List of World War II films
Appearance
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Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini-series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
A separate list of full-fledged TV series appears at the end.
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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
Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
1939
Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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 |
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UK | The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | The Economic blockade of Germany |
UK | Convoy | Pen Tennyson | The Battle of the Atlantic |
Germany | Feinde (Enemies) | Viktor Tourjansky | Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland |
USA | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel |
USA | The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | The Battle of the Atlantic |
Japan | Moyuru ōzora | Yutaka Abe | |
UK | Secret Journey | John Baxter | Espionage |
USA | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington |
USA | Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance[1] |
USA | Women in War | John H. Auer | Nurses in the Battle of Britain |
1941
Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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
1943
1944
1945
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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][4] | Makapili Japanese sympathizers during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines; AKA Makabayan Katipunan Ñg Mg̃a Pilipino [5] |
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 |
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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[6] |
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 |
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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.[7] |
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 | Holocaust; four-part mini-series |
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 |
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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 |
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 |
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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 |
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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 the 101st Airborne Division from D-Day through Holland, Belgium and Germany. |
2001 | UK | The Bunker | Rob Green | The Battle of the Siegfried Line. |
2001 | UK France USA |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | The Italian occupation of the Greek islands; AKA Capitaine Corelli |
2001 | UK Australia |
Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Special Operations Executive. |
2001 | UK USA |
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 | USA Burma |
To End All Wars | David L. Cunningham | The Burma Railway. |
2001 | USA Germany UK Ireland |
Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and a German sniper during the 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 | A Filipina offers to be a wet nurse to a Japanese soldier's new son for the conditional freedom of her husband. |
2001 | USA | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | The Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. |
2001 | Japan | Hotaru (Firefly) | Yasuo Furuhata | Based on the true story of a 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; story of Jewish family emigrating to Kenya during World War II to escape the Nazis and run a farm |
2001 | USA | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | Attack on Pearl Harbor and the 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: a German soldier walks over 11,000 km to escape from the Siberian gulag. |
2001 | Czech Republic UK |
Tmavomodrý svet (Dark Blue World) | Jan Sverák | Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain. |
2001 | USA | Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | The 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 | 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 | 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 | 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; "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 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 is 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 [8] |
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 | The 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 teenage convicts sent on dangerous 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 | Dark comedy depicting a 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 | Lighthearted film 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 between 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 | The Nanking Massacre, and 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 | Five female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German head of counter-intelligence) & rescue a Briton with information on D-Day invasion |
2008 | Norway Germany Denmark |
Max Manus | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Max Manus, resistance member during the 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 |
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 | Israel | Wiosna 1941 (Spring 1941) | Uri Barbash | Romance between Warsaw grocer & Jew 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 | Dark comedy depicting 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 film about 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 | Biographical film about Winston Churchill & his wartime leadership (sequel to 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; 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 under German occupation of Czechoslovakia & effects of Operation Anthropoid |
In development
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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2013 | Russia | Stalingrad | Fyodor Bondarchuk | The Battle of Stalingrad |
201X | USA | Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes a British double agent |
201X | Mexico USA |
Águilas Aztecas (Aztec Eagles) | Alfonso Arau | Lighthearted action film adaptation depicting WWII training/service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana & Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign |
201X | Brazil | A Montanha – O Filme (The Mountain – The Film) | Vicente Ferraz | Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
201X | USA | The Bleeding | Josef Rusnak | American spy on assignment in Romania infiltrates unit of German SS that encounter vampires while fighting partisans in Carpathians; AKA The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen |
201X | UK USA New Zealand |
Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise |
201X | Canada Germany |
Fangs of War | Jim Donovan | Nazi Supernatural Division secret lab at Castle Dracula in Transylvania with sole purpose of unlocking secrets of Count Dracula’s immortality, 1944 |
201X | USA Germany |
The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography |
201X | Mexico USA |
Little Boy | Alejandro Monteverde | Depicts story of young boy attempting to reunite with his father, soldier fighting in World War II |
201X | South Korea | My Way[9] | Kang Je-gyu | |
201X | Estonia | Nemad (Them) | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
201X | USA | Panzer 88 | Peter Briggs | King Tiger tank crewmen on the Eastern Front battle an unknown creature |
Science fiction and fantasy
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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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 | |
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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
References
- ^ Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
- ^ Some details about the film appear here.
- ^ The "director". of this title is still unknown (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ The "director". of this title is still unknown (as of March 2012) on IMDb.
- ^ A 1951 film starring Justina David.
- ^ The film is in four parts, and runs to over five hours in length.
- ^ Some details of this film appears "here". Currently (as of March 2012) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007; this title not currently (as of March 2012) listed by IMDb
- ^ http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_My_Way.php
External links
- wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular WWII movies.