List of World War II films since 1990
Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
Restrictions
- The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
- For short films, see the List of World War II short films.
- For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.
Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.
Common topics
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
Before 1990
Main articles: List of World War II films before 1950 and List of World War II films since 1950
Early 1990s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 |  Canada France China |
Bethune: The Making of a Hero | [1] | Phillip Borsos | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in the Spanish Civil War, then his death aiding Mao Zedong's army |
| 1990 |  Australia |
Blood Oath | Stephen Wallace | War-crimes trial of Japanese for Laha massacre | |
| 1990 | France |
Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot | Christian de Chalonge | Crime drama. Serial killer Marcel Petiot in occupied France |
| 1990 |  West Germany France Poland |
Europa Europa | Hitlerjunge Salomon (German) | Agnieszka Holland | Jewish boy conceals identity by joining Hitler Youth |
| 1990 |  Sweden Hungary Norway |
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | God afton, Herr Wallenberg - En Passionshistoria från verkligheten (Swedish) | Kjell Grede | Drama. Biography of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Hungarian Holocaust |
| 1990 |  USA |
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV) | Peter Werner | Hiroshima after Enola Gay drops atomic bomb | |
| 1990 | Poland West Germany UK |
Korczak | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | Drama. Biography of Dr. Korczak in Warsaw ghetto |
| 1990 | USA |
A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Comedy. Western Desert Campaign, battles of El Alamein and Tobruk | |
| 1990 | UK Japan USA |
Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | Crew of US B-17 bomber Memphis Belle on 25th mission, 1943 | |
| 1990 | West Germany |
The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | Comedy-drama based on Anna Rosmus. Young woman's research into her German village's history during Third Reich |
| 1991 | Sweden Norway Denmark Finland |
The Boys from St. Petri | Drengene fra Sankt Petri (Danish) | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Students form Danish Resistance group Churchill Club under German occupation of Denmark |
| 1991 |  Latvia |
The Child of Man (Son of Man) | Cilveka berns | Janis Streics | Adventure romance based on Jānis Klīdzējs novel. Latgalian boy's attempts to prevent young woman from marrying shortly before Soviet and Nazi occupations |
| 1991 | USA |
December (An Innocent War) | Stuart Gillard | US homefront and prep school boys debating military service after Pearl Harbor, 1941 | |
| 1991 |  Spain Denmark Sweden France Germany Switzerland |
Europa (Zentropa) | Europa | Lars von Trier | American with German railway job at end of war finds his position politically sensitive |
| 1991 | USA |
For the Boys | Mark Rydell | Musical comedy-drama. USO performer entertains US troops from World War II to Vietnam War | |
| 1991 | Poland |
Just Beyond That Forest | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Łomnicki | Holocaust |
| 1991 |  Italy |
Mediterraneo | Mediterraneo | Gabriele Salvatores | Comedy-drama. Italian soldiers occupying Greek island |
| 1991 | Sweden Denmark |
The Naked Trees | De nøgne træer | Morten Henriksen | Based on Tage Skou-Hansen novel. Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark |
| 1991 | Canada |
The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Holocaust survivors and estranged friends resume argument from years earlier | |
| 1991 | Japan |
Rhapsody in August | Hachi-gatsu no kyōshikyoku (Hachigatsu no rapusodī) (八月の狂詩曲) | Akira Kurosawa | Nagasaki family after Bockscar drops atomic bomb |
| 1991 | France Germany Poland |
Warsaw - Year 5703 | Warszawa. Année 5703 (French) Tragarz puchu (Polish) Der Daunenträger (German) |
Janusz Kijowski | Holocaust |
| 1992 | Poland |
All That Really Matters | Wszystko, co najważniejsze | Robert Gliński | Lwów, Poland under Soviet occupation then Gulag |
| 1992 | Denmark USA |
A Day in October | En dag i oktober | Kenneth Madsen | Danish-Jewish relocation from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden |
| 1992 | USA |
A Midnight Clear (Section 44) | Keith Gordon | Western Front | |
| 1992 | Poland |
Ring with a Crowned Eagle | Pierścionek z orłem w koronie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance, 1945–46 |
| 1992 | USA |
Shining Through | David Seltzer | Romance/Thriller. Irish-Jewish-German woman recruited as OSS agent in Nazi Germany | |
| 1993 | Canada |
For the Moment | Aaron Kim Johnston | Airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada | |
| 1993 | Norway |
The Last Lieutenant (The Second Lieutenant) | Secondløitnanten | Hans Petter Moland | Retired Norwegian sea-captain volunteers for duty after Operation Weserübung and coordinates volunteers against German occupation of Norway |
| 1993 |  Romania |
The Mirror | Oglinda (Începutul adevarului) | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Downfall of Ion Antonescu |
| 1993 |  Taiwan |
The Puppetmaster | Xi meng ren sheng (戲夢人生) | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945) |
| 1993 | USA |
Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 Best Picture drama chronicling Oskar Schindler's rescue of nearly 1,200 Jews in occupied Poland from the Holocaust | |
| 1993 | UK |
Stalag Luft | Adrian Shergold | Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft | |
| 1993 | Germany |
Stalingrad | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1993 | USA |
Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | Musical drama. High school Swing Kids in the Hitler-Jugend | |
| 1993 |  Estonia Poland Russia |
Tear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear) | Saatana pisar (Estonian) Lza ksiecia ciemnosci (Polish) Слеза князя тьмы (Russian) |
Marek Piestrak | Horror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939 |
| 1994 | USA Canada |
The Ascent | Donald Shebib | Based on actual events. Italian escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya | |
| 1994 | France |
A Day Before Dawn | Un jour avant l'aube | Jacques Ertaud | French SAS commando in Brittany during Operation Overlord and Normandy Campaign, 1944 |
Late 1990s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | China |
Don't Cry, Nanking (Nanjing 1937) | Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī (南京１９３７) | Wu Ziniu | Nanking Massacre |
| 1995 | Russia |
The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov | Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (Великий полководец Георгий Жуков) | Yuri Ozerov | Docudrama (художественно-документальный). Biopic of Marshal Georgy Zhukov |
| 1995 | Canada Japan |
Hiroshima (TV) | Roger Spottiswoode | Decision-making processes regarding use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
| 1995 | Poland Germany France |
Holy Week | Wielki tydzień (Polish) | Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust |
| 1995 | Denmark |
Just a Girl | Kun en pige | Peter Schrøder | German occupation of Denmark |
| 1995 | Australia Japan |
The Last Bullet (TV) | Rasutobaretto (ラストバレット) | Michael Pattinson | Australian and Japanese soldiers battle in South Pacific jungle on last day of war |
| 1995 | USA |
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV) | Robert Iscove | Sinking of USS Indianapolis and struggle of surviving crewmen in open water | |
| 1995 | China |
Red Cherry | Hóng yīng táo (红樱桃) | Daying Ye | Chinese boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union |
| 1995 | USA |
Sahara (Desert Storm) (TV) | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Western Desert Campaign; remake of 1943 film Sahara | |
| 1995 | USA |
Truman (TV) | Frank Pierson | Drama. Biopic of US President Harry S. Truman from infantry service in World War I | |
| 1995 | USA |
The Tuskegee Airmen | Robert Markowitz | First African-American combat pilots of the war [2] | |
| 1995 |  Yugoslavia France Germany |
Underground | Podzemlje (Подземље) | Emir Kusturica | German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia |
| 1995 |  Netherlands |
The Partisans (TV miniseries) | De Partizanen | Theu Boermans | Dutch resistance unit capture a group of German soldiers, just weeks before the liberation of The Netherlands. Based on true facts |
| 1996 | Italy |
The Border | La Frontiera | Franco Giraldi | Drama. Italian officer born in Dalmatia spends his convalescence in a Dalmatian island occupied by the Italian Army |
| 1996 | UK |
The Brylcreem Boys | Terence Ryan | Comedy-drama. British and German pilots in POW camp in neutral Ireland during Battle of Britain | |
| 1996 | UK USA |
The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 Best Picture romantic-drama. Biography of Hungarian Count László Almásy, injured cartographer who charts Sahara Desert in Italian Campaign | |
| 1996 | Germany Norway Sweden Denmark |
Hamsun | Hamsun | Jan Troell | Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and wife during German occupation of Norway |
| 1996 | USA |
Mother Night | Keith Gordon | Based on Kurt Vonnegut novel | |
| 1996 | France Germany UK |
The Ogre | Der Unhold (German) | Volker Schlöndorff | French POW recruiting children for Nazis believing he is protecting them |
| 1996 | Canada UK Luxembourg |
On Dangerous Ground (TV) | Lawrence Gordon-Clark | Thriller based on Jack Higgins novel. Secret wartime agreement between Mountbatten and Mao | |
| 1996 | UK |
Over Here (TV) | Tony Dow | Comedy-drama. British and American aircrew rivalry in England | |
| 1996 | USA |
The Ring (Danielle Steel's The Ring) (TV) | Armand Mastroianni | Romance/Drama. Young German woman separated from her family and imprisoned by Nazis | |
| 1996 | Italy Hungary |
The Seventh Room (The Seventh Chamber) | La settima stanza (Italian) A hetedik szoba (Hungarian) |
Márta Mészáros | Drama. Saint Edith Stein |
| 1996 |  Thailand |
Sunset at Chaophraya | Khu gam (คู่กรรม) | Euthana Mukdasanit | Free Thai Movement and Siam under Japanese occupation of Thailand, 1939–1944 |
| 1997 | UK Japan |
Bent | [1] | Sean Mathias | Drama based on Martin Sherman play. Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany |
| 1997 | Germany |
The Devil's General (TV) | Des Teufels General | Frank Castorf | Drama based on Carl Zuckmayer play. Successful Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet courted by Widerstand; remake of 1955 film Des Teufels General |
| 1997 | Denmark UK Germany |
The Island on Bird Street | Øen i Fuglegaden (Danish) Die Insel in der Vogelstrasse (German) |
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Polish-Jewish boy hiding in ghetto from Nazis |
| 1997 | UK |
The Land Girls | David Leland | Women's Land Army | |
| 1997 | Italy |
Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Comedy-drama. Holocaust under German occupation of Italy |
| 1997 | France |
Lucie Aubrac | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | Lucie and Raymond Aubrac under German occupation of France |
| 1997 | Australia USA |
Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Allied women POWs in Japanese occupied Sumatra | |
| 1998 | Poland |
Deserter's Gold | Złoto dezerterów | Janusz Majewski | Heist comedy. World War I buddies reuniting with Polish Underground to liberate Nazi gold; sequel to 1986 film C.K. dezerterzy |
| 1998 | Japan France |
Dr. Akagi | Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生) | Shohei Imamura | Comedy-drama. rural Japanese physician trying to eradicate hepatitis while at odds with Imperial Japanese Army |
| 1998 | Italy |
Little Teachers | I piccoli maestri | Daniele Luchetti | Italian resistance movement in Veneto |
| 1998 | USA |
Miracle at Midnight (TV) | Ken Cameron | Holocaust, Danish Resistance, and rescue of Danish Jews during German occupation of Denmark | |
| 1998 | Japan |
Pride: The Fateful Moment | Puraido: Unmei no toki (プライド - 運命のトキません) | Shunya Ito | Hideki Tojo during post-war Tokyo Trials |
| 1998 | USA |
Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | Team of U.S. Army Rangers search for single U.S. soldier during the Normandy Campaign | |
| 1998 | USA |
The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | US infantrymen and Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal Campaign | |
| 1998 | USA |
When Trumpets Fade | John Irvin | Battle of Hürtgen Forest | |
| 1999 | Germany |
Aimée & Jaguar (Aimee and Jaguar) | Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Romance between lesbians Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust amidst Gestapo purge of Jews in Berlin |
| 1999 |  Czech Republic Poland Slovakia |
All My Loved Ones | Všichni moji blízcí (Czech) | Matej Minac | Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton, and escape of 669 children from the Holocaust |
| 1999 | Finland |
Ambush | Rukajärven tie | Olli Saarela | Finnish Army and Women's Auxiliary Corps Lotta Svärd during Continuation War, 1941 |
| 1999 |  Croatia |
Bleiburg | Četverored | Branko Schmidt | Bleiburg massacre |
| 1999 | UK USA |
The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | Based on Graham Greene novel. British homefront and illicit romance; remake of 1955 film The End of the Affair | |
| 1999 | Germany Hungary |
Gloomy Sunday | Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (German) | Rolf Schübel | Romance drama based on Nick Barkow novel. |
| 1999 | France USA Hungary |
Jakob the Liar | [1] | Peter Kassovitz | Comedy-drama. "Secret radio" in Jewish ghetto of Poland and Holocaust |
| 1999 | China |
Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (Heart of China) | Húanghé júeliàn (黄河绝恋) | Feng Xiaoning | American pilot returns to pay respects to communist-led Chinese army that rescued him |
| 1999 | Russia Germany Japan Italy France |
Moloch | Molokh (Молох) (Russian) | Aleksandr Sokurov | Hitler visits Bavarian Berghof, 1942 |
| 1999 | Germany Austria Canada Hungary |
Sunshine | [1] | István Szabó | Three generations of Jewish family including Holocaust, Operation Margarethe and German occupation of Hungary |
| 1999 | Italy UK |
Tea with Mussolini | [1] | Franco Zeffirelli | Comedy-drama. Italian boy's upbringing by English and American women before and during war in Fascist Italy |
Early 2000s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Canada Germany UK |
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace | [1] | Eric Till | German Lutheran pastor and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 2000 | China |
Devils on the Doorstep | Guizi lai le (鬼子来了) | Jiang Wen | Sino-Japanese War |
| 2000 | Czech Republic |
Divided We Fall | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 2000 | Italy |
Johnny the Partisan | Il partigiano Johnny | Guido Chiesa | Partisan warfare in North Italy |
| 2000 | Poland |
Judgement of Franciszek Klos (TV) | Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa | Andrzej Wajda | Collaboration under German occupation of Poland |
| 2000 |  Malaysia |
Lt. Adnan | Leftenan Adnan | Aziz M. Osman | Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang |
| 2000 | Italy |
Malena | Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Romance/Comedy-drama. Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940 |
| 2000 |  Philippines |
Markova: Comfort Gay | Tagalog please | Gil Portes | Drama based on Walter Dempster, Jr. account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines |
| 2000 | Canada USA |
Nuremberg (TV miniseries) | Yves Simoneau | Nuremberg Trials | |
| 2000 | Czech Republic |
Spring of Life | Pramen zivota | Milan Cieslar | Nazi SS and Lebensborn |
| 2000 | USA |
U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine | |
| 2001 | Germany Russia |
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me | So weit die Füße tragen (German) | Hardy Martins | Based on Clemens Forell book. German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag |
| 2001 | UK USA |
Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) | Steven Spielberg | E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war | |
| 2001 | UK |
The Bunker (The Bunker: The Evil Is Within) | Rob Green | Horror-Mystery.[3] Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line | |
| 2001 | UK France USA |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | [1] | John Madden | Italian occupation of Greece and massacre of the Acqui Division |
| 2001 | UK Australia |
Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Romance/Thriller. Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance | |
| 2001 | UK USA |
Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of The Wannsee Conference) | |
| 2001 | Czech Republic UK |
Dark Blue World | Tmavomodrý svet | Jan Sverák | Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain |
| 2001 | Italy |
The Days of Rage: Cefalonia | I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio | Claver Salizzato | Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia |
| 2001 | USA Germany UK Ireland |
Enemy at the Gates | [1] | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad |
| 2001 | UK USA Germany Netherlands |
Enigma | [1] | Michael Apted | Enigma machine mystery |
| 2001 | Japan |
Firefly | Hotaru (蛍) | Yasuo Furuhata | Based on true story of Korean kamikaze pilot |
| 2001 | USA |
The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp | |
| 2001 | Japan |
H Story | Japanese please (Kanji please) | Nobuhiro Suwa | Remake of 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour |
| 2001 | Philippines |
In the Bosom of the Enemy | Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway | Gil Portes | Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband |
| 2001 | Italy |
The Ones With White Lips - The Forgotten | Sos laribiancos - I dimenticati | Piero Livi | Sardinian soldiers are dispatched to the Russian Front |
| 2001 | USA |
Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Doolittle Raid | |
| 2001 | China |
Purple Sunset | Zĭrì (紫日) | Feng Xiaoning | Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito |
| 2001 | France UK Germany Austria |
Taking Sides | [1] | István Szabó | Wilhelm Furtwängler, controversial conductor of Berlin Philharmonic during Nazi era and Allied occupation |
| 2001 | USA |
To End All Wars | David L. Cunningham | Drama based on Ernest Gordon book. Allied POWs build Burma Railway through jungle | |
| 2001 | USA |
Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
| 2001 | UK USA Canada |
Varian's War (TV) | Lionel Chetwynd | Varian Fry builds underground rescue network in Vichy France saving 2–4,000 anti-Nazi/Jewish refugees and cultural figures from Holocaust | |
| 2001 | UK Canada |
The War Bride (Love and War) | Lyndon Chubbuck | Drama. English war bride in Canada without husband | |
| 2001 | Philippines |
Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure | Tagalog please | Chito S. Roño | Burial of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines |
| 2002 | USA |
Below | Gregory Hoblit | American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission encounters German warship | |
| 2002 | Italy |
Black Angel | Senso '45 | Tinto Brass | Erotic drama. The love affair of an Italian woman and an SS officer in German-occupied Venice |
| 2002 | Russia |
The Cuckoo | Kukushka (Кукушка) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Young Lapp woman shelters Finnish sniper and Red Army captain on her farm |
| 2002 | Italy |
El Alamein: The Line of Fire (El Alamein: Bound of Honour, DVD) |
El Alamein - La linea del fuoco | Enzo Monteleone | Italian volunteer assigned to Pavia Division in Egypt and Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942 |
| 2002 | USA UK |
The Gathering Storm | Richard Loncraine | Winston Churchill before outbreak of war | |
| 2002 | USA Italy |
The Good War (Texas '46) | [1] | Giorgio Serafini | Based on true story of Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946 |
| 2002 | USA |
Hart's War | Gregory Hoblit | POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft | |
| 2002 | France |
Monsieur Batignole | Monsieur Batignole | Gérard Jugnot | Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France |
| 2002 | Italy |
Perlasca, The Courage of a Just Man (TV miniseries) | Perlasca, un eroe italiano | Alberto Negrin | Giorgio Perlasca, pretending to be a Spanish diplomat, saves Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust |
| 2002 | France Poland Germany UK |
The Pianist | [1] | Roman Polanski | Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman years of searching for shelter during World War II. |
| 2002 | France Germany |
Safe Conduct | Laissez passer | Bertrand Tavernier | German occupation of France |
| 2002 | Canada |
Silent Night | Rodney Gibbons | Based on true event during the Battle of the Bulge between German and American soldiers on Christmas Eve 1944 | |
| 2002 | Russia |
The Star | Zvezda (Звезда) | Nikolai Lebedev | Soviet scouts behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration |
| 2002 | Netherlands |
Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Ben Sombogaart | Twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands and serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany and married to Waffen SS soldier |
| 2002 | UK |
Two Men Went to War | John Henderson | Comedy-drama based on Raymond Foxall book. Amateur improvisational commando raid into occupied France | |
| 2002 | Italy |
The War Is Over (TV miniseries) | La guerra è finita | Lodovico Gasparini | Drama. Two Italian friends and soldiers on the Greek front, then on the Russian front and finally in the Italian Civil War |
| 2002 | USA |
Windtalkers | John Woo | Battle of Saipan | |
| 2003 | France |
Bon Voyage | Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France under German occupation |
| 2003 | UK |
Entrusted | Giacomo Battiato | 11-year-old chess prodigy, whose mother is in underground resistance, is entrusted with life-saving secret | |
| 2003 | Malaysia |
Paloh | Paloh | Adman Salleh | Japanese occupation of Malaya |
| 2003 | Poland |
Pornography | Pornografia | Jan Jakub Kolski | German Occupation of Poland |
| 2003 | USA Netherlands |
Resistance | [1] | Todd Komarnicki | American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi-occupied Belgium and is assisted by Maquis resistance |
| 2003 | Germany Netherlands |
Rosenstrasse | Rosenstrasse (German) | Margarethe von Trotta | Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin |
| 2003 | USA |
Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little | Survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information | |
| 2003 | Japan Germany |
Spy Sorge | Japanese please (スパイ・ゾルゲ) (Japanese) | Masahiro Shinoda | Soviet spy Richard Sorge |
| 2003 | France |
Strange Gardens | Effroyables jardins | Jean Becker | French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans |
| 2003 | France UK |
Strayed | Les égarés (Le garçon aux yeux gris) | André Téchiné | Romance-drama. French family escapes Battle of France and German occupation of Paris aided by young man, June 1940 |
| 2003 | Czech Republic Slovakia Austria |
Želary | Želary | Ondrej Trojan | Drama based on Květa Legátová novel. Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed |
| 2004 | Philippines |
Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita | Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (Aishite Imasu (Mahal Kita) 1941) | Joel Lamangan | Romance-Drama. Philippine Resistance during Battle of Bataan, Bataan Death March, and Japanese occupation |
| 2004 | USA |
The Aryan Couple | John Daly | Undercover Eastern European Jews attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944 | |
| 2004 | Finland Sweden |
Beyond the Front Line (Beyond Enemy Lines) | Framom främsta linjen (Swedish) | Åke Lindman | Continuation War between USSR and Finland, 1941–1944 |
| 2004 | Russia |
The Cadets (TV miniseries) | Kursanty (Курсанты) | Andrei Kavun | Training of Russian boys as artillerymen for Eastern Front, 1942 |
| 2004 | Philippines |
The Call of the River | Panaghoy sa Suba | Cesar Montano | Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign |
| 2004 | Germany Italy Austria |
Downfall | Der Untergang (German) | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Last days of Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin |
| 2004 | UK |
Dunkirk (TV miniseries) | Alex Holmes | Docudrama. Battle of Dunkirk and Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 2004 | Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg |
Edelweiss Pirates | Edelweisspiraten (German) | Niko von Glasow | German Resistance and Edelweiss Pirates |
| 2004 | Japan |
The Face of Jizo | Chichi to Kuraseba (父と暮らせば) | Kazuo Kuroki | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 2004 | USA Germany Italy |
The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) | [1] | Ari Taub | German, Italian and US forces on Italian Front, 1944 |
| 2004 | Russia |
Freelance Assignment | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945 |
| 2004 | UK Canada |
Head in the Clouds | John Duigan | Romance-drama. Friends' divergent paths and fight against Fascism in pre-war Europe | |
| 2004 | Russia |
Our Own | Свои | Dmitry Meshiev | Drama on occupied territory, early years of war |
| 2004 | USA |
Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Robert Harmon | SHAEF organization and planning of Operation Overlord | |
| 2004 | Canada |
Il Duce Canadese (TV miniseries) | (English) | Giles Walker | Italian-Canadian fascism and internment |
| 2004 | USA |
In Enemy Hands (U-Boat) | Tony Giglio | Crew of US submarine returns home after months at sea as POWs aboard U-boat | |
| 2004 | UK |
Island at War (TV miniseries) | Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Occupation of the Channel Islands | |
| 2004 | Croatia |
Long Dark Night | Duga mračna noć | Antun Vrdoljak | Croatia under both Fascism and Communism |
| 2004 | Germany |
Napola: Hitler's Elite (Before the Fall) | Napola - Elite für den Führer | Dennis Gansel | Former Hitler Youths bond at Reich National-Political institution |
| 2004 | Germany |
The Ninth Day | Der neunte Tag | Volker Schlöndorff | SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler |
| 2004 | Germany Austria |
Operation Valkyrie (TV) | Stauffenberg | Jo Baier | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 2004 | China |
Purple Butterfly | Zǐ Húdié (紫蝴蝶) | Lou Ye | Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai |
| 2004 | USA |
Straight Into Darkness | Jeff Burr | American deserters and Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault |
Movie set from Black Book in The Hague, 2005
Late 2000s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Italy |
Cephalonia (TV miniseries) | Cefalonia | Riccardo Milani | Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia |
| 2005 | USA |
Everything Is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Jewish American searches for woman who saved his grandfather during Ukrainian Holocaust | |
| 2005 |  Lithuania |
Forest of the Gods | Dievų miškas | Algimantas Puipa | Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis and Soviets |
| 2005 | Russia |
Freelance Assignment 2 | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete (Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Postwar commandos in wartime minefield hope to be saved by soldier who was in field in 1943 |
| 2005 | USA Australia |
The Great Raid | John Dahl | Japanese occupation of Philippines and Raid at Cabanatuan | |
| 2005 | Italy |
The Heart in the Pit (TV miniseries) | Il cuore nel pozzo | Alberto Negrin | Foibe massacres |
| 2005 | USA |
The Last Days | Eric Bryan | US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender | |
| 2005 | UK |
The Last Drop | David Teague | Operation Market Garden and secret mission to recover Nazi gold | |
| 2005 |  Singapore Japan |
Men in White | 1942 | Kelvin Tong | Comedy horror. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle |
| 2005 | Russia |
Moscow Says, Please Note (TV miniseries) | Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (Внимание, говорит Москва) | Aleksandr Surin | Female Russian snipers [4] |
| 2005 | Finland Sweden |
Mother of Mine | Äideistä parhain (Finnish) Den bästa av mödrar (Swedish) |
Klaus Härö | Based on Heikki Hietamies novel. Evacuation of 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden |
| 2005 | Italy |
Mussolini's Daughter (TV miniseries) | Edda | Giorgio Capitani | Edda Mussolini |
| 2005 |  India |
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (Bose: The Forgotten Hero) | नेताजी सुभाषचन्द्र बोस: एक भूला हुआ नायक | Shyam Benegal | Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army |
| 2005 | USA |
Only the Brave | Lane Nishikawa | Rescue of Lost Battalion in France by US 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
| 2005 | China |
On the Mountain of Tai Hang | Tài Háng shān shàng (太行山上) | Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian | Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China |
| 2005 | Finland |
Promise | Lupaus (Uskolliset - Suomen lotat / Lotta) | Ilkka Vanne | Finnish women's Lotta Svärd during war |
| 2005 | Germany |
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance |
| 2005 | Germany |
Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (TV miniseries) | Speer und Er | Heinrich Breloer | Docudrama. Hitler's minister Albert Speer |
| 2005 | Taiwan |
The Strait Story | Fu shih kuang ying (南方紀事之浮世光影) | Yu-shan Huang | Sinking of Japanese passenger liner Takachiho Maru by USS Kingfish, 1943 |
| 2005 | Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan |
The Sun | Solntse (Солнце) (Russian) | Aleksandr Sokurov | Emperor Hirohito's life during the first days of Allied occupation |
| 2005 | UK |
Valiant | Gary Chapman | Animated. British war pigeons face German falcons | |
| 2005 | UK USA Germany China |
The White Countess | [1] | James Ivory | Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Sino-Japanese War |
| 2005 | Japan |
Yamato | Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和) | Junya Sato | Yamato's crew during Pacific War |
| 2006 | Russia |
Bastards | Svolochi (Сволочи) | Aleksandr Atanesyan | Teenaged convicts conscripted for partisan mission against Nazis |
| 2006 | USA |
Beautiful Dreamer | Terri Farley-Teruel | Romance-drama. Amnesiac bomber pilot captured by enemy and assumed to be MIA | |
| 2006 | Netherlands Germany UK.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
Black Book | Zwartboek (Dutch) | Paul Verhoeven | Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance |
| 2006 | France Morocco Algeria Belgium |
Days of Glory | Indigènes (French) | Rachid Bouchareb | North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France |
| 2006 | Germany |
Dresden (TV) | Dresden | Roland Suso Richter | German civilian assists downed and injured RAF pilot after bombing of Dresden |
| 2006 | USA |
Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of American soldiers | |
| 2006 | Germany Lithuania |
Ghetto | Ghetto | Audrius Juzėnas | Holocaust in Lithuania |
| 2006 | Italy |
The Good Battle - Don Pietro Pappagallo (TV miniseries) | La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo | Gianfranco Albano | Catholic priest Pietro Pappagallo, member of resistance, executed in the Ardeatine caves |
| 2006 | USA |
The Good German | Steven Soderbergh | Mystery set in Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations just after the surrender of Nazi Germany | |
| 2006 | UK |
The Haunted Airman | Chris Durlacher | Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war | |
| 2006 | Australia |
Kokoda | Alister Grierson | Kokoda Track Campaign | |
| 2006 | Germany |
The Last Days | Die letzten Tage | Oliver Frohnauer | American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of Volkssturm unit near end of war |
| 2006 | Germany |
The Last Train | Der letzte Zug | Dana Vávrová, Joseph Vilsmaier | Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943 |
| 2006 | USA |
Letters from Iwo Jima | Iōjima kara no tegami (硫黄島からの手紙) [5] | Clint Eastwood | Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers |
| 2006 | USA |
Military Intelligence and You! | Dale Kutzera | Comedy. US Army Intelligence analyst attempts to locate Nazi "Ghost Squadron" fighter base | |
| 2006 | Canada |
Remembrance: A Soldier's Story (TV) | Andrew Forster | Drama. Canada's last surviving decorated World War II hero and Remembrance Day [6] | |
| 2006 | Russia |
Transit | Peregon (Перегон) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Lend-Lease shipping through the ALSIB |
| 2006 | China |
Tokyo Trial | Dōngjīng Shěnpàn (东京审判) | Gao Qunshu | Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) |
| 2007 | USA |
American Pastime | Desmond Nakano | Japanese-American jazz and baseball in Topaz, Utah internment camp | |
| 2007 | UK |
Atonement | Joe Wright | The Battle for France and Dunkirk evacuation | |
| 2007 | Austria |
The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Operation Bernhard |
| 2007 | Australia |
Curtin (TV) | Jessica Hobbs | Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin | |
| 2007 |  Israel |
The Debt | Ha-Hov (החוב) | Assaf Bernstein | Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities |
| 2007 | UK [7] |
Eichmann | [1] | Robert Young | War criminal Adolf Eichmann and his trial in Israel, 1961 |
| 2007 | Japan |
For Those We Love | Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく ) | Taku Shinjō | Kamikaze pilots |
| 2007 | Poland |
Katyn | Katyń | Andrzej Wajda | Katyn massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by Soviets, 1940 |
| 2007 | USA China Taiwan Hong Kong |
Lust, Caution | Sè, Jiè (色，戒) | Ang Lee | Spy thriller. Occupied Shanghai |
| 2007 | Germany |
Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (My Führer) | Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler | Dani Levy | Comedy-drama. Depressed Hitler and his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945 |
| 2007 | Canada |
The Poet (Hearts of War) | Damian Lee | German soldiers gather information on Eastern Front partisans and Jewish refugees | |
| 2007 | Belgium |
Surviving with Wolves | Survivre avec les loups | Véra Belmont | Drama based on fake Misha Defonseca memoir. Jewish girl searches for deported parents while living among wolves |
| 2007 | Finland |
Tali-Ihantala 1944 | Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Mihin vapaat miehet pystyvät) | Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Continuation War, June 1944 |
| 2007 | Poland |
Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies | Jutro idziemy do kina | Michał Kwieciński | Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 2007 | Japan |
Yunagi City, Sakura Country | Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (夕凪の街 桜の国) | Kiyoshi Sasabe | Drama based on Fumiyo Kōno manga. Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 2007 | Belgium Ireland |
Waiting for Dublin | Roger Tucker | Comedy. Allied and Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland | |
| 2008 | Australia USA UK |
Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Romance. Australian soldier and British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin | |
| 2008 | USA |
Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 | Keith J. Crocker | Horror drama. Captured USO showgirls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant | |
| 2008 | Italy |
Blood of the Losers | Il sangue dei vinti | Michele Soavi | Italian civil war |
| 2008 | USA UK |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) | Mark Herman | Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew | |
| 2008 | Germany |
The Bridge (TV) | Die Brücke | Wolfgang Panzer | Drama based on Manfred Gregor novel. Youths defend bridge; remake |
| 2008 | Romania |
Gruber's Journey | Călătoria lui Gruber | Radu Gabrea | Iaşi pogrom |
| 2008 | Australia China Germany USA |
The Children of Huang Shi | [1] | Roger Spottiswoode | Nanking Massacre and Three Alls Policy |
| 2008 | USA |
Defiance | Edward Zwick | Bielski partisans | |
| 2008 | Poland |
11th of November | 11 listopada | Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata | Zielonka boy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland |
| 2008 | France UK |
Female Agents | Les Femmes de l'ombre | Jean-Paul Salomé | Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German officer and rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information |
| 2008 | Denmark |
Flame and Citron | Flammen og Citronen | Ole Christian Madsen | Danish Resistance team sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators |
| 2008 | UK Germany Hungary |
Good | [1] | Vicente Amorim | Drama based on C. P. Taylor play. |
| 2008 | Hong Kong |
Ip Man | Yip Man (葉問) | Wilson Yip | Yip Man in Foshan, Sino-Japanese War |
| 2008 | Norway Germany Denmark |
Max Manus: Man of War | Max Manus | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Norwegian Resistance leader Max Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway |
| 2008 | USA |
Miracle at St. Anna | Spike Lee | Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | |
| 2008 | USA Germany |
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | War crimes trial of female guard at Nazi concentration camp | |
| 2008 | Israel |
Spring 1941 | [8] | Uri Barbash | Romance between Warsaw grocer and Jewish man she is hiding |
| 2008 | Czech Republic Slovakia |
Tobruk | Tobruk | Václav Marhoul | Siege of Tobruk |
| 2008 | USA |
Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler | |
| 2008 | USA |
Watch on the Rhine | Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson | Action/Comedy. US 106th Inf. Div. soldier in Battle of the Bulge | |
| 2008 | France Tunisia |
The Wedding Song | Le Chant des mariées | Karin Albou | Friendship between Muslim woman and Sephardic Jewish woman during Nazi occupation of Tunisia |
| 2008 | Italy |
Wild Blood | Sanguepazzo | Marco Tullio Giordana | Drama. The involvement of actors Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida with the Italian Social Republic and their murder by partisans |
| 2008 | Netherlands |
Winter in Wartime | Oorlogswinter | Martin Koolhoven | Drama based on Jan Terlouw novel. Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance, 1944–45 |
| 2008 | Germany Poland |
A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin) | Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (German) | Max Färberböck | Drama based on Marta Hillers book. Journalist's relationship with Soviet officer during Soviet occupation of Berlin |
| 2009 | France |
The Army of Crime | L'Armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | Manouchian resistance group and Red Poster |
| 2009 | Russia UK |
Attack on Leningrad (Leningrad) | Aleksandr Buravsky | Siege of Leningrad | |
| 2009 | China |
City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!) | Pinyin please (漢字 hanzi please) | Lu Chuan | Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | China |
Cow | Dòu niú (斗牛) | Guan Hu | Comedy-drama. Chinese peasant protects village's dairy cow during Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | UK |
The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries) | Jon Jones | Anne Frank hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands | |
| 2009 | USA |
Everyman's War | Thad Smith | US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge | |
| 2009 | Russia Japan Canada |
First Squad | Pervyy otryad (Первый отряд) (Russian) | Yoshiharu Ashino | Anime. Nazi-Soviet War |
| 2009 | USA |
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | Jewish-American soldiers on mission to kill Nazis | |
| 2009 | USA UK |
Into the Storm | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Biopic of Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm | |
| 2009 | Germany China France |
John Rabe | John Rabe | Florian Gallenberger | Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | Japan |
Last Operations Under the Orion (Battle Under Orion) | Manatsu no Orion (真夏のオリオン) | Tetsuo Shinohara | Naval battle between Japan and US near end of war |
| 2009 | Italy |
The Man Who Will Come | L'uomo che verrà | Giorgio Diritti | Marzabotto massacre |
| 2009 | China |
The Message | Fēngshēng (风声) | Chen Kuo-Fu, Gao Qunshu | Espionage in Nanking in 1942 |
| 2009 | Russia |
1941 (TV) | 1941 | Valery Shalyga | Nazi invasion of Russia and partisans in forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942 |
| 2009 | Russia |
The Priest | Pop (Поп) | Vladimir Khotinenko | Priest in occupied Latvia |
| 2009 | Czech Republic Germany |
Protector | Protektor | Marek Najbrt | Romance/Drama. Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia and effects of Operation Anthropoid |
| 2009 | UK |
Small Island (TV miniseries) | John Alexander | Drama. Jamaican airman in England |
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Director Elisabeth Scharang at In Another Lifetime première, 2011
2010s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Russia |
Brest Fortress (Fortress of War) | Brestskaya krepost (Брестская крепость) | Alexander Kott | Action-drama. Soviet defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941 |
| 2010 | Russia |
Burnt by the Sun 2 | Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2) | Nikita Mikhalkov | Action-drama. Eastern Front |
| 2010 | Japan |
Caterpillar | Kyatapirā (キャタピラー) | Kōji Wakamatsu | Drama. Wounded Japanese veteran of Sino-Japanese War returns home |
| 2010 | China |
Death and Glory in Changde | Die Xue Gu Cheng (喋血孤城) | Dong Shen | Action-drama. Hunan's Battle of Changde |
| 2010 | USA |
The Debt | John Madden | Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities; remake of 2007 film | |
| 2010 | China |
East Wind Rain | Dong feng yu (东风雨) | Yunlong Liu | Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor attack |
| 2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria |
Habermann | Habermannův mlýn (Czech) | Juraj Herz | Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia |
| 2010 | Russia |
Heaven is on Fire (The Sky is On Fire) (TV miniseries) | Nebo v ogne (Небо в огне) | Dmitry Cherkasov | Action-drama. Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939-1945 |
| 2010 | China |
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai | You tai nu hai zai shang hai (猶太女孩在上海) | Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui | Animated. Girl and little brother in Shanghai, with parents in Europe |
| 2010 | Poland |
Joanna | Joanna | Feliks Falk | German occupation and Holocaust in Kraków, Poland |
| 2010 | UK |
The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 Best Picture depicting King George VI during the war | |
| 2010 | Hong Kong China |
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | Zing1 Mou5 Fung1 Wan4－Can4 Zan1 (精武風雲－陳真) (Cantonese) | Andrew Lau Wai-Keung | Shanghai prior to Japanese invasion |
| 2010 | Russia |
The Edge | Kray (Край) | Alexei Uchitel | Gulag camp shortly after the end of the war |
| 2010 | USA Australia |
The Pacific (TV miniseries) | Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To | Action-drama. US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre | |
| 2010 | France Germany Hungary |
The Round Up | La rafle (French) | Roselyne Bosch | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
| 2010 | France |
Sarah's Key (Her Name was Sarah) | Elle s'appelait Sarah | Kristin Scott Thomas | Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942 |
| 2010 | USA |
Spoils of War | Jean Liberté | Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent and destroy counterfeit money | |
| 2010 | Canada |
Storming Juno (TV) | Tim Wolochatiuk | Docudrama. Regina Rifles and 1st Hussars at Juno Beach on D-Day | |
| 2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria |
Under the Roman Sky (Pope Pius XII) (TV) | Pius XII. (German) | Christian Duguay | Pope Pius XII and Roman razzia |
| 2010 | Poland |
Venice | Wenecja | Jan Jakub Kolski | German occupation of Poland, 1939–1945 |
| 2010 | USA |
The Way Back | Peter Weir | Prisoners and POWs escape Soviet Gulag | |
| 2011 | UK |
Age of Heroes | Adrian Vitoria | Action-Thriller. British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to neutral Norway | |
| 2011 | Spain Hungary |
Angel of Budapest (TV miniseries) | El ángel de Budapest (Spanish) | Luis Oliveros | Drama based on Diego Carcedo book. Spanish ambassador Ángel Sanz Briz rescues Jews in Budapest |
| 2011 | Germany |
Auschwitz | Uwe Boll | Drama | |
| 2011 |  Brazil |
Webseries: Heroes | Websérie: Herois | Drama: Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy, 1944 | |
| 2011 | Sweden |
The Frontier | Gränsen | Richard Holm | Swedish soldiers travel toward German-occupied Norwegian border |
| 2011 | India |
Gandhi to Hitler (Dear Friend Hitler) | Priya Mitra Hitler (प्रिय मित्र हिटलर) | Rakesh Ranjan Kumar | Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler |
| 2011 | Italy Germany |
General Della Rovere (TV miniseries) | Il generale Della Rovere (Italian) | Carlo Carlei | Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader |
| 2011 | Austria Hungary Germany |
In Another Lifetime | Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (German) | Elisabeth Scharang | Drama based on Peter Turrini play. Hungarian Jews marched to Mauthausen |
| 2011 | Poland Germany Canada |
In Darkness | W ciemnosci (Polish) | Agnieszka Holland | Drama. Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
| 2011 | Japan |
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六) | Izuru Narushima | Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 2011 | Spain |
Ispansi! | Ispansi! (¡Españoles!) | Carlos Iglesias | Drama. Spanish war orphans in USSR in time for another war |
| 2011 | Philippines Japan |
Liberation | Liberacion | Adolfo Alix Jr. | Drama. Japanese holdout hiding in Philippine jungle for 20 years after war |
| 2011 | CZE |
Lidice | Petr Nikolaev | Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the destruction of the village of Lidice | |
| 2011 | USA |
Little Iron Men | Jesse Kobayashi | Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team | |
| 2011 | UK |
The Lost Valentine | Darnell Martin | Woman's quest for husband declared MIA | |
| 2011 |  South Korea |
My Way | Maiwei [9] (마이웨이) | Kang Je-gyu | Young Korean man conscripted into Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union and Germany |
| 2011 | Japan |
Oba: The Last Samurai (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox) | Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (太平洋の奇跡－フォックスと呼ばれた男) | Hideyuki Hirayama | Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944 |
| 2011 | UK Germany |
The Sinking of the Laconia (TV miniseries) | [1] | Uwe Janson | Drama. RMS Laconia incident |
| 2011 | Denmark |
This Life | Hvidstens gruppen | Regner Grasten | Danish Resistance in Jutland |
| 2011 | Latvia |
Three to Dance | Dancis pa trim | Arvīds Krievs | Drama. Tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis and independence-seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS |
| 2012 | China |
Back to 1942 | Yī Jǐu Sì Èr (一九四二) | Feng Xiaogang | |
| 2012 | China Hong Kong |
The Flowers of War | Jin líng shí san chai (金陵十三钗) | Zhang Yimou | Rape of Nanjing |
| 2012 | Norway Sweden |
Into the White (Comrade) | [1] | Petter Næss | Action-drama based on true story. Crashed German and English aircrew trying to survive Norwegian winter in wilderness, 1940 |
| 2012 | Australia UK Sweden |
Lore | Cate Shortland | Based loosely on the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room, this film focused on five German siblings forced to flee to Hamburg once their Nazi-level parents are presumably killed in combat with the Allied forces | |
| 2012 | USA |
Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas (uncredited) | Tuskegee Airmen and 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre | |
| 2012 | Russia |
White Tiger | Belyy tigr (Белый тигр) | Karen Shakhnazarov | A Russian tank crew is ordered to take out a German Tiger tank in the new T-34-85 |
| 2012 | USA |
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed | Ryan Little | Invasion of Southern France in World War II | |
| 2013 | USA |
The Book Thief | Brian Percival | The fictional story of young Liesel Meminger. After she finds her first book beside her brother's graveside, she is sent to foster parents. While in the comfort of her new found parents, World War II breaks out and her foster parents shelter a Jewish refugee | |
| 2013 | Philippines |
Death March | Death March | Adolfo Alix, Jr. | Bataan Death March |
| 2013 | USA |
Emperor | Peter Webber | General Douglas MacArthur begins an investigation of the role of Emperor Shōwa in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 2013 | Japan |
The Wind Rises | Japanese: 風立ちぬ Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu | Hayao Miyazaki | Animated historical drama animated by Studio Ghibli. Fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft. It won and was nominated for several awards, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. |
| 2013 |  Portugal Brazil Italy |
Road 47 | A Estrada 47 | Vicente Ferraz | Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
| 2013 | Russia |
Stalingrad | Stalingrad (Сталинград) | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 2013 | Australia UK |
The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | Drama based on true story of Eric Lomax. Victim from Burmese Death Railway setting out to find those responsible for his torture | |
| 2014 | Canada |
Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (TV movies of Bomb Girls) | Jerry Ciccoritti | Canadian home front and Battle of the St. Lawrence | |
| 2014 | USA |
Fury | David Ayer | Allied final offensive in Germany, April 1945 | |
| 2014 | Italy |
Head High. The Martyrs of Fiesole (TV) | A testa alta. I martiri di Fiesole | Maurizio Zaccaro | Carabinieri's sacrifice to avoid a German reprisal on civilians in Fiesole |
| 2014 | USA |
The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | Alan Turing decoding German cyphers at Bletchley Park | |
| 2014 | Italy |
Italia's Secret† | Il segreto di Italia | Antonello Bellucco | Massacre of Codevigo, 1945 |
| 2014 | USA |
The Monuments Men | George Clooney | Allied platoon made up of seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, tasked with going into Germany in the closing stages of World War II to rescue artworks requisitioned by the Nazis and returning them to their rightful owners | |
| 2014 | Australia |
Parer's War (TV movie) | Alister Grierson | Story of Australian wartime cameraman Damien Parer | |
| 2014 | USA |
Saints and Soldiers: The Void | Ryan Little | A fateful mission through the Harz Mountains of Germany | |
| 2014 | UK France Belgium |
Suite Française | Suite Française (French) | Saul Dibb | Romance between a French villager and a German officer during the German occupation of France |
| 2014 | USA |
Unbroken | Angelina Jolie | Based on true life of Louis Zamperini | |
| 2014 | USA |
Walking with the Enemy | Mark Schmidt | A young man (Jonas Armstrong) disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer | |
| 2015 | Denmark |
9. April | Roni Ezra | Danish bicycle infantry sent as vanguard to slow down the German invasion until reinforcements can arrive | |
| 2015 | Estonia |
1944 | 1944 | Elmo Nüganen | Battle of Tannenberg Line |
| 2015 | Russia Ukraine |
Battle for Sevastopol | Bitva za Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь) | Sergey Mokritskiy | A biographical film about the life path of the Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko |
| 2015 | Philippines |
Felix Manalo | Felix Manalo | Joel Lamangan | Biography of Felix Manalo during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 2015 | Denmark |
Land of Mine | Under sandet | Martin P. Zandvliet | German POWs in Denmark at the end of the war |
| 2015 | USA |
War Pigs | Ryan Little | A US Army rag tag unit of misfits behind German lines | |
| 2015 | India |
Kanche | Krish | A rivalry between two men, based on caste and social status, extends from an Indian village onto war torn Europe during WW2 | |
| 2015 | Hungary |
Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando. |
| 2016 | USA |
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | Mario Van Peebles | The USS Indianapolis, torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese in 1945 |
In development
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201X | USA |
Truth and Treason | Matt Whitaker | Biopic of Helmuth Hübener, youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof | |
| 201X | USA |
Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Comedy. Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes British double agent | |
| 201X |  Mexico USA |
Aztec Eagles | Águilas Aztecas | Alfonso Arau | Action comedy-drama. Training and service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana and Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign |
| 201X | UK |
The Battle of Britain | To be determined | Action-adventure. Battle of Britain [10][11][12] | |
| 201X | USA |
Brothers in Arms | Denzel Washington | Action-drama based on true story. US 761st tank battalion and their 183 days on frontline including Battle of the Bulge and Siegfried Line [13][14][15] | |
| 201X | Poland UK |
Christine: War My Love | Agnieszka Holland | Biopic of Polish Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek [16] | |
| 201X | USA |
Citizen Soldiers | To be determined | Action-drama. Ardennes Forest and Battle of the Bulge, 1944 [17][18] | |
| 201X | UK USA New Zealand |
Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise | |
| 201X | USA Japan |
East Wind, Rain | Azuma no kaze, ame (東の風、雨) | Masato Harada | Drama based on Caroline Paul novel. Japanese family on Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau and crash-landing of Japanese pilot after Pearl Harbor Attack [19][20] |
| 201X | USA Germany |
The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography | |
| 201X | Poland |
Garrison 100 | Garnizon 100 | Jarosław Banaszek | Action-drama. Polish defense of Przebraze against Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) campaign to purge Volhynia from Polish inhabitants under German occupation, Spring 1943 [21] |
| 201X | UK |
Grace and Danger | Rhys Hayward | Action-drama. Allied soldiers rescue young woman from village massacre and Nazi SS [22][23] | |
| 201X | USA |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Kenneth Branagh | Romance/Drama based on novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Writer forms unexpected bond with Guernsey island residents in aftermath of war and writes book about their wartime experiences[24] | |
| 2015 | USA Mexico |
Little Boy | Alejandro Monteverde | Comedy-drama. young American boy attempting to reunite with father/soldier serving in Europe | |
| 201X | Finland |
Mannerheim | Mannerheim | Renny Harlin (resigned) | Drama. Marshal Mannerheim |
| 201X | UK |
Monte Cassino | John Irvin | Romance based on true story. American soldier behind enemy lines and Italian nurse at Monte Cassino monastery during Battle of Monte Cassino and Italian campaign[25][26][27] | |
| 201X | Estonia |
Them | Nemad | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
| 201X | Poland |
303 Squadron | Dywizjon 303 (303 Dywizjon Myśliwski) | Jerzy Skolimowski | Action-adventure based on Arkady Fiedler novel. Exploits of Polish pilots of RAF's 303 Squadron during Battle of Britain [28] |
| 201X | Australia Japan |
Yellow Earth | Kiiro no chikyū (黄色の地球) | Max Mannix | Action-drama based on true story. Cowra breakout and attempted escape of captured Japanese soldiers from Cowra, Australia POW camp, 1944 [29][30][31] |
Science fiction, fantasy and horror
TV series
Main article: List of World War II 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
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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ↑ First African-American combat pilots fought in World War I; see Eugene Bullard, "The Black Swallow of Death" and Ahmet Ali (Arap Ahmet)
- ↑ The Bunker is evidently a psychological horror film, not a monster movie.
- ↑ This four-part miniseries, starring Olga Vechkileva, 176 min., Русское Счастъе DVD, Moscow, 2007, is not currently (as of March 2012) listed by the IMDb.
- ↑ Letters from Iwo Jima is an American film in Japanese.
- ↑ The film was a recipient of a Leo Award for best special effects. Colourwheels - Meet the Artists, Wheels in Motion, Rick Hansen Institute. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ↑ The IMDb lists production companies from 5 countries, including the UK.
- ↑ The Israeli film Spring 1941 is in English and stars Joseph Fiennes. Its Hebrew title is Hebrew text please.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20120607043507/http://www.hancinema.net:80/korean_movie_My_Way.php. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012. Missing or empty
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- ↑ Fleming, Mike. "GK Films Plans WWII 'Battle Of Britain'". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Towne Writing The Battle Of Britain | Movie News | Empire". Empireonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Sand to Rewrite Denzel Washington's Brothers". ComingSoon.net. 2009-05-17. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Brothers in Arms Movie (Production)". Movieinsider.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Brothers in Arms Overview". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "Interview with director states this is in development as of February 2012". Popbytes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "Sheer Bravado Productions". Sheer Bravado Productions. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Battle of the Bulge". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "About Caroline Paul". Carolinepaul.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ Sunhee, Han (17 August 2011). "Asian Project Market unveils lineup". Variety.
- ↑ "Film-maker plans controversial World War II drama - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland". Thenews.pl. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Grace and Danger official site - Cast". Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- ↑ "Saving Grace - interview with Rhys Hayward, the director of "Grace and Danger"". OPIUM. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "Monte Cassino". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ↑ "John Irvin to direct WWII love story feature Monte Cassino". M.screendaily.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ Talk of the Nation. "Revisiting The First 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'". NPR. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Skolimowski pens Battle of Britain movie - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland". Thenews.pl. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Mannix continues success in Japan". If.com.au. 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "TIFFCOM2010 - TPG2010 Projects". Tiffcom.jp. 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Max Mannix". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
External links
- List of World War II Movies
- World War 2 movies - reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
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