Top 10 WW2 DVD and Video: Eastern Front

1. Stalingrad
Beautifully shot and poorly dubbed, this 1993 film follows a group of German soldiers through the famous Battle of Stalingrad in an episodic
format that includes tank battles, factory storming and starvation. There is precious little about the 'big picture' because the focus is firmly on
the individual men, their bond, and how they suffer in a war they haven't chosen. If you want details about the battle try pick 10, if you want
a great film, try this, but get the subtitled version!

2. Come and See

Brutal is an over-used term, but perfect for one of the most deeply affecting war movies ever made. Filmed in a frequently lyrical,
disorientating style, 'Come and See' views the Eastern Front through the eyes of a child partisan, showing the Nazi atrocities in all their
horror. If you felt Schindler's List was shocking, it's Hollywood syrup compared to this. One warning though: the DVD transfer is supposedly
terrible and VHS copies are advised.

3. Cross of Iron
Sam Peckinpah's take on World War 2 is as dense, violent and confrontational as you'd expect, focusing on German troops in the Eastern
Front's final phase: the bloody push by the Russians all the way back to Berlin. The interplay between weary soldiers and vainglorious
commanders forms the center and there’s a sense of collapse throughout. However, the edited Region 1 DVD is of very poor quality; I
recommend a VHS or a different region release.

4. The Winter War

Loved and loathed in equal measure, The Winter War follows a group of Finns fighting against Russia in the oft-forgotten Russo-Finnish war of
1939-40. Some people adore the battle scenes, some think they’re jerky and repetitive, while others love the dialogue and no-nonsense
plotting; others claim the plot and characterisation have gone missing...it's the kind of film you need to decide about yourself. As with others
on this list, the DVD release is of poor quality.

5. Kanal
Kanal is the story of resistance fighters who retreat into Warsaw's sewers (Kanaly) to fight during the failed uprising of 1944; failed, because
the Russian army stopped and waited for the Nazis to finish killing the rebels. As you'd expect, the tone is bleak but proud, doomed but heroic
and fortunately for the memory of those involved, suitably powerful.

6. Mein Krieg
Mein Krieg (My War) is an extraordinary assemblage of interviews with veterans and the footage they filmed – privately, on hand held
cameras – during their time on the Eastern Front. Material from six German soldiers has been used and, as each fought in different units to
each other, there's a good range of material. However, the strength is their commentary, recollections gifting us a deep insight into the
changing views and emotions of these average Wehrmacht soldiers.

7. My name is Ivan
In this highly symbolic and psychological film, Ivan is a Russian adolescent drawn into the Second World War, a conflict from which no age,
sex or social group was immune. Bleak, honest and often deeply saddening, the stark and lethal reality of the war is blended – thanks to Ivan
– with a child's dreamlike view of the world.

8. Ballad of a Soldier
Ballad of a Soldier follows a Russian trooper who, by virtue of some accidental bravery, receives a pass home to visit his mother and, while
travelling back through the drained country, meets a young woman with whom he falls in love. Instead of gory brutality, this film is about
romance and hope, as well as reflections on how people were affected by the war. Many consider it an utter classic and it won't please those
gratified solely by violence.

9. Enemy at the Gates

The third film from this list set in Stalingrad, Enemy at the Gates was slated upon release for historical inaccuracy and a mushy love story.
Nevertheless, it's a hugely atmospheric piece with stunning battle scenes and the central plot – a sniper battle between a Russian hero and a
German officer – is loosely based on real life. View it as an enjoyable thriller with beautiful people and you may well enjoy it.

10. Stalingrad: Dogs, do you want to live forever?

Less well known than the 1993 Stalingrad, this 1958 version traces the changes wrought upon one German lieutenant by the terrible battle.
However, in covering many facts and events the story gets a bit lost, making this as generally more educational and less emotional than pick
1. Nevertheless, with actual footage of the battle blended seamlessly into the main film its still strong stuff and a solid compliment to the
colour equivalent.
Best Movies about Second World War

137 7.8 7.5

1. Cross of Iron (1977)

Ville's rating:

120 9.1 8.1

2. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Ville's rating:

1960 8.1 8.5

3. The Pianist (2002)

Ville's rating:

114 8 7.7

4. The Unknown Soldier (1955)

Ville's rating:
 30 7.9 7.5

5. Attack! (1956)
Ville's rating:

93 7.3 7.5

6. Stalingrad (1993)
Ville's rating:

155 8.5 8.1

7. Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Ville's rating:

830 7.5 8

8. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Ville's rating:
 510 8.2 8.5

9. Das Boot (1981)

Ville's rating:

1557 8.2 8.8

10. Casablanca (1942)

Ville's rating:

223 7.4 7.8

11. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Ville's rating:

2079 8.2 8.4

12. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Ville's rating:
 684 7.8 8.4

13. Downfall (2004)

Ville's rating:

2910 8.3 8.9

14. Schindler's List (1993)

Ville's rating:

200 7.9 8.2

15. Stalag 17 (1953)

Ville's rating:

129 7.1 7.5

16. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Ville's rating:
 140 8.7 8.6

17. Night and Fog (1955)

Ville's rating:

159 7.6 7.1

18. Catch-22 (1970)

Ville's rating:

733 8.1 8.3

19. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Ville's rating:

674 8.3 8.4

20. The Great Dictator (1940)

Ville's rating:
 170 7.8 8

21. To Have and Have Not (1944)

Ville's rating:

632 6.5 7.1

22. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Ville's rating:

35 7.5 7.7

23. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Ville's rating:

121 8.6 8.1

24. Army of Shadows (1969)

Ville's rating:
 480 7.9 8.4

25. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Ville's rating:

197 7.5 7.9

26. From Here to Eternity (1953)

Ville's rating:

201 7.9 8.1

27. Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987)

Ville's rating:

136 7.5 7.8

28. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Ville's rating:
 12 7.3 7.3

29. A Walk in the Sun (1945)

Ville's rating:

3152 7.7 8.5

30. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Ville's rating:

60 7.6 7.8

31. Two Women (1960)

Ville's rating:

56 7 6.9

32. Saints and Soldiers (2003)

Ville's rating:
 32 7.6 7.5

33. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Ville's rating:

10 7.3 7

34. Headquarters (1970)

Ville's rating:

185 7.5 7.6

35. The Counterfeiters (2007)

Ville's rating:

39 7.8 7.4

36. The Boys (1962)

Ville's rating:
 157 7 7.7

37. Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Ville's rating:

126 7 7.5

38. Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Ville's rating:

19 7.2 7.1

39. Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

Ville's rating:

174 6.9 7.6

40. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Ville's rating:
 521 7.9 8.3

41. The Great Escape (1963)

Ville's rating:

140 7.5 6.6

42. Inglorious Bastards (1978)

Ville's rating:

18 6.1 6.3

43. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Ville's rating:

714 7 7.4

44. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Ville's rating:
 14 7.2 7.2

45. In Harm's Way (1965)

Ville's rating:

659 6.6 7.2

46. Valkyrie (2008)

Ville's rating:

14 7.4 7.5

47. This Land Is Mine (1943)

Ville's rating:

873 7.2 7.5

48. The Thin Red Line (1998)

Ville's rating:
 59 6.1 6.8

49. Battle of Britain (1969)

Ville's rating:

319 5.6 5.9

50. Windtalkers (2002)

Ville's rating:
Restrictions

• The film or mini-series must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events
which feature as a part of the war effort.
• For short films, see List of World War II short films.
• For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films.

Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.

1939
Battles, campaigns, events
Country Title Director
depicted
USA Hitler, Beast of Berlin Sam Newfield Archival footage of Adolf Hitler.
Michael Powell, Adrian RAF mobilization - the first British
UK The Lion Has Wings
Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst propaganda film of the war.

1940
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK Convoy Pen Tennyson The Second Battle of the Atlantic
Viktor
Germany Feinde (Enemies) Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland.
Tourjansky
Japan Moyuru ōzora Yutaka Abe
UK Secret Journey John Baxter Espionage
UK The Big Blockade Charles FrendThe Economic blockade of Germany
Charlie A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named
USA The Great Dictator
Chaplin Adenoid Hynkel
USA The Long Voyage Home John Ford The Second Battle of the Atlantic
Herman Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and
USA Watch on the Rhine
Shumlin his family to Washington.
While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about
USA Waterloo Bridge Mervyn LeRoy
his World War I romance [1]
USA Women in War John H. Auer Nurses in the Battle of Britain.

1941
Battles, campaigns, events
Country Title Director
depicted
Josef von An heroic German mother during
Germany Annelie
Bákyn war.
USA Caught in the Draft David Butler Bob Hope gets drafted.
Brian Desmond
UK Dangerous Moonlight The Battle of Britain
Hurst
Survivors of a sunken U-boat in
UK 49th Parallel Michael Powell Hudson Bay trek across Canada to
the neutral USA
Anthony
UK Freedom Radio German Resistance
Asquith
Viktor
USSR Frontovye podrugi (The Girl from Leningrad)
Eisymont
The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to
UK Pimpernel Smith Leslie Howard
World War II
 Sergei
UK Ships with Wings Battle of Taranto
Nolbandov
Alfred
Germany Soldaten von morgen (Soldiers of Tomorrow) Nazi Hitler Youth film
Weidenmann
Henry
USA Sundown The North African Campaign
Hathaway
Germany U-Boote westwärts Günther Rittau U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
Vincent
USA Underground German Resistance
Sherman
USA A Yank in the RAF Henry King American volunteers in the RAF

1942
Battles,
Country Title Director campaigns,
events depicted
Italian submarine
warfare;
Francesco De
Italy Alfa Tau! Mediterranean
Robertis
Theatre of World
War II
Augusto The North Africa
Italy Bengasi
Genina campaign
S. Sylvan Cavalry and tank
USA The Bugle Sounds
Simon warfare
Canadian bush
pilots in the
British
Michael
USA Captains of the Clouds Commonwealth
Curtiz
Air Training Plan,
WWI ace Billy
Bishop as himself
Romantic film in
Michael Vichy France-
USA Casablanca
Curtiz controlled
Morocco
Norwegian
UK The Day Will Dawn Harold French
resistance
RAF aircrew
escape from
USA Desperate Journey Raoul Walsh
Germany through
occupied Holland
Eagle Squadron,
American
USA Eagle Squadron Arthur Lubin volunteers in the
RAF during the
Battle of Britain
Leslie Development of
UK The First of the Few
Howard the Spitfire
USA
Flying Fortress Walter Forde B-17 planes
UK
USA Flying Tigers David Miller American
China Volunteer Group,
 the Second Sino-
Japanese War
The Battle of
UK The Foreman Went to France Charles Frend
France
Arthur Maria The Battle of
Germany Fronttheater
Rabenalt Greece? [2]
Some part of
battle between
Germany Die große Liebe (The Great Love) Rolf Hansen
Nazi Germany and
USSR.
Attack on Pearl
Kajiro Harbor and
Japan Hawai Mare oki kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya)
Yamamoto Malayan
Campaign.
Noel Coward Based on the
UK In Which We Serve and David sinking of HMS
Lean Kelly
The Second Sino-
USA Lady from Chungking William Nigh
Japanese War
Juvenile
delinquents battle
USA Let's Get Tough! Wallace Fox the Black Dragon
Society saboteurs
in New York
William The British Home
USA Mrs. Miniver
Wyler Front
A. Edward The Second Battle
USA Navy Comes Through
Sutherland of the Atlantic
Careless talk costs
Thorold lives - message
UK The Next of Kin
Dickinson and fictional
commando raid
Carmine
Italy Odessa in fiamme (Odessa in Flames)
Gallone
Michael Allied aircrew
Powell and escaping from the
UK One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Emeric occupied
Pressburger Netherlands
Spy film about
George
USA Pacific Rendezvous cryptography in
Sidney
the Pacific War
Roberto
Italy Un Pilota ritorna
Rossellini
The Soviet
Estonia Punane udu (The Red Fog) occupation of
Estonia
The French
USA Reunion in France Jules Dassin Resistance helps a
downed US pilot
Leslie S.
UK Sabotage at Sea
Hiscott
USA Somewhere I'll Find You Wesley War
 correspondents in
Ruggles
China and Pacific
Robert Z.
USA Stand by for Action The Pacific War
Leonard
Stuka, German
Germany Stukas Karl Ritter
dive bomber
Spencer Commando raids
USA They Raid by Night Gordon in occupied
Bennet Norway
Effects on
Ernst Warsaw; Polish
USA To Be Or Not To Be
Lubitsch Air squadron in
London
H. Bruce
USA To the Shores of Tripoli
Humberstone
Satsuo Co-written by
Japan Tsubasa no gaika (A Triumph of Wings)
Yamamoto Akira Kurosawa
Isidor
Annensky and
USSR Uchinari Jani
Vladimir
Petrov
The Battle of
USA Wake Island John Farrow
Wake Island
A fictional
Alberto German invasion
UK Went the Day Well?
Cavalcanti of England (see
Operation Sealion)
George B.
USA A Yank on the Burma Road The Burma Road
Seitz

1943
Battles, campaigns,
Country Title Director
events depicted
The Second Battle of the
USA Action in the North Atlantic Lloyd Bacon
Atlantic
The B-17 bomber in the
USA Aerial Gunner William H. Pine
Pacific
B-17 bombers in the
USA Air Force Howard Hawks
Battle of the Philippines
The Battle of Bataan,
USA Bataan Tay Garnett
Philippines
Edward
USA Behind the Rising Sun
Dmytryk
Auxiliary Fire Service
UK The Bells Go Down Basil Dearden
during The Blitz
Germany Besatzung Dora Karl Ritter All about Luftwaffe men.
Richard B-17 bomber crewmen in
USA Bombardier
Wallace the Pacific
Joseph H.
USA Bombs Over Burma
Lewis
USA Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Louis King Chetniks - Yugoslav
guerrillas under General
 Draza Mihailovich
USA China John Farrow
The Battle of Corregidor,
USA Corregidor William Nigh
Philippines
Richard Rosson
The Battle of the
USA Corvette K-225 and Howard
Atlantic, RCN corvette
Hawks
US submarine in the
USA Crash Dive Archie Mayo
North Atlantic
USA The Cross of Lorraine Tay Garnett
USA Cry 'Havoc' Richard Thorpe
US submarine patrol for
USA Destination Tokyo Delmer Daves
the Doolittle Raid
The fictional story of the
William A. destroyer USS John Paul
USA Destroyer
Seiter Jones from
commissioning
Lewis The Norwegian
USA Edge of Darkness
Milestone resistance movement
Humphrey
UK Fires Were Started The Blitz
Jennings
Spy film set after the fall
USA Five Graves to Cairo Billy Wilder of Tobruk in the North
African Campaign
Commando raids in
UK The Flemish Farm Jeffrey Dell
occupied Belgium
US Marines in
USA Guadalcanal Diary Lewis Seiler
Guadalcanal campaign
Marine Raiders in the
USA Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright
Central Pacific
The spirit of a deceased
US pilot acts as the
USA A Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming
"guardian angel" of new
pilots
Operation Anthropoid,
the assassination of
USA Hangmen Also Die Fritz Lang
Reinhard Heydrich by the
Czech resistance
British and Canadian
USA Immortal Sergeant John M. Stahl troops in the North Africa
Campaign
Diomide
USSR Antadze and
He will come back
( Georgian SSR) Nikoloz
Shengelaia
Michael Powell
UK The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Emeric The Home Guard
Pressburger
Frank Launder
UK Millions Like Us and Sidney The Home Front
Gilliat
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
Lewis Guerrilla warfare on the
USA The North Star
Milestone Eastern Front
USA Pilot #5 George Sidney Battle of the Java Sea
Leslie
USA Rookies in Burma The Burma Campaign
Goodwins
Allied troops at the
USA Sahara Zoltan Korda Second Battle of El
Alamein
S. Sylvan The Battle of the
USA Salute to the Marines
Simon Philippines
Gordon
UK The Silver Fleet Dutch resistance
Wellesley
The Battle of the
USA So Proudly We Hail! Mark Sandrich
Philippines (1941-42)
James Patrick
USA The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Hogan
USA This Land Is Mine Jean Renoir French Resistance
Henry S. Kesler
USA Three Russian Girls and Fyodor The Eastern Front
Otsep
Sergei Yugoslav guerrillas in
UK Undercover
Nolbandov Serbia
Submarine warfare
Anthony
UK We Dive at Dawn during the Second Battle
Asquith
of the Atlantic

1944
Battles, campaigns,
Country Title Director
events depicted
Internment camps for
UK 2,000 Women Frank Launder British women in
occupied France
Italian aviators flying for
the Salò Republic; the
Republic of Salò Aeroporto Piero Costa
only surviving film made
in the Republic of Salò
Jacques
USA Days of Glory Soviet partisans
Tourneur
Harold S.
The Second Sino-Japanese
USA Dragon Seed Bucquet, Jack
war.
Conway
The experiences of female
William A. stars in USO shows; Betty
USA Four Jills in a Jeep
Seiter Grable, Carole Landis and
others play themselves
USA In the Meantime, Darling Otto Preminger
Alfred
Germany Junge Adler Germany during the war
Weidenmann
USSR Jurgais pari Siko Dolidze
 and Davit
( Georgian SSR)
Rondeli
Kajiro
Japan Kato hayabusa sento-tai
Yamamoto
Women's Auxiliary
USA Ladies Courageous John Rawlins
Ferrying Squadron
Alfred The Second Battle of the
USA Lifeboat
Hitchcock Atlantic
Propaganda film about
Gerardo de Japan–Philippines
Second Philippine Republic Liwayway ng kalayaan (Dawn of Freedom) León, Yutaka relations during Japanese
Abe occupation of the
Philippines.
Iosif Kheifits
USSR Malakhov kurgan and Aleksandr Battle of Sevastopol
Zarkhi
Harold D.
USA Marine Raiders The Battle of Guadalcanal
Schuster
Robert Z.
USA Marriage Is a Private Affair
Leonard
USA Mr. Winkle Goes to War Alfred E. Green
Yasujiro
Japan Nichijô no tatakai
Shimazu
USA Passage to Marseille Michael Curtiz
USA Passport to Destiny Ray McCarey
Kajirô Japanese torpedo bomber
Japan Raigekitai shutsudo
Yamamoto squadron at war.
USSR Rainbow Mark Donskoy
USA Rosie the Riveter Joseph Santley
USA See Here, Private Hargrove Wesley Ruggles
USA Sergeant Mike Henry Levin
Home Front in the United
USA Since You Went Away John Cromwell
States
USA Song of Russia Gregory Ratoff
Italy
Squadriglia bianca (The White Squadron) Ion Sava
Romania
USA Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Lloyd Bacon
USA The Eve of St. Mark John M. Stahl
USA The Fighting Seabees Edward Ludwig The US Navy Seabees
USA The Impostor Julien Duvivier
Herbert J.
USA The Master Race
Biberman
William A.
USA The Navy Way
Berke
Prisoners of war captured
USA The Purple Heart Lewis Milestone
during the Doolittle Raid.
Australia The Rats of Tobruk Charles Chauvel Siege of Tobruk
Cecil B. Navy doctor in the Battle
USA The Story of Dr. Wassell
DeMille of Java
USA The Sullivans Lloyd Bacon The Sullivan brothers
USA Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Mervyn LeRoy The Doolittle Raid
 USA Till We Meet Again Frank Borzage
USA To Have and Have Not Howard Hawks
USA Two-Man Submarine Lew Landers
USA U-Boat Prisoner Lew Landers
USA Waterfront Steve Sekely
Conscripts are trained and
UK The Way Ahead Carol Reed fight in the North African
Campaign
USA The White Cliffs of Dover Clarence Brown
USA Wing and a Prayer Henry Hathaway The Battle of Midway
USA Winged Victory George Cukor

1945
Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Edward Battle of Bataan, guerilla warfare in the
USA Back to Bataan
Dmytryk Philippines, in the Battle of Leyte
An American journalist is persecuted by
USA Blood on the Sun Frank Lloyd
the Japanese militarist government
USA China's Little Devils Monta Bell
Edward
USA Cornered Ex-Nazis in Argentina
Dmytryk
USA Counter-Attack Zoltan Korda The Eastern Front
Denmark Den usynlige hær (The Invisible Army) Johan Jacobsen Danish Partisan
Bodil Ipsen, Lau
Denmark De røde Enge (The Red Meadows) Young Danish saboteur
Lauritzen Jr.
Squadron 201 of the Mexican Air Force in
Mexico Escuadrón 201 Jaime Salvador
the Battle of Luzon against the Japanese
USA First Yank Into Tokyo Gordon Douglas
USA
God Is My Co-Pilot Robert Florey The Flying Tigers
China
USA Keep Your Powder Dry Edward Buzzell Women's Army Corps
Wolfgang About how the V-2 rocket would turn the
Germany Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On)
Liebeneiner tide of the war in Germany's favour
The first full length anime film; shows
Japan Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors Mitsuyo Seo Japanese folk hero and animal buddies
driving British soldiers off an island
USA Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh The Burma Campaign
D. Ross Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during
USA Out of the Depths
Lederman the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian
USA Pride of the Marines Delmer Daves
readjustment
USA Prison Ship Arthur Dreifuss
Roberto About the Italian resistance movement
Italy Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City)
Rossellini after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
Raymond
USA Samurai
Cannon
Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th
William A.
USA The Story of GI Joe Infantry in the North African Campaign
Wellman
and the Battle of Monte Cassino
PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines
USA They Were Expendable John Ford
(1941-42)
 Frederick De War in the South Pacific separates a
USA Too Young to Know
Cordova young couple
USA A Walk in the Sun Lewis MilestoneThe Invasion of Salerno
Anthony RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed
UK The Way to the Stars
Asquith in England
The final comedic adventures of Private
USA What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Richard Thorpe
Hargrove in Europe

Late 1940s
Battles,
campaigns,
Year Country Title Director
events
depicted
Leopoldo The Bataan
1946 Philippines Death March
Salcedo Death March
Fernando Filipino
1946 Philippines Dugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan)
Poe, Sr. Resistance.
War crimes
committed by
[3] Imperial
1946 Philippines Garrison 13
Japanese
Army in the
Philippines.
The guerrilla
movement in
the
Philippines
Octavio
1946 Philippines Guerilyera during the
Silos
Japanese
occupation of
the
Philippines
Follows the
life of three
RAF pilots
John
1946 UK Journey Together from
Boulting
recruitment
to first
combat
Stories on
René railroad
1946 France La Bataille du rail
Clément French
resistance
The Battle of
Manuel Bataan and
1946 Philippines Orasang Ginto
Conde Battle of
Corregidor.
About the
Roberto
1946 Italy Paisà Italian
Rossellini
campaign
Peter Operation
1946 UK School for Secrets
Ustinov Biting
 American
servicemen
William struggle after
1946 USA The Best Years of Our Lives
Wyler returning
home from
the war
British
Basil prisoners of
1946 UK The Captive Heart
Dearden war in
Germany
Brian
Desmond Operation
1946 UK Theirs is the Glory Hurst and Market
Terence Garden
Young
Yugoslav
partisans;
USSR Abram
1946 V gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia) Draza
Yugoslavia Room
Mihailovich;
Chetniks
The Japanese
Occupation
1946 Philippines Walang Kamatayan Tor Villano
of the
Philippines.
Polish
Michał
Campaign
Poland Waszyński,
1946 Wielka droga (La Grande strada) 1939, Russia,
Italy Vittorio
Africa, Italy
Cottafavi
1944
Polish
Resistance
1939-1945 -
Leonard
1946 Poland Zakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs) the first post-
Buczkowski
war Polish
film, and a
musical
Cai
The Mukden
1947 China The Spring River Flows East Chusheng,
Incident.
Zheng Junli
Wanda Auschwitz -
1947 Poland Ostatni etap (The Last Stop)
Jakubowska Birkenau
Johan
1947 Denmark Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny)
Jacobsen
Basil
1947 UK Frieda
Dearden
Henry
1947 USA 13 Rue Madeleine
Hathaway
Command
stresses in the
1948 USA Command Decision Sam Wood
US Eighth
Air Force
1948 UK Against the Wind Charles A
Crichton Commando
 raid into
occupied
Belgium
1948 UK A Piece of Cake John Irwin
Norwegian
1948 Norway Kampen om tungtvannet heavy water
sabotage
P-47 fighters
in the US air
1948 USA Fighter Squadron Raoul Walsh
war in
Europe
Displaced
USA Fred persons in
1948 The Search
Switzerland Zinnemann postwar
Germany
The first
post-1945
1948 West Germany Morituri Eugen York
German film
about the war
The
Aleksander Holocaust in
1948 Poland Ulica Graniczna (Border Street)
Ford occupied
Poland
Silesia
Stanisław
1948 Poland Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts) Poland 1944 /
Januszewski
45
People are
France fighting to
1948 Yugoslavia Na svoji zemlji (On the own territory)
Štiglic kill Germans
and Italians
Tells the true
Bodil Ipsen,
Støt står den danske sømand (The Viking Watch of the Danish story about
1948 Denmark Lau
Seaman) Danish
Lauritzen Jr.
sailors
Situation
Johan
1948 Denmark Tre år efter after the war
Jacobsen
termination
The 101st
Airborne
William A.
1949 USA Battleground Division in
Wellman
the Battle of
the Bulge
A young
survivor from
Alice
1949 Denmark Det gælder os alle a
O'Fredericks
concentration
camp.
A journalist
carries
André
1949 France Mission in Tangier documents to
Hunebelle
London from
Tangiers.
1949 USSR Padeniye Berlina Mikheil The Battle of
 Chiaureli Berlin
The Battle of
1949 USA Sands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan
Iwo Jima
Michael
Powell and Bomb
1949 UK The Small Back Room
Emeric disposal
Pressburger
Vladimir The Battle of
1949 USSR Stalingradskaya Bitva
Petrov Stalingrad
The British
Terence Guards
1949 UK They Were Not Divided
Young Armoured
Division
B-17
bombers of
1949 USA Twelve O'Clock High Henry King the US
Eighth Air
Force
Grigori
Aleksandrov
1949 USSR Vstrecha na Elbe Elbe Day
and Aleksei
Utkin
Poland
Antoni Warsaw,
1949 Poland Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow)
Bohdziewicz Polish
Resistance

1950s
Battles, campaigns, events
Year Country Title Director
depicted
American Guerrilla in the The Japanese occupation of the
1950 USA Fritz Lang
Philippines Philippines.
Francis the Talking Mule unmasks
1950 USA Francis Arthur Lubin
a Japanese spy in the South Pacific
Filipina nurses in the battles in
1950 Philippines Mapuputing Kamay Fausto J. Galauran
Bataan and Corregidor.
Miasto nieujarzmione
1950 Poland Jerzy Zarzycki Poland Warsaw 1944
(Unvanquished City)
1950 UK Odette Herbert Wilcox SOE agent Odette Samson.
1950 USA Three Came Home Jean Negulesco Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
When Willie Comes Marching
1950 USA John Ford
Home
True story of three British POWs
1950 UK The Wooden Horse Jack Lee and their attempt to escape from
Nazi Germany
1951 Italy Achtung! Banditi! Carlo Lizzani The Italian resistance movement
Guy Morgan and
1951 UK Albert
Edward Sammis
The American army uses German
1951 USA Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak
POWs as spies in Germany in 1945
1951 USA Fighting Coast Guard Joseph Kane
1951 USA Flying Leathernecks Nicholas Ray A US Marine fighter pilot in the
 Pacific
The US Fifth Army in the Italian
1951 USA Force of Arms Michael Curtiz
Campaign
U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat
1951 USA Go For Broke! Robert Pirosh
Team in Italy and France
[4] Makapili during Japanese
1951 Philippines Makapili
Occupation of the Philippines.[5].
A US Navy submarine's patrols in
1951 USA Operation Pacific George Waggner
the Pacific War
1951 USA Submarine Command John Farrow
1951 USA Target Unknown George Sherman
Biopic of Erwin Rommel from the
The Desert Fox: The Story of
1951 USA Henry Hathaway Second Battle of El Alamein to the
Rommel
July 20 plot
1951 USA The Magic Face Frank Tuttle An actor takes Hitler's place
1951 USA The Wild Blue Yonder Allan Dwan
A US submarine chaser in
1951 USA You're in the Navy Now Henry Hathaway
development
Melvin Frank, The 509th Composite Group and
1952 USA Above and Beyond
Norman Panama atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
George More
1952 UK Angels One Five The Battle of Britain
O'Ferrall
1952 UK Appointment in London Philip Leacock RAF Bomber Command
The dropping of Little Boy on
1952 Japan Children of Hiroshima Kaneto Shindō
Hiroshima, Japan
1952 UK Gift Horse Compton Bennett The St Nazaire Raid
1952 France Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) René Clément The Occupation of France
American bomber shot down in
Norway. Surviving crew hidden by
1952 Norway Nødlanding (Emergency Landing) Arne Skouen
Norwegian resistance Milorg and
smuggled out of the country.
1952 USA Okinawa Leigh Jason The Battle of Okinawa
1952 USA Operation Secret Lewis Seiler Espionage
Transportation units in the
1952 USA Red Ball Express Budd Boetticher European Theater of Operations
during World War II
The 45th Infantry Division in Italy.
1952 USA Thunderbirds John H. Auer
Code talkers.
1953 UK Albert RN Lewis Gilbert British POWs in a German camp
Japanese soldiers on a remote
1953 Japan Anatahan Josef von Sternberg Pacific island will not accept that
the war has been over for years
1953 USA China Venture Don Siegel
A US Navy weather unit in
1953 USA Destination Gobi Robert Wise
Mongolia
1953 USA El Alaméin Fred F. Sears The Second Battle of El Alamein
1953 USA Fighter Attack Lesley Selander The Italian Campaign andPartisans
1953 USA From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann The attack on Pearl Harbor
1953 USA Guerrilla Girl John Christian Greek Resistance
1953 UK Malta Story Brian Desmond Hurst The Siege of Malta
1953 UK Single-Handed Roy Boulting Royal Navy (based on Brown on
 Resolution)
German Prisoner of War camp for
1953 USA Stalag 17 Billy Wilder
US flyers
Taiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Biopic of Admiral Isoroku
1953 Japan Ishirō Honda
Pacific) Yamamoto
1953 UK The Cruel Sea Charles Frend The Battle of the Atlantic
The Australian 7th Division at
1953 USA The Desert Rats Robert Wise Tobruk, during the North African
Campaign
1953 UK The Red Beret Terence Young British paratroops Operation Biting
René Delacroix, A French Canadian serviceman
1953 Canada Tit-Coq
Gratien Gélinas comes home
1954 West Germany 08/15 Paul May
Dutch resistance in the Battle of
1954 USA Betrayed Gottfried Reinhardt
Arnhem
1954 USA The Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk Destroyer warfare in the Pacific
Admiral Canaris was head of the
German military intelligence and
1954 West Germany Canaris Alfred Weidenmann
was part of several plots against
Hitler.
RAF bombers launch Operation
1954 UK The Dam Busters Michael Anderson
Chastise
Spanish volunteers on the Eastern
1954 Spain La patrulla Pedro Lazaga
Front
RAF evaders in the Burma
1954 UK The Purple Plain Robert Parrish
Campaign
1954 UK The Sea Shall Not Have Them Lewis Gilbert Air Sea Rescue
Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about
UK Norwegian smugglers in the North
1954 Shetlandsgjengen Michael Forlong
Norway Sea; most members of the "gang"
play themselves
1954 UK They Who Dare Lewis Milestone SAS raid in occupied Greece
A story of a young boy who,
through his wits, delivers an
important message to the 8th Route
1954 China Letter with Feather Shi Hui
Army while evading Imperial
Japanese forces during the Second
Sino-Japanese War.
About the last days of the
1955 Denmark Der kom en dag Sven Methling
Occupation
1955 West Germany 08/15 - In der Heimat Paul May
1955 West Germany 08/15 - Zweiter Teil Paul May
The sinking of the German
1955 UK Above Us the Waves Ralph Thomas
battleship Tirpitz
US Marines at the battles of
1955 USA Battle Cry Raoul Walsh
Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan
Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue The Tatra Mountains in Poland -
1955 Poland Andrzej Munk
Cross) the Eastern Front in 1945
Royal Marine commandos launch
1955 UK The Cockleshell Heroes José Ferrer
Operation Frankton
1955 UK The Colditz Story Guy Hamilton British, Dutch and French POWs in
 special "escape-proof" camp
West Germany Der letzte Akt (The Last Act, Hitler:
1955 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Austria The Last Ten Days)
1955 USA The Eternal Sea John H. Auer Pacific War
Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Stanisław Bareja, Jan
1955 Poland Poland 1945
Hope) Rybkowski
The July 20 plot to assassinate
1955 West Germany Jackboot Mutiny Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Hitler
John Ford and Melvin A US Navy cargo ship in the South
1955 USA Mister Roberts
LeRoy Pacific
1955 Poland Pokolenie (A Generation) Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance
1955 Malaya Sergeant Hassan P. Ramlee war legend
Combat biography of Audie
1955 USA To Hell and Back Jesse Hibbs
Murphy
1955 Finland The Unknown Soldier Edvin Laine Finno-Soviet Continuation War
British and Australian POWs after
1956 UK A Town Like Alice Jack Lee
the Battle of Singapore
1956 USA Attack Robert Aldrich US infantry in France after D-Day
1956 USA Away All Boats Joseph Pevney US attack transport in the Pacific
US Navy battleship in the Pacific
1956 USA Battle Stations Lewis Seiler
War
A National Guard unit in the
1956 USA Between Heaven and Hell Richard Fleischer
Philippines
1956 USA D-Day the Sixth of June Henry Koster The Normandy invasion
American soldier saves two
1956 Yugoslavia Dolina miru (Quiet Valley) France Štiglic
children
Spanish prisoners at a Russian
1956 Spain Embajadores en el infierno José María Forqué
camp
1956 Poland Kanał Andrzej Wajda Warsaw Uprising 1944
Douglas Bader and the Battle of
1956 UK Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert
Britain
Michael Powell and
1956 UK The Battle of the River Plate Battle of the River Plate
Emeric Pressburger
1956 UK The Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst The North African campaign
1956 USA The Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster The Italian Campaign
1956 Japan The Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa The Burma Campaign
The Battle of Sicily - Operation
1956 UK The Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame
Mincemeat
UK British POWs work on the Burma
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean
Sri Lanka Railway
The Tatra Mountains in Poland -
1957 Poland Con bravura Andrzej Munk
the Polish Resistance
Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of The Battle of Normandy from the
1957 West Germany Paul May
Paris) German soldiers' perspective
Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille,
1957 West Germany Der Stern von Afrika Alfred Weidenmann
ace of the Luftwaffe.
The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse
1957 USA The Enemy Below Dick Powell action between US destroyer and a
German submarine
The Shark and the Little Fish; U-
1957 West Germany Haie und kleine Fische Frank Wisbar
boats
 A U.S. Marine and Catholic nun
1957 USA Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison John Huston trapped on enemy island in the
South Pacific
Submarine warfare in the Pacific
1957 USA Hellcats of the Navy Nathan Juran
Theatre
Story of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian
resistance man who's forced to
1957 Norway Ni Liv Arne Skouen make an epic escape to neutral
Sweden following a failed sabotage
operation in Tromsø, Norway.
True story of German escaper
1957 UK The One That Got Away Roy Ward Baker
Franz von Werra
1957 UK The Steel Bayonet Michael Carreras
A biography of Navy flier Frank
1957 USA The Wings of Eagles John Ford
W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater.
1958 UK Carve Her Name with Pride Lewis Gilbert SOE agent Violette Szabo
The Battle of Cisterna and Battle of
1958 USA Darby's Rangers William Wellman
Anzio.
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The
1958 West Germany Géza von Radványi Battle of Stalingrad
Doctor of Stalingrad)
A Pole from Silesia in the
1958 Poland Dezerter (Deserter) Witold Lesiewicz
Wehrmacht
Operation Dynamo; the Dunkirk
1958 UK Dunkirk Leslie Norman
Evacuation
The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW
1958 Poland Eroica Andrzej Munk
Camp 1944/45
Historia jednego myśliwca (Story
1958 Poland Hubert Drapella The Battle of Britain 1940
of one Fighter)
Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs,
1958 West Germany Do You Want to Live Forever!, Frank Wisbar The Battle of Stalingrad
Battle Inferno)
1958 UK Ice-Cold in Alex J. Lee Thompson North African campaign
1958 UK I Was Monty's Double John Guillermin General Montgomery
1958 Poland Krzyż walecznych (Cross of Valour) Kazimierz Kutz The Eastern Front, 1945
1958 UK Operation Amsterdam Michael McCarthy
1958 Poland Orzeł Leonard Buczkowski The story of ORP Orzeł
Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Stanisław
1958 Poland Polish Resistance
Aurelia) Lenartowicz
Popiół i diament (Ashes and
1958 Poland Andrzej Wajda Polish Resistance 1945
Diamonds)
Japanese submarine chase during
1958 USA Run Silent, Run Deep Robert Wise
the Pacific War
Long Range Desert Group, North
1958 UK Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) Guy Green
Africa Campaign
1958 USA South Pacific Joshua Logan Musical set in the Pacific Theater
Czechoslovaki Czechoslovak army on the Eastern
1958 Tenkrát o Vánocích Karel Kachyňa
a Front, Christmas 1944
Polish resisters spy on German
1958 UK The Battle of the V 1 Vernon Sewell
rocket tests
1958 UK The Camp on Blood Island Val Guest British and Dutch POWs in Malaya
1958 UK The Key Carol Reed The Battle of the Atlantic
1958 USA The Naked and the Dead Raoul Walsh The Pacific War
1958 UK The Wind Cannot Read Ralph Thomas The RAF in Burma
Story of 3 soldiers during World
War II. One is German, Two others
1958 USA The Young Lions Edward Dmytryk
are American (one of them is
Jewish)
1958 Poland Wolne miasto (Free City) Stanisław Różewicz Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939
Communist Party undercover
1958 China Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo Ping Wang agents operate in Shanghai in 1939
against the Japanese.
1959 USSR Ballad of a Soldier Grigori Chukhrai
Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain
1959 Poland Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear) Jerzy Zarzycki
Zakopane, Holocaust
1959 Poland Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe) Bronisław Brok Polish Resistance Comedy
1959 West Germany Die Brücke Bernhard Wicki The Western Front
1959 Japan Fires on the Plain Kon Ichikawa War in the Philippines.
A petty thief, who is hired by the
Nazis, impersonating an Italian
1959 Italy General della Rovere Roberto Rossellini
resistance leader. Based on a novel
by Indro Montanelli.
Dismissal of Benito Mussolini
Italy
1959 Estate Violenta Valerio Zurlini during the Allied invasion of
France
Sicily.
Czesław Petelski,
1959 Poland Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky) The Warsaw Uprising, 1944
Ewa Petelska
1959 Poland Lotna Andrzej Wajda The Polish Campaign, 1939
1959 USA Never So Few John Sturges The Burma Campaign
Ningen no joken I (The Human
1959 Japan Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance; Manchukuo
Condition: No Greater Love)
Ningen no joken II (The Human
1959 Japan Masaki Kobayashi Japanese resistance
Condition: Road to Eternity)
Soviet POWs in Germany, based
Sudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a
1959 USSR Sergei Bondarchuk on short story by Mikhail
Man)
Sholokhov
A German bomb disposal squad in
1959 USA Ten Seconds to Hell Robert Aldrich
post-war Berlin
1959 USA The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens The Biography of Anne Frank.
Polish Resistance - Operation
1959 Poland Zamach Jerzy Passendorfer
Kutschera, 1944

[edit] 1960s
Battles,
Year Country Title Director campaigns,
events depicted
1960 Denmark Frihedens Pris Annelise Hovmand
1960 Denmark Den sidste vinter Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen
Czechoslovak
Czechoslovaki
1960 Práče Karel Kachyňa army on the
a
Eastern Front.
1960 Japan Storm Over the Pacific Shuei Matsubayashi A story about a
pilot who serves
 on the Japanese
carrier Hiryu in
the battles of
Pearl Harbor and
Midway
A group of Free
French
commandos in
1960 France Un taxi pour Tobrouk Denys de La Patellière North Africa try
to reach Allied
lines and capture
a German officer.
The Battle of
Saipan; also
shows
1960 USA Hell to Eternity Phil Karlson discrimination
against Japanese-
Americans during
World War II
Operation
Rheinübung, part
1960 UK Sink the Bismarck! Lewis Gilbert of the Second
Battle of the
Atlantic
1960 Italy Escape by Night Roberto Rossellini
The Four days of
1960 Italy Everybody Go Home Luigi Comencini
Naples.
The Allied
1960 Italy Long Night in 1943 Florestano Vancini
invasion of Italy.
1960 Italy Two Women Vittorio De Sica
Italy The Battle of the
1960 Under Ten Flags Duilio Coletti
USA Atlantic
The
1961 UK The Guns of Navarone J. Lee Thompson Mediterranean
Theatre
The 1939
1961 East Germany Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) Gerhard Klein
Gleiwitz incident
1961 Denmark Alarm i Østersøen Sven Methling
Comedy - British
1961 UK Very Important Person Ken Annakin POWs in a
German camp
Some part of
1961 India Hum Dono Amarjeet
Burma Campaign.
1961 Italy The Fascist Luciano Salce
The Holocaust in
1961 Poland Samson Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda
occupied Poland
Germany Eastern
1961 Poland Kwiecień (Spring) Witold Lesiewicz
Front, 1945
Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth The Polish
1961 Poland Stanisław Różewicz
Certificate) Campaign, 1939
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a Dresden,
1961 Poland Jan Rybkowski
City Will Die) Germany, 1945
 Poland - The
1961 Poland Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train) Kazimierz Kutz German
Occupation
The Four Days of
1962 Italy The Four Days of Naples Nanni Loy
Naples.
1962 Poland Walter P-38 (TV) Edward Etler Polish Resistance
1962 USA Hell Is for Heroes Don Siegel The Western front
Wartime prison
1962 Netherlands De Overval (The Raid) Paul Rotha
raid
Merrill's
1962 USA Merrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller
Marauders
American 5th
1962 USA The Gallant Men Various
Army in Italy
American bomber
1962 UK The War Lover Philip Leacock crews station in
England
A mystery novel
adaptation about
1962 Netherlands Als twee druppels water Fons Rademakers
the Dutch
resistance
Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and The Normandy
1962 USA The Longest Day
Ken Annakin landings
Story of a
German family,
from Germany to
Argentina and
1962 USA The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vincente Minnelli
occupied France,
between country,
Nazism and anti-
Nazism.
Mercenary
fighting with
partisans in The
USA Philippines
1963 Cry of Battle Irving Lerner
Philippines during the
Japanese
occupation of the
Philippines.
Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the Comedy, Eastern
1963 Poland Tadeusz Chmielewski
General?) Front, 1945
Na białym szlaku (On the White
1963 Poland Jarosław Brzozowski War in Arctica
Trails)
The Holocaust in
1963 Poland Naganiacz (Manhunter) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
Poland
Auschwitz-
1963 Poland Pasażerka Andrzej Munk
Birkenau
An heroic Filipina
during Japanese
1963 Philippines Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig Pablo Santiago
Occupation of the
Philippines.
1963 USA PT 109 Leslie H. Martinson John F.
Kennedy's Naval
 service on the
Pacific Front
The campaigns of
two demolition
men during
1963 Philippines Sierra Madre Armando A. Herrera
Japanese
Occupation of the
Philippines.
Philippine Army
1963 Philippines Sigaw ng Digmaan Efren Reyes, Sr. (1941)
Resistance.
Guerrilla warfare
1963 Finland Sissit Mikko Niskanen during the
Continuation War
British and
American POWs
1963 USA The Great Escape John Sturges mount mass
escape from
Stalag Luft III
True story of
1963 UK The Password is Courage Andrew Stone Sergeant Major
Charles Coward
Philippines before
Philippines
1963 The Raiders of Leyte Gulf Eddie Romero the Battle of
USA
Leyte.
American soldiers
1963 UK The Victors Carl Foreman in Europe
following D-Day
1964 UK 633 Squadron Walter Grauman Occupied Norway
Planning for the
1964 USA The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller Normandy
landings
Czechoslovaki Operation
1964 Atentát Jiří Sequens
a Anthropoid
Three-man team
of United States
soldiers preparing
the way for Gen.
MacArthur's
1964 USA Back Door to Hell Monte Hellman return to the
Philippines by
destroying a
Japanese
communications
center.
Polish Resistance,
1964 Poland Barwy walki (Battle Colours) Jerzy Passendorfer
1944
USAF pilots
Japan relive events in
1964 Flight from Ashiya Michael Anderson
USA North Africa and
the Pacific
1964 Poland Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Stanisław Lenartowicz Cult comedy -
Warsaw) Italian soldier in
 Poland, 1943
Philippines The Battle of
1964 Intramuros (The Walls of Hell) Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León
USA Intramuros.
Koniec naszego świata (End of our
1964 Poland Wanda Jakubowska Auschwitz
World)
The Battle of
1964 Philippines Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres
Corregidor.
Soviet Gulag /
1964 Poland Nieznany (The Unknown) Witold Lesiewicz Eastern Front,
1943/44
USSR
1964 ( Georgian Otets soldata (Father of a Soldier) Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze)
SSR)
Pierwszy dzień wolności (The First Germany, 1945,
1964 Poland Aleksander Ford
Day of Freedom) Polish POWs
Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the
1964 Poland Janusz Nasfeter Polish Resistance
Forest)
1964 USA Shell Shock John Hayes Italy during war.
The Guadalcanal
1964 USA The Thin Red Line Andrew Marton
Campaign.
USA
Resistance in
1964 France The Train John Frankenheimer
Occupied France
Italy
The Battle of
1964 France Week-end à Zuydcoote Henri Verneuil
Dunkirk
On early June
1944, Germans
kidnap an
American officer
and try to
convince him that
1965 USA 36 Hours George Seaton they are in 1948,
that World War II
is over, so that
they can get
details about the
Allied invasion of
Europe.
The Ardennes
1965 USA Battle of the Bulge Ken Annakin
Offensive
Norwegian
resistance
1965 UK The Heroes of Telemark Anthony Mann movement
Operation
Gunnerside
Life in a brutal
1965 UK The Hill Sidney Lumet military prison in
North Africa
1965 USA In Harm's Way Otto Preminger The Pacific Front
1965 Philippines Iginuhit ng Tadhana Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Biography of
Conde Ferdinand Marcos
during the
 Japanese
Occupation of the
Philippines
American and
Japanese soldiers
USA temporarily rely
1965 None But the Brave Frank Sinatra
Japan on each other for
survival on a
Pacific Island
Fictionalised
Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy version of
1965 UK Michael Anderson
Mission) Operation
Crossbow
Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Polish Resistance,
1965 Poland Janusz Morgenstern
Quiet) 1944
Filipino guerrillas
take on the last of
Philippines
1965 The Ravagers Eddie Romero the Japanese
USA
forces remaining
on their country.
Drama about the
1965 UK The Sound of Music Robert Wise Von Trapp family
in Austria
Second Sino-
1965 Japan Story of a Prostitute Seijun Suzuki
Japanese War
Tunnel warfare in
China during the
1965 China Tunnel War Ren Xudong
Second Sino-
Japanese War
British and
American POWs
1965 USA Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson
escape from
Italian camps
Poland
Poland - German
1965 France Czas pokoju (TV) Tadeusz Konwicki
Occupation
West Germany
Eastern Front,
1965 Poland Buty (The Boots) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
military hospital
Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after Eastern Front,
1965 Poland Lech Lorentowicz
the War) (TV) 1945
1965 Poland Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska Poland, 1944
Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death Poland - German
1965 Poland Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki
In the Middle Room) (TV) Occupation
Poland Soviet
1965 Poland Wózek (The Cart) (TV) Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
POWs
Podziemny front (The Underground Polish Resistance,
1965 Poland Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki
Front) (TV series) 1941–45
UK
1966 The Night of the Generals Anatole Litvak The July 20 plot
France
1966 France La ligne de démarcation Claude Chabrol In 1941, the life
in a little town cut
in half by a river
 that forms the
border between
Nazi-occupied
France and the
unoccupied zone
USA The Liberation of
1966 Is Paris Burning? René Clément
France Paris
Czechoslovaki Closely Watched Trains (Ostře
1966 Jiří Menzel
a sledované vlaky)
What Did You Do in the War, The Allied
1966 USA Blake Edwards
Daddy? invasion of Sicily
Polish Campaign,
1966 Poland Don Gabriel Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
1939 - Comedy
About the life of a
Der var engang en krig (Once There
1966 Denmark Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt boy after the
Was a War)
occupation
1966 Poland Kontrybucja (Contribution) Jan Łomnicki Polish Resistance
Poland - German
1966 Poland Mistrz (The Master) (TV) Jerzy Antczak
Occupation
Comedy about
RAF aircrew
escaping through
occupied France
1966 France La Grande Vadrouille Gérard Oury
aided by two
Frenchmen with
very different
mindsets
Loosely based on
1967 UK Attack on the Iron Coast Paul Wendkos the St Nazaire
Raid
The Pacific
1967 USA Beach Red Cornel Wilde Theater of
Operations
Polish Resistance
1967 Poland Długa noc (Long Night) Janusz Nasfeter German
Occupation, 1943
Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią
Poland Germany during
1967 (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Jan Rybkowski
West Germany the war
Crime)
Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer
1967 Poland Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Polish Resistance
Leaves a Trace)
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's The Kyūjō
1967 Japan Kihachi Okamoto
Longest Day) Incident.
Battle of
1967 USA The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich
Normandy
Battle of
1967 Poland Westerplatte Stanisław Różewicz
Westerplatte
Poland - Eastern
1967 Poland Zosia (Zosya) Jerzy Lipman
Front - Love story
Polish Resistance,
1967 Poland Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) Zbigniew Kuźmiński
Comedy
1968 Philippines Ang Mangliligpit Pablo Santiago Battle of Filipino
 Guerrillas with
the Makapili.
The Battle of
1968 Italy Anzio Edward Dmytryk
Anzio
Marooned
American and
1968 USA Hell in the Pacific John Boorman Japanese soldiers
on an unnamed
Japanese island
USSR Mobilized
1968 ( Estonian Inimesed sõdurisinelis Jüri Müür Estonians in the
SSR) Red Army
USSR
1968 ( Georgian Jvartsmuli kundzuli Shota Managadze
SSR)
Eastern Front,
1968 Poland Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) Jerzy Passendorfer
1945
The Manila
1968 Philippines Manila, Open City Eddie Romero Massacre and the
Battle of Manila.
Czechoslovaki Czech pilots in
1968 Nebeští jezdci Jindřich Polák
a the RAF
Albanian
resistance under
1968 Albania Prita (Ambush) Mithat Fagu
German
occupation, 1943
Soviet spy in
1968 USSR Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword) Vladimir Basov German
intelligence [6]
Royal Navy
1968 UK Submarine X-1 William A. Graham midget
submarines
The Devil's
1968 USA The Devil's Brigade Andrew V. McLaglen
Brigade
In 1946 North
Africa, two
former USAF
pilots are forced
to work for an
1968 USA The Hell with Heroes Joseph Sargent
international
smuggler to get
money needed for
their return to
civilian life
Story of a
1968 Japan The Human Bullet Kihachi Okamato
kamikaze soldier
Comedy about
Generals held in a
1968 USA The Secret War of Harry Frigg Jack Smight
special POW
camp
1968 USA Where Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Allied operation
to rescue a
captured
 American
General
France
1969 Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville French Resistance
Italy
The Battle of
1969 UK Battle of Britain Guy Hamilton
Britain
Polish Resistance
Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of and Soviet
1969 Poland Jerzy Passendorfer
Purification) Partisans -
Poland, 1944
British military
officers are in
pursuit of a
1969 Italy Eagles Over London Enzo G. Castellari merciless team of
Nazi saboteurs
though war-
ravaged London.
Comedy - Polish
Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę Campaign 1939,
1969 Poland światową (How I Unleashed the Tadeusz Chmielewski Yugoslavia,
Second World War) Africa, Italy,
Poland, 1944
Battle of Kolberg
1969 Poland Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski (1945), on the
Eastern Front
The Second
1969 Italy La Battaglia di El Alamein Giorgio Ferroni Battle of El
Alamein
Eastern Front
chronicle of
1969 USSR Liberation Yuri Ozerov battles from
Stalingrad to the
Fall of Berlin
A British bomber
squadron must
destroy
1969 UK Mosquito Squadron Boris Sagal Germany's new
Vergeltungswaffe
at a research
camp
Guerrilla
resistance in
Tirana during the
1969 Albania Njësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit) Hysen Hakani
occupation of
Albania by
Fascist Italy
Eastern Front,
1969 Poland Ostatnie dni (The Last Days) Jerzy Passendorfer
1945
A mission to
destroy the
1969 Philippines Pambihirang tatlo Felix Villar Japanese bastion
along the San
Bernardino Strait.
 The North
1969 UK Play Dirty Andre de Toth African
Campaign
1969 Italy Salt in the Wound Tonino Ricci
Bydgoszcz Polish
1969 Poland Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours) Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Campaign, 1939
The Battle of
1969 Yugoslavia The Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajić
Neretva
Operation
1969 USA The Bridge at Remagen John Guillermin Lumberjack, on
the Western Front
The aftermath of
the fall of the
1969 USA The Secret of Santa Vittoria Stanley Kramer Fascist
government of
Benito Mussolini
Poland Lwów
1969 Poland Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) Jan Rybkowski Soviet / German
Occupation, 1941

[edit] 1970s
Battles,
campaigns,
Year Country Title Director
events
depicted
Bent
1970 Denmark Oktoberdage
Christensen
The Italian
1970 USA Catch-22 Mike Nichols
Campaign
Hideki Tōjō's
Hiromichi biography
1970 Japan Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu'
Horikawa during Pacific
War.
British motor
torpedo boats
UK Paul
1970 Hell Boats operating in
USA Wendkos
the
Mediterranean
Italian
Campaign -
USA Phil Karlson, Commando
1970 Hornet's Nest
Italy Franco Cirino and partisan
raid to destroy
a dam
USA Brian G. The Western
1970 Kelly's Heroes
Yugoslavia Hutton Front
Powstanie
Janusz
1970 Poland Kolumbowie Warszawskie,
Morgenstern
1944
Poland Sylwester Polish
1970 Legenda
USSR Chęciński Resistance
1970 Philippines Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force) Jerry Hopper Japanese
 invasion of
Manila Bay.
General
Franklin
1970 USA Patton George S.
Schaffner
Patton
Yahagi Kamikaze
1970 Japan Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze)
Toshihiko attacks.
Life in
1970 Philippines Santiago! Lino Brocka occupied
Philippines.
The first
Occidental
Italy Vittorio De
1970 Sunflower (I Girasoli) film to be
Russia Sica
made in the
USSR.
British
commandos
Walter on a mission
1970 UK The Last Escape
Grauman to kidnap a
German
scientist
British
commando
Robert
1970 USA Too Late the Hero raid in the
Aldrich
Pacific
Campaign
Richard
Fleischer,
USA Kinji The Attack on
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
Japan Fukasaku and Pearl Harbor
Toshio
Masuda
Poland -
Children in a
Zbigniew
1970 Poland Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel) German
Chmielewski
concentration
camp
Tatra
Mountains in
Lech Poland,
1970 Poland Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire)
Lorentowicz Zakopane
Polish
Resistance
Jerzy Iwanow-
Szajnowicz, a
Zbigniew Polish SOE
1971 Poland Agent nr 1
Kuźmiński agent in the
Greek
resistance
1971 USA Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Disney
Stevenson children's
musical -
German raid
 on England in
1940 repulsed
with magic
Comedy about
the British
Norman
1971 UK Dad's Army Home Guard,
Cohen
based on the
TV series.
The Battle of
Okinawa from
the eyes of the
Army, Navy,
Kihachi Air Force,
1971 Japan Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen
Okamoto civilians, and
the Generals
who
commanded
them
The Battle of
1971 UK Murphy's War Peter Yates
the Atlantic
Winter, 1942.
A former
Aleksei
1971 USSR Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) Russian POW
German
joins the
partisans.
Henry North African
1971 USA Raid on Rommel
Hathaway Campaign
Battle of
Filipino
Guerrillas
Armando
1971 Philippines Sangre with the
Garces
Imperial
Japanese
Army.
Andrzej Polish
1971 Poland Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night)
Żuławski Resistance
Remake
Armando A. Version;
1973 Philippines Dugo ng Bayan
Herrera Filipino
Resistance.[7]
The last days
of Adolf Hitler
Italy Ennio De
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days during the
UK Concini
Battle of
Berlin
Polish
Bohdan
1973 Poland Hubal Campaign,
Poręba
1939/1940
1973 France Le Train (The Last Train or The Train) Pierre A Frenchman
Granier- and a Jewish
Deferre German
woman met on
a train while
 escaping the
German army
entering
France
Chinese
animated
puppet film;
1973 China Little 8th Route Army Lei You
The Second
Sino-Japanese
War.
Comic story
about 3 French
signal
Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (Now Where Robert
1973 France corpsmen
Did the Seventh Company Get to?) Lamoureux
during the
May 1940
débâcle
George P. The Ardeatine
1973 Italy Massacre in Rome
Cosmatos massacre.
1973 Hong Kong When Taekwondo Strikes Feng Huang
Polish
Campaign,
Andrzej Jerzy
1973 Poland Zasieki (Barbed Wire) 1939, Soviet
Piotrowski
Gulag, Eastern
Front 1943
France French
1974 West Germany Lacombe Lucien Louis Malle resistance and
Italy collaboration
The
USSR Occupation of
1974 Ohtlikud mängud Veljo Käsper
( Estonian SSR) Estonia by
Nazi Germany
The first big
roundup of
Jews in 1942
Paris, and the
Michel
1974 France Les guichets du Louvre story of a man
Mitrani
who tries to
save as many
Jews as he
can.
Poland -
German
Janusz
1974 Poland Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) Occupation,
Kondratiuk
Eastern Front,
1944
Tragedy of
Poland Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Siergiej
1974 children in
USSR Name) Kołosow
war
1974 Republic of The Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋) Tin Shan Sui Zhang
China Zizhong's
biography
movie during
 Second Sino-
Japanese War.
East Germany
1975 Jacob, the Liar Frank Beyer
Czechoslovakia
USA Operation
1975 Operation Daybreak Lewis Gilbert
Czechoslovakia Anthropoid
Comic story
about 3 French
signal
corpsmen
Robert during the
1975 France On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie
Lamoureux May 1940
Débâcle, and
in an officers
POW camp, in
a castle.
The German
Theodoros invasion and
1975 Greece The Travelling Players
Angelopoulos occupation of
Greece
During the
French
Occupation,
hours in a
special court
room where
judges are
1975 France Section spéciale Costa-Gavras asked to
condemn to
death penalty
people who
didn't do
anything, to
please
Germans.
Pier Paolo
1975 Italy Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Pasolini
Andrzej The Eastern
1975 Poland W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring)
Konic Front, 1945
Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Janusz Polish
1975 Poland
Instrument) Zaorski Resistance
Polish
Janusz
1975 Poland Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) Campaign
Nasfeter
1939
Stanisław Polish
1975 Poland Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen)
Różewicz Resistance
1975 UK Overlord Stuart Cooper A young
soldier trains
with the East
Yorkshire
Regiment in
preparation for
the Normandy
 landings
Live-action
depiction of
Tengo the dropping
1976 Japan Barefoot Gen
Yamada of Little Boy
on Hiroshima,
Japan
Woman gets
Edward in love with a
1976 Denmark Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer)
Fleming German
soldier
The story of
the Japanese
American
1976 USA Farewell to Manzanar (TV) John Korty
internment
camp of
Manzanar
The Japanese
Republic of Chia Chang occupation of
1976 Mei hua
China Liu Taiwan (1937-
1945).
The Battle of
1976 USA Midway (The Battle of Midway) Jack Smight
Midway
French
France
1976 Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) Joseph Losey resistance and
Italy
collaboration
Kraków -
1976 Poland Ocalić miasto Jan Łomnicki Eastern Front,
1945
Krzysztof
Prymek, Poland, 1939–
1976 Poland Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series)
Janusz 43
Morgenstern
Silesia Polish
Paweł
1976 Poland Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) Campaign,
Komorowski
1939
The Japanese
occupation of
1976 Philippines Tatlong taong walang Diyos Mario O'Hara
the
Philippines.
A fictional
German plot
1976 UK The Eagle Has Landed John Sturges to kidnap
Winston
Churchill
Based on the
book
Samurai!;
Seiji Saburō Sakai's
1976 Japan Zero Pilot
Maruyama biography
while piloting
Mitsubishi
A6M Zero.
 Operation
UK Richard
1977 A Bridge Too Far Market
USA Attenborough
Garden
Polish
Jana
1977 Poland Akcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) resistance,
Łomnicki
1943
German
UK Sam
1977 Cross of Iron soldiers on the
West Germany Peckinpah
Russian Front
Comic story
about three
Robert French
1977 France La septième compagnie au clair de lune
Lamoureux veterans who
resist the
Germans.
General
Joseph
1977 USA MacArthur Douglas
Sargent
MacArthur
Poland -
History of
Krzysztof Olympic
Rogulski, champion
1977 Poland Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV)
Ludmiła Janusz
Niedbalska Kusociński,
murdered by
the Gestapo
Poland, 1939–
1977 Poland Palace Hotel Ewa Kruk
44
Paul Dutch
1977 Netherlands Soldier of Orange (Survival Run)
Verhoeven resistance
Jindrich
1977 Czechoslovakia Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem
Polák
Warsaw -
Andrzej
... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie (Wherever You Are, Polish
1978 Poland Trzos-
Mr. President) Campaign,
Rastawiecki
1939
Jerzy Eastern Front,
1978 Poland Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood)
Hoffman 1943
British
Guy commando
1978 UK Force 10 from Navarone
Hamilton raid in
Yugoslavia
Four-part
Marvin J. miniseries
1978 USA Holocaust
Chomsky about the
Holocaust
Wim Dutch
1978 Netherlands Pastorale 1943
Verstappen resistance
Enzo G.
1978 Italy Quel maledetto treno blindato
Castellari
1978 Poland Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Zbigniew A courier
Shores) Kuźmiński travelling
through
 Europe has to
deliver a
special letter
to London
German action
Edward T4 in a Polish
1978 Poland Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration)
Żebrowski psychiatric
hospital
Julian Silesia Polish
1978 Poland Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead)
Dziedzina Resistance
USSR Forest
1979 Tuulte pesa Olev Neuland
( Estonian SSR) Brothers
Americans
John
1979 UK Yanks stationed in
Schlesinger
England
German-
George Pan
1979 UK Escape to Athena occupied
Cosmatos
Greece
American
UK bomber crews
1979 Hanover Street Peter Hyams
USA based in
England
Paweł Eastern Front
1979 Poland Elegia
Komorowski 1945
Story (and
love) of
Boris Sagal, General
1979 USA Ike (miniseries) Melville Dwight D.
Shavelson Eisenhower
during World
War II.
Henryk Eastern Front,
1979 Poland Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars)
Bielski 1944
Władysław Escape from a
1979 Poland Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go)
Ślesicki POW camp
Poland
Sosnowiec,
Stanisław
1979 Poland Zielone lata (Salad Days) tragedy of
Jędryka
children in
war
1979 Albania Radiostacioni Rikard Ljarja
Poland,
Roman France,
1979 Poland Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma)
Wionczek England -
Enigma
Andrew V. The July 20
1979 West Germany Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough)
McLaglen plot
"Hank
Italy
Milestone" Occupied
1979 France From Hell to Victory
(Umberto Europe
Spain
Lenzi)
1979 USA 1941 Steven California, one
 week after the
Spielberg attack on Pearl
Harbor

[edit] 1980s
Battles,
Year Country Title Director campaigns,
events depicted
Tadeusz Warsaw
1980 Poland Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day)
Kijański Uprising, 1944
Polish
Janusz Resistance -
1980 Poland Godzina "W" ('W' Hour)
Morgenstern Warsaw
Uprising, 1944
A story of
vengeance set
during the near
1980 Philippines Kalibre .45 Nilo Saez end of the
Japanese
occupation of
the Philippines.
Andrzej A POW Camp,
1980 Poland Olimpiada '40
Kotkowski 1940
U.S. 1st Infantry
Division, 1942-
1980 USA The Big Red One Samuel Fuller 45 in North
Africa, Sicily,
and Europe
Science fiction
movie. The
nuclear aircraft
carrier Nimitz is
lost in a storm,
then arrives at
1980 USA The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific) Don Taylor the same place
in the Pacific on
December 7,
1941, and meets
Japanese
aircraft en route
to Pearl Harbor.
The German
François occupation of
1980 France The Last Metro
Truffaut France during
World War II.
UK
Andrew V. Calcutta Light
1980 Switzerland The Sea Wolves
McLaglen Horse
USA
1980 Poland Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) Ewa Petelska, Polish
Czesław Campaign, 1939
Petelski - Polish
Resistance,
Warsaw
 Uprising, 1944
Poland,
Witold
1980 Poland Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) Zamość, Polish
Orzechowski
Resistance
A cadet in a
French military
school doesn't
1981 France Allons Z'enfants Yves Boisset like the army
and is taken in
the 1939-40
war.
Ewa Petelska,
Polish
1981 Poland Bołdyn (General Boldyn) Czesław
Resistance
Petelski
Wolfgang The Battle of
1981 West Germany Das Boot (The Boat)
Petersen the Atlantic
A football
match between
1981 USA Escape to Victory (Victory) John Huston German soldiers
and Allied
POWs
A German spy
Richard
1981 UK Eye of the Needle in England
Marquand
before D-Day
1981 Netherlands Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) Ben Verbong Dutch resistance
Shûe The Operation
1981 Japan Rengo kantai (The Imperial Navy)
Matsubayashi Ten-Go.
Stanisław Polish
1981 Poland Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye)
Różewicz Resistance
Based on the
book The
George
1981 USA The Bunker Bunker; The last
Schaefer
days of Adolf
Hitler.
1982 Australia Attack Force Z Tim Burstall Z Special Unit
Polish Silesia,
Stanisław
1982 Poland Do góry nogami (Upside Down) tragedy of
Jędryka
children in war
Krzysztof
Prymek, Polish
1982 Poland Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day)
Roman Resistance
Wionczek
Seiji
Maruyama, Operation
1982 Australia The Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross)
Peter Rimau
Maxwell
Peque The Fall of
1982 Philippines Oro, Plata, Mata
Gallaga Corregidor.
A Polish village
during the
1982 Poland Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV) Ryszard Ber
German
occupation
 Alan J.
1982 USA Sophie's Choice Holocaust
Pakula
Anime film:
depiction of the
dropping of
1983 Japan Barefoot Gen Mori Masaki
Little Boy on
Hiroshima,
Japan
The Japanese
Leong Po-
1983 Hong Kong Hong Kong, 1941 occupation of
Chih
Hong Kong
1983 Denmark Forræderne Ole Roos
Waldemar Poland
1983 Poland Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey)
Dziki Holocaust
General
Bohdan
1983 Poland Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) Wladysław
Poręba
Sikorski, 1943
UK Nagisa British POWs
1983 Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Japan Oshima on Java Island
Juliusz The Holocaust
1983 Poland Nie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs)
Janicki in Poland
Criminals and
deserters from
Zhang the Eighth
1983 China One and Eight
Junzhao Route Army
battle Japanese
in China
(Comedy)
French
Jean-Marie
1983 France Papy fait de la résistance Resistance in
Poiré
Occupied
France
Battle of
Filipino soldiers
and guerrillas
1983 Philippines Roman Rapido Argel Joseph
with the
Imperial
Japanese Army.
Biographical
USA film about
1983 UK The Scarlet and the Black Jerry London Monsignor
Italy Hugh
O'Flaherty.
Stefan The Holocaust
1983 Poland Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV)
Szlachtycz in Poland
Poland Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Jerzy The Holocaust
1983
West Germany Schnee) Hoffman in Poland
1983 USA Winds of War Dan Curtis The saga of a
family and
events leading
up to the Attack
on Pearl Harbor.
Based on the
 novel by
Herman Wouk.
USSR Estonians in a
1984 Võõra nime all Peeter Urbla
( Estonian SSR) Soviet camp
Silesia, 1939-42
Kazimierz
1984 Poland Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) Polish
Kutz
Resistance
Ludmiła The Warsaw
1984 Poland Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day)
Niedbalska Uprising, 1944
Waldemar The Polish
1984 Poland Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder)
Podgórski Campaign, 1939
Polish
Stanisław
1984 Poland Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV) Resistance,
Jędryka
1941
The Second
1984 China Yellow Earth Chen Kaige Sino-Japanese
War.
Operation
Barbarossa to
1985 USSR The Battle for Moscow Yuri Ozerov
the Battle of
Moscow
Jonathan Battle of
1985 USA Code Name: Emerald
Sanger Normandy
The Eastern
1985 USSR Come and See Elem Klimov
Front
A romance
between a
Dimitri
1985 Netherlands De IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour) Dutch woman
Frenkel Frank
and a German
officer
A Jewish family
Kees van hiding in
1985 Netherlands Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet)
Oostrum wartime
Amsterdam
Poland Antonín
1985 Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) Children in war
Czechoslovakia Moskalyk
Romanians
Sergiu fighting on the
1985 Romania Noi, cei din linia întâi
Nicolaescu western front
and in Hungary
Hardships of
Sadao nomadic Seburi
1985 Japan Seburi Monogatari (The Seburi Story)
Nakajima people during
wartime.
Jan The Holocaust
1985 Poland Tate (Dad)
Rutkiewicz in Poland
Remake
Version; The
1985 Japan The Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa
Burma
Campaign
1985 Finland The Unknown Soldier Rauni The Finno-
Mollberg Soviet
 Continuation
War
Wojciech The Holocaust
1985 Poland W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred)
Żółtowski in Poland, 1943
1986 Netherlands In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) Ate de Jong Dutch resistance
Poland Federo The Holocaust
1986 Kołysanka (The Lullabye)
Switzerland Sevella in Poland
Andrzej
Barszczyński, Polish
1986 Poland Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War)
Jan Resistance
Chodkiewicz
An Academy
Award for Best
Fons
1986 Netherlands The Assault (De Aanslag) Foreign Film-
Rademakers
winning novel
adaptation
The Pacific
1986 Japan Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison) Kei Kumai
War.
UK Sobibor
1987 USA Escape from Sobibor Jack Gold Uprising during
Yugoslavia the Holocaust
UK
Gordon
1987 USA The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror)
Hessler
Yugoslavia
Three Jewish
boys are given
shelter and a
1987 France Au revoir, les enfants Louis Malle new identity in
a Catholic
boarding school
in Vichy France
British and
American
prisoners in a
Steven
1987 USA Empire of the Sun Japanese
Spielberg
internment
camp outside
Shanghai
John
1987 UK Hope and Glory The Blitz
Boorman
Immediate
aftermath of the
1988 China Evening Bell Wu Ziniu Second Sino-
Japanese War in
China
Anti-Japanese
1988 USA Farewell to the King John Milius resistance on
Borneo
The
1988 Japan Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata Firebombing of
Kobe
1988 Poland I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) Alexander Gipsy - The
 USA Ramati Holocaust
Leszek Auschwitz-
1988 Poland Kornblumenblau
Wosiewicz Birkenau
The Japanese
human
1988 Hong Kong Men Behind the Sun Mou Tun Fei
experimentation
on the Chinese.
Operation
Sturmwind,
Poland Wiktor
1988 Przeprawa (Passage) 1944 - Polish
USSR Turow
Resistance and
Soviet partisans
Young woman's
life working at a
kaoliang
1988 China Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou distillery during
the Second
Sino-Japanese
War
Andrew V. British POWs in
1988 UK Return from the River Kwai
McLaglen Japan
A refugee
Netherlands Piotr hiding in
1988 Shadow Man
UK Andrejew wartime
Amsterdam
The Atomic
bombings of
1988 Japan Tomorrow Kazuo Kuroki
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
The saga of a
family, during
the 1930s-
1988 USA War & Remembrance Dan Curtis
1940s. Based on
the novel by
Herman Wouk.
The aftermath
Shohei of atomic
1989 Japan Black Rain
Imamura bombing of
Hiroshima.
The life of a
Filipina comfort
Celso Ad. women during
1989 Philippines Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice
Castillo Japanese
occupation of
the Philippines.
The Manhattan
1989 USA Fat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé
project
The Battle for
1989 USSR Stalingrad Yuri Ozerov
Stalingrad
Pekka
1989 Finland Talvisota The Winter War
Parikka
Robert M. The story of
1989 USA Triumph of the Spirit
Young Salamo Arouch
 Jacek The Polish
1989 Poland Virtuti
Butrymowicz Campaign, 1939

[edit] 1990s
Battles,
campaigns,
Year Country Title Director
events
depicted
The Holocaust
in Poland: life
Andrzej
1990 Poland Korczak of Dr. Korczak
Wajda
in the Warsaw
ghetto
Japanese war
Stephen crimes trial for
1990 Australia Blood Oath
Wallace the Laha
massacre
Serial killer
Christian de Marcel Petiot
1990 France Docteur Petiot
Chalonge in Occupied
France
A Jewish boy,
concealing his
Agnieszka
1990 Germany Europa Europa identity, joins
Holland
the Hitler
Youth
Story of Raoul
1990 Sweden Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg Kjell Grede
Wallenberg
Comedy -
Western Desert
Campaign,
1990 USA A Man Called Sarge Stuart Gillard Second Battle
of El Alamein
and capture of
Tobruk
Story of the B-
Michael 17 bomber
1990 USA Memphis Belle
Caton-Jones called the
Memphis Belle
1991 Poland Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest) Jan Łomnicki The Holocaust
Danish
Søren Kragh-
1991 Denmark Drengene fra Sankt Petri (The Boys from St. Petri) resistance
Jacobsen
group
Morten
1991 Denmark De nøgne træer
Henriksen
Poland
Janusz
1991 Germany Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703) The Holocaust
Kijowski
France
Italian soldiers
Gabriele
1991 Italy Mediterraneo on a Greek
Salvatores
island
1992 Poland Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle) Andrzej Polish
 Resistance,
Wajda
1945/46
Poland Lwów
Robert Soviet
1992 Poland Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters)
Gliński Occupation,
Gulag
The Western
1992 USA A Midnight Clear Keith Gordon
Front
Sergiu Downfall of
1993 Romania Oglinda
Nicolaescu Ion Antonescu
NKVD actions
Estonia Marek
1993 Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear) in Estonia and
Poland Piestrak
Poland, 1939.
The story of
Oskar
Steven Schindler, who
1993 USA Schindler's List
Spielberg saves about
1100 Jews from
The Holocaust.
Joseph The Battle of
1993 Germany Stalingrad
Vilsmaier Stalingrad.
The Japanese
Hou Hsiao- occupation of
1993 Republic of China The Puppetmaster
Hsien Taiwan (1937-
1945).
Story of a
French SAS
Jacques commando in
1994 France Un jour avant l'aube
Ertaud Brittany, during
the Normandy
battle in 1944.
Nanking
1995 China Don't Cry, Nanking Wu Ziniu
Massacre
The Atomic
Canada Roger
1995 Hiroshima Bombing of
Japan Spottiswoode
Hiroshima
About Lise
Peter Tønder Jensens
1995 Denmark Kun en pige (Just a Girl)
Schrøder life until the
end of the war
The story of the
Robert
1995 USA The Tuskegee Airmen first African-
Markowitz
American pilots
Boarding
school children
1995 China Red Cherry Ye Ying in the German-
occupied Soviet
Union
Brian The Western
1995 USA Sahara Trenchard- Desert
Smith Campaign
1995 Serbia Underground Emir German
Kusturica invasion and
 occupation of
Yugoslavia
Poland
Andrzej
1995 France Wielki tydzień (Holy Week) The Holocaust
Wajda
Germany
British and
German pilots
1996 UK The Brylcreem Boys Terence Ryan
interned in
neutral Ireland
UK Anthony
1996 The English Patient Tobruk
USA Minghella
1996 USA Mother Night Keith Gordon
Rivalry
between British
1996 UK Over Here (TV) Tony Dow and American
aircrews in
England
The Japanese
occupation of
Euthana
1996 Thailand Sunset at Chaophraya Thailand; the
Mukdasanit
Free Thai
Movement
The story of
Lucie and
Raymond
1997 France Lucie Aubrac Claude Berri
Aubrac, in
Occupied
France
Women's Land
1997 UK The Land Girls David Leland
Army
Roberto
1997 Italy La Vita é Bella (Life is Beautiful) The Holocaust
Benigni
Allied women
Australia Bruce
1997 Paradise Road POWs in
USA Beresford
Sumatra
A depiction of
Tojo Hideki
1998 Japan Pride Shunya Ito
during the
Tokyo Trials
Rescue of the
Danish Jews
1998 USA Miracle at Midnight (TV) Ken Cameron
during the
Holocaust
The landing at
Steven Omaha Beach
1998 USA Saving Private Ryan
Spielberg and fighting
inland
The
Terrence
1998 USA The Thin Red Line Guadalcanal
Malick
campaign
The Battle of
1998 USA When Trumpets Fade John Irvin Huertgen
Forest
 Peter A Jewish
1999 USA Jakob the Liar
Kassovitz ghetto
Russia
Germany A visit by
Aleksandr
1999 Japan Moloch Adolf Hitler to
Sokurov
Italy the Berghof
France
The
Finland
1999 Ambush Olli Saarela Continuation
Russia
War
Branko The Bleiburg
1999 Croatia Četverored
Schmidt massacre
While the
Gestapo purge
Berlin of Jews,
a love affair
Max
1999 Germany Aimée & Jaguar blooms
Färberböck
between two
women, Felice
Schragenheim
and Lilly Wust.
A story of an
American pilot
about to pay his
Feng respects to the
1999 China Lover's Grief over the Yellow River
Xiaoning communist-led
Chinese army
who rescued
him.

[edit] 2000s
Battles,
Year Country Title Director campaigns,
events depicted
The Second Sino-
2000 China Devils on the Doorstep Jiang Wen
Japanese War.
Partisan warfare
2000 Italy Johnny the Partisan Guido Chiesa
in Northern Italy.
Story of Adnan
Aziz M. Bin Saidi and the
2000 Malaysia Leftenan Adnan
Osman Battle of Pasir
Panjang.
Set in Sicily in
1940 just as Italy
Giuseppe enters the war.
2000 Italy Malèna
Tornatore Malèna's husband
leaves to serve in
the military.
2000 Philippines Markova: Comfort Gay Gil Portes A story based on
the life of Walter
Dempster Jr., the
last surviving
comfort gay from
 the Japanese
occupation of the
Philippines.
Czechoslovakia -
German
2000 Czech Republic Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall) Jan Hrebejk occupation,
collaboration,
resistance
American
submariners
disguised as Nazis
infiltrate a
Jonathan German U-boat
2000 USA U-571
Mostow with orders to
capture an
Enigma machine
that could turn the
tide of the war.
Poland - German
Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Andrzej
2000 Poland occupation,
Kłos) (TV) Wajda
collaboration
Easy Company,
506th Infantry of
the 101st
UK Steven Airborne Division
2001 Band of Brothers (TV)
USA Spielberg from D-Day
through Holland,
Belgium and
Germany.
UK The Italian
2001 France Captain Corelli's Mandolin John Madden occupation of the
USA Greek islands.
Special
UK Gillian
2001 Charlotte Gray Operations
Australia Armstrong
Executive.
In 1942, 15
German officials
attend a
conference in
Wannsee headed
UK Frank
2001 Conspiracy (TV) by SS Chief of
USA Pierson
Security Reinhard
Heydrich to
discuss the Final
Solution to the
Jewish question
Czechoslovakian
Czech Republic pilots who
2001 Dark Blue World Jan Sverák
UK participated in the
Battle of Britain.
2001 USA Enemy at the Gates Jean-Jacques Stand-off between
Germany Annaud Russian sniper
UK Vasily Zaytsev
 and a German
sniper during the
Ireland
Battle of
Stalingrad.
UK
USA Michael Enigma machine
2001 Enigma
Germany Apted mystery.
Netherlands
A Filipina offers
to be a wet nurse
to a Japanese
2001 Philippines Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway Gil Portes soldier's new son
for the conditional
freedom of her
husband.
Based on the true
Yasuo
2001 Japan Hotaru (Firefly) story of a Korean
Furuhata
kamikaze pilot.
The Attack on
Pearl Harbor and
2001 USA Pearl Harbor Michael Bay
the Doolittle
Raid.
The unconditional
Feng
2001 China Purple Sunset surrender of
Xiaoning
Emperor Hirohito.
Adaptation of
Clemens Forell's
book: a German
Germany So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Hardy
2001 soldier walks over
Russia Me) Martins
11,000 km to
escape from the
Siberian gulag.
The Battle of the
2001 UK The Bunker Rob Green
Siegfried Line.
The Jewish
Sonderkommando
XII in the
Tim Blake
2001 USA The Grey Zone Auschwitz
Nelson
concentration
camp in October
1944.
USA David L. The Burma
2001 To End All Wars
Burma Cunningham Railway.
The Warsaw
2001 USA Uprising (TV) Jon Avnet
Ghetto Uprising.
The execution of
Chito S. General
2001 Philippines Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure
Roño Tomoyuki
Yamashita.
Alleged collusion
France between Nazis
2002 Amen. Costa-Gavras
Germany and the Roman
Catholic Church.
 Based on a true
story about an
John amateur
2002 UK Two Men Went to War
Henderson commando raid
into occupied
France.
A trial is
Gregory conducted in a
2002 USA Hart's War
Hoblit POW camp in
Germany
France under
France Bertrand
2002 Laissez passer (Safe Conduct) German
Germany Tavernier
occupation
A butcher hides
Gérard and protects a
2002 France Monsieur Batignole
Jugnot Jewish boy in
Occupied France
France
Polish pianist
Germany Roman
2002 The Pianist Władysław
UK Polanski
Szpilman
Poland
Story of Winston
USA Richard
2002 The Gathering Storm Churchill before
UK Loncraine
the war.
Soviet scouts
work behind
Nikolai
2002 Russia Zvezda enemy lines
Lebedev
during Operation
Bagration
Enzo The Second Battle
2002 Italy El Alamein
Monteleone of El Alamein
2002 USA Windtalkers John Woo Battle of Saipan
France under
Jean-Paul
2003 France Bon Voyage German
Rappeneau
occupation
An 11-year-old
chess prodigy,
son of a mother
Giacomo working with the
2003 UK Entrusted
Battiato underground
resistance, is
entrusted with a
life-saving secret
The German
Jan Jakub
2003 Poland Pornografia (Pornography) Occupation of
Kolski
Poland
Jewish husbands
Germany Margarethe
2003 Rosenstrasse of Aryan women
Netherlands von Trotta
detained in Berlin
Biography of a
Masahiro
2003 Japan Spy Sorge Soviet spy
Shinoda
Richard Sorge.
2003 France Strange Gardens Jean Becker French hostages
 held captive in a
giant pit
German, Italian
Germany and US
2003 USA The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) Ari Taub combatants on the
Italy Italian Front,
1944
Two
Czechoslovakian
Ondrej resistance fighters
2003 Czech Republic Želary
Trojan are forced into
hiding after their
group is exposed
Japanese
Adman
2003 Malaysia Paloh occupation of
Salleh
Malaya
The Battle of
Joel Bataan, and
2004 Philippines Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita
Lamangan Bataan Death
March.
The aftermath of
Kazuo
2004 Japan Chichi to Kuraseba atomic bombing
Kuroki
of Hiroshima.
An SS officer
tries to coerce a
Catholic priest
into writing to the
Volker Vatican on behalf
2004 Germany Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day)
Schlöndorff of the Church of
Luxembourg
demanding that
the Pope support
Hitler
The last days of
Germany Adolf Hitler in
Oliver
2004 Italy Der Untergang the Führerbunker
Hirschbiegel
Austria during the Battle
of Berlin
Germany German
Switzerland Niko von resistance group,
2004 Edelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates)
Netherlands Glasow the Edelweiss
Luxembourg Pirates
The organization
and planning of
Robert
2004 USA Ike: Countdown to D-Day Operation
Harmon
Overlord at
SHAEF
Occupation of the
2004 UK Island at War
Channel Islands
Croatia under
Antun
2004 Croatia Long Dark Night both Fascism and
Vrdoljak
Communism
2004 Germany Napola (Before the Fall) Dennis Two former Hitler
 Youth form an
unsuspecting
bond at a Reich
Gansel
National-Political
institution at the
height of the war
Vitaly Cossacks shoot;
2004 Russia Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание)
Vorobyev Fascists die.
The Second Battle
of Bohol - Part of
Cesar
2004 Philippines Panaghoy sa Suba Philippines
Montano
Campaign (1944–
45).
Espionage
warfare in
2004 China Purple Butterfly Lou Ye
occupied
Shanghai
Survivors of the
Malmedy
2004 USA Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little massacre during
the Ardennes
Offensive
The July 20 plot
2004 Germany Stauffenberg (TV) Jo Baier to assassinate
Hitler
An artist and
intellectual is
Algimantas
2005 Lithuania Forest of the Gods imprisoned by
Puipa
both the Nazis
and the Soviets
The Continuation
War between the
Finland
2005 Framom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines) Åke Lindman USSR and
Sweden
Finland from
1941-1944.
A Japanese
experimental
Shinji submarine
2005 Japan Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Higuchi attempts to
Cellin Gluck prevent the
atomic bombing
of Tokyo.
Subash Chandra
Shyam Bose and the
2005 India Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
Benegal Indian National
Army.
The rescue of the
Lost Battalion by
Lane
2005 USA Only the Brave the 442nd
Nishikawa
Regimental
Combat Team.
2005 China On the Mountain of Tai Hang Chen Jian, The campaigns of
Shen Dong, the Eighth Route
 Wei Lian Army in China.
The final days
and trial of
Marc Sophie Scholl, a
2005 Germany Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Rothemund member of the
White Rose
resistance.
Japanese
occupation of the
USA
2005 The Great Raid John Dahl Philippines and
Australia
the Raid at
Cabanatuan.
Operation Market
Garden and a
David
2005 UK The Last Drop secret mission by
Teague
British forces to
steal Nazi gold.
Republic of Yu-shan
2005 The Strait Story
China Huang
Russia
France
Italy Aleksandr The life of
2005 The Sun
Sokurov Emperor Hirohito.
Switzerland
Japan
UK
2005 USA The White Countess James Ivory
China
Artyom Gorgeous Soviet
2005 Russia Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva
Nazarov ? women snipers [8]
The Yamato's
2005 Japan Yamato Junya Sato crew during the
Pacific War.
Chinese Justice
Mei Ru-ao at the
Tokyo Trials, the
2006 China Tokyo Trial Gao Qunshu International
Military Tribunal
for the Far East
(IMTFE)
The Battle of Iwo
Clint Jima from the
2006 USA Flags of Our Fathers
Eastwood perspective of
American soldiers
Audrius The Holocaust in
2006 Lithuania Ghetto
Juzėnas Lithuania
France Four North
Morocco Rachid Africans enlist in
2006 Days of Glory
Algeria Bouchareb the French Army
Belgium to liberate France
Alister Kokoda Track
2006 Australia Kokoda
Grierson Campaign
2006 USA Letters from Iwo Jima Clint The Battle of Iwo
 Jima from the
Eastwood perspective of
Japanese soldiers
Teenage convicts
Aleksandr are sent on a
2006 Russia Svolochi
Atanesyan dangerous
guerrilla mission
A young Jewish
woman joins the
Dutch Resistance
Netherlands and becomes
Germany Paul entangled in a
2006 Zwartboek (Black Book)
UK Verhoeven deadly web of
Belgium collaboration and
betrayal in the
final months of
the war
Dana A cattle train with
Vávrová 688 Jews bound
2006 Germany The Last Train
Joseph for Auschwitz in
Vilsmaier 1943.
Love, jazz and
Desmond baseball at the
2007 USA American Pastime
Nakano Topaz, Utah
internment camp
Dunkirk
2007 UK Atonement Joe Wright
evacuation.
The wartime
Jessica Prime Minister of
2007 Australia Curtin (TV)
Hobbs Australia, John
Curtin
Stories of
2007 Japan For Those We Love Taku Shinjō
kamikaze pilots
Jutro idziemy do kina (Tomorrow We're Going to the Michał The Polish
2007 Poland
Movies) Kwieciński Campaign, 1939
The Katyń
massacre of
Andrzej
2007 Poland Katyń Polish POWs and
Wajda
civilians by the
Soviets in 1940.
China An espionage
USA thriller set in
2007 Lust, Caution Ang Lee
Republic of occupied
China Shanghai
Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf
2007 Germany Dani Levy
Hitler
A young Jewish
Véra girl combs Europe
2007 Belgium Surviving with Wolves
Belmont for her deported
parents.
2007 Finland Tali Ihantala 1944 Åke Battles of the
Lindman, Continuation War
Sakari
 Kirjavainen
Stefan Operation
2007 Austria The Counterfeiters
Ruzowitzky Bernhard
Battles in
2007 Estonia Ühe metsa pojad Ats Surva Southern Estonia
in August 1944.
The aftermath of
Kiyoshi
2007 Japan Yunagi City, Sakura Country atomic bombing
Sasabe
of Hiroshima.
A love story
between an
Australian soldier
Baz
2008 Australia Australia and a British
Luhrmann
aristocrat during
the first attack on
Darwin.
Max Soviet occupation
2008 Germany Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin
Färberböck of Berlin
Edward
2008 USA Defiance Bielski partisans
Zwick
Two members of
the Danish
Ole Christian Resistance are
2008 Denmark Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron)
Madsen sent to assassinate
Nazis and
collaborators
The story of Max
Joachim Manus, a
Norway Rønning resistance
2008 Germany Max Manus member fighting
Denmark Espen the Nazi
Sandberg occupation of
Norway
Five female SOE
agents parachute
into occupied
France to
assassinate the
France Jean-Paul German head of
2008 Les Femmes De L'Ombre (Female Agents)
UK Salomé counter-
intelligence) and
rescue a Briton
with information
on the D-Day
invasion
The Sant'Anna di
2008 USA Miracle at St. Anna Spike Lee Stazzema
massacre
2008 Netherlands Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) Martin A young boy
Koolhoven becomes involved
in the Dutch
Resistance during
the last winter of
 the war
The Holocaust as
seen by two 8-
year-olds, one the
USA Mark son of a death
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
UK Herman camp
commandant, the
other an interned
Jew
Australia The Nanking
Roger
2008 China The Children of Huang Shi Massacre, and
Spottiswoode
Germany Three Alls Policy.
Václav
2008 Czech Republic Tobruk Tobruk
Marhoul
The July 20 Plot
2008 USA Valkyrie Bryan Singer to assassinate
Adolf Hitler
Russia Aleksandr The Siege of
2009 Attack On Leningrad
UK Buravsky Leningrad
The Nanking
2009 China City of Life and Death Lu Chuan
Massacre
2009 China Cow Guan Hu
Japan
Yoshiharu Anime film; The
2009 Russia First Squad
Ashino Nazi-Soviet War.
Canada
Jewish-American
Quentin soldiers on a
2009 USA Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino mission to kill a
group of Nazis.
Biographical film
about Winston
Churchill and his
USA Thaddeus
2009 Into the Storm wartime
UK O'Sullivan
leadership (The
Gathering Storm's
Sequel).
Yip Man's life in
the city of Foshan
2009 Hong Kong Ip Man Wilson Yip
during the Sino-
Japanese War.
Germany
Florian The Nanking
2009 China John Rabe
Gallenberger Massacre
France
The Manouchian
Robert resistance group
2009 France L'Armée du crime
Guédiguian and the Red
Poster
Vladimir A priest in
2009 Russia Pop (The Priest)
Khotinenko occupied Latvia
2009 USA Everyman's War Cole Carson, The true story of
Lauren Bair, Don Smith's
Michael J. heroic experience
Prosser, Sean at the Battle of the
 Bulge while with
Mcgrath, Eric
the 94th Infantry
Martin Reid
Division.

[edit] 2010s
Battles,
Year Country Title Director campaigns,
events depicted
Defense of Brest
Fortress by
Soviet troops in
the first days of
2010 Russia Brest Fortress Alexander Kott
the Nazi invasion
of the Soviet
Union in June
1941.
The Japanese
2010 Japan Caterpillar Kōji Wakamatsu
war crimes.
Story of
Krystyna
Poland
2010 Christine: War My Love Agnieszka Holland Skarbek, a Polish
UK
spy working for
the allies
Czech
Republic Life in Nazi
2010 Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill) Juraj Herz
Germany Czechoslovakia.
Austria
The Vel' d'Hiv
2010 France La rafle Roselyne Bosch
Roundup.
Shanghai prior to
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen
2010 Hong Kong Wai-keung Lau the Japanese
Zhen
invasion.
1st Division of
the United States
Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten,
Marine Corps's
2010 USA The Pacific Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa,
actions in the
Tony To
Pacific Theater
of Operations
A group of
Polish POWs
2010 USA The Way Back Peter Weir who manage to
escape from
Gulag.
2010 UK The King's Speech Tom Hooper King George VI.
2011 USA Agent Zigzag Mike Newell Story of Eddie
Chapman, a spy
for the Nazis,
who turns
himself in to the
British and is
then run as a
double agent
against the
 Germans
Sweden stands at
the brink of Nazi
invasion. Two
young soldiers
leave their post
at check-point 83
i North
2011 Sweden Gränsen (The frontier) Richard Holm Värmland,
Sweden and
make their way
through the ice
cold winter-night
towards Nazi-
occupied
Norways border.
Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta
2011 Japan otoko (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Hideyuki Hirayama Battle of Saipan
Called Fox)
Story of Helmuth
Hübener,
youngest
opponent of the
2011 USA Truth & Treason Matt Whitaker Third Reich to be
sentenced by the
Volksgerichtshof
and executed for
high treason
A resistance
2011 Denmark Untitled Regner Grasten group from
Jutland
Rescue of the
Lost Battalion by
2011 USA Little Iron Men Jesse Kobayashi the 442nd
Regimental
Combat Team

In development
Year Country Title Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA Christian
201X Dambusters Operation Chastise
New Zealand Rivers
USA
201X The Forgotten Soldier Paul Verhoeven Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography
Germany
A film about the Battle of the Tannenberg
201X Estonia Nemad (Them) Ilmar Raag
Line