| 1 | Films about or set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | For the other works, see WorksSetInWorldWarII. |
| 4 | ---- |
| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!Documentaries |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[index]] |
| 10 | [[folder:Wartime Documentary Films]] |
| 11 | * ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' |
| 12 | * ''Film/{{Let There Be Light|1946}}'' |
| 13 | * ''Film/TheMemphisBelle'' |
| 14 | * ''Film/MoscowStrikesBack'' |
| 15 | * ''Film/TheNegroSoldier'' |
| 16 | * ''Film/{{Siege}}'' |
| 17 | * ''Series/WhyWeFight'' |
| 18 | ** ''Film/PreludeToWar'' |
| 19 | ** ''Film/TheBattleOfRussia'' |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Post-War Documentary Films]] |
| 23 | * ''Film/AnneFrankRemembered'' |
| 24 | * ''Film/TheCaptainFromNowhere'' |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Genocide|1981}}'' |
| 26 | * ''Film/TheLastDays'' |
| 27 | * ''Film/TheLifeAndTimesOfRosieTheRiveter'' |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheLongWayHome'' |
| 29 | * ''Film/NightAndFog'' |
| 30 | * ''Film/DeNurembergANuremberg'' |
| 31 | * ''Film/{{Shoah}}'' |
| 32 | * ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity'' |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
| 34 | [[/index]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | !!Fiction: |
| 37 | |
| 38 | A number of the works below cover multiple categories and are grouped according to their main setting. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | In an era where the only major forms of mass entertainment were radio, theatre and cinema (British television went off for the duration), it is not surprising that a very large number of movies were made during the war itself. Most of them were [[PropagandaMachine propaganda]] of some form or another, but some of these films (including some flag-wavers) have stood the test of time, such as ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/InWhichWeServe'' and ''Film/WentTheDayWell'' |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:The Early War in Europe (1939-1940)]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | The early part of the war, from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the fall of France in summer 1940. It ended with the victory of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and the latter's occupation of most of continental Western UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} and the Western half of UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, and the occupation of the Eastern half of Poland and annexation of the Baltic states by UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | [[index]] |
| 47 | [[AC:Poland:]] |
| 48 | * ''[[Film/TheHeroesOfWesterplatte The Heroes of Westerplatte]]'' (2013), about the fierce, one-week long defense of a military depot by its Polish garrison against invading Germans on the peninsula of Westerplatte in September 1939. |
| 49 | * ''[[Film/{{Katyn}} Katyń]]'' (2007), a Polish film about the Katyń massacre in April-May 1940, a series of mass murders that claimed the lives of about 22000 Polish men, mostly intelligentsia and military officers. It was carried out by the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre NKVD]] when the Eastern half of Poland was under Soviet occupation. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[AC:Scandinavia:]] |
| 52 | * ''Film/April9th'' (2015) follows a group of Danish bicycle infantry sent to slow down the German advance into Denmark until reinforcements can arrive. |
| 53 | * ''Film/TheKingsChoice'' (2016), focusing on the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the choices King Haakon VII has to make over whether to fight the Germans or surrender. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[AC:France and the Low Countries:]] |
| 56 | * ''Film/The7thCompany'' (1973-1977), a film trilogy about the comedic antics of three French soldiers getting lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France. The third film has the heroes sort of involved in LaResistance. |
| 57 | * ''[[Film/AppealOf18June Appeal of 18 June]]'' (2010), a TV film about the famous 18 June 1940 speech by UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, who founded the Free French Forces and the Free French GovernmentInExile in London. |
| 58 | * ''Film/BonVoyage'' (2003), about the exodus of the French populations fleeing the German advance on the roads and the French government relocating itself in the city of Bordeaux. |
| 59 | * Films featuring "Operation Dynamo", the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops surrounded by Germans in the city of Dunkirk during the Battle of France in late May 1940: |
| 60 | ** ''Film/{{Dunkirk|1958}}'' (1958) is about the siege and evacuation from the British point of view. |
| 61 | ** ''Film/WeekendAtDunkirk'' (''Week-end à Zuydcoote'', 1964) is about the siege and evacuation from the French point of view. |
| 62 | ** ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' (2007) has a section covering the evacuation on the beaches. It's mostly known for a stunning five-minute [[TheOner single tracking shot along the whole beach.]] |
| 63 | ** ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'' (2017) also about the siege and evacuation, from three British points of view. |
| 64 | * ''Film/DeGaulle'' (2020), in which Charles De Gaulle desperately tries to stiffen the spines of the French government and high command, then escapes to England to deliver his "Appeal of 18 June" speech starting the Free France GovernmentInExile. |
| 65 | * ''Film/ThePiedPiper'' (1942), about an elderly Englishman and a group of children, trying to make their way through the Germans and find a boat to escape back to England, during and immediately after the fall of France in June 1940. |
| 66 | * ''Film/ForbiddenGames'' (1952), about a Parisian girl who bonds with a boy whose farm family takes her in after her parents are killed in in an air raid while fleeing the city. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[AC:Others:]] |
| 69 | * ''Film/TheLionHasWings'' (1939) is a British propaganda film rushed into production and released in December 1939, a mixture of newsreel about the war effort and scripted drama about early RAF combat against the Luftwaffe, including a British raid on the Kiel Canal in September 1939. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | [[/index]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:The Finnish Front (1939-1944)]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | The war between Finland and USSR, more specifically the Winter War of 1939-40 and the Continuation War of 1941-44 (which is included in the Eastern Front as Finland was co-belligerent with Germany) as well as the Lapland War of 1944-45 (when Finland switched sides to the Allies and drove the German troops out of Lapland where they were stationed). Has been depicted several times on film, but these films are little known outside Finland. |
| 76 | ---- |
| 77 | [[index]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [[AC:Winter War:]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | * ''[[Literature/TheWinterWar Talvisota]]'' (''The Winter War''), a Finnish 1984 novel by Antti Tuuri and the 1989 movie based on it. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[AC:Continuation War:]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | * ''Film/{{Kukushka}}'' (''The Cuckoo''), a Russian film. |
| 86 | * ''Tuntematon Sotilas'' (''The Unknown Soldier''), based on a [[Literature/TheUnknownSoldier novel of the same name]] written by war veteran Väinö Linna. Three versions exist, made in years 1955, 1985, and 2017. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[AC:Lapland War:]] |
| 89 | * ''Film/{{Sisu}}'', an action film about an old Finnish gold miner and former commando who has to protect his treasure from a retreating German platoon. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | [[/index]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:The Eastern Front (1941-1945)]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | The biggest and bloodiest theatre of the war (the number of deaths there alone- over 25 million- would make the Eastern Front the worst war in history in its own right), and the one that defined "total war" in every aspect, opposing Nazi Germany and its allies to USSR from the German invasion of the latter during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 to Germany's final defeat in May 1945. Has been covered in film quite a bit in the German, Soviet and Russian film industry for obvious reasons, but most of the Soviet and Russian examples aren't that well known outside of Russia and Eastern Europe. In most of the former USSR the focus is not on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in general, but on that front, named "The Great Patriotic War" there. A few US-made 1943-45 propaganda movies made about the Eastern Front glossed over many of the Soviet Union's more questionable activities, which would come back to haunt their creators and actors just a few years later during the late-40s to early-50s Red Scare. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | In German works, it is common to see soldiers threatened with being sent to the Eastern Front - a posting there was nothing but trouble, and became a near-certain-death-sentence from 1943 onwards, hence the consistently bleak tone of them. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Somewhat under-represented in (non-German) Western and Anglophone media, for the likely reason that the protagonists weren't Western Allies, save for a few cases involving volunteers such as the French Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment and the Lend-Lease shipments to USSR. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | UsefulNotes/{{The New|Russia}} UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} has produced a noticeably large amount of World War II films since the mid-2000s, which more often than not put heavy emphasis on spectacle and the bravery of the Red Army. |
| 103 | ---- |
| 104 | [[index]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[AC:German/Axis Point of View:]] |
| 107 | * ''[[Film/NineteenFortyFour 1944]]'' (2015 Estonian film): A rare example that attempts to cover and treat [[GreyAndGrayMorality both sides of the war equally]]. It follows two Estonian platoons: one fighting in the Waffen-SS, another in the Red Army. |
| 108 | * ''[[Film/ZeroEightFifteen 08/15]]'' (1954-1955 West German film series): Covers the life of German conscripts during the war, mostly on the Eastern front. Based on the books by Hans Hellmut Kirst. |
| 109 | * ''Film/CrossOfIron'' (1977 British-German film): The conflict between German front-line and rear area soldiers after the defeat of Stalingrad. Relatively rare example of an English-language movie set here. |
| 110 | * ''Film/{{Downfall|2004}}'' (2004 German film): UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's final moments and the downfall of Nazi Germany during the battle of UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. |
| 111 | * About the battle of Stalingrad: |
| 112 | ** ''Film/{{The Doctor of Stalingrad}}'' (1958 West German film), based on the eponymous novel by Heinz G. Konsalik. |
| 113 | ** ''[[Film/DogsDoYouWantToLiveForever Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]]'' (1959 West German film), based on the eponymous novel by Fritz Wöss. |
| 114 | ** ''Film/{{Stalingrad|1993}}'' (1993 German film): The slow and cold agony of the now-encircled 6th German Army in Stalingrad. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[AC:Soviet Point of View:]] |
| 117 | * ''[[Film/TheAliveAndTheDead The Alive and the Dead]]'' (1964 Soviet film) |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheAscent1977'' (Soviet film) |
| 119 | * ''Film/AtWarLikeAtWar'' |
| 120 | * ''Film/BalladOfASoldier'' (1959 Soviet film) |
| 121 | * ''Film/{{Bastards}}'' |
| 122 | * ''Film/BattleForSevastopol'' (2015): A BioPic for Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a legendary Red Army soldier. |
| 123 | * ''Film/BattleOfMoscow'' (1985 Soviet film in two parts) |
| 124 | * ''[[Film/ChroniclesOfADiveBomber Chronicles of a dive bomber]]'' (1968 Soviet film) |
| 125 | * ''Film/ComeAndSee'' (1985 Soviet film): Belarusian partisans fight SS Einsatzgruppen. '''''[[NightmareFuel Not for the faint of heart]]''''' |
| 126 | * ''Film/{{Convoy 48}}'' (2019 Russian film): Story of the first trains to go to the relief of besieged Leningrad in 1943, after the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor. |
| 127 | * ''Film/TheCranesAreFlying'' (1957 Soviet film) |
| 128 | * ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' (2008 American film): A part of the movie takes place during the war. While working aboard a tug boat docked in the city of Murmansk, the Soviet Union, Pearl Harbor is bombed and the skipper informs Benjamin and rest of the crew that the boat will be commandeered by the [=U.S.=] Navy, to patrol the supply route going into the city's port. |
| 129 | * ''Film/TheDawnsHereAreQuiet'' (1972 Soviet film): An AmazonBrigade and their gruff male sergeant commander, manning an anti-aircraft battery |
| 130 | * ''Film/DaysOfGlory'': A 1944 American film about Soviet partisans operating in the German rear. |
| 131 | * ''Film/FateOfAMan'' (aka ''Destiny of a Man'', 1959 Soviet film): The suffering of a Russian soldier taken prisoner by the Germans. |
| 132 | * ''Film/FatherOfASoldier'' (1964) A Soviet film but a Georgian production, about a Georgian father who goes to the front to find his son after hearing that his son has been injured. |
| 133 | * ''Anime/FirstSquad'': (2009) an even rarer {{Anime}} set on the Russian front. Rather more science fiction, as it involves the last surviving member of an elite squad of ChildSoldiers with PsychicPowers, who gets (re)drafted to fight the invading Nazis in 1942. |
| 134 | * ''Film/FortressOfWar'' (2010), a Russia-Belarus coproduction about the doomed defenders of the old frontier fortress of Brest, cut off on the first day of the war. |
| 135 | * ''Film/IvansChildhood'' |
| 136 | * ''Film/{{Leningrad}}'' (2009): British reporter is trapped in Leningrad during the terrifying starvation winter of 1941-42. Russian film in a mix of Russian, German, and English. |
| 137 | * The ''Film/{{Liberation}}'' series (1970-1971 Soviet films directed by Yuri Ozerov) |
| 138 | * ''Film/LocalSkirmish'': A squad of five Russians behind the lines blunder into an SS patrol on New Year's Day 1944. |
| 139 | * ''Film/NightWitchesOfTheSky'' (1981) -- the famous "Night Witches" squad of female bomber pilots |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheNorthStar'' (1943) -- An American film about Ukrainian villagers fight back against Nazi occupiers. |
| 141 | * ''Film/{{Officers}}'' |
| 142 | * ''Film/OnlyOldMenAreGoingToBattle'' |
| 143 | * ''Film/OnTheRoadToBerlin'' |
| 144 | * ''Film/Panfilovs28Men'' |
| 145 | * ''Film/SavingLeningrad'' |
| 146 | * ''Film/{{The Star|2002}}'': A squad of Russian scouts goes on a horribly dangerous reconnaissance mission behind German lines. |
| 147 | * Film featuring the battle of Stalingrad: |
| 148 | ** ''Film/{{The Turning Point|1945}}'' (1945 Soviet film) |
| 149 | ** ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' (2002): A SniperDuel during the battle. A rare example of an English-language film entirely set on the Eastern Front with no Western protagonist. |
| 150 | ** ''Film/{{Stalingrad|2013}}'' (2013 Russian film) |
| 151 | * ''Film/{{T 34}}'' |
| 152 | * ''Film/TheyFoughtForTheirCountry'' |
| 153 | * ''Film/TwoSoldiers'' |
| 154 | * ''Film/WhiteTiger'' |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | [[/index]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:German Occupation of Europe (1939-1945)]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | Life and historical events in the countries of Europe that were occupied by the military forces of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany between 1939 and 1945. Often involves UsefulNotes/TheGestapo and LesCollaborateurs versus LaResistance. In many cases, it also overlaps with [[FinalSolution the Holocaust]]. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | [[index]] |
| 163 | * A sizeable number of films are based on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of the Nazi posterboy, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia-Moravia [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich[[index]], in German-occupied Prague in May 1942: |
| 164 | ** ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943 American film): The first film on the subject, filmed only a couple of months after the events, and [[InNameOnly very loosely based on them]]. |
| 165 | ** ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943 American film): A ''slightly more faithful'' version compared to ''Hangmen Also Die!''. |
| 166 | ** ''Film/{{Atentat}}'' (1964 Czech film) |
| 167 | ** ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975 Czech-American film) |
| 168 | ** ''Film/{{Lidice}}'' (2011 Czech film): About the attack and its horrific aftermath, namely the massacre and destruction of the village of Lidice as reprisals. |
| 169 | ** ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016 British film): Focuses entirely on the operation from the point of view of the Czechoslovak resistance protagonists who carried out the attack. |
| 170 | ** ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' (2017 French film): Based on a novel. It focuses both on Heydrich and his life and on the Czechoslovak resistance protagonists who carried out the attack. |
| 171 | * ''Film/AppointmentWithVenus'': British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel. |
| 172 | * ''Film/BeyondTheBorder'' tells the story of a group of Swedish soldiers trying to save the younger brother of one of them who accidentally crossed the border into Norway and got captured by the Nazis. |
| 173 | * ''Film/BlackBook'': The Occupation and resistance in the Netherlands. Often seen as a polar opposite to ''Soliders of Orange'' due to its focus on betrayal within the Resistance and collaboration with the Germans, by the same director. |
| 174 | * ''WesternAnimation/Charlotte2021'': A biopic about Creator/CharlotteSalomon, who lived in Vichy France until her death in a concentration camp. |
| 175 | * ''Film/CloselyWatchedTrains'': ComingOfAgeStory about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the war. |
| 176 | * ''Film/{{Counterpoint|1968}}'': The Nazis capture an American orchestra and force them to perform. |
| 177 | * ''Film/ACuriousConjunctionOfCoincidences'': Part of the film takes place during WWII, and involves a German soldier having a very bad day who accidentally drops a bomb on Amsterdam. |
| 178 | * ''Film/DividedWeFall'': A Czech couple hide a young Jewish man in the storeroom of their apartment. |
| 179 | * ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|1943}}'': The people of a Norwegian fishing village rise up against the German occupiers. |
| 180 | * ''Film/TheException'': A German agent investigates the household of exiled former Kaiser UsefulNotes/WilhelmII in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands. |
| 181 | * ''Film/FannysJourney'': A band of Jewish war oprhans try to flee to Switzerland while being pursued by [[LesCollaborateurs the French police]] and the Nazi. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Based on Fanny Ben Ami's biography]]. |
| 182 | * ''Film/FiveBrandedWomen'': Yugoslavia |
| 183 | * ''[[Film/FlammenOgCitronen Flammen og Citronen]]'' (Danish film): Tells the story of two Danish resistance movement fighters, nicknamed Flammen and Citron, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. |
| 184 | * ''Film/ForbiddenGames'': Rural France under German occupation. |
| 185 | * ''Film/GeneralDellaRovere'': The Germans send a con artist into a prison in German-occupied 1944 Genoa, impersonating a leader of LaResistance, in order to gain valuable intelligence. |
| 186 | * ''Film/GrampsIsInTheResistance'': A comedy about a family of French musicians who support the Resistance and must deal with German soldiers occupying their mansion and some collaborators. |
| 187 | * ''Film/LaGrandeVadrouille'': French comedy in which a British Lancaster bomber plane gets shot over German-occupied Paris. Its crew and the two Frenchmen who find themselves forced to help them do everything they can to reach the Free Zone to escape. |
| 188 | * ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': The last third takes place in occupied Paris |
| 189 | * ''Film/LacombeLucien'': A sullen teen in occupied France becomes a collaborator. |
| 190 | * ''Film/TheLastMetro'': A woman in Paris during the occupation struggles to hide her husband, who is Jewish. |
| 191 | * ''Film/LeonMorinPriest'': In France, a widow and a priest strike up a friendship that might turn platonic relationship amidst the German occupation. |
| 192 | * ''Film/MiracleAtMidnight'': About the German occupation of Denmark and their failure to capture most of its Jewish population due to the efforts of the local populace. |
| 193 | * ''Film/LesMiserables1995'': A story of deportation and resistance in France with plot points and character types that were borrowed to ''Literature/LesMiserables''. |
| 194 | * ''Film/TheMoonIsDown'': The occupation of Norway (as seen by Hollywood in 1943, the film served as propaganda, naturally). |
| 195 | * ''Film/TheNightOfTheGenerals'': A murder mystery set in occupied Poland and later France. |
| 196 | * ''Film/NoneShallEscape'', a 1944 film about a trial against a Nazi officer following the end of the (then-ongoing) second world war, told via {{flashback}}s from the points of view of the witnesses at the trial. The first flashback takes place the newly-formed Polish state in 1919 right after the end of WWI, the next one takes place in the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1923 right before and after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch Beer Hall Putsch]] before skipping ahead to 1929 and then to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1934 after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives Night of the Long Knives]], and the third and last one takes place in Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII. |
| 197 | * ''Film/OneOfOurAircraftIsMissing'': In which a British bomber crew are forced to bail out over the occupied Netherlands, and attempt to escape with the assistance of the Dutch. |
| 198 | * ''Film/TheOthers2001'', a ghost movie set on the Channel Island of Jersey during the German occupation. |
| 199 | * ''Film/ThePassage'': An elderly shepherd (Creator/AnthonyQuinn) attempts to help a scientist and his family escape across the mountains into Spain while pursued by evil Creator/MalcolmMcDowell. |
| 200 | * ''Film/LesPasseurs'': Two rival mountain men living in Vichy France/occupied France smuggle either people or goods to neutral Switzerland. |
| 201 | * ''Film/PopeJohnPaulII'' |
| 202 | * ''Film/TheResistanceBanker'' |
| 203 | * ''Film/{{Riphagen}}'': An (in)famous gangster from Amsterdam who turned collaborator. |
| 204 | * ''Film/TheScarletAndTheBlack'': Italy |
| 205 | * ''Film/{{Le Silence de la mer|2004}}'' (2004): A young Frenchwoman and her grandfather are forced to house a German officer. They vow to never speak to him for as long as he's in their house, which is complicated by the fact that he is francophile, gentlemanly and not really into Nazi ideals. |
| 206 | * ''Film/SimonAndTheOaks'': Sweden |
| 207 | * ''Film/StrangeGardens'': Two French villagers decide to blow up a railway station to make themselves a name in LaResistance. It backfires and Germans take hostages, including them. One of the Germans, who was a clown before the war, takes pity on the hostages and starts entertaining them. |
| 208 | * ''Film/SuiteFrancaise'': Adaptation of the eponymous book. A romance between a French woman and a German soldier. |
| 209 | * ''Film/ThisLandIsMine'': France |
| 210 | * ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'': A comedy about a Warsaw theater troupe of actors who use their acting skills to escape occupied Poland. |
| 211 | * ''Film/TheTripAcrossParis'': Two men involved in the BlackMarket in Paris in 1943. |
| 212 | * ''Film/UncertainGlory'': 100 Frenchmen are taken hostage and face execution after a bridge is blown up. A criminal facing a death sentence for ordinary crimes gets the idea to take the blame for himself and spare the hostages. |
| 213 | * ''Film/UnderTheRomanSky'' is about the occupation of Rome by the Germans, the deportation of the Eternal City's Jews and UsefulNotes/PopePiusXII's actions at the time. |
| 214 | * ''Film/LeVieuxFusil'' |
| 215 | * ''Film/{{Volhynia}}'', the first film about the UsefulNotes/VolhynianSlaughter, which the Germans (who had no hand in it) had let happen. |
| 216 | * ''Film/{{Zelary}}'': A Czech woman has to assume a fake identity, marry a total stranger, and hide out in a rural village, all after the Resistance cell she belongs to is busted by the Gestapo. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | [[/index]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:North Africa (1940-1943)]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | Initially, just between the Commonwealth (and Free French), Italy, and other independent nations. Later, the Germans (famously led by UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel) and the Americans also took part. An area of desert warfare where supplies are scarce, it also saw the creation of the SAS and the work of the Long Range Desert Group. Famous for the presence of ''two'' [[BunnyEarsLawyer very quirky but effective]] Allied generals, George S. Patton and Bernard "Monty" Montgomery. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | [[index]] |
| 225 | * ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' - the first part of the film is set during the Battle of North Africa. |
| 226 | * ''Film/TheDesertFox'' - starring James Mason as Rommel |
| 227 | * ''Film/TheDesertRats'' - Another telling of the siege of Tobruk, starring Creator/{{Richard Burton}}. Also stars Mason as Rommel. |
| 228 | * ''Film/ElAlameinTheLineOfFire'' - the Italian point of view of the Battle of El Alamein. |
| 229 | * ''Film/FiveGravesToCairo'', set in Egypt during Rommel's drive to El Alamein |
| 230 | * ''Film/IceColdInAlex'' |
| 231 | * ''Film/{{Patton}}'' - the first half of the film takes place here. |
| 232 | * ''Film/PlayDirty'' - A group of convicted criminals go on a mission behind the battle lines to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot. |
| 233 | * ''Film/TheRatsOfTobruk'' - focuses on [=ANZACs=] holed up in the besieged Libyan coastal town of Tobruk |
| 234 | * ''Film/{{Sahara|1943}}'' - an impromptu multi-national force of stragglers gathers around a lost American tank to defend a strategic oasis. |
| 235 | * ''Film/UnTaxiPourTobrouk'' - after the siege of Tobruk, a Free French LRDG squad journeys through enemy lines to reach Allied territory with a German prisoner. |
| 236 | * ''Film/{{Tobruk}}'' - a fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) who endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk. |
| 237 | [[/index]] |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Southeastern Europe (1941-1945)]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | The operations in Greece, Yugoslavia (which were both invaded and occupied by Germany), and the Eastern Mediterranean Theatre. The Yugoslav film industry celebrated the achievements of the Partisans, naturally. There is some overlap with the [[LaResistance Resistance]][=/=]Special Forces category (see below). |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | [[index]] |
| 245 | * ''Adriatic Sea of Fire'' |
| 246 | * ''Film/TheBattleOfNeretva'' |
| 247 | * ''The Battle of Sutjeska'' |
| 248 | * ''Boško Buha'' |
| 249 | * ''Braća po materi'' |
| 250 | * ''Literature/CaptainCorellisMandolin'' |
| 251 | * ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'' |
| 252 | ** ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone'' |
| 253 | * ''Film/InWhichWeServe'' -- A British destroyer is bombed and sunk and many of its men killed by German strafing, leading to various flashbacks depicting HowWeGotHere. |
| 254 | * ''Kozara'' |
| 255 | * ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' |
| 256 | * ''Film/{{Mediterraneo}}'': A squad of Italian soldiers winds up having a pretty good war after they get marooned on a Greek island with some attractive local women. |
| 257 | * ''Occupation in 26 Pictures'' |
| 258 | * ''The Secret Invasion'' |
| 259 | * ''Film/ShipsWithWings'' |
| 260 | * ''Silent Gunpowder'' |
| 261 | * ''Film/{{Tri}}'' -- three discrete story segments showing the experiences of a Yugoslav officer at the beginning of, during, and at the end of the war with Germany. |
| 262 | * ''Underground'' |
| 263 | * ''Walter defends Sarajevo'' |
| 264 | * ''Film/WildWind'' |
| 265 | [[/index]] |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:The Italian Front (1943-1945)]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | The invasion of Italy by the Allies, starting in 1943 after their victory over the Axis forces in North Africa. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill thought the country was the [[AchillesHeel "Soft underbelly of the crocodile"]] for the Axis, given the pitiful state of the Italian forces by that point. Unfortunately, [[YouShallNotPass German defense lines proved to be much stronger than expected]], and the country suffered from both war crimes (from both sides) and a civil war between the pro-Allies and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini's loyalists. |
| 271 | ---- |
| 272 | [[index]] |
| 273 | * ''Film/TheDevilsBrigade'' - about the joint American/Canadian commando unit the First Special Service Force and its mission to capture Monte la Difensa in December 1943. |
| 274 | * ''Film/TheFourDaysOfNaples'' - the people of Naples rise up in a spontaneous revolt against their German occupiers, in the days after the Italian surrender in September 1943. |
| 275 | * ''Film/{{Fortress|2012}}'' tells a fictional (but inspired by real events) story of Lucky Lass, a B-17 Flying Fortress as it flies in the campaign against Italy. |
| 276 | * ''Film/TheGreenDevilsOfMonteCassino'' - Follows German parachutists during the battle of Monte Cassino, in 1944. |
| 277 | * ''Film/HornetsNest'' - set in and around the fictional Italian town of Reanoto. |
| 278 | * ''[[Film/MiracleAtStAnna Miracle at St. Anna]]'', a Creator/SpikeLee joint. |
| 279 | * ''Film/OperationMincemeat'' - About the titular disinformation scheme which allowed the Allied to capture Sicily with minimal resistance |
| 280 | * ''Film/{{Paisan}}'' - six-episode anthology starting with the invasion of Sicily and going to the Po Valley fighting in December 1944. |
| 281 | * ''Film/{{Road47}}'' takes place entirely in the winter of 1944 in Italy. |
| 282 | * ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' - Torture porn at its most depraved, set in the city of the last fascist government. The fascist setting is really just an excuse for... icky stuff. |
| 283 | * ''Film/TheSecretWarOfHarryFrigg'' - Comedy about a U.S. Army private who’s sent to rescue five captured Allied generals from an Italian villa. |
| 284 | * ''Film/TwoWomen'' (''La Ciociara''). The story of an Italian woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. |
| 285 | * ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' - About a group of [=POWs=] in an Italian escaping from an Italian camp by hijacking a train to Switzerland. |
| 286 | * ''Film/AWalkInTheSun'' - From UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a war drama set in Italy and made just as the war ended. |
| 287 | * Parts of the 1982 film adaptation of ''Music/TheWall'', by Music/PinkFloyd (carrying over from the album itself). Music/RogerWaters' father died in combat in Anzio, the song "When the Tigers Broke Free" (later included on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' since 2004) is dedicated to him. |
| 288 | * ''What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?'' - A comedy that follows an outfit of U.S. soldiers assigned to capture a small village in Sicily. |
| 289 | [[/index]] |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:The Western Front (1944-1945)]] |
| 293 | |
| 294 | The fighting in Western Europe, from the "D-Day" Normandy landings in June 1944[[note]]technically, there was a botched landing attempt in Dieppe in 1942, which ended up serving as lesson to ensure the success of D-Day[[/note]] to the invasion of Western and Southern Germany and its final surrender in spring 1945. Americans had a large role, and the British, Canadians and Free French (as well as a few others) were involved, but [[AmericaWonWorldWarII they tend to be left out of US films]]. |
| 295 | ---- |
| 296 | [[index]] |
| 297 | [[AC:D-Day Landings and Battle of Normandy:]] |
| 298 | * ''Film/TheAmericanizationOfEmily'': A satire/black comedy about the high life as lived by high-ranking Navy brass in the month right before D-Day. Ends with the hero, a self-described coward, stumbling about Omaha Beach as one of the first people to land. |
| 299 | * ''Film/TheGreatEscaper'' - The true story of Bernard Jordan, a British veteran who escaped his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemorations of D-Day in 2014 to honor his fallen comrades. There are flashbacks to the events of 1944. |
| 300 | * ''Film/TheLongestDay'' - covers both the events leading up to and on the 6th of June, 1944, the longest day for both the Allied invaders and the Axis defenders. |
| 301 | * ''Film/{{Overlord|1975}}'' - follows a single British soldier, from the moment he's called up into the army at the age of 20, through his basic training, and up to June 6, 1944 when his platoon is part of the first wave of soldiers landing on Sword Beach. |
| 302 | * ''Film/{{Rommel}}'' - covers the last months of Erwin Rommel as he commands the defence of occupied France (the Atlantic Wall). |
| 303 | * ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' focuses on a squad of Rangers as they make their way through the semi-organised chaos of Operation Overlord in search of the titular Private Ryan. |
| 304 | * ''Film/StormingJuno'' - A docudrama retelling the Canadian assault of Juno Beach on D-Day |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[AC:Liberation of Paris:]] |
| 307 | * ''Film/{{Diplomacy|2014}}'' - in August 1944, a Swedish diplomat tries to persuade a German general not to destroy Paris. |
| 308 | * ''Film/IsParisBurning'' - The liberation of Paris in August 1944, focusing on the German commander resisting his orders to destroy the city while the 1st Free French Armored Division spearheads a desperate Allied drive to save their capital and the French resistance launches an insurgency. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[AC:Lorraine and Alsace Campaigns:]] |
| 311 | * ''Film/KellysHeroes'' focuses on a hodgepodge unit put together by the title character for an attempt to steal NaziGold during the Lorraine campaign. |
| 312 | * ''Film/SnowAndFire'' - Two childhood friends fight in the French Army of the Liberation in the harsh winter battles in Lorraine and Alsace in late 1944 / early 1945. |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[AC:Netherlands Campaign:]] |
| 315 | * ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' looks at the failed Allied offensive in the Netherlands, Operation Market Garden. |
| 316 | * ''Film/TheForgottenBattle'' - A Dutch film about the Battle of the Scheldt, when the Allies had to attack strong German defensive positions to gain control of the approaches to the port of Amsterdam. |
| 317 | * ''Film/TheLastDrop'' - focuses on a commando raid into the Netherlands to recover NaziGold in the backdrop of Operation Market Garden. |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[AC:Belgium and Ardennes/Bulge Campaign:]] |
| 320 | * ''Film/{{Battleground|1949}}'' depicts a company of infantrymen enduring the Siege of Bastogne. |
| 321 | * ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin |
| 322 | * ''Film/AMidnightClear'' - follows an American intelligence squad during the Battle of the Bulge, as they occupy a deserted chateau and encounter a German platoon that wishes to surrender. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[AC:Invasion of Western Germany:]] |
| 325 | * ''Film/BrassTarget'' - In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General. |
| 326 | * ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}'' - A German film about seven teenaged soldiers defending a bridge against the Americans in the last days of the war |
| 327 | * ''Film/TheBridgeAtRemagen'' - A fictionalized version of the capture of the last standing bridge over the Rhine River in March 1945. |
| 328 | * ''Film/TheCaptain'' - The true story of war criminal UsefulNotes/WilliHerold. |
| 329 | * ''Film/{{Fury|2014}}'' - follows the crew of the namesake [=M4A3 Sherman=] tank during the advance of the US forces into Germany in early 1945. |
| 330 | * ''Film/HellIsForHeroes'' - a squad on the Siegfried Line bluffs a German pillbox into thinking they are a much larger force. |
| 331 | * ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'' - BasedOnATrueStory film about a unit of art experts in the army tasked with protecting and rescuing plundered art from the Nazis. |
| 332 | * ''Film/WhenTrumpetsFade'', set in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[AC:Others:]] |
| 335 | * ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' - the second half of the film follows the US First Infantry Division during their campaign through Western Europe. |
| 336 | * ''Film/{{The Bunker|2001}}'' - horror film about a group of retreating German soldiers taking refuge in an abandoned bunker and find themselves haunted by dark figures as they try to retain order. |
| 337 | * ''Film/{{Days of Glory|2006}}'' focuses on North Africans fighting for the Free French, first in Italy, then for the bulk of the film on the Western Front in France. |
| 338 | * ''Film/DecisionBeforeDawn'' - American intellligence unit recruits German prisoners to turn spy and filter back into German lines to gather intelligence. |
| 339 | * ''Film/{{Patton}}'' - follows [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin General Patton]]. |
| 340 | * ''Film/TheVictors'' follows one U.S. squadron through Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. |
| 341 | [[/index]] |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:East Asia and the Pacific Front (1941-1945)]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | Most of the works here focus on the American and Japanese part in UsefulNotes/TheFarEast, although Commonwealth forces also played a major role (primarily the ANZAC forces, for obvious reasons). Films about the Australian and New Zealand war efforts started appearing with the rise of those country's film industries, the relative lack of British films on the subject is probably due to the European theater being much important in the minds of most people at the time (celebrities like Music/VeraLynn felt British troops in Asia were neglected in the public opinion and visited them, Burma in her case). |
| 347 | |
| 348 | Only recently have films dealing with the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar started to appear, unsurprisingly given the delicate politics of the matter. |
| 349 | |
| 350 | Think partisan warfare, big naval battles (most famously Midway and Guadalcanal), JungleWarfare, beach landings, starving civilians, and the inconsistent (mis)treatment of non-combatants. |
| 351 | ---- |
| 352 | [[index]] |
| 353 | [[AC:American Point of View:]] |
| 354 | * ''Film/AwayAllBoats'': Jeff Chandler (not John Wayne) as a John Wayne/Vince Lombardi-type of Navy Captain, this time about one of the amphibious assault ships that the U.S. Navy invented out of whole cloth in order to prosecute the Pacific War. |
| 355 | * ''Film/{{Bataan}}'' |
| 356 | * ''Film/{{Battle Cry|1955}}'': Covers the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. |
| 357 | * ''Film/TheBattleOfMidway'': John Ford's famous documentary short (18 minutes) about the battle, including live combat footage taken by Ford and an assistant cameraman on Midway atoll on June 4, 1942. |
| 358 | * ''[[Film/CrusadeInThePacificAmericaGoesToWar Crusade In The Pacific: America Goes to War]]'', an early (1951) 24 episode documentary serial that is surprisingly FairForItsDay with relatively little of the racism, jingoism and triumphalism that mar other works of the period and not, despite the title, focused entirely on the US war effort. Covers both the prewar era and the postwar occupation, but does not cover the fire raids or the Soviet Union's last-minute contribution, perhaps because the Korean War was going on at the time. Useful if you're looking for coverage of some of the less ballyhooed aspects of the Pacific war, like the ANZAC campaign to liberate Indonesia. It even contains surprisingly sympathetic views of the causes and rise of Japanese militarism and Indonesia's postwar anti-colonialism. |
| 359 | * ''Film/CryHavoc'': Army nurses on Bataan during the doomed defense of the peninsula in 1942. |
| 360 | * ''Film/DestinationTokyo'': An American sub goes on a reconnaissance mission in Japanese home waters. |
| 361 | * ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'': The life of a boy living in the British concession in Shanghai, and then a POW camp. |
| 362 | * ''Film/FatherGoose'': 1960s romcom involving the adventures of Creator/CaryGrant as an unwilling coast watcher. |
| 363 | * ''Film/TheFightingLady'': A documentary filmed in color, and made DuringTheWar, featuring life aboard an ''Essex''-class class carrier, the USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-10). |
| 364 | * ''Film/TheFightingSeabees'': Another John Wayne propaganda film about some of the unsung heroes of World War II, the US Navy Construction Battalions ("CB" - get it?) who managed to build airfields, bases and port facilities across the Pacific much faster than anyone believed possible prior to the war. |
| 365 | * ''Literature/TheFivePeopleYouMeetInHeaven'': Only partially takes place during UsefulNotes/WW2. The protagonist Eddie fights in the Philippines. |
| 366 | * ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'': The lives of the flag-raisers in the famous photo of [[IwoJimaPose raising the flag]] upon Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Received a POVSequel, ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima''. |
| 367 | * ''[[Film/FrancisTheTalkingMule Francis]]'': Second Lieutenant Peter Sterling (Donald O'Connor) is caught behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II. Francis, a talking Army mule (voiced by Chill Wills), carries him to safety. When Sterling insists that the animal rescued him, he is placed in a psychiatric ward. Each time Sterling is released, he accomplishes something noteworthy (at the instigation of Francis), and each time he is sent back to the psych ward when he insists on crediting the talking mule. |
| 368 | * ''Film/TheGreatRaid'': about the raid at the Japanese POW camp near the Philippine city of Cabanatuan. |
| 369 | * ''Film/GuadalcanalDiary'' - made during the war, based on a 1943 memoir. |
| 370 | * ''Film/HacksawRidge'', the true story of conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss, who saved saving the lives of over 75 of his comrades during the Battle of Okinawa. |
| 371 | * ''Film/TheHastyHeart'', a group of allied soldiers in hospital at the end of the war befriend a dying man so that he can spend his last days with friends. |
| 372 | * ''Film/HeavenKnowsMrAllison'', about a U.S. Marine and an Irish nun who find themselves stranded on a Japanese-occupied island. |
| 373 | * ''Film/HellInThePacific:'' Two servicemen -- one American, one Japanese -- form an unexpected bond while stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. |
| 374 | * ''Film/InHarmsWay'': Following the exploits of a group of American naval officers in Hawaii during the early part of the war. The last Creator/JohnWayne film produced in black and white. |
| 375 | * ''Film/InLoveAndWar1958'': Follows the war's effects on three U.S. Marines in the Pacific and their families back home. |
| 376 | * ''Film/{{Midway|1976}}'' (1976): About the turning point of the Pacific war, notable for lacking a special effects budget and using mostly StockFootage, though still surprisingly good. |
| 377 | * ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}'' (2019): A more modern retelling of the battle by Creator/RolandEmmerich. |
| 378 | * ''Film/MisterRoberts'': About one of the most essential but also most monotonous and least glamorous parts of the war, the men who served on the cargo ships far behind the fighting. |
| 379 | * ''[[Film/TheMissionOfTheShark The Mission of the Shark]]'', a [=TV=] movie, - tells the story of the [=U.S.S.=] Indianapolis, which after having delivered the atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, it was sunk by a Japanese submarine, and because of the top secret nature of its mission, the survivors were left floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to be devowered by sharks until only a handful were left alive when rescue finally arrived. |
| 380 | * ''Film/NeverSoFew'': An American OSS officer and a handful of American men lead a squad of Kachin natives, behind enemy lines in Burma, fighting the Japanese. |
| 381 | * ''Film/ObjectiveBurma'' - controversial at the time as Australian Errol Flynn leads a group of US army soldiers on a raid in Burma, leading to some of the first British complaints about AmericaWonWorldWarII as Burma was a wholly British Commonwealth theater. |
| 382 | * ''Film/OperationPetticoat'' - 1958 comedy starring Cary Grant as a submarine captain trying to escape the Philippines at the beginning of the war with a broke-down sub loaded with Army nurses and Filipino civilians—[[ItMakesSenseInContext and the sub is painted bright pink]]. HilarityEnsues. |
| 383 | * ''Film/PearlHarbor'' - A love triangle drama in addition to the battle as well as the Doolittle Raid, with a very brief foray into the the Battle of Britain. Notable for its many inaccuracies. |
| 384 | * ''Film/{{PT109}}'' - about the wartime exploits of future US President John F Kennedy. |
| 385 | * ''Film/ReportFromTheAleutians'': Creator/JohnHuston's propaganda documentary about a forgotten part of the Pacific war, namely, the Aleutian Islands campaign. |
| 386 | * ''Film/RunSilentRunDeep'': Submarine warfare off the Japanese home islands. |
| 387 | * ''[[Film/SandsOfIwoJima Sands of Iwo Jima]]'' - John Wayne propaganda film |
| 388 | * ''Film/SoProudlyWeHail'': Much like ''Film/CryHavoc'' above, this film is about Red Cross nurses in the Philippines. |
| 389 | * ''Film/SouthPacific''- Set mid-war, after the southern islands had become a backwater. |
| 390 | * ''Film/SubmarineCommand'' |
| 391 | * ''Film/TheyWereExpendable'' - John Ford directs John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in this movie about PT Boats of the Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines in 1941-42. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn’t end well]], though it at least gets a BittersweetEnding for the leads. |
| 392 | * ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' - about a squad of US Army soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign, although the title is an allegorical reference to a small Scottish force in the Crimean War. |
| 393 | * ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' - the story of the Doolittle Raid. |
| 394 | * ''Film/ToraToraTora'' - An acclaimed joint US/Japanese production that depicts the Pearl Harbor attack from both sides. |
| 395 | * ''Film/USSIndianapolisMenOfCourage'': Revolves around the infamous sinking of Heavy Cruiser USS ''Indianapolis'' (CA-35) by Japanese Submarine ''I-58'', and the 5-day ordeal of her surviving crew members in shark-infested waters. |
| 396 | * ''Film/TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'': Two men man the ''USS Echo'' (a sailboat) alongside a fairly (at first) incompetent crew as they sail to Japan in hopes of studying enemy tactics. |
| 397 | * ''Film/WakeIsland'' is about that island and the 400 doomed Marines defending it from the Japanese in December 1941. |
| 398 | * ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'' - focuses on a group of Amerindians trained as signalmen because their language is entirely unknown outside the U.S. |
| 399 | * ''Film/TheWolverine'': The movie starts with a flashback when Nagasaki was about to be bombed. |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[AC:Australian Point of View]] |
| 402 | * ''Film/AttackForceZ'' - A fictionalised depiction of the exploits of the Z Special Unit. |
| 403 | * ''Film/{{Australia}}'' - Features a fictionalised version of the Japanese bombing of Darwin in February 1942. |
| 404 | * ''Film/{{Kokoda}}'' - Australian soldiers in New Guinea. |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[AC:British Point of View:]] |
| 407 | * ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' - focuses on British [=POWs=] put to work on the notorious "Railroad of Death" in Burma. |
| 408 | * ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' - focuses on a British missionary in China; ends with the beginning of the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar |
| 409 | * ''Film/ATownLikeAlice'': adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel about British civilian prisoners of the Japanese in Mayla (based on real-world events surrounding a group of Dutch women.) |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[AC:Chinese Point of View:]] |
| 412 | * ''Film/CityOfLifeAndDeath'' - Aka 'Nanjing, Nanjing', focuses on the aftermath of the Battle of Shanghai and the pacification of the lower Yangtze. |
| 413 | * ''Film/FlowersOfWar'' - About the Rape of Nanking, as witnessed by an American. |
| 414 | * ''Film/FortGraveyard'' - A rare example of a film focusing on Japan vs. Manchurian China. |
| 415 | * ''Film/GunBrothers'' - One of the earlier Shaw examples. |
| 416 | * ''Film/HeroesOfTheUnderground'' - Creator/ShawBrothers biopic about Ding Yi-shan, legendary IconOfRebellion during the Sino-Japanese war. |
| 417 | * ''Film/LadyFromChungking'' - Creator/AnnaMayWong plays a Chinese woman, leading a secret resistance cell behind Japanese lines. Her LaResistance group hides a downed American fighter pilot, and Wong's character flirts with a Japanese general in order to get intel about a Japanese offensive. |
| 418 | * ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' - not purely a World War II movie, it focuses on Puyi, the eponymous "last emperor" of China and only emperor of Manchukuo, a puppet state the Japanese established in UsefulNotes/{{Manchuria}} from 1931 to 1945. |
| 419 | * ''Film/LustCaution'' - focuses on the Japanese occupation of China and local Chinese resistance. |
| 420 | * ''Film/TheNavalCommandos'' - set in the Sino-Japanese war, a group of Chinese hooligans volunteers to infiltrate and destroy an otherwise impenetrable Japanese aircraft carrier. |
| 421 | * ''Film/PurpleSunset'' - an anti-war film released in 2001 that details about a Chinese farmer, a Soviet soldier, and Japanese schoolgirl together lost in the Manchurian forest during the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria. |
| 422 | * ''Film/SevenManArmy'' - The unofficial Creator/ShawBrothers remake of ''Film/CrossOfIron'', on '''steroids'''. A platoon of seven Chinese soldiers defends their fort from an invading army of 20,000 Japanese soldiers and holds the invaders off for an entire week, before they're finally defeated. The movie ends with the Japanese forces retreating ''out of respect''. |
| 423 | * ''Film/SonsOfTheGoodEarth'' - a pair of StarCrossedLovers in 1937 China gets caught in the Japanese invasion. One of the higher-budgeted films made by Shaw Brothers during the mid-60s, with a lengthy BigBadassBattleSequence (some 15 minutes long!) capping the end. |
| 424 | * ''Film/TheEightHundred'' - During the Battle of Shangai, Eight Hundred Chinese soldiers valiantly defend a Warehouse near the Shanghai International Settlement, in face of overwhelming Japanese numerical superiority. |
| 425 | * ''[[Film/TheSinoJapaneseWarAtSea1894 The Sino Japanese War At Sea 1894]]'', a war biopic based on the life of Manchurian Admiral [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Shichang Deng Shi-chang]] and his war against the Japanese navy. |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[AC:French Point of View:]] |
| 428 | * ''Film/LesDerniersHommes'': A handful of Foreign Legion soldiers go on a perilous 200 kilometers journey on foot to escape the Japanese troops that invaded [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchColonialEmpire French Indochina]] (UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}}) on March 9, 1945. |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[AC:Japanese Point of View:]] |
| 431 | * ''Film/BattleOfOkinawa'': A Japanese film about the battle itself from Japanese POV. |
| 432 | * ''Film/TheEmperorInAugust'': A 2015 film about the Japanese government in the last chaotic days of the war, August 1945, as Hirohito resolves on surrender and junior officers respond by mounting a coup |
| 433 | ** ''Film/JapansLongestDay'': A 1967 film with an AllStarCast dramatizing the exact same events |
| 434 | * ''Film/FiresOnThePlain'': Disorganized remnants of the IJA undergo terrible suffering on Leyte in the Philippines, February 1945. |
| 435 | * ''Film/TheHumanCondition'' - A socialist-leaning Japanese contractor in Manchuria starts to realize his country may be the bad guys...[[FromBadToWorse it got worse]]. Also includes the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, a subject rarely dramatized. |
| 436 | * ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' - POVSequel to ''Flags of Our Fathers'' showing the Battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. |
| 437 | * ''Anime/MomotarosSeaEagles'' (1943): A fictionalized 37-minute short film where the classic Peach Boy and his animal companions bomb the Oni Island (Pearl Harbor). |
| 438 | * ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' (1945): A full length (74 minutes) sequel to ''Sea Eagles'' where the Peach Boy and his companions build a sea base and paradrop onto Oni island (which is either Singapore or Hong Kong). |
| 439 | * ''Film/{{Yamato}}'': The last two combat missions of the IJN ''Yamato'': the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the doomed Operation ''Ten-Go''. |
| 440 | * ''Film/{{Zero|1984}}'': a film focusing on the development, testing and ultimate failure of the Zero fighter plane in aerial combat. |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[AC:Filipino Point of View:]] |
| 443 | * ''Theatre/APortraitOfTheArtistAsFilipino'': Originally a theatre production but released in two film versions: a 1965 DeliberatelyMonochrome English version and the 2017 full-colour Tagalog ''Ang Larawan'', both concerning an ImpoverishedPatrician family and their heirloom house and art, in Intramuros, the Philippine colonial capital, getting ready for war by scheduling rolling blackouts among other things. |
| 444 | * ''Film/OroPlataMata'': Depicts oligarchic families from Negros, in the Visayas region in the central Philippines, whose lives and wealth are disrupted by the Japanese invasion. |
| 445 | * ''Film/YamashitaTheTigersTreasure'': 2001 Philippine film depicting the Japanese occupation of the country in flashbacks and the film centers around the eponymous urban legend. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[AC:Korean Point of View:]] |
| 448 | * ''Film/TheBattleshipIsland'': A group of 400 Koreans, Forced to work on the Mines of Hashima Island, attempt a daring escape from their Japanese captors. |
| 449 | |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | [[/index]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | [[folder:The Air War (1940-1945)]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | In which the two sides of the war try to bomb each other into submission. A fair chunk of these are British and a number are based on true stories. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront The Blitz]], which followed the Battle of Britain, was a German attempt to bomb the UK into surrendering, which didn't really work. The Battle of Britain had been a close run thing, as the British had spent much of the 1930s not investing in their fighter force as they had believed "the bomber will always get through". It took UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill to persuade them otherwise- the Spitfire and the Hurricane arriving just in time. The Blitz was at its peak during 1940-1941 and 1944-1945, the latter mostly using V1 and V2 missiles. There were still attacks on the United Kingdom in-between, but Germany's resources were focused on the Eastern Front at the time. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | While the actions of the Allied bombing missions in Germany have been subject to quite a bit of historical debate (although there were legitimate industrial targets in German cities, the bombing of German civilians did not have the planned effect of destroying German industry or morale- it simply made them more resolved, much like what had happened during the Blitz), it should be noted that these bombing raids were very dangerous for British airmen. They flew at night, unlike the USAAF (US Army Air Force) who did the day missions. Of every 100 airmen, 55 on average would end up dead. The issue of not awarding separate medals for the British Bomber Command crews (who got the Air Crew Europe star that everyone else who flew over Europe did) is raised from time to time. |
| 460 | |
| 461 | This is not to say that the USAAF had it any better. Flying by day meant they had a monstrously high casualty rate, particularly before P-51s were available for long range escort. There was a policy of "25 and out". Once an airman had done 25 missions, his war was over. The ball turret gunner, despite not having a parachute close to hand and being exposed to ground fire, wasn't actually that dangerous, relatively speaking. Just unpleasant, as they ended up doing somersaults in a tiny, cold, plexiglass and metal ball looking at a really long drop. The 25 got upped to 30 and then 35. The average crew got shot down around the [[ShootTheShaggyDog 20th mission]]. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | The Air War in the Pacific has received comparatively less attention, even though the scope and nature of the Pacific theater meant that air power played an even larger role there than it did in Europe. The strategic bombing campaign against Japan in particular has not received much attention, perhaps because it's difficult to portray massive fire raids against civilians in a heroic light. Even those who participated rarely considered it to be anything more than a [[NecessarilyEvil necessary evil]]. |
| 464 | ---- |
| 465 | [[index]] |
| 466 | * ''Literature/SixThreeThreeSquadron'': AirstrikeImpossible against a heavily defended German rocket fuel factory. |
| 467 | * ''Theatre/AliceByHeart'': The framing scenes are set during the 1941 London Blitz. |
| 468 | * ''Film/BattleOfBritain'': The RAF during the desperate days at the height of [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront The Blitz]]. |
| 469 | * ''Literature/TheBigOne'' |
| 470 | * ''Film/CaptainsOfTheClouds'': Canadian bush pilots attempt to join the Royal Canadian Air Force as fighter pilots after hearing Churchill's call to arms. Notable for being the first major Hollywood production filmed entirely in Canada. |
| 471 | * ''Film/CarryOnEngland'': AwfulBritishSexComedy set in a mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery regiment. |
| 472 | * ''Film/CatchTwentyTwo'': A very dark BlackComedy set in the Mediterranean campaign. |
| 473 | * ''Film/TheDamBusters'': Based on a true story about an elite air unit attempting a dangerous bombing mission on a major German dam. |
| 474 | * ''Film/DesperateJourney'': Well, sort of about the air war. The story involves an RAF bomber grew that gets shot down over Germany and then goes on a, yes, desperate journey across Germany. |
| 475 | * ''Film/TheGerman'' |
| 476 | * ''Film/AGuyNamedJoe'': Deals with both the European and Pacific air wars. |
| 477 | * ''Film/IntoTheWhite'': A German and a British plane are shot down during a dog fight and the crews cooperate to survive in the Norwegian mountains. |
| 478 | * ''Film/LondonCanTakeIt'': 1940 documentary short showing a real German bombing raid on London, with firefighting efforts as well as a look at damage the next day. |
| 479 | * ''Film/MemphisBelle'' |
| 480 | * ''Film/MosquitoSquadron'' |
| 481 | * ''Film/OperationCrossbow'': Follows British efforts to spy on the Nazis' rocket production and make them vulnerable to bombings as the Nazi rockets hit London again and again. A group of soldiers with mechanical skills are recruited to pose as collaborating scientists and infiltrate the rocket project in Germany. |
| 482 | * ''Film/PassageToMarseille'': An odd example since the FramingDevice that begins and ends the film involves a Free French bomber squadron based in England, but the middle part of the film involves a bunch of prisoners in French Guiana trying to escape to join the war effort. |
| 483 | * ''Film/ReachForTheSky'': Biopic of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, a double amputee who became flying ace. |
| 484 | * ''Film/RedTails'': Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} finally gives the Tuskeegee Airmen the patriotic war movie they deserve a half-century after the war. |
| 485 | * ''Film/ShadowInTheCloud'' |
| 486 | * ''Film/TheTuskegeeAirmen'': An earlier and arguably less patriotic take on the same subject as ''Red Tails'': Elite African American fighter pilots who are subjected to racism while fighting for their country. |
| 487 | * ''Film/TwelveOClockHigh'': The US 8th Air Force's daylight bombing campaign. |
| 488 | [[/index]] |
| 489 | * ''Victory Through Air Power'': Disney WartimeCartoon (yes, Disney) that explains the vital role of airpower in modern warfare. |
| 490 | * ''The War Lover'': examines what it takes to be an AcePilot: is he a hero, or a psychopath? |
| 491 | * ''The Way To The Stars'' surveys the entire western European air war as the protagonist progresses from NewMeat RAF bomber pilot to a ground controller supporting both the British and American air forces. |
| 492 | [[/index]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | Though less common, there are several movies about the Air War in the Pacific: |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[index]] |
| 497 | * ''Film/AirForce'' - one of the earliest examples, a 1942 film about a B-17 bomber crew travelling to the Philippines in December 1941, passing through Hawaii on the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. |
| 498 | * ''Film/FlyingTigers'' -- 1942 propaganda film with John Wayne about the American mercenary air force defending China. |
| 499 | * ''The Flying Leathernecks'' -- John Wayne yet again! |
| 500 | * ''God Is My Copilot'' - About the Flying Tigers |
| 501 | * ''Film/PearlHarbor'' -- Features the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. |
| 502 | * ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' -- All about the Doolittle Raid. John Wayne somehow missed this one. |
| 503 | [[/index]] |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:The Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)]] |
| 507 | |
| 508 | In which the German submarines (U-Boote) try to starve Britain into submission and stop equipment from getting to the Allies. The subs (on both sides) are hot, cramped and nasty. In fact, calling them submarines is slightly inaccurate, considering that most of their time was spent on the surface. |
| 509 | |
| 510 | This campaign started pretty much on day one of the war, making it the longest battle in human history. A German U-boat mistook a passenger liner running without lights for an armed merchant ship... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Athenia You get the idea]]. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | Three-quarters of those who went out in the U-Boote did not return. This was a result of a combination of the Allies' refining their convoy system and its defences, as well as simply producing more ships, both cargo and fighting types, than the U-Boats could sink and thus were overwhelmed. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | [[index]] |
| 515 | * ''Film/ActionInTheNorthAtlantic'' -- a tribute to the Merchant Marine, the civilian crews who had to sail the ships that carried the supplies that sustained the allied effort in WWII. Starring Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/RaymondMassey. [[/index]] |
| 516 | * ''Crash Dive'' [[index]] |
| 517 | * ''Film/{{Below}}'' -- A psychological horror film set aboard an American sub on patrol in the Atlantic. |
| 518 | * ''Film/DasBoot''-- A German movie from the U-boat crews' perspective: "hunters" who are actually the hunted and not likely to survive in any case. |
| 519 | * ''Literature/TheCruelSea'' -- film version of the novel by Nicholas Monserrat, about the crew of a British corvette escorting convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic. |
| 520 | * ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'' -- An American destroyer escort and a German U-boat duel on the high seas. Inspired the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]". |
| 521 | * ''Enigma'' |
| 522 | * ''Film/{{Greyhound}}'' -- A feature film about an American captain's (Creator/TomHanks) first convoy command in 1942 and being targeted by German U-Boats. |
| 523 | * ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'' -- A half-live action/half-animated comedy starring Creator/DonKnotts as a wimpy accountant who [[TransformationFiction transforms]] into a talking fish with powers he uses to help the US Navy locate and destroy U-boats. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really]]. |
| 524 | * ''Film/{{Lifeboat}}'' -- An Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie made in 1943 about the survivors of a sunken merchant ship who are trapped in the titular lifeboat with the U-Boat captain who sank them. |
| 525 | * ''Film/TheLongVoyageHome'' -- Merchant sailors taking military supplies to England while German U-boats prowled the Atlantic. Made prior to the American entry into the war. |
| 526 | * ''Film/MurphysWar'' A British ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat while conducting patrols in the rivers of South America. The submariners murder most of the UK survivors at the conclusion of the battle, but one man survives to seek revenge |
| 527 | * ''Film/{{U571}}''--an American movie that caused outrage in Britain due to showing the first captured Enigma machine to be recovered by an [[HollywoodHistory American submarine crew]]. |
| 528 | * ''We Dive at Dawn'' -- A British movie made in 1942, set on a British submarine. |
| 529 | |
| 530 | The early years of the war in the Atlantic also saw some combat between surface ships, in particular the raids of the German battleships ''Admiral Graf Spee'' and the (in)famous ''Bismarck''. |
| 531 | |
| 532 | * ''The Battle of the River Plate'' |
| 533 | * ''Film/SinkTheBismarck!'' |
| 534 | * ''The Sea Chase'' |
| 535 | * ''Film/UnderTenFlags'', a fictionalised account of the hunt for the commerce raider ''Atlantis''. |
| 536 | [[/folder]] |
| 537 | |
| 538 | [[folder:Resistance Movements (1939-1945)]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | The most famous is arguably the French Resistance (TropeNamer of LaResistance), but the other movements throughout Europe, most notably Greeks, Yugoslavs, Soviets and Poles, were very effective in their respective countries too. The German Resistance is also portrayed for their valiant, though eventually futile due to their small numbers and lack of support, attempt to save Germany from Hitler's rule. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | [[index]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | * ''Film/TheTwelfthMan'': The film chronicles the true story of Jan Baalsrud, a British-trained Norwegian resistance fighter who is trapped in occupied territory after a failed sabotage mission. He struggles to make it from Norway to neutral Sweden while struggling with frostbite. He relies on the help of local patriots and {{Good Samaritan}}s. |
| 545 | * ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'': Dramatic film showing the work of a French Resistance unit. Directed by an actual veteran of the Resistance, Creator/JeanPierreMelville. |
| 546 | * ''Film/BlackBook'' |
| 547 | * ''Film/{{Canaris}}'': A drama about Wilhelm Canaris opposing the Nazis from his position as chief of the Abwehr and executed for hispart in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler. |
| 548 | * ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' |
| 549 | * ''Film/CharlotteGray'' |
| 550 | * ''Film/ComeAndSee'': Belarusian partisans fight SS Einsatzgruppen. |
| 551 | * ''Film/{{Defiance}}'': About the Bielski Partisans, a group of Jews who hid in the Belorussian forests and fought the Nazis and local peasant collaborators |
| 552 | * ''Film/EscapeToAthena'': Greek resistance and [=POWs=] conspire against Nazis. |
| 553 | * ''Film/FlameAndCitron'': About the Danish Resistance. |
| 554 | * ''Film/AGeneration'': About a cell of young Communist guerillas in occupied Warsaw, 1942-1943. |
| 555 | * ''Film/{{Kanal}}'': The Warsaw Uprising in which the Polish Home Army fought against the Germans in occupied Warsaw in 1944. |
| 556 | * ''Film/AManEscaped'': About a French Resistance officer who has to escape from a Gestapo prison before he's executed. |
| 557 | * ''Film/MaxManus'': Norway's answer to ''Flame and Citron''. |
| 558 | * ''Film/MenWithoutWings'': A Czech resistance group, operating out of an aircraft factory, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Lidice massacre. |
| 559 | * ''Film/OperationValkyrie'': German film about a group of German officers trying to assassinate Hitler. |
| 560 | * ''Film/PimpernelSmith'' |
| 561 | * ''Film/TheRedMeadows'': The Danish resistance blows up a German factory, but two of their guys get arrested. |
| 562 | * ''Film/RescuersStoriesOfCourage'' |
| 563 | * ''Film/{{Resistance|2020}}'': The resistant life of Marcel Mangel (later known as mime Marcel Marceau). Overlaps with Holocaust as Marcel was Jewish and witnessed deportations. |
| 564 | * ''Film/RomeOpenCity'': An Italian resistance cell in Rome during the Aug. 1943-June 1944 German occupation. |
| 565 | * ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': Paul Verhoeven's first film about the Netherlands during WWII. |
| 566 | * ''[[Film/SophieSchollTheFinalDays Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage]]'', about several members of the German resistance (against the Nazi regime, that is). |
| 567 | * ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity'' is an excellent documentary about both the French Resistance and the [[LesCollaborateurs Vichy regime]] that they opposed. |
| 568 | * ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'' |
| 569 | * ''Film/TheTrain'': About a group of French resistance fighters trying to stop a train filled with art treasures from leaving the country as the Germans retreat. |
| 570 | * ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'': American film about a group of German officers trying to assassinate Hitler. |
| 571 | * ''Film/LeVieuxFusil'' |
| 572 | * ''Film/WeLeaveForEngland'' follows Norwegian resistance fighters in their flight from the Gestapo. |
| 573 | * ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' |
| 574 | * ''Film/WildWind'' |
| 575 | * ''Winter in Wartime'' (''Oorlogswinter'') |
| 576 | [[/index]] |
| 577 | * Many local Yugoslav movies, some of the more famous being: ''The Battle of Sutjeska'', ''The Battle of Neretva'', ''Raid on Drvar'' and ''Walter Defends Sarajevo''. All involve the Yugoslav (communist-led resistance) fighting versus various Axis forces. Most were rather akin to Italian [[SpaghettiWestern Spaghetti Westerns]] [[RecycledInSpace recycled in the WW2-era Balkans]]. Movies made in the last 10-15 years of Yugoslavia sometimes had a much darker tone, focusing on topics like atrocities, betrayal and trying to survive what was effectively a civil war. A good example of this kind of movie is ''Occupation in 26 pictures''. |
| 578 | [[/folder]] |
| 579 | |
| 580 | [[folder:Special Forces and Spies (1939-1945)]] |
| 581 | |
| 582 | Films about various small forces carrying out special missions involving sabotage, [[SpyFiction spying]] or assassinations, most prominently coming from the Allied side. Outside of AlternateHistory, {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler, this is the genre where [[ArtisticLicenseHistory historical events tends to take a backseat the most]] to focus on flashy and sometimes glamorous action. |
| 583 | ---- |
| 584 | [[AC:Historical Operations:]] |
| 585 | [[index]] |
| 586 | * ''Film/CarveHerNameWithPride'': Loosely based on the true story a French-English SOE agent serving in occupied France. |
| 587 | * ''Film/TheCatcherWasASpy'': About Major League Baseball catcher Moe Berg, who went to work for the UsefulNotes/{{OSS}} monitoring the Germans' efforts to develop an atomic bomb. |
| 588 | * ''Film/CounterfeitTraitor'': An American-born Swedish oilman agrees to spy for the Allies. |
| 589 | * ''Film/{{Enigma|2001}}'': Fictionalized account of British codebreakers trying to crack a cipher to track U-boat movements. |
| 590 | * ''Film/FemaleAgents'': Women who were recruited by the [[UsefulNotes/{{SOE}} British Special Operations Executive (SOE)]]. |
| 591 | * ''Film/{{Five Fingers|1952}}'': Loosely based on the real exploits of Agent Cicero spying for the Germans in neutral Turkey. |
| 592 | * ''The Heroes of Telemark'': About the Norwegian heavy water sabotage. |
| 593 | * ''Film/TheManWhoNeverWas'': Slightly fictionalized account of "Operation Mincemeat", the succesful attempt of British intelligence to deceive the Wehrmacht into thinking that the planned Allied invasion of Sicily would actually take place elsewhere. |
| 594 | * ''Film/TheMinistryOfUngentlemanlyWarfare'': Fictionalization of the debuts of the UsefulNotes/{{SOE}} led by Gus March-Phillipps. |
| 595 | * ''Film/OperationCrossbow'': Offers a fictionalized account of the [[OperationBlank titular Allied espionage operation]] to hinder the German development and use of long-range weapons. |
| 596 | |
| 597 | [[AC:Fictional Operations:]] |
| 598 | * ''Film/ThirtySixHours1965'' concerns a German attempt to find out the date and place of the D-Day landings by means of an elaborate deception. |
| 599 | * ''Film/AcrossThePacific'': A Japanese spy operation to destroy the Panama Canal, timed to coincide with the attack on Pearl Harbor, foiled by Creator/HumphreyBogart. |
| 600 | * ''Film/AirRaidWardens'': A very silly Creator/LaurelAndHardy movie where Stan and Ollie join the local Civil Defense patrol, and wind up foiling a plot by German spies to blow up the local magnesium plant. |
| 601 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTartu'': A British Captain is sent undercover into occupied Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the gas plant where it being manufactured. |
| 602 | * ''Film/AllThroughTheNight'': A German spy operation to sink a battleship in New York harbor, foiled by Creator/HumphreyBogart. |
| 603 | * ''Film/{{Allied}}'': A romance-thriller about an RCAF intelligence officer and a French resistance fighter, who is accused of being part of LesCollaborateurs. |
| 604 | * ''Film/AtlanticWall'': French comedy in which a peaceful French restaurant owner finds himself in possession of German [=V1=] flying bombs launching pads plans. He brings them to the Allies in London and reluctantly takes part to a secret assassination plot on the eve of D-Day. |
| 605 | * ''Film/CommandosStrikeAtDawn'': A Norwegian fisherman escapes to England, and then guides a commando raid on a German base in his hometown. |
| 606 | * ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' |
| 607 | * ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'': About a German commando unit infiltrating the English countryside to assassinate UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. |
| 608 | * ''Film/EyeOfTheNeedle'' - A Nazi spy discovers the Allies are pulling a king-sized fast one with Operation Fortitude on Germany to hide the true invasion destination for D-Day. |
| 609 | * ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'': PropagandaPiece about a fictionalized plot to kill Hitler. |
| 610 | * ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' |
| 611 | * ''Film/ISeeADarkStranger'': A feisty young woman gets in over her head when she gets mixed up with German spies trying to find out the location of the D-Day landings. |
| 612 | * ''Film/JourneyIntoFear'': An American naval engineer, returning home from Turkey by ship, is pursed by Nazi agents. |
| 613 | * ''Film/MinistryOfFear'' |
| 614 | * ''Film/NorthernPursuit'': A German submarine lands some commandos in the frozen Canadian north; the commandos set out to find a hidden plane, which they will use to bomb a crucial waterway. |
| 615 | * ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' |
| 616 | [[/index]] |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Prisoners of War (1940-1945)]] |
| 620 | |
| 621 | Germans ''generally'' respected the Geneva Conventions with regards to US, UK and French [=POWs=], although by the end of the war when almost everyone was on the verge of starvation they were seriously considering throwing the Conventions out of the window with the Allied bombing raids as the excuse. |
| 622 | |
| 623 | Geneva had never so much as been in the building when it came to the treatment of Slavic peoples by Germans - captured Red Army soldiers usually ended up as slaves or starved in death camps at best. And assuming they actually survived to be liberated their treatment upon returning home was frequently ''nearly as bad'' since Stalin's Soviet Union practiced YouHaveFailedMe on a massive scale and shuttled them directly from German prison camps to Siberian labor camps where they served, ironically enough, alongside the German prisoners of war the Soviets belatedly (and sometimes never) got around to releasing. The last German and ''Volkdeutsche'' prisoners to be released came back in the 1950s. |
| 624 | |
| 625 | Conversely, the Allied POW camps, especially American and Canadian ones, kept to the Geneva Conventions so well that they became famous for being often more comfortable to Axis prisoners than their own side's barracks. This proved surprisingly beneficial for the Allies: the prisoners generally refrained from causing trouble, were more inclined to cooperate with interrogators and work details outside like on local farms, encouraged surrenders of the enemy and was excellent propaganda to the civilians of Allied nations that they were on the side of the good guys in that war. A number of repatriated Italian (and even some German) ex POW later emigrated back to the US and Canada, a testament both to the treatment they received and the relative lack of opportunity at home. |
| 626 | |
| 627 | You did ''not'' want to be prisoner of the Japanese, as they considered surrendering as a shameful and degrading thing. Slave work, executions, torture and starvation were widespread, with also some infamous cases of experimentations on humans. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | [[index]] |
| 630 | * ''Film/TheBeastInHeat'' |
| 631 | * ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' |
| 632 | * ''Film/TheBrylcreemBoys'': Depicts combatants from both sides in a POW camp in neutral Ireland. |
| 633 | * ''Film/TheCaptiveHeart'' |
| 634 | * ''Film/TheColditzStory'' |
| 635 | * ''Film/TheCowAndI'' |
| 636 | * ''The Cross of Lorraine'' |
| 637 | * ''Film/EscapeToVictory'' |
| 638 | * ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' |
| 639 | * ''Film/HartsWar'' |
| 640 | * ''[[Literature/AsianSaga King Rat]]'' |
| 641 | * ''Film/LandOfMine'': Danish-German film about young German [=POWs=] forced to clear land mines in Denmark after the end of the war. |
| 642 | * ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' |
| 643 | * ''Film/ParadiseRoad'' |
| 644 | * ''The Railway Man'': Based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a British signals officer who was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore and in the 1980s tried to find the man who tortured him. |
| 645 | * ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' |
| 646 | * ''Film/{{Stalag 17}}'' |
| 647 | * ''Film/StalagLuft'' |
| 648 | * ''Film/ToEndAllWars'' |
| 649 | * ''Literature/ATownLikeAlice'' |
| 650 | * ''Film/{{Unbroken}}'' |
| 651 | * ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' |
| 652 | * ''Film/TheWayBack2010'' |
| 653 | * ''Film/TheWolverine'': The film starts with a flashback in Japanese POW-camp when Nagasaki was about to be bombed. |
| 654 | [[/index]] |
| 655 | [[/folder]] |
| 656 | |
| 657 | [[folder:The Holocaust (1939-1945)]] |
| 658 | |
| 659 | UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust is the [[FinalSolution genocide]] UsefulNotes/NaziGermany carried out on its territory and throughout occupied Europe primarily against Jewish people, but also against a couple other sorts of people their ideology deemed worthy of being exterminated, such as political opponents, Slavs, homosexuals and Gypsies. |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | [[index]] |
| 662 | * ''Film/{{Amen}}'' about the attempt of a priest to warn the Pope in Vatican about the gassings of Jews on behalf of SS officer Kurt Gerstein, who witnessed mass murders in gas chambers. |
| 663 | * ''Film/AngryHarvest'' - A Polish farmer hides a Jewish woman, but then proceeds to take advantage of her. |
| 664 | * ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants'' |
| 665 | * ''Film/{{Bent}}'' |
| 666 | * ''Film/TheBoatIsFull'' - A small group of Jewish refugees seeks shelter in Switzerland. |
| 667 | * ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'' |
| 668 | * ''Film/ComeAndSee'', set during the Nazis' extermination campaign in Belarus. |
| 669 | * ''Film/Conspiracy2001'', a film based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference Wannsee Conference]] where the FinalSolution was decided. |
| 670 | * ''Film/TheCounterfeiters'' |
| 671 | * ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor'' |
| 672 | * ''Film/EuropaEuropa'' - the true story of Solomon Perel, a Jewish boy who survived the Holocaust by pretending to be German and ended up being in the Hitler Youth |
| 673 | * ''Fog in August'' (''Nebel im August''), a teen age Yenish boy is tranfered to a mental isntitution until his father is released from prison, and slowly he figures out that place is a transit point for the Aktion-T4 programme before it becomes a killing center itself. |
| 674 | * ''Film/TheGardenOfTheFinziContinis'' - persecution of Italian Jews ending in their roundup for deportation |
| 675 | * ''Film/GodOnTrial'' |
| 676 | * ''Film/TheGreyZone'', about the Jewish ''sonderkommandos'' in the death camps, forced to cooperate in the killing mechanism even as they knew could be next to die at any time. |
| 677 | * ''Film/HiddenInSilence'': |
| 678 | * ''Film/{{In Darkness|2011}}'' - A Christian man in Lviv hides a dozen Jews in the sewers beneath the city. |
| 679 | * ''Film/InThePresenceOfMineEnemies'' |
| 680 | * ''Film/JacobTheLiar'', the original East German version |
| 681 | ** ''Film/JakobTheLiar'', the American remake |
| 682 | * ''Film/{{Kapo}}'' - A teenaged Jewish girl escapes Auschwitz only to become a despised "kapo" (prisoner guarding other prisoners) in a different labor camp. |
| 683 | * ''Film/DerLetzteZug'' |
| 684 | * ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful'' |
| 685 | * ''Film/NightAndFog'' |
| 686 | * ''Film/TheNinthCircle'': A Christian family in Yugoslavia tries to shelter a Jewish girl from the Nazis. |
| 687 | * ''Film/ThePianist'' about Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who escaped deportation and managed to survive in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945. |
| 688 | * ''Film/TheRevoltOfJob'': A Jewish couple in Hungary adopts a Christian child, in part to leave him their possessions as they see the Final Solution coming. |
| 689 | * ''The Round Up'' about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. 13000 Jews were arrested (including more than 4000 children) in Paris by the French police (which [[LesCollaborateurs collaborated]]) and deported to the death camps in Poland. |
| 690 | * ''Film/SarahsKey'' |
| 691 | * ''Film/SchindlersList'' about the German industrialist who managed to save about 1200 Jews from extermination by employing them in his businesses. |
| 692 | * ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet'' |
| 693 | * ''Film/SonOfSaul'' - A ''Sonderkommando'' prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp |
| 694 | * ''Film/{{Sterne}}'' - (Translation: Stars) |
| 695 | * ''Film/Sunshine1999'' |
| 696 | * ''Film/{{Toyland}}'' |
| 697 | * ''Film/VisasAndVirtue'' |
| 698 | * ''Film/WomanInGold'' - the true story of Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who fled during the Anschluss and fifty years later sought litigation to retrieve a painting of her aunt that was stolen by the Nazis |
| 699 | [[/index]] |
| 700 | [[/folder]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | [[folder:Home Fronts (1939-1945)]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | The impact of the war on civilian life in the various unoccupied countries or areas that took part in the conflict. |
| 705 | ---- |
| 706 | [[index]] |
| 707 | [[AC: Germany:]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | * ''Aimée & Jaguar'', the true story of the lesbian affair between German housewife Lilly Wust and Jewish woman Felice Schragenheim. |
| 710 | * ''Film/BeforeTheFall'', about the Nazi National Political Academy. |
| 711 | * ''Film/TheDevilStrikesAtNight'': The hunt for a SerialKiller in 1944 Berlin, and how the conscientious inspector on the case is confronted with interference from the party hierarchy. |
| 712 | * ''Film/AHiddenLife'', the story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to enlist in the German army. |
| 713 | * ''Film/JewSussRiseAndFall'', the production of the antisemitic propaganda film ''[[Film/JewSuss1940 Jew Süss]]'' in 1939-1940. |
| 714 | * ''Lili Marleen'', a fictional story around the famous hit song. |
| 715 | * ''Film/TheMarriageOfMariaBraun'' deals with a woman's journey from the earliest stages of Germany's surrender to the mid-1950s in UsefulNotes/WestGermany. |
| 716 | * ''Film/{{Moloch}}'' follows a few days of the life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun during an abrupt stay at the ''Kehlsteinhaus'' (''Eagle's Nest'') residence in the Bavarian Alps in 1942. |
| 717 | * ''The Night fell on Gotenhafen'', about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff tragedy of the Wilhelm Gustloff]], which was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. It is the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history, up to 9400 German civilians and soldiers died trying to evacuate East Prussia to flee the Soviet advance. |
| 718 | * ''Film/{{Rosenstrasse}}'', a film about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest 1943 protest in the eponymous street]]. Many "pure German blood" wives and relatives of Jewish men took to the street in protest against their deportation. |
| 719 | * ''Literature/TheTinDrum'' -- Set in the city of Danzig, which was part of Germany until 1919, when the League of Nations made it a Free City and allowed Poland access to the Baltic sea there, thus cutting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany. The city was still mostly German ethnically, and was the first to be invaded by the German armies on September 1st 1939. |
| 720 | * ''Film/{{Wunschkonzert}}'', a 1940 German propaganda film that shows the Luftwaffe bombing Poland and a combat scene in what appears to be the 1940 Western Front, but is mostly about the star-crossed romance between a German woman and her fighter pilot boyfriend. They're eventually reunited through the popular ''Wunschkonzert'' weekly radio show. |
| 721 | |
| 722 | [[AC: Hungary]] |
| 723 | * ''Film/{{Bizalom}}'': A young woman in late 1944 Budapest is shocked to find out that her husband is part of LaResistance and has fled to avoid arrest. To avoid arrest herself she has to get fake papers and pretend to be the wife of another man who is also hiding under a false identity. They fall in love. |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[AC: Italy:]] |
| 726 | * ''Film/{{Malena}}'': A pubescent boy is entranced by the beauty of the most gorgeous woman in his village--who has been left in desperate straits after her husband is killed in battle. |
| 727 | * ''Film/LePupille'': A short film about how the privations of war--lack of food, lack of coal for heating--is impacting an orphanage full of {{Heartwarming Orphan}}s. |
| 728 | * ''Film/{{Shoeshine}}'': Two street urchins struggle to survive in the grim poverty of the Roman underclass immediately following liberation in 1944. |
| 729 | |
| 730 | [[AC: Japan:]] |
| 731 | * ''Film/{{Army}}'', a Japanese film made ''during'' the war, 1944 to be exact, about the duty of the Japanese to support the war and the duty of Japanese parents to give their sons to the Emperor. Contains a very subtle anti-war message. |
| 732 | * ''Film/BridgeToTheSun'': Unusual in that it's an American film in English. The protagonist is a white woman who goes to Japan with her Japanese diplomat husband, when he and everyone else in the Washington embassy are sent home in December 1941. |
| 733 | * ''Film/DoctorAkagi'', set in a Japanese town during the last days of the war. |
| 734 | * ''Film/GraveOfTheFireflies''[[note]](2008 live-action film, not to be confused with the animated film of the same name)[[/note]] - a slice of [[FromBadToWorse Japanese civilian life]] in 1945. Based on the same novel as the animated film. |
| 735 | * ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' - a stylised account of the life of a Japanese entertainer-courtesan |
| 736 | * ''Film/MorningForTheOsoneFamily'', 1946 Japanese film about the suffering an upper-middle class family undergoes due to the conflict. |
| 737 | * ''Film/{{The Most Beautiful|1944}}'': 1944 Creator/AkiraKurosawa propaganda movie showing young Japanese women laboring away at a factory making precision lenses for the war effort. |
| 738 | |
| 739 | [[AC: United Kingdom:]] |
| 740 | * ''Film/ACanterburyTale''. SliceOfLife about soldiers and civilians holding down the home front in 1943 Kent. |
| 741 | * ''{{Film/Churchill}}'', focusing on Churchill's fears about the possible failure of Operation Overlord and his difficulty adjusting to the new balance of power towards the end of the war. |
| 742 | * ''Film/DadsArmy1971'', film spin-off of British sitcom about the Home Guard of a small seaside town. |
| 743 | * ''Film/DadsArmy2016'', second film spin-off of the same sitcom. |
| 744 | * ''Film/{{Darkest Hour|2017}}'', focusing on UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill trying to see Britain through the crisis as the Western Front collapses, May-June 1940 |
| 745 | * ''Film/TheDresser'' |
| 746 | * ''Film/{{Frieda}}'', set in the closing days and immediate aftermath of World War II, the film deals with the anti-German sentiment faced by the German wife of a returning RAF officer. |
| 747 | * ''Film/TheGatheringStorm'' |
| 748 | * ''Film/GreenForDanger''', a murder mystery set in a British rural hospital during the last years of the war. |
| 749 | * ''Film/HopeAndGlory'', a rather sunny movie set in London on UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront. |
| 750 | * ''Film/TheImitationGame'' |
| 751 | * ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'' |
| 752 | * ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' |
| 753 | * ''Film/TheLandGirls'' |
| 754 | * ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak'' |
| 755 | * ''Film/MrsHendersonPresents'' |
| 756 | * ''Film/MrsMiniver'' |
| 757 | * ''[[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'' has many flashbacks of the main character waiting for his father to return. |
| 758 | * ''Film/TheirFinest'' |
| 759 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Valiant}}'' |
| 760 | * ''Film/TheWaterHorseLegendOfTheDeep'' |
| 761 | * ''Film/TheYearsBetween'' |
| 762 | |
| 763 | [[AC:USA:]] |
| 764 | * ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', a comedy. |
| 765 | * ''Film/BiloxiBlues'': Depicts a young draftee's experiences in basic training during the war. |
| 766 | * ''Film/CoverGirl'': There's a comedy song about rationing, Danny [=McGuire=] was wounded in North Africa, and toward the end of the movie, Danny and Genius go on tour entertaining the troops. |
| 767 | * ''Film/DarkWaters1944'' |
| 768 | * ''Film/FatManAndLittleBoy'', a historical drama about the Manhattan Project. |
| 769 | * ''Film/GovernmentGirl'' |
| 770 | * ''Film/HailTheConqueringHero'' |
| 771 | * ''Film/TheHumanComedy'' |
| 772 | * ''Film/IllBeSeeingYou'' |
| 773 | * ''I'll Remember April'' concerns a group of kids who discover a Japanese sailor washed ashore and shelter him from the authorities. |
| 774 | * ''Film/InTheMood'' |
| 775 | * ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'' |
| 776 | * ''Film/LittleBoy'' is about a boy of a man sent to the war. |
| 777 | * ''Film/TheMajorAndTheMinor'' |
| 778 | * ''Film/TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek'' |
| 779 | * ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier'' |
| 780 | * ''Film/MyDogSkip'' |
| 781 | * ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'': The Manhattan Project headed by UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, which led to the discovery of the [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons atomic bomb]]. |
| 782 | * ''Film/PeytonPlace'' |
| 783 | * ''Film/RadioDays'' |
| 784 | * ''Film/SinceYouWentAway'' |
| 785 | * ''Film/ASoldiersStory'' |
| 786 | * ''Film/SummerOf42'' |
| 787 | * ''Film/SwingShift'' |
| 788 | * ''Film/TheVoiceOfTheTurtle'' |
| 789 | * ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'' |
| 790 | * ''Film/WeveNeverBeenLicked'' |
| 791 | * Luis Valdez's ''Film/ZootSuit'' takes place during the aftermath of the Sleepy Lagoon murder, and the Zoot Suit riots. |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[AC: USSR:]] |
| 794 | * ''Film/AK47'': A Russian {{Biopic}} that starts off with Mikhail Kalashnikov's service on the Eastern Front in 1941, then shifts to his engineering work on the Russian Home Front in Moscow throughout the rest of the war and then some of his post-war work involving the creation of his infamous AK-47 assault rifle. |
| 795 | [[/index]] |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:Fantasy / Horror / Science-Fiction]] |
| 799 | |
| 800 | Where there's much outlandish genre fun to be had and where history definitely leaves the building. |
| 801 | ---- |
| 802 | [[index]] |
| 803 | * ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': A spinster who trains as a witch wants to use her powers to help the British war effort. She also must serve as ParentalSubstitute to three BlitzEvacuees. |
| 804 | * ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Takes place in the United States and Europe during World War II. Leading an international Allied unit, [[SuperSoldier Captain America]] fights Hydra, a Nazi science division led by ComicBook/RedSkull that uses technology way beyond anything imaginable in the 1940s, thanks to the Cosmic Cube (the Tesseract). |
| 805 | * ''Film/TheFinalCountdown'': A magnetic storm sends the then-new modern nuclear powered USS Nimitz, just heading out of Pearl Harbor in 1980, back in time to the same spot in early December 1941 just before the Japanese attack. |
| 806 | * ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'': A squad of Russian soldiers go to a remote East German village to locate missing comrades towards the end of the war. Unearthing a plot to resurrect fallen soldiers, the squad becomes the target of cobbled-together monsters. |
| 807 | * ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': Seems like a typical horror film set during the war when actually [[spoiler:it is set in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture computer simulation]]. |
| 808 | * ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'': The eponymous {{Kaiju}} shows up during the events post the Bombing of Tokyo. |
| 809 | * ''Film/KingOfTheZombies'': A German agent in the Caribbean kidnaps an American admiral and tortures him in an attempt to learn the defences of the Panama Canal. Plus, you know, zombies. |
| 810 | * ''Film/AMatterOfLifeAndDeath'': A supernatural love story about an RAF pilot who bailed out of a plane without a parachute and lived, much to heaven's chagrin. Set mainly in a British military convalescent hospital, and in the afterlife. |
| 811 | * ''Film/{{Overlord|2018}}'': A group of paratroopers encounters Nazis and horrifying experiments underneath a radio tower. |
| 812 | * ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'': A horror slash science fiction set during the Battle of the Bulge, where the Nazis unleash a horde of gargoyles in Northern France, and the Allies end up having to find a way to both prevent the Germans from finding a way to control the monsters as well as find a way to stop the latter for good. |
| 813 | * ''Film/LesVisiteurs'': A 12th century French knight and his squire TimeTravel to 1943 by mistake at the end of ''Bastille Day'' (the third film), when France is occupied by the Germans. |
| 814 | * ''Film/WerewolvesOfTheThirdReich'': Four disgraced criminal soldiers uncover attempts by UsefulNotes/JosefMengele to turn Nazi soldiers into werewolves. |
| 815 | [[/index]] |
| 816 | [[/folder]] |
| 817 | |
| 818 | [[folder:Others]] |
| 819 | Films that don't really fit elsewhere. |
| 820 | ---- |
| 821 | [[index]] |
| 822 | * ''Film/FortyNinthParallel'': A group of German submariners are trapped in Canada when their sub is sunk, and attempt to escape to the neutral US. |
| 823 | * ''Film/{{The Dig|2021}}'': Set in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. It is about an archeological excavation of a Viking ship in the months leading up to the War. |
| 824 | * ''Film/FighterInTheWind'': The main character is a Korean who joined the Japanese air force in the first part of the movie. |
| 825 | * ''Film/TheFirstOfTheFew'': Uses the Battle of Britain as a framing device to tell the story of British aircraft designer R. J. Mitchell and his development of the Submarine Spitfire in the 1930s. |
| 826 | * ''Film/GoebbelsAndGeduldig'': UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels happens to have a lookalike in a Jewish man, Harry Geduldig, and a switcheroo of them happens. |
| 827 | * ''Film/{{Homecoming}}'': Follows a doctor and his nurse in a U.S. Army surgical unit in both Italy and France. |
| 828 | * ''Film/HotelBerlin'' (1945), basically ''Film/GrandHotel'' if ''Grand Hotel'' was about Nazis and Nazi collaborators and German resistance inside a hotel in Berlin in the final months of the European theater (it was in fact written by the same author whose book ''Grand Hotel'' was based on). |
| 829 | * ''Film/HowIUnleashedWorldWarII'' |
| 830 | * ''Film/ItHappenedHere'': AlternateHistory about the Nazi occupation of Britain. |
| 831 | * ''Film/JojoRabbit'': A young German boy in the Hitler Youth has an ImaginaryFriend who looks like a friendly Adolf Hitler with the war as backdrop. |
| 832 | * ''Film/TheManInGrey'': While the bulk of the film is a WholeEpisodeFlashback set in RegencyEngland, a framing story involves an RAF pilot and a Wren in 1943. |
| 833 | * ''Film/MenBehindTheSun'': Inspired by surviving records of the human experiments that were conducted within the Unit-731 facility in occupied China, the film shows numerous [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate gruesome experiments conducted by scientists led by Shiro Ishii]]. An accidental ExploitationFilm that is ''not'' for the faint of heart. |
| 834 | * ''Film/MissionToMoscow'': About the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in the years leading up to the war; now infamous for its pro-Stalinist message. |
| 835 | * ''Film/{{Morituri}}'': A German living in India is blackmailed into sabotaging a Nazi merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan. |
| 836 | * ''Film/MyFuhrer'', a comedy in which Adolf Hitler is so depressed that a (fictional) Jewish acting coach is hired to help him prepare a New Year speech. |
| 837 | * ''Film/MyWay'': Follows two Korean men who fight in the Imperial Japanese Army, then the Red Army, then the Wehrmacht before being captured by Americans after D-Day. Inspired by the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong Yang Kyoungjong]]. |
| 838 | * ''Film/NowhereInAfrica'': Deals with a German Jewish family who flees to Kenya to avoid the Holocaust who try to run a ranch (in between being occasionally rounded up as enemy aliens, due to being German) |
| 839 | * ''Film/OneNightInLisbon'': An American pilot, transporting a bomber to London prior to America's entry into the war, gets involved with an aristocratic Englishwoman and a German spy ring. |
| 840 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand'': The story begins in World War II London, during the Luftwaffe's bombing campaign in preparation for ''Operation: Sea Lion''. |
| 841 | * ''Film/{{Saboteur}}'': Essentially ''Film/{{The 39 Steps|1935}}'' set in wartime America. |
| 842 | * ''Film/SailorOfTheKing'' |
| 843 | * ''Film/WentTheDayWell'': Depicts the [[TakingOverTheTown infiltration and takeover]] of a fictional English village by Nazi soldiers in advance of a planned invasion of Britain. |
| 844 | [[/index]] |
| 845 | [[/folder]] |
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