List of World War II films
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
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
Asia–Pacific
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 ,[1] (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.
1936
1937
1938
Films made during the Second World War
Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
1939
1940
1941
1942
Country
Main title(Alternative titles)
Original title(Original script)
Director
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Nazi Germany
5 June
Der 5. Juni
Fritz Kirchhoff
Battle of France
United States
Across the Pacific
John Huston , Vincent Sherman
Spy drama. Japanese plot against the Panama Canal
Italy
Alpha Tau! †
Alfa Tau!
Francesco De Robertis
Italian submarine warfare in Mediterranean Theatre
United States
Atlantic Convoy
Lew Landers
Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic
Japan
The Battle of Hong Kong
Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日)
Shigeo Tanaka
Battle of Hong Kong
Italy
Bengasi
Bengasi (Bengasi anno '41 )[8]
Augusto Genina
Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941
United States
Black Dragons
William Nigh
Japan's Black Dragon Society , in collaboration with Nazis, recruits a mad scientist to create likenesses of Western leaders[3]
United States
The Bugle Sounds
S. Sylvan Simon
Cavalry and tank warfare
United States
Captains of the Clouds
Michael Curtiz
Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan [9]
United States
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1943 Best picture romantic-thriller set in Vichy-controlled Morocco
United States
Commandos Strike at Dawn
John Farrow
Norwegian resistance
United States
The Dawn Express
Albert Herman
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula
United Kingdom
The Day Will Dawn (The Avengers )
Harold French
Norwegian resistance
United States
Desperate Journey
Raoul Walsh
RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Netherlands
Italy
Document Z-3
Documento Z-3
Alfredo Guarini
Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the invasion
United States
Eagle Squadron
Arthur Lubin
Eagle Squadron , American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
Georgian SSR
Elusive Ian †
Uchinari Jani (Georgian please ) (in Georgian) Neulovimyy Yan (Неуловимый Ян ) (in Russian)
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)
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine
United Kingdom
The First of the Few (Spitfire )
Leslie Howard
Development of the Spitfire [3]
United States United Kingdom
Flying Fortress
Walter Forde
B-17 bombers
United States
Flying Tigers
David Miller
American Volunteer Group in the Sino-Japanese War
United Kingdom
The Foreman Went to France
Charles Frend
Battle of France
Nazi Germany
Front Theater †
Fronttheater
Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Battle of Greece
Japan
General, Staff Officer and Soldiers †
Shōgun to sanbō to hei (将軍と参謀と兵 )
Taguchi Satoshi
Sino-Japanese war
Italy
Giarabub
Giarabub
Goffredo Alessandrini
The Siege of Giarabub in 1941
Nazi Germany
The Great Love
Die große Liebe
Rolf Hansen
War between Nazi Germany and USSR
Korea
Here We Go! †
Warera imazo yuku (吾等今ぞ征く )Nanŭn kanda (나는 간다 )
Ki-chae Park
Korean volunteers in Japanese Army
United States
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Roy Mack
Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US [3]
United States
Hitler – Dead or Alive
Nick Grinde
Three American gangsters set out to collect the million-dollar reward for bringing Hitler to justice.[3]
United Kingdom
In Which We Serve
Noël Coward , David Lean
Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly [3]
United States
Joan of Paris
Robert Stevenson
Downed RAF aircrew meets the French Resistance
United States
Jungle Siren
Sam Newfield
Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield [3]
United Kingdom
King Arthur Was a Gentleman
Marcel Varnel
Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht
United States
Lady from Chungking
William Nigh
Sino-Japanese War [3]
United Kingdom
Lady from Lisbon
Leslie S. Hiscott
Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the Mona Lisa
United States
Let's Get Tough!
Wallace Fox
Juvenile delinquents battle Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York [3]
Italy
MAS
MAS
Romolo Marcellini
MAS (Italian torpedo boat)
United States
Mrs. Miniver
William Wyler
1942 Best picture depicting the British home front
United States
The Navy Comes Through
A. Edward Sutherland
Battle of the Atlantic
United Kingdom
The Next of Kin
Thorold Dickinson
Message that careless talk costs lives , and fictional commando raid
Italy Romania
Odessa in Flames
Odessa in fiamme (in Italian) , Odessa în flăcări (in Romanian)
Carmine Gallone
Battle of Odessa , 1941 [3]
United Kingdom
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger
Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands [3]
United States
Pacific Rendezvous
George Sidney
Spy drama. Cryptography in the Pacific War
Japan
Patriotic Flowers
Aikoku no hana (愛國の花 )
Keisuke Sasaki
Japanese military nurses
United States
The Phantom Plainsmen
John English
"The Three Mesquiteers " battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch
United States
The Pied Piper
Irving Pichel
Drama based on Nevil Shute novel. Holidaymaker rescues French children, 1940
Italy
A Pilot Returns
Un pilota ritorna
Roberto Rossellini
Greco-Italian War
United States
Private Buckaroo
Edward F. Cline
Musical.[3]
Nazi Germany
The Red Terror
GPU
Karl Ritter
GPU 's plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the German occupation
United States
Reunion in France
Jules Dassin
French Resistance helps a downed US pilot
United Kingdom
Sabotage at Sea
Leslie S. Hiscott
United States
Saboteur
Alfred Hitchcock
Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage
United States
Seven Days' Leave
Tim Whelan
Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit
United States
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes vs Nazi agents and Professor Moriarty
United States
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
John Rawlins
Sherlock Holmes vs. Nazi saboteurs
United States
Somewhere I'll Find You
Wesley Ruggles
War correspondents in China and Pacific
Japan
The Spy Isn't Dead Yet
Kanchō imada shisezu (間諜未だ死せず)
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Chinese and American spies in Japan
United States
Stand by for Action
Robert Z. Leonard
US Navy in the Pacific War
Nazi Germany
Stukas
Stukas
Karl Ritter
German dive bomber, the Stuka [3]
United States
They Raid by Night
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Commando raids in occupied Norway [3]
Italy
The Three Pilots
I tre aquilotti
Mario Mattoli
Three young pilots of the Regia Aeronautica
United States
To Be Or Not To Be
Ernst Lubitsch
Occupied Warsaw, and Polish air squadron in London
United States
To the Shores of Tripoli
H. Bruce Humberstone
Japan
A Triumph of Wings
Tsubasa no gaika (翼の凱歌)
Satsuo Yamamoto
Two young Japanese become pilots of the Army Air Service [10]
Nazi Germany
Two in a Big City
Zwei in einer großen Stadt
Volker von Collande
Luftwaffe pilot meets a nurse while on leave in Berlin
United States
Wake Island
John Farrow
Battle of Wake Island
Japan
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Hawai Marē oki kaisen (ハワイまれ沖回線)
Kajiro Yamamoto
Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign
United Kingdom
Went the Day Well?
Alberto Cavalcanti
Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion )
United States
A Yank in Libya
Albert Herman
Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa [3]
United States
A Yank on the Burma Road
George B. Seitz
Burma Road
United States
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Michael Curtiz
George M. Cohan
1943
Country
Main title(Alternative titles)
Original title(Original script)
Director
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
United States
Above Suspicion
Richard Thorpe
Honeymooners spy on the Nazis
United States
Action in the North Atlantic
Lloyd Bacon
The Battle of the Atlantic
United Kingdom
The Adventures of Tartu (Sabotage Agent )
Harold S. Bucquet
British spy posing as Romanian Iron Guard officer aids Czech partisans [3]
United States
Aerial Gunner
William H. Pine
The B-34 Ventura in the Pacific [3]
United States
Air Force
Howard Hawks
B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines
Japan
The Air Raid by Enemy Aircraft †
Tekki raishū (敵機空襲)
Hiromasa Nomura
Air war over Japan
United States
Air Raid Wardens
Edward Sedgwick
Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the USA
Japan
All-out Attack on Singapore †
Shingapōru sōkōgeki (シンガポール総攻撃)
Koji Shima
Japanese conquest of Singapore
United States
Background to Danger
Raoul Walsh
Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey
United States
Bataan
Tay Garnett
The Battle of Bataan , Philippines
United States
Behind the Rising Sun
Edward Dmytryk
United Kingdom
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
Bomber's Moon
Edward Ludwig , Harold D. Schuster
United States
Bombs Over Burma
Joseph H. Lewis
[3]
United States
The Boy from Stalingrad
Sidney Salkow
Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the Battle of Stalingrad
United States
Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas
Louis King
Chetniks – Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich
United States
China
John Farrow
United States
Corregidor
William Nigh
The Battle of Corregidor , Philippines
United States
Corvette K-225
Richard Rosson , Howard Hawks
The Battle of the Atlantic , RCN corvette
United States
Crash Dive
Archie Mayo
USN submarine in the North Atlantic
Nazi Germany
The Crew of the Dora
Besatzung Dora
Karl Ritter
The crew of a Ju 88 bomber is forced to land in the desert and is saved by an Italian SM.79
United States
The Cross of Lorraine
Tay Garnett
French Resistance
United States
Cry 'Havoc'
Richard Thorpe
Drama based on Allan Kenward play. Army nurses on Bataan work with civilians during the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
United States
Destination Tokyo
Delmer Daves
USN submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid
United States
Destroyer
William A. Seiter
Fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning
United States
Edge of Darkness
Lewis Milestone
The Norwegian resistance movement
Korea
Figure of Youth †
Wakaki sugata (若き姿 )Chŏlmŭn mosŭp (젊은 모습 )
Shirō Toyoda
Korean volunteers in Japanese Army
United Kingdom
Fires Were Started (I Was a Fireman )
Humphrey Jennings
Docudrama.[11] Firemen during the Blitz [12]
United States
First Comes Courage
Dorothy Arzner
Norwegian resistance
United States
Five Graves to Cairo
Billy Wilder
Spy drama set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign depicting an English soldiers interactions with Erwin Rommel
United Kingdom
The Flemish Farm
Jeffrey Dell
Commando raids in occupied Belgium
United States
Gangway for Tomorrow
John H. Auer
Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory
United States
Ghosts on the Loose
William Beaudine
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[3]
United States
G-Men vs the Black Dragon (serial)
Spencer Gordon Bennet , William Witney , William J. O'Sullivan
Nazi Germany
The Golden Spider †
Die goldene Spinne
Erich Engels
Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank
United States
Guadalcanal Diary
Lewis Seiler
US Marines in Guadalcanal Campaign
United States
Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders
Ray Enright
Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific [3]
United States
Hangmen Also Die!
Fritz Lang
Operation Anthropoid , the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance
Georgian SSR
He Would Come Back
Is kidev dabrundeba (Georgian please ) (in Georgian) On eshchyo vernyotsa (Он ещё вернётся ) (in Russian)
Diomide Antadze , Nikoloz Shengelaia
Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus
United States
Hitler's Madman (Hitler's Hangman )
Douglas Sirk
Operation Anthropoid , assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and revenge taken by the Germans
United States
Immortal Sergeant
John M. Stahl
British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign
United States
Journey Into Fear
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 †
Lettere al sottotenente
Goffredo Alessandrini
Comedy. A girl writes letters to a young officer, but she does not want to meet him because she feels ugly
United Kingdom
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger
The Home Guard
Japan
The Man from Chungking
Jūkei kara kita otoko (重慶から来た男)
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Enemy agents try to sabotage Japanese war production
Italy
The Man with a Cross
L'uomo della croce
Roberto Rossellini
A chaplain of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia
Italy
Men of the Mountain
Quelli della montagna
Aldo Vergano
Alpini against France
United Kingdom
Millions Like Us
Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliat
The home front
United States
Minesweeper
William Berke
[3]
United States
Mission to Moscow
Michael Curtiz
A biopic of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies .
United States
The Moon Is Down
Irving Pichel
Resistance
United States
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
Comedy. Soldier on American home front with housing shortage
Japan
Navy †
Kaigun (海軍)
Tomotaka Tasaka
Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese midget submarines
United States
Night Plane from Chungking
Ralph Murphy
United States
Northern Pursuit
Raoul Walsh
Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials
United States
The North Star (Armored Attack )
Lewis Milestone
Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front [3]
Vichy France
Occult Forces
Forces occultes
"Paul Riche "
Freemasons work with Jews to bring France into the war [3]
Japan
On the Eve of War
Kaisen no zenya (开战前夜)
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
Japan
Our Planes Fly South †
Aiki minami e tobu (愛機南へ飛ぶ)
Yasushi Sasaki
The young pilot of a recon plane is shot down but survives
Italy
People of the Air †
Gente dell'aria
Esodo Pratelli
Two brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica
United States
Pilot #5
George Sidney
Battle of the Java Sea
United States
Rookies in Burma
Leslie Goodwins
The Burma Campaign
United States
Sahara
Zoltan Korda
Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein
United States
Salute to the Marines
S. Sylvan Simon
The Battle of the Philippines
United States
Secret Service in Darkest Africa (serial)
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Italy
Spies Among the Propellers †
Spie tra le eliche
Ignazio Ferronetti
An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory
United States
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Roy William Neill
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
The Silver Fleet
Vernon Sewell , Gordon Wellesley
Dutch resistance [12]
United States
So Proudly We Hail!
Mark Sandrich
Army nurses and the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
Italy
Special Correspondents †
Inviati speciali
Romolo Marcellini
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 †
Chōsen Kaikyō (朝鮮海峡 )Joseonhaehyeob (조선해협 )
Ki-chae Park
Korean man volunteers to serve in the Japanese Army
United States
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
James P. Hogan
Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity
Japan
Suicide Squad at the Watchtower †
Bōrō no kesshitai (望楼の決死隊)
Tadashi Imai
Japanese, Koreans and Chinese cooperate against bandits near the Yalu river
United States
Tarzan Triumphs
Wilhelm Thiele
German paratroopers invade Central Africa
United States
This Land Is Mine
Jean Renoir
French Resistance
Italy
The Three-hundred of the Seventh †
I trecento della Settima
Mario Baffico
Alpini on the Greek front
United States
Thousands Cheer
George Sidney
Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman
United States
Three Russian Girls
Henry S. Kesler , Fyodor Otsep
The Eastern Front
United States
Tiger Fangs
Sam Newfield
Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of Malayan tigers [3]
Japan
The Tiger of Malaya †
Marai no Tora (マライの虎)
Koga Masato
The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka , known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger")
United States
Tonight We Raid Calais
John Brahm
Japan
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky †
Kessen no ōzora e (決戦の大空へ )
Kunio Watanabe
Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy
Italy
The Train with the Cross †
Il treno crociato
Carlo Campogalliani
Italian hospital-train on the Russian front
United Kingdom
Undercover (Underground Guerrillas )
Sergei Nolbandov
Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia
United States
Watch on the Rhine
Herman Shumlin
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington
United Kingdom
We Dive at Dawn
Anthony Asquith
Submarine warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic
United States
We've Never Been Licked (Texas to Tokyo / Fighting Command )
John Rawlins
Japanese spies at Texas A&M University
United States
Wings Over the Pacific
Phil Rosen
Luftwaffe and USAAF pilot meet in the South Pacific
1944
Country
Main title(Alternative titles)
Original title(Original script)
Director
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
United States
Action in Arabia
Léonide Moguy
Intrigue involving Nazis in Damascus , Syria
United States
Address Unknown
William Cameron Menzies
German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America
Italy
Air Base †
Aeroporto
Piero Costa
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)
Kajirō Yamamoto
Torpedo bomber squadron at war
United Kingdom
Bees in Paradise
Val Guest
Musical comedy. Allied bomber crashes on mysterious Atlantic island [3]
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)
Kajiro Yamamoto
United States
The Conspirators
Jean Negulesco
Spy drama
Japan
The Daily Battle
Nichijō no tatakai (日常の戦い)
Yasujirō Shimazu
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 Tagalog) Ano hata o ute (あの旗を撃て )
Gerardo de León , Yutaka Abe
Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines
United States
Days of Glory
Jacques Tourneur
Soviet partisans
Japan
The Decisive Battle
Kessen (決戦)
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Japanese war production
Nazi Germany
The Degenhardts
Die Degenhardts
Werner Klingler
Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942
United States
Dragon Seed
Harold S. Bucquet , Jack Conway
The Sino-Japanese War
Argentina
End of the Night
El Fin de la Noche
Libertad Lamarque Homero Cárpena
A female Argentine tango singer in occupied France gets romantically involved with a Resistance member
United States
The Eve of St. Mark
John M. Stahl
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
Italy
Everyday Is Sunday †
Ogni giorno è domenica
Mario Baffico
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 †
Excellensen
Hasse Ekman
Austrian poet opposes Nazism and therefore is imprisoned in a concentration camp
Japan
Field Army Band †
Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊)
Masahiro Makino
Music band of the Imperial Japanese Army in an occupied Chinese village
United States
The Fighting Seabees
Edward Ludwig
US Navy Seabees in the Pacific War
United States
The Fighting Sullivans (The Sullivans )
Lloyd Bacon
The Sullivan brothers
United States
Four Jills in a Jeep
William A. Seiter
Female stars of USO shows [13]
United States
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
Ted Haines Jr. fights in Africa
United States
Hail the Conquering Hero
Preston Sturges
Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines
Japan
Hot Wind †
Neppū (熱風)
Satsuo Yamamoto
War production in a Japanese steel foundry
United States
The Hour Before the Dawn
Frank Tuttle
Drama based on W. Somerset Maugham novel. Austrian refugee is Nazi spy preparing for German invasion of England
Japan
The Human Bullet Volunteer Corps
Nikudan teishintai (肉弾挺身隊)
Shigeo Tanaka
Guadalcanal Campaign
United States
The Impostor
L'Imposteur
Julien Duvivier
Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in Chad
United States
In the Meantime, Darling
Otto Preminger
Stateside military housing
Sweden
The Invisible Wall †
Den osynliga muren
Gustaf Molander
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 Georgian) (Щит Джургая ) (in Russian)
Siko Dolidze , Davit Rondeli
United States
Ladies Courageous
John Rawlins
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
United States
Lifeboat
Alfred Hitchcock
Drama. Survivors adrift in Battle of the Atlantic
Sweden
Live Dangerously
Lev farligt
Lauritz Falk
Norwegian resistance movement
Soviet Union
Malakhov Hill
Malakhov kurgan (Малахов курган )
Iosif Kheifits , Aleksandr Zarkhi
Siege of Sevastopol
United States
Marine Raiders
Harold D. Schuster
Battle of Edson's Ridge during Battle of Guadalcanal , then Australian R&R
United States
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Robert Z. Leonard
United States
Ministry of Fear
Fritz Lang
The Blitz
United States
The Master Race
Herbert J. Biberman
United States
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Preston Sturges
Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers
Japan
Mr. Sailor †
Suihei-san (水兵さん)
Kenkichi Hara
Korea
Mr. Soldier †
Heitai-san (兵隊さん )Byeongjeongnim (병정님 )
Han-jun Bang
Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army
United States
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Alfred E. Green
Japan
The Most Beautiful
Ichiban utsukushiku (一番美しく)
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese female workers in a war production factory
United States
The Navy Way
William A. Berke
[3]
United States
Passage to Marseille
Michael Curtiz
United States
Passport to Destiny
Ray McCarey
Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler
United States
The Purple Heart
Lewis Milestone
POWs captured during Doolittle Raid
Soviet Union
Rainbow
Raduga (Радуга )
Mark Donskoy
Drama based on Wanda Wasilewska novel.
Australia
The Rats of Tobruk (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk )
Charles Chauvel
Siege of Tobruk
United States
Rosie the Riveter
Joseph Santley
Musical.
Japan
Santarō Pitches In †
Santarō gambaru (三太郎頑張る)
Hiromasa Nomura
Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing Zero fighters
United States
See Here, Private Hargrove
Wesley Ruggles
Comedy based on Marion Hargrove book. US Army training at Fort Bragg
United States
Sergeant Mike
Henry Levin
Dog handler in the Pacific War
United States
Since You Went Away
John Cromwell
Home front
Japan
Sinking the Unsinkable †
Fuchinkan gekichin (不沈艦撃沈)
Masahiro Makino
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
Song of Russia
Gregory Ratoff
United States
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Cecil B. DeMille
Navy doctor in the Battle of Java
Italy
Stronghold †
Caposaldo
Andrea Miano
Italian and German soldiers of the Army Group Liguria fighting against partisans[14]
United States
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Lloyd Bacon
Drama. Home front
United States
Tampico
Lothar Mendes
U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico with sinking of Mexican oil tankers make Mexico an Allied nation
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 Kingdom
2,000 Women (Two Thousand Women / House of 1,000 Women )
Frank Launder
Internment camps for British women in occupied France
United States
U-Boat Prisoner (Dangerous Mists )
Lew Landers
Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare
United States
Uncertain Glory
Raoul Walsh
Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance
United States
Waterfront
Steve Sekely
[3]
United Kingdom
The Immortal Battalion
The Way Ahead
Carol Reed
Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign [3]
United States
The White Cliffs of Dover
Clarence Brown
Italy Romania
The White Squadron
Squadriglia bianca (in Italian) Escadrila albă (in Romanian)
Ion Sava
Royal Romanian Air Force squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women
United States
Wing and a Prayer (The Story of Carrier X )
Henry Hathaway
Battle of Midway
United States
Winged Victory
George Cukor
Training of US Army Air Forces
Nazi Germany
Young Eagles
Junge Adler
Alfred Weidenmann
Young boy in a factory of warplanes
1945
Country
Main title(Alternative titles)
Original title(Original script)
Director
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
United States
Back to Bataan
Edward Dmytryk
Raid at Cabanatuan , Battle of Bataan , guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte
Japan
Believe That Others Will Follow †
Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu (後に続くを信ず)
Kunio Watanabe
The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, Singapore and Guadalcanal
United States
Blood on the Sun
Frank Lloyd
Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government [3]
British India
Queen of Burma †
Burma Rani
T. R. Sundaram
An Indian spy ring in Japanese-occupied Burma
United States
China's Little Devils
Monta Bell
A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese
United States
Christmas in Connecticut
Peter Godfrey
Comedy. A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero.
United States
Cornered
Edward Dmytryk
Ex-Nazis in Argentina
United States
Counter-Attack
Zoltan Korda
Eastern Front
Mexico
Escuadrón 201
Escuadrón 201
Jaime Salvador
201st Air Fighter Squadron of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana in the Battle of Luzon and Philippines Campaign
United States
First Yank Into Tokyo
Gordon Douglas
American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb .
Japan
Girls of the Air Base †
Otome no iru kichi (乙女のゐる基地)
Yasushi Sasaki
Girl mechanics work in a Kamikaze air base
United States
God Is My Co-Pilot
Robert Florey
Drama based on Robert Lee Scott, Jr. book. Flying Tigers
United States
The House on 92nd Street
Henry Hathaway
Docudrama. Duquesne Spy Ring
United States
Identity Unknown
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
The Invisible Army
Den usynlige hær
Johan Jacobsen
Danish partisan
United States
Keep Your Powder Dry
Edward Buzzell
Women's Army Corps
Switzerland
The Last Chance
Die letzte Chance
Leopold Lindtberg
Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland [3]
Japan
The Last Visit Home †
Saigo no kikyō (最後の桔梗)
Shigeo Tanaka Misao Yoshimura
Kamikaze
Nazi Germany
Life Goes On
Das Leben geht weiter
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
German home front V-2 rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favour[15]
Korea
Love and the Vow †
Ai to chikai (愛と誓ひ )Sarang kwa maengsŏ (사랑과 맹서 )
Tadashi Imai In-kyu Ch'oe
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)
Mitsuyo Seo
Anime . Japanese folk hero and animal buddies drive British soldiers off an island [16]
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 and civilian readjustment
United States
Prison Ship
Arthur Dreifuss
Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship
Denmark
The Red Meadows
De røde enge
Bodil Ipsen , Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Young Danish saboteur
Italy
Rome, Open City
Roma città aperta
Roberto Rossellini
Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome
United States
Samurai
Raymond Cannon
Japanese spy in California
Italy
The Song of Life †
Il canto della vita
Carmine Gallone
Italian partisan hiding in the countryside
Japan
Spy Ship "Sea Rose"
Kanchō Umi no bara (間諜海の薔薇)
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kempeitai discover an American spy ring and help sinking the enemy spy-submarine Sea Rose
United States
The Story of GI Joe
William A. Wellman
Journalist Ernie Pyle with Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino
United States
They Were Expendable
John Ford
PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
United States
This Man's Navy
William A. Wellman
Adventure. US Navy airships
Italy
The Timeless House †
La casa senza tempo
Andrea Forzano
Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane [17]
United States
Too Young to Know
Frederick De Cordova
War in the South Pacific separates young couple
Italy
Two Anonymous Letters
Due lettere anonime
Mario Camerini
Italian resistance and collaboration in German-occupied Rome
United States
A Walk in the Sun
Lewis Milestone
Invasion of Salerno
United Kingdom
The Way to the Stars
Anthony Asquith
RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
United States
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
Richard Thorpe
Comedy. Final adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe
Late 1940s
Year
Country
Main title(Alternative titles)
Original title(Original script)
Director
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1946
France
Battle of the Rails
La bataille du rail
René Clément
Resistance on French railways
1946
Italy
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Avanti a lui tutta Roma tremava
Carmine Gallone
Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome
1946
United States
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
1946 Best Picture depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian life after the war
1946
United Kingdom
The Captive Heart
Basil Dearden
British POWs in Germany
1946
Italy
A Day in Life
Un giorno nella vita
Alessandro Blasetti
A group of Italian partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent
1946
Philippines
Death March
Leopoldo Salcedo
Bataan Death March
1946
Poland
Forbidden Songs
Zakazane piosenki
Leonard Buczkowski
Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 [18]
1946
Philippines
Garrison 13
Gregorio Fernandez
War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines
1946
Philippines
Golden Clock
Orasang Ginto
Manuel Conde
Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor
1946
Poland Italy
The Great Road †
Wielka droga (in Polish)
Michał Waszyński
Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
1946
Philippines
Guerilyera
Guerilyera
Octavio Silos
Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1946
Czechoslovakia
The Heroes Are Silent
Hrdinové mlčí
Miroslav Cikán
Resistance of Czech partisans
1946
Philippines
I Remember Bataan
Dugo ng Bayan
Fernando Poe, Sr.
Filipino resistance
1946
Soviet Union Yugoslavia
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia
V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии ) (in Russian) U planinama Jugoslavije (in Serbo-Croatian)
Abram Room
Yugoslav partisans ; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks
1946
United Kingdom
Journey Together
John Boulting
Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946
Czechoslovakia
Men Without Wings
Muži bez křídel
František Čáp
Czech resistance in occupied Prague Airfield
1946
Italy
Monte Cassino
Montecassino (Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco )
Arturo Gemmiti
Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey
1946
France
Mr. Orchid
Le père tranquille
René Clément
French Resistance
1946
Italy
O sole mio
O sole mio
Giacomo Gentilomo
Four days of Naples
1946
United States
O.S.S.
Irving Pichel
US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France
1946
United States
Rendezvous 24
James Tinling
Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons
1946
Italy
Outcry
Il sole sorge ancora
Aldo Vergano
Italian disbanded soldiers after the armistice and resistance
1946
United Kingdom
School for Secrets
Peter Ustinov
Operation Biting
1946
United States
The Stranger
Orson Welles
A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut
1946
United Kingdom
Theirs is the Glory
Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young
Operation Market Garden
1946
Philippines
Walang Kamatayan
Walang Kamatayan
Tor Villano
Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
1947
Italy
Christmas at Camp 119
Natale al campo 119
Pietro Francisci
Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation
1947
France
Le Bataillon du ciel
Sky Battalion
Alexandre Esway
Paratroopers camp of Free France , England.
1947
United Kingdom
Frieda
Basil Dearden
1947
Italy
How I Lost the War
Come persi la guerra
Carlo Borghesio
Comedy. An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1947
Denmark
Jenny and the Soldier
Soldaten og Jenny
Johan Jacobsen
1947
Poland
The Last Stop
Ostatni etap
Wanda Jakubowska
Auschwitz-Birkenau
1947[19]
Italy
Men and Skies †
Uomini e cieli
Francesco De Robertis
1947
Occupied Germany
Seven Journeys (In Those Days ) †
In jenen Tagen
Helmut Käutner
Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car
1947
China
The Spring River Flows East
Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú (一江春水向東流)
Cai Chusheng , Zheng Junli
Sino-Japanese War
1947
United States
13 Rue Madeleine
Henry Hathaway
US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France
1947
Italy
To Live in Peace
Vivere in pace
Luigi Zampa
Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944
1947
Japan
War and Peace
Sensō to heiwa (戦争と平和 )
Fumio Kamei Satsuo Yamamoto
Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home
1948
Italy
...And Not Say Goodbye †
...E non dirsi addio
Silvio Laurenti Rosa
Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943
1948
United Kingdom
Against the Wind
Charles Crichton
Commando raid into occupied Belgium
1948
Austria
The Angel with the Trumpet (The Angel with the Trombone )
Der Engel mit der Posaune
Karl Hartl
Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Salzburg through both world wars
1948
Poland
Border Street
Ulica Graniczna
Aleksander Ford
Holocaust in occupied Poland
1948
United Kingdom Netherlands
But Not in Vain
Niet Tevergeefs
Edmond T. Gréville
Drama.[20]
1948
United States
Command Decision
Sam Wood
Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force
1946
Italy
Damned War!... †
Accidenti alla guerra!...
Giorgio Simonelli
Comedy. An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the Lebensborn
1948
United States
Fighter Squadron
Raoul Walsh
P-47 fighters in the air war in Europe
1948
Italy
The Great Road †
La grande strada
Michał Waszyński , Vittorio Cottafavi
Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 [21]
1948
United States
Jungle Patrol
Joseph M. Newman
P-40 fighters in the air war in the New Guinea campaign
1948
Italy
The Mascot of the Blue Devils †
La mascotte dei Diavoli Blu
Carlo Baltier
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
Morituri (in Latin) (Freiwild (in German) )
Eugen York
[22]
1948
Yugoslavia
On Their Own Territory
Na svoji zemlji
France Štiglic
Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on Eastern Front (World War 2)
1948
Norway France
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (in French) Kampen om tungtvannet (in Norwegian)
Jean Dréville , Titus Vibe-Müller
Docudrama. Norwegian heavy water sabotage
1948
Italy
Phantoms of the Sea
Fantasmi del mare
Francesco De Robertis
The effects of the Italian armistice on an Italian warship (based upon the facts happened on the battleship Giulio Cesare )
1948
Soviet Union
Tale of a True Man
Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke (Повесть о настоящем человеке )
Aleksandr Stolper
Biography of the fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev
1948
United States Switzerland
The Search
[23]
Fred Zinnemann
Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948
Poland
The Steel Hearts
Stalowe serca
Stanisław Januszewski
Silesia , Poland 1944 / 1945
1948
Denmark
The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman
Støt står den danske sømand
Bodil Ipsen , Lau Lauritzen Jr.
1949
United States
I Was A Male War Bride
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
Battleground
William A. Wellman
101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949
Soviet Union
The Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingradskaya bitva (Сталинградская битва )
Vladimir Petrov
Battle of Stalingrad
1949
Philippines
Capas
Capas
Gregorio Fernandez
Bataan Death March survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity
1949
Soviet Union
Encounter at the Elbe
Vstrecha na Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе )
Grigori Aleksandrov , Aleksei Utkin
Elbe Day
1949
Soviet Union
The Fall of Berlin
Padeniye Berlina (Падение Берлина )
Mikheil Chiaureli
Battle of Berlin
1949
Italy
The Flame That Will Not Die
La fiamma che non si spegne
Vittorio Cottafavi
Italian hero Salvo D'Acquisto
1949
United Kingdom United States
The Hasty Heart
Vincent Sherman
British and US wounded soldiers in the Burma campaign
1949
United States
Home of the Brave
Mark Robson
Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island
1949
United Kingdom
Landfall
Ken Annakin
Pilot believes he has sunk a friendly submarine
1949
United States
Lost Boundaries
Alfred L. Werker
Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro
1949
United States
Malaya
Richard Thorpe
Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held Malaya
1949
France
Mission in Tangier
Mission à Tanger
André Hunebelle
Journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers
1949
Italy
Monastery of Santa Chiara †
Monastero di Santa Chiara
Mario Sequi
Drama. Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations
1949
Spain
Neutrality
Neutralidad (Los caballeros del mar )
Eusebio Fernández Ardavín
A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship
1949
Poland
The Others Will Follow
Za wami pójdą inni
Antoni Bohdziewicz
Warsaw, Polish resistance
1949
United Kingdom
Private Angelo
Michael Anderson , Peter Ustinov
Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier
1949[24]
Italy
Sailors Without Stars †
Marinai senza stelle
Francesco De Robertis
Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a Gabbiano-class corvette )
1949
United States
Sands of Iwo Jima
Allan Dwan
Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Iwo Jima
1949
Czechoslovakia
Silent Barricade
Němá barikáda
Otakar Vávra
Nazi Resistance
1949
United Kingdom
The Small Back Room
Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger
Bomb disposal
1949
Denmark
That applies to us all †·
Det gælder os alle
Alice O'Fredericks
Young survivor from a concentration camp
1949
United Kingdom
They Were Not Divided
Terence Young
The British Guards Armoured Division
1949
United States
Twelve O'Clock High
Henry King
B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force
Films made during the Cold War
Early 1950s
Late 1950s
Early 1960s
Late 1960s
Early 1970s
Late 1970s
Early 1980s
Late 1980s
Films made since the Cold War
Early 1990s
Late 1990s
Early 2000s
Late 2000s
Early 2010s
Late 2010s
Early 2020s
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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.
Spanish Civil War
In the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists (the rebel side) are supported by Mussolini 's Italy, Hitler 's Germany, and a small number of internaxxxtional 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
Of related interest
Notes
^† 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.
^ For movies set during the Spanish Civil War please refer to List of Spanish Civil War films
^ 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 ae af This film is available 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.
^ Available for viewing is this public domain World War II film [dead link ] at Google Videos . Refer to the film's main page for the link.
^ 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.
^ Canadian World War I flying ace Billy Bishop appears as himself.
^ A Triumph of Wings (1942) was co-written by Akira Kurosawa .
^ 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.
^ Actresses Betty Grable , Carole Landis and others play themselves.
^ Released only to Italian fascist military units and maybe a few theaters around Genoa in the last months of the war
^ Never released in theaters.
^ The first feature-length anime film.
^ Filmed in 1943, before the Italian Armistice, but released in theaters in 1945 after a relevant editing, which changed the nationality of the enemies.
^ The first post-war Polish film.
^ Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1947 after a slight editing
^ This film is currently considered to be lost .
^ Italian remake of Wielka droga
^ First German film to show a concentration camp.
^ This film is an international co-production shot in English.
^ Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1949 after a slight editing
References
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
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