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Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries 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 miniseries 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 the List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.
Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.
Common topics
Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:
- Europe
- Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
- Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
- Gestapo and SS
- Concentration camp
- Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
- Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
- Occupied Norway
- The Holocaust
- Asia–Pacific
- Non-geographical
Films made during the Sino-Japanese War
Before the Second World War explicitly began with the German then Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovakian lands of Bohemia and Moravia.
China had been defending herself against Japan since 1937 in a war called the Second Sino-Japanese War until Japan attacked the American, British and Dutch Empires in 1941/1942.
1938
| Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Japan
|
Chocolate and Soldiers | Chocolate to heitai (チョコレートと兵隊) | Takeshi Sato | Drama. Japanese Army soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China |
 China
|
The Eight Hundred Heroes | Ba bai zhuang shi (八百壮士) | Ying Yunwei | Drama. Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
 Italy
|
Luciano Serra, Pilot | Luciano Serra pilota | Goffredo Alessandrini | Drama. Italo-Abyssinian War |
| Japan
|
A Pay by the Wayside (Five Scouts) | Gonin no sekkôhei (五人の斥候兵) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama. Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines |
a 1946 Polish film
Films made during the Second World War
Note: 
Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the 
Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
1939
| Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union
|
Concentration Camp (Bog Soldiers / Soldiers of the Swamp) | Bolotnye soldaty (болотные солдаты) | Aleksandr Macheret | Nazi prison camp guards attempt to break spirits of Communists |
 USA
|
Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Anatole Litvak | Nazi spy ring in the United States | |
| USA
|
Hitler, Beast of Berlin (Hell's Devils / Beasts of Berlin) | Sam Newfield | Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner | |
 UK
|
The Lion Has Wings | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda | RAF mobilization [1] | |
 Japan
|
Mud and Soldiers | Tsuchi to heitai (土と兵隊) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama based on Ashihei Hino novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War |
| UK
|
Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft [2] | |
| UK
|
Secret Journey (Among Human Wolves) | John Baxter | Based on Charles Robert Dumas' short story. British secret service agent on mission | |
| USA
|
South of the Border | George Sherman | Action/Western. US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution | |
| UK
|
Traitor Spy (The Torso Murder Mystery) | Walter Summers | Mystery thriller based on T. C. H. Jacobs novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory | |
| USA
|
Wings of the Navy | Lloyd Bacon | Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy |
1940
| Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK
|
The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | Economic blockade of Germany | |
| Japan
|
The Blazing Heavens (The Burning Sky / Flaming Sky) | Moyuru ōzora (燃ゆる大空) | Yutaka Abe | Action-drama. Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during Sino-Japanese War |
| UK
|
Convoy | Pen Tennyson | Battle of the Atlantic | |
 Germany
|
Enemies | Feinde | Viktor Tourjansky | Propaganda. Invasion of Poland justified by Polish terror of ethnic Germans |
| USA
|
Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain | |
| USA
|
The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | Satire. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel | |
| USA
|
The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | Battle of the Atlantic | |
| USA
|
The Man I Married (I Married a Nazi) | Irving Pichel | Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies | |
| USA
|
The Mortal Storm | Frank Borzage | Drama. Average German family disrupted when Nazis come to power | |
| UK
|
Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) | John Baxter | Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent | |
| USA
|
The Phantom Submarine | Charles Barton | Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy frogman investigate U-boat terror | |
| USA
|
Ski Patrol | Lew Landers | Olympians oppose each other again in the Winter War | |
| UK
|
Ten Days in Paris | Tim Whelan | Comedy mystery. British tourist and German spy look alike | |
| USA
|
Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance [3] | |
| USA
|
Women in War | John H. Auer | Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk Battle of France front |
1941
| Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA
|
All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi Fifth Columnists | |
| Germany
|
Annelie | Annelie - Die Geschichte einer Liebe | Josef von Bákyn | Heroic German mother during war |
| USA
|
Buck Privates | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Abbott and Costello enlist in the Army | |
| USA
|
Caught in the Draft | David Butler | Comedy. Bob Hope gets drafted | |
| USA
|
Confirm or Deny | Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited) | Comedy-drama. London Blitz | |
| UK
|
Cottage to Let (Bombsight Stolen) | Anthony Asquith | Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of bombsight inventor from Scotland by Nazi agents | |
| USA
|
Dangerously They Live | Robert Florey | Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast | |
| UK
|
Dangerous Moonlight | Brian Desmond Hurst | The Battle of Britain | |
| USA
|
Dive Bomber | Michael Curtiz | Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific | |
| UK
|
49th Parallel (The Invaders) | Michael Powell | Survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada | |
| UK
|
Freedom Radio | Anthony Asquith | German Resistance | |
| Soviet Union
|
The Girl from Leningrad | Frontovye podrugi (Фронтовые подруги) | Viktor Eisymont | Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as Three Russian Girls |
| Germany
|
Homecoming | Heimkehr | Gustav Ucicky | Drama. Poles persecute ethnic Germans |
| USA
|
International Lady | Tim Whelan | Spy drama. | |
| Germany
|
In the Eye of the Storm | Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Drama. Serbs persecute ethnic Germans [4] |
| Soviet Union
|
In the Rear of the Enemy | V tylu vraga (В тылу врага) | Yevgeni Shneider | Drama. Finnish War [5] |
| USA
|
Man Hunt | Fritz Lang | Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler | |
| USA
|
Parachute Battalion | Leslie Goodwins | Three men join a parachute battalion [2] | |
| UK
|
Pimpernel Smith | Leslie Howard | The Scarlet Pimpernel updated | |
| UK
|
Ships with Wings | Sergei Nolbandov | Battle of Taranto | |
| Germany
|
Soldiers of Tomorrow | Soldaten von morgen | Alfred Weidenmann | Hitler Youth |
| USA
|
Sundown | Henry Hathaway | The North African Campaign | |
| Germany
|
U-Boat, Course West! | U-Boote westwärts | Günther Rittau | U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic [6] |
| USA
|
Underground | Vincent Sherman | German Resistance | |
| USA
|
A Yank in the RAF | Henry King | American volunteers in the RAF |
1942
1943
1944
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| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | USA
|
The Admiral Was a Lady | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy. End of war readjustment of returning American servicewomen and -men | |
| 1950 | USA
|
American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Fritz Lang | Japanese occupation of the Philippines | |
| 1950 | USA
|
The Big Lift | Fritz Lang | Drama. Operation Vittles and transition to Cold War in Berlin's occupied sectors | |
| 1950 | USA
|
Francis | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. 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 | Mapuputing Kamay | Fausto J. Galauran | Filipina nurses in battles of Bataan and Corregidor |
| 1950 | USA
|
The Men (Battle Stripe) | Fred Zinnemann | Drama. Paraplegic American veteran's struggle re-entering society | |
| 1950 | UK
|
Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) | Roy Ward Baker | Drama. British submarine on routine patrol encountering derelict war mine | |
| 1950 | USA
|
Mystery Submarine (Phantom Submarine) | Douglas Sirk | Thriller. US Navy Intelligence officer posing as ex-German medical officer to rescue kidnapped scientist and sink U-boat off South American coast | |
| 1950 | UK
|
Odette | Herbert Wilcox | SOE agent Odette Samson | |
| 1950 | USA
|
Three Came Home | Jean Negulesco | Battle of Borneo, 1941–42 | |
| 1950 |  Poland
|
Unvanquished City | Miasto nieujarzmione | Jerzy Zarzycki | Warsaw, Poland, 1944 |
| 1950 | USA
|
When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | Comedy. Failed pilot's escapades, from homefront to German occupied France and back | |
| 1950 | UK
|
The Wooden Horse | Jack Lee | True story of British POWs' escape attempts from Stalag | |
| 1951 |  Italy
|
Attention! Bandits! | Achtung! Banditi! | 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 | Marshal Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to 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 and France | |
| 1951 | USA
|
I Was an American Spy | Lesley Selander | American spy and Medal of Freedom winner Clara Fuentes during Japanese occupation of Philippines | |
| 1951 | USA Austria
|
The Magic Face | Frank Tuttle | Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him and takes his place | |
| 1951 | Philippines
|
Makapili | Makapili (Makabayan Katipunan Ñg Mg̃a Pilipino) | unknown [19] | Makapili, Japanese sympathizers, during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines [20] |
| 1951 | USA
|
Operation Pacific | George Waggner | US Navy submarine in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1951 | USA
|
Submarine Command | John Farrow | Drama. Career of US submarine commander up to Korean War | |
| 1951 | USA
|
The Tanks Are Coming | Lewis Seiler | Action-drama. US 3rd Armored Division tank crew in France and German Siegfried Line, Fall 1944 | |
| 1951 | USA
|
Target Unknown | George Sherman | Drama. Tense and discontented American bomber squadron forced to parachute over France before being interrogated by Nazis | |
| 1951 | USA
|
The Wild Blue Yonder (Thunder Across the Pacific) | Allan Dwan | Drama. US Air Force | |
| 1951 | USA
|
You're in the Navy Now | Henry Hathaway | Comedy. Inexperienced crew assigned to experimental US submarine chaser | |
| 1952 | USA
|
Above and Beyond | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Col. Paul Tibbets and 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 | Japan
|
Children of Hiroshima | Genbaku no ko (原爆の子) | Kaneto Shindō | Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima |
| 1952 |  Norway
|
Emergency Landing | Nødlanding | Arne Skouen | American bomber crew shot down in Norway and aided by Milorg (Norwegian Resistance) |
| 1952 | USA
|
5 Fingers | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Drama/Thriller. Cicero Affair involving German spy Elyesa Bazna | |
| 1952 | USA
|
Flat Top | Lesley Selander | Pilot training aboard US Navy carriers | |
| 1952 |  France
|
Forbidden Games | Jeux interdits | René Clément | Occupation of France |
| 1952 | UK
|
Gift Horse | Compton Bennett | St Nazaire Raid | |
| 1952 | USA
|
Okinawa | Leigh Jason | US Navy destroyer at the 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 | |
| 1952 | USA
|
Torpedo Alley (Down Periscope) | Lew Landers | Drama. Failed US carrier pilot's return to service on submarine | |
| 1952 |  Sweden
|
U-Boat 39 (Submarine no. 39) | Ubåt 39 | Hampe Faustman | Drama. Crew of U-39 |
| 1953 | France USA
|
Act of Love | [18][21] | Anatole Litvak | Romance drama based on Alfred Hayes novel. American soldier falls in love with Parisian woman near end of war |
| 1953 | UK
|
Albert R.N. (Break to Freedom) | Lewis Gilbert | British POWs in German Stalag | |
| 1953 | Japan
|
Anatahan | Ana-ta-han (Kanji please) | Josef von Sternberg | Japanese soldiers on South West Pacific Theatre island battle after end of war |
| 1953 | USA
|
China Venture | Don Siegel | Adventure-drama. 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 | Japan
|
Eagle of the Pacific | Taiheiyo no washi (Kanji please) | Ishirō Honda | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 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 (The Marines Had a Word for It) | Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Comedy. Pacific Theatre and English family living on atoll invaded by US Marines near end of war | |
| 1953 | USA
|
Guerrilla Girl | John Christian | Greek Resistance | |
| 1953 | USA
|
Little Lost Boy | George Seaton | Drama. 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 and Operation Biting | |
| 1953 | UK
|
Single-Handed (Sailor of the King) | Roy Boulting | Action-drama based on C. S. Forester novel Brown on Resolution. Royal Navy | |
| 1953 | USA
|
South Sea Woman (The Marines Had a Word for It) | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Pacific Theatre escapades of US Marine court martialed for events leading to Pearl Harbor | |
| 1953 | USA
|
Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | Allies in German Stalag Luft | |
| 1953 |  Canada
|
Tit-Coq | Tit-Coq | René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | Return home of French-Canadian soldier nicknamed "Little Rooster" |
| 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: Master Spy (Deadly Decision) | Canaris | Alfred Weidenmann | Drama. Abwehr Chief Admiral Canaris and Widerstand |
| 1954 | West Germany
|
08/15 | 08/15 - In der Kaserne | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; first of three parts |
| 1954 |  China
|
Letter with Feather | Jī máo xìn (鸡毛信) | Shi Hui | Boy attempts to deliver important message to 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1954 |  Spain
|
The Patrol | La patrulla | Pedro Lazaga | Spanish volunteers on Eastern Front |
| 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
|
Shetland Gang (Suicide Mission) | Shetlandsgjengen | Michael Forlong | Docudrama. "Shetland bus", Norwegian smugglers in North Sea |
| 1954 | UK
|
They Who Dare | Lewis Milestone | SAS raid in occupied Greece |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | UK
|
Above Us the Waves | Ralph Thomas | Submarine attacks on German battleship Tirpitz | |
| 1955 | USA
|
Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | Thriller. Disabled veteran tries to deliver a medal | |
| 1955 | USA
|
Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | US Marines and battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan | |
| 1955 | UK
|
The Cockleshell Heroes | José Ferrer | Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton | |
| 1955 | UK
|
The Colditz Story | Guy Hamilton | British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp | |
| 1955 | UK
|
The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise | |
| 1955 | West Germany Austria
|
The Devil's General | Des Teufels General | Helmut Käutner | Drama based on German Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet. Successful Luftwaffe General courted by Widerstand |
| 1955 | West Germany
|
08/15 Part 2 | 08/15 - Im Krieg (08/15 - Zweiter Teil) | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; second of three parts |
| 1955 | West Germany
|
08/15 at Home | 08/15 - In der Heimat | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; third of three parts |
| 1955 | UK
|
The End of the Affair | Edward Dmytryk | Romance/Drama. British homefront and illicit romance | |
| 1955 |  East Germany
|
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class | Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | Drama. Ernst Thälmann leads KPD opposition to Hitler |
| 1955 | USA
|
The Eternal Sea | John H. Auer | Pacific War | |
| 1955 | Poland
|
A Generation | Pokolenie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance |
| 1955 | West Germany
|
Hanussen, Hitler's Astrologer | Hanussen | O. W. Fischer, Georg Marischka | Drama. Well-known psychic collaborating with Nazis |
| 1955 | West Germany Austria
|
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (The Last Act) | Der letzte Akt | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Drama based on novel by Nuremberg judge Michael Musmanno. Hitler's last days in Reichstag bunker through perspective of bunker guard |
| 1955 | Poland
|
The Hours of Hope | Godziny nadziei | Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski | Poland, 1945 |
| 1955 | USA
|
It's Always Fair Weather | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Musical comedy-drama. US Soldiers vowing to reunite after war in 1955 | |
| 1955 | West Germany
|
Jackboot Mutiny | ? | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 1955 | Poland
|
Men of the Blue Cross | Błękitny krzyż | Andrzej Munk | Tatra Mountains, Poland on Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1955 | USA
|
Mister Roberts | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy-drama. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific | |
| 1955 |  Malaya
|
Sergeant Hassan | Sarjan Hassan | Lamberto V. Avellana, P. Ramlee | Action-drama. Malayan Occupation and Royal Malay Regiment |
| 1955 | Italy
|
Submarine Attack (Torpedo Zone) | La grande speranza | Duilio Coletti | Action/Romance. Italian submarine sinking Allied shipping on Eastern Atlantic Theatre and rescuing occasional survivor |
| 1955 |  Denmark
|
There Came One Day | Der kom en dag | Sven Methling | Based on novel by Flemming B. Muus. Last days of Danish Occupation |
| 1955 | USA
|
To Hell and Back | Jesse Hibbs | Biopic of Audie Murphy | |
| 1955 |  Finland
|
The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Edvin Laine | Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1956 | Spain
|
Ambassadors in Hell | Embajadores en el infierno | José María Forqué | Spanish volunteers imprisoned in Bolshevik Gulag |
| 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 (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) | 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 | UK
|
The Black Tent | Brian Desmond Hurst | North African campaign | |
| 1956 | USA
|
The Bold and the Brave | Lewis R. Foster | Italian Campaign | |
| 1956 | Japan
|
The Burmese Harp | Biruma no tategoto (ビルマの竪琴) | Kon Ichikawa | Burma Campaign |
| 1956 | USA
|
D-Day the Sixth of June | Henry Koster | Normandy invasion | |
| 1956 | Canada
|
Flight into Danger (TV) | unknown | Thriller. Ex-RCAF pilot in civilian emergency; remade as Zero Hour! | |
| 1956 | USA
|
Gaby | Curtis Bernhardt | Romance/Drama. British homefront and ballerina falling for American soldier sent to France, 1944 | |
| 1956 | Poland
|
Kanał (Kanal) | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1956 | France
|
A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut | Robert Bresson | Drama/Thriller based on the memoirs of POW André Devigny. French Resistance and Gestapo prison Fort Montluc |
| 1956 | UK
|
The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | Battle of Sicily and Operation Mincemeat | |
| 1956 | UK
|
Private's Progress | John Boulting | Comedy. 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 and Battle of Britain | |
| 1956 |  Yugoslavia
|
The Siege | Opsada | Branko Marjanovic | Comedy-drama. Zagreb Underground and Yugoslav Front |
| 1956 | UK
|
A Town Like Alice (Rape of Malaya) | Jack Lee | British and Australian POWs after Battle of Singapore | |
| 1956 | Yugoslavia
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France Štiglic | African-American pilot forced down behind enemy lines rescues two orphaned children |
| 1957 | UK
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The Betrayal | Ernest Morris | Crime-thriller. Allied pilot captured and tortured by Nazis and postwar search for his betrayer | |
| 1957 | France
|
Bitter Victory | Amère victoire | Nicholas Ray | Action-drama. Allied commando mission behind enemy lines in Benghazi and Western Desert Campaign |
| 1957 | UK USA
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | British POWs work on Burma Railway | |
| 1957 | Soviet Union
|
The Cranes Are Flying | Letyat zhuravli (Летят журавли) |
Mikhail Kalatozov | Romance-Drama. Soviet homefront |
| 1957 | USA
|
Don't Go Near the Water | Charles Walters | Comedy-romance. 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 and U-boat | |
| 1957 | West Germany
|
The Fox of Paris | Der Fuchs von Paris | Paul May | Battle of Normandy from Wehrmacht perspective |
| 1957 | USA
|
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | US Marine and 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. US Navy pilots on leave in San Francisco | |
| 1957 | Norway
|
Nine Lives | Ni Liv | Arne Skouen | Drama. Biography of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian Resistance fighter's epic escape to neutral Sweden following Tromsø sabotage operation |
| 1957 | UK
|
The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | True story of German POW escapee Franz von Werra | |
| 1957 | USA
|
Operation Mad Ball | Richard Quine | Comedy-romance. Closing of US Army surgical hospital in France at end of war | |
| 1957 | West Germany
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Sharks and Little Fish | Haie und kleine Fische | Frank Wisbar | Drama. Young German naval cadets entering Kriegsmarine and unterseeboot service, 1940 |
| 1957 | West Germany
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The Star of Africa | Der Stern von Afrika | Alfred Weidenmann | Docudrama. Luftwaffe ace (Experten) Hans-Joachim Marseille |
| 1957 | UK
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The Steel Bayonet | Michael Carreras | Small British recce force surrounded by overwhelming forces of Afrika Korps during Tunisia Campaign | |
| 1957 | USA
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The Wings of Eagles | John Ford | Drama. US Navy pilot Frank W. "Spig" Wead's Pacific Theater service | |
| 1957 | USA
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Zero Hour! | Hall Bartlett | Thriller. Ex-RCAF pilot in civilian emergency | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Ashes and Diamonds | Popiół i diament | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance, 1945 |
| 1958 |  Czechoslovakia
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At That Time, at Christmas... | Tenkrát o Vánocích | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak Army on Eastern Front, Christmas 1944 |
| 1958 | UK
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The Battle of the V 1 | Vernon Sewell | Polish resistance spies on German rocket tests | |
| 1958 | UK
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The Camp on Blood Island | Val Guest | British and Dutch POWs in Malaya | |
| 1958 | UK
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Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | SOE agent Violette Szabo | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Con Bravura (With Bravery) | Con Bravura | Andrzej Munk | Third part of Eroica cut by director. Wartime couriers crossing Polish/Slovak Tatra Mountains |
| 1958 | Poland
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Cross of Valour | Krzyż Walecznych | Kazimierz Kutz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1958 | USA
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Darby's Rangers | William Wellman | Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Deserter | Dezerter | Witold Lesiewicz | Silesian Pole conscripted in Wehrmacht |
| 1958 | West Germany
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The Doctor of Stalingrad | Der Arzt von Stalingrad | Géza von Radványi | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1958 | UK
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Dunkirk | Leslie Norman | Operation Dynamo and Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Eroica (Heroism) | Eroica | Andrzej Munk | Warsaw Uprising and POW Camp, 1944–45 |
| 1958 | China
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The Eternal Wave (Continuous Wave) | Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo (永不消逝的电波) | Wang Ping | Drama based on true story. Chinese undercover agents operating against Japan in Shanghai, 1939 |
| 1958 | USA
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Fraulein (Fräulein) | Henry Koster | Comedy-romance. Escaped American POW hiding in Berlin near end of war | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Free City | Wolne miasto | Stanisław Różewicz | Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939 |
| 1958 | UK
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Ice Cold in Alex | J. Lee Thompson | North African campaign | |
| 1958 | USA
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Imitation General | George Marshall | Comedy. US Army Sergeant impersonating fallen general in hope of inspiring fellow soldiers in France | |
| 1958 | USA
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In Love and War | Philip Dunne | Drama. US Marines on shore leave in San Francisco before returning to battle | |
| 1958 | UK
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Mark Robson | English missionary in China during Sino-Japanese War | |
| 1958 | UK
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I Was Monty's Double (Hell, Heaven or Hoboken) | John Guillermin | Diversionary D-Day impersonation of General Montgomery | |
| 1958 | UK
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The Key | Carol Reed | Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1958 | USA
|
Kings Go Forth | Delmer Daves | Action/Romance. American soldiers become romantically involved with a young, American woman in war-torn France while fighting in Champagne Offensive of Southern France, late Summer 1944 | |
| 1958 | USA
|
The Naked and the Dead | Raoul Walsh | Pacific War | |
| 1958 | UK
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Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | British commandos on mission to occupied Holland hope to keep fortune in diamonds from Nazis | |
| 1958 | Poland
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Orzeł (The Eagle) | Orzeł | Leonard Buczkowski | Polish submarine ORP Orzeł and Orzeł incident, Baltic Sea escape attempt from neutral Estonian internment and German navy |
| 1958 | Poland
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Pills for Aurelia | Pigułki dla Aurelii | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Polish resistance |
| 1958 | USA
|
Run Silent, Run Deep | Robert Wise | US submarine and 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. South West Pacific Theater | |
| 1958 | Denmark
|
Spion 503 | Spion 503 | Jørn Jeppesen | Drama. German Agent 503 June Harvey with Swedish diplomats and Danish Resistance |
| 1958 | Poland
|
Story of one Fighter | Historia jednego myśliwca | Hubert Drapella | Battle of Britain, 1940 |
| 1958 | USA
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Submarine Seahawk (Submarine X2) | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Suspense-Drama. US submarine on reconnaissance mission in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1958 | USA
|
Suicide Battalion | Edward L. Cahn | Drama. US soldiers on mission to destroy base and strategic documents in Japanese occupied Philippines; remade as 1968 film Hell Raiders | |
| 1958 | USA
|
Tarawa Beachhead | Paul Wendkos | Drama. Battle of Tarawa | |
| 1958 | USA
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Douglas Sirk | Drama based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. A German soldier returns on furlough to find his home town in chaos and to fall in love. | |
| 1958 | USA
|
Torpedo Run | Joseph Pevney | Drama. American submarine set out to destroy Japanese Aircraft carrier that launched attack on Pearl Harbor and is using American civilians and POWs as human shields | |
| 1958 | UK
|
The Wind Cannot Read | Ralph Thomas | RAF in Burma | |
| 1958 | USA
|
The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | Action-drama. Three soldiers during war: one German, two American (one Jewish) | |
| 1959 | Poland
|
Answer to Violence (Partisan Mission) | Zamach | Jerzy Passendorfer | Operation Kutschera and Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1959 | West Germany
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (TV miniseries) | So weit die Füße tragen | Fritz Umgelter | Drama based on German POW Cornell Rost. Eastern Front, escape from Siberian Gulag and eventful journey home; six-part series; remade in 2001 film So weit die Füße tragen |
| 1959 | Soviet Union
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Ballad of a Soldier | Ballada o soldate (Баллада о солдате) | Grigori Chukhrai | Poetic story of young soldier receiving home leave as reward for heroic act along the Eastern Front |
| 1959 | USA
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Battle of the Coral Sea | Paul Wendkos | Action-drama. American submarine on reconnaissance mission photographing Japanese installations through periscope camera | |
| 1959 | West Germany
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The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | Young boys conscripted into Wehrmacht service on Western Front near end of war, 1945 |
| 1959 | UK
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Danger Within (Breakout) | Don Chaffey | Allied escape from POW camp in Northern Italy, Summer 1943 | |
| 1959 | Soviet Union
|
Destiny of a Man | Sudba Cheloveka (Судьба человека) | Sergei Bondarchuk | Drama based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov. Soviet POWs in German Stalag |
| 1959 | USA
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The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | Drama. Biopic of Anne Frank | |
| 1959 | Japan
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Fires on the Plain | Nobi (野火) | Kon Ichikawa | Decimated Japanese Imperial Army in Philippines, 1945 |
| 1959 | Italy
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General della Rovere | Il generale della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | Drama based on novel by Indro Montanelli. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian Resistance leader |
| 1959 | France Japan
|
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima, My Love) | Hiroshima mon amour Template:Fr Nijuuyojikan no jouji Template:Ja |
Alain Resnais | Drama. Hiroshima bomb; remade as 2001 film H Story |
| 1959 | Japan
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The Human Condition: No Greater Love | Ningen no joken I (人間の條件) | Masaki Kobayashi | Manchukuo and Japanese Resistance in China; AKA Ningen no jôken I; part one of The Human Condition film trilogy |
| 1959 | Japan
|
The Human Condition: Road to Eternity | Ningen no joken II (人間の條件) | Masaki Kobayashi | Imperial Japanese Army basic training; AKA Ningen no jôken II; part two of The Human Condition film trilogy |
| 1959 | USA
|
Never So Few | John Sturges | Burma Campaign | |
| 1959 | Poland
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Octopus Cafe | Cafe Pod Minogą | Bronisław Brok | Comedy. Polish resistance |
| 1959 | USA
|
Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | Comedy - Submarine commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of army nurses. | |
| 1959 | USA
|
Paratroop Command | William Witney | US Army paratroopers in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy | |
| 1959 | Poland
|
Speed | Lotna | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Cavalry and Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1959 | UK
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The Square Peg | John Paddy Carstairs | Comedy. British council workmen drafted into service in France and mistaken for spies by Nazis | |
| 1959 | West Germany
|
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Battle Inferno) | Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben | Frank Wisbar | Drama. Romanian Army component of German 6th Army and Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1959 | East Germany Bulgaria
|
Stars | Sterne Template:De icon | Konrad Wolf | |
| 1959 | Poland
|
The Stone Sky | Kamienne niebo | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1959 | USA
|
Tank Commandos | Burt Topper | Drama. US ammo and demolition unit on reconnaissance mission to determine where Germans ford river | |
| 1959 | USA
|
Ten Seconds to Hell | Robert Aldrich | German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin | |
| 1959 | USA
|
Timbuktu | Jacques Tourneur | Tuareg revolt in French West Africa, 1940 | |
| 1959 | USA
|
Up Periscope | Gordon Douglas | Action-drama. US Navy frogman aboard submarine on reconnaissance mission to Japanese occupied island | |
| 1959 | Italy France
|
Violent Summer | Estate Violenta | Valerio Zurlini | Benito Mussolini during Allied invasion of Sicily |
| 1959 | Poland
|
White Bear | Biały niedźwiedź | Jerzy Zarzycki | Tatra Mountains and Zakopane, Polish Holocaust, 1941 |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | East Germany
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Blind Spot (TV) | Toter Winkel | Wolfgang Luderer | Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp guard guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation, 1945 |
| 1960 | Italy
|
Escape by Night | Era notte a Roma | Roberto Rossellini | Escaped Allied POWs in pre-liberated Italy |
| 1960 | Italy France
|
Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa Template:It icon | Luigi Comencini | Comedy-drama (commedia all'italiana). The Four days of Naples and double occupation and subsequent chaos |
| 1960 | USA
|
The Gallant Hours | Robert Montgomery | Docudrama. Biopic of Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. Efforts against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Imperial Japanese forces in Guadalcanal campaign | |
| 1960 | USA
|
Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | Battle of Saipan and wartime discrimination against Japanese-Americans | |
| 1960 | Italy
|
It Happened in '43 | La lunga notte del '43 | Florestano Vancini | Allied invasion of Italy |
| 1960 | Denmark
|
The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen | Resistance group on Denmark's Lolland island attempts to liberate wounded British officer, Winter 1944–45 |
| 1960 | USA
|
The Mountain Road | Daniel Mann | Drama based on Theodore White novel. US Army demolition officer's attempts to destroy bridges and roads useful to Imperial Japanese Army | |
| 1960 | Denmark
|
Price of Freedom | Frihedens Pris | Annelise Hovmand | |
| 1960 | UK
|
Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Rheinübung and Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1960 | USA
|
Ski Troop Attack | Roger Corman | Action. US ski-troop commandos behind German lines to destroy rail bridge | |
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia
|
Slingshot Bearer | Práče | Karel Kachyňa | Story of Czechoslovak children participating in homeland liberation after Czechoslovak army rescue from concentration camps on Eastern Front |
| 1960 | Japan
|
Storm Over the Pacific (I Bombed Pearl Harbor) | Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi (ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐) | Shuei Matsubayashi | Imperial Japanese Navy pilot serving on Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū in battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway |
| 1960 | France
|
Taxi for Tobruk | Un taxi pour Tobrouk | Denys de La Patellière | Free French commandos in North Africa on mission to capture German officer and reach Allied lines |
| 1960 | Italy
|
Two Women | La ciociara | Vittorio De Sica | Drama. Italian mother and daughter raped by Allied troops |
| 1960 | Italy USA
|
Under Ten Flags | [18] | Duilio Coletti | The 665-day pursuit of German surface raider Atlantis and Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1961 | Denmark
|
Alarm i Østersøen | Alarm i Østersøen (Sorte Shara??) | Sven Methling | Baltic naval battle and escape to neutral Sweden |
| 1961 | USA
|
Battle at Bloody Beach | Herbert Coleman | Romance/Drama. Civilian US Navy contractor supplies Filipino guerrillas while searching for wife | |
| 1961 | Poland
|
Birth Certificate | Świadectwo urodzenia | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1961 | USA France
|
Bridge to the Sun | Pont vers le soleil | Étienne Périer | Romance-drama based on autobiography of Gwendolen Terasaki. Wife to First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Washington when Pearl Harbor is bombed and later liaison between Palace and Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur |
| 1961 | Italy
|
A Difficult Life | Una vita difficile | Dino Risi | Comedy-drama. Italian resistance movement and postwar readjustment |
| 1961 | France Italy
|
The Fascist | Il federale | Luciano Salce | Comedy. Member of Fascist Brigate Nere and sojourn with captive anti-Fascist |
| 1961 | East Germany
|
The Gleiwitz Case | Der Fall Gleiwitz | Gerhard Klein | Gleiwitz incident, 1939 |
| 1961 | UK
|
The Guns of Navarone | J. Lee Thompson | Action-adventure. Allied commandos on mission in Mediterranean Theatre | |
| 1961 |  India
|
Hum Dono | Hum Dono | Amarjeet | Musical drama. Indian Army officer in Burma Campaign longing to return to his family but with one last duty to perform |
| 1961 | USA
|
Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | Drama. The Nuremberg Trials | |
| 1961 | USA
|
The Last Time I Saw Archie | Jack Webb | Comedy. Enlistment, training and commissioning of Civilian Air Corps into Army Air Force near end of war | |
| 1961 | UK
|
The Middle Course | Montgomery Tully | Drama. Canadian pilot downed on mission aids French Resistance under German occupation of France | |
| 1961 | Poland
|
Night Train | Ludzie z pociągu | Kazimierz Kutz | German occupation of Poland |
| 1961 | USA
|
On the Double | Melville Shavelson | Comedy. Allied soldier awaiting D-Day and impersonation of Allied general to foil assassination by German agents | |
| 1961 | West Germany
|
Ordered to Love | Lebensborn | Werner Klingler | Exploitation. Nazi Lebensborn programme |
| 1961 | USA
|
The Outsider | Delbert Mann | Drama based on life of Ira Hayes. Native American Marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima | |
| 1961 | East Germany
|
Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on Friedrich Wolf play. Jewish doctor fails to resist the Nazis |
| 1961 | Poland
|
Samson | Samson | Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust during German occupation of Poland |
| 1961 | Poland
|
Spring | Kwiecień | Witold Lesiewicz | Wehrmacht on Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1961 |  Hong Kong
|
Sun, Moon and Star | Xingxing yueliang taiyang (星星月亮太陽) (Mandarin) [22] | Yi Wen | Drama. Chinese resistance |
| 1961 | Poland
|
Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Dresden, 1945 |
| 1961 | UK
|
Very Important Person | Ken Annakin | Comedy. British POWs in Stalag | |
| 1962 | USA
|
The Counterfeit Traitor | George Seaton | Drama/Thriller based on Alexander Klein non-fiction novel. American-born Swedish oil-trader coerced by Allies into spying on Nazis | |
| 1962 | France
|
The Elusive Corporal (The Vanishing Corporal) | Le caporal épinglé | Jean Renoir | Comedy-drama. Upper-class Parisian corporal captured by Germans in Battle of France and his various escape attempts from stalag, 1940 |
| 1962 | Italy
|
The Four Days of Naples | Le quattro giornate di Napoli | Nanni Loy | Drama. The Four Days of Naples |
| 1962 | USA
|
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | Drama. German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism | |
| 1962 | USA
|
Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | Action-drama. Western front | |
| 1962 | Soviet Union
|
Ivan's Childhood | Ivanovo detstvo (Иваново детство) | Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Drama. Orphaned boy, cared for by Soviet officers, works as spy on Eastern Front, crossing German lines |
| 1962 |  Netherlands
|
Like Two Drops of Water (The Dark Room of Damocles / The Spitting Image) | Als twee druppels water | Fons Rademakers | Mystery drama based on Willem Frederik Hermans novel. Dutch Resistance |
| 1962 | USA
|
The Longest Day | Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin | Action-drama. Normandy landings | |
| 1962 | USA Philippines
|
Lost Battalion | Eddie Romero | Action-drama. Filipino guerilla leader with knowledge of island jungle attempts rescue of American refugees pinned by Japanese in Philippines | |
| 1962 | USA
|
Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Merrill's Marauders | |
| 1962 | USA
|
No Man is an Island (Island Escape) | Richard Goldstone, John Monks Jr. | Drama based on George Tweed. US sailor is only serviceman on Guam to avoid capture by Japanese | |
| 1962 | UK
|
Operation Snatch | Robert Day | Comedy. Officer responsible for Barbary Apes on Gibraltar behind German lines to snatch an Ape to prevent British departure from Gibraltar | |
| 1962 | Netherlands
|
The Silent Raid | De Overval | Paul Rotha | Crime-thriller based on true story. Allied POW and Dutch Resistance escape from Leeuwarden prison, 1944 |
| 1962 |  Greece
|
Stick Them Up, Hitler | Psila ta Xeria Hitler | Panos Glykofridis | Comedy-drama. Greek Resistance |
| 1962 | Philippines
|
Suicide Commandoes | Armando Garces | Six Filipino guerrillas aid Lieutenant in destroying Japanese airfield during Battle of Bessang Pass | |
| 1962 | Denmark
|
Venus fra Vestø | Venus fra Vestø | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy based on true story. Prized cow on Danish island in danger of being seized by German occupation forces or British agricultural department |
| 1962 | Poland
|
Walter P-38 (TV) | Walter P-38 | Edward Etler | Polish resistance |
| 1962 | UK
|
The War Lover | Philip Leacock | American bomber crews in England | |
| 1963 | Finland
|
Commando Assault | Sissit | Mikko Niskanen | Guerrilla warfare during Continuation War |
| 1963 | USA Philippines
|
Cry of Battle | Irving Lerner | Mercenary fighting with partisans in Philippines during Japanese occupation of the Philippines | |
| 1963 | USA
|
The Great Escape | John Sturges | Allied POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III | |
| 1963 | Poland
|
Manhunter | Naganiacz | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1963 | UK
|
Mystery Submarine (Decoy) | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Adventure-drama. Captured U-boat on Royal Navy mission to mislead German naval force | |
| 1963 | East Germany
|
Naked Among Wolves | Nackt unter Wölfen | Frank Beyer | Drama based on Bruno Apitz novel. Child hidden in Buchenwald until camp's liberation |
| 1963 | Poland
|
On the White Trails | Na białym szlaku | Jarosław Brzozowski | Nazi and Polish forces in Arctic at end of war |
| 1963 | Poland
|
Passenger | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Female SS officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau and her relationship with inmate |
| 1963 | UK
|
The Password is Courage | Andrew Stone | Comedy-drama based on POW Sgt. Maj. Charles Coward. Captured soldier's attempts to escape Germans | |
| 1963 | Philippines
|
Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | 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 USN service on Pacific Front | |
| 1963 | USA
|
The Quick and the Dead | Robert Totten | Action-drama. Isolated US soldiers 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 | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Efren Reyes, Sr. | Philippine Army resistance, 1941 |
| 1963 |  Hungary
|
Two Half Times in Hell (The Last Goal) | Két félidő a pokolban | Zoltán Fábri | Drama. Soccer match between POWs and Germans |
| 1963 | UK
|
The Victors | Carl Foreman | Drama. US soldiers in European Theatre of combat following D-Day | |
| 1963 | Poland
|
Where is the General? | Gdzie jest generał... | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1964 | USA
|
The Americanization of Emily | Arthur Hiller | Planning for Normandy landings | |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia
|
Atentát | Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1964 | Italy Soviet Union
|
Attack and Retreat | Italiani brava gente Template:It | Giuseppe De Santis | Drama. Unheralded and unsuccessful Eastern Front invasion of Soviet Union by Italian army |
| 1964 | USA
|
Back Door to Hell | Monte Hellman | American commandos prepare for Gen. MacArthur's return to Philippines | |
| 1964 | Poland
|
Battle Colours | Barwy walki | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1964 | Poland
|
End of our World | Koniec naszego świata | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz |
| 1964 | USA
|
Ensign Pulver | Joshua Logan | Romantic comedy. South West Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1955 film Mister Roberts | |
| 1964 | USA
|
Father Goose | Ralph Nelson | Comedy-drama. Coast watcher on Matalava island monitoring Japanese plane movements in the South Pacific | |
| 1964 | Soviet Union (  Georgian SSR)
|
The Father of the Soldier | Jariskatsis mama (ჯარისკაცის მამა) Template:Ka icon Otets soldata (Отец солдата) Template:Ru icon |
Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze) | Drama. Georgian peasant leaving village for front lines to find wounded soldier son |
| 1964 | Poland
|
The First Day of Freedom | Pierwszy dzień wolności | Aleksander Ford | Polish POWs in German Stalag, 1945 |
| 1964 | Japan USA
|
Flight from Ashiya | Michael Anderson | USAAF pilots relive events in North Africa and Pacific | |
| 1964 | Poland
|
Giuseppe In Warsaw | Giuseppe w Warszawie | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Comedy. Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 |
| 1964 | USA
|
McHale's Navy | Edward Montagne | Comedy. American PT boat crew in Southwest Pacific Theatre | |
| 1964 | Philippines
|
Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres | Battle of Corregidor |
| 1964 | Denmark
|
Paradise and Back | Paradis Retur | Gabriel Axel | Romance/Drama. Life near imposing landfill amid pre-War Denmark and Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark, 1928–1945 |
| 1964 | USA
|
The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | Drama. New York City Auschwitz survivor tormented by memories | |
| 1964 | USA
|
The Secret Invasion | Roger Corman | Allied convicts recruited for mission to capture Nazi-imprisoned Italian general planning to switch sides and 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 | UK
|
633 Squadron (Squadron 633) | Walter Grauman | Drama. RAF squadron on mission to destroy German V-2 rocket fuel factory in Occupied Norway | |
| 1964 | USA
|
The Thin Red Line | Andrew Marton | Guadalcanal Campaign | |
| 1964 | USA France Italy
|
The Train | John Frankenheimer | Resistance in Occupied France | |
| 1964 | Poland
|
The Unknown | Nieznany | Witold Lesiewicz | Soviet Gulag and Eastern Front, 1943–44 |
| 1964 | Philippines USA
|
The Walls of Hell | Intramuros | Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León | Battle of Intramuros |
| 1964 | France
|
Weekend at Dunkirk | Week-end à Zuydcoote | Henri Verneuil | Battle of Dunkirk |
| 1964 | Poland
|
Wounded in the Forest | Ranny w lesie | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish resistance |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Poland
|
And All Will Be Quiet | Potem nastąpi cisza | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1965 | USA
|
Battle of the Bulge | Ken Annakin | Ardennes Offensive | |
| 1965 | Poland
|
The Boots (TV) | Buty | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Eastern Front military hospital |
| 1965 | Poland
|
The Cart (TV) | Wózek | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Soviet POWs in Poland |
| 1965 | Hungary
|
The Corporal and Others | A tizedes meg a többiek | Márton Keleti | Comedy. Hungarian soldiers attempt to surrender to Soviet army |
| 1965 | Poland
|
The Day after the War (TV) | Nazajutrz po wojnie | Lech Lorentowicz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1965 | Poland
|
Death in the Middle Room (TV) | Śmierć w środkowym pokoju | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | German occupation of Poland |
| 1965 | Philippines
|
The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story | Iginuhit ng Tadhana | Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde | Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia
|
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear) | A pátý jezdec je strach | Zbyněk Brynych | Drama. Mental effects of Holocaust and oppression in Prague under Nazi occupation |
| 1965 | UK
|
The Heroes of Telemark | Anthony Mann | Norwegian resistance movement and Operation Gunnerside | |
| 1965 | UK
|
The Hill | Sidney Lumet | North African military prison | |
| 1965 | USA
|
In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | Pacific Theater of Operations | |
| 1965 | USA
|
King Rat | Otto Preminger | Based on James Clavell novel. Allied POWs under Japanese captors | |
| 1965 | Poland
|
The Little Daughter (TV) | Córeczka | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland, 1944 |
| 1965 | USA
|
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force | Edward Montagne | American PT boat crew in Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1964 film McHale's Navy | |
| 1965 | Poland France West Germany
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The Moment of Peace (TV) | Czas pokoju Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Georges Franju, Tadeusz Konwicki, Egon Monk, Wojciech Solarz | Anthology. Occupation stories in France, Germany, and Poland |
| 1965 | USA
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Morituri (Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) | Bernhard Wicki | German in India blackmailed by British to impersonate SS officer aboard cargo ship bound for Germany | |
| 1965 | USA Japan
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None But the Brave | [18] | Frank Sinatra | US and Japanese soldiers temporarily unite to survive on isolated Pacific Island |
| 1965 | UK
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Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) | Michael Anderson | Operation Crossbow | |
| 1965 | Philippines
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Pilipinas kong mahal | Pilipinas kong mahal | Efren Reyes | Romance-Drama. Battle of Bataan, Makapili, and Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1965 | Philippines USA
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The Ravagers | Eddie Romero | Filipino guerrillas battle remaining Japanese forces | |
| 1965 | Philippines
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Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Armando A. Herrera | Filipino guerrillas rescue US soldiers with information for resistance movement |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia
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The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Drama. Aryanization of rump Slovak State |
| 1965 | USA
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Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious | Gottfried Reinhardt | Comedy based on Robert Shaw novel. | |
| 1965 | UK
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The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | Musical drama. Von Trapp family in Salzburg during Nazi Anschluss | |
| 1965 | Japan
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Story of a Prostitute | Shunpuden (春婦伝) | Seijun Suzuki | Brothel at a Japanese outpost in Manchukuo |
| 1965 | USA
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36 Hours | George Seaton | Thriller. Early June 1944, Germans deceive American officer that it is 1948 and war is over | |
| 1965 | China
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Tunnel War | Dì dào zhàn (地道战) | Ren Xudong | Tunnel warfare in China during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 | USA
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Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | Allied POWs escape from Italian camps by train | |
| 1966 | USA
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Ambush Bay | Ron Winston | US Marine amphibious scouts prior to 1944 invasion of the Philippines | |
| 1966 | Czechoslovakia
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Closely Watched Trains (Closely Observed Trains) | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Unlikely hero takes stand against German occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 1966 | Poland
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Contribution | Kontrybucja | Jan Łomnicki | Polish resistance |
| 1966 | Poland
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Don Gabriel | Don Gabriel | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Comedy. Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1966 | France
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | La Grande Vadrouille | Gérard Oury | Comedy. RAF crew attempt escape through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen |
| 1966 | USA
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I Deal In Danger | Walter Grauman | American correspondent and double agent for neutral US against Nazis; feature-length compilation of short-lived TV series Blue Light | |
| 1966 | Soviet Union (  Latvian SSR)
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Akmens un šķembas (Rocks and Splinters; uncut version) | 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 France
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Is Paris Burning? | Paris brûle-t-il? | René Clément | Liberation of Paris |
| 1966 |  Israel UK USA
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Judith (Conflict) | [18] | Daniel Mann | Woman betrayed by Nazi husband is interned in Dachau concentration camp and seeks revenge |
| 1966 | France
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Line of Demarcation | La ligne de démarcation | Claude Chabrol | Small French town divided by river that forms border between Nazi-occupied France and unoccupied zone, 1941 |
| 1966 | Poland
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The Master (TV) | Mistrz | Jerzy Antczak | German occupation of Poland |
| 1966 | USA
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Mission to Death | Kenneth W. Richardson | US commandos infiltrate German lines in northern France, 1945 | |
| 1966 | UK France
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The Night of the Generals | [18] | Anatole Litvak | July 20 plot |
| 1966 | Denmark
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Once There Was a War | Der var engang en krig | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Danish boy after German occupation of Denmark |
| 1966 | Japan
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Red Angel | Akai tenshi (Kanji please) | Yasuzo Masumura | Romance/Drama. Japanese nurse serves in field hospitals of China |
| 1966 | USA
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Blake Edwards | Allied invasion of Sicily | |
| 1967 | UK
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Attack on the Iron Coast | Paul Wendkos | Canadian commando raid on Nazi-held French port, loosely based on St. Nazaire Raid | |
| 1967 | East Germany
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The Banner of Krivoy Rog | Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog | Kurt Maetzig | Liberation of Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog |
| 1967 | USA
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Beach Red | Cornel Wilde | Pacific Theater of Operations | |
| 1967 | Yugoslavia
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Black Birds | Crne ptice (Црне птице) | Eduard Galic | POWs in Ustasha-run concentration camp near end of war |
| 1967 | Poland
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A Crazy Night | Zwariowana noc | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Comedy. Polish resistance |
| 1967 | Italy France West Germany
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Desert Commandos | Attentato ai tre grandi Template:It Les chiens verts du désert Template:Fr Fünf gegen Casablanca Template:De icon |
Umberto Lenzi | German commandos parachute into North Africa to infiltrate Casablanca Conference |
| 1967 | USA
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The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | Thriller based on E. M. Nathanson novel. US Army convicts on mission before D-Day | |
| 1967 | Japan
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Japan's Longest Day | Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Kanji please) | Kihachi Okamoto | Drama based on Sōichi Ōya book. Kyūjō Incident |
| 1967 | Poland
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The Killer Leaves a Trace | Morderca zostawia ślad | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Polish resistance |
| 1967 | USA
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The Longest Hundred Miles (Escape from Bataan) | Don Weis | Adventure. US corporal, priest, and Filipino children flee the Japanese | |
| 1967 | Poland
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Long Night | Długa noc | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish resistance during German occupation of Poland, 1943 |
| 1967 | Poland West Germany
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Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime | Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią | Jan Rybkowski | German homefront |
| 1967 | USA
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Tobruk | Arthur Hiller | Canadian officer guides British and German-Jewish commandos to destroy Tobruk fuel storage, September 1942 | |
| 1967 | France
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The Two of Us | Le vieil homme et l'enfant (Claude [23]) | Claude Berri | Comedy-drama. Jewish boy sent to live on farm during German occupation of France |
| 1967 | Poland
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Westerplatte | Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | Battle of Westerplatte |
| 1967 | Soviet Union Poland
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Zosya | Zosya (Зося) Template:Ru icon Zosia Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) |
Jerzy Lipman | Romance/Drama. Soviet officer and Polish girl near end of war on Poland's Eastern Front |
| 1968 |  Albania
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Ambush | Prita | Mithat Fagu | Albanian Resistance under German occupation of Albania, 1943 |
| 1968 | Philippines
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Ang Mangliligpit | Ang Mangliligpit | Pablo Santiago | Filipino Guerrillas battle Makapili |
| 1968 | Italy
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Anzio | Edward Dmytryk | Battle of Anzio | |
| 1968 | Soviet Union ( Georgian SSR)
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Chained Island | Jvartsmuli kundzuli (Georgian please) Template:Ka icon Russian please (Cyrillic please) Template:Ru icon |
Shota Managadze | Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland |
| 1968 | Italy West Germany
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Commandos (Sullivan's Marauders) | Commandos Template:It | Armando Crispino | Italian-American soldiers disguised in Italian uniform infiltrate North African camp |
| 1968 | USA
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The Devil's Brigade | Andrew V. McLaglen | Devil's Brigade | |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia
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Dita Saxová | Dita Saxová | Antonín Moskalyk | Based on novel by Arnošt Lustig. |
| 1968 | Poland
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Heading for Berlin | Kierunek Berlin | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1968 | Italy France
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Hell in Normandy | Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili Template:It | Alfonso Brescia | US paratrooper commandos at Omaha Beach prior to D-Day |
| 1968 | USA
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Hell in the Pacific | [24] | John Boorman | Downed US Marine pilot and marooned Japanese Navy captain on deserted Pacific island |
| 1968 | USA
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Hell Raiders (TV) | Larry Buchanan | US Army demolition squad on mission to destroy records in evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of 1958 film Suicide Battalion | |
| 1968 | USA
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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
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The Human Bullet (Human Guinea Pigs: The Human Bullet) | Nikudan (肉弾) | Kihachi Okamato | Japanese Navy pilot assigned kamikaze mission against US battleship |
| 1968 | USA
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In Enemy Country (In Enemy Hands) | Harry Keller | Allied undercover agents aided by Polish resistance on mission to stop Nazis from developing "super torpedo" | |
| 1968 | East Germany
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I Was Nineteen | Ich war neunzehn (Ich war 19 / Heimkehr) | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on director's diary. Young German's flight from Nazis to Moscow and return to Berlin as Russian Army officer |
| 1968 | UK
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The Long Day's Dying | Peter Collinson | British paratroopers separated from regiment take German officer prisoner | |
| 1968 | Philippines
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Manila, Open City | Manila, Open City | Eddie Romero | Manila Massacre and Battle of Manila |
| 1968 | Soviet Union (  Estonian SSR)
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People in Soldier's Uniforms | Inimesed sõdurisinelis Template:Et Lyudi b soldatskikh shinelyah (Cyrillic please) Template:Ru icon |
Jüri Müür | Mobilized Estonian conscripts in Red Army at battles of Velikiye Luki and Tehumardi |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia
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Riders in the Sky (Sky Riders / Heaven Riders) | Nebeští jezdci | Jindřich Polák | Czech pilots in RAF No. 311 Squadron |
| 1968 | USA
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Jack Smight | Comedy. Escape of Allied Generals held in special Italian camp | |
| 1968 | Soviet Union
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Shield and Sword | Shchit i mech (Щит и меч) | Vladimir Basov | Soviet spy in German intelligence [25] |
| 1968 | West Germany
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Signs of Life | Lebenszeichen | Werner Herzog | Wounded German soldiers assigned to convalesce on Greek island of Kos |
| 1968 | USA
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The Subject was Roses | Ulu Grosbard | Soldier's return home after war | |
| 1968 | UK
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Submarine X-1 | William A. Graham | Royal Navy midget submarines | |
| 1968 | USA
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Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | Allied commando operation to rescue captured "American General" | |
| 1969 | France Italy
|
Army of Shadows | L'Armée des ombres | Jean-Pierre Melville | French Resistance |
| 1969 | Poland
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Ascension Day | Wniebowstąpienie | Jan Rybkowski | Lwów, Poland during Soviet and German Occupation, 1941 |
| 1969 | UK
|
Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | Battle of Britain | |
| 1969 | Italy
|
The Battle of El Alamein | La Battaglia di El Alamein | Giorgio Ferroni | Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia
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The Battle of Neretva | Bitka na Neretvi | Veljko Bulajić | Battle of Neretva |
| 1969 | Italy Spain West Germany Switzerland
|
Battle of the Commandos | La legione dei dannati La brigada de los condenados Die zum Teufel gehen |
Umberto Lenzi | Irish Colonel leading commando unit of convicts and US explosives expert on mission to defuse underwater mines in preparation for D-Day |
| 1969 | Italy Spain
|
The Battle of the Last Panzer (The Last Panzer Battalion) | La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer Template:It La batalla del último Panzer Template:Es |
José Luis Merino | Surviving German tank crew attempt to reach friendly lines |
| 1969 | USA
|
The Bridge at Remagen | John Guillermin | Operation Lumberjack on Western Front | |
| 1969 | Italy West Germany
|
The Damned | La caduta degli dei Template:It Die Verdammten Template:De icon |
Luchino Visconti | Wealthy industrialist family during Hitler's rise to power |
| 1969 | Poland
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Day of Purification | Dzień oczyszczenia | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance and Soviet partisans in Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Italy
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Eagles Over London (Battle Squadron / Battle Command) | La battaglia d'Inghilterra | Enzo G. Castellari | British officers pursue Nazi saboteurs through London |
| 1969 | Italy
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Five for Hell (Five into Hell) | 5 per l'inferno | Gianfranco Parolini | Comedy-drama. Oddball US commandos with mission behind enemy lines |
| 1969 | Albania
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The Guerrilla Unit | Njësiti guerril | Hysen Hakani | Albanian Resistance in Tirana during Italian occupation of Albania |
| 1969 | UK
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Hannibal Brooks | Michael Winner | Adventure-comedy. British POW attempts escape from German captors with elephant | |
| 1969 | Poland
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How I Unleashed the Second World War | Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Polish Campaign, 1939 and Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, and Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Poland
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The Last Days | Ostatnie dni | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1969 | Soviet Union East Germany Poland Italy
|
Liberation (The Great Battle) | Osvobozhdenie (Освобождение) Template:Ru icon | Yuri Ozerov, Julius Kun | Romance/Drama. Eastern Front from Battle for Kursk to Fall of Berlin; five-part film series |
| 1969 | USA
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Love Camp 7 (Nazi Love Camp 7) | Lee Frost | British female officers infiltrate Nazi internment camp to reach inmate scientist | |
| 1969 | UK
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Mosquito Squadron | Boris Sagal | British bomber squadron targets German research camp and Vergeltungswaffe | |
| 1969 | Poland
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The Neighbours | Sąsiedzi | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Bydgoszcz, Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1969 | Philippines
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Pambihirang tatlo | Pambihirang tatlo | Felix Villar | Filipino mission to destroy Japanese bastion along San Bernardino Strait |
| 1969 | UK
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Play Dirty | Andre de Toth | North African Campaign | |
| 1969 | Poland
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Red Rowan | Jarzębina czerwona | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Battle of Kolberg on Eastern Front |
| 1969 | Italy
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Salt in the Wound (The Dirty Two) | Il Dito nella piaga | Tonino Ricci | Condemned US soldiers survive Nazi ambush on way to execution and defend Italian village from invading Germans |
| 1969 | USA
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | Aftermath of fall of Benito Mussolini's Fascist government | |
| 1969 | Italy
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36 Hours in Hell | 36 ore all'inferno | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Marine platoon scouts Japanese-occupied island before Allied invasion of Rabaul |
| 1969 | USA
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The Thousand Plane Raid (The 1,000 Plane Raid) | Boris Sagal | Largest air armada on daytime mission targets German fighter plane production | |
| 1969 | USA
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Wake Me When the War Is Over (TV) | Gene Nelson | Comedy. [2] | |
| 1969 | Italy
|
War Devils | I diavoli della guerra | Bitto Albertini | Small units in North African desert battle, and French villa raid |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 |  Greece
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Battlefield Constantinople (Lieutenant Natasha) | Ipolochagos Natassa (Υπολοχαγός Νατάσσα) | Nikos Foskolos | Drama. Woman in the Greek resistance sent to Dachau |
| 1970 | USA
|
Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | Italian Campaign | |
| 1970 | Italy Spain
|
Churchill's Leopards | I leopardi di Churchill Template:It | Maurizio Pradeaux | English agent, posing as his dead German officer twin brother, assists French Resistance and British commandos against SS, 1944 |
| 1970 | Poland
|
Face of an Angel | Twarz anioła | Zbigniew Chmielewski | Drama. Children in Nazi concentration camp in Łódź, Poland |
| 1970 | Italy West Germany
|
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | Drama. Wealthy Jewish-Italian family in pre-war Italy |
| 1970 | Philippines
|
Guerrilla Strike Force | Maharlika | Jerry Hopper | Japanese invasion of Manila Bay |
| 1970 | UK USA
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Hell Boats | Paul Wendkos | British motor torpedo boats operating in Mediterranean | |
| 1970 | USA Italy
|
Hornets' Nest | [18] | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | US paratrooper and boy partisans attack dam during Italian Campaign |
| 1970 | USA Yugoslavia
|
Kelly's Heroes | [18] | Brian G. Hutton | Western Front |
| 1970 | Poland
|
Kolumbowie | Kolumbowie | Janusz Morgenstern | Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 |
| 1970 | UK
|
The Last Escape | Walter Grauman | Allied commandos on mission to kidnap German scientists, 1945 | |
| 1970 | Japan
|
The Last Kamikaze | Saigo no Tokkotai | Yahagi Toshihiko | Kamikaze attacks |
| 1970 | Poland Soviet Union
|
Legenda | Legenda Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Sylwester Chęciński | Polish resistance |
| 1970 |  Ireland UK
|
The McKenzie Break (Escape) | Lamont Johnson | Irish intelligence officer investigates German POW camp disturbances in Scotland near end of war | |
| 1970 | Denmark
|
October Days †· | Oktoberdage | Bent Christensen | |
| 1970 | Poland
|
Olympic Fire | Znicz olimpijski | Lech Lorentowicz | Zakopane, Polish resistance in Tatra Mountains |
| 1970 | USA
|
Patton | Franklin Schaffner | General George S. Patton | |
| 1970 | Philippines
|
Santiago! | Santiago! | Lino Brocka | Life in occupied Philippines |
| 1970 | Italy Soviet Union
|
Sunflower | I Girasoli | Vittorio De Sica | Romance-drama. End of war search for Italian soldier lost on Eastern Front [26] |
| 1970 | USA
|
Too Late the Hero (Suicide Run) | Robert Aldrich | British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign | |
| 1970 | USA Japan
|
Tora! Tora! Tora! | Tora Tora Tora! (トラ・トラ・トラ!) | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1970 | Japan
|
Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists | Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' | Hiromichi Horikawa | Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War |
| 1971 | Japan
|
The Battle of Okinawa | Gekido no Showashi: Okinawa kessen (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) | Kihachi Okamoto | Battle of Okinawa through eyes of Japanese Army, Navy, aviation, civilians, and generals |
| 1971 | USA
|
The Birdmen (Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen) (TV) | Philip Leacock | Adventure. POWs in castle prison build glider | |
| 1971 | UK
|
Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Comedy based on Dad's Army TV series. British Home Guard | |
| 1971 | UK
|
Murphy's War | Peter Yates | Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1971 | USA
|
Raid on Rommel | Henry Hathaway | North African Campaign | |
| 1971 | Philippines
|
Sangre | Sangre Template:Es | Armando Garces | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1971 | Poland
|
The Third Part of the Night | Trzecia część nocy | Andrzej Żuławski | Polish Resistance |
| 1971 |  Bulgaria
|
Three Reservists | Trimata ot zapasa (Тримата от запаса) | Zako Heskija | Comedy-drama. Bulgarian soldiers in Hungary, 1945 |
| 1971 | Poland
|
Top Agent | Agent nr 1 | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Polish SOE agent in Greek Resistance |
| 1971 | Soviet Union
|
Trial on the Road | Proverka na dorogakh (Проверка на дорогах) | Aleksei German | Former Russian POW joins partisans, Winter 1942 |
| 1971 | Greece
|
What Did You Do During the War, Thanasis? | Ti ekanes sto polemo Thanasi (Greek please) | Dinos Katsourides | Comedy. Greek Resistance |
| 1972 | Soviet Union
|
The Dawns Here Are Quiet | A zori zdes tikhie (А зори здесь тихие) | Stanislav Rostotsky | Drama based on book by Boris Vasilyev. Female Soviet anti-aircraft squad encounter with platoon of Nazi paratroopers on Karelian Front, 1941 |
| 1972 | Soviet Union
|
Hot Snow | Goryachiy Sneg (Горячий снег) | Gavriil Yegiazarov | Drama based on Yuri Bondarev novel. German attempt to extract Sixth Army from Stalingrad in Winter of 1942 |
| 1972 | India
|
Lalkar (The Challenge) | Lalkaar (Devanagari please) | Ramanand Sagar | Burma Campaign, 1941–1945 |
| 1972 | Japan
|
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Gunki hatameku motoni (軍旗はためく下に) | Kinji Fukasaku | Japanese veterans recall experiences to war widow on quest to exonerate husband executed for desertion |
| 1973 | Poland
|
Barbed Wire | Zasieki | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Polish Campaign, 1939; Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1973 | Yugoslavia
|
The Battle of Sutjeska | Sutjeska (Сутјеска) | Stipe Delić | Battle of the Sutjeska |
| 1973 | USA
|
Death Race (State of Division) (TV) | David Lowell Rich | German panzer chases American P-40 across North African desert, 1942 | |
| 1973 | Philippines
|
Dugo ng Bayan | Dugo ng Bayan | Armando A. Herrera | Remake. Filipino Resistance.[27] |
| 1973 | UK Italy
|
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | [18] | Ennio De Concini | Last days of Hitler during Battle of Berlin |
| 1973 | Poland
|
Hubal | Hubal | Bohdan Poręba | Polish Campaign, 1939–1940 |
| 1973 | China
|
Little 8th Route Army | Xiaobalu (小八路) | Lei You | Animated. Sino-Japanese War |
| 1973 | Italy
|
Massacre in Rome | [28] | George P. Cosmatos | Ardeatine massacre |
| 1973 | France
|
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? | Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle; first of trilogy |
| 1973 | France
|
The Train (The Last Train) | Le Train | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Based on Georges Simenon novel. Frenchman and Jewish-German woman meet on train while escaping German army to France |
| 1973 | Hong Kong South Korea
|
When Taekwondo Strikes | Tai quan zhen jiu zhou (跆拳震九州) Template:Yue | Feng Huang | Martial arts. Japanese occupation of Korea |
| 1974 | UK
|
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | Norman Cohen | Comedy. Basic training of British conscripts | |
| 1974 | France
|
Black Thursday | Les guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | First large-scale roundup of Jews in Paris and man saving as many as possible, 1942 |
| 1974 | Soviet Union ( Estonian SSR)
|
The Dangerous Games | Ohtlikud mängud Template:Et Opasnye igry (Опасные игры) Template:Ru icon |
Veljo Käsper | Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany |
| 1974 | Bulgaria
|
Dawn Over the Drava | Zarevo nad Drava (Зарево над Драва) | Zako Heskija | Drama. Battle of the Drava, 1945 |
| 1974 | Taiwan
|
The Everlasting Glory | Ying lie qian qiu (英烈千秋) | Tin Shan Sui | Biography of Zhang Zizhong during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1974 | USA
|
The Execution of Private Slovik (TV) | Lamont Johnson | Drama based on William Bradford Huie book. Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier to be executed for desertion during war | |
| 1974 | Japan
|
Father of the Kamikaze | Ā kessen kōkūtai (Kanji please) | Kosaku Yamashita | Drama. |
| 1974 | Poland
|
Heads Full of Stars | Głowy pełne gwiazd | Janusz Kondratiuk | Eastern Front and German Occupation of Poland, 1944 |
| 1974 | Japan
|
Karafuto Summer 1945: Gate of Ice and Snow | Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門) | Mitsuo Murayama | Soviet invasion of Karafuto prompts nine Japanese women to commit suicide |
| 1974 | France West Germany Italy
|
Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien) | Lacombe Lucien Template:Fr | Louis Malle | French Resistance and collaboration |
| 1974 | Poland Soviet Union
|
Remember Your Name | Zapamiętaj imię swoje Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Pomni imya svoye (Cyrillic please) Template:Ru icon |
Siergiej Kołosow | Tragedy of children in war |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Philippines
|
Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Ding M. De Jesus, Cesar Gallardo, Armando A. Herrera, Johnny Pangilinan, Romy Suzara | Filipino resistance from period against Spanish to Japanese. |
| 1975 | USA
|
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS | Don Edmonds | Exploitation. | |
| 1975 | Poland
|
In the Days Before the Spring | W te dni przedwiosenne | Andrzej Konic | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1975 | East Germany Czechoslovakia
|
Jacob, the Liar | Jakob, der Lügner Template:De icon | Frank Beyer | Based on Jurek Becker novel. Eastern European Jewish ghetto, 1944 |
| 1975 | Poland
|
Leaves Have Fallen | Opadły liście z drzew | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Poland
|
My War - My Love | Moja wojna, moja miłość | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1975 | France West Germany
|
The Old Gun (Vengeance One by One) | Le vieux fusil | Robert Enrico | Drama. |
| 1975 | Soviet Union
|
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle | V boy idut odni stariki (В бой идут одни старики) | Leonid Bykov | Comedy-drama. Soviet pilots |
| 1975 | USA Czechoslovakia
|
Operation Daybreak (The Price of Freedom) | [18] | Lewis Gilbert | Drama based on Alan Burgess book. Operation Anthropoid |
| 1975 | UK
|
Overlord | Stuart Cooper | Young soldier trains with East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for Normandy landings | |
| 1975 | Poland
|
A Partita for a Wind Instrument | Partita na instrument drewniany | Janusz Zaorski | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Italy
|
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Exploitation. Wealthy fascist libertines after the fall of Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò, 1944 |
| 1975 | Italy
|
Seven Beauties | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Satirical dark comedy. Mobster conscripted in Italian army to avoid prison and service on Eastern Front |
| 1975 | France
|
The Seventh Company Has Been Found | On a retrouvé la septième compagnie | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle and in officers POW camp/castle; second of trilogy |
| 1975 | France
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Special Section | Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | Special court where judges condemn innocents to death to please Germans during occupation |
| 1975 | Soviet Union
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They Fought for Their Country | Oni srazhalis' za Rodinu (Они сражались за Родину) | Sergey Bondarchuk | Rearguard action of Soviet platoon during German drive on Stalingrad |
| 1975 | Greece
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The Travelling Players | O Thiasos (Ο Θίασος) | Theodoros Angelopoulos | German invasion and occupation of Greece |
| 1976 | Japan
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Barefoot Gen | Hadashi no Gen (はだしのゲン) | Tengo Yamada | Atomic bomb Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1976 | Poland
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Birds to Birds | Ptaki, ptakom... | Paweł Komorowski | Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1976 | Denmark
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The Brief Summer | Den korte sommer | Edward Fleming | Woman falls in love with German soldier |
| 1976 | UK
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The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | Based on novel by Jack Higgins. German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill | |
| 1976 | USA
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Farewell to Manzanar (TV) | John Korty | Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar | |
| 1976 | USA
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Midway (The Battle of Midway) | Jack Smight | Battle of Midway | |
| 1976 | France Italy
|
Mr. Klein | Monsieur Klein Template:Fr | Joseph Losey | French Resistance and collaboration |
| 1976 | Poland
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Polish Roads (TV miniseries) | Polskie drogi | Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern | Poland, 1939–43; in four-parts |
| 1976 | Italy West Germany France
|
Salon Kitty (Madam Kitty) | Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Exploitation. Nazi use of Salon Kitty brothel for espionage and Allied counter-espionage |
| 1976 | Soviet Union Bulgaria
|
The Soldier of the Supply Column | Voynikat ot oboza (Войникът от обоза) Template:Bg icon Bratyuzhka (Cyrillic please) Template:Ru icon |
Igor Dobrolyubov | Soviet army in Bulgaria [29] |
| 1976 | Philippines
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Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Mario O'Hara | Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1976 | Poland
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To Save the City | Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1976 | Taiwan
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Victory | Mei hua (電影) | Chia Chang Liu | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945) |
| 1976 | UK
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Voyage of the Damned | Stuart Rosenberg | Drama. Capt. Gustav Schröder attempts to find port for German-Jewish refugees aboard ocean liner MS St. Louis, 1939 | |
| 1976 | Japan
|
Zero Pilot | Ōzora no samurai (天空的武士) | Seiji Maruyama | Based on novel Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero |
| 1977 | Soviet Union
|
The Ascent | Voskhozhdeniye (Восхождение) | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet partisans in Byelorussian village spotted by German patrol |
| 1977 | UK USA
|
A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Operation Market Garden | |
| 1977 | UK West Germany
|
Cross of Iron | [18] | Sam Peckinpah | German soldiers on the Russian Front |
| 1977 | Taiwan
|
The 800 Heroes | Ba bai zhuang shi (八百壮士) | Shan-hsi Ting | Drama. Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
| 1977 | France Spain
|
Hitler's Last Train | Train spécial pour SS Template:Fr | Alain Payet | Rail journey of nightclub singer and young women in her charge drafted by Hitler for SS service |
| 1977 | Poland
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The Last Round (TV) | Ostatnie okrążenie | Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska | German Occupation of Poland and Gestapo murder of Olympic gold-medalist Janusz Kusociński |
| 1977 | USA
|
MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | General Douglas MacArthur | |
| 1977 | East Germany
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Mama, I'm Alive | Mama, ich lebe | Konrad Wolf | German POWs join Red Army then infiltrate Nazi lines |
| 1977 | Poland
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Palace Hotel | Palace Hotel | Ewa Kruk | Poland, 1939–44 |
| 1977 | France
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The Seventh Company Outdoors | La septième compagnie au clair de lune | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen resisting German invasion/occupation; last of trilogy |
| 1977 | Netherlands
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Soldier of Orange (Survival Run) | Soldaat van Oranje | Paul Verhoeven | Dutch Resistance |
| 1978 | UK
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Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | British commando raid in Yugoslavia | |
| 1978 | USA
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Holocaust (TV miniseries) | Marvin J. Chomsky | German-Jewish family enduring the Holocaust | |
| 1978 | Poland
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Hospital of the Transfiguration | Szpital przemienienia | Edward Żebrowski | Drama. Polish psychiatric hospital and its Gestapo roundup for concentration camps, 1943 |
| 1978 | Poland
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A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores | Sto koni do stu brzegów | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Polish soldier escapes Stalag tasked with delivering information across Europe while evading Gestapo |
| 1978 | Italy
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The Inglorious Bastards (G.I. Bro / Counterfeit Commandos) | [18] | Enzo G. Castellari | American soldiers escape military prison and aide French resistance on mission to steal Nazi V-2 prototype gyroscope |
| 1978 | Poland
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Operation Arsenal | Akcja pod Arsenałem | Jan Łomnicki | Based on an Aleksander Kamiński novel. Szare Szeregi and Operation Arsenal during occupation of Poland, 1943 |
| 1978 | Netherlands
|
Pastorale 1943 | Pastorale 1943 | Wim Verstappen | Dutch Resistance |
| 1978 | Poland
|
Shadow Dead | Umarli rzucają cień | Julian Dziedzina | Silesian Polish Resistance |
| 1978 | Poland
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To the Last Drop of Blood | Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1978 | Poland
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Wherever You Are, Mr. President | ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1979 | West Germany
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Breakthrough | Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil [30] | Andrew V. McLaglen | July 20 plot; sequel to Cross of Iron |
| 1979 | Poland
|
Elegy | Elegia | Paweł Komorowski | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1979 | UK
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Escape to Athena | George Pan Cosmatos | German-occupied Greece | |
| 1979 | Italy Spain France
|
From Hell to Victory | [18] | "Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi) |
Occupied Europe |
| 1979 | UK USA
|
Hanover Street | Peter Hyams | American bomber crews based in England | |
| 1979 | USA
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Ike (TV miniseries) | Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Drama. Wartime romance of General Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 1979 | Poland
|
A Long Way to Go | Droga daleka przed nami | Władysław Ślesicki | Polish soldier's escape from Stalag |
| 1979 | Poland
|
Morning Stars | Gwiazdy poranne | Henryk Bielski | Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1979 | Soviet Union ( Estonian SSR)
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Nest in the Winds | Tuulte pesa Template:Et | Olev Neuland | Forest Brothers |
| 1979 | USA
|
1941 | Steven Spielberg | Comedy. California coast one week after attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1979 | Albania
|
The Radio Station | Radiostacioni | Rikard Ljarja | Based on Ismail Kadare novel Novembre d'une capitale. Albanian Resistance attempt to take over Tirana Radio, November 1944 |
| 1979 | Poland
|
Salad Days | Zielone lata | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Tragedy of Polish, Jewish and German children in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1939 |
| 1979 | Poland
|
Secret of Enigma | Sekret Enigmy | Roman Wionczek | Cryptologist Marian Rejewski and the Enigma machine |
| 1979 | UK
|
Yanks | John Schlesinger | Americans stationed in England |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | USA
|
The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | US 1st Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, 1942–45 | |
| 1980 | Poland
|
The Birthday | Urodziny młodego warszawiaka | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Campaign, 1939 and Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland
|
The Death Sentence | Wyrok śmierci | Witold Orzechowski | Polish Resistance and Zamość, Poland |
| 1980 | Poland
|
'40 Olympics | Olimpiada '40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | Clandestine Olympiad held by Allied prisoners in German Stalag, 1940 |
| 1980 | Philippines
|
.45-Caliber | Kalibre .45 | Nilo Saez | Story of vengeance near end of Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1980 | France
|
The Last Metro | Le dernier métro | François Truffaut | German occupation of France |
| 1980 | UK Switzerland USA
|
The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Calcutta Light Horse | |
| 1980 | Poland
|
Vistula Day | Dzień Wisły | Tadeusz Kijański | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland
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"W" Hour | Godzina "W" | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance and Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1981 | Switzerland West Germany Austria
|
The Boat is Full | Das Boot ist voll | Markus Imhoof | German and Austrian refugees escape to neutral Switzerland hoping to find asylum by posing as family |
| 1981 | France
|
Bolero: Dance of Life | Les uns et les autres | Claude Lelouch | Musical drama. Four musical families of different backgrounds and nationalities followed from 1930s–1980s as their paths cross; film also released as TV miniseries, 1981 |
| 1981 | USA
|
The Bunker | George Schaefer | Based on novel The Bunker. Last days of Hitler | |
| 1981 | West Germany
|
Das Boot (The Boat) | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1981 | USA
|
Escape to Victory (Victory) | John Huston | Football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs | |
| 1981 | UK
|
Eye of the Needle | Richard Marquand | German spy in England before D-Day | |
| 1981 | Soviet Union (  Lithuanian SSR)
|
Faktas | Faktas Template:Lt icon Fakt (Факт) Template:Ru icon |
Almantas Grikevicius | |
| 1981 | Poland
|
General Boldyn | Bołdyn | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | Netherlands
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The Girl with the Red Hair | Het meisje met het rode haar | Ben Verbong | Dutch Resistance |
| 1981 | Japan
|
The Imperial Navy | Rengo kantai (連合艦隊) | Shūe Matsubayashi | Operation Ten-Go and battleship Yamato |
| 1981 | France
|
Let's Go Children | Allons Z'enfants | Yves Boisset | Drama. Young Cadet in French military school who dislikes soldiering but conscripted into Phony War service, 1939–1940 |
| 1981 | Poland
|
Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye | Ryś | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | Soviet Union France Switzerland Spain
|
Teheran 43 (Assassination Attempt / The Eliminator) | Tegeran-43 (Тегеран-43) Template:Ru icon | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Thriller. Assassination plot against Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Tehran Conference, 1943 |
| 1982 | Poland
|
Ash Wednesday (TV) | Popielec | Ryszard Ber | Polish village under German occupation |
| 1982 |  Australia
|
Attack Force Z (Z Force) | Tim Burstall | Z Special Unit | |
| 1982 | Philippines
|
Gold, Silver, Death | Oro, Plata, Mata | Peque Gallaga | Fall of Corregidor |
| 1982 | Australia
|
The Highest Honour (The Southern Cross / Heroes of the Krait) | Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell | Operation Rimau | |
| 1982 | Italy
|
The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Comedy-drama. Italians hear rumors of Nazi plan to raze their town when Americans are about to liberate them, 1944 |
| 1982 | USA
|
Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor | |
| 1982 | Poland
|
Tribute to a Gray Day | Haracz szarego dnia | Roman Wionczek, Krzysztof Prymek | Polish Resistance |
| 1982 | Poland
|
Upside Down | Do góry nogami | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Polish Silesia and tragedy of children in war |
| 1982 | West Germany
|
The White Rose | Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Execution of White Rose members |
| 1983 | Poland West Germany
|
After Your Decrees | Wedle wyroków twoich... Template:Pl icon Blutiger Schnee Template:De icon |
Jerzy Hoffman | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Yugoslavia
|
Balkan Express | Balkan ekspres (Балкан експрес) | Lee H. Katzin | Comedy. Criminals earn living as fake musical band during Nazi occupation of Serbia |
| 1983 | Japan
|
Barefoot Gen | Barefoot Gen | Mori Masaki | Anime. Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1983 | Poland
|
The Crash off Gibraltar | Katastrofa w Gibraltarze | Bohdan Poręba | Drama. General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces, 1943 |
| 1983 | Poland
|
Dawn Porter (TV) | Tragarz puchu | Stefan Szlachtycz | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | France
|
Gramps is in the Resistance | Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | Comedy. French Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1983 | Hong Kong
|
Hong Kong, 1941 | Dang doi lai ming (等待黎) | Leong Po-Chih | Japanese occupation of Hong Kong |
| 1983 | UK Japan
|
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence | Furyo (Senjô no merî Kurisumasu) (戦場のメリークリスマス) | Nagisa Oshima | British POWs on Java |
| 1983 | China
|
One and Eight | Yīge hé bāge (一个和八个) | Zhang Junzhao | Criminals and Eighth Route Army deserters battle Japanese |
| 1983 | Poland
|
Postcard From a Journey | Kartka z podróży | Waldemar Dziki | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Hungary
|
The Revolt of Job | Jób lázadása | Imre Gyöngyössy | Childless Jewish couple adopt Hungarian boy during war |
| 1983 | Philippines
|
Roman Rapido | Roman Rapido | Argel Joseph | Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1983 | USA UK Italy
|
The Scarlet and the Black (TV) | Jerry London | Drama. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty and anti-Nazi activity, 1943–45 | |
| 1983 | Poland
|
There Was No Sun That Spring | Nie było słońca tej wiosny | Juliusz Janicki, Slawomir Janicki | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | USA
|
To Be or Not to Be | Alan Johnson | Comedy-drama. Polish actor and Nazi invasion of Poland; remake of 1942 To Be or Not to Be | |
| 1983 | Soviet Union
|
Torpedo Bombers | Torpedonostsi (Торпедоносцы) | Semyon Aranovich | Drama. Pilots, 1944 |
| 1983 | Denmark
|
Traitors | Forræderne | Ole Roos | Drama. Free Corps Denmark deserters from Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1983 | USA
|
Winds of War (TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | Drama based on Herman Wouk novel. Family saga leading to Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1984 | Poland
|
The Fourth Day | Dzień czwarty | Ludmiła Niedbalska | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1984 | Poland
|
I Died to Live (TV) | Umarłem, aby żyć | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Resistance, 1941 |
| 1984 | Poland
|
I Shall Always Stand Guard | Na straży swej stać będę | Kazimierz Kutz | Polish Resistance in Silesia, 1939–42 |
| 1984 | Australia
|
The Last Bastion (TV miniseries) | George Miller | War from Australian perspective | |
| 1984 | Poland
|
Romance with the Intruder | Romans z intruzem | Waldemar Podgórski | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1984 | Soviet Union ( Estonian SSR)
|
Under a False Name | Võõra nime all | Peeter Urbla | Estonians in Soviet gulag |
| 1984 | West Germany
|
The Wannsee Conference (TV) | Die Wannseekonferenz | Heinz Schirk | German officials attend Wannsee Conference by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss Final Solution to Jewish question, 1942 |
| 1984 | China
|
Yellow Earth | Huáng tǔdì (黄土地) | Chen Kaige | Sino-Japanese War |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Soviet Union
|
Battalions Ask for Fire (TV miniseries) | Batalyony prosyat ognya (Батальоны просят огня) | Aleksandr Bogolyubov, Vladimir Chebotaryov | Soviet battalion crossing Dnieper River to liberate Kiev from Germans, 1943 |
| 1985 | Soviet Union East Germany Czechoslovakia Vietnam
|
The Battle for Moscow | Bitva za Moskvu (Битва за Москву) Template:Ru icon | Yuri Ozerov | Operation Barbarossa to Battle of Moscow |
| 1985 | Netherlands
|
Bitter Sweet | Het bittere kruid | Kees van Oostrum | Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Japan
|
The Burmese Harp | ? (Kanji please) | Kon Ichikawa | Burma Campaign; remake version |
| 1985 | USA
|
Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | Battle of Normandy | |
| 1985 | Soviet Union
|
Come and See | Idi i smotri (Иди и смотри) | Elem Klimov | Eastern Front |
| 1985 | Poland Czechoslovakia
|
Cuckoo In a Dark Forest | Kukačka v temném lese Template:Cs icon Kukułka w ciemnym lesie Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) |
Antonín Moskalyk | German occupation of Czechoslovakia, concentration camp kommandant and child |
| 1985 | Poland
|
Dad | Tate | Jan Rutkiewicz | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1985 | USA
|
The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (Dirty Dozen 2) (TV) | Andrew V. McLaglen | Allied convicts in elite unit on mission to "prevent" assassination of Hitler | |
| 1985 | USA
|
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (TV) | Jim Goddard | Brothers cope with life in Nazi Germany, 1932–45 | |
| 1985 | UK
|
The Holcroft Covenant | John Frankenheimer | Based on Robert Ludlum novel. German General's son conspires to control hidden Nazi funds | |
| 1985 | Netherlands
|
The Ice-cream Parlour | De IJssalon | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | Romance between Dutch woman and Wehrmacht officer |
| 1985 | Poland
|
In the Shadow of Hatred | W cieniu nienawiści | Wojciech Żółtowski | Holocaust in Poland, 1943 |
| 1985 | Italy France
|
Madman at War | Scemo di guerra Template:It Le fou de guerre Template:Fr |
Dino Risi | Comedy. |
| 1985 | Japan
|
The Seburi Story | Seburi monogatari (瀬降り物語) | Sadao Nakajima | Hardships of nomadic Seburi of western Japan during war |
| 1985 | Finland
|
The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Rauni Mollberg | Finno-Soviet Continuation War; remake of 1955 film The Unknown Soldier |
| 1985 |  Romania
|
Us, The Frontline (The Last Assault) | Noi, cei din linia întâi | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanians fighting on the Western Front and in Hungary |
| 1986 | Netherlands
|
The Assault | De Aanslag | Fons Rademakers | Drama based on novel by Harry Mulisch. Family killed by Germans as retribution for Dutch Resistance assassination — Academy Award for Best Foreign Film |
| 1986 | Poland
|
Crumbs of War | Okruchy wojny | Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1986 | USA
|
Every Time We Say Goodbye | Moshé Mizrahi | US RAF pilot in Jerusalem | |
| 1986 | Poland Switzerland
|
The Lullabye | Kołysanka Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Efraim Sevela | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1986 | Japan
|
The Sea and Poison | Umi to dokuyaku (海と毒薬) | Kei Kumai | Pacific War |
| 1986 | Netherlands
|
Shadow Of Victory | In de schaduw van de overwinning | Ate de Jong | Dutch Resistance |
| 1986 | Spain
|
Voyage to Nowhere | El viaje a ninguna parte | Fernando Fernán Gómez | Comedy-drama. Travelling comedy troupe during war and post-war Francoist Spain |
| 1987 | France
|
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children) | Au revoir, les enfants | Louis Malle | Jewish boys given shelter and new identity at Catholic boarding school in Vichy France |
| 1987 | USA Yugoslavia
|
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (Dirty Dozen 3) (TV) | [18] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission in France |
| 1987 | USA
|
Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | Allied prisoners in Shanghai Japanese internment camp | |
| 1987 | UK Yugoslavia
|
Escape from Sobibor (TV) | [18] | Jack Gold | Sobibor Uprising during Holocaust |
| 1987 | UK
|
Hope and Glory | John Boorman | The Blitz | |
| 1987 | USA UK Yugoslavia
|
The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) | Gordon Hessler | Panzer unit on Eastern Front | |
| 1988 | Poland USA
|
And the Violins Stopped Playing | I skrzypce przestały grać | Alexander Ramati | Romani people forced to flee from Nazis at height of Romani Holocaust |
| 1988 | USA
|
Biloxi Blues | Mike Nichols | Comedy based on the Neil Simon play. US Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi | |
| 1988 | Poland
|
Cornflower Blue | Kornblumenblau Template:De icon | Leszek Wosiewicz | Polish musician surviving in Auschwitz-Birkenau because of accordion talent |
| 1988 | USA Yugoslavia Italy
|
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (Dirty Dozen 4) (TV) | [18] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission to halt formation of Fourth Reich in Macedonia |
| 1988 | China
|
Evening Bell | Wǎn zhōng (晚钟) | Wu Ziniu | Immediate aftermath of Sino-Japanese War in China |
| 1988 | USA
|
Farewell to the King | John Milius | Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo | |
| 1988 | Japan
|
Grave of the Fireflies | Hotaru no Haka (火垂るの墓) | Isao Takahata | Anime. Firebombing of Kobe and survival on Japan homefront |
| 1988 |  Canada
|
Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army (The King Chronicle, Part 3) (TV) | Donald Brittain | Drama. Canadian PM Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis of 1944 [31] | |
| 1988 | Hong Kong
|
Men Behind the Sun | Hēi tài yáng 731 (黑太阳731) | Mou Tun Fei | Unit 731 and Japanese human experimentation |
| 1988 | Poland Soviet Union
|
Passage | Przeprawa Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Wiktor Turow | Polish Resistance, Soviet partisans, and Operation Sturmwind, 1944 |
| 1988 | China
|
Red Sorghum | Hóng gāoliáng (红高粱) | Zhang Yimou | Woman working at kaoliang distillery during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1988 | UK
|
Return from the River Kwai | Andrew V. McLaglen | Burma Railway and British POWs force-marched from Thailand to Japan | |
| 1988 | Netherlands UK
|
Shadow Man (Shadowman) | Schaduwman | Piotr Andrejew | Polish-Jewish refugee in hiding during German occupation of Amsterdam |
| 1988 | USA
|
The Tenth Man (TV) | Jack Gold | Based on Graham Greene novel. French advocate imprisoned and condemned to death during German occupation of France | |
| 1988 | Japan
|
Tomorrow | Míngrì (明日) | Kazuo Kuroki | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1988 | USA
|
War and Remembrance (TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | Based on novel by Herman Wouk. Saga of family and events after Pearl Harbor; sequel to Winds of War (TV miniseries) | |
| 1989 | Japan
|
Black Rain | Kuroi ame (黒い雨) | Shohei Imamura | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 1989 | Canada
|
Bye Bye Blues | Anne Wheeler | Romance/Music drama. Woman joins jazz band on Canadian homefront | |
| 1989 | UK
|
Coastwatcher (The Last Warrior) | Martin Wragge | Allied coastwatcher on remote island with Japanese warship at anchor for repairs | |
| 1989 | Philippines
|
Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice | Celso Ad. Castillo | Filipina comfort women and Japanese occupation of the Philippines. | |
| 1989 | USA
|
Fat Man and Little Boy | Roland Joffé | Manhattan project | |
| 1989 | Soviet Union East Germany Czechoslovakia USA
|
Stalingrad | Stalingrad (Сталинград) Template:Ru icon | Yuri Ozerov | Battle for Stalingrad |
| 1989 | USA
|
Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young | Story of Salamo Arouch | |
| 1989 | Poland
|
Virtuti | Virtuti | Jacek Butrymowicz | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1989 | Finland
|
The Winter War | Talvisota | Pekka Parikka | Winter War |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Canada France China
|
Bethune: The Making of a Hero | [18] | Phillip Borsos | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in the Spanish Civil War, then his death aiding Mao Zedong's army |
| 1990 | Australia
|
Blood Oath | Stephen Wallace | War-crimes trial of Japanese for Laha massacre | |
| 1990 | France
|
Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot | Christian de Chalonge | Crime-drama. Serial killer Marcel Petiot in occupied France |
| 1990 | West Germany France Poland
|
Europa Europa | Hitlerjunge Salomon Template:De icon | Agnieszka Holland | Jewish boy conceals identity by joining Hitler Youth |
| 1990 | Sweden Hungary Norway
|
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | God afton, Herr Wallenberg - En Passionshistoria från verkligheten Template:Sv icon God aften, herr Wallenberg Template:No icon Jó estét Wallenberg Úr Template:Hu icon |
Kjell Grede | Drama-Biography of Raoul Wallenberg in Holocaust in Hungary |
| 1990 | USA
|
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV) | Peter Werner | Hiroshima after Enola Gay drops atomic bomb | |
| 1990 | Poland West Germany UK
|
Korczak | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | Drama-Biography of Dr. Korczak in Warsaw ghetto and Holocaust |
| 1990 | USA
|
A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Comedy. Western Desert Campaign, battles of El Alamein and Tobruk | |
| 1990 | UK Japan USA
|
Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | Crew of US B-17 bomber Memphis Belle on 25th mission, 1943 | |
| 1990 | West Germany
|
The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | Comedy-drama based on Anna Rosmus. Young woman's research into her German village's history during Third Reich |
| 1991 | Sweden Norway Denmark Finland
|
The Boys from St. Petri | Drengene fra Sankt Petri Template:Da icon Rebellerna från S:t Petri Template:Sv icon |
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Students form Danish Resistance group Churchill Club under German occupation of Denmark |
| 1991 |  Latvia
|
The Child of Man (Son of Man) | Cilveka berns | Janis Streics | Adventure-Romance based on Jāņa Klīdzēja novel: Latgalian boy's attempts to prevent young woman from marrying shortly before Soviet and Nazi occupations |
| 1991 | USA
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December (An Innocent War) | Stuart Gillard | US homefront and prep school boys debating military service after Pearl Harbor, 1941 | |
| 1991 | Spain Denmark Sweden France Germany Switzerland
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Europa | Zentropa | Lars von Trier | American accepts railway job in Germany at end of war finds his position politically sensitive |
| 1991 | USA
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For the Boys | Mark Rydell | Musical comedy-drama. USO performer entertains US troops from World War II to Vietnam War | |
| 1991 | Poland
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Just Beyond That Forest | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Łomnicki | Holocaust |
| 1991 | Italy
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Mediterraneo | Mediterraneo | Gabriele Salvatores | Comedy-drama. Italian soldiers occupying Greek island |
| 1991 | Sweden Denmark
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The Naked Trees | De nøgne træer | Morten Henriksen | Based on Tage Skou-Hansen novel: Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark |
| 1991 | Canada
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The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Holocaust survivors and estranged friends resume an argument from many years earlier | |
| 1991 | Japan
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Rhapsody in August | Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku (Hachigatsu no rapusodī) (八月の狂詩曲) | Akira Kurosawa | Nagasaki family after Bockscar drops atomic bomb |
| 1991 | France Germany Poland
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Warsaw - Year 5703 | Warszawa. Année 5703 Template:Fr icon Tragarz puchu Template:Pl icon Der Daunenträger Template:De icon |
Janusz Kijowski | Holocaust |
| 1992 | Poland
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All That Really Matters | Wszystko, co najważniejsze | Robert Gliński | Lwów, Poland under Soviet occupation and Gulag |
| 1992 | Denmark USA
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A Day in October | En dag i oktober | Kenneth Madsen | Danish-Jewish relocation from Denmark to neutral Sweden under German occupation |
| 1992 | USA
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A Midnight Clear (Section 44) | Keith Gordon | Western Front | |
| 1992 | Poland
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Ring with a Crowned Eagle | Pierścionek z orłem w koronie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance, 1945–46 |
| 1992 | USA
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Shining Through | David Seltzer | Romance/Thriller. Irish-Jewish-German woman recruited as OSS agent in Nazi-Germany | |
| 1993 | Czech Republic Italy Spain Germany
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Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini (A Man Named Benito) (TV miniseries) | Il Giovane Mussolini Template:It icon (El joven Mussolini) Template:Es icon |
Gianluigi Calderone | Biopic of Benito Mussolini |
| 1993 | Canada
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For the Moment | Aaron Kim Johnston | Airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada | |
| 1993 | Norway
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The Last Lieutenant (The Second Lieutenant) | Secondløitnanten | Hans Petter Moland | Retired Norwegian sea-captain volunteers for duty after Operation Weserübung and coordinates volunteers against German occupation of Norway |
| 1993 | Romania
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The Mirror | Oglinda (Începutul adevarului) | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Downfall of Ion Antonescu |
| 1993 | Taiwan
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The Puppetmaster | Xi meng ren sheng (戲夢人生) | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945) |
| 1993 | USA
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Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | Drama. Oskar Schindler's rescue of nearly 1,200 Jews in occupied Poland | |
| 1993 | UK
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Stalag Luft | Adrian Shergold | Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft | |
| 1993 | Germany
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Stalingrad | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1993 | USA
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Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | Musical drama. College student and Swing Kid conscripted into Hitler-Jugend | |
| 1993 |  Estonia Poland Russia
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear) | Saatana pisar Template:Et icon Lza ksiecia ciemnosci Template:Pl icon Слеза князя тьмы Template:Ru icon |
Marek Piestrak | Horror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939 |
| 1994 | USA Canada
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The Ascent | Donald Shebib | Based on actual events: Italian escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya | |
| 1994 | France
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A Day Before Dawn | Un jour avant l'aube | Jacques Ertaud | French SAS commando in Brittany during Operation Overlord and Normandy Campaign, 1944 |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Sweden Denmark
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All Things Fair (Love Lessons) | Lust och fägring stor Template:Sv Lærerinden Template:Da |
Bo Widerberg | Romance/Drama. Coming-of-age relationship of Malmö youth under Swedish neutrality, 1943 |
| 1995 | China
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Don't Cry, Nanking (Nanjing 1937) | Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī (南京１９３７) | Wu Ziniu | Nanking Massacre |
| 1995 | Russia
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The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov | Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (Великий полководец Георгий Жуков) | Yuri Ozerov | Docudrama (художественно-документальный). Biopic of Marshal Georgy Zhukov |
| 1995 | Canada Japan
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Hiroshima (TV) | Roger Spottiswoode | Decision-making processes regarding use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
| 1995 | Poland Germany France
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Holy Week | Wielki tydzień Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Die Karwoche Template:De icon La semaine sainte Template:Fr |
Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust |
| 1995 | Denmark
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Just a Girl | Kun en pige | Peter Schrøder | German occupation of Denmark |
| 1995 | Australia Japan
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The Last Bullet (TV) | Rasutobaretto (ラストバレット) | Michael Pattinson | Australian and Japanese soldiers battle in South Pacific jungle on last day of war |
| 1995 | USA
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV) | Robert Iscove | Sinking of USS Indianapolis and struggle of surviving crewmen in open water | |
| 1995 | China
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Red Cherry | Hóng yīng táo (红樱桃) | Daying Ye | Chinese boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union |
| 1995 | USA
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Sahara (Desert Storm) (TV) | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Western Desert Campaign; remake of 1943 film Sahara | |
| 1995 | USA
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Truman (TV) | Frank Pierson | Drama. Biopic of US President Harry S. Truman from infantry service in World War I | |
| 1995 | USA
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The Tuskegee Airmen | Robert Markowitz | First African-American combat pilots of the war[32] | |
| 1995 |  Yugoslavia France Germany
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Underground | Podzemlje (Подземље) | Emir Kusturica | German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia |
| 1996 | UK
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The Brylcreem Boys | Terence Ryan | Comedy-drama. British and German pilots in POW camp in neutral Ireland during Battle of Britain | |
| 1996 | UK USA
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The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Romance/Drama. Hungarian Count László Almásy, cartographer who charts Sahara Desert in Italian Campaign | |
| 1996 | Germany Norway Sweden Denmark
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Hamsun | Hamsun | Jan Troell | Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and wife during German occupation of Norway |
| 1996 | USA
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Mother Night | Keith Gordon | Based on Kurt Vonnegut novel | |
| 1996 | France Germany UK
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The Ogre | Der Unhold Template:De icon | Volker Schlöndorff | French POW recruiting children for Nazis believing he is protecting them |
| 1996 | Canada UK Luxembourg
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On Dangerous Ground (TV) | Lawrence Gordon-Clark | Thriller based on Jack Higgins novel. Secret wartime agreement between Mountbatten and Mao | |
| 1996 | UK
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Over Here (TV) | Tony Dow | Comedy-drama. British and American aircrew rivalry in England | |
| 1996 | USA
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The Ring (Danielle Steel's The Ring) (TV) | Armand Mastroianni | Romance/Drama. Young German woman separated from her family and imprisoned by Nazis | |
| 1996 |  Thailand
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Sunset at Chaophraya | Khu gam (คู่กรรม) | Euthana Mukdasanit | Free Thai Movement and Siam under Japanese occupation of Thailand, 1939–1944 |
| 1997 | UK Japan
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Bent | [18] | Sean Mathias | Drama based on Martin Sherman play. Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany |
| 1997 | Germany
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The Devil's General (TV) | Des Teufels General | Frank Castorf | Drama based on Carl Zuckmayer play. Successful Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet courted by Widerstand; remake of 1955 film Des Teufels General |
| 1997 | Denmark UK Germany
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The Island on Bird Street | Øen i Fuglegaden Template:Da icon Die Insel in der Vogelstrasse Template:De icon |
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Polish-Jewish boy hiding in ghetto from Nazis |
| 1997 | UK
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The Land Girls | David Leland | Women's Land Army | |
| 1997 | Italy
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Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Comedy-drama. Holocaust under German occupation of Italy |
| 1997 | France
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Lucie Aubrac | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | Lucie and Raymond Aubrac under German occupation of France |
| 1997 | Australia USA
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Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Allied women POWs in Japanese occupied Sumatra | |
| 1998 | Poland
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Deserter's Gold | Złoto dezerterów | Janusz Majewski | Heist comedy. World War I buddies reuniting with Polish Underground to liberate Nazi gold; sequel to 1986 film C.K. dezerterzy |
| 1998 | Japan France
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Dr. Akagi | Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生) | Shôhei Imamura | Comedy-drama. rural Japanese physician trying to eradicate hepatitis while at odds with Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1998 | Spain
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The Girl of Your Dreams | La niña de tus ojos | Fernando Trueba | Comedy-drama. Imperio Argentina and Spanish movie-makers travel from Francoist Spain to Nazi Germany |
| 1998 | USA
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Miracle at Midnight (TV) | Ken Cameron | Holocaust, Danish Resistance, and rescue of Danish Jews during German occupation of Denmark | |
| 1998 | Japan
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Pride: The Fateful Moment | Puraido: Unmei no toki (プライド - 運命のトキません) | Shunya Ito | Tojo Hideki during post-war Tokyo Trials |
| 1998 | USA
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Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | Team of U.S. Army Rangers search for single U.S. soldier during the Normandy Campaign | |
| 1998 | USA
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The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | US infantrymen and Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal Campaign | |
| 1998 | USA
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When Trumpets Fade | John Irvin | Battle of Hürtgen Forest | |
| 1998 | USA
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The White Raven | Jakub Z. Rucinski, Andrew Stevens | Crime-thriller. Journalist follows lead of missing diamond, second largest ever mined and used during war to buy Jewish woman's freedom from concentration camp | |
| 1999 | Germany
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Aimée & Jaguar (Aimee and Jaguar) | Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Romance between lesbians Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust amidst Gestapo purge of Jews in Berlin |
| 1999 | Czech Republic Poland Slovakia
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All My Loved Ones | Všichni moji blízcí Template:Cs icon | Matej Minac | Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton, and escape of 669 children from the Holocaust |
| 1999 | Finland
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Ambush | Rukajärven tie | Olli Saarela | Finnish Army and Women's Auxiliary Corps Lotta Svärd during Continuation War, 1941 |
| 1999 |  Croatia
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Bleiburg | Četverored | Branko Schmidt | Bleiburg massacre |
| 1999 | UK USA
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The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | Based on Graham Greene novel. British homefront and illicit romance; remake of 1955 film The End of the Affair | |
| 1999 | France USA Hungary
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Jakob the Liar | [18] | Peter Kassovitz | Comedy-drama. "Secret radio" in Jewish ghetto of Poland and Holocaust |
| 1999 | China
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Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (Heart of China) | Húanghé júeliàn (黄河绝恋) | Feng Xiaoning | American pilot returns to pay respects to communist-led Chinese army that rescued him |
| 1999 | Russia Germany Japan Italy France
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Moloch | Molokh (Молох) Template:Ru icon | Aleksandr Sokurov | Hitler visits Bavarian Berghof, 1942 |
| 1999 | Germany Austria Canada Hungary
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Sunshine | [18] | István Szabó | Three generations of Jewish family including Holocaust, Operation Margarethe and German occupation of Hungary |
| 1999 | Italy UK
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Tea with Mussolini | [18] | Franco Zeffirelli | Comedy-drama. Italian boy's upbringing by English and American women before and during war in Fascist Italy |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Canada Germany UK
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Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace | [18] | Eric Till | German Lutheran pastor and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 2000 | China
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Devils on the Doorstep | Guizi lai le (鬼子来了) | Jiang Wen | Sino-Japanese War |
| 2000 | Czech Republic
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Divided We Fall | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 2000 | Italy
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Johnny the Partisan | Il Partigiano Johnny | Guido Chiesa | Partisan warfare in north Italy |
| 2000 | Poland
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Judgement of Franciszek Klos (TV) | Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa | Andrzej Wajda | Collaboration under German occupation of Poland |
| 2000 |  Malaysia
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Lt. Adnan | Leftenan Adnan | Aziz M. Osman | Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang |
| 2000 | Italy
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Malena | Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Romance/Comedy-drama. Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940 |
| 2000 | Philippines
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Markova: Comfort Gay | Tagalog please | Gil Portes | Drama based on Walter Dempster, Jr. account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines |
| 2000 | Canada USA
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Nuremberg (TV miniseries) | Yves Simoneau | Docudrama. Nuremberg Trials | |
| 2000 | Czech Republic
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Spring of Life | Pramen zivota | Milan Cieslar | Nazi SS and Lebensborn |
| 2000 | USA
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U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine | |
| 2000 |  Ukraine USA
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The Undefeated | Neskoreniy (Нескорений) | Oles Yanchuk | General Roman Shukhevych and fight for Ukrainian independence |
| 2001 | Germany Russia
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me | So weit die Füße tragen Template:De icon | Hardy Martins | Based on Clemens Forell book. German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag |
| 2001 | UK USA
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Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) | Steven Spielberg | E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war | |
| 2001 | UK
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The Bunker (The Bunker: The Evil Is Within) | Rob Green | Horror-Mystery.[33] Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line | |
| 2001 | UK France USA
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin | [18] | John Madden | Italian occupation of Greece; AKA Capitaine Corelli |
| 2001 | UK Australia
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Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Romance/Thriller. Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance | |
| 2001 | UK USA
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Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of The Wannsee Conference) | |
| 2001 | Czech Republic UK
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Dark Blue World | Tmavomodrý svet | Jan Sverák | Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain |
| 2001 | USA Germany UK Ireland
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Enemy at the Gates | [18] | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad |
| 2001 | UK USA Germany Netherlands
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Enigma | [18] | Michael Apted | Enigma machine mystery |
| 2001 |  Cyprus Greece Bulgaria
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Evagora's Vow (Word of Honor) | To tama (Greek please) Template:El | Andreas Pantzis | Villagers in Cyprus as Greece enters war, 1940 |
| 2001 | Japan
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Firefly | Hotaru (Kanji please) | Yasuo Furuhata | Based on true story of Korean kamikaze pilot |
| 2001 | USA
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The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp | |
| 2001 | Japan
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H Story | ? (Kanji please) | Nobuhiro Suwa | Remake of 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour |
| 2001 | Philippines
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In the Bosom of the Enemy | Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway | Gil Portes | Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband |
| 2001 | UK Germany Ireland USA
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Invincible | [18] | Werner Herzog | Based on lives of Zishe Breitbart and Erik Jan Hanussen. Jewish strongman and clairvoyant/con-man in pre-war Nazi Germany |
| 2001 | Germany
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Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | Jewish family emigrating to Kenyan farm to escape Nazis |
| 2001 | USA
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Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Doolittle Raid | |
| 2001 | China
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Purple Sunset | Zĭrì (紫日) | Feng Xiaoning | Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito |
| 2001 | France UK Germany Austria
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Taking Sides | [18] | István Szabó | Wilhelm Furtwängler, controversial conductor of Berlin Philharmonic during Nazi era and Allied occupation |
| 2001 | USA Burma
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To End All Wars | [18] | David L. Cunningham | Drama inspired by Ernest Gordon novel. Allied POWs build Burma Railway through jungle |
| 2001 | USA
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Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
| 2001 | UK USA Canada
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Varian's War (TV) | Lionel Chetwynd | Varian Fry builds underground rescue network in Vichy France saving 2–4,000 anti-Nazi/Jewish refugees and cultural figures from Holocaust | |
| 2001 | Philippines
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Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure | Tagalog please | Chito S. Roño | Burial of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines |
| 2002 | France Germany Romania
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Amen. | [18] | Costa-Gavras | Drama based on Rolf Hochhuth play. Alleged collusion between Nazis and Roman Catholic Church |
| 2002 | USA
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Below | Gregory Hoblit | American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission encounters German warship | |
| 2002 | Russia
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The Cuckoo | Kukushka (Кукушка) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Young Lapp woman shelters Finnish sniper and Red Army captain on her farm |
| 2002 | Italy
|
El Alamein - The Line of Fire | El Alamein - La linea del fuoco | Enzo Monteleone | Italian volunteer assigned to Pavia Division in Egypt and Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942 |
| 2002 | USA UK
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The Gathering Storm | Richard Loncraine | Winston Churchill before outbreak of war | |
| 2002 | USA Italy
|
The Good War (Texas '46) | [18] | Giorgio Serafini | Based on true story of Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946 |
| 2002 | USA
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Hart's War | Gregory Hoblit | POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft | |
| 2002 | France
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Monsieur Batignole | Monsieur Batignole | Gérard Jugnot | Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France |
| 2002 | France Poland Germany UK
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The Pianist | [18] | Roman Polanski | Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman |
| 2002 | France Germany
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Safe Conduct | Laissez passer | Bertrand Tavernier | German occupation of France |
| 2002 | Canada
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Silent Night | Rodney Gibbons | Based on true event during the Battle of the Bulge between German and American soldiers on Christmas Eve 1944 | |
| 2002 | Russia
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The Star | Zvezda (Звезда) | Nikolai Lebedev | Soviet scouts behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration |
| 2002 | Netherlands
|
Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Ben Sombogaart | Twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands and serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany and married to Waffen SS soldier |
| 2002 | UK
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Two Men Went to War | John Henderson | Comedy-drama. Amateur improvisational commando raid into occupied France | |
| 2002 | USA
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Windtalkers | John Woo | Battle of Saipan | |
| 2003 | France
|
Bon Voyage | Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France under German occupation |
| 2003 | UK
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Entrusted | Giacomo Battiato | 11-year-old chess prodigy, whose mother is in underground resistance, is entrusted with life-saving secret | |
| 2003 | Canada
|
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (TV miniseries) | Christian Duguay | Drama. Hitler's rise to power | |
| 2003 | Malaysia
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Paloh | Paloh | Adman Salleh | Japanese occupation of Malaya |
| 2003 | Poland
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Pornography | Pornografia | Jan Jakub Kolski | German Occupation of Poland |
| 2003 | USA Netherlands
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Resistance | [18] | Todd Komarnicki | American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi-occupied Belgium and is assisted by Maquis resistance |
| 2003 | Germany Netherlands
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Rosenstrasse | Rosenstrasse Template:De icon | Margarethe von Trotta | Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin |
| 2003 | USA
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Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little | Survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information | |
| 2003 | Japan Germany
|
Spy Sorge | Japanese please (スパイ・ゾルゲ) Template:Ja | Masahiro Shinoda | Soviet spy Richard Sorge |
| 2003 | France
|
Strange Gardens | Effroyables jardins | Jean Becker | French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans |
| 2003 | France UK
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Strayed | Les égarés (Le garçon aux yeux gris) | André Téchiné | Romance-drama. French family escapes Battle of France and German occupation of Paris aided by young man, June 1940 |
| 2003 | Czech Republic Slovakia Austria
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Želary | Želary | Ondrej Trojan | Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed |
| 2004 | Philippines
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Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita | Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (Aishite Imasu (Mahal Kita) 1941) | Joel Lamangan | Romance-Drama. Philippine Resistance during Battle of Bataan, Bataan Death March, and Japanese occupation |
| 2004 | USA
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The Aryan Couple | John Daly | Undercover Eastern European Jews attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944 | |
| 2004 | Finland Sweden
|
Beyond the Front Line (Beyond Enemy Lines) | Framom främsta linjen Template:Sv | Åke Lindman | Continuation War between USSR and Finland, 1941–1944 |
| 2004 | Russia
|
Cadets (TV miniseries) | Kursanty (Курсанты) | Andrei Kavun | Training of Russian boys as artillerymen for Eastern Front, 1942 |
| 2004 | Philippines
|
The Call of the River | Panaghoy sa Suba | Cesar Montano | Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign |
| 2004 | Germany Italy Austria
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Downfall | Der Untergang Template:De icon | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Last days of Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin |
| 2004 | UK
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Dunkirk (TV miniseries) | Alex Holmes | Docudrama. Battle of Dunkirk and Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 2004 | Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg
|
Edelweiss Pirates | Edelweisspiraten Template:De icon | Niko von Glasow | German Resistance and Edelweiss Pirates |
| 2004 | Japan
|
The Face of Jizo | Chichi to Kuraseba (Kanji please) | Kazuo Kuroki | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 2004 | USA Germany Italy
|
The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) | [18] | Ari Taub | German, Italian and US forces on Italian Front, 1944 |
| 2004 | Russia
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Freelance Assignment | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945 |
| 2004 | UK Canada
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Head in the Clouds | John Duigan | Romance-drama. Friends' divergent paths and fight against Fascism in pre-war Europe | |
| 2004 | USA
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Robert Harmon | SHAEF organization and planning of Operation Overlord | |
| 2004 | Canada
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Il Duce Canadese (TV miniseries) | Transclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace. Use {{lang-en}} or {{in lang|en}} instead. | Giles Walker | Italian-Canadian fascism and internment |
| 2004 | USA
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In Enemy Hands (U-Boat) | Tony Giglio | Crew of US submarine returns home after months at sea as POWs aboard U-boat | |
| 2004 | UK
|
Island at War (TV miniseries) | Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Occupation of the Channel Islands | |
| 2004 | Croatia
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Long Dark Night | Duga mračna noć | Antun Vrdoljak | Croatia under both Fascism and Communism |
| 2004 | Germany
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Napola: Hitler's Elite (Before the Fall) | Napola - Elite für den Führer | Dennis Gansel | Former Hitler Youths bond at Reich National-Political institution |
| 2004 | Germany
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The Ninth Day | Der Neunte Tag | Volker Schlöndorff | SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler |
| 2004 | Germany Austria
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Operation Valkyrie (TV) | Stauffenberg | Jo Baier | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 2004 | China
|
Purple Butterfly | Zǐ Húdié (紫蝴蝶) | Lou Ye | Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai |
| 2004 | USA
|
Straight Into Darkness | Jeff Burr | American deserters and Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | USA
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Everything Is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Jewish-American man searches for woman who saved his grandfather during Holocaust in Ukraine | |
| 2005 |  Lithuania
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Forest of the Gods | Dievų miškas | Algimantas Puipa | Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis and Soviets |
| 2005 | Russia
|
Freelance Assignment 2 | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete (Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Postwar commandos in wartime minefield hope to be saved by soldier who was in field in 1943 |
| 2005 | USA Australia
|
The Great Raid | John Dahl | Japanese occupation of Philippines and Raid at Cabanatuan | |
| 2005 | USA
|
The Last Days | Eric Bryan | US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender | |
| 2005 | UK
|
The Last Drop | David Teague | Operation Market Garden and secret mission to recover Nazi gold | |
| 2005 |  Singapore Japan
|
Men in White | 1942 | Kelvin Tong | Comedy horror. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle |
| 2005 | Russia
|
Moscow Says, Please Note (TV miniseries) | Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (Внимание, говорит Москва) | Aleksandr Surin | Gorgeous female Russian snipers [34] |
| 2005 | Finland Sweden
|
Mother of Mine | Äideistä parhain Den bästa av mödrar Template:Sv |
Klaus Härö | Based on Heikki Hietamies novel. Evacuation of 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden |
| 2005 | India
|
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (Bose: The Forgotten Hero) | (Devanagari please) | Shyam Benegal | Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army |
| 2005 | USA
|
Only the Brave | Lane Nishikawa | Rescue of Lost Battalion in France by US 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
| 2005 | China
|
On the Mountain of Tai Hang | Tài Háng shān shàng (太行山上) | Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian | Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China |
| 2005 | Finland
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Promise | Lupaus (Uskolliset - Suomen lotat / Lotta) | Ilkka Vanne | Finnish women's Lotta Svärd during war |
| 2005 | Germany
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Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance |
| 2005 | Germany
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Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (TV miniseries) | Speer und Er | Heinrich Breloer | Docudrama. Hitler's minister Albert Speer |
| 2005 | Taiwan
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The Strait Story | Fu shih kuang ying (漢字 hanzi please) | Yu-shan Huang | Sinking of Japanese passenger liner Takachiho Maru by USS Kingfish, 1943 |
| 2005 | Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan
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The Sun | Solntse (Солнце) Template:Ru icon | Aleksandr Sokurov | Life of Emperor Hirohito |
| 2005 | UK
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Valiant | Gary Chapman | British war pigeons face German falcons [animated film] | |
| 2005 | UK USA Germany China
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The White Countess | [18] | James Ivory | Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Sino-Japanese War |
| 2005 | Japan
|
Yamato | Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和) | Junya Sato | Yamato's crew during Pacific War |
| 2006 | Russia
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Bastards | Svolochi (Сволочи) | Aleksandr Atanesyan | Russian teenaged convicts conscripted for guerrilla mission against Nazis |
| 2006 | USA
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Beautiful Dreamer | Terri Farley-Teruel | Romance-drama. American amnesiac bomber pilot captured by enemy and assumed to be MIA | |
| 2006 | Netherlands Germany UK Belgium
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Black Book | Zwartboek | Paul Verhoeven | Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance |
| 2006 | France Morocco Algeria Belgium
|
Days of Glory | Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb | North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France |
| 2006 | Germany
|
Dresden (TV) | Dresden | Roland Suso Richter | German civilian assists downed and injured RAF pilot after bombing of Dresden |
| 2006 | USA
|
Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of American soldiers | |
| 2006 | Germany Lithuania
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Ghetto | Ghetto | Audrius Juzėnas | Holocaust in Lithuania |
| 2006 | USA
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The Good German | Steven Soderbergh | Mystery set in Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations just after the surrender of Nazi Germany | |
| 2006 | UK
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The Haunted Airman | Chris Durlacher | Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war | |
| 2006 | Australia
|
Kokoda | Alister Grierson | Kokoda Track Campaign | |
| 2006 | Germany
|
The Last Days | Die letzten Tage | Oliver Frohnauer | American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of Volkssturm unit near end of war |
| 2006 | Germany
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The Last Train | Der letzte Zug | Dana Vávrová, Joseph Vilsmaier | Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943 |
| 2006 | USA
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Letters from Iwo Jima | Iōjima kara no tegami (硫黄島からの手紙) [35] | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers |
| 2006 | USA
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Military Intelligence and You! | Dale Kutzera | Comedy. US Army Intelligence analyst attempts to locate Nazi "Ghost Squadron" fighter base | |
| 2006 | Canada
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Remembrance: A Soldier's Story (TV) | Andrew Forster | Drama. Canada's last surviving decorated World War II hero and Remembrance Day [36] | |
| 2006 | China
|
Tokyo Trial | Dong Jing shen pan (漢字 hanzi please) | Gao Qunshu | Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) |
| 2007 | USA
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American Pastime | Desmond Nakano | Love, jazz, and baseball in Topaz, Utah internment camp | |
| 2007 | UK
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Atonement | Joe Wright | Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 2007 | Austria
|
The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Operation Bernhard |
| 2007 | Australia
|
Curtin (TV) | Jessica Hobbs | Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin | |
| 2007 | UK
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Eichmann | Robert Young | War criminal Adolf Eichmann and his trial in Israel, 1961 | |
| 2007 | Japan
|
For Those We Love | Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (Kanji please) | Taku Shinjō | Kamikaze pilots |
| 2007 | Poland
|
Katyn | Katyń | Andrzej Wajda | Katyn massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by Soviets, 1940 |
| 2007 | USA China Taiwan Hong Kong
|
Lust, Caution | Sè, Jiè (色，戒) | Ang Lee | Espionage-Thriller set in occupied Shanghai |
| 2007 | Germany
|
Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (My Führer) | Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler | Dani Levy | Comedy-drama. Depressed Hitler and his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945 |
| 2007 | Canada
|
The Poet (Hearts of War) | Damian Lee | German soldiers gathering information on Eastern Front partisans and Jewish refugees | |
| 2007 | Estonia
|
Sons of One Forest | Ühe metsa pojad | Ats Surva | Metsavennad in battles of Southern Estonia, August 1944 |
| 2007 | Belgium
|
Surviving with Wolves | Survivre avec les loups | Véra Belmont | Drama based on a fake memoir by Misha Defonseca. Jewish girl searches for her deported parents while living among wolves |
| 2007 | Finland
|
Tali Ihantala 1944 (Tali-Ihantala) | Tali Ihantala 1944 (Tali-Ihantala / Mihin vapaat miehet pystyvät) | Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Continuation War, June 1944 |
| 2007 | Poland
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Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies | Jutro idziemy do kina | Michał Kwieciński | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 2007 | Japan
|
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yunagi City, Sakura Country) | Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (夕凪の街 桜の国) | Kiyoshi Sasabe | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 2007 | Belgium Ireland
|
Waiting for Dublin | Roger Tucker | Comedy. Allied and Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland | |
| 2008 | Australia USA UK
|
Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Romance between Australian soldier and British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin | |
| 2008 | USA
|
Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 | Keith J. Crocker | Horror drama. captured USO show girls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant | |
| 2008 | USA UK
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) | Mark Herman | Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew | |
| 2008 | Germany
|
The Bridge (TV) | Die Brücke | Wolfgang Panzer | Drama based on Manfred Gregor novel. Youths defend bridge; remake |
| 2008 | Australia China Germany USA
|
The Children of Huang Shi | Roger Spottiswoode | Nanking Massacre and Three Alls Policy | |
| 2008 | USA
|
Defiance | Edward Zwick | Bielski partisans | |
| 2008 | Poland
|
11th of November | 11 listopada | Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata | Zielonka boy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland |
| 2008 | France UK
|
Female Agents | Les Femmes De L'Ombre | Jean-Paul Salomé | Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German officer and rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information |
| 2008 | Denmark
|
Flame and Citron | Flammen og Citronen | Ole Christian Madsen | Danish Resistance team sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators |
| 2008 | UK Germany Hungary
|
Good | [18] | Vicente Amorim | Drama based on C. P. Taylor play. |
| 2008 | Hong Kong
|
Ip Man | Yip Man (葉問) | Wilson Yip | Yip Man in Foshan, Sino-Japanese War |
| 2008 | Norway Germany Denmark
|
Max Manus: Man of War | Max Manus | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Norwegian Resistance leader Max Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway] |
| 2008 | USA
|
Miracle at St. Anna | Spike Lee | Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | |
| 2008 | Germany Austria Switzerland
|
North Face | Nordwand | Philipp Stölzl | Climbers compete to be first team to scale "North Face" of Eiger in Swiss Alps, for glory of Hitler's Germany |
| 2008 | USA Germany
|
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | War crimes trial of female guard at Nazi concentration camp | |
| 2008 | Israel
|
Spring 1941 | [37] | Uri Barbash | Romance between Warsaw grocer and Jewish man she is hiding |
| 2008 | Czech Republic Slovakia
|
Tobruk | Tobruk | Václav Marhoul | Siege of Tobruk |
| 2008 | USA
|
Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler | |
| 2008 | USA
|
Watch on the Rhine | Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson | Action/Comedy. US 106th Inf. Div. soldier in Battle of the Bulge | |
| 2008 | France Tunisia
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The Wedding Song | Le Chant des mariées | Karin Albou | Friendship between Muslim woman and Sephardic Jewish woman during Nazi occupation of Tunisia |
| 2008 | Netherlands
|
Winter In Wartime | Oorlogswinter | Martin Koolhoven | Drama based on Jan Terlouw novel. Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance, 1944–45 |
| 2008 | Germany Poland
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A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin) | Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin Template:De icon | Max Färberböck | German journalist's relationship with Soviet officer under Soviet occupation of Berlin |
| 2009 | France
|
The Army of Crime | L'armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | Manouchian resistance group and Red Poster |
| 2009 | Russia UK
|
Attack on Leningrad (Leningrad) | Aleksandr Buravsky | Siege of Leningrad | |
| 2009 | China
|
City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!) | Pinyin please (漢字 hanzi please) | Lu Chuan | Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | China
|
Cow | Dòu niú (漢字 hanzi please) | Guan Hu | Comedy-drama. Chinese peasant protects village's dairy cow during Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | UK
|
The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries) | Jon Jones | Anne Frank hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands | |
| 2009 | USA
|
Everyman's War | Thad Smith | US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge | |
| 2009 | Russia Japan Canada
|
First Squad | Pervyy otryad (Первый отряд) Template:Ru icon | Yoshiharu Ashino | Anime. Nazi-Soviet War |
| 2009 | USA
|
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | Jewish-American soldiers on mission to kill Nazis | |
| 2009 | USA UK
|
Into the Storm | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Biopic of Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm | |
| 2009 | Germany China France
|
John Rabe | John Rabe | Florian Gallenberger | Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | Japan
|
Last Operations Under the Orion (Battle Under Orion) | Manatsu no Orion (Kanji please) | Tetsuo Shinohara | Naval battle between Japan and US near end of war |
| 2009 | Austria Germany Switzerland
|
Mein Kampf (My Fight / Dawn of Evil) | Mein Kampf | Urs Odermatt | Drama based on George Tabori play. Young Hitler and Jewish friend |
| 2009 | Russia
|
1941 (TV) | 1941 | Valery Shalyga | Nazi invasion of Russia and partisans in forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942 |
| 2009 | France
|
OSS 117: Lost in Rio | OSS 117 : Rio ne répond plus | Michel Hazanavicius | Spy comedy based on Jean Bruce novels. Nazis in Brazil, 1967 |
| 2009 | Russia
|
The Priest | Pop | Vladimir Khotinenko | Priest in occupied Latvia |
| 2009 | Czech Republic Germany
|
Protector | Protektor | Marek Najbrt | Romance/Drama. Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia and effects of Operation Anthropoid |
| 2009 | UK
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Small Island (TV miniseries) | John Alexander | Drama. Jamaican airman in England |
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Russia
|
Brest Fortress (Fortress of War) | Brestskaya krepost (Брестская крепость) | Alexander Kott | Action-drama. Soviet Defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941 |
| 2010 | Japan
|
Caterpillar | Kyatapirā (キャタピラー) | Kōji Wakamatsu | Drama. Wounded Japanese veteran of Sino-Japanese War returns home |
| 2010 | China
|
Death and Glory in Changde City | Die Xue Gu Cheng | Dong Shen | Action-drama. Hunan's Battle of Changde |
| 2010 | China
|
East Wind Rain | Dong feng yu (东风雨) | Yunlong Liu | Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor Attack |
| 2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria
|
Habermann's Mill | Habermannův mlýn Template:Cs icon | Juraj Herz | Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 2010 | Russia
|
Heaven is on Fire (The Sky is On Fire) (TV miniseries) | Nebo v ogne (Небо в огне) | Dmitry Cherkasov | Action-drama. Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939–1945 |
| 2010 | China
|
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai | You tai nu hai zai shang hai (猶太女孩在上海) | Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui | Animated. Girl and little brother in Shanghai, with parents in Europe |
| 2010 | Poland
|
Joanna | Joanna | Feliks Falk | German occupation and Holocaust in Kraków, Poland |
| 2010 | UK
|
The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | King George VI | |
| 2010 | Hong Kong China
|
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | Zing1 Mou5 Fung1 Wan4－Can4 Zan1 (精武風雲－陳真) Template:Yue | Andrew Lau Wai-Keung | Shanghai prior to Japanese invasion |
| 2010 | USA
|
The Pacific (TV miniseries) | Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To | Action-drama. US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre | |
| 2010 | France Germany Hungary
|
The Round Up | La rafle Template:Fr | Roselyne Bosch | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
| 2010 | France
|
Sarah's Key (Her Name was Sarah) | Elle s'appelait Sarah | Kristen Scott Thomas | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
| 2010 | USA
|
Spoils of War | Jean Liberté | Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian enemy lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent and destroy counterfeit money | |
| 2010 | Canada
|
Storming Juno (TV) | Tim Wolochatiuk | Docudrama. Regina Rifles and 1st Hussars at Juno Beach on D-Day | |
| 2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria
|
Under the Roman Sky (Pope Pius XII) (TV) | Pius XII. Template:De icon | Christian Duguay | Pope Pius XII and Roman razzia |
| 2010 | Poland
|
Venice | Wenecja | Jan Jakub Kolski | German occupation of Poland, 1939–1945 |
| 2010 | USA
|
The Way Back | Peter Weir | Prisoners and POWs escape Soviet Gulag | |
| 2011 | UK
|
Age of Heroes | Adrian Vitoria | Action-Thriller. British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to neutral Norway | |
| 2011 | Spain Hungary
|
Angel of Budapest (TV miniseries) | El ángel de Budapest Template:Es | Luis Oliveros | Drama based on Diego Carcedo book. Spanish ambassador Ángel Sanz Briz rescues Jews in Budapest |
| 2011 | USA
|
The Debt | John Madden | Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities | |
| 2011 | Sweden
|
The Frontier | Gränsen | Richard Holm | Swedish soldiers travel toward Nazi occupied Norwegian border |
| 2011 | India
|
Gandhi to Hitler (Dear Friend Hitler) | Transliterated Hindi please (प्रिय मित्र हिटलर) | Rakesh Ranjan Kumar | Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler |
| 2011 | Denmark
|
Hvidstens gruppen | Hvidstens gruppen | Regner Grasten | Danish Resistance in Jutland |
| 2011 | Poland Germany Canada
|
In Darkness | W ciemnosci Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Agnieszka Holland | Drama. Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
| 2011 | Philippines Japan
|
Liberation | Liberacion | Adolfo Alix Jr. | Drama. Japanese holdout hiding in Philippine jungle for 20 years after war |
| 2011 | USA
|
Little Iron Men | Jesse Kobayashi | Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
| 2011 | UK
|
The Lost Valentine | Darnell Martin | Woman's quest for husband declared MIA | |
| 2011 | South Korea
|
My Way | Maiwei [38] (마이웨이) | Kang Je-gyu | Young Korean man conscripted into Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union and Germany |
| 2011 | Japan
|
Oba: The Last Samurai (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox) | Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (太平洋の奇跡－フォックスと呼ばれた男) | Hideyuki Hirayama | Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944 |
| 2011 | UK Germany
|
The Sinking of the Laconia (TV) | [18] | Uwe Janson | Drama. RMS Laconia incident |
| 2011 | Latvia
|
Three to Dance | Dancis pa trim | Arvīds Krievs | Drama. Tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis and independence-seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS |
| 2012 | China Hong Kong
|
The Flowers of War | Jin líng shí san chai (金陵十三钗) | Zhang Yimou | Rape of Nanjing |
| 2012 | Norway Sweden
|
Into the White (Comrade) | [18] | Petter Næss | Action-drama based on true story. Crashed German and English aircrew trying to survive Norwegian winter in wilderness, 1940 |
| 2012 | USA
|
Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas (uncredited) | Tuskegee Airmen and 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre | |
| 2012 | USA
|
Truth and Treason | Matt Whitaker | Biopic of Helmuth Hübener, youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof |
In development
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| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Russia
|
Stalingrad | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Battle of Stalingrad | |
| 201X | USA
|
Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Comedy. Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes British double agent | |
| 201X |  Mexico USA
|
Aztec Eagles | Águilas Aztecas | Alfonso Arau | Action comedy-drama. Training and service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana and Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign |
| 201X | UK
|
The Battle of Britain | To be determined | Action-adventure. Battle of Britain [39][40][41] | |
| 201X | USA
|
Brothers in Arms | Denzel Washington | Action-drama based on true story. US 761st tank battalion and their 183 days on frontline including Battle of the Bulge and Siegfried Line [42][43][44] | |
| 201X | Poland UK
|
Christine: War My Love | Agnieszka Holland | Biopic of Polish Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek [45] | |
| 201X | USA
|
Citizen Soldiers | To be determined | Action-drama. Ardennes Forest and Battle of the Bulge, 1944 [46][47] | |
| 201X | UK USA New Zealand
|
Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise | |
| 201X | USA Japan
|
East Wind, Rain | Azuma no kaze, ame (東の風、雨) | Masato Harada | Drama based on Caroline Paul novel. Japanese family on Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau and crash-landing of Japanese pilot after Pearl Harbor Attack [48][49] |
| 201X | USA Germany
|
The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography | |
| 201X | Poland
|
Garrison 100 | Garnizon 100 | Jarosław Banaszek | Action-drama. Polish defense of Przebraze against Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) campaign to purge Volhynia from Polish inhabitants under German occupation, Spring 1943 [50] |
| 201X | UK
|
Grace and Danger | Rhys Hayward | Action-drama. Allied soldiers rescue young woman from village massacre and Nazi SS [51][52] | |
| 201X | USA
|
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Kenneth Branagh | Romance/Drama based on novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Writer forms unexpected bond with Guernsey island residents in aftermath of war and writes book about their wartime experiences [53] | |
| 201X | USA Mexico
|
Little Boy | Alejandro Monteverde | Comedy-drama. young American boy attempting to reunite with father/soldier serving in Europe | |
| 201X | Finland
|
Mannerheim | Mannerheim | Renny Harlin (resigned) | Drama. Marshal Mannerheim
|
| 201X | UK
|
Monte Cassino | John Irvin | Romance based on true story. American soldier behind enemy lines and Italian nurse at Monte Cassino monastery during Battle of Monte Cassino and Italian campaign [54][55][56] | |
| 201X |  Portugal Brazil Italy
|
The Mountain | A Montanha | Vicente Ferraz | Drama. Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
| 201X | Australia UK
|
The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | Drama based on true story of Eric Lomax. Victim from Burmese Death Railway setting out to find those responsible for his torture [57] | |
| 201X | USA
|
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed | Ryan Little | Drama. US Army Airborne and French Resistance on Western Front; followup to 2003 film Saints and Soldiers [58] | |
| 201X | USA
|
Saints and Soldiers: The Void | Ryan Little | Action-drama. US Army Airborne; followup to 2003 film Saints and Soldiers and in production Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed [59] | |
| 201X | Estonia
|
Them | Nemad | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
| 201X | Poland
|
303 Squadron | Dywizjon 303 (303 Dywizjon Myśliwski) | Jerzy Skolimowski | Action-adventure based on Arkady Fiedler novel. Exploits of Polish pilots of RAF's 303 Squadron during Battle of Britain [60] |
| 201X | Australia Japan
|
Yellow Earth | Kiiro no chikyū (黄色の地球) | Max Mannix | Action-drama based on true story. Cowra breakout and attempted escape of captured Japanese soldiers from Cowra, Australia POW camp, 1944 [61][62][63] |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
TV series
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1956 | USA
|
Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | |
| 1957 | 1958 | UK
|
O.S.S. | OSS in occupied France | |
| 1957 | 1958 | USA
|
The Silent Service | Drama. USN submarine service | |
| 1961 | 1963 | USA
|
Alcoa Premiere "Seven Against the Sea" (1962 episode) |
Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy | |
| 1962 | 1963 | USA
|
The Gallant Men | Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1966 | USA
|
McHale's Navy | Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1967 | USA
|
Combat! | Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France | |
| 1964 | 1964 | China
|
Sentry Under the Neon Lights (Sentinel Under the Neon Lights) | Pinyin please (霓虹灯下的哨兵) | Eighth Route Army on Shanghai's Nanjing Road |
| 1964 | 1965 | USA
|
Broadside | Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; McHale's Navy spinoff | |
| 1964 | 1967 | USA
|
Gilligan's Island "So Sorry, My Island Now" (1965 episode) |
Comedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailor | |
| "Mine Hero" (1965 episode) | Comedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoon | ||||
| "Forward March" (1966 episode) | Comedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades | ||||
| 1964 | 1967 | USA
|
Twelve O'Clock High | Drama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1965 | 1965 | USA
|
Convoy | Drama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter | |
| 1965 | 1965 | Poland
|
The Underground Front | Podziemny front | Polish resistance, 1941–45 |
| 1965 | 1966 | USA
|
Mister Roberts | Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 comedy-drama film Mister Roberts | |
| 1965 | 1966 | USA
|
The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Comedy. 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. Allied prisoners in German Stalag | |
| 1966 | 1966 | UK
|
Court Martial | Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war | |
| 1966 | 1968 | USA
|
The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol | |
| 1966 | 1970 | Poland
|
Four Tank Men and a Dog | Czterej pancerni i pies | Tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45 |
| 1967 | 1968 | Poland
|
More Than Life at Stake | Stawka większa niż życie | Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45 |
| 1968 | 1977 | UK
|
Dad's Army | Comedy. 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 | Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны) | Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany |
| 1973 | 1974 | USA
|
Roll Out | Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France | |
| 1975 | 1975 | Poland Hungary
|
Third Border | Trzecia granica Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) | Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary |
| 1976 | 1976 |  Iran
|
My Uncle Napoleon | ? (داییجان ناپلئون) | Comedy. Tehran under Allied occupation |
| 1976 | 1978 | USA
|
Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War | |
| 1977 | 1978 | UK
|
Backs to the Land | Comedy. Land Girls | |
| 1977 | 1979 | USA
|
Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink) | Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; Operation Petticoat motion picture spinoff | |
| 1977 | 1979 | UK Belgium
|
Secret Army | Belgian Resistance; prequel to 1981 drama series Kessler | |
| 1978 | 1981 | Denmark
|
Matador | Matador | Fictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947 |
| 1981 | 1981 | UK
|
Kessler | Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 drama series Secret Army | |
| 1981 | 1984 | UK Australia
|
Tenko | Women interned after the Fall of Singapore | |
| 1982 | 1992 | UK
|
'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces and art heists, 1940–1944 | |
| 1983 | 1983 | USA
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Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | |
| 1985 | 1985 | USA
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Jenny's War | Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941 | |
| 1988 | 1988 | USA Yugoslavia
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Dirty Dozen: The Series | [18] | Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; The Dirty Dozen motion picture spinoff |
| 1988 | 1988 | UK
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Piece of Cake | RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain | |
| 1988 | 1991 | Poland
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The Burning Border | Pogranicze w ogniu | Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918–1939 |
| 1989 | 1989 | Australia
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Tanamera – Lion of Singapore | Drama based on novel. | |
| 1992 | 1992 | Denmark
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Blackout | Mørklægning | Thriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and sick |
| 1993 | 1993 | UK
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Demob | Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers | |
| 1994 | 1994 | UK
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Which Way to the War | Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only | |
| 1997 | 1997 | Singapore
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The Price of Peace | Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Australia
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Changi | Changi POW camp | |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore
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In Pursuit of Peace | Hérì Jūn Zàilái (何日军再来) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore
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A War Diary | Zhànzhēng rìjì (战争日记) | Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2002 | now | UK
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Foyle's War | Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England | |
| 2003 | 2003 | UK
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P.O.W. | Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940 | |
| 2006 | 2007 | China
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Cut the Devil's Head Off With the Dadao | Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù (大刀向鬼子的头上砍去) | Action-drama titled after Dadao March. Last battle during Sino-Japanese War, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Poland
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Fortress of Codes | Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów | Thriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | China
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Meritorious | Gōngxūn (功勋) | Drama. Near end of Sino-Japanese War and launching of win-or-die espionage war to invade Japan by China and USSR, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Denmark
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Nazitübbies | Nazitübbies | Parody. Nazi Teletubbies |
| 2007 | 2007 | Hong Kong
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War and Destiny | Leun sai gai yan (亂世佳人) Template:Yue | Nanjing Massacre |
| 2007 | 2007 |  Iran Hungary France Lebanon
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Zero Degree Turn | Madār-e sefr darajeh (مدار صفر درجه) Template:Fa | Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari. Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman |
| 2007 | 2008 | China
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Legend of Xiangxi | Xie Se Xiang Xi (简体中文) | Battle of West Hunan and Sino-Japanese War |
| 2007 | now | China
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Soldiers Sortie | Shìbīng tújí (士兵突击) | Drama. Young soldier forced into service by his father and subsequent Chinese military training |
| 2008 | 2008 | Russia
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Apostle | Apostol (Апостол) | Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent |
| 2008 | 2008 | Estonia
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Windward Land | Tuulepealne maa | History of Estonia depicted through two Estonian families, World War I–1941 |
| 2008 | 2010 | Japan
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Hetalia: Axis Powers | Akushisu Pawāzu Hetaria (ヘタリア) (Kanji please: kana do not match the transliteration) | Anime. Characters as national personifications of wartime countries |
| 2008 | 2011 | Poland
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Time of Honor | Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and Polish Resistance |
| 2009 | 2009 | Russia
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Zastava Zhilina [64] | Zastava Zhilina (Застава Жилина) | Romance/drama set in 1941 |
| 2009 | now | France
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A French Village | Un village français | Occupied French village, from May, 1940–... (one month/episode) |
| 2009 | now | UK
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Land Girls | Drama. Land Girls | |
| 2009 | ? | China
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My Brother Named Shun Liu | Wǒ De Xiōngdì Jiào Shùn Liū (我的兄弟叫顺溜) | Chinese sniper during Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | now | China
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My Chief and My Regiment | Pinyin please (我的团长我的团) | Drama. Chinese National Revolutionary Army Expeditionary Force in Burma battling Imperial Japanese Army during Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in Sino-Japanese War, 1942 |
| 2010 | now | Hong Kong
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No Regrets (Rosy Business II) | Gan Gwok Hiu Hung Zi Ji Hoi Hou Cing (巾幗梟雄之義海豪情) Template:Yue | Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation |
| 2011 | 2011 | China
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Natasha | Wǒ de nàtǎshā (我的娜塔莎) | Romance/Drama. Japanese Kwantung Army siege of Chinese Dongbeikanglian Wolong Mountain Battalion, Soviet espionage training and Chinese Resistance against Japanese occupation, 1941 |
| 2011 | 2011 | Russia
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1942 | 1942 | Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in Russian forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941 |
| 2011 | 2011 | Taiwan
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Soldier | Yong Shi Men (勇士們) | The campaigns of National Revolutionary Army from Second Sino-Japanese War to present day. |
| 2012 | now | Canada
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Bomb Girls | Drama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant |
Science fiction and fantasy
Dramatized documentary
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Canada
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A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (TV) | Brian McKenna | Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941 | |
| 1992 | Canada
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Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (TV) | Brian McKenna | RCAF Lancaster bombing of German cities | |
| 1992 | Canada
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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (TV) | Brian McKenna | Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944 |
Spanish Civil War
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| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | USA
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The Last Train from Madrid | James P. Hogan | Drama. Refugees flee bombing of Madrid | |
| 1938 | USA
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Blockade | William Dieterle | Drama. Peasant supports the Republic | |
| 1940 | USA
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Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940 | |
| 1940 |  Italy Spain
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The Siege of the Alcazar | L'Assedio dell'Alcazar Template:It | Augusto Genina | Drama. Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936 |
| 1943 | USA
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The Fallen Sparrow | Richard Wallace | Spy thriller based on Dorothy B. Hughes novel. | |
| 1943 | USA
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | Drama based on Ernest Hemingway novel. American joins guerrillas in attack on bridge | |
| 1960 | USA Italy
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The Angel Wore Red | La Sposa Bella | Nunnally Johnson | Romantic drama from Bruce Marshall novel. |
| 1960 | East Germany
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Five Cartridges | Fünf Patronenhülsen | Frank Beyer | |
| 1975 | Bulgaria
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Doomed Souls | Osadeni Dushi (Осъдени Души) | Vulo Radev | Romance drama based on Dimitar Dimov novel. |
| 1986 | Spain
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Dragon Rapide | Dragon Rapide [65] | Jaime Camino | Drama. Gen. Franco prepares his uprising against the Republic from Spanish Morocco, 1936 |
| 1990 | Canada France China
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero | [18] | Phillip Borsos | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spain, then China for Sino-Japanese War |
| 1997 | Spain France USA Puerto Rico
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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca | [18] | Marcos Zurinaga | Drama based on Ian Gibson book. Poet Federico García Lorca, 1936 |
| 2010 | Spain France
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The Last Circus | Balada triste de trompeta Template:Es | Álex de la Iglesia | Horror-comedy. In 1973 at a circus in Spain, two clowns fight over a women. |
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
- Honourable mentions
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) – Italian girl with 3 fathers, all US Army
- The Producers (1968) – Broadway Nazi musical
- Zelig (1983) – Woody Allen as a Nazi Brownshirt
References
Note
- ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.
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- ^ This is the first World War II British propaganda film.[citation needed]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad This public domain World War II film is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^ Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.
- ^ The IMDb, on the other hand, identifies the villainous Yugoslavs in Menschen im Sturm as Slovenians rather than Serbs.
- ^ The IMDb lists In the Rear of the Enemy as V tylu vraga (1942) based on its 1942 release date in New York City.
- ^ a b Available for viewing is this Template:Google video. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^ Canadian World War I flying ace Billy Bishop appears as himself.
- ^ Some details about the film appear at Minna von Barnhelm.
- ^ A Triumph of Wings (1942) was co-written by Akira Kurosawa, director of Rhapsody in August (1991).
- ^ Fires Were Started is often regarded as a documentary film.
- ^ a b Available for viewing – from British libraries and universities only – are clips from this British World War II film at the BFI's Screenonline. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- ^ The only surviving film made in the Italian Social Republic.
- ^ Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves.
- ^ The first feature-length anime film.
- ^ The first post-war Polish film.
- ^ The "director". of this title is still unidentified (as of November 2010) on IMDb.
- ^ The first post-1945 German film about the war.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ^ The "director". of this title is still unidentified (as of March 2012) on IMDb.
- ^ A 1951 film starring Justina David.
- ^ Act of Love appears to have a significant amount of French language dialogue, with a separate credit for the French screenwriter, Joseph Kessel.
- ^ Zhang, Yingjin. Chinese National Cinema, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 166. ISBN 9780415172905. Sun, Moon and Star is a Hong Kong film in Mandarin, rather than Cantonese.
- ^ The IMDb does not define the nationality of this secondary title.
- ^ Hell in the Pacific has a Japanese main character, but its dialogue is predominantly in English. Its original language is English.
- ^ Shield and Sword runs over five hours in four parts.
- ^ The first Occidental film made in the USSR.
- ^ Some details of this film appear "here". Currently (as of March 2012) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ The Italian film Massacre in Rome is in English. Its Italian title is Rappresaglia.
- ^ Regarding the storyline, BG Movies reads "Съветската армия в България". Template:Bg icon
- ^ The German title Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil translates as Steiner – The Iron Cross, Part 2.
- ^ The King Chronicle, Part 3: Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army at the National Film Board of Canada
- ^ First African-American combat pilots fought in World War I; see Eugene Bullard, "The Black Swallow of Death" and Ahmet Ali (Arap Ahmet)
- ^ The Bunker is evidently a psychological horror film, not a monster movie.
- ^ This four-part miniseries, starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007, is not currently (as of March 2012) listed by the IMDb.
- ^ Letters from Iwo Jima is an American film in Japanese.
- ^ The film was a recipient of a Leo Award for best special effects. Colourwheels - Meet the Artists, Wheels in Motion, Rick Hansen Institute. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ^ The Israeli film Spring 1941 is in English and stars Joseph Fiennes. Its Hebrew title is Hebrew text please.
- ^ http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_My_Way.php
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- ^ Zastava Zhilina is directed by Vasili Pichul.
- ^ A Dragon Rapide is a British aircraft formerly manufactured by de Havilland. "Dragon rapide" also means "fast dragon" in French.
The IMDb has allowed an incorrect title for the film, namely Dragón Rapide, with the first word as Spanish and the second as French. If the title were in Spanish then it would be "Dragón Rápido".
Sources
- Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp. ISBN 0-691-00346-7
External links
- wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.