Below is an incomplete list of full-length films to feature or partly feature events of World War II in the narrative.
| Year |
Country |
Title |
Director |
Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted |
| 1950 |
 United States |
Francis |
Arthur Lubin |
Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific |
| 1950 |
United States |
Three Came Home |
Jean Negulesco |
Battle of Borneo (1941-42) |
| 1950 |
United States |
When Willie Comes Marching Home |
John Ford |
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| 1950 |
 United Kingdom |
Odette |
Herbert Wilcox |
SOE agent Odette Samson. |
| 1951 |
 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 |
United Kingdom |
Albert(TV) |
Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis |
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| 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 |
The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945 |
| 1951 |
United States |
Fighting Coast Guard |
Joseph Kane |
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| 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 |
The Magic Face |
Frank Tuttle |
An actor takes Hitler's place |
| 1951 |
United States |
Submarine Command |
John Farrow |
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| 1951 |
United States |
Target Unknown |
George Sherman |
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| 1951 |
United States |
The Wild Blue Yonder |
Allan Dwan |
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| 1952 |
United States |
Above and Beyond |
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama |
509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima |
| 1952 |
United Kingdom |
Angels One Five |
George More O'Ferrall |
Battle of Britain |
| 1952 |
United Kingdom |
Appointment in London |
Philip Leacock |
RAF Bomber Command |
| 1952 |
 France |
Jeux interdits |
René Clément |
Occupation of France |
| 1952 |
United Kingdom |
Gift Horse |
Compton Bennett |
St Nazaire Raid |
| 1952 |
United States |
Okinawa |
Leigh Jason |
The Battle of Okinawa |
| 1952 |
United States |
Operation Secret |
Lewis Seiler |
Espionage |
| 1952 |
United States |
Red Ball Express |
Budd Boetticher |
Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II |
| 1952 |
United States |
Thunderbirds |
John H. Auer |
The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers. |
| 1953 |
 Japan |
Anatahan |
Josef von Sternberg |
Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific island won't accept that the war has been over for years |
| 1953 |
United States |
Guerrilla Girl |
John Christian |
Greek Resistance |
| 1953 |
United States |
Stalag 17 |
Billy Wilder |
German Prisoner of War camp for U.S. flyers |
| 1953 |
United Kingdom |
The Cruel Sea |
Charles Frend |
Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1953 |
United States |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1953 |
United Kingdom |
Malta Story |
Brian Desmond Hurst |
Siege of Malta |
| 1953 |
United States |
Destination Gobi |
Robert Wise |
U.S. Navy weather unit in Mongolia |
| 1953 |
United Kingdom |
The Red Beret |
Terence Young |
British paratroops Operation Biting |
| 1953 |
United States |
Fighter Attack |
Lesley Selander |
Italian Campaign and Partisans |
| 1953 |
United Kingdom |
Single-Handed |
Roy Boulting |
Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution) |
| 1953 |
United States |
China Venture |
Don Siegel |
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| 1953 |
United Kingdom |
Albert R.N. |
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 |
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 |
United Kingdom
 Norway |
Shetlandsgjengen |
Michael Forlong |
Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves |
| 1954 |
United Kingdom |
The Dam Busters |
Michael Anderson |
RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise |
| 1954 |
United Kingdom |
The Purple Plain |
Robert Parrish |
RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign |
| 1954 |
United Kingdom |
They Who Dare |
Lewis Milestone |
SAS raid in occupied Greece |
| 1954 |
 West Germany |
08/15 |
Paul May |
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| 1954 |
United Kingdom |
The Sea Shall Not Have Them |
Lewis Gilbert |
Air Sea Rescue |
| 1955 |
United Kingdom |
Above Us the Waves |
Ralph Thomas |
The sinking of German battleship Tirpitz |
| 1955 |
United States |
Battle Cry |
Raoul Walsh |
US Marines at Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Saipan |
| 1955 |
United Kingdom |
The Cockleshell Heroes |
José Ferrer |
Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton |
| 1955 |
United Kingdom |
The Colditz Story |
Guy Hamilton |
British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp |
| 1955 |
United States |
The Eternal Sea |
John H. Auer |
Pacific War |
| 1955 |
United States |
To Hell and Back |
Jesse Hibbs |
Combat biography of Audie Murphy |
| 1955 |
United States |
Mister Roberts |
John Ford and Melvin LeRoy |
U.S. Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific |
| 1955 |
West Germany |
Jackboot Mutiny |
Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 1955 |
West Germany
 Austria |
Der letzte Akt |
Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
The Last Act; Hitler: The Last Ten Days |
| 1955 |
 Finland |
The Unknown Soldier |
Edvin Laine |
Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1955 |
West Germany |
08/15 - In der Heimat |
Paul May |
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| 1955 |
West Germany |
08/15 - Zweiter Teil |
Paul May |
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| 1956 |
United States |
Attack |
Robert Aldrich |
U.S. infantry in France after D-Day |
| 1956 |
United States |
Away All Boats |
Joseph Pevney |
US attack transport in the Pacific |
| 1956 |
United Kingdom |
The Battle of the River Plate |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
Battle of the River Plate |
| 1956 |
United States |
Battle Stations |
Lewis Seiler |
US Navy battleship in the Pacific War |
| 1956 |
United States |
Between Heaven and Hell |
Richard Fleischer |
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 |
United Kingdom |
The Black Tent |
Brian Desmond Hurst |
North African campaign |
| 1956 |
United Kingdom |
The Man Who Never Was |
Ronald Neame |
Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat |
| 1956 |
United Kingdom |
Reach for the Sky |
Lewis Gilbert |
Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain |
| 1956 |
United States |
D-Day the Sixth of June |
Henry Koster |
Battle of Normandy |
| 1956 |
United Kingdom |
A Town Like Alice |
Jack Lee |
British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore |
| 1957 |
United Kingdom |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
David Lean |
British POWs work on the Burma Railway |
| 1957 |
West Germany |
Fuchs von Paris, Der |
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 |
United Kingdom |
Ill Met by Moonlight |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
In Battle of Crete British and Cretan forces kidnap General Kreipe |
| 1957 |
United Kingdom |
The One That Got Away |
Roy Ward Baker |
True story of German escaper Franz von Werra |
| 1957 |
United Kingdom |
The Steel Bayonet |
Michael Carreras |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
Operation Amsterdam |
Michael McCarthy |
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| 1958 |
 Czechoslovakia |
Tenkrát o Vánocích |
Karel Kachyňa |
Czechoslovak army on the east front on Christmas 1944 |
| 1958 |
West Germany |
Arzt von Stalingrad, Der |
Géza von Radványi |
The Doctor of Stalingrad; Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
The Camp on Blood Island |
Val Guest |
British and Dutch POW's in Malaya |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
Dunkirk |
Leslie Norman |
Operation Dynamo; Dunkirk Evacuation |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
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 |
United Kingdom |
Ice-Cold in Alex |
J. Lee Thompson |
North African campaign |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
I Was Monty's Double |
John Guillermin |
General Montgomery |
| 1958 |
United States |
Run Silent, Run Deep |
Robert Wise |
The chase of a Japanese submarine during the Pacific War |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
The Battle of the V.1 |
Vernon Sewell |
Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
The Key |
Carol Reed |
Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
Sea of Sand |
Guy Green |
Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign |
| 1958 |
United Kingdom |
The Wind Cannot Read |
Ralph Thomas |
RAF in Burma |
| 1959 |
United States |
Ten Seconds to Hell |
Robert Aldrich |
German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin |
| 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 |
| 1959 |
 Soviet Union |
Sudba Cheloveka |
Sergei Bondarchuk |
Destiny of a Man, Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov |
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