Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. 205,586 Director: | | Gross: Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. 139 min 123 min | During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe in neutral Goa. Mark Herman James McAvoy, The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and … Drama, War. Jack Hawkins, 149 min | | Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory, Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband buy a house next door to a nest of Nazi spies, but the East Side foil the Nazis' evil plot, Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank, Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers, Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army, Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler, Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing, Internment camps for British women in occupied France, Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare, Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance. | American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain on the eve of World War II. Carole Lombard, The son is introduced into the world of Sodor, a place his father visited as a child but cannot remember. Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. | Gross: | Gross: | The Nationalists under Francisco Franco win. Saoirse Ronan, Votes: Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations, A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship, Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a, The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the, This page was last edited on 5 February 2021, at 15:30. | An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the, Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car, Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944, Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home, Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943, Comedy. Land Of Mine (2015) Stars: Director: | | Gross: Frank Finlay, 566,416 Night And Fog (1956) | | 150 min Drama. Joe Wright | Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft, German emigrant in Australia returns to his country for military service in the, Action/Western. Christopher Nolan $11.49M, Not Rated Adventure, Drama, Thriller. Steven Spielberg $9.03M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Ariadna Gil, Guillermo del Toro | | Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter. Stars: John Sturges William Wyler Typically $1.99 or by subscription. Matt Damon, Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: 88 min | Gross: His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime. Biography, Drama, War. $61.70M, R Flight World War II Quotes. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. Adventure, Drama, War. Thomasin McKenzie, From war-torn romances to bloody battles, these are the best films that depict the horrors of World War 2—and the humanity at the center of the conflicts Tell us what you think about this feature. | Director: $96.90M, R Stars: | Gross: 106 min Klaus Wennemann, George C. Scott, Top 200 of all time 150 Essential Comedies. | During World War II, Franco remains neutral – so Gibraltar is never overrun – but nevertheless he sends the Blue Division to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front. 94,339 57,842 Stalag 17 (1953) | Steve McQueen, Humphrey Bogart, Director: Drama, War. British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it. Emilia Fox, Votes: These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below: Before the Second World War explicitly began with the Nazi German, then later Soviet (Russian) invasions of Poland in September 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovakian lands of Bohemia and Moravia. The Burmese Harp, a movie director Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008) declared to be “the first film I really felt I had to make,” was one of two great war films he made in the 1950s (the other was 1959’s Fires on the Plain). Quentin Tarantino The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government, A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese. $44.91M, Approved Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard. Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1947 after a slight editing. Alice Kessler-Harris examines The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a 1982 film documentary about women defense workers on the American home front in World War II, emphasizing the degree to which the documentary's engaging main characters and its message of the need for fair and equal treatment for women resonates with many contemporary viewers. ‘The Longest Day’ is without a doubt, the most definitive World War II film on this list, and one of the most detailed accounts of what the D-Day looked like out there. Adventure, Drama, History. Director: 118 min 312,009 The IMDb, on the other hand, identifies the villainous Yugoslavs in, New edition of the movie, released in theaters in 1955, with the addition of scenes before and after the original, Available for viewing – from British libraries and universities only – are clips from this, Released only to Italian fascist military units and maybe a few theaters around Genoa in the last months of the war. Paul Henreid, James Garner, Comedy. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation, Comedy. 67,725 Richard Attenborough, This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative. The Republicans (government side) are supported by Stalin's Soviet Union and a large number of leftist volunteers, the International Brigades. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk, German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II, Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast, Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific, Spies on board of a transatlantic at the beginning of World War 2, Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as, A German globetrotting reporter is drafted into a Wehrmacht Propagandakompanie, The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom, A girl becomes pregnant by a military pilot, then shot down behind German lines during the, Sailors on a hospital ship after wounds in battle (depicted by footage filmed during the, Korean volunteer in the Japanese Army marries a Japanese woman, Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941, A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula, RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied, Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the, British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine, Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US. Scarlett Johansson, A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero. American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the, Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland, Korean orphan living with Japanese parents volunteers in a, Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the, Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship, Italian partisan hiding in the countryside, Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane, War in the South Pacific separates young couple, Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944, Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the, US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France, Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons, A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut, Comedy-drama. During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. Director: Ayano Shiraishi, US journalist in the Soviet Union moonlights as spy. Drama, Romance, War. Tsutomu Tatsumi, Stars: Drama, History, War. John Cassavetes, Votes: Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot. | Ralph Fiennes, Tom Sizemore, Fury (2014) The best World War 2 movies remind us that perhaps no single event has had a greater impact on the future of filmmaking than World War II. COLLECTIBLE 2 DVD TIN! Edward Burns, Votes: | Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted. Stars: 624,426 | Stars: | Vasiliy Merkurev, 141 min In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. David Lean | Ryô Kase, Votes: Tom Hardy, Votes: Zhanna Prokhorenko, US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution, Drama. | Drama, Romance, War. Kirk Acevedo, Votes: Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the, Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands, French Resistance helps a downed US pilot, Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage, Musical comedy. 150 min Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht, Farce. Mikhail Kalatozov Stars: Stars: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor. Stars: It stars Humphrey Bogart as … Soldier wants to be airman, Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy, Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington, German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America, Musical comedy. $13.76M, PG Tsuyoshi Ihara, The film was made during the war and came out in 1942. Though many were intended for the average GI, … | Drama, Mystery, Romance. Teresa Palmer, Votes: Ingrid Bergman, 89 min In this section you will find a whole host of great World War 2 films that have graced our cinema's and TV screens over the past 70 years. | Gross: | | | | Gross: Director: | Director: The 25 best WW2 movies of all time (in my opinion)Honorable Mentions:Son Of Saul (2015) A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. | Gross: Isao Takahata $120.54M, R Yoshiko Shinohara, R | 527,717 Director: 170 min Wolfgang Petersen Third to this list of overlooked WWII movies is the disturbing brutal and pain-filled Cross of Iron, a 1977 British-German collaboration that could be one of the best war films in movie history but isn’t just watched by many. This is the first World War II British propaganda film. Michael Strong, Votes: The short film compiles never before seen footage of the battle as it happened. Taika Waititi, Votes: For films about the Blue Division, see the List of World War II films since 1950. | An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the, An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians, Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on, Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island, Drama. Votes: 7,568 193,117 99 min $188.37M, Not Rated Herbert Grönemeyer, Where to watch: Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube, Hulu. 9. 161 min Triumph Of The Will (1935), PG The film would have taken place in London during World War II, and revolved around a pre-teen boy who has drifted apart from his father. | Fionn Whitehead, Full-scale mobilization had ended the Depression domestically, and victory had opened vast, unchallenged markets in the war-torn economies of western Europe and Japan. 95 min This is a list of World War I films. Aleksandr Shvorin, Votes: Told by a number of her colleagues that the Universal Newsreel film collection had "tons" of World War II–related footage, she went to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, and started perusing video copies in the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video research room. Stars: 445,009 Myrna Loy, The Hill (1965) Ernst Lubitsch 153 min The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. Sean Penn, | | Gross: Jim Caviezel, Steven Spielberg Thomas Kretschmann, Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. German anti-Hitler political prisoner, Adventure. [World War II black and white footage] / Catalog Record Only One of the reels in the collection is a completed film, and although no title is given, accompanying paperwork indicates the title is either D-Day to D+1 or D-Day to D+3.