List of World War II films

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

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[edit] Restrictions

  • The film must be concerned with WWII and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
  • Excludes non-fictional documentaries and shorts.

[edit] Films made during the War

[edit] 1940

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

[edit] 1941

Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Great Britain Forty-Ninth Parallel Michael Powell Survivors of a sunken U-Boat in Hudsons Bay trek across Canada to neutral US
United States Caught in the Draft David Butler Bob Hope gets drafted
United States Dangerous Moonlight Brian Desmond Hurst Battle of Britain
Soviet Union Frontovye podrugi Viktor Eisymont The Girl from Leningrad
Great Britain Freedom Radio Anthony Asquith German Resistance
Great Britain Pimpernel Smith Leslie Howard The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to contemporary circumstances
United States Sundown Henry Hathaway North African Campaign
Germany U-Boote westwärts Günther Rittau U-Boats Westward; Second Battle of the Atlantic
United States Underground Vincent Sherman German Resistance

[edit] 1942

Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Italy Alfa Tau! Francesco De Robertis Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II
Italy Bengasi Augusto Genina North Africa campaign
United States Bugle Sounds, The S. Sylvan Simon
United States Captains of the Clouds Michael Curtiz Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
United States Desperate Journey Raoul Walsh Allied aircrew escaping occupied France
United States Eagle Squadron Arthur Lubin American air volunteers in the RAF during Battle of Britain
United States/ Great Britain Flying Fortress Walter Forde B-17 planes
United States Flying Tigers David Miller American Volunteer Group, Second Sino-Japanese War
Great Britain The Foreman Went to France Charles Frend Battle of France
Great Britain The First of the Few Leslie Howard Development of Spitfires
Germany Fronttheater Arthur Maria Rabenalt Battle of Greece?
Japan Hawai mare oki kaisen Kajiro Yamamoto The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay
Great Britain In Which We Serve Noel Coward and David Lean Sinking of HMS Torrin
United States Lady from Chungking William Nigh Sino-Japanese War
United States Mrs. Miniver William Wyler Battle of Britain
United States Navy Comes Through A. Edward Sutherland Second Battle of the Atlantic
Great Britain The Next of Kin Thorold Dickinson Careless talk costs lives message and fictional commando raid
Italy Odessa in fiamme Carmine Gallone Odessa in Flames
Great Britain One of Our Aircraft is Missing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Allied aircrew escaping occupied Netherlands
United States Pacific Rendezvous George Sidney Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War
Italy Un Pilota ritorna Roberto Rossellini
United States Reunion in France Jules Dassin French Resistance helps downed US pilot
United States Somewhere I'll Find You Wesley Ruggles War Correspondents in China and Pacific
United States Stand by for Action Robert Z. Leonard Pacific War
Germany Stukas Karl Ritter Stuka, German dive bomber
United States They Raid by Night Spencer Gordon Bennet commando raids in occupied Norway
Japan Tsubasa no gaika Satsuo Yamamoto A Triumph of Wings ; co-written by Akira Kurosawa
Soviet Union Uchinari Jani Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov
United States Wake Island John Farrow Battle of Wake Island
Great Britain Went the Day Well? Alberto Cavalcanti Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sealion)
United States A Yank on the Burma Road George B. Seitz Burma Road

[edit] 1943

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

[edit] 1944

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

[edit] 1945

Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
United States Back to Bataan Edward Dmytryk Battle of Bataan, guerilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte
United States Blood on the Sun Frank Lloyd American journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government
United States China's Little Devils Monta Bell
United States Cornered Edward Dmytryk Ex-Nazis in Argentina
United States Counter-Attack Zoltan Korda Eastern Front (World War II)
United States First Yank Into Tokyo Gordon Douglas
United States God Is My Co-Pilot Robert Florey Flying Tigers
United States Keep Your Powder Dry Edward Buzzell Women's Army Corps
Germany Das Leben geht weiter Wolfgang Liebeneiner Life Goes On; about V-2 turning the tide of the war in Germany's favor
Japan Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors Mitsuyo Seo First full length anime film; show Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island
United States Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh Burma Campaign
United States Out of the Depths D. Ross Lederman Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
United States Pride of the Marines Delmer Daves Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment
United States Prison Ship Arthur Dreifuss
Italy Roma, citta` aperta Roberto Rossellini Rome, the Open City; About the Italian resistance movement movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
United States Samurai Raymond Cannon
United States Story of G.I. Joe William A. Wellman Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and Battle of Monte Cassino
United States They Were Expendable John Ford PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
United States Too Young to Know Frederick De Cordova
United States A Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone Invasion of Salerno
Great Britain The Way to the Stars Anthony Asquith RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
United States What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Richard Thorpe Final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove in ETO

[edit] Late 1940s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1946 United States The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler American servicemen struggles after returning home from the war
1946 Great Britain Journey Together John Boulting Follows the life of 3 RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946 Great Britain The Captive Heart Basil Dearden British prisoners of war in Germany
1946 Great Britain Theirs is the Glory Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young Operation Market Garden
1946 Italy Paisan Roberto Rossellini About Italian campaign
1946 Soviet Union/ Yugoslavia V gorakh Yugoslavii Abram Room In the Mountains of Yugoslavia ; Yugoslav partisans
1947 Great Britain Frieda Basil Dearden
1948 United States Command Decision Sam Wood Commnd stresses in U.S. Eighth Air Force
1948 Great Britain Against the Wind Charles Crichton Commando raid into occupied Belgium
1948 Norway Kampen om tungtvannet Norwegian resistance movement
1948 United States Fighter Squadron Raoul Walsh P-47 fighters in US air war in Europe
1948 United States The Search Fred Zinnemann Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948 Germany Morituri Eugen York First post-1945 German film about the war
1949 United States Battleground William A. Wellman 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949 United States Sands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan Battle of Iwo Jima
1949 Great Britain They Were Not Divided Terence Young British Guards Armoured Division
1949 United States Twelve O'Clock High Henry King B-17 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force
1949 Great Britain The Small Back Room Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Bomb disposal
1949 Soviet Union Stalingradskaya bitva Vladimir Petrov Battle of Stalingrad
1949 Soviet Union Padeniye Berlina Mikheil Chiaureli The Battle of Berlin
1949 Soviet Union Vstrecha na Elbe Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin Elbe Day

[edit] 1950s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1950 United States Three Came Home Jean Negulesco Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
1950 United States When Willie Comes Marching Home John Ford
1950 Great Britain Odette Herbert Wilcox
1950 Great Britain They Were Not Divided Terence Young British Guards Armoured Division
1951 Italy Italy Achtung! Banditi! Carlo Lizzani Italian resistance movement
1951 United States You're in the Navy Now Henry Hathaway U.S. submarine chaser in development
1951 Great Britain Albert(TV) Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis
1951 United States The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel Henry Hathaway Biopic of Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 Plot
1951 United States Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak O.S.S. in Germany in 1945
1951 United States Fighting Coast Guard Joseph Kane
1951 United States Flying Leathernecks Nicholas Ray US Marine fighter pilots in the Pacific
1951 United States Force of Arms Michael Curtiz U.S. Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign
1951 United States Go For Broke! Robert Pirosh U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France
1951 United States/ Austria The Magic Face Frank Tuttle
1951 United States Submarine Command John Farrow
1951 United States Target Unknown George Sherman
1951 United States The Wild Blue Yonder Allan Dwan
1952 United States Above and Beyond Melvin Frank, Norman Panama 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
1952 Great Britain Angels One Five George More O'Ferrall
1952 Great Britain Appointment in London Philip Leacock
1952 France France Jeux interdits René Clément
1952 United States Okinawa Leigh Jason The Battle of Okinawa
1952 United States Operation Secret Lewis Seiler
1952 United States Red Ball Express Budd Boetticher Transportation units in ETO
1952 United States Thunderbirds John H. Auer
1953 Japan Anatahan Josef von Sternberg Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific island won't accept that the war has been over for years
1953 United States Guerrilla Girl John Christian
1953 United States Stalag 17 Billy Wilder German Prisoner of War camp for U.S. flyers
1953 Great Britain The Cruel Sea Charles Frend Battle of the Atlantic
1953 United States From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann Attack on Pearl Harbor
1953 Great Britain Malta Story Brian Desmond Hurst
1953 United States Destination Gobi Robert Wise U.S. Navy weather unit in Mongolia
1953 Great Britain The Red Beret Terence Young British paratroops
1953 United States Fighter Attack Lesley Selander
1953 Great Britain Single-Handed Roy Boulting
1953 United States China Venture Don Siegel
1953 United States Albert RN Lewis Gilbert British POWs in a German camp
1953 United States El Alaméin Fred F. Sears Second Battle of El Alamein
1953 United States The Desert Rats Robert Wise Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, North African Campaign
1953 Japan Japan Taiheiyo no washi Ishirô Honda Eagle of the Pacific; Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1954 United States Betrayed Gottfried Reinhardt Dutch resistance, Battle of Arnhem
1954 United States The Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk destroyer warfare in the Pacific
1954 Great Britain/Norway Norway Shetlandsgjengen Michael Forlong Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves
1954 Great Britain The Dam Busters Michael Anderson Operation Chastise
1954 Great Britain The Purple Plain Robert Parrish
1954 Great Britain They Who Dare Lewis Milestone
1954 West Germany 08/15 Paul May
1954 Great Britain The Sea Shall Not Have Them Lewis Gilbert
1955 Great Britain Above Us the Waves Ralph Thomas The sinking of German battleship Tirpitz
1955 United States Battle Cry Raoul Walsh US Marines at Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Saipan
1955 Great Britain The Cockleshell Heroes José Ferrer
1955 Great Britain The Colditz Story Guy Hamilton
1955 United States The Eternal Sea John H. Auer
1955 United States To Hell and Back Jesse Hibbs combat biography of Audie Murphy
1955 United States Mister Roberts John Ford and Melvin LeRoy U.S. Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific
1955 West Germany Es geschah am 20. Juli Georg Wilhelm Pabst It Happened on July 20th; Jackboot Mutiny July 20 Plot
1955 West Germany 08/15 - In der Heimat Paul May
1955 West Germany 08/15 - Zweiter Teil Paul May
1956 United States Attack Robert Aldrich infantry in ETO
1956 United States Away All Boats Joseph Pevney US attack transport in the Pacific
1956 Great Britain The Battle of the River Plate Michael Powell Battle of the River Plate
1956 United States Battle Stations Lewis Seiler
1956 United States Between Heaven and Hell Richard Fleischer National Guard unit in the Philippines
1956 Japan Biruma no tategoto Kon Ichikawa The Harp of Burma;Burma Campaign
1956 United States The Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster Italian Campaign
1956 Great Britain The Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst
1956 Great Britain The Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame Battle of Sicily
1956 Great Britain Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert
1956 United States D-Day the Sixth of June Henry Koster Battle of Normandy
1956 Great Britain A Town Like Alice Jack Lee
1957 United States The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Death Railway
1957 West Germany Fuchs von Paris, Der Paul May The Fox of Paris; Battle of Normandy from German soldiers perspective
1957 West Germany Haie und kleine Fische Frank Wisbar The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats
1957 Great Britain Ill Met by Moonlight Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Battle of Crete
1957 Great Britain The One That Got Away Roy Ward Baker
1957 Great Britain The Steel Bayonet Michael Carreras
1958 West Germany Arzt von Stalingrad, Der Géza von Radványi The Doctor of Stalingrad; Battle of Stalingrad
1958 Great Britain The Camp on Blood Island Val Guest
1958 Great Britain Dunkirk Leslie Norman Operation Dynamo; Dunkirk Evacuation
1958 Great Britain Carve Her Name with Pride Lewis Gilbert SOE agent Violette Szabo
1958 West Germany Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben Frank Wisbar Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!; Battle of Stalingrad
1958 Great Britain Ice-Cold in Alex J. Lee Thompson North African campaign
1958 Great Britain/United States United States The Battle of the V.1 Vernon Sewell
1958 Great Britain I Was Monty's Double John Guillermin General Montgomery
1958 Great Britain The Key Carol Reed
1958 Great Britain Sea of Sand Guy Green Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign
1959 Great Britain Ten Seconds to Hell Robert Aldrich
1959 West Germany Die Brücke Bernhard Wicki Western Front
1959 United States Never So Few John Sturges Burma Campaign
1959 Japan Ningen no joken I Masaki Kobayashi The Human Condition (film trilogy)No Greater Love; Japanese resistance; Manchukuo
1959 Japan Ningen no joken II Masaki Kobayashi The Human Condition (film trilogy)Road to Eternity; Japanese resistance;

[edit] 1960s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1960 Great Britain Sink the Bismarck! Lewis Gilbert Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic
1961 United States The Guns of Navarone J. Lee Thompson Mediterranean Theatre
1962 United States The Longest Day Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin Battle of Normandy
1962 United States Hell is for Heroes Don Siegel Western front
1962 United States Merrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller The Merrill's Marauders
1963 United States The Great Escape John Sturges German POW camps
1963 United States PT 109 Leslie H. Martinson John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front
1964 Great Britain/ United States 633 Squadron Walter Grauman Occupied Norway
1964 United States The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller
1964 United States/France France/Italy Italy The Train John Frankenheimer French Resistance on Occupied France
1964 Czechoslovakia Atentát Jiří Sequens Operation Anthropoid
1965 United States Battle of the Bulge Ken Annakin Battle of the Bulge
1965 Great Britain The Hill Sidney Lumet North African campaign
1965 Japan Story of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki
1965 United States Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson German POW camps
1966 United States/France France Paris bru^le-t-il? René Clément Liberation of Paris
1966 United States The Devil's Brigade Andrew V. McLaglen The Devil's Brigade
1967 United States Beach Red Cornel Wilde Pacific Theater of Operations
1967 Great Britain/ United States The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich
1968 Great Britain/ United States Where Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Western Front
1968 Czechoslovakia Nebeští jezdci Jindřich Polák Battle of Britain
1969 Great Britain Battle of Britain Guy Hamilton The Battle of Britain
1969 Great Britain Mosquito Squadron Boris Sagal
1969 United States The Bridge at Remagen John Guillermin Operation Lumberjack, on Western Front

[edit] 1970s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1970 United States Catch-22 Mike Nichols
1970 United States/ Yugoslavia Kelly's Heroes Brian G. Hutton
1970 United States Patton Franklin Schaffner General George S. Patton
1970 United States/ Japan Tora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda Attack on Pearl Harbor
1973 Italy/ Great Britain Hitler: The Last Ten Days Ennio De Concini The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin
1974 France/ West Germany/ Italy Lacombe Lucien Louis Malle
1974 Soviet Union Ohtlikud mängud Veljo Käsper
1975 United States/ Czechoslovakia/ Yugoslavia Operation Daybreak Lewis Gilbert Operation Anthropoid
1976 United States Farewell to Manzanar (TV) John Korty The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar
1976 United States Midway Jack Smight The Battle of Midway
1976 France/ Italy Monsieur Klein Joseph Losey
1977 United States/ Great Britain A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough Operation Market Garden
1977 Great Britain// Yugoslavia Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah
1978 Great Britain Force 10 from Navarone Guy Hamilton
1979 United States 1941 Steven Spielberg California, one week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor

[edit] 1980s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1980 United States The Big Red One Samuel Fuller U.S. 1st infantry Division 1942-45 in North Africa, Siciliy, and Europe
1980 Great Britain, Switzerland Switzerland, United States The Sea Wolves Andrew V. McLaglen
1981 West Germany Das Boot Wolfgang Petersen
1981 Great Britain Eye of the Needle Richard Marquand
1981 United States Escape to Victory John Huston A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs
1983 France Papy fait de la résistance Jean-Marie Poiré French Resistance on Occupied France
1985 United States Code name: Emerald (TV) Jonathan Sanger
1985 Soviet Union Come and See Elem Klimov Eastern Front
1987 France Au revoir, les enfants Louis Malle
1987 Hong kong Man Behind the Sun Tun Fei Mou Unit 731
1987 Great Britain/ United States/Yugoslavia Yugoslavia The Misfit Brigade Gordon Hessler
1986 United States Fat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé The Manhattan project
1989 Finland Talvisota Pekka Parikka The Winter war

[edit] 1990s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1990 Great Britain/ Japan/ United States Memphis Belle Michael Caton-Jones Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle
1990 Germany Europa Europa Agnieszka Holland
1990 Australia Prisoners of the Sun Stephen Wallace
1992 United States A Midnight Clear Keith Gordon
1993 United States Schindler's List Steven Spielberg The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust
1993 Germany/ Sweden Stalingrad Joseph Vilsmaier The Battle of Stalingrad
1995 United States The Tuskegee Airmen Robert Markowitz The story of the firsts African American pilots
1997 France Lucie Aubrac Claude Berri The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, resistants on Occupied France
1997 Italy La Vita é Bella Roberto Benigni
1997 Australia/ United States Paradise Road Bruce Beresford
1998 Japan Pride Shunya Ito A depiction of Tojo Hideki during The Tokyo Trials
1998 Canada/ United States The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick Guadalcanal campaign
1998 United States Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg D-Day
1998 United States When Trumpets Fade (TV) John Irvin The Battle of Hurtgen Forest
1999 Russia/ Germany/ Japan/ Italy/ France Moloch Aleksandr Sokurov A visit of Adolf Hitler to the Berghof

[edit] 2000s

Year Country Title Director Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
2000 France/ United States U-571 Jonathan Mostow American submariners tries to capture an Enigma machine through the Atlantic
2001 Great Britain/ United States Band of Brothers (TV) The story of a US paratrooper division during the Battle of Normandy
2001 Great Britain/ France/ United States Captain Corelli's Mandolin John Madden
2001 Great Britain/ Australia/ Germany Charlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong
2001 Great Britain/ United States Conspiracy (TV) Frank Pierson The Wannsee Conference
2001 Czech Republic/ Great Britain Dark Blue World Jan Sverák
2001 United States/ Germany/ Great Britain/ Ireland Enemy at the Gates Jean-Jacques Annaud The Battle of Stalingrad
2001 United States Pearl Harbor Michael Bay The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid
2002 United States Hart's War Gregory Hoblit
2002 France Monsieur Batignole Gérard Jugnot A butcher hides and protects a Jewish boy on Occupied France
2002 France/ Germany/ Great Britain/ Poland The Pianist Roman Polanski The story of W³adys³aw Szpilman
2002 Russia Zvezda Nikolai Lebedev
2001 United States Uprising (TV) Jon Avnet The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2002 United States Windtalkers John Woo
2003 France Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2004 Germany/ Italy/ Austria Untergang, Der (Downfall) Oliver Hirschbiegel Last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin
2004 United States Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little
2004 United States Ike: Countdown to D-Day Robert Harmon The organization and planning of Operation Overlord from the viewpoint of the Supreme Allied Command at SHAEF
2005 Russia/ France/ Italy/ Switzerland Solntse Aleksandr Sokurov Emperor Sho-wa
2005 Germany Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage Marc Rothemund The final days of Sophie Scholl, member of the White Rose
2005 United States/ Australia The Great Raid John Dahl
2005 Japan Yamato Junya Sato The story of Yamato's crew during the Pacific War
2006 Iceland/ United States Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima seen from the American viewpoint
2006 France/ Morocco/ Algeria/ Belgium Indige`nes Rachid Bouchareb The stories of four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate France
2006 United States Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood The Battle of Iwo Jima seen from the Japanese viewpoint

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