List of World War II films

Below is an incomplete list of full-length films to feature or partly feature events of World War II in the narrative.

Restrictions

• The film must be concerned with WWII and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
• Excludes non-fictional documenteries and shorts.

Films made during the War

1940

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Great Britain	The Big Blockade	Charles Frend	Economic blockade of Germany
Great Britain	Convoy	Pen Tennyson	Second Battle of the Atlantic
United States	The Long Voyage Home	John Ford	Second Battle of the Atlantic
Great Britain	Secret Journey	John Baxter
United States	Waterloo Bridge	Mervyn LeRoy	While mobilizing for World War II, a British officer reminises about a romance in World War I *Released May 17, 1940 -- arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war
United States	Women in War	John H. Auer	Nurses in the Battle of Britain

1941

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Great Britain	Forty-Ninth Parallel	Michael Powell	Survivors of a sunken U-Boat in Hudsons Bay trek across Canada to neutral US
United States	Caught in the Draft	David Butler	Bob Hope gets drafted
United States	Dangerous Moonlight	Brian Desmond Hurst	Battle of Britain
Soviet Union	Frontovye podrugi	Viktor Eisymont	The Girl from Leningrad
Great Britain	Freedom Radio	Anthony Asquith	German Resistance
Great Britain	Pimpernel Smith	Leslie Howard	The Scarlet Pimpernel updated to contemoprary circumstances
United States	Sundown	Henry Hathaway	North African Campaign
Germany	U-Boote westwärts	Günther Rittau	U-Boats Westward; Second Battle of the Atlantic
United States	Underground	Vincent Sherman	German Resistance

1942

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Italy	Alfa Tau!	Francesco De Robertis	Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II
Italy	Bengasi	Augusto Genina	North Africa campaign
United States	Bugle Sounds, The	S. Sylvan Simon
United States	Captains of the Clouds	Michael Curtiz	Young Canadian pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
United States	Desperate Journey	Raoul Walsh	Allied aircrew escaping occupied France
United States	Eagle Squadron	Arthur Lubin	American air volunteers in the RAF during Battle of Britain
United States/ Great Britain	Flying Fortress	Walter Forde	B-17 planes
United States	Flying Tigers	David Miller	American air volunteers in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Great Britain	The Foreman Went to France	Charles Frend	Battle of France
Great Britain	The First of the Few	Leslie Howard	Development of Spitfires
Germany	Fronttheater	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	Battle of Greece?
Japan	Hawai mare oki kaisen	Kajiro Yamamoto	The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay
Great Britain	In Which We Serve	Noel Coward and David Lean	Sinking of HMS Torrin
United States	Lady from Chungking	William Nigh	Sino-Japanese War
United States	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	Battle of Britain
United States	Navy Comes Through	A. Edward Sutherland	Second Battle of the Atlantic
Great Britain	The Next of Kin	Thorold Dickinson	Careless talk costs lives message and fictional commando raid
Italy	Odessa in fiamme	Carmine Gallone	Odessa in Flames
Great Britain	One of Our Aircraft is Missing	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Allied aircrew escaping occupied Netherlands
United States	Pacific Rendezvous	George Sidney	Spy film about cryptography in the Pacific War
Italy	Un Pilota ritorna	Roberto Rossellini
United States	Reunion in France	Jules Dassin	French Resistance helps downed US pilot
United States	Somewhere I'll Find You	Wesley Ruggles	War Correspondents in China and Pacific
United States	Stand by for Action	Robert Z. Leonard	Pacific War
Germany	Stukas	Karl Ritter	Stuka, German dive bomber
United States	They Raid by Night	Spencer Gordon Bennet	commando raids in ocupied Norway
Japan	Tsubasa no gaika	Satsuo Yamamoto	A Triumph of Wings ; co-written by Akira Kurosawa
Soviet Union	Uchinari Jani	Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov
United States	Wake Island	John Farrow	Battle of Wake Island
Great Britain	Went the Day Well?	Alberto Cavalcanti	Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sealion)
United States	A Yank on the Burma Road	George B. Seitz	Burma Road

1943

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
United States	'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders	Ray Enright
United States	Aerial Gunner	William H. Pine
United States	Air Force	Howard Hawks
United States	Bataan	Tay Garnett	Battle of Bataan, Philipines
United States	Behind the Rising Sun	Edward Dmytryk
United States	The Bells Go Down	Basil Dearden	Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz
United States	Bombardier	Richard Wallace
United States	Bombs Over Burma	Joseph H. Lewis
United States	Chetniks	Louis King	Glorification of the Chetniks Yugoslav guerillas
United States	China	John Farrow
United States	Corregidor	William Nigh	Battle of Corregidor, Philipines
United States	Corvette K-225	Richard Rosson and Howard Hawks
United States	Crash Dive	Archie Mayo
United States	Cross of Lorraine, The	Tay Garnett
United States	Cry 'Havoc'	Richard Thorpe
United States	Destination Tokyo	Delmer Daves	Doolittle Raid
United States	Destroyer	William A. Seiter	The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commisioning
United States	Edge of Darkness	Lewis Milestone	Norwegian resistance
United States	Five Graves to Cairo	Billy Wilder	Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign
Great Britain	The Flemish Farm	Jeffrey Dell	SAS Commando raids in Europe
United States	Guadalcanal Diary	Lewis Seiler	Guadalcanal campaign
United States	A Guy Named Joe	Victor Fleming	The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "conscience" of younger recruits
United States	Hangmen Also Die	Fritz Lang	Operation Anthropoid, the assaination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech resistence
United States	Immortal Sergeant	John M. Stahl	North Africa Campaign
Soviet Union	Is kidev dabrundeba	Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaya
Great Britain	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	British Home Guard
United States	The North Star	Lewis Milestone	Eastern Front
United States	Pilot no. 5	George Sidney	Battle of the Java Sea
United States	Rookies in Burma	Leslie Goodwins	Burma Campaign
United States	Sahara	Zoltan Korda	North Africa
United States	Salute to the Marines	S. Sylvan Simon	Battle of the Philipines
United States	So Proudly We Hail!	Mark Sandrich	Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
United States	The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler	James P. Hogan
United States	This Land Is Mine	Jean Renoir	French Resistance
United States	Three Russian Girls	Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep	Eastern Front
Great Britain	Undercover	Sergei Nolbandov	Yugoslav partisans
Great Britain	We Dive at Dawn	Anthony Asquith	Submarine warfare during the Second Battle of the Atlantic

1944

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
Great Britain	2,000 Women	Frank Launder	Internment camps for British women in occupied France
Italy	Aeroporto	Piero Costa	Italian aviators flying for the Salo Republic; only surviving film made in the Republic of Salo
United States	Days of Glory	Jacques Tourneur	Soviet partisans
United States	The Eve of St. Mark	John M. Stahl
United States	The Fighting Seabees	Edward Ludwig	The US Navy Seabees
United States	Four Jills in a Jeep	William A. Seiter	The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable, Carole Landis and others play themselves
United States	The Impostor	Julien Duvivier
United States	In the Meantime, Darling	Otto Preminger
Soviet Union	Jurgais pari	Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli
United States	Ladies Courageous	John Rawlins	Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
United States	Lifeboat	Alfred Hitchcock	Second Battle of the Atlantic
Soviet Union	Malakhov kurgan	Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi	Battle of Sevastopol
United States	Marine Raiders	Harold D. Schuster	Battle of Guadalcanal
United States	Marriage Is a Private Affair	Robert Z. Leonard
United States	The Master Race	Herbert J. Biberman
United States	Mr. Winkle Goes to War	Alfred E. Green
United States	The Navy Way	William A. Berke
United States	Passage to Marseille	Michael Curtiz
United States	Passport to Destiny	Ray McCarey
Soviet Union	Raduga	Mark Donskoy
Australia	The Rats of Tobruk	Charles Chauvel	Siege of Tobruk
United States	Rosie the Riveter	Joseph Santley
United States	See Here, Private Hargrove	Wesley Ruggles
United States	Sergeant Mike	Henry Levin
United States	Since You Went Away	John Cromwell
United States	Song of Russia	Gregory Ratoff
Italy	Squadriglia bianca	Ion Sava	The White Squadron
United States	The Story of Dr. Wassell	Cecil B. DeMille
United States	The Sullivans	Lloyd Bacon	Sullivan brothers
United States	Sunday Dinner for a Soldier	Lloyd Bacon
United States	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Mervyn LeRoy	Doolittle Raid
United States	Till We Meet Again	Frank Borzage
United States	To Have and Have Not	Howard Hawks
United States	Two-Man Submarine	Lew Landers
United States	U-Boat Prisoner	Lew Landers
United States	Waterfront	Steve Sekely
Great Britain	The Way Ahead	Carol Reed	Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign
United States	The White Cliffs of Dover	Clarence Brown
United States	Wing and a Prayer	Henry Hathaway
United States	Winged Victory	George Cukor

1945

Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
United States	Back to Bataan	Edward Dmytryk	Battle of Bataan
United States	Blood on the Sun	Frank Lloyd	American journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist govenment
United States	China's Little Devils	Monta Bell
United States	Cornered	Edward Dmytryk	Ex-Nazis in Argentina
United States	Counter-Attack	Zoltan Korda	Eastern Front (World War II)
United States	First Yank Into Tokyo	Gordon Douglas
United States	God Is My Co-Pilot	Robert Florey	Flying Tigers
United States	Keep Your Powder Dry	Edward Buzzell	Women's Army Corps
Germany	Das Leben geht weiter	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	Life Goes On; about V-2 turning the tide of the war in Germanys favor
Japan	Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors	Mitsuyo Seo	First full length anime film; show Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island
United States	Objective, Burma!	Raoul Walsh	Burma Campaign
United States	Out of the Depths	D. Ross Lederman	Fictional rogue Japanese resistence during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony
United States	Pride of the Marines	Delmer Daves	Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment
United States	Prison Ship	Arthur Dreifuss
Italy	Roma, città aperta	Roberto Rossellini	Rome, the Open City; About the Italian resistance movement movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
United States	Samurai	Raymond Cannon
United States	Story of G.I. Joe	William A. Wellman	Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and Battle of Monte Cassino
United States	They Were Expendable	John Ford	PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
United States	Too Young to Know	Frederick De Cordova
United States	A Walk in the Sun	Lewis Milestone	Operation Husky
Great Britain	The Way to the Stars	Anthony Asquith	RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
United States	What Next, Corporal Hargrove?	Richard Thorpe	Final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove

Late 1940s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1946	United States	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	American servicemen struggles after returning home from the war
1946	Great Britain	Journey Together	John Boulting	Follows the life of 3 RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946	Great Britain	The Captive Heart	Basil Dearden	British prisoners of war in Germany
1946	Great Britain	Theirs is the Glory	Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young	Operation Market Garden
1946	Italy	Paisan	Roberto Rossellini	About Italian campaign
1946	Soviet Union/ Yugoslavia	V gorakh Yugoslavii	Abram Room	In the Mountains of Yugoslavia ; Yugoslav partisans
1947	Great Britain	Frieda	Basil Dearden
1948	United States	Command Decision	Sam Wood	US air war in Europe
1948	Great Britain	Against the Wind	Charles Crichton	Commando raid into occupied Belgium
1948	Norway	Kampen om tungtvannet		Norwegian resistance movement
1948	United States	Fighter Squadron	Raoul Walsh	US air war in Europe
1948	United States	The Search	Fred Zinnemann	Displaced persons in postwar Berlin
1948	West Germany	Morituri	Eugen York	First post-1945 German film about the war
1949	United States	Battleground	William A. Wellman	Battle of the Bulge
1949	United States	Sands of Iwo Jima	Allan Dwan	Battle of Iwo Jima
1949	Great Britain	They Were Not Divided	Terence Young	British Guards Armoured Division
1949	United States	Twelve O'Clock High	Henry King	U.S. bomber crews stationed in England
1949	Great Britain	The Small Back Room	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Bomb disposal
1949	Soviet Union	Stalingradskaya bitva	Vladimir Petrov	Battle of Stalingrad
1949	Soviet Union	Padeniye Berlina	Mikheil Chiaureli	The Battle of Berlin
1949	Soviet Union	Vstrecha na Elbe	Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin	Elbe Day

1950s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1950	United States	Three Came Home	Jean Negulesco	Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
1950	United States	When Willie Comes Marching Home	John Ford
1950	Great Britain	Odette	Herbert Wilcox
1950	Great Britain	They Were Not Divided	Terence Young	British Guards Armoured Division
1951	Italy	Achtung! Banditi!	Carlo Lizzani	Italian resistance movement
1951	Great Britain	Albert(TV)	Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis
1951	United States	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Henry Hathaway	Biopic of Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 Plot
1951	United States	Decision Before Dawn	Anatole Litvak
1951	United States	Fighting Coast Guard	Joseph Kane
1951	United States	Flying Leathernecks	Nicholas Ray	Guadalcanal campaign
1951	United States	Force of Arms	Michael Curtiz
1951	United States	Go for Broke!	Robert Pirosh
1951	United States/ Austria	The Magic Face	Frank Tuttle
1951	United States	Submarine Command	John Farrow
1951	United States	Target Unknown	George Sherman
1951	United States	The Wild Blue Yonder	Allan Dwan
1952	Great Britain	Angels One Five	George More O'Ferrall
1952	Great Britain	Appointment in London	Philip Leacock
1952	France	Jeux interdits	René Clément
1952	United States	Okinawa	Leigh Jason	The Battle of Okinawa
1952	United States	Operation Secret	Lewis Seiler
1952	United States	Red Ball Express	Budd Boetticher
1952	United States	Thunderbirds	John H. Auer
1953	Japan	Anatahan	Josef von Sternberg	Japanes soldiers on remote Pacific island won't accept that the war has been over for years
1953	United States	Guerrilla Girl	John Christian
1953	United States	Stalag 17	Billy Wilder
1953	Great Britain	The Cruel Sea	Charles Frend	Battle of the Atlantic
1953	United States	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Attack on Pearl Harbor
1953	Great Britain	Malta Story	Brian Desmond Hurst
1953	United States	Destination Gobi	Robert Wise
1953	Great Britain	The Red Beret	Terence Young
1953	United States	Fighter Attack	Lesley Selander
1953	Great Britain	Single-Handed	Roy Boulting
1953	United States	China Venture	Don Siegel
1953	United States	Albert RN	Lewis Gilbert	British POWs in a German camp
1953	United States	El Alaméin	Fred F. Sears	Second Battle of El Alamein
1953	United States	The Desert Rats	Robert Wise	North African Campaign
1953	Japan	Taiheiyo no washi	Ishirô Honda	Eagle of the Pacific; Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1954	United States	Betrayed	Gottfried Reinhardt	Dutch resistance
1954	United States	The Caine Mutiny	Edward Dmytryk	Mutiney aboad fictional USN ship
1954	Great Britain/ Norway	Shetlandsgjengen	Michael Forlong	Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves
1954	Great Britain	The Dam Busters	Michael Anderson	Operation Chastise
1954	Great Britain	The Purple Plain	Robert Parrish
1954	Great Britain	They Who Dare	Lewis Milestone
1954	West Germany	08/15	Paul May
1954	Great Britain	The Sea Shall Not Have Them	Lewis Gilbert
1955	Great Britain	Above Us the Waves	Ralph Thomas	The sinking of German battleship Tirpitz
1955	United States	Battle Cry	Raoul Walsh	Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Guadalcanal
1955	Great Britain	The Cockleshell Heroes	José Ferrer
1955	Great Britain	The Colditz Story	Guy Hamilton
1955	United States	The Eternal Sea	John H. Auer
1955	United States	To Hell and Back	Jesse Hibbs	Audie Murphy
1955	United States	Mister Roberts	John Ford and Melvin LeRoy
1955	West Germany	Es geschah am 20. Juli	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	It Happened on July 20th; Jackboot Mutiny July 20 Plot
1955	West Germany	08/15 - In der Heimat	Paul May
1955	West Germany	08/15 - Zweiter Teil	Paul May
1956	United States	Attack	Robert Aldrich
1956	United States	Away All Boats	Joseph Pevney
1956	Great Britain	The Battle of the River Plate	Michael Powell	Battle of the River Plate
1956	United States	Battle Stations	Lewis Seiler
1956	United States	Between Heaven and Hell	Richard Fleischer
1956	Japan	Biruma no tategoto	Kon Ichikawa	The Harp of Burma;Burma Campaign
1956	United States	The Bold and the Brave	Lewis R. Foster	Italian Campaign
1956	Great Britain	The Black Tent	Brian Desmond Hurst
1956	Great Britain	The Man Who Never Was	Ronald Neame	Battle of Sicily
1956	Great Britain	Reach for the Sky	Lewis Gilbert
1956	United States	D-Day the Sixth of June	Henry Koster	Battle of Normandy
1956	Great Britain	A Town Like Alice	Jack Lee
1957	United States	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Death Railway
1957	West Germany	Fuchs von Paris, Der	Paul May	The Fox of Paris; Battle of Normandy from German soldiers perspective
1957	West Germany	Haie und kleine Fische	Frank Wisbar	The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats
1957	Great Britain	Ill Met by Moonlight	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Battle of Crete
1957	Great Britain	The One That Got Away	Roy Ward Baker
1957	Great Britain	The Steel Bayonet	Michael Carreras
1958	West Germany	Arzt von Stalingrad, Der	Géza von Radványi	The Doctor of Stalingrad; Battle of Stalingrad
1958	Great Britain	The Camp on Blood Island	Val Guest
1958	Great Britain	Dunkirk	Leslie Norman	Operation Dynamo; Dunkirk Evacuation
1958	Great Britain	Carve Her Name with Pride	Lewis Gilbert	SOE agent Violette Szabo
1958	West Germany	Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben	Frank Wisbar	Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!; Battle of Stalingrad
1958	Great Britain	Ice-Cold in Alex	J. Lee Thompson	North African campaign
1958	Great Britain/ United States	The Battle of the V.1	Vernon Sewell
1958	Great Britain	I Was Monty's Double	John Guillermin	General Montgomery
1958	Great Britain	The Key	Carol Reed
1958	Great Britain	Sea of Sand	Guy Green	Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign
1959	Great Britain	Ten Seconds to Hell	Robert Aldrich
1959	West Germany	Die Brücke	Bernhard Wicki	Western Front
1959	United States	Never So Few	John Sturges	Burma Campaign
1959	Japan	Ningen no joken I	Masaki Kobayashi	The Human Condition (film trilogy)No Greater Love; Japanese resistance; Manchukuo
1959	Japan	Ningen no joken II	Masaki Kobayashi	The Human Condition (film trilogy)Road to Eternity; Japanese resistance;

1960s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1960	Great Britain	Sink the Bismarck!	Lewis Gilbert	Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic
1961	United States	The Guns of Navarone	J. Lee Thompson	Mediterranean Theatre
1962	United States	The Longest Day	Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin	Battle of Normandy
1962	United States	Hell is for Heroes	Don Siegel	Western front
1963	United States	The Great Escape	John Sturges	German POW camps
1963	United States	PT 109	Leslie H. Martinson	John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front
1964	Great Britain/ United States	633 Squadron	Walter Grauman	Occupied Norway
1964	United States	The Americanization of Emily	Arthur Hiller
1964	United States/ France/ Italy	The Train	John Frankenheimer	French Resistance on Occupied France
1965	United States	Battle of the Bulge	Ken Annakin	Battle of the Bulge
1965	Japan	Story of a Prostitute	Seijun Suzuki
1965	United States	Von Ryan's Express	Mark Robson	German POW camps
1966	United States/ France	Paris brûle-t-il?	René Clément	Liberation of Paris
1966	United States	The Devil's Brigade	Andrew V. McLaglen	The Devil's Brigade
1967	Great Britain/ United States	The Dirty Dozen	Robert Aldrich
1968	Great Britain/ United States	Where Eagles Dare	Brian G. Hutton	Western Front
1969	Great Britain	Battle of Britain	Guy Hamilton	The Battle of Britain
1969	Great Britain	Mosquito Squadron	Boris Sagal
1969	United States	The Bridge at Remagen	John Guillermin	Operation Lumberjack, on Western Front

1970s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1970	United States	Catch-22	Mike Nichols
1970	United States/ Yugoslavia	Kelly's Heroes	Brian G. Hutton
1970	United States	Patton	Franklin Schaffner	General George S. Patton
1970	United States/ Japan	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda	Attack on Pearl Harbor
1973	Italy/ Great Britain	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Ennio De Concini	The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin
1974	France/ West Germany/ Italy	Lacombe Lucien	Louis Malle
1974	Soviet Union	Ohtlikud mängud	Veljo Käsper
1975	United States/ Czechoslovakia/ Yugoslavia	Operation Daybreak	Lewis Gilbert	Operation Anthropoid
1976	United States	Midway	Jack Smight	The Battle of Midway
1977	United States/ Great Britain	A Bridge Too Far	Richard Attenborough	Operation Market Garden
1977	Great Britain/ West Germany/ Yugoslavia	Cross of iron	Sam Peckinpah
1978	Great Britain	Force 10 from Navarone	Guy Hamilton
1979	United States	1941	Steven Spielberg	California, one week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor

1980s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1980	Great Britain,  Switzerland,  United States	The Sea Wolves	Andrew V. McLaglen
1981	West Germany	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen
1981	Great Britain	Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand
1983	France	Papy fait de la résistance	Jean-Marie Poiré	French Resistance on Occupied France
1985	United States	Code name: Emerald (TV)	Jonathan Sanger
1985	Soviet Union	Come and See	Elem Klimov	Eastern Front
1987	France	Au revoir, les enfants	Louis Malle
1987	Hong Kong	Man Behind the Sun	Tun Fei Mou	Unit 731
1987	Great Britain/ United States/ Yugoslavia	The Misfit Brigade	Gordon Hessler
1989	Finland	Talvisota	Pekka Parikka	The Winter war

1990s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
1990	UK/Japan/USA	Memphis Belle	Michael Caton-Jones	Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle
1990	Australia	Prisoners of the Sun	Stephen Wallace
1993	USA	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 jews from The Holocaust
1993	Germany/Sweden	Stalingrad	Joseph Vilsmaier	The Battle of Stalingrad
1997	France	Lucie Aubrac	Claude Berri	The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, resistants on Occupied France
1997	Italy	La Vita é Bella	Roberto Benigni
1997	Australia/USA	Paradise Road	Bruce Beresford
1998	Japan	Pride	Shunya Ito	A depiction of Tojo Hideki during The Tokyo Trials
1998	Canada/USA	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	Guadalcanal campaign
1998	USA	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	D-Day
1998	USA	When Trumpets Fade (TV)	John Irvin	The Battle of Hurtgen Forest
1999	Russia/Germany/Japan/Italy/France	Moloch	Aleksandr Sokurov	A visit of Adolf Hitler to the Berghof

2000s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Battles, Campaigns, Events depicted
2000	France/USA	U-571	Jonathan Mostow	American submariners tries to capture an Enigma machine through the Atlantic
2001	UK/USA	Band of Brothers (TV)		The story of a US paratrooper division during the Battle of Normandy
2001	UK/France/USA	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	John Madden
2001	UK/Australia/Germany	Charlotte Gray	Gillian Armstrong
2001	UK/USA	Conspiracy (TV)	Frank Pierson	The Wannsee Conference
2001	Czech Republic/UK/Germany/Denmark/Italy	Dark Blue World	Jan Sverák
2001	USA/Germany/UK/Ireland	Enemy at the Gates	Jean-Jacques Annaud	The Battle of Stalingrad
2001	USA	Pearl Harbor	Michael Bay	The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid
2002	USA	Hart's War	Gregory Hoblit
2002	France	Monsieur Batignole	Gérard Jugnot	A butcher hides and protects a jewish boy on Occupied France
2002	France/Germany/UK/Poland	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	The story of Władysław Szpilman
2001	USA	Uprising (TV)	Jon Avnet	The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2002	USA	Windtalkers	John Woo
2003	France	Bon Voyage	Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2004	Germany/Italy/Austria	Untergang, Der (Downfall)	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin
2004	USA	Saints and Soldiers	Ryan Little
2005	Russia/France/Italy/Switzerland	Solntse	Aleksandr Sokurov	Emperor Shōwa
2005	Germany	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	The final days of Sophie Scholl, member of the White Rose
2005	USA/Australia	The Great Raid	John Dahl
2005	Japan	Yamato	Junya Sato	The story of Yamato's crew during the Pacific War
2006	Iceland/USA	Flags of Our Fathers	Clint Eastwood	The Battle of Iwo Jima seen from the American viewpoint
2006	France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium	Indigènes	Rachid Bouchareb	The stories of four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate France
2006	USA	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood	The Battle of Iwo Jima seen from the Japanese viewpoint

See also

• List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2