List of World War II films (1950–1989)

For fictional feature films about the Holocaust, see List of Holocaust films § Narrative films. For short films, see List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films and List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.

Main article: List of World War II films made before 1950

This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.

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## Common topics[edit]

Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:

Europe

* Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
* Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
* Gestapo and SS
* Benito Mussolini
* Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
* Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
* Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
* Occupied Norway
* The Holocaust

Asia–Pacific

* Emperor Hirohito

Non-geographical

* POW

## Early 1950s[edit]

Year  | Country  | Main title
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(Original script) | Director  | Battles, campaigns, events depicted

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1950  | United States  | The Admiral Was a Lady |  | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy. End of war readjustment of returning American servicemen and servicewomen
1950  | United States  | American Guerrilla in the Philippines |  | Fritz Lang | Japanese occupation of the Philippines filmed on location
1950  | United Kingdom | The Angel with the Trumpet |  | Anthony Bushell | Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Anschluss, 1938 NOTE: this movie has nothing to do with World War 2
1950  | United States  | At War with the Army |  | Hal Walker | Stateside GIs await transfer overseas
1950  | United States  | The Big Lift |  | Fritz Lang | Drama. Berlin Airlift, 1948, and transition to Cold War in Berlin's occupied sectors [1]
1950  | United States  | Breakthrough |  | Lewis Seiler | Company B of the 1st Infantry Division from the D-Day landings through the Normandy campaign.
1950  | United States  | Francis |  | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Francis the Talking Mule unmasks Japanese spy in China Burma India Theater
1950  | United States  | Halls of Montezuma |  | Lewis Milestone | US Marines attack Japanese-held island in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
1950  | Philippines  | Mapuputing Kamay | Mapuputing Kamay | Fausto J. Galauran | Filipina nurses in battles of Bataan and Corregidor
1950  | United States  | The Men (Battle Stripe)  |  | Fred Zinnemann | Drama. Paraplegic American veteran's struggle re-entering society
1950  | United Kingdom  | Morning Departure (Operation Disaster)  |  | Roy Ward Baker | Drama. British submarine on routine patrol encountering derelict war mine
1950  | United States  | Mystery Submarine (Phantom Submarine)  |  | Douglas Sirk | Thriller. US Navy Intelligence officer posing as ex-German medical officer to rescue kidnapped scientist and sink U-boat off South American coast
1950  | United Kingdom  | Odette |  | Herbert Wilcox | SOE agent Odette Samson
1950  | India  | Samadhi | Samādhi (समाधि)  | Ramesh Saigal | Drama concerning Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army.
1950  | Italy  | The Sky Is Red | Il cielo è rosso | Claudio Gora | The life of a 16 year old Italian boy after an Allied bombing has killed his parents and destroyed his town
1950  | United States  | Three Came Home |  | Jean Negulesco | Battle of Borneo, 1941–42, civilian internees and POWs of the Japanese
1950  | Poland  | Unvanquished City | Miasto nieujarzmione | Jerzy Zarzycki | Warsaw, Poland, 1944
1950  | United States  | When Willie Comes Marching Home |  | John Ford | Comedy based on Sy Gomberg story. Failed pilot's escapades, from homefront to German-occupied France and back
1950  | United Kingdom  | The Wooden Horse |  | Jack Lee | True story of British POWs' escape attempts from Stalag Luft III
1951  | Philippines  | Alliance of Philippine Patriots † | Makapili (Makabayan Katipunan Ñg Mg̃a Pilipino)  | unknown [2] | Makapili, Japanese sympathizers, during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines[3]
1951  | Italy  | Attention! Bandits! | Achtung! Banditi! | Carlo Lizzani | Italian Resistance
1951  | United States  | Decision Before Dawn |  | Anatole Litvak | Allies use German POWs as spies in Nazi Germany, 1945
1951  | United States  | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel |  | Henry Hathaway | German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to July 20 plot
1951  | United States  | Fighting Coast Guard |  | Joseph Kane | US Coast Guard prepares for war
1951  | United States  | Flying Leathernecks |  | Nicholas Ray | US Marine fighter pilot in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
1951  | United States  | Force of Arms |  | Michael Curtiz | US Fifth Army in Italian Campaign
1951  | United States  | The Frogmen |  | Lloyd Bacon, Dick Mayberry | US Navy underwater demolition team divers/commandos in South West Pacific Theatre
1951  | United States  | Go For Broke! |  | Robert Pirosh | US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France
1951  | United States  | I Was an American Spy |  | Lesley Selander | American spy and Medal of Freedom winner Clara Fuentes during Japanese occupation of Philippines
1951  | United States
Austria  | The Magic Face |  | Frank Tuttle | Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him and takes his place
1951  | Italy  | My Trieste! † | Trieste mia! | Mario Costa | Two Italian soldiers are chased by the Germans and Yugoslav partisans in Trieste after the Italian armistice
1951  | United States  | Operation Pacific |  | George Waggner | US Navy submarine in South West Pacific Theatre
1951  | United States  | Purple Heart Diary |  | Richard Quine | Singers entertain wounded soldiers in the Pacific
1951  | United States  | Submarine Command |  | John Farrow | Drama. Career of US submarine commander up to Korean War
1951  | United States  | The Tanks Are Coming |  | Lewis Seiler | Action-drama. US 3rd Armored Division tank crew in France and German Siegfried Line, Fall 1944
1951  | United States  | Target Unknown |  | George Sherman | Drama. Tense and discontented American bomber squadron forced to parachute over France before being interrogated by Nazis
1951  | United States  | Wild Blue Yonder (Thunder Across the Pacific)  |  | Allan Dwan | US Air Force men are trained to pilot the B-29 and then fly bombing actions on Japan
1951  | United States  | You're in the Navy Now |  | Henry Hathaway | Comedy. Inexperienced crew assigned to experimental US submarine chaser
1952  | United States  | Above and Beyond |  | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Col. Paul Tibbets and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
1952  | United Kingdom  | Angels One Five |  | George More O'Ferrall | RAF fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain
1952  | United Kingdom  | Appointment in London |  | Philip Leacock | RAF Bomber Command wing commander's attempt to finish his final tour of operations
1952  | Italy  | Black Feathers | Penne nere | Oreste Biancoli | Veteran Alpini become partisans after the German occupation of Italy
1952  | Japan  | Children of Hiroshima | Genbaku no ko (原爆の子)  | Kaneto Shindō | Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima
1952  | United States  | Eight Iron Men |  | Edward Dmytryk | During WW2 in Italy, a soldier trapped in no man's land.
1952  | Norway  | Emergency Landing | Nødlanding | Arne Skouen | American bomber crew shot down in Norway and aided by Milorg (Norwegian Resistance)
1952  | United States  | 5 Fingers |  | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Drama/Thriller. Cicero Affair involving German spy Elyesa Bazna
1952  | United States  | Flat Top |  | Lesley Selander | Pilot training aboard US Navy carriers
1952  | France  | Forbidden Games | Jeux interdits | René Clément | Life for youngsters during the Occupation of France
1952  | United Kingdom  | Gift Horse |  | Compton Bennett | Fictional story to destroy a German navy dry dock, based on the real St Nazaire Raid
1952  | Italy  | Heroic Charge | Carica eroica | Francesco De Robertis | Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Isbuscenskij
1952  | Romania  | Mitrea Cocor | Mitrea Cocor | Victor Iliu, Marietta Sadova |
1952  | Italy  | Nobody Has Betrayed † | Nessuno ha tradito | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Italian Civil War
1952  | United States  | Okinawa |  | Leigh Jason | US Navy destroyer at the Battle of Okinawa
1952  | United States  | Operation Secret |  | Lewis Seiler | Espionage with the French Resistance based on the life of Peter Ortiz
1952  | United States  | Red Ball Express |  | Budd Boetticher | Transportation units in European Theater of Operations
1952  | Italy  | Shadows on Trieste † | Ombre su Trieste | Nerino Florio Bianchi | Four Italian deserters and smugglers join Yugoslav partisans in Trieste
1952  | United States  | Thunderbirds |  | John H. Auer | The 45th Infantry Division in Italy
1952  | United States  | Torpedo Alley (Down Periscope)  |  | Lew Landers | Drama. Failed US carrier pilot's return to service on submarine
1952  | Sweden  | U-Boat 39 (Submarine no. 39)  | Ubåt 39 | Hampe Faustman | Drama. Crew of U-39
1953  | France
United States  | Act of Love | [4][5] | Anatole Litvak | Romance drama based on Alfred Hayes novel. American soldier falls in love with Parisian woman near end of war
1953  | United Kingdom  | Albert R.N. (Break to Freedom)  |  | Lewis Gilbert | British POWs in German Stalag
1953  | Japan  | Anatahan | Ana-ta-han (アナタハン)  | Josef von Sternberg | Japanese soldiers on South West Pacific Theatre island battle after end of war
1953  | United States  | China Venture |  | Don Siegel | Adventure-drama. American commandos sent to South China to rescue prisoner held by Chinese guerrillas
1953  | United Kingdom  | The Cruel Sea |  | Charles Frend | Battle of the Atlantic from perspective of Royal Navy ships
1953  | United States  | The Desert Rats |  | Robert Wise | Australian 7th Division at Tobruk during North African campaign
1953  | United States  | Destination Gobi |  | Robert Wise | US Navy weather unit in Mongolia
1953  | Japan  | Eagle of the Pacific (Operation Kamikaze)  | Taiheiyo no washi (太平洋の鷲)  | Ishirō Honda | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1953  | United States  | El Alaméin |  | Fred F. Sears | Second Battle of El Alamein
1953  | United States  | Fighter Attack |  | Lesley Selander | Partisans in Italian Campaign
1953  | United States  | From Here to Eternity |  | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 Best Picture culminating in the Attack on Pearl Harbor
1953  | United States  | The Girls of Pleasure Island |  | Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Comedy. Pacific Theatre and English family living on atoll invaded by US Marines near end of war
1953  | United States  | The Glass Wall |  | Maxwell Shane | Drama. DP camp survivor in New York City
1953  | United States  | Guerrilla Girl |  | John Christian | Greek Resistance
1953  | Italy  | Hell Raiders of the Deep | I sette dell'Orsa maggiore | Duilio Coletti | Decima Flottiglia MAS
1953  | Japan  | The Lily Tower † | Himeyuri no Tō (ひめゆりの塔)  | Tadashi Imai | A group of high school girls trained as nurses witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa
1953  | United States  | Little Boy Lost |  | George Seaton | Drama. American war correspondent stationed in Paris before Battle of Dunkirk searching for his French family lost during war
1953  | United Kingdom  | Malta Story |  | Brian Desmond Hurst | Siege of Malta in 1942
1953  | Italy  | The Patrol of Amba Alagi † | La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi | Flavio Calzavara | A veteran of the second Battle of Amba Alagi meets the families of his fallen comrades
1953  | United Kingdom  | The Red Beret |  | Terence Young | British paratroopers and Operation Biting
1953  | United Kingdom  | Single-Handed (Sailor of the King)  |  | Roy Boulting | Action-drama based on C. S. Forester novel Brown on Resolution. Royal Navy
1953  | United States  | South Sea Woman (The Marines Had a Word for It)  |  | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Pacific Theatre escapades of US Marine court martialed for events leading to Pearl Harbor
1953  | United States  | Stalag 17 |  | Billy Wilder | Allies in German Stalag Luft
1953  | Canada  | Tit-Coq | Tit-Coq | René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | Return home of French-Canadian soldier nicknamed "Little Rooster"
1954  | United States  | Beachhead |  | Stuart Heisler | Four US Marines on a reconnaissance mission in the Solomon Islands
1954  | United States  | Betrayed |  | Gottfried Reinhardt | Dutch resistance in Battle of Arnhem
1954  | United States  | The Caine Mutiny |  | Edward Dmytryk | Destroyer warfare in South West Pacific Theatre
1954  | West Germany  | Canaris: Master Spy (Deadly Decision)  | Canaris | Alfred Weidenmann | Drama. Abwehr Chief Admiral Canaris and Widerstand
1954  | West Germany  | 08/15 | 08/15 – In der Kaserne | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; first of three parts
1954  | Italy  | Folgore Division | Divisione Folgore | Duilio Coletti | 185th Airborne Division Folgore in 1942
1954  | Italy  | Frogwoman (Frogman Spy)  | Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare) | Francesco De Robertis | Italian frogman is helped by a frogwoman
1954  | Italy  | Goodbye Naples! | Addio Napoli! | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Drama. Espionage in Naples under Allied occupation
1954  | Italy  | Human Torpedoes | Siluri umani | Antonio Leonviola | Raid on Souda Bay by Italian Commandos
1954  | Austria
Yugoslavia  | The Last Bridge | Die Letzte Brücke (in German)
Posljednji most (in Serbo-Croatian) | Helmut Käutner | German nurse is sent to the front as a punishment for tending a wounded Yugoslav partisan
1954  | China  | Letter with Feather | Jī máo xìn (鸡毛信)  | Shi Hui | Boy attempts to deliver important message to 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during Sino-Japanese War
1954  | Spain  | The Patrol | La patrulla | Pedro Lazaga | Spanish volunteer Blue Division on Eastern Front[6][7]
1954  | United Kingdom  | The Purple Plain |  | Robert Parrish | RAF evaders in Burma campaign
1954  | United Kingdom  | The Sea Shall Not Have Them |  | Lewis Gilbert | Channel Air Sea Rescue of Allied bomber crew
1954  | Italy  | Shadow Men † | Uomini ombra | Francesco De Robertis | Intelligence service of the Regia Marina
1954  | United Kingdom
Norway  | Shetland Gang (Suicide Mission)  | Shetlandsgjengen | Michael Forlong | Docudrama. "Shetland bus", Norwegian smugglers in North Sea
1954  | United States  | Silent Raiders |  | Richard Bartlett | Fictitious story of US Army Rangers at the Dieppe Raid
1954  | India  | That Day! | Andha Naal (அந்த நாள்) (in Tamil) | S. Balachander | Fictitious story of a scientist and radio operator who spies for Japan during the Second World War and is killed by his wife.
1954  | United Kingdom  | They Who Dare |  | Lewis Milestone | SAS raid in occupied Greece

## Late 1950s[edit]

Year  | Country  | Main title
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1955  | Italy  | The Abandoned | Gli sbandati | Francesco Maselli | The beginning of partisan warfare in Italy after the Armistice
1955  | United Kingdom | Above Us the Waves |  | Ralph Thomas | Submarine attacks on German battleship Tirpitz
1955  | United States  | Bad Day at Black Rock |  | John Sturges | Thriller. Disabled veteran tries to deliver a medal
1955  | United States  | Battle Cry |  | Raoul Walsh | US Marines and battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
1955  | United Kingdom  | The Cockleshell Heroes |  | José Ferrer | Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton
1955  | United Kingdom  | The Colditz Story |  | Guy Hamilton | British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" castle prison
1955  | United Kingdom  | The Dam Busters |  | Michael Anderson | RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise against German dams using the bouncing bomb
1955  | West Germany
Austria  | The Devil's General | Des Teufels General | Helmut Käutner | Drama based on Gen. Ernst Udet. Successful Luftwaffe General courted by Widerstand
1955  | West Germany  | 08/15 – Part 2 | 08/15 – Im Krieg (08/15 – Zweiter Teil)  | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; second of three parts
1955  | West Germany  | 08/15 at Home | 08/15 – In der Heimat | Paul May | Drama. End of war for German soldiers; third of three parts
1955  | United Kingdom  | The End of the Affair |  | Edward Dmytryk | Romance drama. British homefront and illicit romance
1955  | East Germany  | Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class | Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | Drama. Ernst Thälmann leads Communist opposition to Hitler
1955  | United States  | The Eternal Sea |  | John H. Auer | Follows the career of US Navy Captain John Hoskins (officer) during the Pacific War
1955  | France  | The Fugitives | Les évadés | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Two French prisoners escape from German POW camp
1955  | Poland  | A Generation | Pokolenie | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance against German occupation
1955  | West Germany  | Hanussen, Hitler's Astrologer | Hanussen | O. W. Fischer, Georg Marischka | Drama. Jewish psychic Erik Jan Hanussen collaborates with Nazis
1955  | West Germany
Austria  | Hitler: The Last Ten Days (The Last Act)  | Der letzte Akt | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Drama based on novel by Nuremberg judge Michael Musmanno. Hitler's last days in Reichstag bunker through perspective of bunker guard
1955  | Poland  | The Hours of Hope | Godziny nadziei | Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski | Drama set in Poland near the end of the war
1955  | United States  | It's Always Fair Weather |  | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Musical comedy-drama. US soldiers vowing to reunite after war in 1955
1955  | West Germany  | Jackboot Mutiny | Es geschah am 20. Juli | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
1955  | Poland  | Men of the Blue Cross | Błękitny krzyż | Andrzej Munk | Tatra Mountains, Poland on Eastern Front, 1945
1955  | United States  | Mister Roberts |  | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy-drama. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific
1955  | Malaya  | Sergeant Hassan | Sarjan Hassan | Lamberto V. Avellana, P. Ramlee | Action drama. Malayan occupation and Royal Malay Regiment
1955  | Italy  | Submarine Attack (Torpedo Zone)  | La grande speranza | Duilio Coletti | Action/Romance. Italian submarine sinking Allied shipping on Eastern Atlantic Theatre and rescuing occasional survivor
1955  | Denmark  | There Came One Day | Der kom en dag | Sven Methling | Based on Flemming Muus novel. Last days of Danish occupation
1955  | United States  | To Hell and Back |  | Jesse Hibbs | Audie Murphy, most decorated US soldier
1955  | Finland  | The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Edvin Laine | Finno-Soviet Continuation War
1956  | Spain  | Ambassadors in Hell | Embajadores en el infierno | José María Forqué | Drama based on Torcuato Luca de Tena novel. Spanish Blue Division volunteers from Siege of Leningrad and Battle of Krasny Bor imprisoned in Soviet Gulag
1956  | United States  | Attack |  | Robert Aldrich | Infantrymen in France after D-Day
1956  | United States  | Away All Boats |  | Joseph Pevney | US NavyAttack transport operating in the Pacific
1956  | United Kingdom  | The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee)  |  | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Battle of the River Plate between German and British forces. The first naval battle of the war
1956  | United States  | Battle Stations |  | Lewis Seiler | US Navy battleship in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
1956  | United States  | Between Heaven and Hell |  | Richard Fleischer | US Army National Guard unit in Philippines
1956  | United Kingdom  | The Black Tent |  | Brian Desmond Hurst | British soldier helps local tribes fight the Germans during the North African campaign
1956  | United States  | The Bold and the Brave |  | Lewis R. Foster | US soldiers serving during the Italian Campaign
1956  | Japan  | The Burmese Harp | Biruma no tategoto (ビルマの竪琴)  | Kon Ichikawa | Japanese soldiers fighting in the Burma campaign
1956  | United States  | D-Day the Sixth of June |  | Henry Koster | Story of Operation Overlord, the Normandy invasion by Allied forces
1956  | Italy  | Farewell, My Village... † | Ciao, pais... | Osvaldo Langini | Alpini on the Greek front
1956  | United States  | Gaby |  | Curtis Bernhardt | Romance/Drama. British homefront and ballerina falling for American soldier sent to France, 1944
1953  | Italy  | The House of Intrigue | Londra chiama Polo Nord | Duilio Coletti | A British radio operator is captured by the Germans and forced to send fake messages back to London
1956  | Poland  | Kanał (Kanal)  | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Polish resistance during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944
1956  | France  | A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (Le vent souffle où il veut)  | Robert Bresson | Thriller based on memoirs of POW André Devigny. French Resistance and Gestapo prison : Montluc Prison.
1956  | United Kingdom  | The Man Who Never Was |  | Ronald Neame | Battle of Sicily and Operation Mincemeat A fake officer washes up on the coast of Spain as a cover for an invasion.
1956  | Italy  | The Price of Glory † | Il prezzo della gloria | Antonio Musu | Italian torpedo boat Sagittario
1956  | United Kingdom  | Private's Progress |  | John Boulting | Comedy. Reluctantly conscripted/commissioned soldier and art heist behind German lines
1956  | United States  | The Proud and Profane |  | George Seaton | Romance drama. Red Cross volunteer in South Pacific, New Caledonia and husband's death at Battle of Guadalcanal
1956  | United Kingdom  | Reach for the Sky |  | Lewis Gilbert | RAF Officer Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain
1956  | Yugoslavia  | The Siege | Opsada | Branko Marjanovic | Comedy-drama. Zagreb Underground and Yugoslav Front
1956  | United Kingdom  | A Town Like Alice (Rape of Malaya)  |  | Jack Lee | British and Australian POWs after Battle of Singapore
1956  | Yugoslavia  | Valley of Peace (Sergeant Jim)  | Dolina miru (in Slovene)
Dolina mira (in Serbo-Croatian) | France Štiglic | African-American pilot down behind enemy lines rescues two orphans
1957  | United Kingdom  | The Betrayal |  | Ernest Morris | Crime thriller. Allied pilot captured and tortured by Nazis and postwar search for his betrayer
1957  | France  | Bitter Victory | Amère victoire | Nicholas Ray | Action-drama. Allied commando mission behind enemy lines in Benghazi and Western Desert campaign
1957  | United Kingdom  | The Bridge on the River Kwai |  | David Lean | 1957 Best Picture depicting British POWs work on Burma Railway
1957  | Soviet Union  | The Cranes Are Flying | Letyat zhuravli (Летят журавли)  | Mikhail Kalatozov | Romance drama. Soviet homefront
1957  | United States  | Don't Go Near the Water |  | Charles Walters | Comedy-romance. US Navy public relations unit stationed on South West Pacific Theatre island
1957  | United States  | The Enemy Below |  | Dick Powell | South Atlantic and cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and U-boat
1957  | West Germany  | The Fox of Paris | Der Fuchs von Paris | Paul May | Battle of Normandy from Wehrmacht perspective
1957  | United States  | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison |  | John Huston | US Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
1957  | United States  | Hellcats of the Navy |  | Nathan Juran | Submarine warfare in Pacific Theatre
1957  | United States  | Kiss Them for Me |  | Stanley Donen | Comedy. US Navy pilots on leave in San Francisco
1957  | Norway  | Nine Lives | Ni Liv | Arne Skouen | Drama. Biography of Jan Baalsrud's, Norwegian Resistance fighter, epic escape to neutral Sweden following Tromsø sabotage operation
1957  | United Kingdom  | The One That Got Away |  | Roy Ward Baker | Escape of German POW Franz von Werra
1957  | United States  | Operation Mad Ball |  | Richard Quine | Comedy-romance. Closing of US Army hospital in France at end of war
1957  | West Germany  | Sharks and Little Fish | Haie und kleine Fische | Frank Wisbar | Drama. German naval cadets entering Kriegsmarine and U-boat service, 1940
1957  | West Germany  | The Star of Africa | Der Stern von Afrika | Alfred Weidenmann | Docudrama. Luftwaffe ace (Experten) Hans-Joachim Marseille
1957  | United Kingdom  | The Steel Bayonet |  | Michael Carreras | Small British recce force surrounded by overwhelming forces of Afrika Korps during Tunisian campaign
1957  | Italy  | Tanks of El Alamein | El Alamein (Deserto di gloria)  | Guido Malatesta | Second Battle of El Alamein
1957  | United States  | The Wings of Eagles |  | John Ford | Drama. US Navy pilot Frank Wead in Pacific Theater
1957  | Italy  | The Woman Who Came from the Sea | La donna che venne dal mare | Francesco De Robertis | Espionage and Italian frogmen in Gibraltar.
1958  | Italy
West Germany  | Always Victorious | Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano (in Italian) | Wolfgang Staudte | Comedy. Italian submarine chaser
1958  | Poland  | Ashes and Diamonds | Popiół i diament | Andrzej Wajda | Anti-Communist resistance in Poland just after the war's end
1958  | Czechoslovakia  | At That Time, at Christmas... | Tenkrát o Vánocích | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak Army on Eastern Front, Christmas 1944
1958  | West Germany  | Battle of Monte Cassino | Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino | Harald Reinl | 1\. Fallschirmjägerdivision in the Battle of Monte Cassino
1958  | United Kingdom  | Battle of the V-1 |  | Vernon Sewell | Polish resistance spies on German rocket tests
1958  | United Kingdom  | The Camp on Blood Island |  | Val Guest | British and Dutch POWs in Malaya
1958  | United Kingdom  | Carve Her Name with Pride |  | Lewis Gilbert | SOE agent Violette Szabo serving in Nazi-occupied France
1958  | Poland  | Con Bravura (With Bravery)  | Con Bravura | Andrzej Munk | Couriers crossing Polish/Slovak Tatra Mountains; third part of Eroica cut by director
1958  | Poland  | Cross of Valour | Krzyż Walecznych | Kazimierz Kutz | Short stories from the Eastern Front, 1945
1958  | United States  | Darby's Rangers |  | William Wellman | Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio
1958  | Poland  | Deserter | Dezerter | Witold Lesiewicz | Silesian Pole conscripted in Wehrmacht
1958  | West Germany  | The Doctor of Stalingrad | Der Arzt von Stalingrad | Géza von Radványi | Battle of Stalingrad
1958  | United Kingdom  | Dunkirk |  | Leslie Norman | Operation Dynamo and Dunkirk evacuation
1958  | Poland  | Eroica (Heroism)  | Eroica | Andrzej Munk | Warsaw Uprising and POW camp, 1944–45
1958  | China  | The Eternal Wave (Continuous Wave)  | Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo (永不消逝的电波)  | Wang Ping | Drama based on true story. Chinese agents in Japanese-held Shanghai, 1939
1958  | United States  | Fräulein (1958)  |  | Henry Koster | Comedy-romance. Escaped American POW hiding in Berlin near end of war
1958  | Poland  | Free City | Wolne miasto | Stanisław Różewicz | Free City of Danzig, Polish Campaign, 1939
1958  | United Kingdom  | Ice Cold in Alex |  | J. Lee Thompson | North African campaign
1958  | United States  | Imitation General |  | George Marshall | Comedy. US Army Sergeant impersonating fallen general to inspire comrades in France
1958  | United States  | In Love and War |  | Philip Dunne | Drama. US Marines on shore leave in San Francisco before returning to battle
1958  | United Kingdom  | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |  | Mark Robson | English missionary in China during Sino-Japanese War
1958  | United Kingdom  | I Was Monty's Double (Hell, Heaven or Hoboken)  |  | John Guillermin | Diversionary D-Day impersonation of General Montgomery
1958  | United Kingdom  | The Key |  | Carol Reed | Battle of the Atlantic
1958  | United States  | Kings Go Forth |  | Delmer Daves | Action/Romance. Soldiers involved with American woman during Champagne Offensive in southern France, Summer 1944
1958  | United States  | The Naked and the Dead |  | Raoul Walsh | US troops fighting in the Pacific War
1958  | Poland  | Orzeł (The Eagle)  | Orzeł | Leonard Buczkowski | Polish submarine ORP Orzeł and Orzeł incident, Baltic Sea escape attempt from neutral Estonian internment and German navy
1958  | Poland  | Pills for Aurelia | Pigułki dla Aurelii | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Polish resistance rescue of comrades from the Germans
1958  | United States  | Run Silent, Run Deep |  | Robert Wise | US submarine and Japanese destroyer chase in South West Pacific Theatre
1958  | United Kingdom  | Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol)  |  | Guy Green | Long Range Desert Group in North African campaign
1958  | United Kingdom  | The Silent Enemy |  | William Fairchild | Fictionalised events in Gibraltar harbour during the Italian frogman and manned torpedo attacks
1958  | Italy
Spain  | The Sky Is Burning † | Il cielo brucia | Giuseppe Masini | Italian bombers in the North African campaign
1958  | United States  | South Pacific |  | Joshua Logan | Musical romance. South West Pacific Theater
1958  | Denmark  | Spy 503 †· | Spion 503 | Jørn Jeppesen | Drama. German Agent 503 June Harvey with Swedish diplomats and Danish Resistance
1958  | Poland  | Story of One Fighter | Historia jednego myśliwca | Hubert Drapella | Polish fighter pilot serving with the RAF during the Battle of Britain, 1940
1958  | United States  | Submarine Seahawk (Submarine X2)  |  | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Suspense drama. Submarine on reconnaissance mission in South West Pacific Theatre
1958  | United States  | Suicide Battalion |  | Edward L. Cahn | Drama. Soldiers sent to destroy base and strategic documents in occupied Philippines; remade as 1968 film Hell Raiders
1958  | United States  | Tarawa Beachhead |  | Paul Wendkos | Drama. Battle of Tarawa during Guadacanal conflict in the Pacific.
1958  | United States  | A Time to Love and a Time to Die |  | Douglas Sirk | Romance drama based on Erich Maria Remarque novel. German soldier on furlough finds home town in chaos
1958  | United States  | Torpedo Run |  | Joseph Pevney | Drama. Submarine sets out to destroy Japanese carrier from Pearl Harbor attack now using US civilians and POWs as human shields
1958  | West Germany  | U 47 – Lieutenant Commander Prien | U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien | Harald Reinl | Günther Prien and the U-47
1958  | United Kingdom  | The Wind Cannot Read |  | Ralph Thomas | Romance between a British officer and his female language instructor in Burma
1958  | United States  | When Hell Broke Loose |  | Kenneth G. Crane  | Action-drama. Foul-up GI redeems himself during Operation Greif in the Battle of the Bulge
1958  | United States  | The Young Lions |  | Edward Dmytryk | Action-drama. Three soldiers during war: one German, two American (one Jewish)
1959  | United States  | The Angry Hills |  | Robert Aldrich | Drama based on Leon Uris novel. Greek resistance
1959  | Poland  | Answer to Violence (Partisan Mission)  | Zamach | Jerzy Passendorfer | Operation Kutschera and Polish resistance, 1944
1959  | West Germany  | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (TV miniseries)  | So weit die Füße tragen | Fritz Umgelter | Drama based on POW Cornell Rost. Eastern Front, then escape from Siberian Gulag and journey home; remade as 2001 film As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
1959  | Soviet Union  | Ballad of a Soldier | Баллада о солдате | Grigori Chukhrai | Poetic drama. Soldier receives home leave as reward for heroism
1959  | United States  | Battle of the Coral Sea |  | Paul Wendkos | Action-drama. Submarine on reconnaissance photographing Japanese installations through periscope
1959  | West Germany  | The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | Boys conscripted into Wehrmacht service on Western Front, 1945
1959  | West Germany  | Court Martial | Kriegsgericht | Kurt Meisel | Drama based on Will Berthold article. Kriegsmarine sailors tried for abandoning ship
1959  | United Kingdom  | Danger Within (Breakout)  |  | Don Chaffey | Allied escape from POW camp in Northern Italy, Summer 1943
1959  | United Kingdom  | Desert Mice |  | Michael Relph | ENSA unit in the Western Desert campaign
1959  | Soviet Union  | Destiny of a Man | Sudba Cheloveka (Судьба человека)  | Sergei Bondarchuk | Drama based on Mikhail Sholokhov story. POWs in German Stalag
1959  | United States  | The Diary of Anne Frank |  | George Stevens | Drama. Anne Frank hiding from Germans in occupied Amsterdam
1959  | Japan  | Fires on the Plain | Nobi (野火)  | Kon Ichikawa | Decimated Japanese Imperial Army in Philippines, 1945
1959  | Italy  | General Della Rovere | Il generale Della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader
1959  | France
Japan  | Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima, My Love)  | Hiroshima mon amour (in French)
Nijuuyojikan no jouji (in Japanese) | Alain Resnais | Drama. Hiroshima bomb; remade as 2001 film H Story
1959  | Japan  | The Human Condition: No Greater Love | Ningen no jōken I (人間の條件)  | Masaki Kobayashi | Manchukuo and Japanese Resistance in China; part one of trilogy
1959  | Japan  | The Human Condition: Road to Eternity | Ningen no jōken II (人間の條件)  | Masaki Kobayashi | Imperial Japanese Army basic training; part two of trilogy
1959  | United States  | Never So Few |  | John Sturges | US troops join local guerrillas to fight the Japanese during the Burma campaign
1959  | Poland  | Octopus Cafe | Cafe Pod Minogą | Bronisław Brok | Comedy about wartime Polish resistance
1959  | United Kingdom  | Operation Amsterdam |  | Michael McCarthy | British commandos on mission to occupied Holland find fortune in Nazi diamonds
1959  | United Kingdom  | Operation Bullshine |  | Gilbert Gunn | Female crewed anti-aircraft units in England
1959  | United States  | Operation Petticoat |  | Blake Edwards | Comedy. Submarine commander stuck with decrepit pink sub, con-man executive officer and group of Army nurses
1959  | United States  | Paratroop Command |  | William Witney | US Army paratroopers in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
1959  | Poland  | Speed | Lotna | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Cavalry and Invasion of Poland, 1939
1959  | United Kingdom  | The Square Peg |  | John Paddy Carstairs | Comedy. British council workmen drafted into service in France and mistaken for spies by Nazis
1959  | West Germany  | Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Battle Inferno)  | Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben | Frank Wisbar | Drama. Romanian Army component of German 6th Army and Battle of Stalingrad
1959  | East Germany
Bulgaria  | Stars | Sterne (in German) | Konrad Wolf |
1959  | Poland  | The Stone Sky | Kamienne niebo | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Civilians sheltering underground during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1959  | United States  | Tank Commandos |  | Burt Topper | Drama. US ammo and demolition unit on reconnaissance mission to determine where Germans ford river
1959  | United Kingdom
West Germany  | Ten Seconds to Hell (The Phoenix)  | [4] | Robert Aldrich | Thriller based on Lawrence P. Bachmann novel. German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin
1959  | United States  | Timbuktu |  | Jacques Tourneur | Tuareg revolt in French West Africa, 1940
1959  | United States  | Up Periscope |  | Gordon Douglas | Action-drama. US Navy frogman aboard submarine on reconnaissance mission to Japanese-held island
1959  | Poland  | White Bear | Biały niedźwiedź | Jerzy Zarzycki | Tatra Mountains and Zakopane, Polish Holocaust, 1941
1959  | Italy
France  | Wolves of the Deep | Lupi nell'abisso (in Italian)
Les loups dans l'abîme(in French) | Silvio Amadio | Sailors trapped in an Italian submarine damaged by depth charges

## Early 1960s[edit]

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1960  | East Germany  | Blind Spot (TV)  | Toter Winkel | Wolfgang Luderer | Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp guard guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation, 1945
1960  | Italy  | The Cuirassier † | Il corazziere | Camillo Mastrocinque | Comedy. The misadventures of a short Italian soldier
1960  | Italy
France  | Escape by Night | Era notte a Roma (in Italian)
Les Évadés de la nuit (in French) | Roberto Rossellini | Escaped Allied POWs in pre-liberated Italy
1960  | Italy
France  | Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa (in Italian)
La Grande Pagaille (in French) | Luigi Comencini | Comedy-drama (commedia all'italiana). The Four days of Naples and double occupation and subsequent chaos
1960  | United States  | The Gallant Hours |  | Robert Montgomery | Docudrama. Biopic of Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. Efforts against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Imperial Japanese forces in Guadalcanal campaign
1960  | United States  | Hell to Eternity |  | Phil Karlson | Battle of Saipan and wartime discrimination against Japanese-Americans
1960  | Italy  | It Happened in '43 | La lunga notte del '43 | Florestano Vancini | Allied invasion of Italy
1960  | Italy  | The Hunchback of Rome | Il gobbo | Carlo Lizzani | Italian partisan under German occupation becomes a gangster after the liberation of Rome
1960  | Denmark  | The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen | Resistance group on Denmark's Lolland island attempts to liberate wounded British officer, Winter 1944–45
1960  | United Kingdom  | Light Up the Sky! |  | Lewis Gilbert | Anti-aircraft units in England
1960  | United States  | The Mountain Road |  | Daniel Mann | Drama based on Theodore White novel. China based US Army demolition officer's attempts to destroy bridges and roads useful to Imperial Japanese Army
1960  | Denmark  | Price of Freedom | Frihedens Pris | Annelise Hovmand |
1960  | Romania  | The Secret Code | Secretul cifrului | Lucian Bratu | Retreat of Nazi forces from Romania in 1944
1960  | United Kingdom | Sink the Bismarck! |  | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Rheinübung and Battle of the Atlantic
1960  | United States  | Ski Troop Attack |  | Roger Corman | Action. US ski-troop commandos behind German lines to destroy rail bridge
1960  | Czechoslovakia  | Slingshot Bearer | Práče | Karel Kachyňa | Story of Czechoslovak children participating in homeland liberation after Czechoslovak army rescue from concentration camps on Eastern Front
1960  | Japan  | Storm Over the Pacific (I Bombed Pearl Harbor)  | Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi (ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐)  | Shuei Matsubayashi | Imperial Japanese Navy pilot serving on Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū in battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway
1960  | Italy  | The Tank of 8 September † | Il carro armato dell'8 settembre | Gianni Puccini | Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943
1960  | France  | Taxi for Tobruk | Un taxi pour Tobrouk | Denys de La Patellière | Free French commandos in North Africa on mission to capture German officer and reach Allied lines
1960  | Italy  | Two Women | La ciociara | Vittorio De Sica | Drama. Italian mother and daughter raped by French Expeditionary Corps troops (Marocchinate)
1960  | Italy
United States  | Under Ten Flags | [4] | Duilio Coletti | The 665-day pursuit of German surface raider Atlantis and Battle of the Atlantic
1961  | Denmark  | Alarm in the Baltic † | Sorte Shara (Alarm i Østersøen, DVD)  | Sven Methling | Baltic naval battle and escape to neutral Sweden
1961  | United States  | Battle at Bloody Beach |  | Herbert Coleman | Romance/Drama. Civilian US Navy contractor supplies Filipino guerrillas while searching for wife
1961  | United Kingdom
Italy  | The Best of Enemies | I due nemici (in Italian) | Guy Hamilton | Comedy. East African Campaign
1961  | Poland  | Birth Certificate | Świadectwo urodzenia | Stanisław Różewicz | Invasion of Poland, 1939
1961  | United States
France  | Bridge to the Sun | Pont vers le soleil | Étienne Périer | Romance-drama based on autobiography of Gwendolen Terasaki. Wife to First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Washington when Pearl Harbor is bombed and later liaison between Palace and Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur
1961  | Italy  | A Day for Lionhearts | Un giorno da leoni | Nanni Loy | Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance in Italy
1961  | Italy  | Desert Furlough | Pastasciutta nel deserto | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy. Misadventures of an Italian soldier in the rear of the front at El Alamein
1961  | Italy  | A Difficult Life | Una vita difficile | Dino Risi | Comedy-drama. Italian resistance movement and postwar readjustment
1961  | Italy  | The Fascist | Il federale | Luciano Salce | Comedy. Member of Fascist Brigate Nere and sojourn with captive anti-Fascist
1961  | East Germany  | The Gleiwitz Case | Der Fall Gleiwitz | Gerhard Klein | Gleiwitz incident, 1939
1961  | United Kingdom  | The Guns of Navarone |  | J. Lee Thompson | Action-adventure. Allied commandos on mission in Mediterranean Theatre
1961  | Japan  | The Human Condition: A Soldier's Prayer | Ningen no jōken III (人間の條件 III 人間の條件 完結篇)  | Masaki Kobayashi | Part three of trilogy
1961  | India  | Hum Dono | Hum Dono | Amarjeet, Vijay Anand | Musical drama. Indian Army officer in Burma campaign longs for home but has one last duty to perform
1961  | United Kingdom  | Invasion Quartet |  | Jay Lewis | Comedy/drama set during the Battle of France
1961  | United States  | Judgment at Nuremberg |  | Stanley Kramer | Drama. The Nuremberg Trials
1961  | United States  | The Last Time I Saw Archie |  | Jack Webb | Comedy. Enlistment, training and commissioning of Civilian Air Corps into Army Air Force near end of war
1961  | United Kingdom  | The Middle Course |  | Montgomery Tully | Drama. Canadian pilot downed on mission aids French Resistance under German occupation of France
1961  | Poland  | Night Train | Ludzie z pociągu | Kazimierz Kutz | German occupation of Poland
1961  | United States  | On the Double |  | Melville Shavelson | Comedy. Allied soldier awaiting D-Day and impersonation of Allied general to foil assassination by German agents
1961  | United States  | Operation Bottleneck |  | Edward L. Cahn | US paratroopers in the Burma campaign
1961  | West Germany  | Ordered to Love | Lebensborn | Werner Klingler | Exploitation. Nazi Lebensborn programme
1961  | United States  | The Outsider |  | Delbert Mann | Drama based on life of Ira Hayes. Native American Marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima
1961  | Italy  | Pigeon Shoot | Tiro al piccione | Giuliano Montaldo | Decima MAS of the Italian Social Republic
1961  | East Germany  | Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on Friedrich Wolf play. Jewish doctor fails to resist the Nazis
1961  | Poland  | Samson | Samson | Andrzej Wajda | Holocaust during German occupation of Poland
1961  | Poland  | Spring | Kwiecień | Witold Lesiewicz | Wehrmacht on Eastern Front, 1945
1961  | Hong Kong  | Sun, Moon and Star | Xingxing yueliang taiyang (星星月亮太陽) (Mandarin) [8] | Yi Wen | Drama. Chinese resistance
1961  | United Kingdom  | Tarnished Heroes |  | Ernest Morris | Action-adventure. British Major recruits military prisoners for a mission during the Battle of France.
1961  | Poland  | Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Bombing of Dresden from perspective of Polish forced labourers in city, 1945
1961  | Italy  | The Two Marshals | I due marescialli | Sergio Corbucci | Comedy. Carabinieri during the German occupation of Italy
1961  | United Kingdom  | Very Important Person |  | Ken Annakin | Comedy. British POWs in Stalag
1962  | United States  | The Counterfeit Traitor |  | George Seaton | Drama/Thriller based on Alexander Klein non-fiction novel. American-born Swedish oil-trader coerced by Allies into spying on Nazis
1962  | Italy  | Desert War | Quattro notti con l'alba | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Four Italian soldiers and a woman during the retreat after the Second Battle of El Alamein
1962  | France  | The Elusive Corporal (The Vanishing Corporal)  | Le caporal épinglé | Jean Renoir | Comedy-drama. Upper-class Parisian corporal captured by Germans in Battle of France and his various escape attempts from stalag, 1940
1962  | Italy  | The Four Days of Naples | Le quattro giornate di Napoli | Nanni Loy | Drama. Italian civilians revolt against German invaders in the Four Days of Naples
1962  | United States  | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |  | Vincente Minnelli | Drama. German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism
1962  | United States  | Hell Is for Heroes |  | Don Siegel | Action-drama. Squad of US soldiers fighting off larger German forces on Western front
1962  | Soviet Union  | Ivan's Childhood | Ivanovo detstvo (Иваново детство)  | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama. Orphaned boy, cared for by Soviet officers, works as spy on Eastern Front, crossing German lines
1962  | Yugoslavia  | Kozara | Kozara | Veljko Bulajić | Yugoslav Partisans fight German forces in the Kozara Offensive
1962  | Netherlands  | Like Two Drops of Water (The Dark Room of Damocles / The Spitting Image)  | Als twee druppels water | Fons Rademakers | Mystery drama based on Willem Frederik Hermans novel. Dutch Resistance
1962  | United States  | The Longest Day |  | Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin | Action-drama about the Allied Normandy landings on D-Day
1962  | United States
Philippines  | Lost Battalion |  | Eddie Romero | Action-drama. Filipino guerilla leader with knowledge of island jungle attempts rescue of American refugees pinned by Japanese in Philippines
1962  | United States  | Merrill's Marauders |  | Samuel Fuller | US Special Ops troops, the Merrill's Marauders fighting behind Japanese lines
1962  | United States  | No Man is an Island (Island Escape)  |  | Richard Goldstone, John Monks Jr. | Drama based on George Tweed. US sailor is only serviceman on Guam to avoid capture by Japanese
1962  | Italy
France  | No Man's Land | Un branco di vigliacchi | Fabrizio Taglioni | German violence shortly before the arrival of the Allies in occupied Italy
1962  | United Kingdom  | Operation Snatch |  | Robert Day | Comedy. Officer responsible for Barbary apes on Gibraltar behind German lines to snatch an ape to prevent British departure from Gibraltar
1962  | United Kingdom  | The Silent Invasion |  | Max Varnel | Drama. French Resistance story.
1962  | Netherlands  | The Silent Raid | De Overval | Paul Rotha | Crime-thriller based on true story. Allied POW and Dutch Resistance escape from Leeuwarden prison, 1944
1962  | East Germany  | Star-Crossed Lovers (Invincible Love)  | Königskinder | Frank Beyer | Romantic Drama set in Eastern Germany pre-war and wartime.
1962  | Greece  | Stick Them Up, Hitler | Psila ta heria Hitler (Ψηλά τα Χέρια Χίτλερ)  | Roviros Manthoulis | Comedy-drama. Greek Resistance
1962  | Philippines  | Suicide Commandoes |  | Armando Garces | Six Filipino guerrillas aid Lieutenant in destroying Japanese airfield during Battle of Bessang Pass
1962  | Italy  | Ten Italians for One German | Dieci italiani per un tedesco | Filippo Walter Ratti | Italian resistance in Rome and Ardeatine massacre
1962  | Italy  | The Two Colonels | I due colonnelli | Steno | Comedy. An Italian and a British colonel in Greece
1962  | Italy
United Kingdom  | The Valiant | L'affondamento della Valiant | Roy Ward Baker | Italian navy divers attack Royal Navy ships in the Raid on Alexandria (1941)
1962  | Denmark  | Venus fra Vestø | Venus fra Vestø | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy based on true story. Prized cow on Danish island in danger of being seized by German occupation forces or British agricultural department
1962  | Poland  | Walther P-38 (TV)  | Pistolet typu Walter P-38  | Edward Etler | Polish resistance
1962  | United Kingdom  | The War Lover |  | Philip Leacock | American bomber crews in England
1962  | Japan  | The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps | 太平洋戦争と姫ゆり部隊 (Taiheiyô Sensô to Himeyuri Butai)  | Kiyoshi Komori  | Himeyuri students in Battle of Okinawa
1963  | Finland  | Commando Assault | Sissit | Mikko Niskanen | Guerrilla warfare during Continuation War
1963  | United States
Philippines  | Cry of Battle |  | Irving Lerner | Mercenary fighting with partisans in Philippines during Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1963  | United States  | The Great Escape |  | John Sturges | Allied POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III
1963  | Italy  | The Hand on the Rifle † | La mano sul fucile | Luigi Turolla | Soldiers of the Italian Social Republic against Italian partisans
1963  | Poland  | Manhunter | Naganiacz | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Holocaust in Poland
1963  | United Kingdom  | Mystery Submarine (Decoy)  |  | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Adventure-drama. Captured U-boat on Royal Navy mission to mislead German naval force
1963  | East Germany  | Naked Among Wolves | Nackt unter Wölfen | Frank Beyer | Drama based on Bruno Apitz novel. Child hidden in Buchenwald until camp's liberation
1963  | Poland  | On the White Trails | Na białym szlaku | Jarosław Brzozowski | Nazi and Polish forces in Arctic at end of war
1963  | United States  | Operation Bikini |  | Anthony Carras  | Underwater Demolition Team aboard a submarine in the Pacific.
1963  | Poland  | Passenger | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Female SS officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau and her relationship with inmate
1963  | United Kingdom  | The Password is Courage |  | Andrew Stone | Comedy-drama based on POW Sgt. Maj. Charles Coward. Captured soldier's attempts to escape Germans
1963  | Philippines  | Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pablo Santiago | Heroic Filipina during Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1963  | United States  | Miracle of the White Stallions |  | Arthur Hiller  | In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance. American general Patton could save them but first he asks to see them perform.
1963  | United States  | PT 109 |  | Leslie H. Martinson | John F. Kennedy's USN service on Pacific Front
1963  | United States  | The Quick and the Dead |  | Robert Totten | Action-drama. Isolated US soldiers aided by partisans during Italian Campaign, 1944
1963  | Yugoslavia  | The Raid on Drvar | Desant na Drvar | Fadil Hadžić | Operation Rösselsprung (1944) German operation to capture or kill the Yugoslav Partisan leader Marshal Tito
1963  | Philippines
United States  | The Raiders of Leyte Gulf |  | Eddie Romero | Plan to rescue captured American intelligence agent from the Japanese prior to the Battle of Leyte
1963  | Philippines  | Sierra Madre |  | Armando A. Herrera | Campaigns of demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
1963  | Philippines  | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Efren Reyes, Sr. | Philippine Army resistance, 1941
1963  | Italy  | The Terrorist | Il terrorista | Gianfranco De Bosio | Italian partisans in Venice
1963  | Italy
United States  | Torpedo Bay | Finché dura la tempesta | Charles Frend | Italian submarine is chased by the British as it tries to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar
1963  | Hungary  | Two Half Times in Hell (The Last Goal)  | Két félidő a pokolban | Zoltán Fábri | Drama. Soccer match between POWs and Germans
1963  | Italy  | The Verona Trial | Il processo di Verona | Carlo Lizzani | Verona trial of prominent Italian Fascist leaders after the countries' liberation
1963  | United Kingdom  | The Victors |  | Carl Foreman | Drama. US soldiers in European Theatre of combat following D-Day
1963  | Poland  | Where is the General? | Gdzie jest generał... | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Polish forces on Eastern Front, 1945
1963  | Italy  | Wine, Whiskey and Salt Water | Vino, whisky e acqua salata | Mario Amendola | Comedy. An Italian submarine sinks an English warship and takes its very British commander as prisoner
1964  | Soviet Union  | The Alive and the Dead | Живые и мёртвые | Aleksandr Stolper | Military journalism in the country during the period of counterattacks in Battle of Moscow
1964  | United States  | The Americanization of Emily |  | Arthur Hiller | US Navy planning for Normandy landings to have the first casualty by a US Navy man.
1964  | Czechoslovakia  | The Assassination | Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
1964  | Italy
Soviet Union  | Attack and Retreat | Italiani brava gente (in Italian)
Oni shli na vostok (Они шли на Восток) (in Russian) | Giuseppe De Santis | Drama. Unheralded and unsuccessful Eastern Front invasion of Soviet Union by Italian army
1964  | United States  | Back Door to Hell |  | Monte Hellman | American commandos prepare for Gen. MacArthur's return to Philippines
1964  | Poland  | Battle Colours | Barwy walki | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance, 1944
1964  | China  | Dr. Bethune | Bái Qiúēn dai fu (白求恩大夫)  | Gao Zheng, Li Shutian | Drama based on Zhou Erfu book. Canadian doctor Norman Bethune dies aiding Red Army in Sino-Japanese War [9]
1964  | Poland  | End of our World | Koniec naszego świata | Wanda Jakubowska | Prison camp survivor recalls his time in Auschwitz
1964  | United States  | Ensign Pulver |  | Joshua Logan | Romantic comedy. South West Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1955 film Mister Roberts
1964  | United States  | Father Goose |  | Ralph Nelson | Comedy-drama. Coast watcher on Matalava island monitoring Japanese plane movements in the South Pacific
1964  | Georgian SSR  | The Father of the Soldier | Jariskatsis mama (ჯარისკაცის მამა) (in Georgian)
Otets soldata (Отец солдата) (in Russian) | Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze)  | Drama. Georgian peasant leaving village for front lines to find wounded soldier son
1964  | Poland  | The First Day of Freedom | Pierwszy dzień wolności | Aleksander Ford | Polish POWs in German Stalag, 1945
1964  | Japan
United States  | Flight from Ashiya |  | Michael Anderson | USAAF pilots relive events in North Africa and Pacific
1964  | Poland  | Giuseppe in Warsaw | Giuseppe w Warszawie | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Comedy. Italian soldier in Poland, 1943
1964  | United States  | McHale's Navy |  | Edward Montagne | Comedy. American PT boat crew in Pacific Ocean theater of World War II and New Caledonia
1964  | Philippines  | The Guns of Corregidor † | Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres | Allied forces retake Philippine island from Japanese in the Battle of Corregidor
1964  | Yugoslavia  | Nikoletina Bursać | Nikoletina Bursać | Branko Bauer | Story of Yugoslav partisan Nikoletina Bursać
1964  | Denmark  | Paradise and Back | Paradis Retur | Gabriel Axel | Romance/Drama. Life near imposing landfill amid pre-War Denmark and Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark, 1928–1945
1964  | United States  | The Pawnbroker |  | Sidney Lumet | Drama. New York City Auschwitz survivor tormented by memories
1964  | United States  | The Secret Invasion |  | Roger Corman | Allied convicts recruited for mission to capture Nazi-imprisoned Italian general planning to switch sides and turnover army to Allies
1964  | United Kingdom  | The Secret of Blood Island |  | Quentin Lawrence | British POWs help wounded female agent escape Japanese; loosely based sequel to 1958 film The Camp on Blood Island
1964  | South Africa  | Seven Against the Sun |  | David Millin | Squad of South African troops behind enemy lines cause Italian chaos with fake broadcasts in East African Campaign
1964  | United States  | Shell Shock |  | John Hayes | US troops during the Italian Campaign
1964  | United Kingdom  | 633 Squadron (Squadron 633)  |  | Walter Grauman | Drama. RAF squadron on mission to destroy German V-2 rocket fuel factory in Occupied Norway
1964  | United States  | The Thin Red Line |  | Andrew Marton | US troops fighting during the Guadalcanal campaign
1964  | United States
France
Italy  | The Train |  | John Frankenheimer | Resistance in Occupied France
1964  | Poland  | The Unknown | Nieznany | Witold Lesiewicz | Soviet Gulag and Eastern Front, 1943–44
1964  | Philippines
United States  | The Walls of Hell | Intramuros | Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León | Battle of Intramuros to liberate Manila from the Japanese
1964  | France  | Weekend at Dunkirk | Week-end à Zuydcoote | Henri Verneuil | French troops fight against German forces at the Battle of Dunkirk
1964  | Poland  | Wounded in the Forest | Ranny w lesie | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish troops try to evade capture by the Germans
1964  | United Kingdom  | The Yellow Rolls-Royce |  | Anthony Asquith | Axis invasion of Yugoslavia

## Late 1960s[edit]

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1965  | Poland  | And All Will Be Quiet | Potem nastąpi cisza | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish resistance, 1944
1965  | United States  | Battle of the Bulge |  | Ken Annakin | Ardennes Offensive in 1944
1965  | Poland  | The Boots (TV)  | Buty | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Eastern Front military hospital
1965  | Italy  | The Camp Followers | Le soldatesse | Valerio Zurlini | Italian soldiers escort a group of prostitutes in occupied Greece
1965  | Poland  | The Cart (TV)  | Wózek | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Soviet POWs in Poland
1965  | Hungary  | The Corporal and Others | A tizedes meg a többiek | Márton Keleti | Comedy. Hungarian soldiers attempt to surrender to Soviet army
1965  | Poland  | The Day after the War (TV)  | Nazajutrz po wojnie | Lech Lorentowicz | Eastern Front, 1945
1965  | Poland  | Death in the Middle Room (TV)  | Śmierć w środkowym pokoju | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | German occupation of Poland
1965  | Philippines  | The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story | Iginuhit ng Tadhana | Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde | Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
1965  | Czechoslovakia  | The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear)  | A pátý jezdec je strach | Zbyněk Brynych | Drama. Mental effects of Holocaust and oppression in Prague under Nazi occupation
1965  | United Kingdom | The Heroes of Telemark |  | Anthony Mann | Norwegian resistance movement and Operation Gunnerside
1965  | United Kingdom  | The Hill |  | Sidney Lumet | British military prison during the North African campaign
1965  | United States  | In Harm's Way |  | Otto Preminger | US Navy officers in the Pacific Theater of Operations
1965  | United States  | King Rat |  | Otto Preminger | Based on James Clavell novel. Allied POWs under Japanese captors
1965  | Poland  | The Little Daughter (TV)  | Córeczka | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland, 1944
1965  | United States  | McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force |  | Edward Montagne | American PT boat crew in Pacific Theatre; sequel to 1964 film McHale's Navy
1965  | Poland
France
West Germany  | The Moment of Peace (TV)  | Czas pokoju (in Polish) | Georges Franju, Tadeusz Konwicki, Egon Monk, Wojciech Solarz  | Anthology. Occupation stories in France, Germany, and Poland
1965  | United States  | Morituri (Saboteur: Code Name Morituri)  |  | Bernhard Wicki | German in India blackmailed by British to impersonate SS officer aboard cargo ship bound for Germany
1965  | United States
Japan  | None but the Brave | [4] | Frank Sinatra | US and Japanese soldiers temporarily unite to survive on isolated Pacific Island
1965  | United Kingdom  | Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission)  |  | Michael Anderson | Operation Crossbow. Allied operations against the German V-Weapon programme
1965  | Philippines  | My Beloved Philippines † | Pilipinas kong mahal | Efren Reyes | Romance-Drama. Battle of Bataan, Makapili, and Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1965  | Philippines
United States  | The Ravagers |  | Eddie Romero | Filipino guerrillas battle remaining Japanese forces
1965  | Philippines  | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Armando A. Herrera | Filipino guerrillas rescue US soldiers with information for resistance movement
1965  | Czechoslovakia  | The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Drama. Aryanization of rump Slovak State
1965  | United States  | Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious |  | Gottfried Reinhardt | Comedy based on Robert Shaw novel about captured US airmen in Germany
1965  | United Kingdom  | The Sound of Music |  | Robert Wise | 1965 Best Picture Musical drama. Von Trapp family in Salzburg during Nazi Anschluss
1965  | Japan  | Story of a Prostitute | Shunpuden (春婦伝)  | Seijun Suzuki | Brothel at a Japanese outpost in Manchukuo
1965  | United States  | 36 Hours |  | George Seaton | Thriller based on Roald Dahl story. Early June 1944, Germans deceive American officer that it is 1950 and war is over
1965  | Yugoslavia  | Three | Tri | Aleksandar Petrović | Partisan warfare in Yugoslavia
1965  | China  | Tunnel War | Dì dào zhàn (地道战)  | Ren Xudong | Tunnel warfare in China during Sino-Japanese War
1965  | United States
France  | Up from the Beach |  | Robert Parrish | US patrol and their German prisoner after D-Day
1965  | United States  | Von Ryan's Express |  | Mark Robson | Allied POWs escape from Italian camps by train
1965  | Italy  | War Italian Style |  | Luigi Scattini | Two incompetent US Marines are sent to the Battle of Anzio
1966  | United States  | Ambush Bay |  | Ron Winston | US Marine amphibious scouts prior to 1944 invasion of the Philippines
1966  | Czechoslovakia  | Closely Watched Trains (Closely Observed Trains)  | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Unlikely hero takes stand against German occupation of Czechoslovakia
1966  | Poland  | Contribution | Kontrybucja | Jan Łomnicki | Polish resistance
1966  | Poland  | Don Gabriel | Don Gabriel | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Comedy. Polish Campaign, 1939
1966  | France  | Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | La Grande Vadrouille | Gérard Oury | Comedy. RAF crew attempt escape through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen
1966  | Yugoslavia  | Eagles Fly Early | Orlovi rano lete | Soja Jovanović | Young boys assist the partisans in fighting the Germans invading Yugoslavia
1966  | United States  | I Deal In Danger |  | Walter Grauman | American correspondent and double agent for neutral US against Nazis; feature-length compilation of short-lived TV series Blue Light
1966  | Latvian SSR  | I remember everything, Richard (cut version) (Rocks and Splinters; uncut version)  | Es visu atceros, Ricard! (cut version) (Akmens un šķembas; uncut version)  | Rolands Kalnins | Latvian Legion on Leningrad Front; AKA Dzimtene, piedod
1966  | United States
France  | Is Paris Burning? | Paris brûle-t-il? | René Clément | Liberation of Paris
1966  | Israel
United Kingdom
United States  | Judith (Conflict)  | [4] | Daniel Mann | Woman betrayed by Nazi husband is interned in Dachau concentration camp and seeks revenge
1966  | France  | Line of Demarcation | La ligne de démarcation | Claude Chabrol | Small French town divided by river that forms border between Nazi-occupied France and unoccupied zone, 1941
1966  | Poland  | The Master (TV)  | Mistrz | Jerzy Antczak | German occupation of Poland
1966  | United States  | Mission to Death |  | Kenneth W. Richardson | US commandos infiltrate German lines in northern France, 1945
1966  | United Kingdom
France  | The Night of the Generals | [4] | Anatole Litvak | July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
1966  | Denmark  | Once There Was a War | Der var engang en krig | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Danish boy after German occupation of Denmark
1966  | Japan  | Red Angel | Akai tenshi (赤い天使)  | Yasuzo Masumura | Romance/Drama. Japanese nurse serves in field hospitals of China
1966  | United States  | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? |  | Blake Edwards | Allied invasion of Sicily
1967  | United Kingdom  | Attack on the Iron Coast |  | Paul Wendkos | Canadian commando raid on Nazi-held French port, loosely based on St. Nazaire Raid
1967  | East Germany  | The Banner of Krivoy Rog | Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog | Kurt Maetzig | Liberation of Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog
1967  | United States  | Beach Red |  | Cornel Wilde | US Marines land on occupied island during the Pacific Theater of Operations
1967  | Yugoslavia  | Black Birds | Crne ptice (Црне птице)  | Eduard Galić | POWs in Ustasha-run concentration camp near end of war
1967  | Italy
France  | The Crazy Kids of the War | La feldmarescialla | Steno | Comedy. A downed American aviator, a meteorologist and a girl flee the Germans in occupied Italy
1967  | Poland  | A Crazy Night | Zwariowana noc | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Comedy. Polish resistance
1967  | Yugoslavia  | Demolition Squad | Diverzanti | Hajrudin Krvavac | Partisan commandos attack a German air base in Yugoslavia
1967  | Italy
France
West Germany  | Desert Commandos | Attentato ai tre grandi (in Italian)
Les chiens verts du désert (in French)
Fünf gegen Casablanca (in German) | Umberto Lenzi | German commandos parachute into North Africa to infiltrate Casablanca Conference
1967  | French  | The 25th Hour  | La vingt-cinquième heure  | Henri Verneuil  | In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S.
1967  | United States  | The Dirty Dozen |  | Robert Aldrich | Thriller based on E. M. Nathanson novel. US Army convicts on mission before D-Day
1967  | United States  | First to Fight |  | Christian Nyby | US Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations
1967  | Japan  | Japan's Longest Day | Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (日本のいちばん長い日)  | Kihachi Okamoto | Drama based on Sōichi Ōya book. Kyūjō Incident
1967  | Poland  | The Killer Leaves a Trace | Morderca zostawia ślad | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Polish resistance
1967  | United States  | The Longest Hundred Miles (Escape from Bataan)  |  | Don Weis | Adventure. US corporal, priest, and Filipino children flee the Japanese
1967  | Poland  | Long Night | Długa noc | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish resistance during German occupation of Poland, 1943
1967  | Poland
West Germany  | Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime | Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią | Jan Rybkowski | German homefront
1967  | United States  | Tobruk |  | Arthur Hiller | Canadian officer guides British and German-Jewish commandos to destroy Tobruk fuel storage, September 1942
1967  | France  | The Two of Us | Le vieil homme et l'enfant (Claude [10])  | Claude Berri | Comedy-drama. Jewish boy sent to live on farm during German occupation of France
1967  | Poland  | Westerplatte | Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | Battle of Westerplatte, the start of the 1939 German invasion of Poland
1967  | Soviet Union
Poland  | Zosya | Zosya (Зося) (in Russian)
Zosia (in Polish) | Jerzy Lipman | Romance/Drama. Soviet officer and Polish girl near end of war on Poland's Eastern Front
1968  | Albania  | Ambush | Prita | Mithat Fagu | Albanian Resistance under German occupation of Albania, 1943
1968  | Philippines  | Ang Mangliligpit | Ang Mangliligpit | Pablo Santiago | Filipino Guerrillas battle Makapili
1968  | Italy  | Anzio |  | Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti | Allied seaborne assault at the Battle of Anzio
1968  | Georgian SSR  | Crucified Island | Jvartsmuli kundzuli (ჯვარცმული კუნძული) (in Georgian)
Raspyaty ostrov (Распятый остров) (in Russian) | Shota Managadze | Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland
1968  | Italy
West Germany  | Commandos (Sullivan's Marauders)  | Commandos (in Italian) | Armando Crispino | Italian-American soldiers disguised in Italian uniform infiltrate North African camp
1968  | United States  | The Devil's Brigade |  | Andrew V. McLaglen | Story of US-Canadian Commando force, the Devil's Brigade
1968  | Czechoslovakia  | Dita Saxová | Dita Saxová | Antonín Moskalyk | Concentration camp survivor in postwar Prague. Based on novel by Arnošt Lustig.
1968  | France  | Franciscan of Bourges | Le franciscain de Bourges | Claude Autant-Lara | German priest supports prisoners in occupied France
1968  | Poland  | Heading for Berlin | Kierunek Berlin | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish troops taking part in the battle for Berlin during 1945
1968  | Italy
France  | Hell in Normandy | Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (in Italian) | Alfonso Brescia | US paratrooper commandos at Omaha Beach prior to D-Day
1968  | United States  | Hell in the Pacific | [11] | John Boorman | Downed US Marine pilot and marooned Japanese Navy captain on deserted Pacific island
1968  | United States  | Hell Raiders (TV)  |  | Larry Buchanan | US Army demolition squad on mission to destroy records in evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of 1958 film Suicide Battalion
1968  | United States  | The Hell with Heroes |  | Joseph Sargent | Former USAAF pilots forced to work for international smuggler in North Africa to earn money needed for return to civilian life, 1946
1968  | Japan  | The Human Bullet (Human Guinea Pigs: The Human Bullet)  | Nikudan (肉弾)  | Kihachi Okamoto | Japanese Navy pilot assigned kamikaze mission against US battleship
1968  | United States  | In Enemy Country (In Enemy Hands)  |  | Harry Keller | Allied undercover agents aided by Polish resistance on mission to stop Nazis from developing "super torpedo"
1968  | East Germany  | I Was Nineteen | Ich war neunzehn (Ich war 19 / Heimkehr)  | Konrad Wolf | Drama based on director's diary. Young German's flight from Nazis to Moscow and return to Berlin as Russian Army officer
1968  | United Kingdom  | The Long Day's Dying |  | Peter Collinson | British paratroopers separated from regiment take German officer prisoner
1968  | Philippines  | Manila, Open City | Manila, Open City | Eddie Romero | Manila Massacre and Battle of Manila
1968  | Yugoslavia  | Operation Belgrade | Operacija Beograd | Žika Mitrović | A group of partisans is sent to Belgrade to rescue a captured American colonel
1968  | Estonian SSR  | People in Soldier's Uniforms | Inimesed sõdurisinelis (in Estonian)
Lyudi v soldatskikh shinelyakh (Люди в солдатских шинелях) (in Russian) | Jüri Müür | Mobilized Estonian conscripts in Red Army at battles of Velikiye Luki and Tehumardi
1968  | Czechoslovakia  | Riders in the Sky (Sky Riders / Heaven Riders)  | Nebeští jezdci | Jindřich Polák | Czech pilots in RAF No. 311 Squadron
1968  | United States  | The Secret War of Harry Frigg |  | Jack Smight | Comedy. Escape of Allied Generals held in special Italian camp
1968  | Italy  | The Seven Cervi Brothers | I sette fratelli Cervi | Gianni Puccini | Anti Fascist resistance fighters the Cervi Brothers
1968  | Soviet Union  | Shield and Sword | Shchit i mech (Щит и меч)  | Vladimir Basov | Soviet spy in German intelligence [12]
1968  | West Germany  | Signs of Life | Lebenszeichen | Werner Herzog | Wounded German soldiers assigned to convalesce on Greek island of Kos
1968  | United States  | The Subject was Roses |  | Ulu Grosbard | Soldier's return home after war
1968  | United Kingdom  | Submarine X-1 |  | William A. Graham | Royal Navy midget submarines
1968  | Italy/Spain  | Suicide Commandos | Commando suicida | Camillo Bazzoni | British commando mission prior to D-Day
1968  | United Kingdom  | Where Eagles Dare |  | Brian G. Hutton | Allied commando operation to rescue captured "American General"
1968  | Japan  | Monument to the Girl's Corps Monument of Maidens Lily | Âh himeyuri no tô (あゝひめゆりの塔)  | Toshio Masuda  | Himeyuri students in Battle of Okinawa
1968  | Philippines  | Warkill |  | Ferde Grofé Jr. | US Colonel and Philippine guerillas hunt down Japanese in 1945
1969  | France
Italy  | Army of Shadows | L'Armée des ombres | Jean-Pierre Melville | French Resistance
1969  | Poland  | Ascension Day | Wniebowstąpienie | Jan Rybkowski | Lwów, Poland during Soviet and German Occupation, 1941
1969  | Soviet Union  | At War as at War | На войне как на войне | Viktor Tregubovich | Dnieper–Carpathian offensive,
Battle of the Dnieper
1969  | United Kingdom  | Battle of Britain |  | Guy Hamilton | Battle of Britain
1969  | Italy  | The Battle of El Alamein | La battaglia di El Alamein | Giorgio Ferroni | Second Battle of El Alamein
1969  | Yugoslavia  | The Battle of Neretva | Bitka na Neretvi | Veljko Bulajić | Yugoslav partisan resistance at the Battle of Neretva
1969  | Italy
Spain
West Germany
Switzerland  | Battle of the Commandos | La legione dei dannati (in Italian)
La brigada de los condenados (in Spanish)
Die zum Teufel gehen (in German) | Umberto Lenzi | Irish Colonel leading commando unit of convicts and US explosives expert on mission to defuse underwater mines in preparation for D-Day
1969  | Italy
Spain  | The Battle of the Last Panzer (The Last Panzer Battalion)  | La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer (in Italian)
La batalla del último Panzer (in Spanish) | José Luis Merino | Surviving German tank crew attempt to reach friendly lines
1969  | Yugoslavia  | A Bloody Tale | Krvava bajka | Branimir Tori Janković | Kragujevac massacre, Serbia
1969  | Yugoslavia  | The Bridge | Most | Hajrudin Krvavac | Yugoslav partisans mine a heavily guarded bridge held by German forces
1969  | United States  | The Bridge at Remagen |  | John Guillermin | Battle between US & German forces for the Bridge at Remagen in 1945
1969  | Italy  | Code Name, Red Roses | Rose rosse per il Führer | Fernando Di Leo | An American major and some partisans try to capture an important German memoradum
1969  | Poland  | Day of Purification | Dzień oczyszczenia | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish resistance and Soviet partisans in Poland, 1944
1969  | Italy  | Desert Battle (Desert Assault)  | La battaglia del deserto (Inferno nel deserto)  | Mino Loy | British and German soldiers in the desert in the area of Tobruk
1969  | Italy  | Eagles Over London (Battle Squadron / Battle Command)  | La battaglia d'Inghilterra | Enzo G. Castellari | British officers pursue Nazi saboteurs through London
1969  | Italy
Yugoslavia  | The Fifth Day of Peace | Gott mit uns (Dio è con noi) (in Italian) | Giuliano Montaldo | 13 May 1945 German deserter execution
1969  | Italy  | Five for Hell (Five into Hell)  | 5 per l'inferno | Gianfranco Parolini | Comedy-drama. Oddball US commandos with mission behind enemy lines
1969  | Albania  | The Guerrilla Unit | Njësiti guerril | Hysen Hakani | Albanian Resistance in Tirana during Italian occupation of Albania
1969  | United Kingdom  | Hannibal Brooks |  | Michael Winner | Adventure-comedy. British POW attempts escape from German captors with elephant
1969  | Poland  | How I Unleashed the Second World War | Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy. Invasion of Poland, 1939 and Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, and Poland, 1944
1969  | Italy  | Kill Rommel! | Uccidete Rommel | Alfonso Brescia | A mixed US-British commando tries to kill Rommel in North Africa
1969  | Poland  | The Last Days | Ostatnie dni | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945
1969  | Soviet Union
East Germany
Poland
Italy  | Liberation (The Great Battle)  | Osvobozhdenie (Освобождение) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov, Julius Kun | Romance/Drama. Eastern Front from Battle for Kursk to Fall of Berlin; five-part film series
1969  | United States  | Love Camp 7 (Nazi Love Camp 7)  |  | Lee Frost | British female officers infiltrate Nazi internment camp to reach inmate scientist
1969  | United Kingdom  | Mosquito Squadron |  | Boris Sagal | British bomber squadron targets German research camp and Vergeltungswaffe
1969  | Poland  | The Neighbours | Sąsiedzi | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Bydgoszcz, Polish Campaign, 1939
1969  | Philippines  | Pambihirang tatlo | Pambihirang tatlo | Felix Villar | Filipino mission to destroy Japanese bastion along San Bernardino Strait
1969  | United Kingdom  | Play Dirty |  | André de Toth | British commando raid on enemy oil depot during the North African campaign
1969  | Poland  | Red Rowan | Jarzębina czerwona | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Battle of Kolberg on Eastern Front
1969  | Italy  | Salt in the Wound (The Dirty Two)  | Il dito nella piaga | Tonino Ricci | Condemned US soldiers survive Nazi ambush on way to execution and defend Italian village from invading Germans
1969  | United States  | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |  | Stanley Kramer | Aftermath of fall of Mussolini's Fascist government
1969  | Italy  | 36 Hours in Hell | 36 ore all'inferno | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Marine platoon scouts Japanese-occupied island before Allied invasion of Rabaul
1969  | United States  | The Thousand Plane Raid (The 1,000 Plane Raid)  |  | Boris Sagal | Largest air armada on daytime mission targets German fighter plane production
1969  | United States  | Wake Me When the War Is Over (TV)  |  | Gene Nelson | Comedy about US airman sheltered from the Nazis by a German civilian [1]
1969  | Italy
Spain  | War Devils | I diavoli della guerra | Bitto Albertini | Small units in North African desert battle, and French villa raid
1969  | Yugoslavia  | When You Hear the Bells | Kad čuješ zvona | Antun Vrdoljak | A partisan commissar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partisans in line
1969  | Italy  | Youth March | Giovinezza giovinezza | Franco Rossi | Two Italian friends: one becomes an antifascist deserter and the other an artillery officer

## Early 1970s[edit]

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1970  | Italy  | Overrun | La lunga notte dei disertori – I 7 di Marsa Matruh | Mario Siciliano | Drama. A group of British soldiers are determined to get back to their own lines, picking up more allied survivors along the way.
1970  | Greece  | Lieutenant Natasha | Ipolochagos Natassa (Υπολοχαγός Νατάσσα)  | Nikos Foskolos | Drama. Woman in the Greek resistance sent to Dachau
1970  | United States  | Carter's Army AKA Black Brigade (TV)  |  | George McCowan | Blaxploitation Western Front
1970  | United States  | Catch-22 |  | Mike Nichols | Satirical black comedy about US bomber pilot during the Italian Campaign
1970  | Italy
Spain  | Churchill's Leopards | I leopardi di Churchill (in Italian) | Maurizio Pradeaux | English agent, posing as dead German officer twin, assists French Resistance and British commandos against SS, 1944
1970  | Italy  | Corbari | Corbari | Valentino Orsini | Italian resistance movement
1970  | Poland  | Face of an Angel | Twarz anioła | Zbigniew Chmielewski | Drama. Children in Nazi concentration camp in Łódź, Poland
1970  | Italy
West Germany  | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Il giardino dei Finzi Contini | Vittorio De Sica | Vittorio De Sica, Ugo Pirro and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
1970  | Philippines  | Guerrilla Strike Force | Maharlika | Jerry Hopper | Japanese invasion of Manila Bay Released in 1987
1970  | United Kingdom
United States  | Hell Boats |  | Paul Wendkos | British motor torpedo boats operating in Mediterranean
1970  | United States
Italy  | Hornets' Nest | [4] | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | US paratrooper and boy partisans attack dam during Italian Campaign
1970  | United States
Yugoslavia  | Kelly's Heroes | [4] | Brian G. Hutton | Comedy drama about a group of US GIs who go AWOL to rob Nazi gold from a French bank
1970  | Poland  | Kolumbowie | Kolumbowie | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish underground Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944
1970  | Spain/Italy  | The Last Day of the War | El último día de la guerra | Juan Antonio Bardem | US and German soldiers seek to find a German scientist
1970  | United Kingdom  | The Last Escape |  | Walter Grauman | Allied commandos on mission to kidnap German scientists, 1945; shot in 1968
1970  | Japan  | The Last Kamikaze | Saigo no Tokkotai | Yahagi Toshihiko | Kamikaze attacks
1970  | Poland
Soviet Union  | Legenda | Legenda (in Polish) | Sylwester Chęciński | Polish resistance
1970  | Italy  | The Little War | Io non scappo... fuggo | Franco Prosperi | Comedy. War in Sicily and in Italy
1970  | United Kingdom  | The McKenzie Break (Escape)  |  | Lamont Johnson | Irish intelligence officer investigates German POW camp disturbances in Scotland near end of war
1970  | Denmark  | October Days †· | Oktoberdage | Bent Christensen |
1970  | Poland  | Olympic Fire | Znicz olimpijski | Lech Lorentowicz | Zakopane, Polish resistance in Tatra Mountains
1970  | Italy  | Operation Snafu (Situation Normal: AFU)  | Rosolino Paternò, soldato... | Nanni Loy | American landing in Sicily
1970  | United States  | Patton |  | Franklin Schaffner | 1970 Best Picture chronicling the campaigns of General George S. Patton
1970  | Philippines  | Santiago! | Santiago! | Lino Brocka | Life in occupied Philippines
1970  | Italy
Soviet Union  | Sunflower | I Girasoli | Vittorio De Sica | Romance-drama. End of war search for Italian soldier lost on Eastern Front[13]
1970  | United States  | Too Late the Hero (Suicide Run)  |  | Robert Aldrich | British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign
1970  | United States
Japan  | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Tora Tora Tora! (トラ・トラ・トラ!)  | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda | Attack on Pearl Harbor
1970  | Japan  | Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists | Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' (激動の昭和史 軍閥)  | Hiromichi Horikawa | Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War
1970  | United Kingdom/USA co-production shot in Ireland  | Underground |  | Arthur H. Nadel  | French Resistance adventure
1971  | Japan  | The Battle of Okinawa | Gekido no Showashi: Okinawa kessen (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦)  | Kihachi Okamoto | Battle of Okinawa through eyes of Japanese Army, Navy, aviation, civilians, and generals
1971  | United States  | The Birdmen (Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen) (TV)  |  | Philip Leacock | Adventure. POWs in castle prison build glider
1971  | United Kingdom  | Dad's Army |  | Norman Cohen | Comedy based on Dad's Army TV series. British Home Guard
1971  | Italy  | The Long Shadow of the Wolf † | La lunga ombra del lupo | Gianni Manera | Italian Civil War
1971  | South Africa  | Mr. Kingstreet's War |  | Percival Rubens | US couple defend their land in Africa at the start of WWII
1971  | United Kingdom  | Murphy's War |  | Peter Yates | Survivor of merchant ship looks to take revenge on U-boat that sunk him
1971  | Yugoslavia  | The Pine Tree in the Mountain | U gori raste zelen bor | Antun Vrdoljak | A Yugoslav Communist Party commissioner is sent to a lowland village to monitor the local partisans
1971  | United States  | Raid on Rommel |  | Henry Hathaway | North African campaign Reuses footage from Tobruk (1967)
1971  | Philippines  | Sangre | Sangre (in Spanish) | Armando Garces | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army
1971  | Poland  | The Third Part of the Night | Trzecia część nocy | Andrzej Żuławski | Polish Resistance
1971  | Bulgaria  | Three Reservists | Trimata ot zapasa (Тримата от запаса)  | Zako Heskija | Comedy-drama. Bulgarian soldiers in Hungary, 1945
1971  | Poland  | Top Agent | Agent nr 1 | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Polish SOE agent in Greek Resistance
1971  | Soviet Union  | Trial on the Road | Proverka na dorogakh (Проверка на дорогах)  | Aleksei German | Former Russian POW joins partisans, Winter 1942
1971  | Greece  | What Did You Do in the War, Thanasi? | Ti ekanes ston polemo, Thanasi? (Τι έκανες στον πόλεμο, Θανάση)  | Dinos Katsouridis | Anti-war comedy. Hapless man caught up between the Greek Resistance and the Germans
1972  | India  | Challenge | Lalkaar | Ramanand Sagar | Drama based on book by Ramanand Sagar (writer). Indian Army and Indian Air Force action against a secret Japanese Air Strip construction between Burma and Assam, near Indian state of Nagaland, 1942
1972  | Soviet Union  | The Dawns Here Are Quiet | A zori zdes tikhie (А зори здесь тихие)  | Stanislav Rostotsky | Drama based on book by Boris Vasilyev. Female Soviet anti-aircraft squad encounter with platoon of Nazi paratroopers on Karelian Front, 1941
1972  | Soviet Union  | Hot Snow | Goryachiy Sneg (Горячий снег)  | Gavriil Egiazarov | Drama based on Yuri Bondarev novel. German attempt to extract Sixth Army from Stalingrad in Winter of 1942
1972  | United Kingdom  | Beyond the Call of Duty (Canada)/ Operation: Fred (US)  | Our Miss Fred | Bob Kellett | During the Battle of France an RASC female impersonator entertaining the troops avoids capture when the Germans capture his audience. On his way to England he comes across an English girls school group and a downed RAF pilot, 1940
1972  | Japan  | Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Gunki hatameku motoni (軍旗はためく下に)  | Kinji Fukasaku | Japanese veterans recall experiences to a war widow on quest to exonerate husband executed for desertion
1972  | Yugoslavia  | Walter Defends Sarajevo | Valter brani Sarajevo (Валтер брани Сарајево)  | Hajrudin Krvavac | Partisans try to prevent the Germans to use a fuel depot in Sarajevo during their retreat from the Balkans in late 1944
1973  | Yugoslavia  | The Battle of Sutjeska | Sutjeska (Сутјеска)  | Stipe Delić | Battle of the Sutjeska between Yugoslav partisans and the Germans
1973  | Yugoslavia  | Bombers † | Bombaši (Бомбаши)  | Predrag Golubović | Two Yugoslav partisans must blow up some bunkers in order to stop the Germans
1973  | United States  | Death Race (State of Division) (TV)  |  | David Lowell Rich | German panzer chases American P-40 across North African desert, 1942
1973  | Philippines  | Dugo ng Bayan | Dugo ng Bayan | Armando A. Herrera | Remake. Filipino Resistance.[14]
1973  | United Kingdom
Italy  | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | [4] | Ennio De Concini | Last days of Hitler during Battle of Berlin
1973  | Poland  | Hubal | Hubal | Bohdan Poręba | Henryk Dobrzański in Polish Campaign, 1939–1940
1973  | China  | Little 8th Route Army | Xiaobalu (小八路)  | Lei You | Animated. Sino-Japanese War
1973  | Italy  | Massacre in Rome | Rappresaglia | George P. Cosmatos | Ardeatine massacre by Germans of multiple Italian civiians as revenge for partisan attacks
1973  | France
Italy  | Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (in French) | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle; first of trilogy
1973  | Ukrainian SSR  | Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle | В бой идут одни «старики» | Leonid Bykov | Fighter pilots of Soviet Air Forces Vs Luftwaffe clash before Battle of the Dnieper
1973  | France  | The Train (The Last Train)  | Le Train | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Based on Georges Simenon novel. Frenchman and Jewish-German woman meet on train while escaping German army to France
1973  | Hong Kong
South Korea  | When Taekwondo Strikes | Tai quan zhen jiu zhou (跆拳震九州) (in Yue Chinese) | Feng Huang | Martial arts. Japanese occupation of Korea
1974  | United Kingdom  | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall |  | Norman Cohen | Comedy. Basic training of British conscripts
1974  | France  | Black Thursday | Les guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | First large-scale roundup of Jews in Paris and man saving as many as possible, 1942
1974  | Estonian SSR  | The Dangerous Games | Ohtlikud mängud (in Estonian)
Opasnye igry (Опасные игры) (in Russian) | Veljo Käsper | Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
1974  | Bulgaria  | Dawn Over the Drava | Zarevo nad Drava (Зарево над Драва)  | Zako Heskija | Drama. Bulgarian army fights German troops at the Battle of the Drava, 1945
1974  | Taiwan  | The Everlasting Glory | Ying lie qian qiu (英烈千秋)  | Tin Shan Sui | Biography of Zhang Zizhong during Sino-Japanese War
1974  | United States  | The Execution of Private Slovik (TV)  |  | Lamont Johnson | Drama based on William Bradford Huie book. Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier to be executed for desertion during war
1974  | Japan  | Father of the Kamikaze | Ā Kessen Kōkūtai (あゝ決戦航空隊)  | Kosaku Yamashita | Drama. Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi
1974  | Poland  | Heads Full of Stars | Głowy pełne gwiazd | Janusz Kondratiuk | Eastern Front and German Occupation of Poland, 1944
1974  | Japan  | Karafuto Summer 1945: Gate of Ice and Snow | Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門)  | Mitsuo Murayama | Soviet invasion of Karafuto prompts nine Japanese women to commit suicide
1974  | France
West Germany
Italy  | Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien)  | Lacombe Lucien (in French) | Louis Malle | French Resistance and collaboration
1974  | Italy  | Last Days of Mussolini | Mussolini ultimo atto | Carlo Lizzani | The last days of Benito Mussolini
1974  | Yugoslavia  | Red Attack † | Crveni Udar (Црвени удар)  | Predrag Golubović | Resistance in a mine in German-occupied Kosovo
1974  | Poland
Soviet Union  | Remember Your Name | Zapamiętaj imię swoje (in Polish)
Pomni imya svoye (Помни имя свое) (in Russian) | Siergiej Kołosow | Tragedy of children in war
1974  | Italy  | Salvo D'Acquisto | Salvo D'Acquisto | Romolo Guerrieri | Salvo D'Acquisto, an Italian policeman saved civilian hostages by surrendered to the Germans
1974  | United Kingdom  | Undercovers Hero | Soft Beds, Hard Battle | Roy Boulting | Comedy. Brothel during the German occupation of France
1974  | Yugoslavia  | The Republic of Užice | Užička republika (Ужичка република)  | Žika Mitrović | Drama. Short-lived partisan Republic of Užice, 1941

## Late 1970s[edit]

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1975  | Philippines  | Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa | Ding M. De Jesus, Cesar Gallardo, Armando A. Herrera, Johnny Pangilinan, Romy Suzara | Filipino resistance from the Spanish period to the Japanese
1975  | Yugoslavia  | The Farm in the Small Marsh | Salas u Malom Ritu (Салаш у Малом Риту)  | Branko Bauer | German occupation of the Banat
1975  | United States  | Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS |  | Don Edmonds  | Exploitation film about sadistic Nazi prison camp commandant.
1975  | Poland  | In the Days Before the Spring | W te dni przedwiosenne | Andrzej Konic | Eastern Front, 1945
1975  | East Germany
Czechoslovakia  | Jacob the Liar | Jakob der Lügner (in German) | Frank Beyer | Based on Jurek Becker novel. Eastern European Jewish ghetto, 1944
1975  | Poland  | Leaves Have Fallen | Opadły liście z drzew | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance
1975  | Poland  | My War – My Love | Moja wojna, moja miłość | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Campaign, 1939
1975  | France
West Germany  | The Old Gun (Vengeance One by One)  | Le vieux fusil | Robert Enrico | French surgeon pushed to take revenge against SS atrocities in his village
1975  | Romania  | No Trespassing | Pe aici nu se trece | Doru Năstase | Battle of Păuliș in 1944 between Hungarian and Romanian troops, after Romania had joined the Allies.
1975  | Soviet Union  | Only Old Men Are Going to Battle | V boy idut odni stariki (В бой идут одни старики)  | Leonid Bykov | Comedy-drama. Soviet pilots
1975  | United States
Czechoslovakia  | Operation Daybreak (The Price of Freedom)  | [4] | Lewis Gilbert | Drama based on Operation Anthropoid assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
1975  | United Kingdom | Overlord |  | Stuart Cooper | Young soldier trains with East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for Normandy landings
1975  | Poland  | A Partita for a Wind Instrument | Partita na instrument drewniany | Janusz Zaorski | Polish Resistance
1975  | Italy  | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Controversial horror art film. Wealthy fascist libertines after the fall of Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò, 1944
1975  | Italy  | Seven Beauties | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Satirical dark comedy. Mobster is conscripted in Italian Army to avoid prison
1975  | France  | The Seventh Company Has Been Found | On a retrouvé la septième compagnie | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen during May 1940 débâcle and in officers POW camp/castle; second of trilogy
1975  | France  | Special Section | Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | Special court where judges condemn innocents to death to please Germans during occupation
1975  | Soviet Union  | They Fought for Their Country | Oni srazhalis za Rodinu (Они сражались за Родину)  | Sergey Bondarchuk | Rearguard action of Soviet platoon during German drive on Stalingrad
1975  | Greece  | The Travelling Players | O Thiasos (Ο Θίασος)  | Theodoros Angelopoulos | German invasion and occupation of Greece
1976  | Italy  | And Agnes Chose to Die | L'Agnese va a morire | Giuliano Montaldo | Italian resistance movement
1976  | Poland  | Birds to Birds | Ptaki, ptakom... | Paweł Komorowski | Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939
1976  | Denmark  | The Brief Summer | Den korte sommer | Edward Fleming | Woman falls in love with German soldier
1976  | United Kingdom  | The Eagle Has Landed |  | John Sturges | German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill, based on novel by Jack Higgins.
1976  | United States  | Farewell to Manzanar (TV)  |  | John Korty | Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar
1976  | Yugoslavia  | Maiden Bridge | Devojački most (Девојачки мост)  | Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic | Exchange of prisoners between Germans and Yugoslav partisans
1976  | United States  | Midway (The Battle of Midway)  |  | Jack Smight | Battle of Midway between US Navy and Japanese carrier fleets in the Pacific
1976  | France
Italy  | Mr. Klein | Monsieur Klein (in French) | Joseph Losey | French Resistance and collaboration
1976  | Yugoslavia  | The Peaks of Zelengora | Vrhovi Zelengore (Врхови Зеленгоре)  | Zdravko Velimirović | Battle of Sutjeska between Yugoslav partisans and the occupying Germans
1976  | Poland  | Polish Roads (TV miniseries)  | Polskie drogi | Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern | Poland, 1939–43; in four-parts
1976  | Italy
West Germany
France  | Salon Kitty (Madam Kitty)  | Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Exploitation. Nazi use of Salon Kitty brothel for espionage and Allied counter-espionage
1976  | Soviet Union
Bulgaria  | The Soldier of the Supply Column | Voynikat ot oboza (Войникът от обоза) (in Bulgarian)
Bratyuzhka (Братюшка) (in Russian) | Igor Dobrolyubov | Soviet army in Bulgaria [15]
1976  | Philippines  | Three Years Without God | Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Mario O'Hara | Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1976  | Poland  | To Save the City | Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Polish resistance fight to save Kraków from destruction by retreating German forces in 1945
1976  | Taiwan  | Victory | Mei hua (電影)  | Chia Chang Liu | Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937–1945)
1976  | Japan  | Zero Pilot | Ōzora no samurai (天空的武士)  | Seiji Maruyama | Based on novel Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero
1977  | Soviet Union  | The Ascent | Voskhozhdeniye (Восхождение)  | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet partisans in Byelorussian village spotted by German patrol
1977  | Canada  | Bethune (TV)  |  | Eric Till | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spanish Civil War, then China for Sino-Japanese War
1977  | United Kingdom
United States  | A Bridge Too Far |  | Richard Attenborough | Operation Market Garden, the failed Allied airborne operation against the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
1977  | Albania  | Tomka and his friends | Tonka dhe shoket e tij | Xhanfise Kiko | Children avenge the Nazi occupiers of their playing ground by collecting information for partisans and neutralizing the German Shepherd guard dog.
1977  | United Kingdom
West Germany  | Cross of Iron | [4] | Sam Peckinpah | German soldiers on the Russian Front
1977  | Taiwan  | Eight Hundred Heroes | Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士)  | Ting Shan-hsi | Drama. Defense of Sihang Warehouse
1977  | France
Spain  | Hitler's Last Train | Train spécial pour SS (in French) | Alain Payet | Rail journey of nightclub singer and young women in her charge drafted by Hitler for SS service
1977  | Poland  | The Last Round (TV)  | Ostatnie okrążenie | Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska | German Occupation of Poland and Gestapo murder of Olympic gold-medalist Janusz Kusociński
1977  | United States  | MacArthur |  | Joseph Sargent | General Douglas MacArthur
1977  | East Germany  | Mama, I'm Alive | Mama, ich lebe | Konrad Wolf | German POWs join Red Army then infiltrate Nazi lines
1977  | Poland  | Palace Hotel | Palace Hotel | Ewa Kruk | Poland, 1939–44
1977  | France  | The Seventh Company Outdoors | La septième compagnie au clair de lune | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy. French signal corpsmen resisting German invasion/occupation; last of trilogy
1977  | Soviet Union
Armenian SSR  | The Soldier and the Elephant | Zinvorn u pighe (Солдат и слон) (in Russian)
(Զինվորն ու փիղը) (in Armenian) | Dmitri Kesayants | Soldier brings an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
1977  | Netherlands  | Soldier of Orange (Survival Run)  | Soldaat van Oranje | Paul Verhoeven | Dutch Resistance
1978  | Yugoslavia  | Battle for the Railway | Dvoboj za juznu prugu (Двобој за јужну пругу)  | Zdravko Velimirović | Yugoslav partisans fight against Germans and Bulgarians to interrupt a railroad in Southern Serbia
1978  | Yugoslavia  | Boško Buha | Boško Buha (Бошко Буха)  | Branko Bauer | Yugoslav partisan hero Boško Buha
1978  | United States
West Germany
Switzerland  | Brass Target |  | John Hough | The Algonquin Project 1974 novel by Frederick Nolan
1978  | United Kingdom  | Force 10 from Navarone |  | Guy Hamilton | British commando raid in Yugoslavia
1978  | Italy  | The Greatest Battle | Il grande attacco | Umberto Lenzi | Five athletes of the Berlin Olympic Games fight in World War II
1978  | United States  | Holocaust (TV miniseries)  |  | Marvin J. Chomsky | German-Jewish family enduring the Holocaust
1978  | Poland  | Hospital of the Transfiguration | Szpital przemienienia | Edward Żebrowski | Drama. Polish psychiatric hospital and its Gestapo roundup for concentration camps, 1943
1978  | Poland  | A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores | Sto koni do stu brzegów | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Polish soldier escapes Stalag tasked with delivering information across Europe while evading Gestapo
1978  | Italy  | The Inglorious Bastards (G.I. Bro / Counterfeit Commandos)  | [4] | Enzo G. Castellari | American soldiers escape military prison and aide French resistance on mission to steal Nazi V-2 prototype gyroscope
1978  | Poland  | Operation Arsenal | Akcja pod Arsenałem | Jan Łomnicki | Based on an Aleksander Kamiński novel. Szare Szeregi and Operation Arsenal during occupation of Poland, 1943
1978  | Netherlands  | Pastorale 1943 | Pastorale 1943 | Wim Verstappen | Dutch Resistance
1978  | Poland  | Shadow Dead | Umarli rzucają cień | Julian Dziedzina | Silesian Polish Resistance
1978  | Poland  | To the Last Drop of Blood | Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | Creation of the Polish 1st Infantry Division in the USSR during WW2 and its first battle
1978  | Poland  | Wherever You Are, Mr. President | ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Warsaw – Polish Campaign, 1939
1979  | United Kingdom  | The Passage |  | J. Lee Thompson | Story of Basque guide helping chemist Bergson and his family escape over the Pyrenees with Nazi fanatic Capt. Von Berkow in hot pursuit.
1979  | Yugoslavia  | Battle Squadron | Partizanska eskadrila (Партизанска ескадрила)  | Hajrudin Krvavac | The first Yugoslav partisan Air Force unit
1979  | West Germany  | Breakthrough | Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil [16] | Andrew V. McLaglen | July 20 plot; sequel to Cross of Iron
1979  | Poland  | Elegy | Elegia | Paweł Komorowski | Polish soldiers fighting the Nazis on the Eastern Front, 1945
1979  | United Kingdom  | Escape to Athena |  | George Pan Cosmatos | Comedy-Drama about allied POWs and Greek resistance sabotaging a German rocket base.
1979  | Italy
Spain
France  | From Hell to Victory | [4] | "Hank Milestone"
(Umberto Lenzi)  | Varying wartime experiences of six French friends
1979  | United Kingdom
United States  | Hanover Street |  | Peter Hyams | American bomber pilot based in England, flying missions and his romance with an English nurse
1979  | United States  | Ike (TV miniseries)  |  | Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Drama. Wartime romance of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
1979  | Poland  | A Long Way to Go | Droga daleka przed nami | Władysław Ślesicki | Polish soldier's escape from Stalag
1979  | Poland  | Morning Stars | Gwiazdy poranne | Henryk Bielski | Eastern Front, 1944
1979  | Estonian SSR  | Nest in the Winds | Tuulte pesa (in Estonian) | Olav Neuland | Partisan groups, known as Forest Brothers wage a guerrilla war verses German troops in the Baltic states
1979  | United States  | 1941 |  | Steven Spielberg | Comedy. California coast one week after attack on Pearl Harbor
1979  | Albania  | The Radio Station | Radiostacioni | Rikard Ljarja | Based on Ismail Kadare novel Novembre d'une capitale. Albanian Resistance attempt to take over Tirana Radio, November 1944
1979  | Poland  | Salad Days | Zielone lata | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Tragedy of Polish, Jewish and German children in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1939
1979  | Poland  | Secret of Enigma | Sekret Enigmy | Roman Wionczek | Cryptologist Marian Rejewski and the Enigma machine
1979  | West Germany  | The Tin Drum | Die Blechtrommel | Volker Schlöndorff | Profound yet hilarious perspective on Nazism and the human condition in Danzig he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and creates a disturbance by tin drum in order to bring attention to a cause.
1979  | United Kingdom  | Yanks |  | John Schlesinger | Relationships between US servicemen stationed in England, and local women during preparations for the D-Day landings.

## Early 1980s[edit]

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1980  | United States  | The Big Red One |  | Samuel Fuller | US 1st Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, 1942–45
1980  | Poland  | The Birthday | Urodziny młodego warszawiaka | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Campaign, 1939 and Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980  | Poland  | The Death Sentence | Wyrok śmierci | Witold Orzechowski | Polish Resistance and Zamość, Poland
1980  | Philippines  | Eagle | Aguila | Eddie Romero | Story of elderly man's life, including his experiences during WW II
1980  | Poland  | '40 Olympics | Olimpiada '40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | Clandestine Olympiad held by Allied prisoners in German Stalag, 1940
1980  | Philippines  | .45-Caliber | Kalibre .45 | Nilo Saez | Story of vengeance near end of Japanese occupation of the Philippines
1980  | West Germany  | Germany Pale Mother | Deutschland bleiche Mutter | Helma Sanders-Brahms | young couple in Germany get married just before outbreak of war
1980  | France  | The Last Metro | Le dernier métro | François Truffaut | German occupation of France
1980  | Italy  | Men or Not Men | Uomini e no | Valentino Orsini | Italian resistance movement
1980  | United Kingdom
Switzerland
United States  | The Sea Wolves |  | Andrew V. McLaglen | Members of the British Calcutta Light Horse mission to sink a German merchant ship in Goa, India
1980  | Poland  | Vistula Day | Dzień Wisły | Tadeusz Kijański | Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980  | Poland  | "W" Hour | Godzina "W" | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance and Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1981  | Switzerland
West Germany
Austria  | The Boat is Full | Das Boot ist voll | Markus Imhoof | German and Austrian refugees escape to neutral Switzerland hoping to find asylum by posing as family
1981  | France  | Bolero: Dance of Life | Les uns et les autres | Claude Lelouch | Musical drama. Four musical families of different backgrounds and nationalities followed from 1930s–1980s as their paths cross; film also released as TV miniseries, 1981
1981  | United States  | The Bunker |  | George Schaefer | Based on book The Bunker. Last days of Hitler
1981  | West Germany  | Das Boot (The Boat)  | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | U-Boat crew fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic
1981  | United States  | Escape to Victory (Victory)  |  | John Huston | Propaganda football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs
1981  | United Kingdom  | Eye of the Needle |  | Richard Marquand | German spy in England before D-Day
1981  | Lithuanian SSR  | Faktas | Faktas (in Lithuanian)
Fakt (Факт) (in Russian) | Almantas Grikevicius |
1981  | Poland  | General Boldyn | Bołdyn | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Resistance
1981  | Netherlands  | The Girl with the Red Hair | Het meisje met het rode haar | Ben Verbong | Dutch Resistance
1981  | Japan  | The Imperial Navy | Rengo kantai (連合艦隊)  | Shūe Matsubayashi | Operation Ten-Go and battleship Yamato
1981  | France  | Let's Go Children | Allons Z'enfants | Yves Boisset | Drama. Young Cadet in French military school who dislikes soldiering but conscripted into Phony War service, 1939–1940
1981  | Poland  | Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye | Ryś | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance
1981  | Italy  | The Skin | La pelle | Liliana Cavani | American occupation of Naples
1981  | Soviet Union
France
Switzerland
Spain  | Teheran 43 (Assassination Attempt / The Eliminator)  | Tegeran-43 (Тегеран-43) (in Russian) | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Thriller. Assassination plot against Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Tehran Conference, 1943
1982  | Yugoslavia  | 13th of July  † | 13\. jul (13\. јул)  | Radomir Saranović | Uprising in Montenegro, against new political leaders, 1941
1982  | Poland  | Ash Wednesday (TV)  | Popielec | Ryszard Ber | Polish village under German occupation
1982  | Australia
Taiwan  | Attack Force Z (Z Force)  |  | Tim Burstall | ,Joint Australian, British,New Zealand commando unit, Z Special Unit fighting Japanese forces
1982  | Philippines  | Gold, Silver, Death | Oro, Plata, Mata | Peque Gallaga | Fall of Corregidor completing the Japanese takeover of the Philippines in 1942
1982  | Australia
Japan
Singapore  | The Highest Honour (The Southern Cross / Heroes of the Krait)  |  | Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell | Allied special forces unit undertake Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau against the Japanese
1982  | Japan  | The Lily Tower † | Himeyuri no Tō (ひめゆりの塔)  | Tadashi Imai | A group of high school girls trained as nurses witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa[17]
1982  | Australia  | Sarah (Sarah and the Squirrel)  | The Seventh Match | Yoram Gross, Athol Henry | An orphaned girl successfully finishes a task, the local resistance were unable to.
1982  | Italy  | The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Comedy-drama. Italians hear rumors of Nazi plan to raze their town when Americans are about to liberate them, 1944
1982  | Italy  | Odd Squad | Ciao nemico | Enzo Barboni | Comedy. Allied invasion of Sicily
1982  | United States  | Sophie's Choice |  | Alan J. Pakula | Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor
1982  | Poland  | Tribute to a Gray Day | Haracz szarego dnia | Roman Wionczek, Krzysztof Prymek | Polish Resistance
1982  | Poland  | Upside Down | Do góry nogami | Stanisław Jędryka | Drama. Polish Silesia and tragedy of children in war
1982  | West Germany  | The White Rose | Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Execution of White Rose members who protested against the Nazi regime in Germany
1983  | Poland
West Germany  | After Your Decrees [pl] | Wedle wyroków twoich... (in Polish)
Blutiger Schnee (in German) | Jerzy Hoffman | Holocaust in Poland
1983  | Yugoslavia  | Balkan Express | Balkan ekspres (Балкан експрес)  | Lee H. Katzin | Comedy. Criminals earn living as fake musical band during Nazi occupation of Serbia
1983  | Japan  | Barefoot Gen | Hadashi no Gen (はだしのゲン)  | Mori Masaki | Anime. Dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan
1983  | Poland  | The Crash off Gibraltar | Katastrofa w Gibraltarze | Bohdan Poręba | Drama. General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile, Commander-in-Chief of Polish Armed Forces, 1943
1983  | Poland  | Dawn Porter (TV)  | Tragarz puchu | Stefan Szlachtycz | Holocaust in Poland
1983  | France  | Gramps is in the Resistance | Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | Comedy. French Resistance in Occupied France
1983  | Yugoslavia  | Great Transport | Veliki transport (Велики транспорт)  | Veljko Bulajić | The great transport of partisans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943
1983  | Hong Kong  | Hong Kong, 1941 | Dang doi lai ming (等待黎)  | Leong Po-Chih | Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
1983  | Yugoslavia  | The Igman March | Igmanski marš (Игмански марш)  | Zdravko Šotra | The 1st Proletarian Brigade, pursued by the German 342\. Infanterie-Division, crosses the Igman in what is known as the "Igman March" during Operation Southeast Croatia
1983  | United Kingdom
Japan  | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Senjō no merī Kurisumasu (戦場のメリークリスマス) (Furyo / 俘虜)  | Nagisa Oshima | Drama based on Laurens van der Post books. British POWs on Java
1983  | China  | One and Eight | Yīge hé bāge (一个和八个)  | Zhang Junzhao | Criminals and Eighth Route Army deserters battle Japanese
1983  | Poland  | Postcard From a Journey | Kartka z podróży | Waldemar Dziki | Holocaust in Poland
1983  | Hungary  | The Revolt of Job | Jób lázadása | Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Childless Jewish couple adopt Hungarian boy during war
1983  | Philippines  | Roman Rapido | Roman Rapido | Argel Joseph | Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with Imperial Japanese Army
1983  | United States
United Kingdom
Italy  | The Scarlet and the Black (TV)  |  | Jerry London | Drama. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty and anti-Nazi activity, 1943–45
1983  | Poland  | There Was No Sun That Spring | Nie było słońca tej wiosny | Juliusz Janicki, Slawomir Janicki | Holocaust in Poland
1983  | Canada  | The Tin Flute | Bonheur d'occasion (in French) | Claude Fournier | Drama based on Gabrielle Roy novel. Quebec home front
1983  | United States  | To Be or Not to Be |  | Alan Johnson | Comedy-drama. Polish actor and Nazi invasion of Poland; remake of 1942 To Be or Not to Be
1983  | Soviet Union  | Torpedo Bombers | Torpedonostsi (Торпедоносцы)  | Semyon Aranovich | Soviet pilots fighting German bombers that are attacking British navy convoys
1983  | Denmark  | Traitors | Forræderne | Ole Roos | Drama. Free Corps Denmark deserters from Eastern Front, 1945
1983  | United States  | Winds of War (TV miniseries)  |  | Dan Curtis | Drama based on Herman Wouk novel. Family saga leading to Attack on Pearl Harbor
1984  | Canada  | Charlie Grant's War (TV)  |  | Martin Lavut | Drama. Canadian Charlie Grant, Holocaust saviour [18]
1984  | Italy  | Claretta | Claretta | Pasquale Squitieri | Drama. Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci in 1943–45
1984  | Poland  | The Fourth Day | Dzień czwarty | Ludmiła Niedbalska | Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1984  | Poland  | I Died to Live (TV)  | Umarłem, aby żyć | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Resistance, 1941
1984  | Poland  | I Shall Always Stand Guard | Na straży swej stać będę | Kazimierz Kutz | Polish Resistance in Silesia, 1939–42
1984  | Australia  | The Last Bastion (TV miniseries)  |  | George Miller | War from Australian perspective
1984  | Switzerland
France
Italy
West Germany
United States  | Mussolini and I (TV miniseries)  | Io e il Duce | Alberto Negrin | Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini
1984  | Italy
France  | Nights and Fogs † (TV miniseries)  | Notti e nebbie (in Italian) | Marco Tullio Giordana | Police of the Italian Social Republic
1984  | Poland  | Romance with the Intruder | Romans z intruzem | Waldemar Podgórski | Invasion of Poland, 1939
1983  | United States  | A Soldier's Story |  | Norman Jewison | Mystery drama adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play
1984  | Estonian SSR  | Under a False Name | Võõra nime all | Peeter Urbla | Estonians in Soviet gulag
1984  | West Germany  | The Wannsee Conference (TV)  | Die Wannseekonferenz | Heinz Schirk | German officials attend Wannsee Conference by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss Final Solution to Jewish question, 1942
1984  | China  | Yellow Earth | Huáng tǔdì (黄土地)  | Chen Kaige | Sino-Japanese War

## Late 1980s[edit]

Year  | Country  | Main title
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(Original script) | Director  | Battles, campaigns, events depicted

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1985  | United Kingdom | Arch of Triumph (TV)  |  | Waris Hussein | Romance based on Erich Maria Remarque novel. Austrian anti-Nazi in Paris [1]
1985  | United States
Italy  | The Assisi Underground | [4] | Alexander Ramati | German occupation of Assisi
1985  | Soviet Union  | Battalions Ask for Fire (TV miniseries)  | Batalyony prosyat ognya (Батальоны просят огня)  | Aleksandr Bogolyubov, Vladimir Chebotaryov | Soviet battalion crossing Dnieper River to liberate Kiev from Germans, 1943
1985  | Soviet Union
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Vietnam  | The Battle for Moscow | Bitva za Moskvu (Битва за Москву) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov | Operation Barbarossa to Battle of Moscow
1985  | Netherlands  | Bitter Sweet | Het bittere kruid | Kees van Oostrum | Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam
1985  | Japan  | The Burmese Harp | Biruma no tategoto (ビルマの竪琴)  | Kon Ichikawa | Burma campaign; remake version
1985  | United States  | Code Name: Emerald |  | Jonathan Sanger | Battle of Normandy
1985  | Soviet Union  | Come and See | Idi i smotri (Иди и смотри)  | Elem Klimov | In early 1943, a teenage boy joins the partisans in the German-occupied Byelorussian SSR. He discovers the reality of war and the barbarity of the SS and collaborating auxiliary police on the civilian population.
1985  | Poland
Czechoslovakia  | Cuckoo in a Dark Forest | Kukačka v temném lese (in Czech)
Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (in Polish) | Antonín Moskalyk | German occupation of Czechoslovakia, concentration camp kommandant and child
1985  | Poland  | Dad | Tate | Jan Rutkiewicz | Holocaust in Poland
1985  | United States  | The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (Dirty Dozen 2) (TV)  |  | Andrew V. McLaglen | Allied convicts in elite unit on mission to "prevent" assassination of Hitler
1985  | United States  | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (TV)  |  | Jim Goddard | Brothers cope with life in Nazi Germany, 1932–45
1985  | United Kingdom  | The Holcroft Covenant |  | John Frankenheimer | Based on Robert Ludlum novel. German General's son conspires to control hidden Nazi funds
1985  | Netherlands  | The Ice-cream Parlour | De IJssalon | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | Romance between Dutch woman and Wehrmacht officer
1985  | Poland  | In the Shadow of Hatred | W cieniu nienawiści | Wojciech Żółtowski | Holocaust in Poland, 1943
1985  | Italy
France  | Madman at War | Scemo di guerra (in Italian)
Le fou de guerre (in French) | Dino Risi | A young Italian psychiatrist is sent to troops in Libya
1985  | United States  | Mussolini and I (TV)  |  | Alberto Negrin | Docudrama. Mussolini's son in-law Galeazzo Ciano
1985  | Japan  | The Seburi Story | Seburi monogatari (瀬降り物語)  | Sadao Nakajima | Hardships of nomadic Seburi of western Japan during war
1985  | Finland  | The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Rauni Mollberg | Finno-Soviet Continuation War; remake of 1955 film The Unknown Soldier
1985  | Romania  | Us, The Frontline (The Last Assault)  | Noi, cei din linia întâi | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanians fighting on the Western Front and in Hungary
1985  | Philippines  | Virgin Forest |  | Peque Gallaga | Uro Q. Dela Cruz (as Rosauro Q. de la Cruz) & T.E. Pagaspas
1986  | Netherlands  | The Assault | De Aanslag | Fons Rademakers | Drama based on Harry Mulisch novel. Family killed by Germans as retribution for Dutch Resistance assassination [19]
1986  | Poland  | Crumbs of War | Okruchy wojny | Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz | Polish Resistance
1986  | Australia  | Death of a Soldier | Leonski | Philippe Mora | Based on the life, capture and trail of American serial killer Eddie Leonski
1986  | United States  | Every Time We Say Goodbye |  | Moshé Mizrahi | American RAF pilot in Jerusalem has romance with a Jewish girl
1986  | Philippines  | It's Night Time, Commander | Gabi Na, Kumander | Pepe Marcos  | Rene Villanueva, Jose N. Carreon (as Jose Carreon) & Bienvenido Bacalso
1986  | Poland
Switzerland  | The Lullabye | Kołysanka (in Polish) | Efraim Sevela | Holocaust in Poland
1986  | Japan  | The Sea and Poison | Umi to dokuyaku (海と毒薬)  | Kei Kumai | Captured US pilots held by the Japanese during the Pacific War
1986  | Netherlands  | Shadow of Victory | In de schaduw van de overwinning | Ate de Jong | Dutch Resistance
1987  | France  | Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children)  | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | Jewish boys given shelter and new identity at Catholic boarding school in Vichy France
1987  | Philippines  | Balweg, the Rebel Priest | Balweg | Butch Perez (as Antonio Perez)  | Biographical film inspired by the life of Catholic priest turned communist rebel Conrado Balweg
1987  | Argentina
Czechoslovakia  | Beneath the World[20] | Debajo del Mundo | Beda Docampo Feijóo  | A Jewish family is compelled to live underground during the Nazi occupation of Poland (based on actual events)
1987  | United States
Yugoslavia  | The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (Dirty Dozen 3) (TV)  | [4] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission in France
1987  | United States  | Empire of the Sun |  | Steven Spielberg | Allied prisoners in Shanghai Japanese internment camp
1987  | United Kingdom
Yugoslavia  | Escape from Sobibor (TV)  | [4] | Jack Gold | Sobibor Uprising during Holocaust
1987  | United Kingdom  | Hope and Glory |  | John Boorman | A nine-year-old boy growing up in London during The Blitz
1987  | United States
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia  | The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror)  |  | Gordon Hessler | Panzer unit on Eastern Front
1988  | Poland
United States  | And the Violins Stopped Playing | I skrzypce przestały grać | Alexander Ramati | Romani people forced to flee from Nazis at height of Romani Holocaust
1988  | United States  | Biloxi Blues |  | Mike Nichols | Comedy based on the Neil Simon play. US Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi
1988  | Senegal  | Camp de Thiaroye | Camp de Thiaroye | Ousmane Sembène
Thierno Faty Sow | Thiaroye massacre of repatriated French West African veterans by French forces
1988  | Poland  | Cornflower Blue | Kornblumenblau (in German) | Leszek Wosiewicz | Polish musician surviving in Auschwitz-Birkenau because of accordion talent
1988  | United States
Yugoslavia
Italy  | The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (Dirty Dozen 4) (TV)  | [4] | Lee H. Katzin | Allied convicts trained for "do or die" mission to halt formation of Fourth Reich in Macedonia
1988  | China  | Evening Bell | Wǎn zhōng (晚钟)  | Wu Ziniu | Immediate aftermath of Sino-Japanese War in China
1988  | United States  | Farewell to the King |  | John Milius | Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo
1988  | Australia  | Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (TV)  |  | John Duigan | Australian war photographer Damien Parer
1988  | Japan  | Grave of the Fireflies | Hotaru no Haka (火垂るの墓)  | Isao Takahata | Anime. Firebombing of Kobe and survival on Japan homefront
1988  | Canada  | Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army (The King Chronicle, Part 3) (TV)  |  | Donald Brittain | Drama. Canadian PM Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis of 1944[21]
1988  | Hong Kong  | Men Behind the Sun | Hēi tài yáng 731 (黑太阳731)  | Mou Tun Fei | Unit 731 and Japanese human experimentation
1988  | Poland
Soviet Union  | Passage | Przeprawa (in Polish) | Wiktor Turow | Polish Resistance, Soviet partisans, and Operation Sturmwind, 1944
1988  | China  | Red Sorghum | Hóng gāoliáng (红高粱)  | Zhang Yimou | Woman working at kaoliang wine distillery during Sino-Japanese War
1988  | United Kingdom  | Return from the River Kwai |  | Andrew V. McLaglen | Burma Railway and British POWs force-marched from Thailand to Japan
1988  | Italy
United States
Spain  | Running Away (TV miniseries)  | La ciociara | Dino Risi | Drama. Italian mother and daughter raped by French Expeditionary Corps troops (Marocchinate)
1988  | Netherlands
United Kingdom  | Shadow Man (Shadowman)  | Schaduwman | Piotr Andrejew | Polish-Jewish refugee in hiding during German occupation of Amsterdam
1988  | United States  | The Tenth Man (TV)  |  | Jack Gold | French advocate imprisoned and condemned to death during German occupation of France. Based on Graham Greene novel
1988  | Japan  | Tomorrow | Míngrì (明日)  | Kazuo Kuroki | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1988  | United States  | War and Remembrance (TV miniseries)  |  | Dan Curtis | Saga of family and events after Pearl Harbor; sequel to Winds of War (TV miniseries). Based on novel by Herman Wouk
1989  | United Kingdom  | And a Nightingale Sang (TV)  |  | Jack Rosenthal | Wartime romance for a woman from a working-class Newcastle family. Based on C.P. Taylor play
1989  | Japan  | Black Rain | Kuroi ame (黒い雨)  | Shohei Imamura | Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
1989  | Canada  | Bye Bye Blues |  | Anne Wheeler | Romance/Music drama. Woman joins jazz band on Canadian homefront
1989  | United Kingdom  | The Last Warrior (Coastwatcher)  |  | Martin Wragge | Allied coastwatcher on remote island with Japanese warship at anchor for repairs
1989  | Philippines  | Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice |  | Celso Ad. Castillo | Filipina comfort women and Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
1989  | United States  | Fat Man and Little Boy |  | Roland Joffé | Allied Manhattan project to develop the first nuclear weapons
1989  | Japan  | Harimau | Harimau (ハリマオ)  | Ben Wada | The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka, known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger")
1989  | Soviet Union
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
United States  | Stalingrad | Stalingrad (Сталинград) (in Russian) | Yuri Ozerov | Battle for Stalingrad
1989  | Italy  | Time to Kill | Tempo di uccidere | Giuliano Montaldo | Italian occupation of Ethiopia
1989  | United States  | Triumph of the Spirit |  | Robert M. Young | Story of boxer Salamo Arouch forced to fight fellow POWs by SS guards
1989  | Poland  | Virtuti | Virtuti | Jacek Butrymowicz | Polish Campaign, 1939
1989  | Finland  | The Winter War | Talvisota | Pekka Parikka | Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in late 1939

## Since 1990[edit]

Main article: List of World War II films since 1990

## Science fiction, fantasy, and horror[edit]

Main article: List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

## TV series[edit]

Main article: List of World War II TV series

## See also[edit]

* List of World War II short films
* List of World War II documentary films
* List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
* List of Holocaust films
* List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
* List of partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia

Honorable mentions

* Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) – Italian girl with 3 fathers, all US Army
* The Producers (1968) – Broadway Nazi musical
* Zelig (1983) – Woody Allen as a Nazi Brownshirt

## References[edit]

### Note[edit]

* ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.

1. ^ a b c This film is available for download at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's main page for the link.
2. ^ The "director". IMDb. of this title is still unidentified (as of January 2015) on IMDb.
3. ^ Makapili stars Justina David.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q This film is an international co-production shot in English.
5. ^ Act of Love appears to have a significant amount of French language dialogue, with a separate credit for the French screenwriter, Joseph Kessel.
6. ^ Cine español y memoria asimétrica: La Patrulla (in Spanish)
7. ^ Awards for La patrulla: Silver Shell for Best Director.
8. ^ Zhang, Yingjin. Chinese National Cinema, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 166. ISBN 9780415172905. Sun, Moon and Star is a Hong Kong film in Mandarin, rather than Cantonese.
9. ^ Baiqiuen dai fu (1964) at IMDb . The film stars American humanitarian Gerald Tannebaum as Dr. Bethune.
10. ^ The IMDb does not define the nationality of this secondary title.
11. ^ Hell in the Pacific has a Japanese main character, but its dialogue is predominantly in English. Its original language is English.
12. ^ Shield and Sword runs over five hours in four parts.
13. ^ The first Occidental film made in the USSR.
14. ^ Some details of this film appear "here". 24 September 2008..
15. ^ Regarding the storyline, BG Movies reads "Съветската армия в България". (in Bulgarian)
16. ^ The German title Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil translates as Steiner – The Iron Cross, Part 2.
17. ^ Remake of the 1953 movie with the same title and by the same director
18. ^ Charlie Grant's War stars R.H. Thomson.
19. ^ The Assault received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
20. ^ "From Argentina, How 6 Polish Jews Hid From the Nazis"  by Caryn James. The New York Times, 5 October 1988
21. ^ The King Chronicle, Part 3: Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army at the National Film Board of Canada

## Sources[edit]

* Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp. ISBN 0-691-00346-7

## External links[edit]

* wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
* World War 2 movies – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.