial) Hubert Drapella , Seweryn Nowicki Polish Resistance, 1941 - 45
1966  United States What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Blake Edwards Comedy - Italy, 1943
1966  Poland Don Gabriel Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy
1966  Poland Kontrybucja (Contribution) Jan Łomnicki Polish Resistance
1966  Poland Mistrz (The Master) (TV) Jerzy Antczak Poland - German Occupation
1966  Poland Czterej pancerni i pies (TV serial) (Four Men and a Dog – In a Tank) Konrad Nałęckii Poland - Eastern Front, 1943 - 45
1967  United Kingdom Attack on the Iron Coast Paul Wendkos Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid
1967  United States Beach Red Cornel Wilde The Pacific Theater of Operations
1967  United States The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich Battle of Normandy
1967  Poland Westerplatte Stanisław Różewicz Polish Campaign, 1939
1967  Poland Zosia (Zosya) Jerzy Lipman Poland - Eastern Front - Love story
1967  Poland Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) Zbigniew Kuźmiński Polish Resistance, Comedy
1967  Poland
 West Germany 		Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande / Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime) Jan Rybkowski Germany World War II
1967  Poland Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Polish Resistance
1967  Poland Długa noc (Long night) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943
1968  Estonia Inimesed sõdurisinelis Jüri Müür Mobilized Estonians in the Red Army
1968  Italy Anzio Edward Dmytryk The Battle of Anzio
1968  Poland Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945
1968  United States The Devil's Brigade Andrew V. McLaglen The Devil's Brigade
1968  Czechoslovakia Nebeští jezdci Jindřich Polák Czech pilots in the RAF
1968  Japan The Human Bullet Kihachi Okamato Story of a kamikaze soldier
1968  Poland Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) (TV serial) Andrzej Konic, Janusz Morgenstern Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945
1968  United Kingdom Submarine X-1 William A. Graham Royal Navy midget submarines
1968  United States The Secret War of Harry Frigg Jack Smight Comedy - Generals in a POW Camp
1968  United States Where Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Allied operation to rescue a captured American General
1968  United States Hell in the Pacific John Boorman Story of marooned American and Japanese soldiers on an unnamed Japanese Island.
1969  United Kingdom Battle of Britain Guy Hamilton The Battle of Britain
1969  Poland Ostatnie dni (The Last Days) Jerzy Passendorfer Eastern Front, 1945
1969  United Kingdom Mosquito Squadron Boris Sagal A British bomber squadron must destroy the German's new Vergeltungswaffe at a research camp
1969  United States The Bridge at Remagen John Guillermin Operation Lumberjack, on the Western Front
1969  Poland Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) Ewa and Czesław Petelski Battle of Kolberg 1945, on Eastern Front
1969  United Kingdom Play Dirty Andre de Toth The North African Campaign
1969  Italy La Battaglia di El Alamein Giorgio Ferroni The Second Battle of El Alamein
1969  Poland Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed The Second World War Tadeusz Chmielewski Comedy -Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944
1969  Poland Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) Jan Rybkowski Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941
1969  Yugoslavia The Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajić The Battle of Neretva
1969  France /  Italy Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville French Resistance
1969  Poland Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939
1969  Poland Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification) Jerzy Passendorfer Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944
1969  Soviet Union Liberation Yuri Ozerov Eastern Front, Antology battles of World War II, chronicle of the Battle for Stalingrad to the Fall of Berlin

1970s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1970  Poland Kolumbowie Janusz Morgenstern Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944
1970  Poland
 Soviet Union 		Legenda Sylwester Chęciński Polish Resistance
1970  Poland Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire) Lech Lorentowicz Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance
1970  Poland Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel) Zbigniew Chmielewski Poland - Children in a German concentration camp
1970  United States Catch-22 Mike Nichols The Italian Campaign
1970  United Kingdom
 United States 		Hell Boats Paul Wendkos British motor torpedo boats operating in the Mediterranean
1970  United States
 Italy 		Hornet's Nest Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino Italian Campaign - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam
1970  United Kingdom The Last Escape Walter Grauman British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist
1970  United States Patton Franklin Schaffner General George S. Patton
1970  Italy
 Russia 		I Girasoli (Italian) (aka "Sunflower") Vittorio De Sica Sunflower (Italian: I Girasoli) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was the first occidental film to be made in the USSR.]
1970  United States Too Late the Hero Robert Aldrich British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign
1970  United States
 Japan 		Tora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda The Attack on Pearl Harbor
1970  United States
 Yugoslavia 		Kelly's Heroes Brian G. Hutton The Western Front
1971  Poland Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night) Andrzej Żuławski Polish Resistance
1971  Japan Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen Kihachi Okamoto The Battle of Okinawa from the eyes of the Army, Navy, Airforce, civilians, and the Generals who commanded them
1971  Poland Agent nr 1 Zbigniew Kuźmiński Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz - Pole (SOE agent) in Greek resistance
1971  United Kingdom Dad's Army Norman Cohen Comedy - the British Home Guard
1971  United States Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson Disney children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic
1971  United States Raid on Rommel Henry Hathaway North African Campaign
1971  United Kingdom Murphy's War Peter Yates The Battle of the Atlantic
1973  Poland Hubal Bohdan Poręba Polish Campaign, 1939/1940
1973  Poland Zasieki (Barbed Wire) Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943
1973  France Le Train (aka "The Last Train") (aka "The Train") Pierre Granier-Deferre A Frenchman and a Jewish German woman met on a train while escaping the German army entering France
1973  Italy
 United Kingdom 		Hitler: The Last Ten Days Ennio De Concini The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin
1973  France Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (aka "Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?") Robert Lamoureux Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle
1974  France
 West Germany
 Italy 		Lacombe Lucien Louis Malle French resistance and collaboration
1974  Estonia Ohtlikud mängud Veljo Käsper The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
1974  France Les guichets du Louvre Michel Mitrani The first big roundup of Jews in 1942 Paris, and the story of a man who tries to save as many Jews as he can.
1974  Poland Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) Janusz Kondratiuk Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944
1974  Poland
 Soviet Union 		Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye / Remember Your Name Siergiej Kołosow Tragedy of children in war
1975  United States
 Czechoslovakia 		Operation Daybreak Lewis Gilbert Operation Anthropoid
1975  France On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie Robert Lamoureux Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle, and in a officers POW camp, in a castle.
1975  Greece The Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos The German invasion and occupation of Greece
1975  France Section spéciale Costa-Gavras During France Occupation, hours in a special court room where judges are asked to condemn to death penalty people who didn't do anything, to please Germans.
1975  Poland W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring) Andrzej Konic The Eastern Front, 1945
1976  United Kingdom The Eagle Has Landed John Sturges A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill
1976  United States Farewell to Manzanar (TV) John Korty The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar
1976  United States Midway (aka "The Battle of Midway") Jack Smight The Battle of Midway
1976 - 1978  United States Baa Baa Black Sheep Stephen J. Cannell Gregory H. 'Pappy' Boyington The true story of a Marines squadron during the war in the Pacific.
1976  Poland Ocalić miasto Jan Łomnicki Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945
1975  Poland
 Hungary 		Trzecia granica (Third border ) (TV serial) Wojciech Solarz , Lech Lorentowicz Poland, Tatra Mountain, Slovakia, Hungary - Polish Resistance
1975  Poland Partita na instrument drewniany (APartite for a Woodwind Instrument) Janusz Zaorski Polish Resistance
1975  Poland Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) Janusz Nasfeter Polish Campaign 1939
1975  Poland Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance
1976  France
 Italy 		Monsieur Klein (aka "Mr. Klein") Joseph Losey French resistance and collaboration
1976  Poland Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) Paweł Komorowski Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939
1976  Poland Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV serial) Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern Poland, 1939- 43
1977  United Kingdom
 United States 		A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough Operation Market Garden
1977  France La septième compagnie au clair de lune Robert Lamoureux Comic story about 3 French veterans who became resistant to Germans.
1977  United Kingdom
 West Germany 		Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah German soldiers on the Russian Front
1977  Poland Akcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) Jana Łomnicki Polish resistance, 1943
1977  Poland Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV) Krzysztof Rogulski , Ludmiła Niedbalska Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo
1977  Poland Palace Hotel Ewa Kruk Poland, 1939 - 44
1977  Netherlands Soldier of Orange (aka "Survival Run") Paul Verhoeven Dutch resistance
1977  United States MacArthur Joseph Sargent General Douglas MacArthur
1978  Netherlands Pastorale 1943 Wim Verstappen Dutch resistance
1978  Poland ..Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie... (Wherever You Are, Mr. President) Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939
1978  Poland Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores) Zbigniew Kuźmiński A courier travelling through Europe, has to deliver a special letter to London
1978  Poland Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) Edward Żebrowski German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital
1978  Poland Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead) Julian Dziedzina Silesia Polish Resistance
1978  United Kingdom Force 10 from Navarone Guy Hamilton British commando raid in Yugoslavia.
1978  Poland Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood) Jerzy Hoffman Eastern Front, 1943
1978  United States Holocaust (TV miniseries) Marvin J. Chomsky Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust.
1979  Estonia Tuulte pesa Olev Neuland Forest Brothers
1979  United Kingdom Yanks John Schlesinger Americans stationed in England
1979  United Kingdom Escape to Athena George Pan Cosmatos German-occupied Greece
1979  United Kingdom
 United States 		Hanover Street Peter Hyams American bomber crews based in England
1979  Poland Elegia Paweł Komorowski Eastern Front 1945
1979  United States Ike (mini-series) Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson Story (and love) of general Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II.
1979  Poland Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars) Henryk Bielski Eastern Front, 1944
1979  Poland Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go) Władysław Ślesicki Escape from a POW camp
1979  Poland Zielone lata (Salad Days) Stanisław Jędryka Poland Sosnowiec, Tragedy of children in war
1979  Poland Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma) Roman Wionczek Poland, France, England - Enigma
1979  West Germany Sergeant Steiner (aka "Breakthrough") Andrew V. McLaglen The July 20 plot
1979  Italy
 France
 Spain 		From Hell to Victory "Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi) Occupied Europe
1979  United States 1941 Steven Spielberg California, one week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor

1980s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1980  Poland Godzina "W" ('W' Hour) Janusz Morgenstern Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980  Poland Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) Witold Orzechowski Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance
1980  United States The Final Countdown aka U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific Don Taylor Kind of Sci fi movie. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz is lost in a storm a arrive at the same place in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and meets Japanese aircraft en route to Pearl Harbor.
1980  Poland Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980  Poland Olimpiada '40 Andrzej Kotkowski A POW Camp, 1940
1980  Poland Dzień Wisły (Day Vistulas) Tadeusz Kijański Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980  United States The Final Countdown Don Taylor Pearl Harbor, 1941
1980  United States The Big Red One Samuel Fuller U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe
1980  United Kingdom
  Switzerland
 United States 		The Sea Wolves Andrew V. McLaglen Calcutta Light Horse
1981  Netherlands Het meisje met het rode haar (The girl with the red hair) Ben Verbong Dutch resistance
1981  West Germany Das Boot (aka "The Boat") Wolfgang Petersen The Battle of the Atlantic
1981  United Kingdom Eye of the Needle Richard Marquand A German spy in England before D-Day
1981  United States Escape to Victory (aka "Victory") John Huston A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs
1981  Poland Bołdyn (General Boldyn) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski Polish Resistance
1981  France Allons Z'enfants Yves Boisset A cadet in a French military school doesn't like the army and is taken in the 1939-40 war.
1981  Poland Ryś (Lynx / Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye) Stanisław Różewicz Polish Resistance
1982  Australia Attack Force Z Tim Burstall Z Special Unit
1982  United States Sophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula, Holocaust
1982  Australia The Highest Honour (aka "Heroes of the Krait") (aka "Southern Cross") Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell Operation Rimau
1982  Poland Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV serial) Ryszard Ber A Polish village during the German occupation
1982  Poland Do góry nogami (Upside Down) Stanisław Jędryka Poland Silesia, Tragedy of children in war
1982  Poland Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day) Krzysztof Prymek , Roman Wionczek Polish Resistance
1983  Hong Kong Hong Kong, 1941 Leong Po-Chih The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
1983  France Papy fait de la résistance Jean-Marie Poiré (Comedy) French Resistance in Occupied France
1983  United Kingdom
 Japan 		Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Nagisa Oshima British POWs on Java Island
1983  China One and Eight Zhang Junzhao Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China
1983  Poland Nie było słońca tej wiosny(Was not suns this springs) Juliusz Janicki The Holocaust in Poland
1983  Poland Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) Bohdan Poręba General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943
1983  Poland
 West Germany 		Wedle wyroków twoich...(After Your Decrees / Blutiger Schnee / Ruth / Zu Freiwild verdammt) Jerzy Hoffman The Holocaust in Poland
1983  Poland Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey) Waldemar Dziki Poland Holocaust
1983  Poland Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV) Stefan Szlachtycz The Holocaust in Poland
1984  Estonia Võõra nime all Peeter Urbla Estonians in a Soviet camp
1984  Poland Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) Kazimierz Kutz Silesia, 1939 - 42 Polish Resistance
1984  Poland Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day) Ludmiła Niedbalska The Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1984  Poland Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder) Waldemar Podgórski The Polish Campaign, 1939
1984  Poland Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live)(TV) Stanisław Jędryka Polish Resistance, 1941
1985  United States Code Name: Emerald Jonathan Sanger Battle of Normandy
1985  Netherlands Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet) Kees van Oostrum A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam
1985  Netherlands De IJssalon (The Ice-cream parlor) Dimitri Frenkel Frank A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer
1985  Soviet Union Come and See Elem Klimov The Eastern Front
1985  Romania Noi, cei din linia întâi Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary
1985  Soviet Union The Битва за Москву, Battle for Moscow Yuri Ozerov The Eastern Front
1985  Finland The Unknown Soldier Rauni Mollberg The Finno-Soviet Continuation War
1985  Poland Tate (Dad) Jan Rutkiewicz The Holocaust in Poland
1985  Poland W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred) Wojciech Żółtowski The Holocaust in Poland, 1943
1985  Poland
 Czechoslovakia 		Kukułka w ciemnym lesie, Kukačka v temném lese (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) Antonín Moskalyk Children in war
1986  Netherlands In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) Ate de Jong Dutch resistance
1986  Netherlands The Assault (aka "De Aanslag") Fons Rademakers An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation
1986  Japan Tokyo Saiban Masaki Kobayashi Five-hour theatrical documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal, Far East (IMTFE), Tokyo Trials
1986  Poland
  Switzerland 		Kołysanka (The Lullabye) Federo Sevella The Holocaust in Poland
1986  Poland Okruchy wojny, (Crumbs of War) Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz Polish Resistance
1987  Hong Kong Men Behind the Sun Tun Fei Mou Unit 731
1987  United Kingdom
 United States
 Yugoslavia 		The Misfit Brigade (aka "Wheels of Terror") Gordon Hessler
1987  France Au revoir, les enfants Louis Malle Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France
1987  United States Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai
1987  United Kingdom Hope and Glory John Boorman The Blitz
1988  China Evening Bell Wu Ziniu Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China
1988  Japan Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata The Firebombing of Kobe
1988  Poland Shadowman Piotr Andrejew A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam
1988  United Kingdom Return from the River Kwai Andrew V. McLaglen British POWs in Japan
1988  Poland Kornblumenblau Leszek Wosiewicz Auschwitz-Birkenau
1988  Poland
 United States 		I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) Alexander Ramati Gipsy - The Holocaust
1988  United States War & Remembrance The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s
1988  Poland
 Soviet Union 		Przeprawa (Passage) Wiktor Turow Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans
1988  United States Farewell to the King John Milius Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo
1989  United States Fat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé The Manhattan project
1989  Finland Talvisota Pekka Parikka The Winter War
1989  Poland Virtuti Jacek Butrymowicz The Polish Campaign, 1939
1989  Soviet Union Stalingrad Yuri Ozerov The Battle for Stalingrad

1990s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1990  Poland Korczak Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust in Poland : life of Dr. Korczak in the Varsaw ghetto
1990  Australia Blood Oath Stephen Wallace Japanese war crimes trial for the The Laha massacre
1990  France Docteur Pétiot Christian de Chalonge Serial killer Marcel Pétiot 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  United States Memphis Belle Michael Caton-Jones Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle
1991  Poland Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest) Jan Łomnicki The Holocaust
1991  Denmark Drengene fra Sankt Petri (aka "The Boys from St. Petri") Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Danish resistance group
1991  Poland
 Germany
 France 		Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703) Janusz Kijowski The Holocaust
1991  Italy Mediterraneo Gabriele Salvatores Italian soldiers on a Greek island
1992  Poland Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance, 1945/46
1992  Poland Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters) Robert Gliński Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag
1992  United States A Midnight Clear Keith Gordon The Western Front
1993  Estonia
 Poland 		Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear) Marek Piestrak NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939.
1993  Romania Oglinda Sergiu Nicolaescu Downfall of Ion Antonescu
1993  United States 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
1994  France Un jour avant l'aube Jacques Ertaud Story of a Special Air Service French commando in Britany, during the Normandy battle in 1944
1995  China Don't Cry, Nanking Wu Ziniu Nanking Massacre
1995  Canada
 Japan 		Hiroshima Roger Spottiswoode The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
1995  United States The Tuskegee Airmen Robert Markowitz The story of the first African-American pilots
1995  China Red Cherry Ye Ying Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union
1995  United States Sahara Brian Trenchard-Smith The Western Desert Campaign
1995  Serbia Underground Emir Kusturica German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia
1995  Poland
 France
 Germany 		Wielki tydzień (Holy Week) Andrzej Wajda The Holocaust
1996  United Kingdom The Brylcreem Boys Terence Ryan British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland
1996  United Kingdom
 United States 		The English Patient Anthony Minghella Tobruk
1996  United States Mother Night Keith Gordon
1996  United Kingdom Over Here (TV) Tony Dow Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England
1996  Thailand Sunset at Chaophraya Euthana Mukdasanit The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement
1997  France Lucie Aubrac Claude Berri The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France
1997  United Kingdom The Land Girls David Leland Women's Land Army
1997  Italy La Vita é Bella (aka "Life is Beautiful") Roberto Benigni The Holocaust
1997  Australia
 United States 		Paradise Road Bruce Beresford British women POWs in Sumatra
1998  Japan Pride Shunya Ito A depiction of Tojo Hideki during The Tokyo Trials
1998  Canada
 United States 		The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick The Guadalcanal campaign
1998  United States Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg The landing at Omaha Beach and fighting inland
1998  United States When Trumpets Fade John Irvin The Battle of Huertgen Forest
1999  United States Jakob the Liar Peter Kassovitz A Jewish ghetto
1999  Russia
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 France 		Moloch Aleksandr Sokurov A visit by Adolf Hitler to the Berghof
1999  Finland
 Russia 		Ambush Olli Saarela The Continuation War
1999  Croatia Četverored Branko Schmidt The Bleiburg massacre
1999  Germany Aimée & Jaguar Max Färberböck While the Gestapo purge Berlin of the Jews, a heart-wrenching love affair blooms between two women (see: Felice Schragenheim & Lilly Wust).

2000s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000  China Devils on the Doorstep Jiang Wen The Second Sino-Japanese War.
2000  Italy Johnny the Partisan Guido Chiesa Partisan warfare in Northern Italy.
2000  Malaysia Leftenan Adnan Aziz M. Osman Story of Adnan Bin Saidi & the Battle of Pasir Panjang.
2000  United States U-571 Jonathan Mostow American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate a German U-boat with orders to capture an Enigma machine that could turn the tide of the war.
2000  Poland Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Kłos) (TV) Andrzej Wajda Poland - German Occupation, Collaboration
2001  Germany
 Russia 		So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as my Feet will Carry Me) Hardy Martins Movie adaptation Clemens Forell's book of the same name, the true story of a German soldier who walks over 11,000 km (6,800 mi) to escape from the Siberian Gulag.
2001  United Kingdom
 United States
 Germany
 Netherlands 		Enigma Michael Apted Enigma machine mystery.
2001  United Kingdom
 United States 		Band of Brothers (TV) Steven Spielberg The story of a company in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division (Easy Company) from D-Day to Holland, Belgium and Germany.
2001  United Kingdom
 France
 United States 		Captain Corelli's Mandolin John Madden The Italian occupation of the Greek islands.
2001  United Kingdom
 Australia 		Charlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong Special Operations Executive.
2001  United Kingdom
 United States 		Conspiracy (TV) Frank Pierson In 1942, 15 German officials attend a conference in Wannsee headed by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss the Final Solution to the Jewish question
2001  Czech Republic
 United Kingdom 		Dark Blue World Jan Sverák Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain.
2001  Japan Hotaru (Firefly) Yasuo Furuhata Based on the true story of a Korean Kamikaze pilot.
2001  United States[citation needed]
 Germany[citation needed]
 United Kingdom
 Ireland[citation needed] 		Enemy at the Gates Jean-Jacques Annaud Stand-off between two opposing snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad.
2001  United States Pearl Harbor Michael Bay The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid.
2001  United States
 Burma 		To End All Wars David L. Cunningham The Burma Railway.
2001  United States Uprising (TV) Jon Avnet The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
2002  France
 Germany 		Amen Costa-Gavras Alleged collusion between Nazis and the Roman Catholic Church.
2002  United Kingdom Two Men Went to War John Henderson Based on a true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France.
2002  United States Hart's War Gregory Hoblit The Battle of the Bulge
2002  France
 Germany 		Laissez passer (aka "Safe Conduct") Bertrand Tavernier France under German occupation
2002  France Monsieur Batignole Gérard Jugnot A butcher hides & protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France during World War II
2002  France
 Germany
 United Kingdom
 Poland 		The Pianist Roman Polanski The story of Władysław Szpilman
2002  Russia Zvezda Nikolai Lebedev A group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration
2002  Italy El Alamein (film) Enzo Monteleone The Second Battle of El Alamein
2002  United States Windtalkers John Woo Battle of Saipan
2003  Poland Pornografia (Pornography) Jan Jakub Kolski The German Occupation of Poland
2003  United Kingdom Entrusted Giacomo Battiato Thomas Von Gall, an 11 year-old chess prodigy and son of a mother working with the underground resistance, is entrusted with a precious secret that will save the lives of many.
2003  Germany
 Netherlands
 Rosenstrasse Margarethe von Trotta Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin
2003  France Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau France under German occupation
2003  France Strange Gardens Jean Becker French hostages held captive in a giant pit
2003  Czech Republic Želary Ondrej Trojan Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding when their group is discovered by the Nazis
2004  Croatia Long Dark Night Antun Vrdoljak Croatia under fascism and communism
2004  Germany
 Italy
 Austria 		Der Untergang Oliver Hirschbiegel The last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin
2004  Germany Napola (aka "Before the Fall") Dennis Gansel The story of two young graduates of the Hitler Youth who form an unsuspecting bond while attending one of the Reich's National-Political institutions at the height of World War II
2004  China Purple Butterfly Lou Ye Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai
2004  United States Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little Survivors of the Malmedy massacre during the Ardennes Offensive
2004  United States Ike: Countdown to D-Day Robert Harmon The organization and planning of Operation Overlord from the viewpoint of the Supreme Allied Command at SHAEF
2004  Germany Stauffenberg (TV) Jo Baier The plot to assassinate Hitler during World War II
2004  Germany Der Neunte Tag (aka "The Ninth Day") Volker Schlöndorff An SS Lieutenant tries to coerce a Catholic Priest (Father Abbé Henri Kremer) into writing a letter to the Vatican on behalf of the Church of Luxemburg demanding that the Pope support Hitler and the Nazi regime
2005  United Kingdom The Last Drop David Teague Operation Market Garden and a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi gold.
2005  Japan Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo
2005  China On the Mountain of Tai Hang Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian The campaigns of the Eighth Route Army in China
2005  United States Only the Brave Lane Nishikawa The rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
2005  Russia
 France
 Italy
  Switzerland
 Japan 		The Sun Aleksandr Sokurov The life of emperor Hirohito.
2005  Germany Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (aka "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days") Marc Rothemund The final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose.
2005  United States
 Australia 		The Great Raid John Dahl Japanese occupation of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan
2005  India Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Shyam Benegal The story of Subash Chandra Bose & the Indian National Army
2005  Japan Yamato Junya Sato The story of Yamato's crew during the Pacific War
2005  Finland
 Sweden 		Framom främsta linjen aka "Beyond Enemy Lines") Åke Lindman The hostilities between Soviet Russia and Finland between 1941-1944. Also known as the Continuation War
2006  China Tokyo Trial Gao Qunshu The story of Chinese Justice, Mei Ru-ao, in an International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) Tokyo Trials
2006  United States Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of American soldiers
2006  Lithuania Ghetto
2006  France
 Morocco
 Algeria
 Belgium 		Days of Glory Rachid Bouchareb The stories of four North African men who enlist in the French army to liberate France
2006  Australia Kokoda Alister Grierson Chronicles the events that transpired during the Kokoda Track Campaign
2006  United States Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers
2006  Russia Svolochi Aleksandr Atanesyan A group of teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission
2006  Netherlands
 Germany
 United Kingdom
 Belgium 		Zwartboek (aka "Black Book") Paul Verhoeven A story of a young Jewish woman who joins the Dutch Resistance and becomes entangled in a deadly web of collaboration and betrayal in the final months of World War II
2006  Germany The Last Train Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier The story of 688 Jews who are packed onto a cattle train bound for Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.
2007  Australia Curtin (TV) Jessica Hobbs A television movie about the wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin
2007  Estonia Ühe metsa pojad Ats Surva Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944.
2007  United States American Pastime Desmond Nakano Love, jazz music and baseball all collide at the Topaz, Utah Internment camp
2007  Japan For Those We Love Taku Shinjo Stories of Kamikaze pilots
2007  United Kingdom Atonement Joe Wright Dunkirk.
2007  Poland Katyń Andrzej Wajda The mass execution of Polish military officers, POWs and civilians by the Soviets in 1940. See also: the Katyń massacre
2007  Taiwan Lust, Caution Ang Lee An espionage thriller set in Shanghai during World War II
2007  Poland Jutro idziemy do kina (TOMORROW WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES) Michał Kwieciński The Polish Campaign, 1939
2007  Poland Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of codes ) (TV serial) Adek Drabiński Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945
2007  Austria The Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky Operation Bernhard
2007  Finland Tali Ihantala 1944 Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen Battles of the Continuation War
2008  Estonia Tuulepealne maa (TV) Ain Prosa The story of the Estonian people from World War I until 1941
2008  United States Miracle at St. Anna Spike Lee The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
2008  Denmark Flammen og Citronen (aka "Flame & Citron") Ole Christian Madsen Two members (Bent & Joergen, aka Flame & Lemons) of the Holger Danske (resistance group) are sent on a dangerous mission to assassinate Nazi and Danish collaborators
2008  Poland Czas honoru (TV serial) Michał Rosa , Wojciech Wójcik, Michał Kwieciński Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance
2008  France
 United Kingdom 		Les Femmes De L'Ombre (aka "Female Agents") Jean-Paul Salomé Five female SOE agents are parachuted into occupied France to assassinate German Col. Karl Heindrich (head of counter-intelligence) & to rescue a British geologist in possession of valuable information concerning the D-Day invasion
2008  United States
 United Kingdom 		The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Mark Herman The Holocaust witnessed through the eyes of two eight year old boys. The first, Bruno, son of a Nazi officer and commandant of a death camp. The second, Shmuel, a Jewish boy who is interned there. A truly remarkable story of a forbidden friendship and its devastating consequences
2008  United States Defiance Edward Zwick Bielski partisans
2008  Czech Republic Tobruk Václav Marhoul Tobruk
2008  Netherlands Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) Martin Koolhoven A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of World War II
2008  Norway

 Germany

Max Manus Joachim Rønning

Espen Sandberg

The story of Max Manus, a Norwegian resistance member fighting Nazi occupation of Norway
2008  United States Valkyrie Bryan Singer The July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II
2008  Australia Australia Baz Luhrmann A love story between an Australian Soldier and a British aristocat who live in Darwin from 1939-1942 and also about the first attack on Darwin.
2009  China City of Life and Death Lu Chuan The Nanking Massacre
2009  France L'Armée du crime Robert Guédiguian The Manouchian resistance group and the l'Affiche Rouge
2009  United States Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino A group of Jewish-American soldiers sign up for a mission to kill a particular group of Nazis
2009-  France Un village français (series) Emmanuel Daucé, Frédéric Krivine, Philippe Triboit The life in an Occupied France village, from May, 1940 to... 1 month of war per episode.
200X  United States Little Iron Men Jesse Kobayashi Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
200X  United States
 New Zealand 		Dambusters Christian Rivers Operation Chastise.

2010s

Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010  United States The Book Thief TBA Life in Nazi Germany
2010  United States The Pacific (miniseries) Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To 1st Division of the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations
2010  United States Truth & Treason Ethan Vincent, Matt Whitaker,Kaleidoscope Pictures story of Helmuth Hübener (8 January 1925 – 27 October 1942) the youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed

for hightreason against the state.

2010  Poland Tajemnica Westerplatte (Secret Westerplatte) Paweł Chochlew The Polish Campaign, 1939
2010  Poland
 United Kingdom 		Christine: War My Love Agnieszka Holland Story of Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish spy working for the allies
201X  Estonia Nemad (Them) Ilmar Raag A film about the Battle of the Tannenberg Line
201X  United States
 Germany 		The Forgotten Soldier Paul Verhoeven The film adaptation of Guy Sajer's World War 2 autobiography.

See also

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