Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | The Great Appeal | Il grande appello | Mario Camerini | Italian father and son in the War of Ethiopia |
Nazi Germany | The Traitor | Verräter | Karl Ritter | Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | Sentinels of Bronze | Sentinelle di bronzo | Romolo Marcellini | Italian colonial soldiers defeat the Ethiopian attack on Walwal |
Japan | Song of Marching† | Shingun no uta (進軍の歌) | Yasushi Sasaki | Volunteer in the Japanese Army fighting in China |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Japan | Chocolate and Soldiers | Chocolate to heitai (チョコレートと兵隊) | Takeshi Sato | Japanese Army soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China |
Soviet Union | Concentration Camp (Bog Soldiers / Soldiers of the Swamp) | Bolotnye soldaty (Болотные солдаты) | Aleksandr Macheret | Nazi concentration camp guards attempt to break spirits of Communists |
China | The Eight Hundred Heroes | Bā bǎi zhuàngshì (八百壮士) | Ying Yunwei | Defense of Sihang Warehouse |
France | It Happened in Gibraltar | Gibraltar | Fedor Ozep | British officer in Gibraltar pretends to be traitor |
Japan | Invisible Invader | Sugata-naki shinnyūsha (姿無き侵入者) | Shuzo Fukuda | Foreign spies in Japan pretend to be travelers |
Italy | Luciano Serra, Pilot | Luciano Serra pilota | Goffredo Alessandrini | Italo-Abyssinian War |
Korea | Military Train | Gun'yō ressha (軍用列車) Gun-yong-yeolcha (군용열차) | Gwang-je Seo | A Korean train conductor is involved in espionage on a Japanese military train |
Japan | A Pay by the Wayside (Five Scouts) | Gonin no sekkôhei (五人の斥候兵) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines |
Japan | The Road to Peace in the Orient | Tōyō heiwa no michi (東洋平和の道) | Shigeyoshi Suzuki | Chinese farmers overcame their distrust of Japan after being helped by Japanese soldiers |
France | The Shanghai Drama | Le drame de Shanghaï | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Japanese Black Dragon agents in Shanghai |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Italy | Battles in the Shadow† | Lotte nell'ombra | Domenico Gambino | Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive |
United States | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Anatole Litvak | Nazi spy ring in the United States | |
United States | Hitler, Beast of Berlin (Hell's Devils / Beasts of Berlin) | Sam Newfield | Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner | |
United Kingdom | The Lion Has Wings | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda | RAF mobilization [2] | |
Italy | The Little Adventurers | Piccoli naufraghi | Flavio Calzavara | Adventure. Twelve Italian boys embark on a merchantman ship to fight in the War of Ethiopia, but are shipwrecked on an island. Then they manage to take control of another merchantman smuggling weapons to Ethiopia. |
Japan | Mud and Soldiers | Tsuchi to heitai (土と兵隊) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama based on Ashihei Hino novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War |
United Kingdom | Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft [3] | |
United Kingdom | Secret Journey (Among Human Wolves) | John Baxter | Based on Charles Robert Dumas' short story. British secret service agent on mission | |
Japan | Shanghai Landing Squad | Shanhai Rikusentai (上海陸戦隊) | Hisatora Kumagaya | Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces |
Nazi Germany | Shoulder Arms | Das Gewehr über | Jürgen von Alten | German emigrant in Australia returns to his country for military service in the Army |
United States | South of the Border | George Sherman | Action/Western. US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution | |
Nazi Germany | Three Non-Coms† | Drei Unteroffiziere | Werner Hochbaum | Luftwaffe NCO's |
United Kingdom | Traitor Spy (The Torso Murder Mystery) | Walter Summers | Mystery thriller based on T. C. H. Jacobs novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory | |
United States | Wings of the Navy | Lloyd Bacon | Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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United States | Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940 | |
Nazi Germany | Attention! The Enemy Is Listening!† | Achtung! Feind hört mit! | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Foreign spies in a German armaments factory |
United Kingdom | The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | Economic blockade of Germany | |
Japan | The Blazing Heavens† (The Burning Sky / Flaming Sky) | Moyuru ōzora (燃ゆる大空) | Yutaka Abe | Action-drama. Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during Sino-Japanese War |
Italy | The Cavalier from Kruja† | Il cavaliere di Kruja | Carlo Campogalliani | Adventure. An Italian journalist gets involved in the Albanian opposition to King Zog and is finally saved by the Italian invasion of Albania |
United States | Comrade X | King Vidor | Spy drama. US journalist in the Soviet Union moonlights as spy. | |
United Kingdom | Convoy | Pen Tennyson | Battle of the Atlantic | |
Nazi Germany | Enemies† | Feinde | Viktor Tourjansky | Invasion of Poland justified by Polish persecution of ethnic Germans |
United States | Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain on the eve of World War II. | |
United States | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | Satire. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel is replaced by identical Jew | |
United States | The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | Battle of the Atlantic | |
United States | The Man I Married (I Married a Nazi) | Irving Pichel | Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies | |
United Kingdom | Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) | Carol Reed | Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent | |
United States | The Phantom Submarine | Charles Barton | Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy frogman investigate U-boat terror | |
Nazi Germany | Request Concert | Wunschkonzert | Eduard von Borsody | Luftwaffe airmen fighting over Poland and then the Atlantic |
United States | Ski Patrol | Lew Landers | Olympians oppose each other again in the Winter War | |
Japan | The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi | Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking |
United Kingdom | Ten Days in Paris | Jeremy Brown | Comedy mystery. | |
United States | Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance [4] | |
United States | Women in War | John H. Auer | Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk Battle of France front |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Nazi Germany | Above All in the World† | Über alles in der Welt | Karl Ritter | German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II |
United States | All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi Fifth Columnists | |
Nazi Germany | Annelie | Annelie | Josef von Báky | Heroic German mother during war |
Nazi Germany | Bomber Wing Lützow | Kampfgeschwader Lützow | Hans Bertram | A bomber crew takes part in invasion of Poland and attacks on British shipping |
United States | Buck Privates | Arthur Lubin | Comedy. Abbott and Costello enlist in the Army | |
United States | Caught in the Draft | David Butler | Comedy. Bob Hope gets drafted | |
United States | Confirm or Deny | Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang (uncredited) | Comedy-drama. London Blitz | |
United Kingdom | Cottage to Let (Bombsight Stolen) | Anthony Asquith | Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of bombsight inventor from Scotland by Nazi agents | |
United States | Dangerously They Live | Robert Florey | Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast | |
United Kingdom | Dangerous Moonlight | Brian Desmond Hurst | The Battle of Britain | |
United States | Dive Bomber | Michael Curtiz | Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific | |
Hungary | Europe Doesn't Answer† | Európa nem válaszol | Géza von Radványi | Spies on board of a transatlantic at the beginning of World War 2 |
United Kingdom | 49th Parallel (The Invaders) | Michael Powell | Battle of the St. Lawrence and survivors of a sunken U-boat in Hudson Bay trek across Canada | |
United Kingdom | Freedom Radio | Anthony Asquith | German Resistance | |
Soviet Union | The Girl from Leningrad | Frontovye podrugi (Фронтовые подруги) | Viktor Eisymont | Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as Three Russian Girls |
Nazi Germany | Goodbye, Franziska | Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska! | Helmut Käutner | A German globetrotting reporter is drafted into a Wehrmacht Propagandakompanie |
United States | Great Guns | Monty Banks | Comedy. Laurel and Hardy are drafted into the US Army | |
Nazi Germany | Hallgarten's Reconnaissance Patrol | Spähtrupp Hallgarten | Herbert B. Fredersdorf | Two German soldiers in the Norwegian Campaign |
Nazi Germany | Homecoming | Heimkehr | Gustav Ucicky | Drama. Poles persecute ethnic Germans |
United States | International Lady | Tim Whelan | Spy drama. | |
Nazi Germany | In the Eye of the Storm | Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Drama. Serbs persecute ethnic Germans[5] |
Soviet Union | In the Rear of the Enemy | V tylu vraga (В тылу врага) | Yevgeni Shneider | Comedy. Finnish War [6] |
United States | Man Hunt | Fritz Lang | Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler | |
Italy | Men on the Sea Floor | Uomini sul fondo | Francesco De Robertis | The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom |
United States | Parachute Battalion | Leslie Goodwins | Three men join a parachute battalion [3] | |
United Kingdom | Pimpernel Smith | Leslie Howard | The Scarlet Pimpernel updated | |
Japan | Prayer to Mother Earth† | Daichi ni inoru (大地に祈る) | Takeo Murata | Japanese military nurses in China |
United Kingdom | Ships with Wings | Sergei Nolbandov | Battle of Taranto | |
Nazi Germany | Six Days of Leave† | Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub | Jürgen von Alten | German soldiers on leave |
Nazi Germany | Soldiers of Tomorrow† | Soldaten von morgen | Alfred Weidenmann | Hitler Youth |
United States | Sundown | Henry Hathaway | The North African Campaign[3] | |
Nazi Germany | U-Boat, Course West! | U-Boote westwärts | Günther Rittau | U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic[7] |
United States | Underground | Vincent Sherman | German Resistance | |
Korea | Volunteer† | Shiganhei (志願兵) Chiwŏnbyŏng (지원병) | Seok-yeong Ahn | Korean volunteers in the Japanese Army |
Vichy France | The Well-Digger's Daughter | La fille du puisatier | Marcel Pagnol | A girl becomes pregnant by a military pilot, then shot down behind German lines during the Battle of France |
Italy | The White Ship | La nave bianca | Francesco De Robertis, Roberto Rossellini | Sailors on a hospital ship after wounds in battle (depicted by footage filmed during the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spartivento) |
United States | A Yank in the RAF | Henry King | American volunteers in the RAF | |
Korea | You and Me† | Kimi to boku (君と僕) Nŏ wa na (너와 나) | 'Eitaro Hinatsu' (Hae Yeong), Tomotaka Tasaka | Korean volunteer in the Japanese Army marries a Japanese woman |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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Nazi Germany | 5 June | Der 5. Juni | Fritz Kirchhoff | Battle of France |
United States | Across the Pacific | John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Spy drama. Japanese plot against the Panama Canal | |
Italy | Alpha Tau!† | Alfa Tau! | Francesco De Robertis | Italian submarine warfare in Mediterranean Theatre |
United States | Atlantic Convoy | Lew Landers | Allied naval operations based in Iceland against U-boats in Atlantic | |
Japan | The Battle of Hong Kong | Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) | Shigeo Tanaka | Battle of Hong Kong |
Italy | Bengasi | Bengasi (Bengasi anno '41)[8] | Augusto Genina | Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941 |
United States | Black Dragons | William Nigh | Japan's Black Dragon Society, in collaboration with Nazis, recruits a mad scientist to create likenesses of Western leaders[3] | |
United States | The Bugle Sounds | S. Sylvan Simon | Cavalry and tank warfare | |
United States | Captains of the Clouds | Michael Curtiz | Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan[9] | |
United States | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1943 Best picture romantic-thriller set in Vichy-controlled Morocco | |
United States | Commandos Strike at Dawn | John Farrow | Norwegian resistance | |
United States | The Dawn Express | Albert Herman | A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula | |
United Kingdom | The Day Will Dawn (The Avengers) | Harold French | Norwegian resistance | |
United States | Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Netherlands | |
Italy | Document Z-3 | Documento Z-3 | Alfredo Guarini | Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the invasion |
United States | Eagle Squadron | Arthur Lubin | Eagle Squadron, American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain | |
Georgian SSR | Elusive Ian† | Uchinari Jani (Georgian please) (in Georgian) Neulovimyy Yan (Неуловимый Ян) (in Russian) | Isidor Annensky, Vladimir Petrov | |
Japan | Fear of the Fifth Column | Daigoretsu no kyofu (第五列的恐怖) | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine |
United Kingdom | The First of the Few (Spitfire) | Leslie Howard | Development of the Spitfire[3] | |
United States United Kingdom | Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | B-17 bombers | |
United States | Flying Tigers | David Miller | American Volunteer Group in the Sino-Japanese War | |
United Kingdom | The Foreman Went to France | Charles Frend | Battle of France | |
Nazi Germany | Front Theater† | Fronttheater | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Battle of Greece |
Japan | General, Staff Officer and Soldiers† | Shōgun to sanbō to hei (将軍と参謀と兵) | Taguchi Satoshi | Sino-Japanese war |
Italy | Giarabub | Giarabub | Goffredo Alessandrini | The Siege of Giarabub in 1941 |
Nazi Germany | The Great Love | Die große Liebe | Rolf Hansen | War between Nazi Germany and USSR |
Korea | Here We Go!† | Warera imazo yuku (吾等今ぞ征く) Nanŭn kanda (나는 간다) | Ki-chae Park | Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
United States | Hillbilly Blitzkrieg | Roy Mack | Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US [3] | |
United States | Hitler – Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | Three American gangsters set out to collect the million-dollar reward for bringing Hitler to justice.[3] | |
United Kingdom | In Which We Serve | Noël Coward, David Lean | Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly[3] | |
United States | Joan of Paris | Robert Stevenson | Downed RAF aircrew meets the French Resistance | |
United States | Jungle Siren | Sam Newfield | Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield [3] | |
United Kingdom | King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Marcel Varnel | Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht | |
United States | Lady from Chungking | William Nigh | Sino-Japanese War [3] | |
United Kingdom | Lady from Lisbon | Leslie S. Hiscott | Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the Mona Lisa | |
United States | Let's Get Tough! | Wallace Fox | Juvenile delinquents battle Black Dragon Society saboteurs in New York [3] | |
Italy | MAS | MAS | Romolo Marcellini | MAS (Italian torpedo boat) |
United States | Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | 1942 Best picture depicting the British home front | |
United States | The Navy Comes Through | A. Edward Sutherland | Battle of the Atlantic | |
United Kingdom | The Next of Kin | Thorold Dickinson | Message that careless talk costs lives, and fictional commando raid | |
Italy Romania | Odessa in Flames | Odessa in fiamme(in Italian), Odessa în flăcări(in Romanian) | Carmine Gallone | Battle of Odessa, 1941 [3] |
United Kingdom | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands [3] | |
United States | Pacific Rendezvous | George Sidney | Spy drama. Cryptography in the Pacific War | |
Japan | Patriotic Flowers | Aikoku no hana (愛國の花) | Keisuke Sasaki | Japanese military nurses |
United States | The Phantom Plainsmen | John English | 'The Three Mesquiteers' battle Nazi agents on a Western ranch | |
United States | The Pied Piper | Irving Pichel | Drama based on Nevil Shute novel. Holidaymaker rescues French children, 1940 | |
Italy | A Pilot Returns | Un pilota ritorna | Roberto Rossellini | Greco-Italian War |
United States | Private Buckaroo | Edward F. Cline | Musical.[3] | |
Nazi Germany | The Red Terror | GPU | Karl Ritter | GPU's plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the German occupation |
United States | Reunion in France | Jules Dassin | French Resistance helps a downed US pilot | |
United Kingdom | Sabotage at Sea | Leslie S. Hiscott | ||
United States | Saboteur | Alfred Hitchcock | Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage | |
United States | Seven Days' Leave | Tim Whelan | Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit | |
United States | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Roy William Neill | Sherlock Holmes vs Nazi agents and Professor Moriarty | |
United States | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | John Rawlins | Sherlock Holmes vs. Nazi saboteurs | |
United States | Somewhere I'll Find You | Wesley Ruggles | War correspondents in China and Pacific | |
Japan | The Spy Isn't Dead Yet | Kanchō imada shisezu (間諜未だ死せず) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Chinese and American spies in Japan |
United States | Stand by for Action | Robert Z. Leonard | US Navy in the Pacific War | |
Nazi Germany | Stukas | Stukas | Karl Ritter | German dive bomber, the Stuka[3] |
United States | They Raid by Night | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Commando raids in occupied Norway[3] | |
Italy | The Three Pilots | I tre aquilotti | Mario Mattoli | Three young pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
United States | To Be Or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | Occupied Warsaw, and Polish air squadron in London | |
United States | To the Shores of Tripoli | H. Bruce Humberstone | ||
Japan | A Triumph of Wings | Tsubasa no gaika (翼の凱歌) | Satsuo Yamamoto | Two young Japanese become pilots of the Army Air Service[10] |
Nazi Germany | Two in a Big City | Zwei in einer großen Stadt | Volker von Collande | Luftwaffe pilot meets a nurse while on leave in Berlin |
United States | Wake Island | John Farrow | Battle of Wake Island | |
Japan | The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya | Hawai Marē oki kaisen (ハワイまれ沖回線) | Kajiro Yamamoto | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Malayan Campaign |
United Kingdom | Went the Day Well? | Alberto Cavalcanti | Fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion) | |
United States | A Yank in Libya | Albert Herman | Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa [3] | |
United States | A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | Burma Road | |
United States | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | George M. Cohan |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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United States | Above Suspicion | Richard Thorpe | Honeymooners spy on the Nazis | |
United States | Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon | The Battle of the Atlantic | |
United Kingdom | The Adventures of Tartu (Sabotage Agent) | Harold S. Bucquet | British spy posing as Romanian Iron Guard officer aids Czech partisans[3] | |
United States | Aerial Gunner | William H. Pine | The B-17 bomber in the Pacific [3] | |
United States | Air Force | Howard Hawks | B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines | |
Japan | The Air Raid by Enemy Aircraft† | Tekki raishū (敵機空襲) | Hiromasa Nomura | Air war over Japan |
United States | Air Raid Wardens | Edward Sedgwick | Laurel and Hardy try to stop Nazi spies in the USA | |
Japan | All-out Attack on Singapore† | Shingapōru sōkōgeki (シンガポール総攻撃) | Koji Shima | Japanese conquest of Singapore |
United States | Background to Danger | Raoul Walsh | Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey | |
United States | Bataan | Tay Garnett | The Battle of Bataan, Philippines | |
United States | Behind the Rising Sun | Edward Dmytryk | ||
United Kingdom | The Bells Go Down | Basil Dearden | Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz | |
United States | Bombardier | Richard Wallace | B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific | |
United States | Bomber's Moon | Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster | ||
United States | Bombs Over Burma | Joseph H. Lewis | [3] | |
United States | The Boy from Stalingrad | Sidney Salkow | Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the Battle of Stalingrad | |
United States | Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas | Louis King | Chetniks - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich | |
United States | China | John Farrow | ||
United States | Corregidor | William Nigh | The Battle of Corregidor, Philippines | |
United States | Corvette K-225 | Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks | The Battle of the Atlantic, RCNcorvette | |
United States | Crash Dive | Archie Mayo | USN submarine in the North Atlantic | |
Nazi Germany | The Crew of the Dora | Besatzung Dora | Karl Ritter | The crew of a Ju 88 bomber is forced to land in the desert and is saved by an Italian SM.79 |
United States | The Cross of Lorraine | Tay Garnett | French Resistance | |
United States | Cry 'Havoc' | Richard Thorpe | Drama based on Allan Kenward play. Army nurses on Bataan work with civilians during the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) | |
United States | Destination Tokyo | Delmer Daves | USN submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid | |
United States | Destroyer | William A. Seiter | Fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones from commissioning | |
United States | Edge of Darkness | Lewis Milestone | The Norwegian resistance movement | |
Korea | Figure of Youth† | Wakaki sugata (若き姿) Chŏlmŭn mosŭp (젊은 모습) | Shirō Toyoda | Korean volunteers in Japanese Army |
United Kingdom | Fires Were Started (I Was a Fireman) | Humphrey Jennings | Docudrama.[11] Firemen during the Blitz[12] | |
United States | First Comes Courage | Dorothy Arzner | Norwegian resistance | |
United States | Five Graves to Cairo | Billy Wilder | Spy drama set after the fall of Tobruk in the North African Campaign depicting an English soldiers interactions with Erwin Rommel | |
United Kingdom | The Flemish Farm | Jeffrey Dell | Commando raids in occupied Belgium | |
United States | Gangway for Tomorrow | John H. Auer | Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory | |
United States | Ghosts on the Loose | William Beaudine | Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband buy a house next door to a nest of Nazi spies, but the East Side foil the Nazis' evil plot[3] | |
United States | G-Men vs the Black Dragon (serial) | Spencer Gordon Bennet, William Witney, William J. O'Sullivan | ||
Nazi Germany | The Golden Spider† | Die goldene Spinne | Erich Engels | Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank |
United States | Guadalcanal Diary | Lewis Seiler | US Marines in Guadalcanal Campaign | |
United States | Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders | Ray Enright | Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific[3] | |
United States | Hangmen Also Die! | Fritz Lang | Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance | |
Georgian SSR | He Would Come Back | Is kidev dabrundeba (Georgian please) (in Georgian) On eshchyo vernyotsa (Он ещё вернётся) (in Russian) | Diomide Antadze, Nikoloz Shengelaia | Kakhetian village and Battle of the Caucasus |
United States | Hitler's Madman (Hitler's Hangman) | Douglas Sirk | Operation Anthropoid, assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and revenge taken by the Germans | |
United States | Immortal Sergeant | John M. Stahl | British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign | |
United States | Journey Into Fear | Norman Foster, Orson Welles (uncredited) | Spy drama based on Eric Ambler novel. An American engineer, in neutral Turkey to help upgrade the Turkish navy, that is targeted by Nazi agents | |
Italy | Letters to the Second Lieutenant† | Lettere al sottotenente | Goffredo Alessandrini | Comedy. A girl writes letters to a young officer, but she does not want to meet him because she feels ugly |
United Kingdom | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | The Home Guard | |
Japan | The Man from Chungking | Jūkei kara kita otoko (重慶から来た男) | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | Enemy agents try to sabotage Japanese war production |
Italy | The Man with a Cross | L'uomo della croce | Roberto Rossellini | A chaplain of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia |
Italy | Men of the Mountain | Quelli della montagna | Aldo Vergano | Alpini against France |
United Kingdom | Millions Like Us | Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat | The home front | |
United States | Minesweeper | William Berke | [3] | |
United States | Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | A biopic of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. | |
United States | The Moon Is Down | Irving Pichel | Resistance | |
United States | The More the Merrier | George Stevens | Comedy. Soldier on American home front with housing shortage | |
Japan | Navy† | Kaigun (海軍) | Tomotaka Tasaka | Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese midget submarines |
United States | Night Plane from Chungking | Ralph Murphy | ||
United States | Northern Pursuit | Raoul Walsh | Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials | |
United States | The North Star (Armored Attack) | Lewis Milestone | Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front[3] | |
Vichy France | Occult Forces | Forces occultes | 'Paul Riche' | Freemasons work with Jews to bring France into the war [3] |
Japan | On the Eve of War | Kaisen no zenya (开战前夜) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan |
Japan | Our Planes Fly South† | Aiki minami e tobu (愛機南へ飛ぶ) | Yasushi Sasaki | The young pilot of a recon plane is shot down but survives |
Italy | People of the Air† | Gente dell'aria | Esodo Pratelli | Two brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica |
United States | Pilot #5 | George Sidney | Battle of the Java Sea | |
United States | Rookies in Burma | Leslie Goodwins | The Burma Campaign | |
United States | Sahara | Zoltan Korda | Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein | |
United States | Salute to the Marines | S. Sylvan Simon | The Battle of the Philippines | |
United States | Secret Service in Darkest Africa (serial) | Spencer Gordon Bennet | ||
Italy | Spies Among the Propellers† | Spie tra le eliche | Ignazio Ferronetti | An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory |
United States | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Roy William Neill | Sherlock Holmes travels to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document that must be delivered to Congress from falling into Nazi hands. | |
United Kingdom | The Silver Fleet | Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley | Dutch resistance [12] | |
United States | So Proudly We Hail! | Mark Sandrich | Army nurses and the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) | |
Italy | Special Correspondents† | Inviati speciali | Romolo Marcellini | An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt during World War II |
Korea | Straits of Chosun† | Chōsen Kaikyō (朝鮮海峡) Joseonhaehyeob (조선해협) | Ki-chae Park | Korean man volunteers to serve in the Japanese Army |
United States | The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler | James P. Hogan | Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity | |
Japan | Suicide Squad at the Watchtower† | Bōrō no kesshitai (望楼の決死隊) | Tadashi Imai | Japanese, Koreans and Chinese cooperate against bandits near the Yalu river |
United States | This Land Is Mine | Jean Renoir | French Resistance | |
Italy | The Three-hundred of the Seventh† | I trecento della Settima | Mario Baffico | Alpini on the Greek front |
United States | Thousands Cheer | George Sidney | Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman | |
United States | Three Russian Girls | Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep | The Eastern Front | |
United States | Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of Malayan tigers [3] | |
Japan | The Tiger of Malaya† | Marai no Tora (マライの虎) | Koga Masato | The story of Japanese secret agent Tani Yutaka, known as 'Harimau' (Malay word for 'Tiger') |
United States | Tonight We Raid Calais | John Brahm | ||
Japan | Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky† | Kessen no ōzora e (決戦の大空へ) | Kunio Watanabe | Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy |
Italy | The Train with the Cross† | Il treno crociato | Carlo Campogalliani | Italian hospital-train on the Russian front |
United Kingdom | Undercover (Underground Guerrillas) | Sergei Nolbandov | Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia | |
United States | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington | |
United Kingdom | We Dive at Dawn | Anthony Asquith | Submarine warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic | |
United States | We've Never Been Licked (Texas to Tokyo / Fighting Command) | John Rawlins | Japanese spies at Texas A&M University |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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United States | Action in Arabia | Léonide Moguy | Intrigue involving Nazis in Damascus, Syria | |
United States | Address Unknown | William Cameron Menzies | German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America | |
Italy | Air Base† | Aeroporto | Piero Costa | Italian aviators flying for the Regia Aeronautica in the summer of 1943 and then, after the armistice, for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana |
Japan | Battle Troop | Raigekitai shutsudo (来撃退しゅつど) | Kajirō Yamamoto | Torpedo bomber squadron at war |
United Kingdom | Bees in Paradise | Val Guest | Musical comedy. Allied bomber crashes on mysterious Atlantic island [3] | |
Japan | Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron (Colonel Kato's Flying Squadron) | Kato hayabusa sento-tai (過渡ハヤブサ線と歌い) | Kajiro Yamamoto | |
United States | The Conspirators | Jean Negulesco | Spy drama | |
Japan | The Daily Battle | Nichijō no tatakai (日常の戦い) | Yasujirō Shimazu | Japanese teacher of English language serves as an Army interpreter in South-East Asia |
Philippines | Dawn of Freedom (Fire on That Flag!) | Liwayway ng kalayaan(in Tagalog) Ano hata o ute (あの旗を撃て) | Gerardo de León, Yutaka Abe | Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
United States | Days of Glory | Jacques Tourneur | Soviet partisans | |
Japan | The Decisive Battle | Kessen (決戦) | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Japanese war production |
Nazi Germany | The Degenhardts | Die Degenhardts | Werner Klingler | Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 |
United States | Dragon Seed | Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway | The Sino-Japanese War | |
Argentina | End of the Night | El Fin de la Noche | Libertad Lamarque Homero Cárpena | A female Argentinetango singer in occupied France gets romantically involved with a Resistance member |
United States | The Eve of St. Mark | John M. Stahl | Philippines Campaign (1941–1942) | |
Italy | Everyday Is Sunday† | Ogni giorno è domenica | Mario Baffico | An Italian soldier is wounded on the Greek front and his leg is amputated, but when he returns home his girlfriend still loves him |
Sweden | Excellency† | Excellensen | Hasse Ekman | Austrian poet opposes Nazism and therefore is imprisoned in a concentration camp |
Japan | Field Army Band† | Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊) | Masahiro Makino | Music band of the Imperial Japanese Army in an occupied Chinese village |
United States | The Fighting Seabees | Edward Ludwig | US Navy Seabees in the Pacific War | |
United States | The Fighting Sullivans (The Sullivans) | Lloyd Bacon | The Sullivan brothers | |
United States | Four Jills in a Jeep | William A. Seiter | Female stars of USO shows [13] | |
United States | Going My Way | Leo McCarey | Ted Haines Jr. fights in Africa | |
United States | Hail the Conquering Hero | Preston Sturges | Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines | |
Japan | Hot Wind† | Neppū (熱風) | Satsuo Yamamoto | War production in a Japanese steel foundry |
United States | The Hour Before the Dawn | Frank Tuttle | Drama based on W. Somerset Maugham novel. Austrian refugee is Nazi spy preparing for German invasion of England | |
Japan | The Human Bullet Volunteer Corps | Nikudan teishintai (肉弾挺身隊) | Shigeo Tanaka | Guadalcanal Campaign |
United States | The Impostor | L'Imposteur | Julien Duvivier | Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in Chad |
United States | In the Meantime, Darling | Otto Preminger | Stateside military housing | |
Sweden | The Invisible Wall† | Den osynliga muren | Gustaf Molander | In an unnamed country occupied by Nazis a girl becomes indirectly involved in a terrorist attack and helps Jews to escape |
Soviet Union | Jurgais pari | Jurgais pari (ჯურღაის ფარი) (in Georgian) (Щит Джургая) (in Russian) | Siko Dolidze, Davit Rondeli | |
United States | Ladies Courageous | John Rawlins | Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron | |
United States | Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Drama. Survivors adrift in Battle of the Atlantic | |
Sweden | Live Dangerously | Lev farligt | Lauritz Falk | Norwegian resistance movement |
Soviet Union | Malakhov Hill | Malakhov kurgan (Малахов курган) | Iosif Kheifits, Aleksandr Zarkhi | Siege of Sevastopol |
United States | Marine Raiders | Harold D. Schuster | Battle of Edson's Ridge during Battle of Guadalcanal, then Australian R&R | |
United States | Marriage Is a Private Affair | Robert Z. Leonard | ||
United States | The Master Race | Herbert J. Biberman | ||
United States | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Preston Sturges | Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers | |
Japan | Mr. Sailor† | Suihei-san (水兵さん) | Kenkichi Hara | |
Korea | Mr. Soldier† | Heitai-san (兵隊さん) Byeongjeongnim (병정님) | Han-jun Bang | Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army |
United States | Mr. Winkle Goes to War | Alfred E. Green | ||
Japan | The Most Beautiful | Ichiban utsukushiku (一番美しく) | Akira Kurosawa | Japanese female workers in a war production factory |
United States | The Navy Way | William A. Berke | [3] | |
United States | Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | ||
United States | Passport to Destiny | Ray McCarey | Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler | |
United States | The Purple Heart | Lewis Milestone | POWs captured during Doolittle Raid | |
Soviet Union | Rainbow | Raduga (Радуга) | Mark Donskoy | Drama based on Wanda Wasilewska novel. |
Australia | The Rats of Tobruk (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) | Charles Chauvel | Siege of Tobruk | |
United States | Rosie the Riveter | Joseph Santley | Musical. | |
Japan | Santarō Pitches In† | Santarō gambaru (三太郎頑張る) | Hiromasa Nomura | Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing Zero fighters |
United States | See Here, Private Hargrove | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy based on Marion Hargrove book. US Army training at Fort Bragg | |
United States | Sergeant Mike | Henry Levin | Dog handler in the Pacific War | |
United States | Since You Went Away | John Cromwell | Home front | |
Japan | Sinking the Unsinkable† | Fuchinkan gekichin (不沈艦撃沈) | Masahiro Makino | Japanese workers in a factory increase their production of aerial torpedoes for the Japanese Navy after the sinking of the Prince of Wales |
United States | Song of Russia | Gregory Ratoff | ||
United States | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Cecil B. DeMille | Navy doctor in the Battle of Java | |
Italy | Stronghold† | Caposaldo | Andrea Miano | Italian and German soldiers of the Army Group Liguria fighting against partisans[14] |
United States | Sunday Dinner for a Soldier | Lloyd Bacon | Drama. Home front | |
United States | Tampico | Lothar Mendes | U-boat operations in Gulf of Mexico with sinking of Mexican oil tankers make Mexico an Allied nation | |
United States | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Mervyn LeRoy | Doolittle Raid | |
United States | Till We Meet Again | Frank Borzage | ||
United States | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | ||
United States | Two-Man Submarine | Lew Landers | ||
United Kingdom | 2,000 Women (Two Thousand Women / House of 1,000 Women) | Frank Launder | Internment camps for British women in occupied France | |
United States | U-Boat Prisoner (Dangerous Mists) | Lew Landers | Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare | |
United States | Uncertain Glory | Raoul Walsh | Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance | |
United States | Waterfront | Steve Sekely | [3] | |
United Kingdom | The Way Ahead (The Immortal Battalion) | Carol Reed | Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign[3] | |
United States | The White Cliffs of Dover | Clarence Brown | ||
Italy Romania | The White Squadron | Squadriglia bianca(in Italian) Escadrila albă(in Romanian) | Ion Sava | Royal Romanian Air Force squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women |
United States | Wing and a Prayer (The Story of Carrier X) | Henry Hathaway | Battle of Midway | |
United States | Winged Victory | George Cukor | Training of US Army Air Forces | |
Nazi Germany | Young Eagles | Junge Adler | Alfred Weidenmann | Young boy in a factory of warplanes |
Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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United States | Back to Bataan | Edward Dmytryk | Raid at Cabanatuan, Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, Battle of Leyte | |
Japan | Believe That Others Will Follow† | Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu (後に続くを信ず) | Kunio Watanabe | The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, Singapore and Guadalcanal |
United States | Blood on the Sun | Frank Lloyd | Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government [3] | |
British India | Queen of Burma† | Burma Rani | T. R. Sundaram | An Indian spy ring in Japanese-occupied Burma |
United States | China's Little Devils | Monta Bell | A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese | |
United States | Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey | Comedy. A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero. | |
United States | Cornered | Edward Dmytryk | Ex-Nazis in Argentina | |
United States | Counter-Attack | Zoltan Korda | Eastern Front | |
Mexico | Escuadrón 201 | Escuadrón 201 | Jaime Salvador | 201st Air Fighter Squadron of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana in the Battle of Luzon and Philippines Campaign |
United States | First Yank Into Tokyo | Gordon Douglas | American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb. | |
Japan | Girls of the Air Base† | Otome no iru kichi (乙女のゐる基地) | Yasushi Sasaki | Girl mechanics work in a Kamikaze air base |
United States | God Is My Co-Pilot | Robert Florey | Drama based on Robert Lee Scott, Jr. book. Flying Tigers | |
United States | The House on 92nd Street | Henry Hathaway | Docudrama. Duquesne Spy Ring | |
Denmark | The Invisible Army | Den usynlige hær | Johan Jacobsen | Danish partisan |
United States | Keep Your Powder Dry | Edward Buzzell | Women's Army Corps | |
Switzerland | The Last Chance | Die letzte Chance | Leopold Lindtberg | Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland [3] |
Japan | The Last Visit Home† | Saigo no kikyō (最後の桔梗) | Shigeo Tanaka Misao Yoshimura | Kamikaze |
Nazi Germany | Life Goes On | Das Leben geht weiter | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | German home frontV-2 rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favour[15] |
Korea | Love and the Vow† | Ai to chikai (愛と誓ひ) Sarang kwa maengsŏ (사랑과 맹서) | Tadashi Imai In-kyu Ch'oe | Korean orphan living with Japanese parents volunteers in a Kamikaze unit |
Japan | Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors | Momotaro no koumi no senshi (百田炉の香味の戦士) | Mitsuyo Seo | Anime. Japanese folk hero and animal buddies drive British soldiers off an island [16] |
United States | Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | Burma Campaign | |
United States | Out of the Depths | D. Ross Lederman | Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missourisurrender ceremony | |
United States | Pride of the Marines | Delmer Daves | Battle of Guadalcanal and civilian readjustment | |
United States | Prison Ship | Arthur Dreifuss | Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship | |
Denmark | The Red Meadows | De røde enge | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Young Danish saboteur |
Italy | Rome, Open City | Roma città aperta | Roberto Rossellini | Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
United States | Samurai | Raymond Cannon | Japanese spy in California | |
Italy | The Song of Life† | Il canto della vita | Carmine Gallone | Italian partisan hiding in the countryside |
Japan | Spy Ship 'Sea Rose' | Kanchō Umi no bara (間諜海の薔薇) | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kempeitai discover an American spy ring and help sinking the enemy spy-submarine Sea Rose |
United States | The Story of GI Joe | William A. Wellman | Journalist Ernie Pyle with Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino | |
United States | They Were Expendable | John Ford | PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) | |
United States | This Man's Navy | William A. Wellman | Adventure. US Navy airships | |
Italy | The Timeless House† | La casa senza tempo | Andrea Forzano | Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane [17] |
United States | Too Young to Know | Frederick De Cordova | War in the South Pacific separates young couple | |
Italy | Two Anonymous Letters | Due lettere anonime | Mario Camerini | Italian resistance and collaboration in German-occupied Rome |
United States | A Walk in the Sun | Lewis Milestone | Invasion of Salerno | |
United Kingdom | The Way to the Stars | Anthony Asquith | RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England | |
United States | What Next, Corporal Hargrove? | Richard Thorpe | Comedy. Final adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe |
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1946 | France | Battle of the Rails | La bataille du rail | René Clément | Resistance on French railways |
1946 | Italy | Before Him All Rome Trembled | Avanti a lui tutta Roma tremava | Carmine Gallone | Italian resistance in German-occupied Rome |
1946 | United States | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 Best Picture depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian live after the war | |
1946 | United Kingdom | The Captive Heart | Basil Dearden | British POWs in Germany | |
1946 | Italy | A Day in Life | Un giorno nella vita | Alessandro Blasetti | A group of Italian partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent |
1946 | Philippines | Death March | Leopoldo Salcedo | Bataan Death March | |
1946 | Poland | Forbidden Songs | Zakazane piosenki | Leonard Buczkowski | Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 [18] |
1946 | Philippines | Garrison 13 | Gregorio Fernandez | War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines | |
1946 | Philippines | Golden Clock | Orasang Ginto | Manuel Conde | Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor |
1946 | Poland Italy | The Great Road† | Wielka droga(in Polish) | Michał Waszyński | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 |
1946 | Philippines | Guerilyera | Guerilyera | Octavio Silos | Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
1946 | Philippines | I Remember Bataan | Dugo ng Bayan | Fernando Poe, Sr. | Filipino resistance |
1946 | Soviet Union Yugoslavia | In the Mountains of Yugoslavia | V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии) (in Russian) U planinama Jugoslavije(in Serbo-Croatian) | Abram Room | Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks |
1946 | United Kingdom | Journey Together | John Boulting | Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat | |
1946 | Italy | Monte Cassino | Montecassino (Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco) | Arturo Gemmiti | Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey |
1946 | Italy | O sole mio | O sole mio | Giacomo Gentilomo | Four days of Naples |
1946 | United States | O.S.S. | Irving Pichel | US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France | |
1946 | United States | Rendezvous 24 | James Tinling | Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons | |
1946 | Italy | Outcry | Il sole sorge ancora | Aldo Vergano | Italian disbanded soldiers after the armistice and resistance |
1946 | United Kingdom | School for Secrets | Peter Ustinov | Operation Biting | |
1946 | United States | The Stranger | Orson Welles | A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut | |
1946 | United Kingdom | Theirs is the Glory | Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young | Operation Market Garden | |
1946 | Philippines | Walang Kamatayan | Walang Kamatayan | Tor Villano | Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
1947 | Italy | Christmas at Camp 119 | Natale al campo 119 | Pietro Francisci | Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation |
1947 | United Kingdom | Frieda | Basil Dearden | ||
1947 | Italy | How I Lost the War | Come persi la guerra | Carlo Borghesio | Comedy. An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the Second Italo-Ethiopian War |
1947 | Denmark | Jenny and the Soldier | Soldaten og Jenny | Johan Jacobsen | |
1947 | Poland | The Last Stop | Ostatni etap | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
1947[19] | Italy | Men and Skies† | Uomini e cieli | Francesco De Robertis | Regia Aeronautica |
1947 | Occupied Germany | Seven Journeys (In Those Days) † | In jenen Tagen | Helmut Käutner | Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car |
1947 | China | The Spring River Flows East | Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú (一江春水向東流) | Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli | Sino-Japanese War |
1947 | United States | 13 Rue Madeleine | Henry Hathaway | US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France | |
1947 | Italy | To Live in Peace | Vivere in pace | Luigi Zampa | Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944 |
1947 | Japan | War and Peace | Sensō to heiwa (戦争と平和) | Fumio Kamei | Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home |
1948 | Italy | ..And Not Say Goodbye† | ..E non dirsi addio | Silvio Laurenti Rosa | Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943 |
1948 | United Kingdom | Against the Wind | Charles Crichton | Commando raid into occupied Belgium | |
1948 | Austria | The Angel with the Trumpet (The Angel with the Trombone) | Der Engel mit der Posaune | Karl Hartl | Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Salzburg through both world wars |
1948 | Poland | Border Street | Ulica Graniczna | Aleksander Ford | Holocaust in occupied Poland |
1948 | United Kingdom Netherlands | But Not in Vain | Niet Tevergeefs | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama.[20] |
1948 | United States | Command Decision | Sam Wood | Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force | |
1946 | Italy | Damned War!..† | Accidenti alla guerra!.. | Giorgio Simonelli | Comedy. An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the Lebensborn |
1948 | United States | Fighter Squadron | Raoul Walsh | P-47 fighters in the air war in Europe | |
1948 | Italy | The Great Road† | La grande strada | Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 [21] |
1948 | United States | Jungle Patrol | Joseph M. Newman | P-40 fighters in the air war in the New Guinea campaign | |
1948 | Italy | The Mascot of the Blue Devils† | La mascotte dei Diavoli Blu | Carlo Baltier | An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians |
1948 | Occupied Germany | Morituri | Morituri(in Latin) (Freiwild(in German)) | Eugen York | [22] |
1948 | Yugoslavia | On Their Own Territory | Na svoji zemlji | France Štiglic | Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on Eastern Front (World War 2) |
1948 | Norway France | Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water | La Bataille de l'eau lourde(in French) Kampen om tungtvannet(in Norwegian) | Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller | Docudrama. Norwegian heavy water sabotage |
1948 | Italy | Phantoms of the Sea | Fantasmi del mare | Francesco De Robertis | The effects of the Italian armistice on an Italian warship (based upon the facts happened on the battleship Giulio Cesare) |
1948 | United States Switzerland | The Search | [23] | Fred Zinnemann | Displaced persons in postwar Germany |
1948 | Poland | The Steel Hearts | Stalowe serca | Stanisław Januszewski | Silesia, Poland 1944 / 1945 |
1948 | Denmark | The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman | Støt står den danske sømand | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Docudrama. Danish sailors |
1949 | United States | Battleground | William A. Wellman | 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge | |
1949 | Soviet Union | The Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingradskaya bitva (Сталинградская битва) | Vladimir Petrov | Battle of Stalingrad |
1949 | Philippines | Capas | Capas | Gregorio Fernandez | Bataan Death March survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity |
1949 | Soviet Union | Encounter at the Elbe | Vstrecha na Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе) | Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksei Utkin | Elbe Day |
1949 | Soviet Union | The Fall of Berlin | Padeniye Berlina (Падение Берлина) | Mikheil Chiaureli | Battle of Berlin |
1949 | Italy | The Flame That Will Not Die | La fiamma che non si spegne | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italian hero Salvo D'Acquisto |
1949 | United Kingdom United States | The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | British and US wounded soldiers in the Burma campaign | |
1949 | United States | Home of the Brave | Mark Robson | Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island | |
1949 | United States | Lost Boundaries | Alfred L. Werker | Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro | |
1949 | United States | Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held Malaya | |
1949 | France | Mission in Tangier | Mission à Tanger | André Hunebelle | Journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers |
1949 | Italy | Monastery of Santa Chiara† | Monastero di Santa Chiara | Mario Sequi | Drama. Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations |
1949 | Spain | Neutrality | Neutralidad (Los caballeros del mar) | Eusebio Fernández Ardavín | A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship |
1949 | Poland | The Others Will Follow | Za wami pójdą inni | Antoni Bohdziewicz | Warsaw, Polish resistance |
1949 | United Kingdom | Private Angelo | Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov | Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier | |
1949[24] | Italy | Sailors Without Stars† | Marinai senza stelle | Francesco De Robertis | Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a Gabbiano-class corvette) |
1949 | United States | Sands of Iwo Jima | Allan Dwan | Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Iwo Jima | |
1949 | United Kingdom | The Small Back Room | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Bomb disposal | |
1949 | Denmark | That applies to us all†· | Det gælder os alle | Alice O'Fredericks | Young survivor from a concentration camp |
1949 | United Kingdom | They Were Not Divided | Terence Young | The British Guards Armoured Division | |
1949 | United States | Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force |
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) | Original title (Original script) | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
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1940 | France | My Crimes After Mein Kampf | Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes | 'Jean-Jacques Valjean' | Assassinations of Ernst Röhm and Kurt von Schleicher on Night of the Long Knives, 1934, then Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, also 1934 |
1940 | United Kingdom | Mein Kampf - My Crimes (After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler) | Norman Lee (uncredited) | ||
1992 | Canada | A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941 | |
1992 | Canada | Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. RCAFLancaster bombing of German cities | |
1992 | Canada | In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944 | |
1995 | Canada | War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. | |
1995 | Canada | War at Sea: The Black Pit (TV) | Brian McKenna | Drama. | |
1996 | Canada | A Web of War | Brian McKenna | Drama. Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Anders | |
2003 | United Kingdom | Killing Hitler (TV) | Jeremy Lovering | Drama. Operation Foxley plan to kill Hitler, 1944 |