Because World War II is the most documented war on film and TV, it is also recommended to see
List of World War II films for a more detailed list of films. (also see
World War II films) •
Buck Privates (1941) •
Great Guns (1941) •
Air Raid Wardens (1943) •
The Big Noise (1944) •
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), US veterans return home •
Buck Privates Come Home (1947) •
Jolson Sings Again (1949) •
Hitler (1962) •
La Grande Vadrouille (1966) •
The Night of the Generals (1967), homicide investigator on the track of an SS general •
Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (1988) •
Good (2008) ===
Invasion of Poland (1939) === •
The Eagle (1959) •
Lotna (1959) •
Westerplatte (1967), Polish defenders in the
Battle of Westerplatte •
Hubal (1973) •
The Tin Drum (film) (1979)
Free City of Danzig before and during World War II. •
Operacja Himmler (1979) •
Jutro idziemy do kina (2007) •
Tajemnica Westerplatte (2013) ===
Polish resistance movement in World War II (1939–1945) === •
Unvanquished City (1950) •
A Generation (1954) •
Kanal (1956), depiction of the 1944
Warsaw Uprising •
Eroica (1958) •
To Save the City (1976) •
Soldiers of Freedom (1977) •
Akcja pod Arsenałem (1978) •
Uprising (2001) TV movie depicting the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising •
Obława (2012) •
Miasto 44 (2014) ===
Air warfare in Europe (1939–1945) === •
I Wanted Wings (1941) •
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) • ''
Keep 'Em Flying'' (1941) •
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) •
Captains of the Clouds (1942) •
Fighter Squadron (1948) •
Command Decision (1948) • ''
Twelve O'Clock High'' (1949), the lives of
8th Air Force bomber crews in England •
Angels One Five (1952) •
The Dam Busters (1954), depiction of the
RAF 1943 raid •
Reach for the Sky (1956), biopic of RAF hero
Douglas Bader •
Der Stern von Afrika (1957) •
The One That Got Away (1957), true story of the only Luftwaffe pilot to escape captivity in Britain and return to Germany •
The War Lover (1962) •
633 Squadron (1963) •
Nebeští jezdci (1968) •
Mosquito Squadron (1969) •
The Thousand Plane Raid (1969) •
Battle of Britain (1969) •
Eagles Over London (1970) •
Catch-22 (1970), American B-25 crewmen trying to survive the war in Italy •
Hanover Street (1979) •
Hope and Glory (1987) •
Piece of Cake TV series (1988), RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain •
Memphis Belle (1990), final mission of a B-17 crew •
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), depiction of the all-black 99th Pursuit Squadron •
Dark Blue World (2001), Czech pilots in the Battle of Britain •
Dresden (2006 film) (2006) •
Fortress (2012 film) (2012) •
Red Tails (2012), the story of the
Tuskegee Airmen •
Hurricane (2018) •
Lancaster Skies (2019) •
Catch-22 (miniseries) (2019) •
Masters of the Air (2024), TV series •
Blitz (2024) ===
Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) === •
The Long Voyage Home (1940) •
49th Parallel (1941) •
In the Navy (1941) •
Ships with Wings (1941) •
In Which We Serve (1942) •
The Navy Comes Through (1942) •
Action in the North Atlantic (1943), depiction of the
Battle of the Atlantic •
Crash Dive (1943) •
San Demetrio London (1943) •
Submarine Base (1943) •
We Dive at Dawn (1943) •
Corvette K-225 (1944) •
The Damned (1947 film) (1947) •
Fighting Coast Guard (1951) •
The Cruel Sea (1953) •
Above Us the Waves (1955) •
Battle of the River Plate (1956), 1939 pursuit of the Graf Spee •
The Enemy Below (1957), US Navy destroyer engages a German U-boat •
U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958) •
Under Ten Flags (1960) •
Sink the Bismarck (1960), depiction of the hunt for the Bismark •
Mystery Submarine (1963) •
Morituri (1965) •
Submarine X-1 (1968) • ''
Murphy's War'' (1971) •
Das Boot (1981), story of a German U-Boat crew •
Das letzte U-Boot (1990) •
U-571 (2000), entirely fictional depiction of mission to recover Enigma machine from U-Boat •
In Enemy Hands (2004) •
The Sinking of the Laconia (2011) •
Das Boot (TV series) (2018) •
Torpedo (2019 film) (2019) •
Greyhound (2020) ===
Finnish war (1939–1944) === •
Ski Patrol (1940) •
The Unknown Soldier (
The Unknown Soldier) (1955) •
Sissit (1963) •
Tuntematon Sotilas (
The Unknown Soldier) (1985) •
Talvisota (1989) (available on YouTube with subtitles) •
Rukajärven tie (
Ambush) (1999) •
Käki (The Cuckoo) (2002) •
Beyond the Front Line (2004) •
Lupaus (
Promise) (2005) •
Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia (2006) (Documentary) •
Tali-Ihantala 1944 (2007) •
Wildeye (2015) •
The Unknown Soldier (
The Unknown Soldier) (2017) •
Sisu (2022) ===
Norwegian Campaign (1940) === •
Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940 (1940) •
Let George Do It! (1940) •
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) •
The Day Will Dawn (1942) •
They Raid by Night (1942) •
Edge of Darkness (1943 film) (1943) •
The Moon Is Down (1943) •
Courage of Lassie (1945) •
Englandsfarere (1946) •
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (1948) •
Operation Edelweiss (1954) •
Nine Lives (1957) •
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) •
Snow Treasure (1968) •
Under en steinhimmel (1974) •
The Last Lieutenant (1993) •
Max Manus (2008), Norwegian resistance hero •
Age of Heroes (2011) •
Into the White (2012) •
The Heavy Water War (2015) •
Kongens Nei (2016) •
Narvik (2022) ===
Battle of France (1940) === •
Sieg im Westen (1941) •
Forbidden Games (1952) •
Dunkirk (1958) •
The Young Lions (1958) •
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964) •
Dunkirk (2004) •
Eighteen (2005) •
Le Grand Charles (2006) •
Atonement (2007) •
Het Bombardement (2012) •
Dunkirk (2017) •
Darkest Hour (2017) ===
French Resistance (1940–1944) === •
Joan of Paris (1942) •
Reunion in France (1942) •
This Land Is Mine (film) (1943) •
The Cross of Lorraine (1943) •
Passage to Marseille (1944) •
To Have and Have Not (1944) •
La Bataille du rail (1945) •
A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946) •
Odette (film) (1950) •
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) •
A Man Escaped (1956) •
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) •
Green Harvest (1959) •
The Cat Shows Her Claws (1960) •
The Train (1964) •
Shock Troops (1967) • ''
L'Armée des ombres'' (1969), depiction of the
French Resistance •
Underground (1970) •
Le vieux fusil (1975) •
Affiche Rouge (1976) •
Charlotte Gray (2001) •
The Army of Crime (2009) •
15 Lads (2011) •
Free Men (2011) •
Resistance (2019) ===
Dutch resistance (1940–1945) === •
The Silver Fleet (1943) •
Betrayed (1954) •
Operation Amsterdam (1959) •
The Silent Raid (1962) •
Like Two Drops of Water (1963) •
Dirty Heroes (1967) •
Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (1977), Dutch resistance •
Pastorale 1943 (1978) •
De Fûke (2000) •
Resistance (2003) •
Black Book (2006), Dutch resistance •
Winter in Wartime (film) (2008) •
Return to the Hiding Place (2011) ===
Belgian resistance (1940–1944) === •
Against the Wind (1948) •
Resistance (2003) •
Torpedo (2019 film) (2019) ===
Czechoslovak resistance (1939–1945) === •
Anthropoid (2016) ===
Denmark in World War II (1940–1945) === •
The Invisible Army (1945) •
Der kom en dag (1955) •
The Boys from St. Petri (1991) •
Miracle at Midnight (1998) •
Flame & Citron (2008), Danish resistance •
This Life (2012) •
April 9th (2015) ===
Axis occupation of Greece (1940–1944) === •
Teleftaia apostoli (1950) •
They Who Dare (1954) •
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) •
The Guns of Navarone (1961) •
Glory Sky (1963) •
The Naked Brigade (1965) •
Signs of Life (1968) •
I charavgi tis nikis (1971) •
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) •
Escape to Athena (1979) •
Mediterraneo (1991) • ''
Captain Corelli's Mandolin'' (2001), Italian occupation of Kefallonia, Greece •
Sword of Honour (2001 film) (2001)
Battle of Crete •
The 11th Day: Crete 1941 (2005) ===
North African Campaign (1940–1943) === •
Sundown (1941) •
Casablanca (1942) •
Sahara (1943) •
Nine Men (1943) •
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) •
The Way Ahead (1944) •
The Rats of Tobruk (1944) •
The Desert Fox (1951) •
Bright Victory (1951) •
The Desert Rats (1953) •
The Malta Story (1953) •
Folgore Division (1954) •
They Who Dare (1954) •
The Steel Bayonet (1957) •
Bitter Victory (1957) •
Der Stern von Afrika (1957) •
Hell Squad (1958) •
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) •
Sea of Sand (1958) •
Desert Mice (1959) •
The Best of Enemies (1962) •
No Man Is an Island (1962) •
Tobruk (1967) •
Desert Commandos (1967) •
Commandos (1968) •
Play Dirty (1969) •
Desert Battle (1969) •
The Battle of El Alamein (1969) •
Patton (1970), depiction of the
Battle of El Guettar and the campaigns of Patton •
Raid on Rommel (1971) •
The Greatest Battle (1978) •
The Big Red One (1980) •
A Man Called Sarge (1990), comedy involving the
Second Battle of El Alamein •
El Alamein – The Line of Fire (2002) •
Tobruk (2008), Czech soldiers in the Tobruk campaign •
P-51 Dragon Fighter (2014) •
SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022) (TV Show) – first season ===
Pacific War (1941–1945) === •
They Met in Bombay (1941) •
Wake Island (1942) •
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya (1942) •
Air Force (1943) depiction of
Attack on Pearl Harbor •
Destination Tokyo (1943) •
Wings Over the Pacific (1943) •
Aerial Gunner (1943) •
Bombardier (1943) •
Prisoner of Japan (1943) •
Guadalcanal Diary (1943), depiction of the Marines on Guadalcanal •
Gung Ho! (1943) •
The Purple Heart (1944) •
Kato hayabusa sento-tai (1944) •
The Fighting Sullivans (1944), story of the Sullivan brothers, all lost in the sinking of the USS Juneau •
The Fighting Seabees (1944) •
Wing and a Prayer (1944) •
Two-Man Submarine (1944) •
Marine Raiders (1944) •
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), depiction of the Doolittle Raid and aftermath •
Pride of the Marines (1945) •
The Bamboo Blonde (1946) •
Jungle Patrol (1948) •
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) •
Malaya (1949) •
Halls of Montezuma (1950) •
The Frogmen (1951) •
Flying Leathernecks (1951) •
Operation Pacific (1951) •
Flat Top (1952) •
Okinawa (1952) •
From Here to Eternity (1953), depiction of the
Attack on Pearl Harbor •
Away All Boats (1956) •
Hellcats of the Navy (1957), movie starring
Ronald Reagan and his wife,
Nancy Davis •
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) •
The Wings of Eagles (1957) •
In Love and War (1958) •
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) •
The Naked and the Dead (1958) •
Tarawa Beachhead (1958) •
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959) •
Operation Petticoat (1959), comedy about a US Navy submarine •
Up Periscope (1959) •
Blood and Steel (1959) •
Hell to Eternity (1960) •
The Gallant Hours (1960) •
Battle of Blood Island (1960) •
Storm Over the Pacific (1960) •
Hum Dono (1961) •
The Outsider (1961), the story of
Ira Hayes •
No Man Is an Island (1962) •
Attack Squadron! (1963) •
PT 109 (1963), the story of President Kennedy in WWII •
Operation Bikini (1963) •
Father Goose (1964), a Coastwatcher in the South Pacific protects a nun and her charges • ''
In Harm's Way'' (1965) •
None but the Brave (1965), US Marines and Japanese soldiers fight for possession of an island where they are marooned •
Beach Red (1967), US Marines storm a Japanese held island •
Hell in the Pacific (1968), Japanese and American castaways battle each other on a deserted island •
36 Hours to Hell (1969) •
Too Late the Hero (1970), British troops on a mission in South Asia •
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), depiction of the
Attack on Pearl Harbor •
Saigo no Tokkōtai (最後の特攻隊,
The Last Kamikaze in English), (1970) •
Battle of Okinawa (1971) •
Lalkar (1972) •
Midway (1976), depiction of the
Battle of Midway •
MacArthur (1977) •
1941 (1979) •
The Imperial Navy (1981) •
Attack Force Z (1981), depiction of a commando raid involving Australian/New Zealand
Z Special Unit •
The Highest Honour (1982) •
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) •
The Heroes (1989 miniseries) •
The Thin Red Line (1998), depiction of the US Army at the
Battle of Guadalcanal • ''
Harry's War'' (1999), short film depiction of the brother of
Reg Saunders •
Markova: Comfort Gay (2000) •
Pearl Harbor (2001), fictionalized account of the Pearl Harbor attack •
Windtalkers (2002), depiction of the
Battle of Saipan •
Diwa (2002) •
Otoko-tachi no Yamato (2005) •
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005) •
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Japanese defenders of Iwo Jima •
Flags of Our Fathers (2006), story of the Iwo Jima flag raising •
Kokoda (2006), Australian troops in New Guinea •
Australia (2008) depiction of the
Bombing of Darwin •
The Pacific (2010) depiction US Marines in the
Pacific War •
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011) •
Canopy (2013) •
The Eternal Zero (2013) •
Little Boy (2015),
United States home front during World War II •
In This Corner of the World (2016) •
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) •
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) •
Midway (2019) •
The Boy and the Heron (2023) ===
Philippines campaign (1941–1942) and
Philippines campaign (1944–1945) === •
Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) •
Manila Calling (1942) •
Air Force (1943) •
Bataan (1943) •
Corregidor (1943) •
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Nurses in the Philippines •
Cry "Havoc" (1943) Nurses in the Philippines •
Ano hata o ute (1944) •
Back to Bataan (1945) •
They Were Expendable (1945) •
Death March (1946) •
Mapuputing Kamay (1950) •
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) •
I Was an American Spy (1951) •
Between Heaven and Hell (1956) •
Suicide Battalion (1958) •
Operation Petticoat (1959), comedy about a US Navy submarine •
Fires on the Plain (1959), Japanese troops in the Philippines 1945 •
Surrender – Hell! (1960) •
Battle at Bloody Beach (1961) •
The Steel Claw (1961) •
Lost Battalion (1962) •
Cry of Battle (1963) •
Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor (1964) •
Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964) •
The Walls of Hell (1964) •
Back Door to Hell (1964) •
The Ravagers (1965) •
Ambush Bay (1966) •
Manila, Open City (1968) •
Warkill (1968) •
Escape to Mindanao (1968) •
Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa (1975) •
Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (1976) •
MacArthur (1977) •
Aguila (1980) •
Oro, Plata, Mata (1982) •
Women of Valor (1986) •
Gatas... sa dibdib ng kaaway (2001) • ''
Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure'' (2001) •
Alab ng Lahi (2003) •
Panaghoy sa Suba (2004) •
Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (2004) •
The Great Raid (2005) •
Fires on the Plain (2014) ===
The Jews in WW2 (1941–1945) === •
Ostatni etap (1948) •
Lang ist der Weg (1949) •
Maître après Dieu (1951) •
Forbidden Games (1952), depiction of the
Battle of France •
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) •
The Ninth Circle (1960), depiction of Croatian
Ustaše death camps •
The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) •
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) •
Playing for Time (1980) •
The Pawnbroker (1984) • ''
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story'' (1985) •
Elysium (1986) •
Jona che visse nella balena (1993) • ''
Schindler's List'' (1993), German businessman helps save Jewish lives during the Holocaust •
Life is Beautiful (1997), an Italian Jew faces the Holocaust •
Jakob the Liar (1999), The movie is set in 1944 in a
ghetto in
German-occupied Poland during the
Holocaust •
Daleko od okna (2000) •
Uprising (2001) •
The Pianist (2002), a Jewish man hides in Warsaw to escape the Holocaust •
The Boys of Buchenwald (2002) •
Forest of the Gods (2005) •
Un secret (2007) •
In Darkness (2011) •
Mein bester Feind (2011) •
Süskind (2012) •
The Third Half (2013) •
Grüningers Fall (2014) •
Saul fia (2015) •
Where Is Anne Frank (2021) •
Valiant Hearts (2021) ===
Eastern Front (1941–1945) === •
The North Star (1943) •
T-9 Submarine (
«Подводная лодка Т-9» in Russian) (1943) •
Ukraine in Flames (1943), documentary •
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), American film, depicts the
Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective •
Song of Russia (1944) •
Days of Glory (1944) •
It Happened in the Donbass (1945) •
Secret Agent (1947) •
The Third Blow (1948) •
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective •
The Fall of Berlin (1950) •
The Lights of Baku (1950) •
Far from Moscow (1951) •
The Immortal Garrison (1956) •
Soldiers (
«Солдаты» in Russian), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective •
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) •
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) •
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad from the German perspective •
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Russian infantryman travels home on leave •
My Name is Ivan (1963) (
«Иваново детство» in Russia) •
The Alive and the Dead (
«Живые и мёртвые» in Russian) (1964) •
Father of a Soldier (1964) •
Attack and Retreat (1965), Italian troops on the Eastern Front •
The Lark (1965 film) (1965) •
Czterej pancerni i pies (1966–1970) TV series, crew of a Polish
T-34 tank is fighting against the Germans •
I Was Nineteen (1968), the last days of WW2 told from the perspective of a young German serving in the
Red Army •
The Liberation (1971) •
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) •
Hot Snow (film) (1972) •
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1973) • (1975–78) Siege of Leningrad •
They Fought for Their Country (1975) (
«Они сражались за родину" in Russia) •
Twenty Days Without War (1976) •
Cross of Iron (1977), German infantrymen on the Eastern Front •
The Unknown War (1978), documentary series •
Siberiade (1979) •
The Bunker (1980 television film), Hitler's final days •
Night Witches In The Sky (1981) •
Battle of Moscow (1985) •
Come and See (1985), German atrocities in Russia •
The Misfit Brigade (1987), war story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners •
Stalingrad (1989), Soviet-American coproduction, depicts the
Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective •
General (1992), biopic on General
Alexander Gorbatov •
Stalingrad (1993), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad from the German perspective •
Enemy at the Gates (2001), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad •
The Star (2002) (
«Звезда» in Russian) •
The Cadets (2004 TV series) •
On the Nameless Height (2004 TV series) •
Shtrafbat (2004 TV miniseries) •
Downfall (2004) (
Der Untergang), the final 10 days of Hitler and his rule over the Third Reich • ''
Major Pugachev's Final Battle (2005) («Последний бой майора Пугачёва»'' in Russian) •
The Island (2006) •
Ühe metsa pojad (2007) •
Defiance (2008), Jewish partisans in Belarus •
Apostol (TV series) (
«The Apostle») (2008) • ''
In june '41''(2008) •
A Woman in Berlin (2008) •
1941 (2009 TV) •
Attack on Leningrad (2009) •
The Priest (2009) •
First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009) •
The Brest Fortress (2010, Russian), opening stages of
Operation Barbarossa in 1941 •
Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010) •
Deliver at all cost (2011) (
«Доставить любой ценой» in Russian) •
Frozen Silence (2011) Spanish Blue Division •
In the Fog (2012) •
White Tiger (2012) •
Spy (2012) •
Night Swallows (2012) Ночные Ласточки Russian TV series about
Night Witches • ''
Frankenstein's Army'' (2013) •
Generation War (2013) •
Stalingrad (2013), depiction of the
Battle of Stalingrad from the Soviet perspective •
28 panfilovtsev (2015), twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four German tanks of the 11th Panzer Division •
Battle for Sevastopol (2015) •
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (2015) •
1944 (2015) Estonia in 1944 •
Indestructible (2018 film), (
«Несокрушимый» in Russian) • ''
We won't say goodbye (2018), («Прощаться не будем»'' in Russian) •
Saving Leningrad (2019) •
T-34 (2019) •
Rzhev (film) (2019) •
The Last Frontier (2020) •
The Red Ghost (2021) •
Topor 1943 (2021) • ===
World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945) === •
Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943) •
Undercover (1943), Yugoslav guerrilla movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia loosely based on the
Chetnik resistance movement •
In the mountains of Yugoslavia (1946), first post-war film to be filmed in Yugoslavia, a Soviet-Yugoslav coproduction •
Daleko je sunce (1953),
Yugoslav Partisans •
Šolaja (1955), Serb rebellion against the genocide committed by the Croatian
Ustaše •
Campo mamula (1959), German POW camp in
Montenegro •
Vetar je stao pred zoru (1959),
Partisan saboteurs in German-occupied
Belgrade •
X-25 javlja (1960),
Partisan spy infiltrates a German HQ •
The Ninth Circle (1960), depiction of Croatian
Ustaše death camp based on the
Jasenovac concentration camp •
Kapetan Leši (1960),
Yugoslav Partisans in German-occupied areas of Kosovo •
Kozara (1962),
Yugoslav Partisans in battle for Kozara mountain •
Prozvan je i V-3 (1962),
Wehrmacht troops
massacre civilians, including school children, in Kragujevac, Serbia •
Desant na Drvar (1963), Yugoslav Partisans in charge of protecting
Josip Broz Tito face a full-scale airborne assault by the
SS paratroopers •
Nikoletina Bursać (1964), partisan machine-gunner, a tough guy with a gentle heart •
The Secret Invasion (1964), British intelligence sends five convicted criminals into Yugoslavia to rescue an Italian General and convince him to turn his troops against the occupying Nazi forces •
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), last part of the movie is set during the Nazi
invasion of Yugoslavia and stars
Omar Sharif as a
Yugoslav Partisan •
Čovek iz hrastove šume (1965), a Chetnik executioner finds his human side after falling in love with a partisan girl, however she betrays him •
Provereno nema mina (1965), a Soviet-Yugoslav co-production set just after the liberation of
Belgrade •
Three (1965) •
Pogled u zjenicu sunca (1966), a gritty story of a small group of partisans left behind in the mountains, who face cold, starvation, typhus and, ultimately, hallucinations, and a young partisan who volunteered to retrieve them •
Black Birds (1967), Croatian
Ustaše plan to execute prisoners from the
Stara Gradiška concentration camp and Partisans try to stop them •
Bomb at 10:10 (1967) •
Koraci kroz magle (1967), while wounded partisans retreat through foggy marshlands, Germans quietly start a manhunt while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion •
Praznik (1967), Chetniks rescue downed US pilots, and soon face a demand by collaborationist authorities to hand them over •
Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968), inspired by a true story of two naval officers of the defeated
Royal Yugoslav Army, Milan Spasić and Sergej Mašera, who sacrificed themselves and their vessel to stop the German-Italian advance •
Lelejska gora (1968),
Partisans in
Montenegro •
Vuk sa Prokletija (1968), ethnic Albanians in Italian-occupied areas of Kosovo •
The Battle of Neretva (1969),
Academy Award-nominated movie about the
Yugoslav Partisans's epic battle by the
Neretva river •
The Fifth Day of Peace (1969) •
Krvava bajka (1969),
Wehrmacht troops
massacre civilians, including school children, in Kragujevac, Serbia •
Kuda idu divlje svinje (1971 TV series), two groups of smugglers clash in Croatia during the
Ustaše regime •
Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), fictionalized story of a Yugoslav war hero
Vladimir Perić Valter •
Istrel (1972), Yugoslav Partisans fight against Bulgarian occupation in Macedonia •
The Battle of Sutjeska (1973),
Yugoslav Partisans and their battle against Germans by the
Sutjeska river •
Otpisani (1974 TV series),
Partisan saboteurs in German-occupied
Belgrade •
The Republic of Užice (1974),
Partisans establish a liberated territory in and around a small Serbian town of
Užice, in autumn of 1941 •
Hell River (1974), Partisans try to raid a boat transporting Jews to a concentration camp. • '''' (1975), a
West German B-movie about Wehrmacht's gradual retreat in face of
Yugoslav Partisan offensive in 1944 •
Salaš u Malom Ritu (1975 TV series), children face Nazi atrocities in a small village in Serbia •
Vrhovi Zelengore (1976),
Yugoslav Partisans and their battle against Germans by the
Sutjeska river •
Battle for the Railway (1978), a duel between
Partisans on one side, and the joint force of German
Wehrmacht and Bulgarian troops on the other – over the railway in southern Serbia and Macedonia •
Force Ten from Navarone (1978), OSS mission in Yugoslavia •
Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), depiction of Croatian
Ustaše atrocities in Dalmatia •
Boško Buha (1979), a young
Yugoslav Partisan who turned to be one of the greatest icons of World War II in the former Yugoslavia •
Partizanska eskadrila (1979), heavily fictionalized story of the first
Yugoslav Partisan air force unit •
Pakleni otok (1979), Germans attempt to take control over Dalmatia after Italians surrender; they immediately clash with partisans on a small island •
See You in the Next War (1980), German-occupied
Slovenia •
The Fall of Italy (1981),
Partisans in Dalmatia face chaos in the aftermath of Italian surrender •
Nepokoreni grad (1981 TV series), depiction of Croatian
Ustaše terror campaign, including the
Kerestinec prison •
13. jul (1982),
Yugoslav Partisans in
Montenegro •
Balkan Express (1983), petty criminals try to make some money under the disguise of musical band in Nazi-occupied Serbia •
Great Transport (1983), thousand of
Partisans march to comrades' aid •
Igmanski marš (1983),
Partisans face a devastating march across
Igman mountain •
The End of the War (1984), at the end of World War II, a Serbian man takes his son to search for and kill five members of the Croatian
Ustaše militia who tortured and killed his wife •
A Youth Orchestra (1985) •
Odlazak ratnika, povratak maršala (1986), TV series •
Lager Niš (1987), Nazi death camp in
Niš, Serbia •
Braća po materi (1988), depiction of Croatian
Ustaše atrocities, told through the story of two half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb •
That Summer of White Roses (1989) •
Silent Gunpowder (1990), story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines •
Underground (1995), epic story spanning from Nazi
invasion of Yugoslavia to
Yugoslav wars of the 1990s •
The Border (1996), Italian occupation of
Dalmatia •
The Dagger (1999), story of hatred and violence in
Bosnia, spanning from World War Two to the
Bosnian War •
Long Dark Night (2004), story of two friends, one Partisan and the other one Ustaša, in
Ustaše-controlled Croatia •
Badnje veče 1943 (2007 TV), story of two brothers in rival resistance groups, one
Partisan, other a
Chetnik, who come together for a family meeting •
How I Was Stolen by the Germans (2011) •
Ravna Gora (2013 TV series), story of Serbian
Chetnik resistance fighters •
The Liberation of Skopje (2016), German-Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia •
The Diary of Diana B. (2019), Austrian-born humanitarian
Diana Budisavljević risks her life by saving Serbian children from
Ustaše-controlled
Stara Gradiška concentration camp. •
Dara of Jasenovac (2020), story of a young
Bosnian Serb girl held prisoner in the
Ustaše-controlled
Jasenovac concentration camp. ===
Burma Campaign (1942–1945) === •
Burma Convoy (1941) •
A Yank on the Burma Road (1942) •
Bombs Over Burma (1942) •
Rookies in Burma (1943) •
Calling Blighty series (1944–46) •
Objective Burma (1945) •
The Hasty Heart (1949) •
Francis (1950) •
The Purple Plain (1954) •
The Burmese Harp (1956) •
The Wind Cannot Read (1958) • ''
Yesterday's Enemy'' (1959) •
Never So Few (1959) •
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) •
Operation Bottleneck (1961) US paratroopers in Burma • ''
Merrill's Marauders'' (1962), American troops behind Japanese lines in Burma •
The Burmese Harp (1985) •
Rangoon (2017) ===
Italian Campaign (1943–1945) === •
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), biopic of correspondent Ernie Pyle •
A Walk In The Sun (1945), American platoon at the 1943 Salerno landing •
Rome, Open City (1945) •
Paisan (1946) •
Go for Broke! (1951) •
Force of Arms (1951) •
Eight Iron Men (1952) • ''
Darby's Rangers'' (1958) •
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958) •
Tank Commandos (1959) •
Paratroop Command (1959) •
The Two Colonels (1962), B&W comedy about Italian and British troops facing off on the Greek–Albanian border in 1943 •
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) •
War Italian Style (1966) •
Anzio (1968), depiction of the
Battle of Anzio •
Mussolini: Ultimo atto (
Mussolini: The Last Four Days) (1974) •
Last Days of Mussolini (1977) •
The Inglorious Bastards (1977) •
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) •
The Fallen (2004) •
Only the Brave (2005), depiction of
100th Infantry Battalion •
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) •
Little Iron Men (2008), depiction of the
442nd Infantry Regiment •
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) •
Road 47 (2013) Brazilian Expeditionary Force •
SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022) (TV Show) – second season ===
Italian resistance movement (1943–1945) === •
Rome, Open City (1945) •
Attention! Bandits! (1951) •
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) •
Warriors Five (1960) •
The Four Days of Naples (1962) •
The Seven Cervi Brothers (1967) •
Salt in the Wound (1969) •
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) •
Corbari (1970) • ''
Hornets' Nest'' (1970) •
Massacre in Rome (1973) •
Little Teachers (1998) •
The Man Who Will Come (2009), about the
Marzabotto massacre ===
Western Front (1944–1945) === •
Hitler--Dead or Alive (1942) •
Went the Day Well? (1942) •
Battleground (1949), 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne •
Breakthrough (1950) 1st Infantry Division in France •
They Were Not Divided (1950) •
Decision Before Dawn (1951), German spies working with the Allies in 1945 •
The Tanks are Coming (1951) •
The Red Ball Express (1952) Military truck drivers kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II Starring
Sidney Poitier •
Silent Raiders (1954) •
08/15 (1954) •
- Part two (1955) •
- Back home (1955) •
To Hell and Back (1955), story of
Audie Murphy •
Attack! (1956), American squad in the Battle of the Bulge •
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) •
Screaming Eagles (film) (1956) • ''
I Was Monty's Double'' (1958) •
The Bridge (Die Brücke) (1959), teenage German soldiers defend a bridge in 1945 •
Ski Troop Attack (1960) •
Hell Is for Heroes (1962), an American squad faces the Siegfried Line •
The Longest Day (1962), depiction of the
Battle of Normandy •
Battle of the Bulge (1965), depiction of the
Battle of the Bulge •
Is Paris Burning? (1966), depiction of the
Liberation of Paris •
Attack on the Iron Coast (1967) •
The Dirty Dozen (1967), American Army criminals sent on a pre D-Day mission • ''
The Devil's Brigade'' (1968), story of the 1st Special Service Force •
Castle Keep (1969) •
The Bridge at Remagen (1969), depiction of the 1945 battle •
Black Brigade (1970) • ''
Kelly's Heroes'' (1970) •
A Bridge Too Far (1977), depiction of the
Battle of Arnhem/Operation Market Garden •
The Big Red One (1980), follows a squad of the 1st Infantry Division from 1942 to 1945 •
A Midnight Clear (1992), American squad in the Battle of the Bulge •
Dieppe (1993) (television film) – by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), depiction of the Dieppe raid •
Saving Private Ryan (1998), depiction of the
Battle of Normandy •
When Trumpets Fade (1998), depiction of the
Battle of Hurtgen Forest •
Band of Brothers (2001 TV miniseries), the story of E Company, 506th of the 101st Airborne •
Silent Night (2002), American and German soldiers come together (2003) •
Saints and Soldiers (2003) •
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) •
Days of Glory (2006), North African soldiers in the French Army •
S.S. Doomtrooper (2006) •
Reign of the Gargoyles (2007) •
Die Brucke (2008) (2008) •
Fist of the Reich (2010) •
Rommel (film) (2012) •
Fury (2014) •
The Monuments Men (2014) •
Churchill (film) (2017), The untold story of
D-Day •
Werewolves of the Third Reich (2017) •
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) •
Overlord (2018) •
Allied (2016) • ''
Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits'' (2018) •
Operation Mincemeat (2021) •
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