List of World War II films (1950–1989)
This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
Common topics
Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:
- Europe
- Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
- Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
- Gestapo and SS
- Benito Mussolini
- Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
- Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
- Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
- Occupied Norway
- The Holocaust
- Asia–Pacific
- Non-geographical
Early 1950s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | United States | The Admiral Was a Lady | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy. End of war readjustment of returning American servicemen and -women | |
| 1950 | United States | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Fritz Lang | Japanese occupation of the Philippines | |
| 1950 | United Kingdom | The Angel with the Trumpet | Anthony Bushell | Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Anschluss, 1938 | |
| 1950 | United States | Breakthrough | Lewis Seiler | Company B of the 1st Infantry Division from the D-Day landings through the Normandy campaign. | |
| 1950 | United States | Francis | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Francis the Talking Mule unmasks Japanese spy in China Burma India Theater | |
| 1950 | United States | Halls of Montezuma | Lewis Milestone | US Marines attack Japanese-held island in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II | |
| 1950 | Philippines | Mapuputing Kamay | Mapuputing Kamay | Fausto J. Galauran | Filipina nurses in battles of Bataan and Corregidor |
| 1950 | United States | The Men (Battle Stripe) | Fred Zinnemann | Drama. Paraplegic American veteran's struggle re-entering society | |
| 1950 | United Kingdom | Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) | Roy Ward Baker | Drama. British submarine on routine patrol encountering derelict war mine | |
| 1950 | United States | Mystery Submarine (Phantom Submarine) | Douglas Sirk | Thriller. US Navy Intelligence officer posing as ex-German medical officer to rescue kidnapped scientist and sink U-boat off South American coast | |
| 1950 | United Kingdom | Odette | Herbert Wilcox | SOE agent Odette Samson | |
| 1950 | India | Samadhi | Samādhi (समाधि) | Ramesh Saigal | Drama concerning Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. |
| 1950 | Italy | The Sky Is Red | Il cielo è rosso | Claudio Gora | The life of a 16 years old Italian boy after an Allied bombing has killed his parents and destroyed his town |
| 1950 | United States | Three Came Home | Jean Negulesco | Battle of Borneo, 1941–42, civilian internees and POWs of the Japanese | |
| 1950 | Poland | Unvanquished City | Miasto nieujarzmione | Jerzy Zarzycki | Warsaw, Poland, 1944 |
| 1950 | United States | When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | Comedy based on Sy Gomberg story. Failed pilot's escapades, from homefront to German-occupied France and back | |
| 1950 | United Kingdom | The Wooden Horse | Jack Lee | True story of British POWs' escape attempts from Stalag Luft III | |
| 1951 | Philippines | Alliance of Philippine Patriots † | Makapili (Makabayan Katipunan Ñg Mg̃a Pilipino) | unknown [1] | Makapili, Japanese sympathizers, during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines [2] |
| 1951 | Italy | Attention! Bandits! | Achtung! Banditi! | Carlo Lizzani | Italian Resistance |
| 1951 | United States | Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak | Allies use German POWs as spies in Nazi Germany, 1945 | |
| 1951 | United States | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Henry Hathaway | Marshal Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to July 20 plot | |
| 1951 | United States | Fighting Coast Guard | Joseph Kane | US Coast Guard prepares for war | |
| 1951 | United States | Flying Leathernecks | Nicholas Ray | US Marine fighter pilot in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II | |
| 1951 | United States | Force of Arms | Michael Curtiz | US Fifth Army in Italian Campaign | |
| 1951 | United States | The Frogmen | Lloyd Bacon, Dick Mayberry | US Navy underwater demolition team divers/commandos in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1951 | United States | Go For Broke! | Robert Pirosh | US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France | |
| 1951 | United States | I Was an American Spy | Lesley Selander | American spy and Medal of Freedom winner Clara Fuentes during Japanese occupation of Philippines | |
| 1951 | United States Austria |
The Magic Face | Frank Tuttle | Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him and takes his place | |
| 1951 | Italy | My Trieste! † | Trieste mia! | Mario Costa | Two Italian soldiers are chased by the Germans and Yugoslav partisans in Trieste after the Italian armistice |
| 1951 | United States | Operation Pacific | George Waggner | US Navy submarine in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1951 | United States | Submarine Command | John Farrow | Drama. Career of US submarine commander up to Korean War | |
| 1951 | United States | The Tanks Are Coming | Lewis Seiler | Action-drama. US 3rd Armored Division tank crew in France and German Siegfried Line, Fall 1944 | |
| 1951 | United States | Target Unknown | George Sherman | Drama. Tense and discontented American bomber squadron forced to parachute over France before being interrogated by Nazis | |
| 1951 | United States | Wild Blue Yonder (Thunder Across the Pacific) | Allan Dwan | US Air Force men are trained to pilot the B-29 and then fly bombing actions on Japan | |
| 1951 | United States | You're in the Navy Now | Henry Hathaway | Comedy. Inexperienced crew assigned to experimental US submarine chaser | |
| 1952 | United States | Above and Beyond | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Col. Paul Tibbets and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima | |
| 1952 | United Kingdom | Angels One Five | George More O'Ferrall | Battle of Britain | |
| 1952 | United Kingdom | Appointment in London | Philip Leacock | RAF Bomber Command | |
| 1952 | Italy | Black Feathers | Penne nere | Oreste Biancoli | Veteran Alpini become partisans after the German occupation of Italy |
| 1952 | Japan | Children of Hiroshima | Genbaku no ko (原爆の子) | Kaneto Shindō | Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima |
| 1952 | United States | Eight Iron Men | Edward Dmytryk | During WW2 in Italy, a soldier trapped in no man's land. | |
| 1952 | Norway | Emergency Landing | Nødlanding | Arne Skouen | American bomber crew shot down in Norway and aided by Milorg (Norwegian Resistance) |
| 1952 | United States | 5 Fingers | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Drama/Thriller. Cicero Affair involving German spy Elyesa Bazna | |
| 1952 | United States | Flat Top | Lesley Selander | Pilot training aboard US Navy carriers | |
| 1952 | France | Forbidden Games | Jeux interdits | René Clément | Occupation of France |
| 1952 | United Kingdom | Gift Horse | Compton Bennett | St Nazaire Raid | |
| 1952 | Italy | Heroic Charge | Carica eroica | Francesco De Robertis | Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Isbuscenskij |
| 1952 | Italy | Nobody Has Betrayed † | Nessuno ha tradito | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Italian Civil War |
| 1952 | United States | Okinawa | Leigh Jason | US Navy destroyer at the Battle of Okinawa | |
| 1952 | United States | Operation Secret | Lewis Seiler | Espionage with the French Resistance based on the life of Peter Ortiz | |
| 1952 | United States | Red Ball Express | Budd Boetticher | Transportation units in European Theater of Operations | |
| 1952 | United States | Thunderbirds | John H. Auer | The 45th Infantry Division in Italy | |
| 1952 | United States | Torpedo Alley (Down Periscope) | Lew Landers | Drama. Failed US carrier pilot's return to service on submarine | |
| 1952 | Sweden | U-Boat 39 (Submarine no. 39) | Ubåt 39 | Hampe Faustman | Drama. Crew of U-39 |
| 1953 | France United States |
Act of Love | [3][4] | Anatole Litvak | Romance drama based on Alfred Hayes novel. American soldier falls in love with Parisian woman near end of war |
| 1953 | United Kingdom | Albert R.N. (Break to Freedom) | Lewis Gilbert | British POWs in German Stalag | |
| 1953 | Japan | Anatahan | Ana-ta-han (アナタハン) | Josef von Sternberg | Japanese soldiers on South West Pacific Theatre island battle after end of war |
| 1953 | United States | China Venture | Don Siegel | Adventure-drama. American commandos sent to South China to rescue prisoner held by Chinese guerrillas | |
| 1953 | United Kingdom | The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1953 | United States | The Desert Rats | Robert Wise | Australian 7th Division at Tobruk during North African Campaign | |
| 1953 | United States | Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | US Navy weather unit in Mongolia | |
| 1953 | Japan | Eagle of the Pacific (Operation Kamikaze) | Taiheiyo no washi (太平洋の鷲) | Ishirō Honda | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 1953 | United States | El Alaméin | Fred F. Sears | Second Battle of El Alamein | |
| 1953 | United States | Fighter Attack | Lesley Selander | Partisans in Italian Campaign | |
| 1953 | United States | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 Best Picture culminating in the Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1953 | United States | The Girls of Pleasure Island | Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Comedy. Pacific Theatre and English family living on atoll invaded by US Marines near end of war | |
| 1953 | United States | The Glass Wall | Maxwell Shane | Drama. DP camp survivor in New York City | |
| 1953 | United States | Guerrilla Girl | John Christian | Greek Resistance | |
| 1953 | Italy | Hell Raiders of the Deep | I sette dell'Orsa maggiore | Duilio Coletti | Decima Flottiglia MAS |
| 1953 | Japan | The Lily Tower † | Himeyuri no Tō (ひめゆりの塔) | Tadashi Imai | A group of high school girls trained as nurses witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa |
| 1953 | United States | Little Boy Lost | George Seaton | Drama. American war correspondent stationed in Paris before Battle of Dunkirk searching for his French family lost during war | |
| 1953 | United Kingdom | Malta Story | Brian Desmond Hurst | Siege of Malta | |
| 1953 | Italy | The Patrol of Amba Alagi † | La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi | Flavio Calzavara | A veteran of the second Battle of Amba Alagi meets the families of his fallen comrades |
| 1953 | United Kingdom | The Red Beret | Terence Young | British paratroopers and Operation Biting | |
| 1953 | United Kingdom | Single-Handed (Sailor of the King) | Roy Boulting | Action-drama based on C. S. Forester novel Brown on Resolution. Royal Navy | |
| 1953 | United States | South Sea Woman (The Marines Had a Word for It) | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Pacific Theatre escapades of US Marine court martialed for events leading to Pearl Harbor | |
| 1953 | United States | Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | Allies in German Stalag Luft | |
| 1953 | Canada | Tit-Coq | Tit-Coq (in French) | René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | Return home of French-Canadian soldier nicknamed "Little Rooster" |
| 1954 | United States | Beachhead | Stuart Heisler | Four US Marines on a reconnaissance mission in the Solomon Islands | |
| 1954 | United States | Betrayed | Gottfried Reinhardt | Dutch resistance in Battle of Arnhem | |
| 1954 | United States | The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | Destroyer warfare in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1954 | West Germany | Canaris: Master Spy (Deadly Decision) | Canaris | Alfred Weidenmann | Drama. Abwehr Chief Admiral Canaris and Widerstand |
| 1954 | West Germany | 08/15 | 08/15 – In der Kaserne | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; first of three parts |
| 1954 | Italy | Folgore Division | Divisione Folgore | Duilio Coletti | 185th Airborne Division Folgore in 1942 |
| 1954 | Italy | Frogwoman (Frogman Spy) | Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare) | Francesco De Robertis | Italian frogman is helped by a frogwoman |
| 1954 | Italy | Goodbye Naples! | Addio Napoli! | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Drama. Espionage in Naples under Allied occupation |
| 1954 | Italy | Human Torpedoes | Siluri umani | Antonio Leonviola | Raid on Souda Bay |
| 1954 | Austria Yugoslavia |
The Last Bridge | Die Letzte Brücke (in German) Posljednji most (in Serbo-Croatian) |
Helmut Käutner | German nurse is sent to the front as a punishment for tending a wounded Yugoslav partisan |
| 1954 | China | Letter with Feather | Jī máo xìn (鸡毛信) | Shi Hui | Boy attempts to deliver important message to 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1954 | Spain | The Patrol | La patrulla | Pedro Lazaga | Spanish volunteer Blue Division on Eastern Front [5][6] |
| 1954 | United Kingdom | The Purple Plain | Robert Parrish | RAF evaders in Burma Campaign | |
| 1954 | United Kingdom | The Sea Shall Not Have Them | Lewis Gilbert | Channel Air Sea Rescue of Allied bomber crew | |
| 1954 | Italy | Shadow Men † | Uomini ombra | Francesco De Robertis | Intelligence service of the Regia Marina |
| 1954 | United Kingdom Norway |
Shetland Gang (Suicide Mission) | Shetlandsgjengen | Michael Forlong | Docudrama. "Shetland bus", Norwegian smugglers in North Sea |
| 1954 | United States | Silent Raiders | Richard Bartlett | Fictitious story of US Army Rangers at the Dieppe Raid | |
| 1954 | India | That Day! | Andha Naal (அந்த நாள்) (in Tamil) | S. Balachander | Fictitious story of a scientist and radio operator who spies for Japan during the Second World War and is killed by his wife. |
| 1954 | United Kingdom | They Who Dare | Lewis Milestone | SAS raid in occupied Greece |
Late 1950s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Italy | The Abandoned | Gli sbandati | Francesco Maselli | The beginning of partisan warfare in Italy after the Armistice |
| 1955 | United Kingdom | Above Us the Waves | Ralph Thomas | Submarine attacks on German battleship Tirpitz | |
| 1955 | United States | Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | Thriller. Disabled veteran tries to deliver a medal | |
| 1955 | United States | Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | US Marines and battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan | |
| 1955 | United Kingdom | The Cockleshell Heroes | José Ferrer | Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton | |
| 1955 | United Kingdom | The Colditz Story | Guy Hamilton | British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" castle prison | |
| 1955 | United Kingdom | The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise | |
| 1955 | West Germany Austria |
The Devil's General | Des Teufels General | Helmut Käutner | Drama based on Gen. Ernst Udet. Successful Luftwaffe General courted by Widerstand |
| 1955 | West Germany | 08/15 Part 2 | 08/15 – Im Krieg (08/15 – Zweiter Teil) | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; second of three parts |
| 1955 | West Germany | 08/15 at Home | 08/15 – In der Heimat | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; third of three parts |
| 1955 | United Kingdom | The End of the Affair | Edward Dmytryk | Romance drama. British homefront and illicit romance | |
| 1955 | East Germany | Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class | Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | Drama. Ernst Thälmann leads Communist opposition to Hitler |
| 1955 | United States | The Eternal Sea | John H. Auer | Pacific War | |
| 1955 | Poland | A Generation | Pokolenie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance |
| 1955 | West Germany | Hanussen, Hitler's Astrologer | Hanussen | O. W. Fischer, Georg Marischka | Drama. Jewish psychic Erik Jan Hanussen collaborates with Nazis |
| 1955 | West Germany Austria |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (The Last Act) | Der letzte Akt | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Drama based on novel by Nuremberg judge Michael Musmanno. Hitler's last days in Reichstag bunker through perspective of bunker guard |
| 1955 | Poland | The Hours of Hope | Godziny nadziei | Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski | Poland, 1945 |
| 1955 | United States | It's Always Fair Weather | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Musical comedy-drama. US soldiers vowing to reunite after war in 1955 | |
| 1955 | West Germany | Jackboot Mutiny | Es geschah am 20. Juli | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 1955 | Poland | Men of the Blue Cross | Błękitny krzyż | Andrzej Munk | Tatra Mountains, Poland on Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1955 | United States | Mister Roberts | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy-drama. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific | |
| 1955 | Malaya | Sergeant Hassan | Sarjan Hassan | Lamberto V. Avellana, P. Ramlee | Action drama. Malayan occupation and Royal Malay Regiment |
| 1955 | Italy | Submarine Attack (Torpedo Zone) | La grande speranza | Duilio Coletti | Action/Romance. Italian submarine sinking Allied shipping on Eastern Atlantic Theatre and rescuing occasional survivor |
| 1955 | Denmark | There Came One Day | Der kom en dag | Sven Methling | Based on Flemming Muus novel. Last days of Danish occupation |
| 1955 | United States | To Hell and Back | Jesse Hibbs | Audie Murphy, most decorated US soldier | |
| 1955 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Edvin Laine | Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1956 | Spain | Ambassadors in Hell | Embajadores en el infierno | José María Forqué | Drama based on Torcuato Luca de Tena novel. Spanish Blue Division volunteers from Siege of Leningrad and Battle of Krasny Bor imprisoned in Soviet Gulag |
| 1956 | United States | Attack | Robert Aldrich | Infantrymen in France after D-Day | |
| 1956 | United States | Away All Boats | Joseph Pevney | Attack transport in Pacific | |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Battle of the River Plate | |
| 1956 | United States | Battle Stations | Lewis Seiler | US Navy battleship in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II | |
| 1956 | United States | Between Heaven and Hell | Richard Fleischer | US Army National Guard unit in Philippines | |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | The Black Tent | Brian Desmond Hurst | North African campaign | |
| 1956 | United States | The Bold and the Brave | Lewis R. Foster | Italian Campaign | |
| 1956 | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Biruma no tategoto (ビルマの竪琴) | Kon Ichikawa | Burma Campaign |
| 1956 | United States | D-Day the Sixth of June | Henry Koster | Normandy invasion | |
| 1956 | Italy | Farewell, My Village... † | Ciao, pais... | Osvaldo Langini | Alpini on the Greek front |
| 1956 | United States | Gaby | Curtis Bernhardt | Romance/Drama. British homefront and ballerina falling for American soldier sent to France, 1944 | |
| 1953 | Italy | The House of Intrigue | Londra chiama Polo Nord | Duilio Coletti | A British radio operator is captured by the Germans and forced to send fake messages back to London |
| 1956 | Poland | Kanał (Kanal) | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1956 | France | A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (Le vent souffle où il veut) | Robert Bresson | Thriller based on memoirs of POW André Devigny. French Resistance and Gestapo prison : Montluc Prison. |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | Battle of Sicily and Operation Mincemeat A fake officer washes up on the coast of Spain as a cover for an invasion. | |
| 1956 | Italy | The Price of Glory † | Il prezzo della gloria | Antonio Musu | Sagittario torpedoboat |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | Private's Progress | John Boulting | Comedy. Reluctantly conscripted/commissioned soldier and art heist behind German lines | |
| 1956 | United States | The Proud and Profane | George Seaton | Romance drama. Red Cross volunteer in South Pacific, New Caledonia and husband's death at Battle of Guadalcanal | |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | Reach for the Sky | Lewis Gilbert | Douglas Bader and Battle of Britain | |
| 1956 | Yugoslavia | The Siege | Opsada | Branko Marjanovic | Comedy-drama. Zagreb Underground and Yugoslav Front |
| 1956 | United Kingdom | A Town Like Alice (Rape of Malaya) | Jack Lee | British and Australian POWs after Battle of Singapore | |
| 1956 | Yugoslavia | Valley of Peace (Sergeant Jim) | Dolina miru (in Slovene) Dolina mira (in Serbo-Croatian) |
France Štiglic | African-American pilot down behind enemy lines rescues two orphans |
| 1957 | United Kingdom | The Betrayal | Ernest Morris | Crime thriller. Allied pilot captured and tortured by Nazis and postwar search for his betrayer | |
| 1957 | France | Bitter Victory | Amère victoire | Nicholas Ray | Action-drama. Allied commando mission behind enemy lines in Benghazi and Western Desert Campaign |
| 1957 | United Kingdom | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 Best Picture depicting British POWs work on Burma Railway | |
| 1957 | Soviet Union | The Cranes Are Flying | Letyat zhuravli (Летят журавли) | Mikhail Kalatozov | Romance drama. Soviet homefront |
| 1957 | United States | Don't Go Near the Water | Charles Walters | Comedy-romance. US Navy public relations unit stationed on South West Pacific Theatre island | |
| 1957 | United States | The Enemy Below | Dick Powell | South Atlantic and cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and U-boat | |
| 1957 | West Germany | The Fox of Paris | Der Fuchs von Paris | Paul May | Battle of Normandy from Wehrmacht perspective |
| 1957 | United States | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | US Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II | |
| 1957 | United States | Hellcats of the Navy | Nathan Juran | Submarine warfare in Pacific Theatre | |
| 1957 | United States | Kiss Them for Me | Stanley Donen | Comedy. US Navy pilots on leave in San Francisco | |
| 1957 | Norway | Nine Lives | Ni Liv | Arne Skouen | Drama. Biography of Jan Baalsrud's, Norwegian Resistance fighter, epic escape to neutral Sweden following Tromsø sabotage operation |
| 1957 | United Kingdom | The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | Escape of German POW Franz von Werra | |
| 1957 | United States | Operation Mad Ball | Richard Quine | Comedy-romance. Closing of US Army hospital in France at end of war | |
| 1957 | West Germany | Sharks and Little Fish | Haie und kleine Fische | Frank Wisbar | Drama. German naval cadets entering Kriegsmarine and U-boat service, 1940 |
| 1957 | West Germany | The Star of Africa | Der Stern von Afrika | Alfred Weidenmann | Docudrama. Luftwaffe ace (Experten) Hans-Joachim Marseille |
| 1957 | United Kingdom | The Steel Bayonet | Michael Carreras | Small British recce force surrounded by overwhelming forces of Afrika Korps during Tunisia Campaign | |
| 1957 | Italy | Tanks of El Alamein | El Alamein (Deserto di gloria) | Guido Malatesta | Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1957 | United States | The Wings of Eagles | John Ford | Drama. US Navy pilot Frank Wead in Pacific Theater | |
| 1957 | Italy | The Woman Who Came from the Sea | La donna che venne dal mare | Francesco De Robertis | Espionage and Italian frogmen in Gibraltar. |
| 1958 | Italy West Germany |
Always Victorious | Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano (in Italian) | Wolfgang Staudte | Comedy. Italian submarine chaser |
| 1958 | Poland | Ashes and Diamonds | Popiół i diament | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance, 1945 |
| 1958 | Czechoslovakia | At That Time, at Christmas... | Tenkrát o Vánocích | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak Army on Eastern Front, Christmas 1944 |
| 1958 | West Germany | Battle of Monte Cassino | Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino | Harald Reinl | 1. Fallschirmjägerdivision in the Battle of Monte Cassino |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | Battle of the V-1 | Vernon Sewell | Polish resistance spies on German rocket tests | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | The Camp on Blood Island | Val Guest | British and Dutch POWs in Malaya | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | SOE agent Violette Szabo | |
| 1958 | Poland | Con Bravura (With Bravery) | Con Bravura | Andrzej Munk | Couriers crossing Polish/Slovak Tatra Mountains; third part of Eroica cut by director |
| 1958 | Poland | Cross of Valour | Krzyż Walecznych | Kazimierz Kutz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1958 | United States | Darby's Rangers | William Wellman | Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio | |
| 1958 | Poland | Deserter | Dezerter | Witold Lesiewicz | Silesian Pole conscripted in Wehrmacht |
| 1958 | West Germany | The Doctor of Stalingrad | Der Arzt von Stalingrad | Géza von Radványi | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | Dunkirk | Leslie Norman | Operation Dynamo and Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 1958 | Poland | Eroica (Heroism) | Eroica | Andrzej Munk | Warsaw Uprising and POW camp, 1944–45 |
| 1958 | China | The Eternal Wave (Continuous Wave) | Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo (永不消逝的电波) | Wang Ping | Drama based on true story. Chinese agents in Japanese-held Shanghai, 1939 |
| 1958 | United States | Fräulein (1958 film) | Henry Koster | Comedy-romance. Escaped American POW hiding in Berlin near end of war | |
| 1958 | Poland | Free City | Wolne miasto | Stanisław Różewicz | Free City of Danzig, Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | Ice Cold in Alex | J. Lee Thompson | North African campaign | |
| 1958 | United States | Imitation General | George Marshall | Comedy. US Army Sergeant impersonating fallen general to inspire comrades in France | |
| 1958 | United States | In Love and War | Philip Dunne | Drama. US Marines on shore leave in San Francisco before returning to battle | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Mark Robson | English missionary in China during Sino-Japanese War | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | I Was Monty's Double (Hell, Heaven or Hoboken) | John Guillermin | Diversionary D-Day impersonation of General Montgomery | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | The Key | Carol Reed | Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1958 | United States | Kings Go Forth | Delmer Daves | Action/Romance. Soldiers involved with American woman during Champagne Offensive in southern France, Summer 1944 | |
| 1958 | United States | The Naked and the Dead | Raoul Walsh | Pacific War | |
| 1958 | Poland | Orzeł (The Eagle) | Orzeł | Leonard Buczkowski | Polish submarine ORP Orzeł and Orzeł incident, Baltic Sea escape attempt from neutral Estonian internment and German navy |
| 1958 | Poland | Pills for Aurelia | Pigułki dla Aurelii | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Polish resistance |
| 1958 | United States | Run Silent, Run Deep | Robert Wise | US submarine and Japanese destroyer chase in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) | Guy Green | Long Range Desert Group in North Africa Campaign | |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | The Silent Enemy | William Fairchild | Fictionalised events in Gibraltar harbour during the Italian frogman and manned torpedo attacks | |
| 1958 | Italy Spain |
The Sky Is Burning † | Il cielo brucia | Giuseppe Masini | Italian bombers in the North African Campaign |
| 1958 | United States | South Pacific | Joshua Logan | Musical romance. South West Pacific Theater | |
| 1958 | Denmark | Spy 503 †· | Spion 503 | Jørn Jeppesen | Drama. German Agent 503 June Harvey with Swedish diplomats and Danish Resistance |
| 1958 | Poland | Story of One Fighter | Historia jednego myśliwca | Hubert Drapella | Battle of Britain, 1940 |
| 1958 | United States | Submarine Seahawk (Submarine X2) | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Suspense drama. Submarine on reconnaissance mission in South West Pacific Theatre | |
| 1958 | United States | Suicide Battalion | Edward L. Cahn | Drama. Soldiers sent to destroy base and strategic documents in occupied Philippines; remade as 1968 film Hell Raiders | |
| 1958 | United States | Tarawa Beachhead | Paul Wendkos | Drama. Battle of Tarawa | |
| 1958 | United States | A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Douglas Sirk | Romance drama based on Erich Maria Remarque novel. German soldier on furlough finds home town in chaos | |
| 1958 | United States | Torpedo Run | Joseph Pevney | Drama. Submarine sets out to destroy Japanese carrier from Pearl Harbor attack now using US civilians and POWs as human shields | |
| 1958 | West Germany | U 47 – Lieutenant Commander Prien | U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien | Harald Reinl | Günther Prien and the U-47 |
| 1958 | United Kingdom | The Wind Cannot Read | Ralph Thomas | RAF in Burma | |
| 1958 | United States | The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | Action-drama. Three soldiers during war: one German, two American (one Jewish) | |
| 1959 | United States | The Angry Hills | Robert Aldrich | Drama based on Leon Uris novel. Greek resistance | |
| 1959 | Poland | Answer to Violence (Partisan Mission) | Zamach | Jerzy Passendorfer | Operation Kutschera and Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1959 | West Germany | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (TV miniseries) | So weit die Füße tragen | Fritz Umgelter | Drama based on POW Cornell Rost. Eastern Front, then escape from Siberian Gulag and journey home; remade as 2001 film As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me |
| 1959 | Soviet Union | Ballad of a Soldier | Ballada o soldate (Баллада о солдате) | Grigori Chukhrai | Poetic drama. Soldier receives home leave as reward for heroism |
| 1959 | United States | Battle of the Coral Sea | Paul Wendkos | Action-drama. Submarine on reconnaissance photographing Japanese installations through periscope | |
| 1959 | West Germany | The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | Boys conscripted into Wehrmacht service on Western Front, 1945 |
| 1959 | West Germany | Court Martial | Kriegsgericht | Kurt Meisel | Drama based on Will Berthold article. Kriegsmarine sailors tried for abandoning ship |
| 1959 | United Kingdom | Danger Within (Breakout) | Don Chaffey | Allied escape from POW camp in Northern Italy, Summer 1943 | |
| 1959 | Soviet Union | Destiny of a Man | Sudba Cheloveka (Судьба человека) | Sergei Bondarchuk | Drama based on Mikhail Sholokhov story. POWs in German Stalag |
| 1959 | United States | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | Drama. Anne Frank hiding in Amsterdam | |
| 1959 | Japan | Fires on the Plain | Nobi (野火) | Kon Ichikawa | Decimated Japanese Imperial Army in Philippines, 1945 |
| 1959 | Italy | General Della Rovere | Il generale Della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader |
| 1959 | France Japan |
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima, My Love) | Hiroshima mon amour (in French) Nijuuyojikan no jouji (in Japanese) |
Alain Resnais | Drama. Hiroshima bomb; remade as 2001 film H Story |
| 1959 | Japan | The Human Condition: No Greater Love | Ningen no jōken I (人間の條件) | Masaki Kobayashi | Manchukuo and Japanese Resistance in China; part one of trilogy |
| 1959 | Japan | The Human Condition: Road to Eternity | Ningen no jōken II (人間の條件) | Masaki Kobayashi | Imperial Japanese Army basic training; part two of trilogy |
| 1959 | United States | Never So Few | John Sturges | Burma Campaign | |
| 1959 | Poland | Octopus Cafe | Cafe Pod Minogą | Bronisław Brok | Comedy. Polish resistance |
| 1959 | United Kingdom | Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | British commandos on mission to occupied Holland find fortune in Nazi diamonds | |
| 1959 | United States | Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | Comedy. Submarine commander stuck with decrepit pink sub, con-man executive officer and group of Army nurses | |
| 1959 | United States | Paratroop Command | William Witney | US Army paratroopers in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy | |
| 1959 | Poland | Speed | Lotna | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Cavalry and Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1959 | United Kingdom | The Square Peg | John Paddy Carstairs | Comedy. British council workmen drafted into service in France and mistaken for spies by Nazis | |
| 1959 | West Germany | Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Battle Inferno) | Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben | Frank Wisbar | Drama. Romanian Army component of German 6th Army and Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1959 | East Germany Bulgaria |
Stars | Sterne (in German) | Konrad Wolf | |
| 1959 | Poland | The Stone Sky | Kamienne niebo | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1959 | United States | Tank Commandos | Burt Topper | Drama. US ammo and demolition unit on reconnaissance mission to determine where Germans ford river | |
| 1959 | United Kingdom West Germany |
Ten Seconds to Hell (The Phoenix) | [3] | Robert Aldrich | Thriller based on Lawrence P. Bachmann novel. German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin |
| 1959 | United States | Timbuktu | Jacques Tourneur | Tuareg revolt in French West Africa, 1940 | |
| 1959 | United States | Up Periscope | Gordon Douglas | Action-drama. US Navy frogman aboard submarine on reconnaissance mission to Japanese-held island | |
| 1959 | Poland | White Bear | Biały niedźwiedź | Jerzy Zarzycki | Tatra Mountains and Zakopane, Polish Holocaust, 1941 |
| 1959 | Italy France |
Wolves of the Deep | Lupi nell'abisso (in Italian) Les loups dans l'abîme(in French) |
Silvio Amadio | Sailors trapped in an Italian submarine damaged by depth charges |
Early 1960s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | East Germany | Blind Spot (TV) | Toter Winkel | Wolfgang Luderer | Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp guard guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation, 1945 |
| 1960 | Italy | The Cuirassier † | Il corazziere | Camillo Mastrocinque | Comedy. The misadventures of a short Italian soldier |
| 1960 | Italy France |
Escape by Night | Era notte a Roma (in Italian) Les Évadés de la nuit (in French) |
Roberto Rossellini | Escaped Allied POWs in pre-liberated Italy |
| 1960 | Italy France |
Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa (in Italian) La Grande Pagaille (in French) |
Luigi Comencini | Comedy-drama (commedia all'italiana). The Four days of Naples and double occupation and subsequent chaos |
| 1960 | United States | The Gallant Hours | Robert Montgomery | Docudrama. Biopic of Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. Efforts against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Imperial Japanese forces in Guadalcanal campaign | |
| 1960 | United States | Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | Battle of Saipan and wartime discrimination against Japanese-Americans | |
| 1960 | Italy | It Happened in '43 | La lunga notte del '43 | Florestano Vancini | Allied invasion of Italy |
| 1960 | Italy | The Hunchback of Rome | Il gobbo | Carlo Lizzani | Italian partisan under German occupation becomes a gangster after the liberation of Rome |
| 1960 | Denmark | The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen | Resistance group on Denmark's Lolland island attempts to liberate wounded British officer, Winter 1944–45 |
| 1960 | United States | The Mountain Road | Daniel Mann | Drama based on Theodore White novel. US Army demolition officer's attempts to destroy bridges and roads useful to Imperial Japanese Army | |
| 1960 | Denmark | Price of Freedom | Frihedens Pris | Annelise Hovmand | |
| 1960 | Romania | The Secret Code | Secretul cifrului | Lucian Bratu | Retreat of Nazi forces from Romania in 1944 |
| 1960 | United Kingdom | Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Rheinübung and Battle of the Atlantic | |
| 1960 | United States | Ski Troop Attack | Roger Corman | Action. US ski-troop commandos behind German lines to destroy rail bridge | |
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia | Slingshot Bearer | Práče | Karel Kachyňa | Story of Czechoslovak children participating in homeland liberation after Czechoslovak army rescue from concentration camps on Eastern Front |
| 1960 | Japan | Storm Over the Pacific (I Bombed Pearl Harbor) | Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi (ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐) | Shuei Matsubayashi | Imperial Japanese Navy pilot serving on Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū in battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway |
| 1960 | Italy | The Tank of 8 September † | Il carro armato dell'8 settembre | Gianni Puccini | Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943 |
| 1960 | France | Taxi for Tobruk | Un taxi pour Tobrouk | Denys de La Patellière | Free French commandos in North Africa on mission to capture German officer and reach Allied lines |
| 1960 | Italy | Two Women | La ciociara | Vittorio De Sica | Drama. Italian mother and daughter raped by French Expeditionary Corps troops (Marocchinate) |
| 1960 | Italy United States |
Under Ten Flags | [3] | Duilio Coletti | The 665-day pursuit of German surface raider Atlantis and Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1961 | Denmark | Alarm in the Baltic † | Sorte Shara (Alarm i Østersøen, DVD) | Sven Methling | Baltic naval battle and escape to neutral Sweden |
| 1961 | United States | Battle at Bloody Beach | Herbert Coleman | Romance/Drama. Civilian US Navy contractor supplies Filipino guerrillas while searching for wife | |
| 1961 | United Kingdom Italy |
The Best of Enemies | I due nemici (in Italian) | Guy Hamilton | Comedy. East African Campaign |
| 1961 | Poland | Birth Certificate | Świadectwo urodzenia | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1961 | United States France |
Bridge to the Sun | Pont vers le soleil | Étienne Périer | Romance-drama based on autobiography of Gwendolen Terasaki. Wife to First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Washington when Pearl Harbor is bombed and later liaison between Palace and Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur |
| 1961 | Italy | A Day for Lionhearts | Un giorno da leoni | Nanni Loy | Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance in Italy |
| 1961 | Italy | Desert Furlough | Pastasciutta nel deserto | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy. Misadventures of an Italian soldier in the rear of the front at El Alamein |
| 1961 | Italy | A Difficult Life | Una vita difficile | Dino Risi | Comedy-drama. Italian resistance movement and postwar readjustment |
| 1961 | Italy | The Fascist | Il federale | Luciano Salce | Comedy. Member of Fascist Brigate Nere and sojourn with captive anti-Fascist |
| 1961 | East Germany | The Gleiwitz Case | Der Fall Gleiwitz | Gerhard Klein | Gleiwitz incident, 1939 |
| 1961 | United Kingdom | The Guns of Navarone | J. Lee Thompson | Action-adventure. Allied commandos on mission in Mediterranean Theatre | |
| 1961 | Japan | The Human Condition: A Soldier's Prayer | Ningen no jōken III (人間の條件 III 人間の條件 完結篇) | Masaki Kobayashi | Part three of trilogy |
| 1961 | India | Hum Dono | Hum Dono | Amarjeet, Vijay Anand | Musical drama. Indian Army officer in Burma Campaign longs for home but has one last duty to perform |
| 1961 | United States | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | Drama. The Nuremberg Trials | |
| 1961 | United States | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Jack Webb | Comedy. Enlistment, training and commissioning of Civilian Air Corps into Army Air Force near end of war | |
| 1961 | United Kingdom | The Middle Course | Montgomery Tully | Drama. Canadian pilot downed on mission aids French Resistance under German occupation of France | |
| 1961 | Poland | Night Train | Ludzie z pociągu | Kazimierz Kutz | German occupation of Poland |
| 1961 | United States | On the Double | Melville Shavelson | Comedy. Allied soldier awaiting D-Day and impersonation of Allied general to foil assassination by German agents | |
| 1961 | United States | Operation Bottleneck | Edward L. Cahn | US paratroopers in the Burma Campaign | |
| 1961 | West Germany | Ordered to Love | Lebensborn | Werner Klingler | Exploitation. Nazi Lebensborn programme |
| 1961 | United States | The Outsider | Delbert Mann | Drama based on life of Ira Hayes. Native American Marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima | |
| 1961 | Italy | Pigeon Shoot | Tiro al piccione | Giuliano Montaldo | Decima MAS of the Italian Social Republic |
| 1961 | East Germany | Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on Friedrich Wolf play. Jewish doctor fails to resist the Nazis |
| 1961 | Poland | Samson | Samson | Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust during German occupation of Poland |
| 1961 | Poland | Spring | Kwiecień | Witold Lesiewicz | Wehrmacht on Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1961 | Hong Kong | Sun, Moon and Star | Xingxing yueliang taiyang (星星月亮太陽) (Mandarin) [7] | Yi Wen | Drama. Chinese resistance |
| 1961 | Poland | Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Dresden, 1945 |
| 1961 | Italy | The Two Marshals | I due marescialli | Sergio Corbucci | Comedy. Carabinieri during the German occupation of Italy |
| 1961 | United Kingdom | Very Important Person | Ken Annakin | Comedy. British POWs in Stalag | |
| 1962 | United States | The Counterfeit Traitor | George Seaton | Drama/Thriller based on Alexander Klein non-fiction novel. American-born Swedish oil-trader coerced by Allies into spying on Nazis | |
| 1962 | Italy | Desert War | Quattro notti con l'alba | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Four Italian soldiers and a woman during the retreat after the Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1962 | France | The Elusive Corporal (The Vanishing Corporal) | Le caporal épinglé | Jean Renoir | Comedy-drama. Upper-class Parisian corporal captured by Germans in Battle of France and his various escape attempts from stalag, 1940 |
| 1962 | Italy | The Four Days of Naples | Le quattro giornate di Napoli | Nanni Loy | Drama. The Four Days of Naples |
| 1962 | United States | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | Drama. German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism | |
| 1962 | United States | Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | Action-drama. Western front | |
| 1962 | Soviet Union | Ivan's Childhood | Ivanovo detstvo (Иваново детство) | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama. Orphaned boy, cared for by Soviet officers, works as spy on Eastern Front, crossing German lines |
| 1962 | Yugoslavia | Kozara | Kozara | Veljko Bulajić | Kozara Offensive |
| 1962 | Netherlands | Like Two Drops of Water (The Dark Room of Damocles / The Spitting Image) | Als twee druppels water | Fons Rademakers | Mystery drama based on Willem Frederik Hermans novel. Dutch Resistance |
| 1962 | United States | The Longest Day | Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin | Action-drama. Normandy landings | |
| 1962 | United States Philippines |
Lost Battalion | Eddie Romero | Action-drama. Filipino guerilla leader with knowledge of island jungle attempts rescue of American refugees pinned by Japanese in Philippines | |
| 1962 | United States | Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Merrill's Marauders | |
| 1962 | United States | No Man is an Island (Island Escape) | Richard Goldstone, John Monks Jr. | Drama based on George Tweed. US sailor is only serviceman on Guam to avoid capture by Japanese | |
| 1962 | Italy France |
No Man's Land | Un branco di vigliacchi | Fabrizio Taglioni | German violence shortly before the arrival of the Allies in occupied Italy |
| 1962 | United Kingdom | Operation Snatch | Robert Day | Comedy. Officer responsible for Barbary apes on Gibraltar behind German lines to snatch an ape to prevent British departure from Gibraltar | |
| 1962 | Netherlands | The Silent Raid | De Overval | Paul Rotha | Crime-thriller based on true story. Allied POW and Dutch Resistance escape from Leeuwarden prison, 1944 |
| 1962 | East Germany | Star-Crossed Lovers (Invincible Love) | Königskinder | Frank Beyer | Drama. |
| 1962 | Greece | Stick Them Up, Hitler | Psila ta heria Hitler (Ψηλά τα Χέρια Χίτλερ) | Roviros Manthoulis | Comedy-drama. Greek Resistance |
| 1962 | Philippines | Suicide Commandoes | Armando Garces | Six Filipino guerrillas aid Lieutenant in destroying Japanese airfield during Battle of Bessang Pass | |
| 1962 | Italy | Ten Italians for One German | Dieci italiani per un tedesco | Filippo Walter Ratti | Italian resistance in Rome and Ardeatine massacre |
| 1962 | Italy | The Two Colonels | I due colonnelli | Steno | Comedy. An Italian and a British colonel in Greece |
| 1962 | Italy United Kingdom |
The Valiant | L'affondamento della Valiant | Roy Ward Baker | Raid on Alexandria (1941) |
| 1962 | Denmark | Venus fra Vestø | Venus fra Vestø | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy based on true story. Prized cow on Danish island in danger of being seized by German occupation forces or British agricultural department |
| 1962 | Poland | Walther P-38 (TV) | Pistolet typu Walter P-38 | Edward Etler | Polish resistance |
| 1962 | United Kingdom | The War Lover | Philip Leacock | American bomber crews in England | |
| 1962 | Japan | The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps | 太平洋戦争と姫ゆり部隊 (Taiheiyô Sensô to Himeyuri Butai) | Kiyoshi Komori | Himeyuri students in Battle of Okinawa |
| 1963 | Finland | Commando Assault | Sissit | Mikko Niskanen | Guerrilla warfare during Continuation War |
| 1963 | United States Philippines |
Cry of Battle | Irving Lerner | Mercenary fighting with partisans in Philippines during Japanese occupation of the Philippines | |
| 1963 | United States | The Great Escape | John Sturges | Allied POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III | |
| 1963 | Italy | The Hand on the Rifle † | La mano sul fucile | Luigi Turolla | Soldiers of the Italian Social Republic against Italian partisans |
| 1963 | Poland | Manhunter | Naganiacz | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1963 | United Kingdom | Mystery Submarine (Decoy) | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Adventure-drama. Captured U-boat on Royal Navy mission to mislead German naval force | |
| 1963 | East Germany | Naked Among Wolves | Nackt unter Wölfen | Frank Beyer | Drama based on Bruno Apitz novel. Child hidden in Buchenwald until camp's liberation |
| 1963 | Poland | On the White Trails | Na białym szlaku | Jarosław Brzozowski | Nazi and Polish forces in Arctic at end of war |
| 1963 | Poland | Passenger | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Female SS officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau and her relationship with inmate |
| 1963 | United Kingdom | The Password is Courage | Andrew Stone | Comedy-drama based on POW Sgt. Maj. Charles Coward. Captured soldier's attempts to escape Germans | |
| 1963 | Philippines | Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pablo Santiago | Heroic Filipina during Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1963 | United States | PT 109 | Leslie H. Martinson | John F. Kennedy's USN service on Pacific Front | |
| 1963 | United States | The Quick and the Dead | Robert Totten | Action-drama. Isolated US soldiers aided by partisans during Italian Campaign, 1944 | |
| 1963 | Yugoslavia | The Raid on Drvar | Desant na Drvar | Fadil Hadžić | Operation Rösselsprung (1944) |
| 1963 | Philippines United States |
The Raiders of Leyte Gulf | Eddie Romero | Philippines before Battle of Leyte | |
| 1963 | Philippines | Sierra Madre | Armando A. Herrera | Campaigns of demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines | |
| 1963 | Philippines | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Efren Reyes, Sr. | Philippine Army resistance, 1941 |
| 1963 | Italy | The Terrorist | Il terrorista | Gianfranco De Bosio | Italian partisans in Venice |
| 1963 | Italy United States |
Torpedo Bay | Finché dura la tempesta | Charles Frend | Italian submarine is chased by the British as it tries to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar |
| 1963 | Hungary | Two Half Times in Hell (The Last Goal) | Két félidő a pokolban | Zoltán Fábri | Drama. Soccer match between POWs and Germans |
| 1963 | Italy | The Verona Trial | Il processo di Verona | Carlo Lizzani | Verona trial |
| 1963 | United Kingdom | The Victors | Carl Foreman | Drama. US soldiers in European Theatre of combat following D-Day | |
| 1963 | Poland | Where is the General? | Gdzie jest generał... | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1963 | Italy | Wine, Whiskey and Salt Water | Vino, whisky e acqua salata | Mario Amendola | Comedy. An Italian submarine sinks an English warship and takes its very British commander as prisoner |
| 1964 | United States | The Americanization of Emily | Arthur Hiller | Planning for Normandy landings | |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia | The Assassination | Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1964 | Italy Soviet Union |
Attack and Retreat | Italiani brava gente (in Italian) Oni shli na vostok (Они шли на Восток) (in Russian) |
Giuseppe De Santis | Drama. Unheralded and unsuccessful Eastern Front invasion of Soviet Union by Italian army |
| 1964 | United States | Back Door to Hell | Monte Hellman | American commandos prepare for Gen. MacArthur's return to Philippines | |
| 1964 | Poland | Battle Colours | Barwy walki | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1964 | China | Dr. Bethune | Bái Qiúēn dai fu (白求恩大夫) | Gao Zheng, Li Shutian | Drama based on Zhou Erfu book. Canadian doctor Norman Bethune dies aiding Red Army in Sino-Japanese War [8] |
| 1964 | Poland | End of our World | Koniec naszego świata | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz |
| 1964 | United States | Ensign Pulver | Joshua Logan | Romantic comedy. South West Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1955 film Mister Roberts | |
| 1964 | United States | Father Goose | Ralph Nelson | Comedy-drama. Coast watcher on Matalava island monitoring Japanese plane movements in the South Pacific | |
| 1964 | Georgian SSR | The Father of the Soldier | Jariskatsis mama (ჯარისკაცის მამა) (in Georgian) Otets soldata (Отец солдата) (in Russian) |
Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze) | Drama. Georgian peasant leaving village for front lines to find wounded soldier son |
| 1964 | Poland | The First Day of Freedom | Pierwszy dzień wolności | Aleksander Ford | Polish POWs in German Stalag, 1945 |
| 1964 | Japan United States |
Flight from Ashiya | Michael Anderson | USAAF pilots relive events in North Africa and Pacific | |
| 1964 | Poland | Giuseppe in Warsaw | Giuseppe w Warszawie | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Comedy. Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 |
| 1964 | United States | McHale's Navy | Edward Montagne | Comedy. American PT boat crew in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II and New Caledonia | |
| 1964 | Philippines | The Guns of Corregidor † | Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres | Battle of Corregidor |
| 1964 | Yugoslavia | Nikoletina Bursać | Nikoletina Bursać | Branko Bauer | Yugoslav partisan Nikoletina Bursać |
| 1964 | Denmark | Paradise and Back | Paradis Retur | Gabriel Axel | Romance/Drama. Life near imposing landfill amid pre-War Denmark and Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark, 1928–1945 |
| 1964 | United States | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | Drama. New York City Auschwitz survivor tormented by memories | |
| 1964 | United States | The Secret Invasion | Roger Corman | Allied convicts recruited for mission to capture Nazi-imprisoned Italian general planning to switch sides and turnover army to Allies | |
| 1964 | United Kingdom | The Secret of Blood Island | Quentin Lawrence | British POWs help wounded female agent escape Japanese; loosely based sequel to 1958 film The Camp on Blood Island | |
| 1964 | South Africa | Seven Against the Sun | David Millin | East African Campaign | |
| 1964 | United States | Shell Shock | John Hayes | Italian Campaign | |
| 1964 | United Kingdom | 633 Squadron (Squadron 633) | Walter Grauman | Drama. RAF squadron on mission to destroy German V-2 rocket fuel factory in Occupied Norway | |
| 1964 | United States | The Thin Red Line | Andrew Marton | Guadalcanal Campaign | |
| 1964 | United States France Italy |
The Train | John Frankenheimer | Resistance in Occupied France | |
| 1964 | Poland | The Unknown | Nieznany | Witold Lesiewicz | Soviet Gulag and Eastern Front, 1943–44 |
| 1964 | Philippines United States |
The Walls of Hell | Intramuros | Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León | Battle of Intramuros |
| 1964 | France | Weekend at Dunkirk | Week-end à Zuydcoote | Henri Verneuil | Battle of Dunkirk |
| 1964 | Poland | Wounded in the Forest | Ranny w lesie | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish resistance |
| 1964 | United Kingdom | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Anthony Asquith | Axis invasion of Yugoslavia |
Late 1960s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Poland | And All Will Be Quiet | Potem nastąpi cisza | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish resistance, 1944 |
| 1965 | United States | Battle of the Bulge | Ken Annakin | Ardennes Offensive | |
| 1965 | Poland | The Boots (TV) | Buty | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Eastern Front military hospital |
| 1965 | Italy | The Camp Followers | Le soldatesse | Valerio Zurlini | Italian soldiers escort a group of prostitutes in occupied Greece |
| 1965 | Poland | The Cart (TV) | Wózek | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Soviet POWs in Poland |
| 1965 | Hungary | The Corporal and Others | A tizedes meg a többiek | Márton Keleti | Comedy. Hungarian soldiers attempt to surrender to Soviet army |
| 1965 | Poland | The Day after the War (TV) | Nazajutrz po wojnie | Lech Lorentowicz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1965 | Poland | Death in the Middle Room (TV) | Śmierć w środkowym pokoju | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | German occupation of Poland |
| 1965 | Philippines | The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story | Iginuhit ng Tadhana | Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde | Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia | The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear) | A pátý jezdec je strach | Zbyněk Brynych | Drama. Mental effects of Holocaust and oppression in Prague under Nazi occupation |
| 1965 | United Kingdom | The Heroes of Telemark | Anthony Mann | Norwegian resistance movement and Operation Gunnerside | |
| 1965 | United Kingdom | The Hill | Sidney Lumet | North African military prison | |
| 1965 | United States | In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | Pacific Theater of Operations | |
| 1965 | United States | King Rat | Otto Preminger | Based on James Clavell novel. Allied POWs under Japanese captors | |
| 1965 | Poland | The Little Daughter (TV) | Córeczka | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland, 1944 |
| 1965 | United States | McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force | Edward Montagne | American PT boat crew in Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1964 film McHale's Navy | |
| 1965 | Poland France West Germany |
The Moment of Peace (TV) | Czas pokoju (in Polish) | Georges Franju, Tadeusz Konwicki, Egon Monk, Wojciech Solarz | Anthology. Occupation stories in France, Germany, and Poland |
| 1965 | United States | Morituri (Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) | Bernhard Wicki | German in India blackmailed by British to impersonate SS officer aboard cargo ship bound for Germany | |
| 1965 | United States Japan |
None but the Brave | [3] | Frank Sinatra | US and Japanese soldiers temporarily unite to survive on isolated Pacific Island |
| 1965 | United Kingdom | Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) | Michael Anderson | Operation Crossbow | |
| 1965 | Philippines | My Beloved Philippines † | Pilipinas kong mahal | Efren Reyes | Romance-Drama. Battle of Bataan, Makapili, and Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1965 | Philippines United States |
The Ravagers | Eddie Romero | Filipino guerrillas battle remaining Japanese forces | |
| 1965 | Philippines | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Armando A. Herrera | Filipino guerrillas rescue US soldiers with information for resistance movement |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia | The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Drama. Aryanization of rump Slovak State |
| 1965 | United States | Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious | Gottfried Reinhardt | Comedy based on Robert Shaw novel. | |
| 1965 | United Kingdom | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 Best Picture Musical drama. Von Trapp family in Salzburg during Nazi Anschluss | |
| 1965 | Japan | Story of a Prostitute | Shunpuden (春婦伝) | Seijun Suzuki | Brothel at a Japanese outpost in Manchukuo |
| 1965 | United States | 36 Hours | George Seaton | Thriller based on Roald Dahl story. Early June 1944, Germans deceive American officer that it is 1950 and war is over | |
| 1965 | Yugoslavia | Three | Tri | Aleksandar Petrović | Partisan warfare in Yugoslavia |
| 1965 | China | Tunnel War | Dì dào zhàn (地道战) | Ren Xudong | Tunnel warfare in China during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 | United States France |
Up from the Beach | Robert Parrish | US patrol and their German prisoner after D-Day | |
| 1965 | United States | Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | Allied POWs escape from Italian camps by train | |
| 1966 | United States | Ambush Bay | Ron Winston | US Marine amphibious scouts prior to 1944 invasion of the Philippines | |
| 1966 | Czechoslovakia | Closely Watched Trains (Closely Observed Trains) | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Unlikely hero takes stand against German occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 1966 | Poland | Contribution | Kontrybucja | Jan Łomnicki | Polish resistance |
| 1966 | Poland | Don Gabriel | Don Gabriel | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Comedy. Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1966 | France | Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | La Grande Vadrouille | Gérard Oury | Comedy. RAF crew attempt escape through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen |
| 1966 | Yugoslavia | Eagles Fly Early | Orlovi rano lete | Soja Jovanović | Young boys assist the partisans in fighting the Germans invading Yugoslavia |
| 1966 | United States | I Deal In Danger | Walter Grauman | American correspondent and double agent for neutral US against Nazis; feature-length compilation of short-lived TV series Blue Light | |
| 1966 | Latvian SSR | I remember everything, Richard (cut version) (Rocks and Splinters; uncut version) | Es visu atceros, Ricard! (cut version) (Akmens un šķembas; uncut version) | Rolands Kalnins | Latvian Legion on Leningrad Front; AKA Dzimtene, piedod |
| 1966 | United States France |
Is Paris Burning? | Paris brûle-t-il? | René Clément | Liberation of Paris |
| 1966 | Israel United Kingdom United States |
Judith (Conflict) | [3] | Daniel Mann | Woman betrayed by Nazi husband is interned in Dachau concentration camp and seeks revenge |
| 1966 | France | Line of Demarcation | La ligne de démarcation | Claude Chabrol | Small French town divided by river that forms border between Nazi-occupied France and unoccupied zone, 1941 |
| 1966 | Poland | The Master (TV) | Mistrz | Jerzy Antczak | German occupation of Poland |
| 1966 | United States | Mission to Death | Kenneth W. Richardson | US commandos infiltrate German lines in northern France, 1945 | |
| 1966 | United Kingdom France |
The Night of the Generals | [3] | Anatole Litvak | July 20 plot |
| 1966 | Denmark | Once There Was a War | Der var engang en krig | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Danish boy after German occupation of Denmark |
| 1966 | Japan | Red Angel | Akai tenshi (赤い天使) | Yasuzo Masumura | Romance/Drama. Japanese nurse serves in field hospitals of China |
| 1966 | United States | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Blake Edwards | Allied invasion of Sicily | |
| 1967 | United Kingdom | Attack on the Iron Coast | Paul Wendkos | Canadian commando raid on Nazi-held French port, loosely based on St. Nazaire Raid | |
| 1967 | East Germany | The Banner of Krivoy Rog | Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog | Kurt Maetzig | Liberation of Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog |
| 1967 | United States | Beach Red | Cornel Wilde | Pacific Theater of Operations | |
| 1967 | Yugoslavia | Black Birds | Crne ptice (Црне птице) | Eduard Galić | POWs in Ustasha-run concentration camp near end of war |
| 1967 | Italy France |
The Crazy Kids of the War | La feldmarescialla | Steno | Comedy. A downed American aviator, a meteorologist and a girl flee the Germans in occupied Italy |
| 1967 | Poland | A Crazy Night | Zwariowana noc | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Comedy. Polish resistance |
| 1967 | Yugoslavia | Demolition Squad | Diverzanti | Hajrudin Krvavac | Partisan commandos attack a German air base in Yugoslavia |
| 1967 | Italy France West Germany |
Desert Commandos | Attentato ai tre grandi (in Italian) Les chiens verts du désert (in French) Fünf gegen Casablanca (in German) |
Umberto Lenzi | German commandos parachute into North Africa to infiltrate Casablanca Conference |
| 1967 | United States | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | Thriller based on E. M. Nathanson novel. US Army convicts on mission before D-Day | |
| 1967 | Japan | Japan's Longest Day | Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (日本のいちばん長い日) | Kihachi Okamoto | Drama based on Sōichi Ōya book. Kyūjō Incident |
| 1967 | Poland | The Killer Leaves a Trace | Morderca zostawia ślad | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Polish resistance |
| 1967 | United States | The Longest Hundred Miles (Escape from Bataan) | Don Weis | Adventure. US corporal, priest, and Filipino children flee the Japanese | |
| 1967 | Poland | Long Night | Długa noc | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish resistance during German occupation of Poland, 1943 |
| 1967 | Poland West Germany |
Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime | Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią | Jan Rybkowski | German homefront |
| 1967 | United States | Tobruk | Arthur Hiller | Canadian officer guides British and German-Jewish commandos to destroy Tobruk fuel storage, September 1942 | |
| 1967 | France | The Two of Us | Le vieil homme et l'enfant (Claude [9]) | Claude Berri | Comedy-drama. Jewish boy sent to live on farm during German occupation of France |
| 1967 | Poland | Westerplatte | Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | Battle of Westerplatte |
| 1967 | Soviet Union Poland |
Zosya | Zosya (Зося) (in Russian) Zosia (in Polish) |
Jerzy Lipman | Romance/Drama. Soviet officer and Polish girl near end of war on Poland's Eastern Front |
| 1968 | Albania | Ambush | Prita | Mithat Fagu | Albanian Resistance under German occupation of Albania, 1943 |
| 1968 | Philippines | Ang Mangliligpit | Ang Mangliligpit | Pablo Santiago | Filipino Guerrillas battle Makapili |
| 1968 | Italy | Anzio | Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti | Battle of Anzio | |
| 1968 | Georgian SSR | Crucified Island | Jvartsmuli kundzuli (ჯვარცმული კუნძული) (in Georgian) Raspyaty ostrov (Распятый остров) (in Russian) |
Shota Managadze | Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland |
| 1968 | Italy West Germany |
Commandos (Sullivan's Marauders) | Commandos (in Italian) | Armando Crispino | Italian-American soldiers disguised in Italian uniform infiltrate North African camp |
| 1968 | United States | The Devil's Brigade | Andrew V. McLaglen | Devil's Brigade | |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia | Dita Saxová | Dita Saxová | Antonín Moskalyk | Based on novel by Arnošt Lustig. |
| 1968 | Poland | Heading for Berlin | Kierunek Berlin | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1968 | Italy France |
Hell in Normandy | Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (in Italian) | Alfonso Brescia | US paratrooper commandos at Omaha Beach prior to D-Day |
| 1968 | United States | Hell in the Pacific | [10] | John Boorman | Downed US Marine pilot and marooned Japanese Navy captain on deserted Pacific island |
| 1968 | United States | Hell Raiders (TV) | Larry Buchanan | US Army demolition squad on mission to destroy records in evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of 1958 film Suicide Battalion | |
| 1968 | United States | The Hell with Heroes | Joseph Sargent | Former USAAF pilots forced to work for international smuggler in North Africa to earn money needed for return to civilian life, 1946 | |
| 1968 | Japan | The Human Bullet (Human Guinea Pigs: The Human Bullet) | Nikudan (肉弾) | Kihachi Okamoto | Japanese Navy pilot assigned kamikaze mission against US battleship |
| 1968 | United States | In Enemy Country (In Enemy Hands) | Harry Keller | Allied undercover agents aided by Polish resistance on mission to stop Nazis from developing "super torpedo" | |
| 1968 | East Germany | I Was Nineteen | Ich war neunzehn (Ich war 19 / Heimkehr) | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on director's diary. Young German's flight from Nazis to Moscow and return to Berlin as Russian Army officer |
| 1968 | United Kingdom | The Long Day's Dying | Peter Collinson | British paratroopers separated from regiment take German officer prisoner | |
| 1968 | Philippines | Manila, Open City | Manila, Open City | Eddie Romero | Manila Massacre and Battle of Manila |
| 1968 | Yugoslavia | Operation Belgrade | Operacija Beograd | Žika Mitrović | A group of partisans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue an American colonel captured by the Germans |
| 1968 | Estonian SSR | People in Soldier's Uniforms | Inimesed sõdurisinelis (in Estonian) Lyudi v soldatskikh shinelyakh (Люди в солдатских шинелях) (in Russian) |
Jüri Müür | Mobilized Estonian conscripts in Red Army at battles of Velikiye Luki and Tehumardi |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia | Riders in the Sky (Sky Riders / Heaven Riders) | Nebeští jezdci | Jindřich Polák | Czech pilots in RAF No. 311 Squadron |
| 1968 | United States | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Jack Smight | Comedy. Escape of Allied Generals held in special Italian camp | |
| 1968 | Italy | The Seven Cervi Brothers | I sette fratelli Cervi | Gianni Puccini | Cervi Brothers |
| 1968 | Soviet Union | Shield and Sword | Shchit i mech (Щит и меч) | Vladimir Basov | Soviet spy in German intelligence [11] |
| 1968 | West Germany | Signs of Life | Lebenszeichen | Werner Herzog | Wounded German soldiers assigned to convalesce on Greek island of Kos |
| 1968 | United States | The Subject was Roses | Ulu Grosbard | Soldier's return home after war | |
| 1968 | United Kingdom | Submarine X-1 | William A. Graham | Royal Navy midget submarines | |
| 1968 | United Kingdom | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | Allied commando operation to rescue captured "American General" | |
| 1968 | Japan | Monument to the Girl's Corps Monument of Maidens Lily | Âh himeyuri no tô (あゝひめゆりの塔) | Toshio Masuda | Himeyuri students in Battle of Okinawa |
| 1969 | France Italy |
Army of Shadows | L'Armée des ombres | Jean-Pierre Melville | French Resistance |
| 1969 | Poland | Ascension Day | Wniebowstąpienie | Jan Rybkowski | Lwów, Poland during Soviet and German Occupation, 1941 |
| 1969 | United Kingdom | Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | Battle of Britain | |
| 1969 | Italy | The Battle of El Alamein | La battaglia di El Alamein | Giorgio Ferroni | Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia | The Battle of Neretva | Bitka na Neretvi | Veljko Bulajić | Battle of Neretva |
| 1969 | Italy Spain West Germany Switzerland |
Battle of the Commandos | La legione dei dannati (in Italian) La brigada de los condenados (in Spanish) Die zum Teufel gehen (in German) |
Umberto Lenzi | Irish Colonel leading commando unit of convicts and US explosives expert on mission to defuse underwater mines in preparation for D-Day |
| 1969 | Italy Spain |
The Battle of the Last Panzer (The Last Panzer Battalion) | La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer (in Italian) La batalla del último Panzer (in Spanish) |
José Luis Merino | Surviving German tank crew attempt to reach friendly lines |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia | A Bloody Tale | Krvava bajka | Branimir Tori Janković | Kragujevac massacre, Serbia |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia | The Bridge | Most | Hajrudin Krvavac | Yugoslav partisans mine a heavily guarded bridge held by German forces |
| 1969 | United States | The Bridge at Remagen | John Guillermin | Operation Lumberjack on Western Front | |
| 1969 | Italy | Code Name, Red Roses | Rose rosse per il Führer | Fernando Di Leo | An American major and some partisans try to capture an important German memoradum |
| 1969 | Poland | Day of Purification | Dzień oczyszczenia | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance and Soviet partisans in Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Italy | Desert Battle (Desert Assault) | La battaglia del deserto (Inferno nel deserto) | Mino Loy | British and German soldiers in the desert in the area of Tobruk |
| 1969 | Italy | Eagles Over London (Battle Squadron / Battle Command) | La battaglia d'Inghilterra | Enzo G. Castellari | British officers pursue Nazi saboteurs through London |
| 1969 | Italy Yugoslavia |
The Fifth Day of Peace | Gott mit uns (Dio è con noi) (in Italian) | Giuliano Montaldo | 13 May 1945 German deserter execution |
| 1969 | Italy | Five for Hell (Five into Hell) | 5 per l'inferno | Gianfranco Parolini | Comedy-drama. Oddball US commandos with mission behind enemy lines |
| 1969 | Albania | The Guerrilla Unit | Njësiti guerril | Hysen Hakani | Albanian Resistance in Tirana during Italian occupation of Albania |
| 1969 | United Kingdom | Hannibal Brooks | Michael Winner | Adventure-comedy. British POW attempts escape from German captors with elephant | |
| 1969 | Poland | How I Unleashed the Second World War | Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Polish Campaign, 1939 and Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, and Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Italy | Kill Rommel! | Uccidete Rommel | Alfonso Brescia | A mixed US-British commando tries to kill Rommel in North Africa |
| 1969 | Poland | The Last Days | Ostatnie dni | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1969 | Soviet Union East Germany Poland Italy |
Liberation (The Great Battle) | Osvobozhdenie (Освобождение) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov, Julius Kun | Romance/Drama. Eastern Front from Battle for Kursk to Fall of Berlin; five-part film series |
| 1969 | United States | Love Camp 7 (Nazi Love Camp 7) | Lee Frost | British female officers infiltrate Nazi internment camp to reach inmate scientist | |
| 1969 | United Kingdom | Mosquito Squadron | Boris Sagal | British bomber squadron targets German research camp and Vergeltungswaffe | |
| 1969 | Poland | The Neighbours | Sąsiedzi | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Bydgoszcz, Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1969 | Philippines | Pambihirang tatlo | Pambihirang tatlo | Felix Villar | Filipino mission to destroy Japanese bastion along San Bernardino Strait |
| 1969 | United Kingdom | Play Dirty | André de Toth | North African Campaign | |
| 1969 | Poland | Red Rowan | Jarzębina czerwona | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Battle of Kolberg on Eastern Front |
| 1969 | Italy | Salt in the Wound (The Dirty Two) | Il dito nella piaga | Tonino Ricci | Condemned US soldiers survive Nazi ambush on way to execution and defend Italian village from invading Germans |
| 1969 | United States | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | Aftermath of fall of Mussolini's Fascist government | |
| 1969 | Italy | 36 Hours in Hell | 36 ore all'inferno | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Marine platoon scouts Japanese-occupied island before Allied invasion of Rabaul |
| 1969 | United States | The Thousand Plane Raid (The 1,000 Plane Raid) | Boris Sagal | Largest air armada on daytime mission targets German fighter plane production | |
| 1969 | United States | Wake Me When the War Is Over (TV) | Gene Nelson | Comedy.[12] | |
| 1969 | Italy Spain |
War Devils | I diavoli della guerra | Bitto Albertini | Small units in North African desert battle, and French villa raid |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia | When You Hear the Bells | Kad čuješ zvona | Antun Vrdoljak | A partisan commissar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partisans in line |
| 1969 | Italy | Youth March | Giovinezza giovinezza | Franco Rossi | Two Italian friends: one becomes an antifascist deserter and the other an artillery officer |
Early 1970s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Italy | Overrun | La lunga notte dei disertori – I 7 di Marsa Matruh | Mario Siciliano | Drama. A group of British soldiers are determined to get back to their own lines, picking up more allied survivors along the way. |
| 1970 | Greece | Lieutenant Natasha | Ipolochagos Natassa (Υπολοχαγός Νατάσσα) | Nikos Foskolos | Drama. Woman in the Greek resistance sent to Dachau |
| 1970 | United States | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | Italian Campaign | |
| 1970 | Italy Spain |
Churchill's Leopards | I leopardi di Churchill (in Italian) | Maurizio Pradeaux | English agent, posing as dead German officer twin, assists French Resistance and British commandos against SS, 1944 |
| 1970 | Italy | Corbari | Corbari | Valentino Orsini | Italian resistance movement |
| 1970 | Poland | Face of an Angel | Twarz anioła | Zbigniew Chmielewski | Drama. Children in Nazi concentration camp in Łódź, Poland |
| 1970 | Philippines | Guerrilla Strike Force | Maharlika | Jerry Hopper | Japanese invasion of Manila Bay |
| 1970 | United Kingdom United States |
Hell Boats | Paul Wendkos | British motor torpedo boats operating in Mediterranean | |
| 1970 | United States Italy |
Hornets' Nest | [3] | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | US paratrooper and boy partisans attack dam during Italian Campaign |
| 1970 | United States Yugoslavia |
Kelly's Heroes | [3] | Brian G. Hutton | Western Front |
| 1970 | Poland | Kolumbowie | Kolumbowie | Janusz Morgenstern | Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 |
| 1970 | United Kingdom | The Last Escape | Walter Grauman | Allied commandos on mission to kidnap German scientists, 1945; shot in 1968 | |
| 1970 | Japan | The Last Kamikaze | Saigo no Tokkotai | Yahagi Toshihiko | Kamikaze attacks |
| 1970 | Poland Soviet Union |
Legenda | Legenda (in Polish) | Sylwester Chęciński | Polish resistance |
| 1970 | Italy | The Little War | Io non scappo... fuggo | Franco Prosperi | Comedy. War in Sicily and in Italy |
| 1970 | United Kingdom | The McKenzie Break (Escape) | Lamont Johnson | Irish intelligence officer investigates German POW camp disturbances in Scotland near end of war | |
| 1970 | Denmark | October Days †· | Oktoberdage | Bent Christensen | |
| 1970 | Poland | Olympic Fire | Znicz olimpijski | Lech Lorentowicz | Zakopane, Polish resistance in Tatra Mountains |
| 1970 | Italy | Operation Snafu (Situation Normal: AFU) | Rosolino Paternò, soldato... | Nanni Loy | American landing in Sicily |
| 1970 | United States | Patton | Franklin Schaffner | 1970 Best Picture chronicling the campaigns of General George S. Patton | |
| 1970 | Philippines | Santiago! | Santiago! | Lino Brocka | Life in occupied Philippines |
| 1970 | Italy Soviet Union |
Sunflower | I Girasoli | Vittorio De Sica | Romance-drama. End of war search for Italian soldier lost on Eastern Front [13] |
| 1970 | United States | Too Late the Hero (Suicide Run) | Robert Aldrich | British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign | |
| 1970 | United States Japan |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | Tora Tora Tora! (トラ・トラ・トラ!) | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1970 | Japan | Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists | Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' (激動の昭和史 軍閥) | Hiromichi Horikawa | Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War |
| 1971 | Japan | The Battle of Okinawa | Gekido no Showashi: Okinawa kessen (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) | Kihachi Okamoto | Battle of Okinawa through eyes of Japanese Army, Navy, aviation, civilians, and generals |
| 1971 | United States | The Birdmen (Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen) (TV) | Philip Leacock | Adventure. POWs in castle prison build glider | |
| 1971 | United Kingdom | Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Comedy based on Dad's Army TV series. British Home Guard | |
| 1971 | Italy | The Long Shadow of the Wolf † | La lunga ombra del lupo | Gianni Manera | Italian Civil War |
| 1971 | South Africa | Mr. Kingstreet's War | Percival Rubens | East African Campaign | |
| 1971 | United Kingdom | Murphy's War | Peter Yates | Battle of the South Atlantic | |
| 1971 | Yugoslavia | The Pine Tree in the Mountain | U gori raste zelen bor | Antun Vrdoljak | A Yugoslav Communist Party commissioner is sent to a lowland village to monitor the local partisans |
| 1971 | United States | Raid on Rommel | Henry Hathaway | North African Campaign | |
| 1971 | Philippines | Sangre | Sangre (in Spanish) | Armando Garces | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1971 | Poland | The Third Part of the Night | Trzecia część nocy | Andrzej Żuławski | Polish Resistance |
| 1971 | Bulgaria | Three Reservists | Trimata ot zapasa (Тримата от запаса) | Zako Heskija | Comedy-drama. Bulgarian soldiers in Hungary, 1945 |
| 1971 | Poland | Top Agent | Agent nr 1 | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Polish SOE agent in Greek Resistance |
| 1971 | Soviet Union | Trial on the Road | Proverka na dorogakh (Проверка на дорогах) | Aleksei German | Former Russian POW joins partisans, Winter 1942 |
| 1971 | Greece | What Did You Do in the War, Thanasi? | Τι έκανες στον πόλεμο, Θανάση) | Dinos Katsouridis | Anti-war comedy. Hapless man caught up between the Greek Resistance and the Germans |
| 1972 | India | Challenge | Lalkaar | Ramanand Sagar | Drama based on book by Ramanand Sagar (writer). Indian Army and Indian Air Force action against a secret Japanese Air Strip construction between Burma and Assam, near Indian state of Nagaland, 1942 |
| 1972 | Soviet Union | The Dawns Here Are Quiet | A zori zdes tikhie (А зори здесь тихие) | Stanislav Rostotsky | Drama based on book by Boris Vasilyev. Female Soviet anti-aircraft squad encounter with platoon of Nazi paratroopers on Karelian Front, 1941 |
| 1972 | Soviet Union | Hot Snow | Goryachiy Sneg (Горячий снег) | Gavriil Yegiazarov | Drama based on Yuri Bondarev novel. German attempt to extract Sixth Army from Stalingrad in Winter of 1942 |
| 1972 | Japan | Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Gunki hatameku motoni (軍旗はためく下に) | Kinji Fukasaku | Japanese veterans recall experiences to a war widow on quest to exonerate husband executed for desertion |
| 1972 | Yugoslavia | Walter Defends Sarajevo | Valter brani Sarajevo (Валтер брани Сарајево) | Hajrudin Krvavac | Partisans try to prevent the Germans to use a fuel depot in Sarajevo during their retreat from the Balkans in late 1944 |
| 1973 | Poland | Barbed Wire | Zasieki | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Polish Campaign, 1939; Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1973 | Yugoslavia | The Battle of Sutjeska | Sutjeska (Сутјеска) | Stipe Delić | Battle of the Sutjeska |
| 1973 | Yugoslavia | Bombers † | Bombaši (Бомбаши) | Predrag Golubović | Two Yugoslav partisans must blow up some bunkers in order to stop the Germans |
| 1973 | United States | Death Race (State of Division) (TV) | David Lowell Rich | German panzer chases American P-40 across North African desert, 1942 | |
| 1973 | Philippines | Dugo ng Bayan | Dugo ng Bayan | Armando A. Herrera | Remake. Filipino Resistance.[14] |
| 1973 | United Kingdom Italy |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | [3] | Ennio De Concini | Last days of Hitler during Battle of Berlin |
| 1973 | Poland | Hubal | Hubal | Bohdan Poręba | Henryk Dobrzański in Polish Campaign, 1939–1940 |
| 1973 | China | Little 8th Route Army | Xiaobalu (小八路) | Lei You | Animated. Sino-Japanese War |
| 1973 | Italy | Massacre in Rome | Rappresaglia | George P. Cosmatos | Ardeatine massacre |
| 1973 | France Italy |
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (in French) | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle; first of trilogy |
| 1973 | France | The Train (The Last Train) | Le Train | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Based on Georges Simenon novel. Frenchman and Jewish-German woman meet on train while escaping German army to France |
| 1973 | Hong Kong South Korea |
When Taekwondo Strikes | Tai quan zhen jiu zhou (跆拳震九州) (in Yue Chinese) | Feng Huang | Martial arts. Japanese occupation of Korea |
| 1974 | United Kingdom | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | Norman Cohen | Comedy. Basic training of British conscripts | |
| 1974 | France | Black Thursday | Les guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | First large-scale roundup of Jews in Paris and man saving as many as possible, 1942 |
| 1974 | Estonian SSR | The Dangerous Games | Ohtlikud mängud (in Estonian) Opasnye igry (Опасные игры) (in Russian) |
Veljo Käsper | Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany |
| 1974 | Bulgaria | Dawn Over the Drava | Zarevo nad Drava (Зарево над Драва) | Zako Heskija | Drama. Battle of the Drava, 1945 |
| 1974 | Taiwan | The Everlasting Glory | Ying lie qian qiu (英烈千秋) | Tin Shan Sui | Biography of Zhang Zizhong during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1974 | United States | The Execution of Private Slovik (TV) | Lamont Johnson | Drama based on William Bradford Huie book. Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier to be executed for desertion during war | |
| 1974 | Japan | Father of the Kamikaze | Ā Kessen Kōkūtai (あゝ決戦航空隊) | Kosaku Yamashita | Drama. Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi |
| 1974 | Poland | Heads Full of Stars | Głowy pełne gwiazd | Janusz Kondratiuk | Eastern Front and German Occupation of Poland, 1944 |
| 1974 | Japan | Karafuto Summer 1945: Gate of Ice and Snow | Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門) | Mitsuo Murayama | Soviet invasion of Karafuto prompts nine Japanese women to commit suicide |
| 1974 | France West Germany Italy |
Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien) | Lacombe Lucien (in French) | Louis Malle | French Resistance and collaboration |
| 1974 | Italy | Last Days of Mussolini | Mussolini ultimo atto | Carlo Lizzani | The last days of Benito Mussolini |
| 1974 | Yugoslavia | Red Attack † | Crveni Udar (Црвени удар) | Predrag Golubović | Resistance in a mine in German-occupied Kosovo |
| 1974 | Poland Soviet Union |
Remember Your Name | Zapamiętaj imię swoje (in Polish) Pomni imya svoye (Помни имя свое) (in Russian) |
Siergiej Kołosow | Tragedy of children in war |
| 1974 | Italy | Salvo D'Acquisto | Salvo D'Acquisto | Romolo Guerrieri | Salvo D'Acquisto |
| 1974 | United Kingdom | Undercovers Hero | Soft Beds, Hard Battle | Roy Boulting | Comedy. Brothel during the German occupation of France |
| 1974 | Yugoslavia | The Republic of Užice | Užička republika (Ужичка република) | Žika Mitrović | Drama. Short-lived partisan Republic of Užice, 1941 |
Late 1970s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Philippines | Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Ding M. De Jesus, Cesar Gallardo, Armando A. Herrera, Johnny Pangilinan, Romy Suzara | Filipino resistance from the Spanish period to the Japanese |
| 1975 | Yugoslavia | The Farm in the Small Marsh | Salas u Malom Ritu (Салаш у Малом Риту) | Branko Bauer | German occupation of the Banat |
| 1975 | United States | Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS | Don Edmonds | Exploitation. | |
| 1975 | Poland | In the Days Before the Spring | W te dni przedwiosenne | Andrzej Konic | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1975 | East Germany Czechoslovakia |
Jacob the Liar | Jakob der Lügner (in German) | Frank Beyer | Based on Jurek Becker novel. Eastern European Jewish ghetto, 1944 |
| 1975 | Poland | Leaves Have Fallen | Opadły liście z drzew | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Poland | My War – My Love | Moja wojna, moja miłość | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1975 | France West Germany |
The Old Gun (Vengeance One by One) | Le vieux fusil | Robert Enrico | Drama. |
| 1975 | Romania | No Trespassing | Pe Aici Nu Se Trece | Doru Năstase | Battle of Păuliș |
| 1975 | Soviet Union | Only Old Men Are Going to Battle | V boy idut odni stariki (В бой идут одни старики) | Leonid Bykov | Comedy-drama. Soviet pilots |
| 1975 | United States Czechoslovakia |
Operation Daybreak (The Price of Freedom) | [3] | Lewis Gilbert | Drama based on Alan Burgess book. Operation Anthropoid |
| 1975 | United Kingdom | Overlord | Stuart Cooper | Young soldier trains with East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for Normandy landings | |
| 1975 | Poland | A Partita for a Wind Instrument | Partita na instrument drewniany | Janusz Zaorski | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Italy | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Controversial horror art film. Wealthy fascist libertines after the fall of Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò, 1944 |
| 1975 | Italy | Seven Beauties | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Satirical dark comedy. Mobster is conscripted in Italian Army to avoid prison |
| 1975 | France | The Seventh Company Has Been Found | On a retrouvé la septième compagnie | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle and in officers POW camp/castle; second of trilogy |
| 1975 | France | Special Section | Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | Special court where judges condemn innocents to death to please Germans during occupation |
| 1975 | Soviet Union | They Fought for Their Country | Oni srazhalis za Rodinu (Они сражались за Родину) | Sergey Bondarchuk | Rearguard action of Soviet platoon during German drive on Stalingrad |
| 1975 | Greece | The Travelling Players | O Thiasos (Ο Θίασος) | Theodoros Angelopoulos | German invasion and occupation of Greece |
| 1976 | Italy | And Agnes Chose to Die | L'Agnese va a morire | Giuliano Montaldo | Italian resistance movement |
| 1976 | Poland | Birds to Birds | Ptaki, ptakom... | Paweł Komorowski | Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1976 | Denmark | The Brief Summer | Den korte sommer | Edward Fleming | Woman falls in love with German soldier |
| 1976 | United Kingdom | The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | Based on novel by Jack Higgins. German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill | |
| 1976 | United States | Farewell to Manzanar (TV) | John Korty | Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar | |
| 1976 | Yugoslavia | Maiden Bridge | Devojački most (Девојачки мост) | Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic | Exchange of prisoners between Germans and Yugoslav partisans |
| 1976 | United States | Midway (The Battle of Midway) | Jack Smight | Battle of Midway | |
| 1976 | France Italy |
Mr. Klein | Monsieur Klein (in French) | Joseph Losey | French Resistance and collaboration |
| 1976 | Yugoslavia | The Peaks of Zelengora | Vrhovi Zelengore (Врхови Зеленгоре) | Zdravko Velimirović | Battle of Sutjeska |
| 1976 | Poland | Polish Roads (TV miniseries) | Polskie drogi | Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern | Poland, 1939–43; in four-parts |
| 1976 | Italy West Germany France |
Salon Kitty (Madam Kitty) | Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Exploitation. Nazi use of Salon Kitty brothel for espionage and Allied counter-espionage |
| 1976 | Soviet Union Bulgaria |
The Soldier of the Supply Column | Voynikat ot oboza (Войникът от обоза) (in Bulgarian) Bratyuzhka (Братюшка) (in Russian) |
Igor Dobrolyubov | Soviet army in Bulgaria [15] |
| 1976 | Philippines | Three Years Without God | Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Mario O'Hara | Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1976 | Poland | To Save the City | Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Kraków – Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1976 | Taiwan | Victory | Mei hua (電影) | Chia Chang Liu | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937–1945) |
| 1976 | Japan | Zero Pilot | Ōzora no samurai (天空的武士) | Seiji Maruyama | Based on novel Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero |
| 1977 | Soviet Union | The Ascent | Voskhozhdeniye (Восхождение) | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet partisans in Byelorussian village spotted by German patrol |
| 1977 | Canada | Bethune (TV) | Eric Till | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spanish Civil War, then China for Sino-Japanese War | |
| 1977 | United Kingdom United States |
A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Operation Market Garden | |
| 1977 | United Kingdom West Germany |
Cross of Iron | [3] | Sam Peckinpah | German soldiers on the Russian Front |
| 1977 | Taiwan | Eight Hundred Heroes | Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士) | Ting Shan-hsi | Drama. Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
| 1977 | France Spain |
Hitler's Last Train | Train spécial pour SS (in French) | Alain Payet | Rail journey of nightclub singer and young women in her charge drafted by Hitler for SS service |
| 1977 | Poland | The Last Round (TV) | Ostatnie okrążenie | Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska | German Occupation of Poland and Gestapo murder of Olympic gold-medalist Janusz Kusociński |
| 1977 | United States | MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | General Douglas MacArthur | |
| 1977 | East Germany | Mama, I'm Alive | Mama, ich lebe | Konrad Wolf | German POWs join Red Army then infiltrate Nazi lines |
| 1977 | Poland | Palace Hotel | Palace Hotel | Ewa Kruk | Poland, 1939–44 |
| 1977 | France | The Seventh Company Outdoors | La septième compagnie au clair de lune | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen resisting German invasion/occupation; last of trilogy |
| 1977 | Soviet Union Armenian SSR |
The Soldier and the Elephant | Zinvorn u pighe (Солдат и слон) (in Russian) (Զինվորն ու փիղը) (in Armenian) |
Dmitri Kesayants | Soldier brings an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo. |
| 1977 | Netherlands | Soldier of Orange (Survival Run) | Soldaat van Oranje | Paul Verhoeven | Dutch Resistance |
| 1978 | Yugoslavia | Battle for the Railway | Dvoboj za juznu prugu (Двобој за јужну пругу) | Zdravko Velimirović | Yugoslav partisans fight against Germans and Bulgarians to interrupt a railroad in Southern Serbia |
| 1978 | Yugoslavia | Boško Buha | Boško Buha (Бошко Буха) | Branko Bauer | Yugoslav partisan hero Boško Buha |
| 1978 | United Kingdom | Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | British commando raid in Yugoslavia | |
| 1978 | Italy | The Greatest Battle | Il grande attacco | Umberto Lenzi | Five athletes of the Berlin Olympic Games fight in World War II |
| 1978 | United States | Holocaust (TV miniseries) | Marvin J. Chomsky | German-Jewish family enduring the Holocaust | |
| 1978 | Poland | Hospital of the Transfiguration | Szpital przemienienia | Edward Żebrowski | Drama. Polish psychiatric hospital and its Gestapo roundup for concentration camps, 1943 |
| 1978 | Poland | A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores | Sto koni do stu brzegów | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Polish soldier escapes Stalag tasked with delivering information across Europe while evading Gestapo |
| 1978 | Italy | The Inglorious Bastards (G.I. Bro / Counterfeit Commandos) | [3] | Enzo G. Castellari | American soldiers escape military prison and aide French resistance on mission to steal Nazi V-2 prototype gyroscope |
| 1978 | Poland | Operation Arsenal | Akcja pod Arsenałem | Jan Łomnicki | Based on an Aleksander Kamiński novel. Szare Szeregi and Operation Arsenal during occupation of Poland, 1943 |
| 1978 | Netherlands | Pastorale 1943 | Pastorale 1943 | Wim Verstappen | Dutch Resistance |
| 1978 | Poland | Shadow Dead | Umarli rzucają cień | Julian Dziedzina | Silesian Polish Resistance |
| 1978 | Poland | To the Last Drop of Blood | Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1978 | Poland | Wherever You Are, Mr. President | ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Warsaw – Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1979 | United Kingdom | The Passage | J. Lee Thompson | Story of Basque guide helping chemist Bergson and his family escape over the Pyrenees with Nazi fanatic Capt. Von Berkow in hot pursuit. | |
| 1979 | Yugoslavia | Battle Squadron | Partizanska eskadrila (Партизанска ескадрила) | Hajrudin Krvavac | The first Yugoslav partisan Air Force unit |
| 1979 | West Germany | Breakthrough | Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil [16] | Andrew V. McLaglen | July 20 plot; sequel to Cross of Iron |
| 1979 | Poland | Elegy | Elegia | Paweł Komorowski | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1979 | United Kingdom | Escape to Athena | George Pan Cosmatos | German-occupied Greece | |
| 1979 | Italy Spain France |
From Hell to Victory | [3] | "Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi) |
Occupied Europe |
| 1979 | United Kingdom United States |
Hanover Street | Peter Hyams | American bomber crews based in England | |
| 1979 | United States | Ike (TV miniseries) | Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Drama. Wartime romance of General Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 1979 | Poland | A Long Way to Go | Droga daleka przed nami | Władysław Ślesicki | Polish soldier's escape from Stalag |
| 1979 | Poland | Morning Stars | Gwiazdy poranne | Henryk Bielski | Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1979 | Estonian SSR | Nest in the Winds | Tuulte pesa (in Estonian) | Olev Neuland | Forest Brothers |
| 1979 | United States | 1941 | Steven Spielberg | Comedy. California coast one week after attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1979 | Albania | The Radio Station | Radiostacioni | Rikard Ljarja | Based on Ismail Kadare novel Novembre d'une capitale. Albanian Resistance attempt to take over Tirana Radio, November 1944 |
| 1979 | Poland | Salad Days | Zielone lata | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Tragedy of Polish, Jewish and German children in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1939 |
| 1979 | Poland | Secret of Enigma | Sekret Enigmy | Roman Wionczek | Cryptologist Marian Rejewski and the Enigma machine |
| 1979 | United Kingdom | Yanks | John Schlesinger | Americans stationed in England |
Early 1980s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | United States | The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | US 1st Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, 1942–45 | |
| 1980 | Poland | The Birthday | Urodziny młodego warszawiaka | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Campaign, 1939 and Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland | The Death Sentence | Wyrok śmierci | Witold Orzechowski | Polish Resistance and Zamość, Poland |
| 1980 | Poland | '40 Olympics | Olimpiada '40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | Clandestine Olympiad held by Allied prisoners in German Stalag, 1940 |
| 1980 | Philippines | .45-Caliber | Kalibre .45 | Nilo Saez | Story of vengeance near end of Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1980 | West Germany | Germany Pale Mother | Deutschland bleiche Mutter | Helma Sanders-Brahms | young couple in Germany get married just before outbreak of war |
| 1980 | France | The Last Metro | Le dernier métro | François Truffaut | German occupation of France |
| 1980 | Italy | Men or Not Men | Uomini e no | Valentino Orsini | Italian resistance movement |
| 1980 | United Kingdom Switzerland United States |
The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Calcutta Light Horse | |
| 1980 | Poland | Vistula Day | Dzień Wisły | Tadeusz Kijański | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland | "W" Hour | Godzina "W" | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance and Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1981 | Switzerland West Germany Austria |
The Boat is Full | Das Boot ist voll | Markus Imhoof | German and Austrian refugees escape to neutral Switzerland hoping to find asylum by posing as family |
| 1981 | France | Bolero: Dance of Life | Les uns et les autres | Claude Lelouch | Musical drama. Four musical families of different backgrounds and nationalities followed from 1930s–1980s as their paths cross; film also released as TV miniseries, 1981 |
| 1981 | United States | The Bunker | George Schaefer | Based on book The Bunker. Last days of Hitler | |
| 1981 | West Germany | Das Boot (The Boat) | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1981 | United States | Escape to Victory (Victory) | John Huston | Football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs | |
| 1981 | United Kingdom | Eye of the Needle | Richard Marquand | German spy in England before D-Day | |
| 1981 | Lithuanian SSR | Faktas | Faktas (in Lithuanian) Fakt (Факт) (in Russian) |
Almantas Grikevicius | |
| 1981 | Poland | General Boldyn | Bołdyn | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | Netherlands | The Girl with the Red Hair | Het meisje met het rode haar | Ben Verbong | Dutch Resistance |
| 1981 | Japan | The Imperial Navy | Rengo kantai (連合艦隊) | Shūe Matsubayashi | Operation Ten-Go and battleship Yamato |
| 1981 | France | Let's Go Children | Allons Z'enfants | Yves Boisset | Drama. Young Cadet in French military school who dislikes soldiering but conscripted into Phony War service, 1939–1940 |
| 1981 | Poland | Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye | Ryś | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | Italy | The Skin | La pelle | Liliana Cavani | American occupation of Naples |
| 1981 | Soviet Union France Switzerland Spain |
Teheran 43 (Assassination Attempt / The Eliminator) | Tegeran-43 (Тегеран-43) (in Russian) | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Thriller. Assassination plot against Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Tehran Conference, 1943 |
| 1982 | Yugoslavia | 13th of July † | 13. jul (13. јул) | Radomir Saranović | Uprising in Montenegro |
| 1982 | Poland | Ash Wednesday (TV) | Popielec | Ryszard Ber | Polish village under German occupation |
| 1982 | Australia | Attack Force Z (Z Force) | Tim Burstall | Z Special Unit | |
| 1982 | Philippines | Gold, Silver, Death | Oro, Plata, Mata | Peque Gallaga | Fall of Corregidor |
| 1982 | Australia | The Highest Honour (The Southern Cross / Heroes of the Krait) | Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell | Operation Rimau | |
| 1982 | Japan | The Lily Tower † | Himeyuri no Tō (ひめゆりの塔) | Tadashi Imai | A group of high school girls trained as nurses witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa[17] |
| 1982 | Australia | Sarah (Sarah and the Squirrel) | The Seventh Match | Yoram Gross, Athol Henry | An orphaned girl successfully finishes a task, the local resistance were unable to. |
| 1982 | Italy | The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Comedy-drama. Italians hear rumors of Nazi plan to raze their town when Americans are about to liberate them, 1944 |
| 1982 | Italy | Odd Squad | Ciao nemico | Enzo Barboni | Comedy. Allied invasion of Sicily |
| 1982 | United States | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor | |
| 1982 | Poland | Tribute to a Gray Day | Haracz szarego dnia | Roman Wionczek, Krzysztof Prymek | Polish Resistance |
| 1982 | Poland | Upside Down | Do góry nogami | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Polish Silesia and tragedy of children in war |
| 1982 | West Germany | The White Rose | Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Execution of White Rose members |
| 1983 | Poland West Germany |
After Your Decrees | Wedle wyroków twoich... (in Polish) Blutiger Schnee (in German) |
Jerzy Hoffman | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Yugoslavia | Balkan Express | Balkan ekspres (Балкан експрес) | Lee H. Katzin | Comedy. Criminals earn living as fake musical band during Nazi occupation of Serbia |
| 1983 | Japan | Barefoot Gen | Hadashi no Gen (はだしのゲン) | Mori Masaki | Anime. Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1983 | Poland | The Crash off Gibraltar | Katastrofa w Gibraltarze | Bohdan Poręba | Drama. General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces, 1943 |
| 1983 | Poland | Dawn Porter (TV) | Tragarz puchu | Stefan Szlachtycz | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | France | Gramps is in the Resistance | Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | Comedy. French Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1983 | Yugoslavia | Great Transport | Veliki transport (Велики транспорт) | Veljko Bulajić | The great transport of partisans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943 |
| 1983 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, 1941 | Dang doi lai ming (等待黎) | Leong Po-Chih | Japanese occupation of Hong Kong |
| 1983 | Yugoslavia | The Igman March | Igmanski marš (Игмански марш) | Zdravko Šotra | The 1st Proletarian Brigade, pursued by the German 342. Infanterie-Division, crosses the Igman in what is known as the "Igman March" during Operation Southeast Croatia |
| 1983 | United Kingdom Japan |
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Senjō no merī Kurisumasu (戦場のメリークリスマス) (Furyo / 俘虜) | Nagisa Oshima | Drama based on Laurens van der Post books. British POWs on Java |
| 1983 | China | One and Eight | Yīge hé bāge (一个和八个) | Zhang Junzhao | Criminals and Eighth Route Army deserters battle Japanese |
| 1983 | Poland | Postcard From a Journey | Kartka z podróży | Waldemar Dziki | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Hungary | The Revolt of Job | Jób lázadása | Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Childless Jewish couple adopt Hungarian boy during war |
| 1983 | Philippines | Roman Rapido | Roman Rapido | Argel Joseph | Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1983 | United States United Kingdom Italy |
The Scarlet and the Black (TV) | Jerry London | Drama. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty and anti-Nazi activity, 1943–45 | |
| 1983 | Poland | There Was No Sun That Spring | Nie było słońca tej wiosny | Juliusz Janicki, Slawomir Janicki | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Canada | The Tin Flute | Bonheur d'occasion (in French) | Claude Fournier | Drama based on Gabrielle Roy novel. Quebec home front |
| 1983 | United States | To Be or Not to Be | Alan Johnson | Comedy-drama. Polish actor and Nazi invasion of Poland; remake of 1942 To Be or Not to Be | |
| 1983 | Soviet Union | Torpedo Bombers | Torpedonostsi (Торпедоносцы) | Semyon Aranovich | Drama. Pilots, 1944 |
| 1983 | Denmark | Traitors | Forræderne | Ole Roos | Drama. Free Corps Denmark deserters from Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1983 | United States | Winds of War (TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | Drama based on Herman Wouk novel. Family saga leading to Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1984 | Canada | Charlie Grant's War (TV) | Martin Lavut | Drama. Canadian Charlie Grant, Holocaust saviour [18] | |
| 1984 | Italy | Claretta | Claretta | Pasquale Squitieri | Drama. Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci in 1943–45 |
| 1984 | Poland | The Fourth Day | Dzień czwarty | Ludmiła Niedbalska | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1984 | Poland | I Died to Live (TV) | Umarłem, aby żyć | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Resistance, 1941 |
| 1984 | Poland | I Shall Always Stand Guard | Na straży swej stać będę | Kazimierz Kutz | Polish Resistance in Silesia, 1939–42 |
| 1984 | Australia | The Last Bastion (TV miniseries) | George Miller | War from Australian perspective | |
| 1984 | Switzerland France Italy West Germany United States |
Mussolini and I (TV miniseries) | Io e il Duce | Alberto Negrin | Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini |
| 1984 | Italy France |
Nights and Fogs † (TV miniseries) | Notti e nebbie (in Italian) | Marco Tullio Giordana | Police of the Italian Social Republic |
| 1984 | Poland | Romance with the Intruder | Romans z intruzem | Waldemar Podgórski | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1984 | Estonian SSR | Under a False Name | Võõra nime all | Peeter Urbla | Estonians in Soviet gulag |
| 1984 | West Germany | The Wannsee Conference (TV) | Die Wannseekonferenz | Heinz Schirk | German officials attend Wannsee Conference by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss Final Solution to Jewish question, 1942 |
| 1984 | China | Yellow Earth | Huáng tǔdì (黄土地) | Chen Kaige | Sino-Japanese War |
Late 1980s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | United Kingdom | Arch of Triumph (TV) | Waris Hussein | Romance based on Erich Maria Remarque novel. Austrian anti-Nazi in Paris [12] | |
| 1985 | United States Italy |
The Assisi Underground | [3] | Alexander Ramati | German occupation of Assisi |
| 1985 | Soviet Union | Battalions Ask for Fire (TV miniseries) | Batalyony prosyat ognya (Батальоны просят огня) | Aleksandr Bogolyubov, Vladimir Chebotaryov | Soviet battalion crossing Dnieper River to liberate Kiev from Germans, 1943 |
| 1985 | Soviet Union East Germany Czechoslovakia Vietnam |
The Battle for Moscow | Bitva za Moskvu (Битва за Москву) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov | Operation Barbarossa to Battle of Moscow |
| 1985 | Netherlands | Bitter Sweet | Het bittere kruid | Kees van Oostrum | Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Biruma no tategoto (ビルマの竪琴) | Kon Ichikawa | Burma Campaign; remake version |
| 1985 | United States | Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | Battle of Normandy | |
| 1985 | Soviet Union | Come and See | Idi i smotri (Иди и смотри) | Elem Klimov | In early 1943, a teenage boy joins the partisans in the German-occupied Byelorussian SSR. He discovers the reality of war and the barbarity of the SS and collaborating auxiliary police on the civilian population. |
| 1985 | Poland Czechoslovakia |
Cuckoo In a Dark Forest | Kukačka v temném lese (in Czech) Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (in Polish) |
Antonín Moskalyk | German occupation of Czechoslovakia, concentration camp kommandant and child |
| 1985 | Poland | Dad | Tate | Jan Rutkiewicz | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1985 | United States | The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (Dirty Dozen 2) (TV) | Andrew V. McLaglen | Allied convicts in elite unit on mission to "prevent" assassination of Hitler | |
| 1985 | United States | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (TV) | Jim Goddard | Brothers cope with life in Nazi Germany, 1932–45 | |
| 1985 | United Kingdom | The Holcroft Covenant | John Frankenheimer | Based on Robert Ludlum novel. German General's son conspires to control hidden Nazi funds | |
| 1985 | Netherlands | The Ice-cream Parlour | De IJssalon | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | Romance between Dutch woman and Wehrmacht officer |
| 1985 | Poland | In the Shadow of Hatred | W cieniu nienawiści | Wojciech Żółtowski | Holocaust in Poland, 1943 |
| 1985 | Italy France |
Madman at War | Scemo di guerra (in Italian) Le fou de guerre (in French) |
Dino Risi | A young Italian psychiatrist is sent to troops in Libya |
| 1985 | United States | Mussolini and I (TV) | Alberto Negrin | Docudrama. Mussolini's son in-law Galeazzo Ciano | |
| 1985 | Japan | The Seburi Story | Seburi monogatari (瀬降り物語) | Sadao Nakajima | Hardships of nomadic Seburi of western Japan during war |
| 1985 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Rauni Mollberg | Finno-Soviet Continuation War; remake of 1955 film The Unknown Soldier |
| 1985 | Romania | Us, The Frontline (The Last Assault) | Noi, cei din linia întâi | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanians fighting on the Western Front and in Hungary |
| 1986 | Netherlands | The Assault | De Aanslag | Fons Rademakers | Drama based on Harry Mulisch novel. Family killed by Germans as retribution for Dutch Resistance assassination [19] |
| 1986 | Poland | Crumbs of War | Okruchy wojny | Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1986 | Australia | Death of a Soldier | Leonski | Philippe Mora | Based on the life, capture and trail of American serial killer Eddie Leonski |
| 1986 | United States | Every Time We Say Goodbye | Moshé Mizrahi | US RAF pilot in Jerusalem | |
| 1986 | Poland Switzerland |
The Lullabye | Kołysanka (in Polish) | Efraim Sevela | Holocaust in Poland |
| 1986 | Japan | The Sea and Poison | Umi to dokuyaku (海と毒薬) | Kei Kumai | Pacific War |
| 1986 | Netherlands | Shadow Of Victory | In de schaduw van de overwinning | Ate de Jong | Dutch Resistance |
| 1987 | France | Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children) | Au revoir, les enfants | Louis Malle | Jewish boys given shelter and new identity at Catholic boarding school in Vichy France |
| 1987 | Argentina Czechoslovakia |
Beneath the World[20] | Debajo del Mundo | Beda Docampo Feijóo | A Jewish family is compelled to live underground during the Nazi occupation of Poland (based on actual events) |
| 1987 | United States Yugoslavia |
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (Dirty Dozen 3) (TV) | [3] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission in France |
| 1987 | United States | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | Allied prisoners in Shanghai Japanese internment camp | |
| 1987 | United Kingdom Yugoslavia |
Escape from Sobibor (TV) | [3] | Jack Gold | Sobibor Uprising during Holocaust |
| 1987 | United Kingdom | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | The Blitz | |
| 1987 | United States United Kingdom Yugoslavia |
The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) | Gordon Hessler | Panzer unit on Eastern Front | |
| 1988 | Poland United States |
And the Violins Stopped Playing | I skrzypce przestały grać | Alexander Ramati | Romani people forced to flee from Nazis at height of Romani Holocaust |
| 1988 | United States | Biloxi Blues | Mike Nichols | Comedy based on the Neil Simon play. US Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi | |
| 1988 | Senegal | Camp de Thiaroye | Camp de Thiaroye | Ousmane Sembène Thierno Faty Sow |
Thiaroye massacre |
| 1988 | Poland | Cornflower Blue | Kornblumenblau (in German) | Leszek Wosiewicz | Polish musician surviving in Auschwitz-Birkenau because of accordion talent |
| 1988 | United States Yugoslavia Italy |
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (Dirty Dozen 4) (TV) | [3] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission to halt formation of Fourth Reich in Macedonia |
| 1988 | China | Evening Bell | Wǎn zhōng (晚钟) | Wu Ziniu | Immediate aftermath of Sino-Japanese War in China |
| 1988 | United States | Farewell to the King | John Milius | Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo | |
| 1988 | Australia | Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (TV) | John Duigan | Australian war photographer Damien Parer | |
| 1988 | Japan | Grave of the Fireflies | Hotaru no Haka (火垂るの墓) | Isao Takahata | Anime. Firebombing of Kobe and survival on Japan homefront |
| 1988 | Canada | Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army (The King Chronicle, Part 3) (TV) | Donald Brittain | Drama. Canadian PM Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis of 1944 [21] | |
| 1988 | Hong Kong | Men Behind the Sun | Hēi tài yáng 731 (黑太阳731) | Mou Tun Fei | Unit 731 and Japanese human experimentation |
| 1988 | Poland Soviet Union |
Passage | Przeprawa (in Polish) | Wiktor Turow | Polish Resistance, Soviet partisans, and Operation Sturmwind, 1944 |
| 1988 | China | Red Sorghum | Hóng gāoliáng (红高粱) | Zhang Yimou | Woman working at kaoliang wine distillery during Sino-Japanese War |
| 1988 | United Kingdom | Return from the River Kwai | Andrew V. McLaglen | Burma Railway and British POWs force-marched from Thailand to Japan | |
| 1988 | Italy United States Spain |
Running Away (TV miniseries) | La ciociara | Dino Risi | Drama. Italian mother and daughter raped by French Expeditionary Corps troops (Marocchinate) |
| 1988 | Netherlands United Kingdom |
Shadow Man (Shadowman) | Schaduwman | Piotr Andrejew | Polish-Jewish refugee in hiding during German occupation of Amsterdam |
| 1988 | United States | The Tenth Man (TV) | Jack Gold | Based on Graham Greene novel. French advocate imprisoned and condemned to death during German occupation of France | |
| 1988 | Japan | Tomorrow | Míngrì (明日) | Kazuo Kuroki | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1988 | United States | War and Remembrance (TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | Based on novel by Herman Wouk. Saga of family and events after Pearl Harbor; sequel to Winds of War (TV miniseries) | |
| 1989 | United Kingdom | And a Nightingale Sang (TV) | Jack Rosenthal | Drama based on C.P. Taylor play | |
| 1989 | Japan | Black Rain | Kuroi ame (黒い雨) | Shohei Imamura | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 1989 | Canada | Bye Bye Blues | Anne Wheeler | Romance/Music drama. Woman joins jazz band on Canadian homefront | |
| 1989 | United Kingdom | Coastwatcher (The Last Warrior) | Martin Wragge | Allied coastwatcher on remote island with Japanese warship at anchor for repairs | |
| 1989 | Philippines | Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice | Celso Ad. Castillo | Filipina comfort women and Japanese occupation of the Philippines. | |
| 1989 | United States | Fat Man and Little Boy | Roland Joffé | Manhattan project | |
| 1989 | Japan | Harimau | Harimau (ハリマオ) | Ben Wada | The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka, known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger") |
| 1989 | Soviet Union East Germany Czechoslovakia United States |
Stalingrad | Stalingrad (Сталинград) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov | Battle for Stalingrad |
| 1989 | Italy | Time to Kill | Tempo di uccidere | Giuliano Montaldo | Italian occupation of Ethiopia |
| 1989 | United States | Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young | Story of Salamo Arouch | |
| 1989 | Poland | Virtuti | Virtuti | Jacek Butrymowicz | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1989 | Finland | The Winter War | Talvisota | Pekka Parikka | Winter War |
Since 1990
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
TV series
See also
- List of World War II short films
- List of World War II documentary films
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of Holocaust films
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
- List of partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia
- Honorable mentions
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) – Italian girl with 3 fathers, all US Army
- The Producers (1968) – Broadway Nazi musical
- Zelig (1983) – Woody Allen as a Nazi Brownshirt
References
Note
- ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.
- The "director". of this title is still unidentified (as of January 2015) on IMDb.
- Makapili stars Justina David.
- This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- Act of Love appears to have a significant amount of French language dialogue, with a separate credit for the French screenwriter, Joseph Kessel.
- Cine español y memoria asimétrica: La Patrulla (in Spanish)
- Awards for La patrulla: Silver Shell for Best Director.
- Zhang, Yingjin. Chinese National Cinema, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 166. ISBN 9780415172905. Sun, Moon and Star is a Hong Kong film in Mandarin, rather than Cantonese.
- Baiqiuen dai fu (1964) at IMDb. The film stars American humanitarian Gerald Tannebaum as Dr. Bethune.
- The IMDb does not define the nationality of this secondary title.
- Hell in the Pacific has a Japanese main character, but its dialogue is predominantly in English. Its original language is English.
- Shield and Sword runs over five hours in four parts.
- This film is available for download at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
- The first Occidental film made in the USSR.
- Some details of this film appear "here"..
- Regarding the storyline, BG Movies reads "Съветската армия в България". (in Bulgarian)
- The German title Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil translates as Steiner – The Iron Cross, Part 2.
- Remake of the 1953 movie with the same title and by the same director
- Charlie Grant's War stars R.H. Thomson.
- The Assault received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
- "From Argentina, How 6 Polish Jews Hid From the Nazis" by Caryn James. The New York Times, 5 October 1988
- The King Chronicle, Part 3: Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army at the National Film Board of Canada
Sources
- Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp. ISBN 0-691-00346-7
External links
- wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
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