Below is an incomplete list of full-length films or mini-series to feature or partly feature events of World War II in the narrative.
Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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1950
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| Francis
| Arthur Lubin
| Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific
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1950
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| Three Came Home
| Jean Negulesco
| Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
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1950
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| When Willie Comes Marching Home
| John Ford
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1950
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| Odette
| Herbert Wilcox
| SOE agent Odette Samson.
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1950
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| The Wooden Horse
| Jack Lee
| True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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1951
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| Achtung! Banditi!
| Carlo Lizzani
| Italian resistance movement
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1951
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| You're in the Navy Now
| Henry Hathaway
| U.S. submarine chaser in development
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1951
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| Albert(TV)
| Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis
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1951
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| The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
| Henry Hathaway
| Biopic of Erwin Rommel from Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 plot
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1951
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| Decision Before Dawn
| Anatole Litvak
| The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945
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1951
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| Fighting Coast Guard
| Joseph Kane
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1951
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| Flying Leathernecks
| Nicholas Ray
| US Marine fighter pilots in the Pacific
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1951
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| Force of Arms
| Michael Curtiz
| U.S. Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign
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1951
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| Go For Broke!
| Robert Pirosh
| U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France
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1951
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| The Magic Face
| Frank Tuttle
| An actor takes Hitler's place
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1951
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| Operation Pacific
| George Waggner
| A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War
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1951
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| Submarine Command
| John Farrow
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1951
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| Target Unknown
| George Sherman
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1951
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| The Wild Blue Yonder
| Allan Dwan
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1952
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| Above and Beyond
| Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
| 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima
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1952
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| Angels One Five
| George More O'Ferrall
| Battle of Britain
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1952
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| Appointment in London
| Philip Leacock
| RAF Bomber Command
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1952
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| Jeux interdits
| René Clément
| Occupation of France
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1952
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| Gift Horse
| Compton Bennett
| St Nazaire Raid
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1952
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| Okinawa
| Leigh Jason
| The Battle of Okinawa
|
1952
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| Operation Secret
| Lewis Seiler
| Espionage
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1952
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| Red Ball Express
| Budd Boetticher
| Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II
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1952
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| Thunderbirds
| John H. Auer
| The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers.
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1953
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| Anatahan
| Josef von Sternberg
| Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific island won't accept that the war has been over for years
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1953
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| Guerrilla Girl
| John Christian
| Greek Resistance
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1953
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| Stalag 17
| Billy Wilder
| German Prisoner of War camp for U.S. flyers
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1953
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| The Cruel Sea
| Charles Frend
| Battle of the Atlantic
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1953
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| From Here to Eternity
| Fred Zinnemann
| Attack on Pearl Harbor
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1953
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| Malta Story
| Brian Desmond Hurst
| Siege of Malta
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1953
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| Destination Gobi
| Robert Wise
| U.S. Navy weather unit in Mongolia
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1953
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| The Red Beret
| Terence Young
| British paratroops Operation Biting
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1953
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| Fighter Attack
| Lesley Selander
| Italian Campaign and Partisans
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1953
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| Single-Handed
| Roy Boulting
| Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution)
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1953
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| China Venture
| Don Siegel
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1953
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| Albert R.N.
| Lewis Gilbert
| British POWs in a German camp.
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1953
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| El Alaméin
| Fred F. Sears
| Second Battle of El Alamein
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1953
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| The Desert Rats
| Robert Wise
| Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, North African Campaign
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1953
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| Taiheiyo no washi
| Ishirô Honda
| Eagle of the Pacific; Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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1953
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| Tit-Coq
| René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas
| French Canadian serviceman comes home
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1954
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| Betrayed
| Gottfried Reinhardt
| Dutch resistance, Battle of Arnhem
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1954
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| The Caine Mutiny
| Edward Dmytryk
| Destroyer warfare in the Pacific
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1954
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| Shetlandsgjengen
| Michael Forlong
| Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves
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1954
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| The Dam Busters
| Michael Anderson
| RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise
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1954
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| The Purple Plain
| Robert Parrish
| RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign
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1954
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| They Who Dare
| Lewis Milestone
| SAS raid in occupied Greece
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1954
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| 08/15
| Paul May
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|
1954
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| The Sea Shall Not Have Them
| Lewis Gilbert
| Air Sea Rescue
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1955
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| Above Us the Waves
| Ralph Thomas
| The sinking of German battleship Tirpitz
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1955
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| Battle Cry
| Raoul Walsh
| US Marines at Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Saipan
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1955
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| The Cockleshell Heroes
| José Ferrer
| Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton
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1955
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| The Colditz Story
| Guy Hamilton
| British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp
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1955
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| The Eternal Sea
| John H. Auer
| Pacific War
|
1955
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| To Hell and Back
| Jesse Hibbs
| Combat biography of Audie Murphy
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1955
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| Mister Roberts
| John Ford and Melvin LeRoy
| U.S. Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific
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1955
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| Jackboot Mutiny
| Georg Wilhelm Pabst
| July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
|
1955
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| Der letzte Akt
| Georg Wilhelm Pabst
| The Last Act; Hitler: The Last Ten Days
|
1955
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| The Unknown Soldier
| Edvin Laine
| Finno-Soviet Continuation War
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1955
| Template:Flagcountry
| 08/15 - In der Heimat
| Paul May
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|
1955
| Template:Flagcountry
| 08/15 - Zweiter Teil
| Paul May
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1956
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| Attack
| Robert Aldrich
| U.S. infantry in France after D-Day
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1956
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| Away All Boats
| Joseph Pevney
| US attack transport in the Pacific
|
1956
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| The Battle of the River Plate
| Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
| Battle of the River Plate
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1956
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| Battle Stations
| Lewis Seiler
| US Navy battleship in the Pacific War
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1956
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| Between Heaven and Hell
| Richard Fleischer
| National Guard unit in the Philippines
|
1956
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| Biruma no tategoto
| Kon Ichikawa
| The Harp of Burma;Burma Campaign
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1956
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| The Bold and the Brave
| Lewis R. Foster
| Italian Campaign
|
1956
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| The Black Tent
| Brian Desmond Hurst
| North African campaign
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1956
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| The Man Who Never Was
| Ronald Neame
| Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat
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1956
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| Reach for the Sky
| Lewis Gilbert
| Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain
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1956
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| D-Day the Sixth of June
| Henry Koster
| Battle of Normandy
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1956
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| Kanal
| Andrzej Wajda
| Warsaw Uprising 1944
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1956
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| A Town Like Alice
| Jack Lee
| British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore
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1957
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| The Bridge on the River Kwai
| David Lean
| British POWs work on the Burma Railway
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1957
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| Fuchs von Paris, Der
| Paul May
| The Fox of Paris; Battle of Normandy from German soldiers perspective
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1957
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| Haie und kleine Fische
| Frank Wisbar
| The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats
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1957
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| Hellcats of the Navy
| Nathan Juran
| submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre
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1957
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| Ill Met by Moonlight
| Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
| In Battle of Crete British and Cretan forces kidnap General Kreipe
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1957
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| The One That Got Away
| Roy Ward Baker
| True story of German escaper Franz von Werra
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1957
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| The Steel Bayonet
| Michael Carreras
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|
1957
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| The Enemy Below
| Dick Powell
| South Atlantic cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and German submarine
|
1958
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| Operation Amsterdam
| Michael McCarthy
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|
1958
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| Tenkrát o Vánocích
| Karel Kachyňa
| Czechoslovak army on the east front on Christmas 1944
|
1958
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| Arzt von Stalingrad, Der
| Géza von Radványi
| The Doctor of Stalingrad; Battle of Stalingrad
|
1958
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| The Camp on Blood Island
| Val Guest
| British and Dutch POW's in Malaya
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| Dunkirk
| Leslie Norman
| Operation Dynamo; Dunkirk Evacuation
|
1958
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| Carve Her Name with Pride
| Lewis Gilbert
| SOE agent Violette Szabo
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1958
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| Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben
| Frank Wisbar
| Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!; Battle of Stalingrad
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1958
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| Ice-Cold in Alex
| J. Lee Thompson
| North African campaign
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1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| I Was Monty's Double
| John Guillermin
| General Montgomery
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| Run Silent, Run Deep
| Robert Wise
| The chase of a Japanese submarine during the Pacific War
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Battle of the V.1
| Vernon Sewell
| Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Key
| Carol Reed
| Battle of the Atlantic
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Naked and the Dead
| Raoul Walsh
| Pacific War
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| Sea of Sand
| Guy Green
| Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Wind Cannot Read
| Ralph Thomas
| RAF in Burma
|
1958
| Template:Flagcountry
| Orzeł
| Leonard Buczkowski
| The story of ORP Orzeł
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Ten Seconds to Hell
| Robert Aldrich
| German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Die Brücke
| Bernhard Wicki
| Western Front
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Never So Few
| John Sturges
| Burma Campaign
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Ningen no joken I
| Masaki Kobayashi
| The Human Condition (film trilogy) No Greater Love; Japanese resistance; Manchukuo
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Ningen no joken II
| Masaki Kobayashi
| The Human Condition (film trilogy) Road to Eternity; Japanese resistance
|
1959
| Template:Flagcountry
| Sudba Cheloveka
| Sergei Bondarchuk
| Destiny of a Man, Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov
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Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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1980
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Final Countdown
| Don Taylor
| Pearl Harbor, 1941
|
1980
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Big Red One
| Samuel Fuller
| U.S. 1st Infantry Division 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe
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1980
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| The Sea Wolves
| Andrew V. McLaglen
| Calcutta Light Horse
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1981
| Template:Flagcountry
| Het meisje met het rode haar (The girl with the red hair)
| Ben Verbong
| Dutch resistance
|
1981
| Template:Flagcountry
| Das Boot
| Wolfgang Petersen
| Battle of the Atlantic
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1981
| Template:Flagcountry
| Eye of the Needle
| Richard Marquand
| German spy in England before D-Day
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1981
| Template:Flagcountry
| Escape to Victory
| John Huston
| A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs
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1982
| Template:Flagcountry
| Attack Force Z
| Tim Burstall
| Z Special Unit
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1982
| Template:Flagcountry
| Sophie's Choice
| Alan J. Pakula,
| Holocaust
|
1982
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Highest Honour
| Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell
| Operation Rimau
|
1983
| Template:Flagcountry
| Hong Kong 1941
| Leong Po-Chih
| Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
|
1983
| Template:Flagcountry
| Papy fait de la résistance
| Jean-Marie Poiré
| (Comedy) French Resistance on Occupied France
|
1983
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| Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
| Nagisa Oshima
| British POWs on Java Island
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1983
| Template:Flagcountry
| One and Eight
| Zhang Junzhao
| Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China
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1984
| Template:Flagcountry
| Võõra nime all
| Peeter Urbla
| Estonians in Soviet camp
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| Code Name: Emerald
| Jonathan Sanger
| Battle of Normandy
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet)
| Kees van Oostrum
| Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| De IJssalon (The Ice-cream parlor)
| Dimitri Frenkel Frank
| Romance between a Dutch woman and German officer
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| Come and See
| Elem Klimov
| Eastern Front
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| Noi, cei din linia întâi
| Sergiu Nicolaescu
| Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| Битва за Москву, Battle for Moscow
| Yuri Ozerov
| Eastern Front
|
1985
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Unknown Soldier
| Rauni Mollberg
| Finno-Soviet Continuation War
|
1986
| Template:Flagcountry
| In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory)
| Ate de Jong
| Dutch resistance
|
1986
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Assault
| Fons Rademakers
| Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation
|
1986
| Template:Flagcountry
| Tokyo Saiban
| Masaki Kobayashi
| Five-hour theatrical documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal Far East (IMTFE), Tokyo Trials
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1987
| Template:Flagcountry
| Men Behind the Sun
| Tun Fei Mou
| Unit 731
|
1987
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| The Misfit Brigade
| Gordon Hessler
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|
1987
| Template:Flagcountry
| Au revoir, les enfants
| Louis Malle
| Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France
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1987
| Template:Flagcountry
| Empire of the Sun
| Steven Spielberg
| British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai
|
1987
| Template:Flagcountry
| Hope and Glory
| John Boorman
| The Blitz
|
1988
| Template:Flagcountry
| Evening Bell
| Wu Ziniu
| Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China
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1988
| Template:Flagcountry
| Grave of the Fireflies
| Isao Takahata
| Firebombing of Kobe
|
1988
| Template:Flagcountry
| Shadowman
| Piotr Andrejew
| Refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam
|
1988
| Template:Flagcountry
| Return from the River Kwai
| Andrew V. McLaglen
| British POWs in Japan
|
1988
| Template:Flagcountry
| Farewell to the King
| John Milius
| Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo
|
1989
| Template:Flagcountry
| Fat Man and Little Boy
| Roland Joffé
| The Manhattan project
|
1989
| Template:Flagcountry
| Talvisota
| Pekka Parikka
| The Winter War
|
1989
| Template:Flagcountry
| Stalingrad
| Yuri Ozerov
| The Battle for Stalingrad
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Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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1990
| Template:Flagcountry
| Blood Oath
| Stephen Wallace
| Japanese war crimes trial for the The Laha massacre
|
1990
| Template:Flagcountry
| Docteur Pétiot
| Christian de Chalonge
| Serial killer Marcel Pétiot in Occupied France
|
1990
| Template:Flagcountry
| Europa Europa
| Agnieszka Holland
| A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth
|
1990
| Template:Flagcountry
| Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
| Kjell Grede
| Story of Raoul Wallenberg
|
1990
| Template:Flagcountry
| Memphis Belle
| Michael Caton-Jones
| Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle
|
1991
| Template:Flagcountry
| Mediterraneo
| Gabriele Salvatores
| Italian soldiers on Greek island
|
1992
| Template:Flagcountry
| A Midnight Clear
| Keith Gordon
| Western Front
|
1993
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| Saatana pisar
| Marek Piestrak
| NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939.
|
1993
| Template:Flagcountry
| Oglinda
| Sergiu Nicolaescu
| Downfall of Ion Antonescu
|
1993
| Template:Flagcountry
| Schindler's List
| Steven Spielberg
| The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust
|
1993
| Template:Flagcountry
| Stalingrad
| Joseph Vilsmaier
| The Battle of Stalingrad
|
1995
| Template:Flagcountry
| Don't Cry, Nanking
| Wu Ziniu
| Nanking Massacre
|
1995
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| Hiroshima
| Roger Spottiswoode
| Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
|
1995
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Tuskegee Airmen
| Robert Markowitz
| The story of the first African-American pilots
|
1995
| Template:Flagcountry
| Red Cherry
| Ye Ying
| Boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union
|
1995
| Template:Flagcountry
| Sahara
| Brian Trenchard-Smith
| Western Desert Campaign
|
1995
| Template:Flagcountry
| Underground
| Emir Kusturica
| German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia
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1996
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Brylcreem Boys
| Terence Ryan
| British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland
|
1996
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| The English Patient
| Anthony Minghella
| Tobruk
|
1996
| Template:Flagcountry
| Mother Night
| Keith Gordon
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1996
| Template:Flagcountry
| Over Here (TV)
| Tony Dow
| Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England
|
1996
| Template:Flagcountry
| Sunset at Chaophraya
| Euthana Mukdasanit
| Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement
|
1997
| Template:Flagcountry
| Lucie Aubrac
| Claude Berri
| The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, resistants on Occupied France
|
1997
| Template:Flagcountry
| The Land Girls
| David Leland
| Women's Land Army
|
1997
| Template:Flagcountry
| La Vita é Bella
| Roberto Benigni
| The Holocaust
|
1997
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| Paradise Road
| Bruce Beresford
| British women POW's in Sumatra
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1998
| Template:Flagcountry
| Pride
| Shunya Ito
| A depiction of Tojo Hideki during The Tokyo Trials
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1998
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| The Thin Red Line
| Terrence Malick
| Guadalcanal campaign
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1998
| Template:Flagcountry
| Saving Private Ryan
| Steven Spielberg
| Landing at Omaha Beach and the fighting inland
|
1998
| Template:Flagcountry
| When Trumpets Fade (TV)
| John Irvin
| The Battle of Huertgen Forest
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1999
| Template:Flagcountry
| Jakob the Liar
| Peter Kassovitz
| Jewish ghetto
|
1999
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| Moloch
| Aleksandr Sokurov
| A visit of Adolf Hitler to the Berghof
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1999
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| Ambush
| Olli Saarela
| The Continuation War
|
1999
| Template:Flagcountry
| Četverored
| Branko Schmidt
| The Bleiburg massacre
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1999
| Template:Flagcountry
| Aimée & Jaguar
| Max Färberböck
| While the Gestapo purge Berlin of the Jews, a heart-wrenching love affair blooms between two women (see: Felice Schragenheim & Lilly Wust).
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Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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2000
| Template:Flagcountry
| Devils on the Doorstep
| Jiang Wen
| Second Sino-Japanese War.
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2000
| Template:Flagcountry
| Johnny the Partisan
| Guido Chiesa
| Partisan warfare in Northern Italy.
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2000
| Template:Flagcountry
| Leftenan Adnan
| Aziz M. Osman
| Story of Adnan Bin Saidi & the Battle of Pasir Panjang.
|
2000
| Template:Flagcountry
| U-571
| Jonathan Mostow
| American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate a German U-boat with orders to capture an Enigma machine that could turn the tide of the war.
|
2001
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| Enigma
| Michael Apted
| Enigma machine mystery.
|
2001
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| Band of Brothers (TV)
| Steven Spielberg
| The story of a company in the 101st Airborne Division (Easy Company) from the Battle of Normandy to Holland, Belgium, & Germany.
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2001
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| Captain Corelli's Mandolin
| John Madden
| Italian occupation of the Greek islands.
|
2001
| Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry
| Charlotte Gray
| Gillian Armstrong
| Special Operations Executive.
|
2001
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| Conspiracy (TV)
| Frank Pierson
| In 1942, 15 German officials attend a conference in Wannsee headed by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss the Final Solution to the Jewish question.
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2001
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| Dark Blue World
| Jan Sverák
| Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain.
|
2001
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| Enemy at the Gates
| Jean-Jacques Annaud
| Stand-off between two opposing snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad.
|
2001
| Template:Flagcountry
| Pearl Harbor
| Michael Bay
| The Attack on Pearl Harbor & the Doolittle Raid.
|
2001
| Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry
| To End All Wars
| David L. Cunningham
| The Burma Railway.
|
2001
| Template:Flagcountry
| Uprising (TV)
| Jon Avnet
| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
|
2002
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| Amen
| Costa-Gavras
| Alleged collusion between Nazis & the Roman Catholic Church.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| Two Men Went to War
| John Henderson
| Based on true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| Hart's War
| Gregory Hoblit
| Battle of the Bulge.
|
2002
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| Laissez passer (aka "Safe Conduct")
| Bertrand Tavernier
| France under German occupation.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| Monsieur Batignole
| Gérard Jugnot
| A butcher hides & protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France during World War II.
|
2002
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| The Pianist
| Roman Polanski
| The story of Władysław Szpilman.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| Zvezda
| Nikolai Lebedev
| A group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| El Alamein (film)
| Enzo Monteleone
| Second Battle of El Alamein.
|
2002
| Template:Flagcountry
| Windtalkers
| John Woo
| Battle of Saipan.
|
2003
| Template:Flagcountry
| Entrusted
| Giacomo Battiato
| Thomas Von Gall, an 11 year-old chess prodigy & son of a mother working with the underground resistance, is entrusted with a precious secret that will save the lives of many.
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| Rosenstrasse
| Margarethe von Trotta
| Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin.
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| Bon Voyage
| Jean-Paul Rappeneau
| France under German occupation.
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| Strange Gardens
| Jean Becker
| French hostages held captive in a giant pit.
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| Želary
| Ondrej Trojan
| Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding when their group is discovered by the Nazis.
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| Long Dark Night
| Antun Vrdoljak
| Croatia under fascism & communism.
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| Der Untergang
| Oliver Hirschbiegel
| Last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin.
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| Napola (aka "Before the Fall")
| Dennis Gansel
| The story of two young graduates of the Hitler Youth who form an unsuspecting bond while attending one of the Reich's National-Political institutions at the peak of World War II.
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| Purple Butterfly
| Lou Ye
| Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai.
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| Saints and Soldiers
| Ryan Little
| Survivors of the Malmedy massacre during the Ardennes Offensive.
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| Ike: Countdown to D-Day
| Robert Harmon
| The organization & planning of Operation Overlord from the viewpoint of the Supreme Allied Command at SHAEF.
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| Stauffenberg (TV)
| Jo Baier
| Plot to assassinate Hitler during World War II.
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| Der Neunte Tag (aka "The Ninth Day")
| Volker Schlöndorff
| An SS Lieutenant tries to coerce a Catholic Priest (Father Abbé Henri Kremer) into writing a letter to the Vatican on behalf of the Church of Luxemburg demanding that the Pope support Hitler &the Nazi regime.
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| The Last Drop
| David Teague
| Operation Market Garden & a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi gold.
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| Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
| Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck
| Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent atomic bombing of Tokyo.
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| On the Mountain of Tai Hang
| Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian
| Campaigns of the Eighth Route Army in China.
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| Only the Brave
| Lane Nishikawa
| Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
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| The Sun
| Aleksandr Sokurov
| Life of emperor Hirohito.
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| Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (aka "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days")
| Marc Rothemund
| The final days & trial of Sophie Scholl, member of the White Rose.
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| The Great Raid
| John Dahl
| Japanese occupation of the Philippines & the Raid at Cabanatuan.
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| Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
| Shyam Benegal
| The story of Subash Chandra Bose & the Indian National Army.
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| Yamato
| Junya Sato
| The story of Yamato's crew during the Pacific War.
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| Framom främsta linjen aka "Beyond Enemy Lines")
| Åke Lindman
| The hostilities between Soviet Russia and Finland between 1941-1944. Also known as the Continuation War.
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| Tokyo Trial
| Gao Qunshu
| Story of Chinese Justice, Mei Ru-ao, in an International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) Tokyo Trials.
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| Flags of Our Fathers
| Clint Eastwood
| The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of American soldiers.
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| Days of Glory
| Rachid Bouchareb
| The stories of four North African men who enlist in the French army to liberate France.
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| Kokoda
| Alister Grierson
| Chronicles the events that transpired during the Kokoda Track Campaign.
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| Letters from Iwo Jima
| Clint Eastwood
| The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers.
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| Svolochi
| Aleksandr Atanesyan
| A group of teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission.
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| Zwartboek
| Paul Verhoeven
| A story of a young Jewish woman who joins the Dutch Resistance & becomes entangled in a deadly web of collaboration & betrayal in the final months of World War II.
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| The Last Train
| Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier
| The story of 688 Jews who are packed onto a cattle train bound for Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.
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| Ühe metsa pojad
| Ats Surva
| Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944.
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| American Pastime
| Desmond Nakano
| Love, jazz music & baseball all collide at the Topaz, Utah Internment camp.
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| Atonement
| Joe Wright
| Dunkirk.
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| Katyń
| Andrzej Wajda
| The mass execution of Polish military officers, POWs & civilians by the Soviets in 1940. See also: the Katyń massacre.
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| Lust, Caution
| Ang Lee
| An espionage thriller set in Shanghai during World War II.
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| The Counterfeiters
| Stefan Ruzowitzky
| Operation Bernhard.
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2007
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| Tali Ihantala 1944
| Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen
| Battles of the Continuation War.
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| Tuulepealne maa (TV)
| Ain Prosa
| The story of Estonian people from World War I until 1941.
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| Miracle at St. Anna
| Spike Lee
| Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre.
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| Flammen og Citronen (aka "Flame & Citron")
| Ole Christian Madsen
| Two members (Bent & Joergen, aka Flame & Lemons) of the Holger Danske (resistance group) are sent on a dangerous mission to assassinate Nazi and Danish collaborators.
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| Les Femmes De L'Ombre (aka "Female Agents")
| Jean-Paul Salomé
| Five female SOE agents are parachuted into occupied France to assassinate German Col. Karl Heindrich (head of counter-intelligence) & to rescue a British geologist in possession of valuable information concerning the D-Day invasion.
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| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
| Mark Herman
| The Holocaust witnessed through the innocent eyes of two eight year old boys. The first, Bruno, son of a Nazi officer & commandant of a death camp & the second, Shmuel, a Jewish boy who is interned there. A truly remarkable story of a forbidden friendship & its devastating consequences.
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| Defiance
| Edward Zwick
| Bielski partisans.
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| Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime)
| Martin Koolhoven
| A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of World War II.
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| Max Manus
| Joachim Rønning
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| The story of Max Manus, a Norwegian resistance member fighting Nazi occupation of Norway.
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| Valkyrie
| Bryan Singer
| July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II.
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| Australia
| Baz Luhrmann
| the first attack on Darwin.
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| City of Life and Death
| Lu Chuan
| Nanking Massacre.
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| L'Armée du crime
| Robert Guédiguian
| Manouchian resistance group and l'Affiche Rouge.
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| Inglourious Basterds
| Quentin Tarantino
| A group of Jewish-American soldiers sign up for a mission to kill a particular group of Nazis.
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| Little Iron Men
| Jesse Kobayashi
| Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
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| Dambusters
| Christian Rivers
| Operation Chastise.
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