List of World War II films
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This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
There is a separate list of World War II TV series.
Criteria
- The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and 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, Nazi Party and Nazism
- National Socialist Germany (Third Reich)
- Benito Mussolini and Fascism
- Kingdom of Italy (and Fascist Italy) and Italian Social Republic
- Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
- Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
- Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
- Occupied Norway
- The Holocaust
;Asia–Pacific
- Emperor Shōwa and Imperialism
- Empire of Japan (Japanese Imperial)
;Non-geographical
Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War
Before the Second World War explicitly began with the Nazi German, then later Soviet (Russian) invasions of Poland in September 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovakian lands of Bohemia and Moravia. Meanwhile, Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union were involved in the Spanish Civil War,For movies set during the Spanish Civil War please refer to List of Spanish Civil War films (1936–1939), and Italy had conquered Ethiopia (1935–1936) and Albania (1939). China had been fighting against Japan since the 1931 invasion of their northeastern province of Manchuria in a war that completely opened in 1937, called the Second Sino-Japanese War, until Japan attacked the U.S.A. at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, then the British Empire and the Dutch East Indies colonial possessions also in December 1941.
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Italy
|{{sort|Great|The Great Appeal}} |Il grande appello |Italian father and son in the War of Ethiopia |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Traitor|The Traitor}} |Verräter |Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
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Italy
|Sentinelle di bronzo |Italian colonial soldiers defeat the Ethiopian attack on Walwal |
Japan
|Song of Marching {{ref|L|†}} |Shingun no uta (進軍の歌) |Volunteer in the Japanese Army fighting in China |
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Japan
|Chocolate to heitai (チョコレートと兵隊) |Japanese Army soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China |
Soviet Union
|Concentration Camp (Bog Soldiers / Soldiers of the Swamp) |Bolotnye soldaty (Болотные солдаты) |{{sort|Macheret|Aleksandr Macheret}} |Nazi concentration camp guards attempt to break spirits of Communists |
China
|{{sort|Eight|The Eight Hundred Heroes}} |Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士) |
France
|Gibraltar |British officer in Gibraltar pretends to be traitor |
Japan
|Invisible Invader |Sugata-naki shinnyūsha (姿無き侵入者) |Foreign spies in Japan pretend to be travelers |
Italy
|Luciano Serra pilota |
Korea
|Military Train |Gun'yō ressha ({{lang|ja|軍用列車}}) |A Korean train conductor is involved in espionage on a Japanese military train |
Japan
|{{sort|Pay|A Pay by the Wayside}} (Five Scouts) |Gonin no sekkôhei (五人の斥候兵) |Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines |
Japan
|{{sort|Road|The Road to Peace in the Orient}} |Tōyō heiwa no michi (東洋平和の道) |Chinese farmers overcame their distrust of Japan after being helped by Japanese soldiers |
France
|{{sort|Shanghai|The Shanghai Drama}} |Le drame de Shanghaï |Japanese Black Dragon agents in Shanghai |
Films made during the Second World War
{{further|List of Allied propaganda films of World War II}}
Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
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Italy
|Battles in the Shadow {{ref|L|†}} |Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive |
United States
| |{{sort|Litvak|Anatole Litvak}} |Nazi spy ring in the United States |
United States
|Hitler, Beast of Berlin (Hell's Devils / Beasts of Berlin) | |{{sort|Newfield|Sam Newfield}} |Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner |
Hungary
|Magyar feltámadás |{{sort|Csepreghy|Jenö Csepreghy}} |Drama, romance. The film celebrates the recent Hungarian territorial gains following the Munich agreement and the First Vienna Award. |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|{{sort|Lion|The Lion Has Wings}} | |{{sort|Powell|Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda}} |RAF mobilization This is the first World War II British propaganda film.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} |
Italy
|{{sort|Little|The Little Adventurers}} |Adventure. Twelve Italian boys embark on a merchantman ship to fight in the War of Ethiopia, but are shipwrecked on an island. Then they manage to take control of another merchantman smuggling weapons to Ethiopia. |
Japan Empire
|Tsuchi to heitai (土と兵隊) |{{sort|Tasaka|Tomotaka Tasaka}} |Drama based on Ashihei Hino novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War |
United Kingdom
|Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) | |{{sort|Whelan|Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods}} |Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft |
United Kingdom
|Secret Journey (Among Human Wolves) | |{{sort|Baxter|John Baxter}} |Based on Charles Robert Dumas' short story. British secret service agent on mission |
Japan Empire
|Shanghai Landing Squad |Shanhai Rikusentai (上海陸戦隊) |{{sort|Kumagaya|Hisatora Kumagaya}} |
Nazi Germany
|Das Gewehr über |German emigrant in Australia returns to his country for military service in the Army |
United States
| |{{sort|Sherman|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 |
Nazi Germany
|Three Non-Coms {{ref|L|†}} |Luftwaffe NCO's |
United Kingdom
|Traitor Spy (The Torso Murder Mystery) | |{{sort|Summers|Walter Summers}} |Mystery thriller based on T. C. H. Jacobs novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory |
United States
| |{{sort|Bacon|Lloyd Bacon}} |Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy |
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United States
| |Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940 |
Nazi Germany
|Attention! The Enemy Is Listening! {{ref|L|†}} |Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|{{sort|Big|The Big Blockade}} | |
Japan
|{{sort|Blazing|The Blazing Heavens}} {{ref|L|†}} (The Burning Sky / Flaming Sky) |Moyuru ōzora (燃ゆる大空) |Action-drama. Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during Sino-Japanese War |
Italy
|{{sort|Cavalier|The Cavalier from Kruja}} {{ref|L|†}} |Il cavaliere di Kruja |Adventure. An Italian journalist gets involved in the Albanian opposition to King Zog and is finally saved by the Italian invasion of Albania |
United States
| |Spy drama. US journalist in the Soviet Union moonlights as spy. |
United Kingdom
| |
Nazi Germany
|Enemies {{ref|L|†}} |Feinde |Invasion of Poland justified by Polish persecution of ethnic Germans |
United States
| |Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain on the eve of World War II. |
United States
|{{sort|Great|The Great Dictator}} | |Satire. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel is replaced by identical Jew |
United States
|{{sort|Long|The Long Voyage Home}} | |
United States
|{{sort|Man|The Man I Married}} (I Married a Nazi) | |Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies |
United Kingdom
|Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) | |Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent |
United States
|{{sort|Phantom|The Phantom Submarine}} | |Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy frogman investigate U-boat terror |
Nazi Germany
|Request Concert |Luftwaffe airmen fighting over Poland and then the Atlantic |
United States
| |Olympians oppose each other again in the Winter War |
Japan
|{{sort|Story|The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi}} |Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝) |Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking |
United Kingdom
| |Comedy mystery. |
United States
| |Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war. |
United States
| |Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk Battle of France front |
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Nazi Germany
|Above All in the World {{ref|L|†}} |Über alles in der Welt |German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II |
United States
| |Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi Fifth Columnists |
Nazi Germany
|Annelie |Heroic German mother during war |
Nazi Germany
|Bomber Wing Lützow |A bomber crew takes part in invasion of Poland and attacks on British shipping |
United States
| |Comedy. Abbott and Costello enlist in the Army |
United States
| |Comedy. Bob Hope gets drafted |
United States
| |Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited) |Comedy-drama. London Blitz |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|Cottage to Let (Bombsight Stolen) | |Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of bombsight inventor from Scotland by Nazi agents |
United States
| |Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast |
United Kingdom
| |The Battle of Britain |
United States
| |Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific |
Hungary
|Europe Doesn't Answer {{ref|L|†}} |Spies on board of a transatlantic at the beginning of World War 2 |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Forty-Ninth|49th Parallel}} (The Invaders) | |Battle of the St. Lawrence and survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada |
United Kingdom
| |
Soviet Union
|{{sort|Girl|The Girl from Leningrad}} |Frontovye podrugi (Фронтовые подруги) |Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as Three Russian Girls |
Nazi Germany
|Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska! |A German globetrotting reporter is drafted into a Wehrmacht Propagandakompanie |
United States
| |Comedy. Laurel and Hardy are drafted into the US Army |
Nazi Germany
|Hallgarten's Reconnaissance Patrol |Two German soldiers in the Norwegian Campaign |
Nazi Germany
|Homecoming |Drama. Poles persecute ethnic Germans |
United States
| |Spy drama. |
Nazi Germany
|In the Eye of the Storm |Drama. Serbs persecute ethnic GermansThe IMDb, on the other hand, identifies the villainous Yugoslavs in Menschen im Sturm as Slovenians rather than Serbs. |
Soviet Union
|V tylu vraga (В тылу врага) |Comedy. Finnish War The IMDb lists In the Rear of the Enemy as V tylu vraga (1942) based on its 1942 release date in New York City. |
United States
| |Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler |
Italy
|Uomini sul fondo |The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom |
United States
| |
United Kingdom
| |The Scarlet Pimpernel updated |
Japan
|Prayer to Mother Earth {{ref|L|†}} |Daichi ni inoru (大地に祈る) |Japanese military nurses in China |
United Kingdom
| |
Nazi Germany
|Six Days of Leave {{ref|L|†}} |German soldiers on leave |
Nazi Germany
|Soldiers of Tomorrow {{ref|L|†}} |
United States
| |
Nazi Germany
|U-Boat, Course West! |U-boats in the Battle of the AtlanticAvailable for viewing is this [https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=null public domain World War II film]{{dead link|date=September 2014}} at Google Videos. Refer to the film's main page for the link. |
United States
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Korea
|Volunteer {{ref|L|†}} |Shiganhei ({{lang|ja|志願兵}}) |Korean volunteers in the Japanese Army |
Vichy France
|{{sort|Well|The Well-Digger's Daughter}} |La fille du puisatier |A girl becomes pregnant by a military pilot, then shot down behind German lines during the Battle of France |
Italy
|{{sort|White|The White Ship}} |La nave bianca |Francesco De Robertis, Roberto Rossellini |Sailors on a hospital ship after wounds in battle (depicted by footage filmed during the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spartivento) |
United States
|{{sort|Yank|A Yank in the RAF}} | |American volunteers in the RAF |
Korea
|You and Me {{ref|L|†}} |Kimi to boku ({{lang|ja|君と僕}}) |"Eitaro Hinatsu" (Hae Yeong), Tomotaka Tasaka |Korean volunteer in the Japanese Army marries a Japanese woman |
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Nazi Germany
|Der 5. Juni |
United States
| |Spy drama. Japanese plot against the Panama Canal |
Italy
|Alpha Tau! {{ref|L|†}} |Italian submarine warfare in Mediterranean Theatre |
United States
| |Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic |
Japan
|{{sort|Battle|The Battle of Hong Kong}} |Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) |
Italy
|Bengasi |Bengasi (Bengasi anno '41)New edition of the movie, released in theaters in 1955, with the addition of scenes before and after the original Bengasi, which now becomes a long flash-back recalled by an Italian woman visiting the cemetery of El-Alamein with a British officer ten years after the end of the war. |Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941 |
United States
|{{sort|Black|Black Dragons}} | |Japan's Black Dragon Society, in collaboration with Nazis, recruits a mad scientist to create likenesses of Western leadersThis film is available at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's main page for the link. |
United States
|{{sort|Bugle|The Bugle Sounds}} | |Cavalry and tank warfare |
United States
| |Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training PlanCanadian World War I flying ace Billy Bishop appears as himself. |
United States
| |1943 Best picture romantic-thriller set in Vichy-controlled Morocco |
United States
| |
United States
|{{sort|Dawn|The Dawn Express}} | | A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|{{sort|Day|The Day Will Dawn}} (The Avengers) | |Norwegian resistance |
United States
| |RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Netherlands |
Italy
|Documento Z-3 |Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the invasion |
United States
| |Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain |
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)
|Elusive Ian {{ref|L|†}} |Uchinari Jani (Georgian please) {{in lang|ka}} |Isidor Annensky, Vladimir Petrov | Confrontation between Czechoslovak patriots and German fascists |
Japan
|Fear of the Fifth Column |Daigoretsu no kyofu (第五列的恐怖) |British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|First|The First of the Few}} (Spitfire) | |Development of the Spitfire |
United States United Kingdom | |B-17 bombers |
United States
| |American Volunteer Group in the Sino-Japanese War |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Foreman|The Foreman Went to France}} | |
Nazi Germany
|Front Theater {{ref|L|†}} |
Japan
|General, Staff Officer and Soldiers {{ref|L|†}} |Shōgun to sanbō to hei (将軍と参謀と兵) |Sino-Japanese war |
Italy
|Giarabub |The Siege of Giarabub in 1941 |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Great|The Great Love}} |War between Nazi Germany and USSR |
Korea
|Here We Go! {{ref|L|†}} |Warera imazo yuku ({{lang|ja|吾等今ぞ征く}}) |Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
United States
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United States
| |Three American gangsters set out to collect the million-dollar reward for bringing Hitler to justice. |
United Kingdom
| |
United States
| |Downed RAF aircrew meets the French Resistance |
United States
| |Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield |
United Kingdom
| |Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht |
United States
| |
United Kingdom
| |Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the Mona Lisa |
United States
| |Juvenile delinquents battle Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York |
Italy
|MAS |MAS |
United States
|{{sort|Missus|Mrs. Miniver}} | |1942 Best picture depicting the British home front |
United States
|{{sort|Navy|The Navy Comes Through}} | |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Next|The Next of Kin}} | |Message that careless talk costs lives, and fictional commando raid |
Italy Romania |Odessa in fiamme {{in lang|it}}, Odessa în flăcări {{in lang|ro}} |Battle of Odessa, 1941 |
United Kingdom
|One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | |
United States
| |Spy drama. Cryptography in the Pacific War |
Japan
|Patriotic Flowers |Aikoku no hana (愛國の花) |Japanese military nurses |
United States
|{{sort|Phantom|The Phantom Plainsmen}} | |"The Three Mesquiteers" battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch |
United States
|{{sort|Pied|The Pied Piper}} | |Drama based on Nevil Shute novel. Holidaymaker rescues French children, 1940 |
Italy
|{{sort|Pilot|A Pilot Returns}} |Un pilota ritorna |
United States
| |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Red|The Red Terror}} |GPU |GPU's plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the German occupation |
United States
| |French Resistance helps a downed US pilot |
United Kingdom
| | |
United States
| |Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage |
United States
| |Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit |
United States
|Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | |Sherlock Holmes vs Nazi agents and Professor Moriarty |
United States
|Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | |Sherlock Holmes vs. Nazi saboteurs |
United States
| |War correspondents in China and Pacific |
Japan
|{{sort|Spy|The Spy Isn't Dead Yet}} |Kanchō imada shisezu (間諜未だ死せず) |Chinese and American spies in Japan |
United States
| |US Navy in the Pacific War |
Nazi Germany
|Stukas |German dive bomber, the Stuka |
United States
| |Commando raids in occupied Norway |
Italy
|{{sort|Three|The Three Pilots}} |Three young pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
United States
|{{sort|To be|To Be Or Not To Be}} | |Occupied Warsaw, and Polish air squadron in London |
United States
| | |
Japan
|{{sort|Triumph|A Triumph of Wings}} |Tsubasa no gaika (翼の凱歌) |Two young Japanese become pilots of the Army Air ServiceA Triumph of Wings (1942) was co-written by Akira Kurosawa. |
Nazi Germany
|Zwei in einer großen Stadt |Luftwaffe pilot meets a nurse while on leave in Berlin |
United States
| |
Japan
|{{sort|War|The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya}} |Hawai Marē oki kaisen (ハワイまれ沖回線) |
United Kingdom
| |Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion) |
United States
|{{sort|Yank in|A Yank in Libya}} | |Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa |
United States
|{{sort|Yank on|A Yank on the Burma Road}} | |
United States
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=1943=
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United States
| |Honeymooners spy on the Nazis |
United States
| |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|{{sort|Adventures|The Adventures of Tartu}} (Sabotage Agent) | |British spy posing as Romanian Iron Guard officer aids Czech partisans |
United States
| |The B-34 Ventura in the Pacific |
United States
| |B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines |
Japan
|{{sort|Air Raid by|The Air Raid by Enemy Aircraft}} {{ref|L|†}} |Tekki raishū (敵機空襲) |Air war over Japan |
United States
| |Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the USA |
Japan
|All-out Attack on Singapore {{ref|L|†}} |Shingapōru sōkōgeki (シンガポール総攻撃) |Japanese conquest of Singapore |
United States
| |Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey |
United States
| |The Battle of Bataan, Philippines |
United States
| | |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Bells|The Bells Go Down}} | |Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz |
United States
| |B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific |
United States
| |Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster | |
United States
| |
United States
|{{sort|Boy|The Boy from Stalingrad}} | |Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the Battle of Stalingrad |
United States
|Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas | |Chetniks – Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich |
United States
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United States
| |The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines |
United States
| |
United States
| |USN submarine in the North Atlantic |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Crew|The Crew of the Dora}} |Besatzung Dora |The crew of a Ju 88 bomber is forced to land in the desert and is saved by an Italian SM.79 |
United States
|{{sort|Cross|The Cross of Lorraine}} | |
United States
| |Drama based on Allan Kenward play. Army nurses on Bataan work with civilians during the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) |
United States
| |USN submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid |
United States
| |Fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning |
United States
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Korea
|Figure of Youth {{ref|L|†}} |Wakaki sugata ({{lang|ja|若き姿}}) |Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
United Kingdom
|Fires Were Started (I Was a Fireman) | |Docudrama.Fires Were Started is often regarded as a documentary film. Firemen during the Blitz |
United States
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United States
| |Spy drama set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign depicting an English soldiers interactions with Erwin Rommel |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Flemish|The Flemish Farm}} | |Commando raids in occupied Belgium |
United States
| |Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory |
United States
|{{sort|Bugle|Ghosts on the Loose}} | |Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband buy a house next door to a nest of Nazi spies, but the East Side foil the Nazis' evil plot |
United States
|{{sort|Gmen|G-Men vs the Black Dragon}} (serial) | |Spencer Gordon Bennet, William Witney, William J. O'Sullivan | |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Golden|The Golden Spider}} {{ref|L|†}} |Die goldene Spinne |Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank |
United States
| |US Marines in Guadalcanal Campaign |
United States
|Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders | |Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific |
United States
| |Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance |
Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)
|He Would Come Back |Is kidev dabrundeba (Georgian please) {{in lang|ka}} |Diomide Antadze, Nikoloz Shengelaia |Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus |
United States
|Hitler's Madman (Hitler's Hangman) | |Operation Anthropoid, assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and revenge taken by the Germans |
United States
| |British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign |
United States
| |Norman Foster, Orson Welles (uncredited) |Spy drama based on Eric Ambler novel. An American engineer, in neutral Turkey to help upgrade the Turkish navy, that is targeted by Nazi agents |
Italy
|Letters to the Second Lieutenant {{ref|L|†}} |Comedy. A girl writes letters to a young officer, but she does not want to meet him because she feels ugly |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Life|The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp}} | |Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |The Home Guard |
Japan
|{{sort|Man from|The Man from Chungking}} |Jūkei kara kita otoko (重慶から来た男) |Enemy agents try to sabotage Japanese war production |
Italy
|{{sort|Man with|The Man with a Cross}} |L'uomo della croce |A chaplain of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia |
Italy
|Quelli della montagna |
United Kingdom
| |Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat |The home front |
United States
| |
United States
| |A biopic of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. |
United States
|{{sort|Moon|The Moon Is Down}} | |Resistance |
United States
|{{sort|More|The More the Merrier}} | |Comedy. Soldier on American home front with housing shortage |
Japan
|Navy {{ref|L|†}} |Kaigun (海軍) |
United States
| | |
United States
| |Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials |
United States
|{{sort|North|The North Star}} (Armored Attack) | |Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front |
Vichy France
|Occult Forces |"Paul Riche" |
Japan
|On the Eve of War |Kaisen no zenya (开战前夜) |Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan |
Japan
|Our Planes Fly South {{ref|L|†}} |Aiki minami e tobu (愛機南へ飛ぶ) |The young pilot of a recon plane is shot down but survives |
Italy
|People of the Air {{ref|L|†}} |Two brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
United States
| |
United States
| |The Burma Campaign |
United States
| |Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein |
United States
| |
United States
|Secret Service in Darkest Africa (serial) | | |
Italy
|Spies Among the Propellers {{ref|L|†}} |An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory |
United States
|Sherlock Holmes in Washington | |Sherlock Holmes travels to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document that must be delivered to Congress from falling into Nazi hands. |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Silver|The Silver Fleet}} | |
United States
| |Army nurses and the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) |
Italy
|Special Correspondents {{ref|L|†}} |An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt during World War II |
Korea
|Straits of Chosun{{ref|L|†}} |Chōsen Kaikyō ({{lang|ja|朝鮮海峡}}) |Korean man volunteers to serve in the Japanese Army |
United States
|{{sort|Strange|The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler}} | |Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity |
Japan
|Suicide Squad at the Watchtower {{ref|L|†}} |Bōrō no kesshitai (望楼の決死隊) |Japanese, Koreans and Chinese cooperate against bandits near the Yalu river |
United States
| |German paratroopers invade Central Africa |
United States
| | French Resistance |
Italy
|{{sort|Three|The Three-hundred of the Seventh}} {{ref|L|†}} |Alpini on the Greek front |
United States
| |Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman |
United States
| |Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep |The Eastern Front |
United States
| |Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of Malayan tigers |
Japan
|{{sort|Tiger|The Tiger of Malaya}} {{ref|L|†}} |Marai no Tora (マライの虎) |The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka, known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger") |
United States
| | |
Japan
|Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky {{ref|L|†}} |Kessen no ōzora e (決戦の大空へ) |Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy |
Italy
|{{sort|Train|The Train with the Cross}} {{ref|L|†}} |Italian hospital-train on the Russian front |
United Kingdom
|Undercover (Underground Guerrillas) | |
United States
| |Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Wedive|We Dive at Dawn}} | |Submarine warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic |
United States
|{{sort|Weve|We've Never Been Licked}} (Texas to Tokyo / Fighting Command) | |Japanese spies at Texas A&M University |
United States
| |Phil Rosen |Luftwaffe and USAAF pilot meet in the South Pacific |
=1944=
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United States
| |
United States
| |German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America |
Italy
|Air Base {{ref|L|†}} |Italian aviators flying for the Regia Aeronautica in the summer of 1943 and then, after the armistice, for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana |
Japan
|Battle Troop |Raigekitai shutsudo (来撃退しゅつど) |Torpedo bomber squadron at war |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
| |Musical comedy. Allied bomber crashes on mysterious Atlantic island |
Japan
|Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron (Colonel Kato's Flying Squadron) |Kato hayabusa sento-tai (過渡ハヤブサ線と歌い) | |
United States
|{{sort|Conspirators|The Conspirators}} | |Spy drama |
Japan
|{{sort|Daily|The Daily Battle}} |Nichijō no tatakai (日常の戦い) |Japanese teacher of English language serves as an Army interpreter in South-East Asia |
Philippines
|Dawn of Freedom (Fire on That Flag!) |Liwayway ng kalayaan{{in lang|tl}} |Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
United States
| |
Japan
|{{sort|Decisive|The Decisive Battle}} |Kessen (決戦) |Japanese war production |
Nazi Germany
|{{sort|Degenhardts|The Degenhardts}} |Die Degenhardts |Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 |
United States
| |Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway |The Sino-Japanese War |
Argentina
|El Fin de la Noche |Libertad Lamarque |A female Argentine tango singer in occupied France gets romantically involved with a Resistance member |
United States
|{{sort|Eve|The Eve of St. Mark}} | |
Italy
|Everyday Is Sunday {{ref|L|†}} |An Italian soldier is wounded on the Greek front and his leg is amputated, but when he returns home his girlfriend still loves him |
Sweden
|Excellency {{ref|L|†}} |Austrian poet opposes Nazism and therefore is imprisoned in a concentration camp |
Japan
|Field Army Band {{ref|L|†}} |Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊) |Music band of the Imperial Japanese Army in an occupied Chinese village |
United States
|{{sort|Fighting Seabees|The Fighting Seabees}} | |US Navy Seabees in the Pacific War |
United States
|{{sort|Fighting Sullivans|The Fighting Sullivans}} (The Sullivans) | |The Sullivan brothers |
United States
| |Female stars of USO shows Actresses Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves. |
United States
| | Ted Haines Jr. fights in Africa |
United States
| |Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines |
Japan
|Hot Wind {{ref|L|†}} |Neppū (熱風) |War production in a Japanese steel foundry |
United States
|{{sort|Hour|The Hour Before the Dawn}} | |Drama based on W. Somerset Maugham novel. Austrian refugee is Nazi spy preparing for German invasion of England |
Japan
|{{sort|Human|The Human Bullet Volunteer Corps}} |Nikudan teishintai (肉弾挺身隊) |
Hungary
|Magyar sasok |István László |Wartime film about the Hungarian Air Force. |
United States
|{{sort|Impostor|The Impostor}} |L'Imposteur |Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in Chad |
United States
| |Stateside military housing |
Sweden
|The Invisible Wall {{ref|L|†}} |In an unnamed country occupied by Nazis a girl becomes indirectly involved in a terrorist attack and helps Jews to escape |
Soviet Union
|Jurgais pari |Jurgais pari (ჯურღაის ფარი) {{in lang|ka}} | |
United States
| |
United States
| |Drama. Survivors adrift in Battle of the Atlantic |
Sweden
|Live Dangerously |
Soviet Union
|Malakhov Hill |Malakhov kurgan (Малахов курган) |
United States
| |Battle of Edson's Ridge during Battle of Guadalcanal, then Australian R&R |
United States
| | |
United States
| |
United States
|{{sort|Master|The Master Race}} | | |
United States
|{{sort|Miracle|The Miracle of Morgan's Creek}} | |Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers |
Japan
|{{sort|Mister Sa|Mr. Sailor}} {{ref|L|†}} |Suihei-san (水兵さん) | |
Korea
|{{sort|Mister So|Mr. Soldier}} {{ref|L|†}} |Heitai-san ({{lang|ja|兵隊さん}}) |Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army |
United States
|{{sort|Mister W|Mr. Winkle Goes to War}} | | |
Japan
|{{sort|Most|The Most Beautiful}} |Ichiban utsukushiku (一番美しく) |Japanese female workers in a war production factory |
United States
|{{sort|Navy|The Navy Way}} | |
United States
| | |
United States
| | Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler |
United States
|{{sort|Purple|The Purple Heart}} | |POWs captured during Doolittle Raid |
Soviet Union
|Raduga (Радуга) |Drama based on Wanda Wasilewska novel. |
Australia
|{{sort|Rats|The Rats of Tobruk}} (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) | |
United States
| |Musical. |
Japan
|Santarō Pitches In {{ref|L|†}} |Santarō gambaru (三太郎頑張る) |Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing Zero fighters |
United States
| |Comedy based on Marion Hargrove book. US Army training at Fort Bragg |
United States
| | Dog handler in the Pacific War |
United States
| |
Japan
|Sinking the Unsinkable {{ref|L|†}} |Fuchinkan gekichin (不沈艦撃沈) |Japanese workers in a factory increase their production of aerial torpedoes for the Japanese Navy after the sinking of the Prince of Wales |
United States
| | |
United States
|{{sort|Story|The Story of Dr. Wassell}} | |Navy doctor in the Battle of Java |
Italy
|Stronghold {{ref|L|†}} |Italian and German soldiers of the Army Group Liguria fighting against partisansReleased only to Italian fascist military units and maybe a few theaters around Genoa in the last months of the war |
United States
| |Drama. Home front |
United States
| |U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico with sinking of Mexican oil tankers make Mexico an Allied nation |
United States
| |
United States
| | |
United States
| | |
United States
|{{sort|Two Man|Two-Man Submarine}} | | |
United Kingdom
|{{sort|Two Thou|2,000 Women}} (Two Thousand Women / House of 1,000 Women) | |Internment camps for British women in occupied France |
United States
|{{sort|Uboat|U-Boat Prisoner}} (Dangerous Mists) | |Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare |
United States
| |Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance |
United States
| |
United Kingdom
|The Immortal Battalion |{{sort|Way|The Way Ahead}} |Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign |
United States
|{{sort|White Cliffs|The White Cliffs of Dover}} | | |
Italy Romania |{{sort|White|The White Squadron}} |Squadriglia bianca {{in lang|it}} |Royal Romanian Air Force squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women |
United States
|{{sort|Wingand|Wing and a Prayer}} (The Story of Carrier X) | |
United States
| |Training of US Army Air Forces |
Nazi Germany
|Young Eagles |Young boy in a factory of warplanes |
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United States
| |Raid at Cabanatuan, Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte |
Japan
|Believe That Others Will Follow {{ref|L|†}} |Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu (後に続くを信ず) |The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, Singapore and Guadalcanal |
United States
| |
British India
|Queen of Burma {{ref|L|†}} | An Indian spy ring in Japanese-occupied Burma |
United States
| |A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese |
United States
| |Comedy. A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero. |
United States
| |Ex-Nazis in Argentina |
United States
| |
Mexico
|Escuadrón 201 |201st Air Fighter Squadron of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana in the Battle of Luzon and Philippines Campaign |
United States
| |American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb. |
Japan
|Girls of the Air Base {{ref|L|†}} |Otome no iru kichi (乙女のゐる基地) |Girl mechanics work in a Kamikaze air base |
United States
| |Drama based on Robert Lee Scott, Jr. book. Flying Tigers |
United States
|{{sort|House|The House on 92nd Street}} | |Docudrama. Duquesne Spy Ring |
United States
| |Walter Colmes |A soldier suffering from amnesia is the only survivor of four infantrymen. When the four men's dog tags were found the Army does not know which of the four the surviving soldier is. The soldier tries to discover his true identity by visiting the homes of the four different soldiers. |
Denmark
|{{sort|Invisible|The Invisible Army}} |Den usynlige hær |
United States
| |
Switzerland
|{{sort|Last C|The Last Chance}} |Die letzte Chance |Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland |
Japan
|{{sort|Last V|The Last Visit Home}} {{ref|L|†}} |Saigo no kikyō (最後の桔梗) |
Nazi Germany
|Life Goes On |German home front V-2 rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favourNever released in theaters. |
Korea
|Love and the Vow {{ref|L|†}} |Ai to chikai ({{lang|ja|愛と誓ひ}}) |Korean orphan living with Japanese parents volunteers in a Kamikaze unit |
Japan
|Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors |Momotaro no koumi no senshi (百田炉の香味の戦士) |Anime. Japanese folk hero and animal buddies drive British soldiers off an island The first feature-length anime film. |
United States
| |
United States
| |Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} surrender ceremony |
United States
| |Battle of Guadalcanal and civilian readjustment |
United States
| |Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship |
Denmark
|{{sort|Red|The Red Meadows}} |De røde enge |Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. |Young Danish saboteur |
Italy
|Roma città aperta |Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
United States
| |Japanese spy in California |
Italy
|{{sort|Song|The Song of Life}}{{ref|L|†}} |Italian partisan hiding in the countryside |
Japan
|Spy Ship "Sea Rose" |Kanchō Umi no bara (間諜海の薔薇) |Kempeitai discover an American spy ring and help sinking the enemy spy-submarine Sea Rose |
United States
|{{sort|Story|The Story of GI Joe}} | |Journalist Ernie Pyle with Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino |
United States
| |
United States
| |Adventure. US Navy airships |
Italy
|{{sort|Timeless|The Timeless House}} {{ref|L|†}} |Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane Filmed in 1943, before the Italian Armistice, but released in theaters in 1945 after a relevant editing, which changed the nationality of the enemies. |
United States
| |War in the South Pacific separates young couple |
Italy
|Due lettere anonime |Italian resistance and collaboration in German-occupied Rome |
United States
|{{sort|Walk|A Walk in the Sun}} | |
{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|{{sort|Way|The Way to the Stars}} | |
United States
|What Next, Corporal Hargrove? | |Comedy. Final adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe |
Late 1940s
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1946
|France |Battle of the Rails |Resistance on French railways |
1946
|Italy |Avanti a lui tutta Roma tremava |Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
1946
|United States |{{sort|Best|The Best Years of Our Lives}} | |1946 Best Picture depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian life after the war |
1946
|United Kingdom |{{sort|Captive|The Captive Heart}} | |British POWs in Germany |
1946
|Italy |{{sort|Day|A Day in Life}} |A group of Italian partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent |
1946
|Philippines | |
1946
|Poland |Forbidden Songs |Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 The first post-war Polish film. |
1946
|Philippines | |War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines |
1946
|Philippines |Golden Clock |
1946
|Poland |{{sort|Great|The Great Road}} {{ref|L|†}} |Wielka droga {{in lang|pl}} |Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 |
1946
|Philippines |Guerilyera |Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
1946
|Czechoslovakia |{{sort|Heroes|The Heroes Are Silent}} |Resistance of Czech partisans |
1946
|Philippines |I Remember Bataan |
1946
|Soviet Union |In the Mountains of Yugoslavia |V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии) {{in lang|ru}} |
1946
|United Kingdom | |Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat |
1946
|Czechoslovakia |Men Without Wings |Czech resistance in occupied Prague Airfield |
1946
|Italy |Monte Cassino |Montecassino (Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco) |Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey |
1946
|France |
1946
|Italy |O sole mio |
1946
|United States | |US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France |
1946
|United States | |Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons |
1946
|Italy |Outcry |Italian disbanded soldiers after the armistice and resistance |
1946
|United Kingdom | |
1946
|United States |{{sort|Stranger|The Stranger}} | |A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut |
1946
|United Kingdom | |
1946
|Philippines |Walang Kamatayan |
1947
|Italy |Natale al campo 119 |Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation |
1947
|France |Sky Battalion | Paratroopers camp of Free France, England. |
1947
|United Kingdom | | |
1947
|Italy |Come persi la guerra |Comedy. An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the Second Italo-Ethiopian War |
1947
|Denmark |Soldaten og Jenny | |
1947
|Poland |{{sort|Last|The Last Stop}} |
|1947Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1947 after a slight editing |Italy |Men and Skies {{ref|L|†}} |
1947
|{{nowrap|Occupied Germany}} |Seven Journeys (In Those Days) {{ref|L|†}} |In jenen Tagen |Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car |
1947
|China |{{sort|Spring|The Spring River Flows East}} |Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú (一江春水向東流) |Sino-Japanese War |
1947
|United States |{{sort|Thirteen|13 Rue Madeleine}} | |US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France |
1947
|Italy |Vivere in pace |Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944 |
1947
|Japan |Sensō to heiwa (戦争と平和) |Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home |
1948
|Italy |...And Not Say Goodbye {{ref|L|†}} |Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943 |
1948
|United Kingdom | |Commando raid into occupied Belgium |
1948
|Austria |{{sort|Angel|The Angel with the Trumpet}} (The Angel with the Trombone) |Der Engel mit der Posaune |Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Salzburg through both world wars |
1948
|Poland |Border Street |Holocaust in occupied Poland |
1948
|United Kingdom |Niet Tevergeefs |
1948
|United States | |Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force |
1948
|Italy |Damned War!... {{ref|L|†}} |Comedy. An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the Lebensborn |
1948
|United States | |
1948
|Italy |{{sort|Great|The Great Road}} {{ref|L|†}} |Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi |Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 Italian remake of Wielka droga |
1948
|United States | |P-40 fighters in the air war in the New Guinea campaign |
1948
|Italy |{{sort|Mascot|The Mascot of the Blue Devils}} {{ref|L|†}} |An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians |
1948
|Occupied Germany |Morituri {{in lang|la}} (Freiwild {{in lang|de}}) |
1948
|Yugoslavia |On Their Own Territory |Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on Eastern Front (World War 2) |
1948
|Norway |Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water |La Bataille de l'eau lourde {{in lang|fr}} |Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller |Docudrama. Norwegian heavy water sabotage |
1948
|Italy |Phantoms of the Sea |The effects of the Italian armistice on an Italian warship (based upon the facts happened on the battleship Giulio Cesare) |
1948
| Hungary |Valahol Európában |Story of a group of orphans in the final stage of World War II in Hungary. The film was financed by the Hungarian Communist Party. |
1948
|Soviet Union |Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke (Повесть о настоящем человеке) |Biography of the fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev |
1948
|United States |{{sort|Search|The Search}} |This film is an international co-production shot in English. |Displaced persons in postwar Germany |
1948
|Poland |{{sort|Steel|The Steel Hearts}} |Silesia, Poland 1944 / 1945 |
|1948 |Denmark |{{sort|Viking|The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman}} |Støt står den danske sømand |
1949
|United States |Howard Hanks | |Comedy. A biography of Henri Rochard ( pen name of Roger Charlier ), a Belgian who married an American nurse. Cary Grant, Ann Sheriden |
1949
|United States | |
1949
|Soviet Union |{{sort|Battle of|The Battle of Stalingrad}} |Stalingradskaya bitva (Сталинградская битва) |
1949
|Philippines |Capas |Bataan Death March survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity |
1949
|Soviet Union |Vstrecha na Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе) |
1949
|Soviet Union |{{sort|Fall|The Fall of Berlin}} |Padeniye Berlina (Падение Берлина) |
1949
|Italy |{{sort|Flame|The Flame That Will Not Die}} |La fiamma che non si spegne |Italian hero Salvo D'Acquisto |
1949
|United Kingdom |{{sort|Hasty|The Hasty Heart}} | |British and US wounded soldiers in the Burma campaign |
1949
|United States | |Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island |
1949
|United Kingdom | |Pilot believes he has sunk a friendly submarine |
1949
|United States | |Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro |
1949
|United States | |Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held Malaya |
1949
|France |Mission à Tanger |Journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers |
1949
|Italy |Monastery of Santa Chiara {{ref|L|†}} |Drama. Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations |
1949
|Spain |Neutralidad (Los caballeros del mar) |A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship |
1949
|Poland |{{sort|Others|The Others Will Follow}} |Warsaw, Polish resistance |
1949
|United Kingdom | |Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov |Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier |
1949Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1949 after a slight editing
|Italy |Sailors Without Stars {{ref|L|†}} |Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a Gabbiano-class corvette) |
1949
|United States | |
1949
|Czechoslovakia |Němá barikáda |Nazi Resistance |
1949
|United Kingdom |{{sort|Small|The Small Back Room}} | |Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |Bomb disposal |
1949
|Denmark |That applies to us all {{ref|L|†·}} |Young survivor from a concentration camp |
1949
|United Kingdom | |The British Guards Armoured Division |
1949
|United States | |B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force |
Films made 1950–1989
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Films made since 1990
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990}}
=1990s=
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=2000s=
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2000s}}
=2010s=
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2010s}}
=2020s=
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2020s}}
Science fiction, fantasy and horror
{{Main|List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films}}
TV series
{{Main|List of World War II TV series}}
Dramatised documentaries
A dramatised documentary is a documentary film which includes dramatised scenes using actors in costume.
This format is distinct from a docudrama, which is a fully dramatised fact-based fictional work in a documentary style.
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1940
|France |Assassinations of Ernst Röhm and Kurt von Schleicher on Night of the Long Knives, 1934, then Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, also 1934 |
1940
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Mein Kampf – My Crimes (After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler) | |Norman Lee (uncredited) | |
1992
|Canada |{{sort|Valour 1|A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong}} (TV) | |Drama. Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941 |
1992
|Canada |{{sort|Valour 2|Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command}} (TV) | |
1992
|Canada |{{sort|Valour 3|In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944}} (TV) | |Drama. Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944 |
1995
|Canada |War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence (TV) | |Drama. |
1995
|Canada |War at Sea: The Black Pit (TV) | |Drama. |
1996
|Canada |{{sort|Web|A Web of War}} | |Drama. Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Anders |
2003
|United Kingdom |Killing Hitler (TV) | |Drama. Operation Foxley plan to kill Hitler, 1944 |
Spanish Civil War
{{Main|List of Spanish Civil War films}}
In the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists (the rebel side) are supported by Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and a small number of international rightist volunteers. The Republicans (government side) are supported by Stalin's Soviet Union and a large number of leftist volunteers, the International Brigades.
The Nationalists under Francisco Franco win.
During World War II, Franco remains neutral – so Gibraltar is never overrun – but nevertheless he sends the Blue Division to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front.
For films about the Blue Division, see the List of World War II films since 1950.
See also
Notes
- {{note|L|†}} 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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References
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- 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}}
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External links
- [http://www.war-films.com/conflict/world-war-2.html World War 2 movies] – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130112225716/http://topyaps.com/top-10-world-war-ii-movies/ Top 10 World War 2 Movies]}} – List by Topyaps
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