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.

Restrictions[edit]

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[edit]

Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:

Europe

Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
Nazi Germany (Third Reich)
Gestapo and SS
Benito Mussolini
Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps

Asia–Pacific

Emperor Shōwa

Non-geographical

Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War[edit]

Before the Second World War explicitly began with the German then Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovakian lands of Bohemia and Moravia. Meanwhile Italy, Germany and 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 1937 in a war called the Second Sino-Japanese War, until Japan attacked the USA, the British Empire and the Dutch East Indies in December 1941.

1936[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Italy	The Great Appeal	Il grande appello	Mario Camerini	Italian father and son in the War of Ethiopia

1937[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Italy	Sentinels of Bronze	Sentinelle di bronzo	Romolo Marcellini	Italian colonial soldiers defeat the Ethiopian attack on Walwal

1938[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Japan	Chocolate and Soldiers	Chocolate to heitai (チョコレートと兵隊)	Takeshi Sato	Japanese Army soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China
USSR	Concentration Camp (Bog Soldiers / Soldiers of the Swamp)	Bolotnye soldaty(Болотные солдаты)	Aleksandr Macheret	Nazi concentration camp guards attempt to break spirits of Communists
China	The Eight Hundred Heroes	Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士)	Ying Yunwei	Defense of Sihang Warehouse
France	It Happened in Gibraltar	Gibraltar	Fedor Ozep	British officer in Gibraltar pretends to be traitor
Italy	Luciano Serra, Pilot	Luciano Serra pilota	Goffredo Alessandrini	Italo-Abyssinian War
USA	Men with Wings		William A. Wellman	Adventure. World War I pilot goes to China
Japan	A Pay by the Wayside (Five Scouts)	Gonin no sekkôhei (五人の斥候兵)	Tomotaka Tasaka	Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines
France	The Shanghai Drama	Le drame de Shanghaï	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Japanese Black Dragon agents in Shanghai

Films made during the Second World War[edit]

Further information: List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

Note:

Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the

Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.

1939[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Italy	Battles in the Shadow ^†	Lotte nell'ombra	Domenico Gambino	Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive
USA	Confessions of a Nazi Spy		Anatole Litvak	Nazi spy ring in the United States
USA	Hitler, Beast of Berlin (Hell's Devils / Beasts of Berlin)		Sam Newfield	Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner
UK	The Lion Has Wings		Michael Powell,Adrian Brunel,Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda	RAF mobilization ^[2]
Italy	The Little Adventurers	Piccoli naufraghi	Flavio Calzavara	Adventure. Twelve Italian boys embark on a merchantman to fight in the War of Ethiopia, but the are shipwrecked on an island. Then they manage to take control of another merchantman smuggling weapons to Ethiopia.
Japan	Mud and Soldiers	Tsuchi to heitai (土と兵隊)	Tomotaka Tasaka	Drama based on Ashihei Hino novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War
UK	Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe)		Tim Whelan,Arthur B. Woods	Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft ^[3]
UK	Secret Journey (Among Human Wolves)		John Baxter	Based on Charles Robert Dumas' short story. British secret service agent on mission
USA	South of the Border		George Sherman	Action/Western. US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution
UK	Traitor Spy (The Torso Murder Mystery)		Walter Summers	Mystery thriller based on T. C. H. Jacobs novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory
USA	Wings of the Navy		Lloyd Bacon	Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy

1940[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Arise, My Love		Mitchell Leisen	Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940
Germany	Attention! The Enemy Is Listening ^†	Achtung! Feind hört mit!	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	Foreign spies in a German armaments factory
UK	The Big Blockade		Charles Frend	Economic blockade of Germany
Japan	The Blazing Heavens ^†(The Burning Sky / Flaming Sky)	Moyuru ōzora (燃ゆる大空)	Yutaka Abe	Action-drama. Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during Sino-Japanese War
USA	Comrade X		King Vidor	Spy. US journalist in Soviet Union
UK	Convoy		Pen Tennyson	Battle of the Atlantic
Germany	Enemies ^†	Feinde	Viktor Tourjansky	Invasion of Poland justified by Polish persecution of ethnic Germans
USA	Foreign Correspondent		Alfred Hitchcock	Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain
USA	The Great Dictator		Charlie Chaplin	Satire. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel
Italy	The Knight of Kruja ^†	Il cavaliere di Kruja	Carlo Campogalliani	Adventure. An Italian journalist gets involved in the Albanian opposition to King Zog and is finally saved by the Italian invasion of Albania
USA	The Long Voyage Home		John Ford	Battle of the Atlantic
USA	The Man I Married (I Married a Nazi)		Irving Pichel	Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies
USA	The Mortal Storm		Frank Borzage	Drama. Average German family disrupted when Nazis come to power
UK	Night Train to Munich(Gestapo)		John Baxter	Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent
USA	The Phantom Submarine		Charles Barton	Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy frogman investigate U-boat terror
USA	Ski Patrol		Lew Landers	Olympians oppose each other again in the Winter War
Japan	The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi	Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝)	Kōzaburō Yoshimura	Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking
UK	Ten Days in Paris		Jeremy Brown	Comedy mystery.
USA	Waterloo Bridge		Mervyn LeRoy	Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance ^[4]
USA	Women in War		John H. Auer	Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk Battle of France front

1941[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	All Through the Night		Vincent Sherman	Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi Fifth Columnists
Germany	Above All in the World ^†	Über alles in der Welt	Karl Ritter	German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II
Germany	Annelie	Annelie	Josef von Báky	Heroic German mother during war
Germany	Bomber Wing Lützow	Kampfgeschwader Lützow	Hans Bertram	A bomber crew takes part in invasion of Poland and attacks on British shipping
USA	Buck Privates		Arthur Lubin	Comedy. Abbott and Costello enlist in the Army
USA	Caught in the Draft		David Butler	Comedy. Bob Hope gets drafted
USA	Confirm or Deny		Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited)	Comedy-drama. London Blitz
UK	Cottage to Let (Bombsight Stolen)		Anthony Asquith	Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of bombsight inventor from Scotland by Nazi agents
USA	Dangerously They Live		Robert Florey	Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast
UK	Dangerous Moonlight		Brian Desmond Hurst	The Battle of Britain
USA	Dive Bomber		Michael Curtiz	Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific
UK	49th Parallel (The Invaders)		Michael Powell	Battle of the St. Lawrence and survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada
UK	Freedom Radio		Anthony Asquith	German Resistance
USSR	The Girl from Leningrad	Frontovye podrugi(Фронтовые подруги)	Viktor Eisymont	Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as Three Russian Girls
Germany	Hallgarten's Reconnaissance Patrol	Spähtrupp Hallgarten	Herbert B. Fredersdorf	Two German soldiers in the Norwegian Campaign
Germany	Homecoming	Heimkehr	Gustav Ucicky	Drama. Poles persecute ethnic Germans
USA	International Lady		Tim Whelan	Spy drama.
Germany	In the Eye of the Storm	Menschen im Sturm	Fritz Peter Buch	Drama. Serbs persecute ethnic Germans ^[5]
USSR	In the Rear of the Enemy	V tylu vraga (В тылу врага)	Yevgeni Shneider	Drama. Finnish War ^[6]
USA	Man Hunt		Fritz Lang	Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler
Italy	Men on the Sea Bottom ^†	Uomini sul fondo	Francesco De Robertis	The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom
USA	Parachute Battalion		Leslie Goodwins	Three men join a parachute battalion ^[3]
UK	Pimpernel Smith		Leslie Howard	The Scarlet Pimpernel updated
UK	Ships with Wings		Sergei Nolbandov	Battle of Taranto
Germany	Soldiers of Tomorrow ^†	Soldaten von morgen	Alfred Weidenmann	Hitler Youth
USA	Sundown		Henry Hathaway	The North African Campaign ^[3]
Germany	U-Boat, Course West!	U-Boote westwärts	Günther Rittau	U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic ^[7]
USA	Underground		Vincent Sherman	German Resistance
Italy	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)
USA	A Yank in the RAF		Henry King	American volunteers in the RAF

1942[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	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
USA	Atlantic Convoy		Lew Landers	Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic
Italy	Bengasi	Bengasi (Bengasi anno '41)	Augusto Genina	North Africa campaign
USA	The Bugle Sounds		S. Sylvan Simon	Cavalry and tank warfare
USA	Captains of the Clouds		Michael Curtiz	Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ^[8]
USA	Casablanca		Michael Curtiz	Romance set in Vichy-controlled Morocco
USA	Commandos Strike at Dawn		John Farrow	Norwegian resistance
USA	The Dawn Express		Albert Herman	A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula
UK	The Day Will Dawn (The Avengers)		Harold French	Norwegian resistance
USA	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
USA	Eagle Squadron		Arthur Lubin	Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
USSR ( Georgian SSR)	Elusive Ian ^†	Uchinari Jani (Georgian please) (Georgian) Neulovimyy Yan(Неуловимый Ян)(Russian)	Isidor Annensky,Vladimir Petrov
UK	The First of the Few(Spitfire)		Leslie Howard	Development of the Spitfire ^[3]
USA UK	Flying Fortress		Walter Forde	B-17 bombers
USA	Flying Tigers		David Miller	American Volunteer Group in the Sino-Japanese War
UK	The Foreman Went to France		Charles Frend	Battle of France
Germany	Front Theater ^†	Fronttheater	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	Battle of Greece
Italy	Giarabub	Giarabub	Goffredo Alessandrini	The siege of Giarabub in 1941
Germany	The Great Love	Die große Liebe	Rolf Hansen	War between Nazi Germany and USSR
USA	Hillbilly Blitzkrieg		Roy Mack	Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US ^[3]
UK	In Which We Serve		Noël Coward,David Lean	Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly ^[3]
USA	Jungle Siren		Sam Newfield	Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield ^[3]
UK	King Arthur Was a Gentleman		Marcel Varnel	Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht
USA	Lady from Chungking		William Nigh	Sino-Japanese War ^[3]
UK	Lady from Lisbon		Leslie S. Hiscott	Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the Mona Lisa
USA	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)
USA	Mrs. Miniver		William Wyler	The British home front
USA	The Navy Comes Through		A. Edward Sutherland	Battle of the Atlantic
UK	The Next of Kin		Thorold Dickinson	Message that careless talk costs lives, and fictional commando raid
Italy Romania	Odessa in Flames	Odessa in fiamme(Italian), Odessa în flăcări (Romanian)	Carmine Gallone	Battle of Odessa, 1941 ^[3]
UK	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing		Michael Powell,Emeric Pressburger	Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands ^[3]
USA	Pacific Rendezvous		George Sidney	Spy drama. Cryptography in the Pacific War
USA	The Phantom Plainsmen		John English	"The Three Mesquiteers" battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch
USA	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
USA	Private Buckaroo		Edward F. Cline	Musical.^[3]
Germany	The Red Terror	GPU	Karl Ritter	GPU's plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the German occupation
USA	Reunion in France		Jules Dassin	French Resistance helps a downed US pilot
UK	Sabotage at Sea		Leslie S. Hiscott
USA	Saboteur		Alfred Hitchcock	Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage
USA	Seven Days' Leave		Tim Whelan	Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit
USA	Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror		John Rawlins	Sherlock Holmes vs. Nazi saboteurs
USA	Somewhere I'll Find You		Wesley Ruggles	War correspondents in China and Pacific
Italy	Spies Among the Propellers^†	Spie tra le eliche	Ignazio Ferronetti	An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory
USA	Stand by for Action		Robert Z. Leonard	The Pacific War
Germany	Stukas	Stukas	Karl Ritter	German dive bomber, the Stuka Internet Archive
USA	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
USA	To Be Or Not To Be		Ernst Lubitsch	Occupied Warsaw, and Polish air squadron in London
USA	To the Shores of Tripoli		H. Bruce Humberstone
Japan	A Triumph of Wings	Tsubasa no gaika (翼の凱歌)	Satsuo Yamamoto	^[9]
USA	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
UK	Went the Day Well?		Alberto Cavalcanti	Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion)
USA	A Yank in Libya		Albert Herman	Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa ^[3]
USA	A Yank on the Burma Road		George B. Seitz	Burma Road

1943[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Above Suspicion		Richard Thorpe	Honeymooners spy on the Nazis
USA	Action in the North Atlantic		Lloyd Bacon	The Battle of the Atlantic
UK	The Adventures of Tartu(Sabotage Agent)		Harold S. Bucquet	British spy posing as Romanian Iron Guard officer aids Czech partisans ^[3]
USA	Aerial Gunner		William H. Pine	The B-17 bomber in the Pacific ^[3]
USA	Air Force		Howard Hawks	B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines
USA	Air Raid Wardens		Edward Sedgwick	Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the USA
USA	Background to Danger		Raoul Walsh	Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey
USA	Bataan		Tay Garnett	The Battle of Bataan, Philippines
USA	Behind the Rising Sun		Edward Dmytryk
UK	The Bells Go Down		Basil Dearden	Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz
USA	Bombardier		Richard Wallace	B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific
USA	Bomber's Moon		Edward Ludwig,Harold D. Schuster
USA	Bombs Over Burma		Joseph H. Lewis	^[3]
USA	The Boy from Stalingrad		Sidney Salkow	Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the Battle of Stalingrad
USA	Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas		Louis King	Chetniks - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich
USA	China		John Farrow
USA	Corregidor		William Nigh	The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines
USA	Corvette K-225		Richard Rosson,Howard Hawks	The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN corvette
USA	Crash Dive		Archie Mayo	USN submarine in the North Atlantic
Germany	The Crew of the Dora	Besatzung Dora	Karl Ritter	Luftwaffe men
USA	The Cross of Lorraine		Tay Garnett
USA	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)
USA	Destination Tokyo		Delmer Daves	USN submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid
USA	Destroyer		William A. Seiter	Fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning
USA	Edge of Darkness		Lewis Milestone	The Norwegian resistance movement
UK	Fires Were Started (I Was a Fireman)		Humphrey Jennings	Docudrama.^[10] Firemen during the Blitz ^[11]
USA	Five Graves to Cairo		Billy Wilder	Spy drama set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign
UK	The Flemish Farm		Jeffrey Dell	Commando raids in occupied Belgium
USA	Gangway for Tomorrow		John H. Auer	Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory
USA	G-Men vs the Black Dragon(serial)		Spencer Gordon Bennet, William Witney, William J. O'Sullivan
Germany	The Golden Spider ^†	Die goldene Spinne	Erich Engels	Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank
USA	Guadalcanal Diary		Lewis Seiler	US Marines in Guadalcanal Campaign
USA	Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders		Ray Enright	Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific ^[3]
USA	Hangmen Also Die!		Fritz Lang	Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance
USSR ( Georgian SSR)	He Would Come Back	Is kidev dabrundeba(Georgian please)(Georgian) On eshchyo vernyotsa (Он ещё вернётся) (Russian)	Diomide Antadze,Nikoloz Shengelaia	Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus
USA	Hitler's Madman (Hitler's Hangman)		Douglas Sirk	Operation Anthropoid, assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and revenge taken by the Germans
USA	Immortal Sergeant		John M. Stahl	British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign
USA	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
UK	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp		Michael Powell,Emeric Pressburger	The Home Guard
Italy	The Man with a Cross	L'uomo della croce	Roberto Rossellini	A chaplain of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia
UK	Millions Like Us		Frank Launder,Sidney Gilliat	The home front
USA	Minesweeper		William Berke	^[3]
USA	Mission to Moscow		Michael Curtiz	Various negotiations between Allies
USA	The Moon Is Down		Irving Pichel	Resistance
USA	The More the Merrier		George Stevens	Comedy. Soldier on American home front with housing shortage
USA	Night Plane from Chungking		Ralph Murphy
USA	Northern Pursuit		Raoul Walsh	Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials
USA	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]
Italy	People of the Air ^†	Gente dell'aria	Esodo Pratelli	Two brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica
Italy	People of the Mountain ^†	Quelli della montagna	Aldo Vergano	Alpini against France
USA	Pilot #5		George Sidney	Battle of the Java Sea
USA	Rookies in Burma		Leslie Goodwins	The Burma Campaign
USA	Sahara		Zoltan Korda	Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein
USA	Salute to the Marines		S. Sylvan Simon	The Battle of the Philippines
USA	Secret Service in Darkest Africa (serial)		Spencer Gordon Bennet
USA	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon		Roy William Neill	Sherlock Holmes matches wits with Nazi agents and Moriarty ^[3]^[7]
UK	The Silver Fleet		Vernon Sewell,Gordon Wellesley	Dutch resistance ^[11]
USA	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
USA	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
USA	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
USA	Thousands Cheer		George Sidney	Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman
USA	Three Russian Girls		Henry S. Kesler,Fyodor Otsep	The Eastern Front
USA	Tiger Fangs		Sam Newfield	Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of Malayan tigers ^[3]
USA	Tonight We Raid Calais		John Brahm
Italy	The Train with the Cross ^†	Il treno crociato	Carlo Campogalliani	Italian hospital-train on the Russian front
UK	Undercover		Sergei Nolbandov	Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia
USA	Watch on the Rhine		Herman Shumlin	Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington
UK	We Dive at Dawn		Anthony Asquith	Submarine warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic
USA	We've Never Been Licked(Texas to Tokyo / Fighting Command)		John Rawlins	Japanese spies at Texas A&M University

1944[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Action in Arabia		Léonide Moguy	Intrigue involving Nazis in Damascus, Syria
Italian Social Republic	Air Base ^†	Aeroporto	Piero Costa	Italian aviators flying for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana
Japan	Battle Troop	Raigekitai shutsudo (来撃退しゅつど)	Kajirō Yamamoto	Torpedo bomber squadron at war
UK	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
USA	The Conspirators		Jean Negulesco	Spy drama.
Japan	The Daily Battle	Nichijō no tatakai (日常の戦い)	Yasujiro Shimazu
Second Philippine Republic Japan	Dawn of Freedom	Liwayway ng kalayaan	Gerardo de León,Yutaka Abe	Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines
USA	Days of Glory		Jacques Tourneur	Soviet partisans
USA	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
USA	The Eve of St. Mark		John M. Stahl
Italian Social Republic	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
USA	The Fighting Seabees		Edward Ludwig	US Navy Seabees
USA	The Fighting Sullivans (The Sullivans)		Lloyd Bacon	The Sullivan brothers
USA	Four Jills in a Jeep		William A. Seiter	Female stars of USO shows ^[12]
USA	Hail the Conquering Hero		Preston Sturges	Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines
USA	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
USA	The Impostor	L'Imposteur	Julien Duvivier	Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in Chad
USA	In the Meantime, Darling		Otto Preminger	Stateside military housing
Germany	Young Eagles	Junge Adler	Alfred Weidenmann	Germany during the war
USSR	Jurgais pari	Jurgais pari (ჯურღაის ფარი) (Georgian) (Щит Джургая)(Russian)	Siko Dolidze,Davit Rondeli
USA	Ladies Courageous		John Rawlins	Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
USA	Lifeboat		Alfred Hitchcock	Drama. Survivors adrift in Battle of the Atlantic
USSR	Malakhov Hill	Malakhov kurgan(Малахов курган)	Iosif Kheifits,Aleksandr Zarkhi	Siege of Sevastopol
USA	Marine Raiders		Harold D. Schuster	Battle of Edson's Ridge during Battle of Guadalcanal, then Australian R&R
USA	Marriage Is a Private Affair		Robert Z. Leonard
USA	The Master Race		Herbert J. Biberman
USA	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek		Preston Sturges	Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers
USA	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
USA	The Navy Way		William A. Berke	^[3]
USA	Passage to Marseille		Michael Curtiz
USA	Passport to Destiny		Ray McCarey
USA	The Purple Heart		Lewis Milestone	POWs captured during Doolittle Raid
USSR	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
USA	Rosie the Riveter		Joseph Santley	Musical.
USA	See Here, Private Hargrove		Wesley Ruggles	Comedy based on Marion Hargrove book. US Army training at Fort Bragg
USA	Sergeant Mike		Henry Levin
USA	Since You Went Away		John Cromwell	Home front
USA	Song of Russia		Gregory Ratoff
USA	The Story of Dr. Wassell		Cecil B. DeMille	Navy doctor in the Battle of Java
USA	Sunday Dinner for a Soldier		Lloyd Bacon	Drama. Home front
USA	Tampico		Lothar Mendes	U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico with sinking of Mexican oil tankers make Mexico an Allied nation
USA	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo		Mervyn LeRoy	Doolittle Raid
USA	Till We Meet Again		Frank Borzage
USA	To Have and Have Not		Howard Hawks
USA	Two-Man Submarine		Lew Landers
UK	2,000 Women (Two Thousand Women / House of 1,000 Women)		Frank Launder	Internment camps for British women in occupied France
USA	U-Boat Prisoner(Dangerous Mists)		Lew Landers	Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare
USA	Uncertain Glory		Raoul Walsh	Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance
USA	Waterfront		Steve Sekely	^[3]
UK	The Way Ahead (The Immortal Battalion)		Carol Reed	Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign ^[3]
USA	The White Cliffs of Dover		Clarence Brown
Italian Social Republic Romania	The White Squadron	Squadriglia bianca(Italian) Escadrila albă(Romanian)	Ion Sava	Royal Romanian Air Force squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women
USA	Wing and a Prayer (The Story of Carrier X)		Henry Hathaway	Battle of Midway
USA	Winged Victory		George Cukor	Training of US Army Air Forces

1945[edit]

Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Back to Bataan		Edward Dmytryk	Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte
USA	Blood on the Sun		Frank Lloyd	Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government ^[3]
British India	Burma Rani		T. R. Sundaram	A fictitious Indian spy ring in Japanese-occupied Burma
USA	China's Little Devils		Monta Bell	A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese
USA	Cornered		Edward Dmytryk	Ex-Nazis in Argentina
USA	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
USA	First Yank Into Tokyo		Gordon Douglas	American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb.
USA	God Is My Co-Pilot		Robert Florey	Drama based on Robert Lee Scott, Jr. book. Flying Tigers
USA	The House on 92nd Street		Henry Hathaway	Docudrama. Duquesne Spy Ring
Denmark	The Invisible Army	Den usynlige hær	Johan Jacobsen	Danish partisan
USA	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]
Germany	Life Goes On	Das Leben geht weiter	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	V-2 rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favour
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 ^[13]
USA	Objective, Burma!		Raoul Walsh	Burma Campaign
USA	Out of the Depths		D. Ross Lederman	Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
USA	Pride of the Marines		Delmer Daves	Battle of Guadalcanal and civilian readjustment
USA	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
USA	Samurai		Raymond Cannon	Japanese spy in California
USA	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
USA	They Were Expendable		John Ford	PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
USA	This Man's Navy		William A. Wellman	Adventure. US Navy airships
USA	Too Young to Know		Frederick De Cordova	War in the South Pacific separates young couple
USA	A Walk in the Sun		Lewis Milestone	Invasion of Salerno
UK	The Way to the Stars		Anthony Asquith	RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
USA	What Next, Corporal Hargrove?		Richard Thorpe	Comedy. Final adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe

Late 1940s[edit]

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	USA	The Best Years of Our Lives		William Wyler	American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war
1946	UK	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 ^[14]
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 (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	Philippines	I Remember Bataan	Dugo ng Bayan	Fernando Poe, Sr.	Filipino resistance
1946	USSR Yugoslavia	In the Mountains of Yugoslavia	V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии)(Russian) U planinama Jugoslavije(Serbo-Croatian)	Abram Room	Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks
1946	UK	Journey Together		John Boulting	Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946	Italy	Monte Cassino	Montecassino(Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco)	Arturo Gemmiti	Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey
1946	Italy	O sole mio	O sole mio	Giacomo Gentilomo	Four days of Naples
1946	Italy	Outcry	Il sole sorge ancora	Aldo Vergano	Italian disbanded soldiers after the armistice and resistance
1946	UK	School for Secrets		Peter Ustinov	Operation Biting
1946	USA	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	UK	Theirs is the Glory		Brian Desmond Hurst andTerence 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	UK	Frieda		Basil Dearden
1947	Denmark	Jenny and the Soldier	Soldaten og Jenny	Johan Jacobsen
1947	Poland	The Last Stop	Ostatni etap	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1947^[15]	Italy	Men and Skies ^†	Uomini e cieli	Francesco De Robertis	Regia Aeronautica
1947	Occupied Germany	Seven Journeys	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	USA	13 Rue Madeleine		Henry Hathaway	US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France
1947	Japan	War and Peace	Sensō to heiwa (戦争と平和)	Fumio Kamei	Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home
1948	UK	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	UK Netherlands	But Not in Vain	Niet Tevergeefs	Edmond T. Gréville	Drama.^[16]
1948	USA	Command Decision		Sam Wood	Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force
1948	USA	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 ^[17]
1948	Occupied Germany	Morituri	Morituri (Latin) (Freiwild(German))	Eugen York	^[18]
1948	Yugoslavia	On their own territory	Na svoji zemlji	France Štiglic	People fighting to kill Germans and Italians
1948	Norway France	Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water	Kampen om tungtvannet	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 battleshipGiulio Cesare)
1948	USA Switzerland	The Search	^[19]	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.	Docudrama. Danish sailors
1949	USA	Battleground		William A. Wellman	101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949	USSR	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	USSR	Encounter at the Elbe	Vstrecha na Elbe(Встреча на Эльбе)	Grigori Aleksandrov,Aleksei Utkin	Elbe Day
1949	USSR	The Fall of Berlin	Padeniye Berlina(Падение Берлина)	Mikheil Chiaureli	Battle of Berlin
1949	USA	Home of the Brave		Mark Robson	Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island
1949	USA	Lost Boundaries		Alfred L. Werker	Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro
1949	USA	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	Poland	The Others Will Follow	Za wami pójdą inni	Antoni Bohdziewicz	Warsaw, Polish resistance
1949	UK	Private Angelo		Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov	Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier
1949^[20]	Italy	Sailors Without Stars ^†	Marinai senza stelle	Francesco De Robertis	Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a Gabbiano-class corvette)
1949	USA	Sands of Iwo Jima		Allan Dwan	Battle of Iwo Jima
1949	UK	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	UK	They Were Not Divided		Terence Young	The British Guards Armoured Division
1949	USA	Twelve O'Clock High		Henry King	B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force

Films made during the Cold War[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1950

Films made since the Cold War[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990

Early 1990s[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § Early 1990s

Late 1990s[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § Late 1990s

Early 2000s[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § Early 2000s

Late 2000s[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § Late 2000s

2010s[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § 2010s

In development[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990 § In development

Science fiction, fantasy and horror[edit]

Main article: List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

TV series[edit]

Main article: List of World War II TV series

Dramatised documentary[edit]

This section requires expansionwith: titles from other countries that produce films of this type. (June 2012)

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.

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1940	France	My Crimes After Mein Kampf	Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes	"Jean-Jacques Valjean"	Assassinations of Ernst Röhm and Kurt von Schleicher on Night of the Long Knives, 1934, then Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, also 1934
1940	UK	Mein Kampf - My Crimes(After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler)		Norman Lee(uncredited)
1992	Canada	A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (TV)		Brian McKenna	Drama. Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941
1992	Canada	Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (TV)		Brian McKenna	Drama. RCAF Lancaster bombing of German cities
1992	Canada	In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (TV)		Brian McKenna	Drama. Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944
1995	Canada	War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence (TV)		Brian McKenna	Drama.
1995	Canada	War at Sea: The Black Pit(TV)		Brian McKenna	Drama.
1996	Canada	A Web of War		Brian McKenna	Drama. Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Anders
2003	UK	Killing Hitler (TV)		Jeremy Lovering	Drama. Operation Foxley plan to kill Hitler, 1944

Spanish Civil War[edit]

Main article: 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.

October 3, 2015