List of World War II feature films

This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
There is a separate list of List of [World War II TV series|World War II TV series].

Criteria

The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
For short films, see the List of World War II short films.
For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.

Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.

Common topics

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

Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party and Nazism
National Socialist Germany
Benito Mussolini and Fascism
Kingdom of Italy and Italian Social Republic
Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
History of [Poland (1939–1945)|Partition and occupation of Poland] and resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]
Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
Occupied Norway
The Holocaust

;Asia–Pacific

;Non-geographical

Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War

Before the Second World War explicitly began with the Nazi German, then later Soviet invasions of Poland in September 1939, Germany had already absorbed Austria in the Anschluß of 1938, then the Czechoslovak lands of Bohemia and Moravia. Meanwhile, Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union were involved in the Spanish Civil War,, and Italy had conquered Ethiopia and Albania. China had been fighting against Japan since the 1931 invasion of their northeastern province of Manchuria in a war that completely opened in 1937, called the Second Sino-Japanese War, until Japan attacked the U.S.A. at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, then the British Empire and the Dutch East Indies colonial possessions also in December 1941.

Films made during the Second World War

Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.

Late 1940s

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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	'		William Wyler	1946 Best Picture depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian life after the war
1946	United Kingdom	'		Basil Dearden	British POWs in Germany
1946	Italy	'	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
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	'	Wielka droga	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	Czechoslovakia	'	Hrdinové mlčí	Miroslav Cikán	Resistance of Czech partisans
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 U planinama Jugoslavije	Abram Room	Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks
1946	United Kingdom	Journey Together		John Boulting	Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946	Czechoslovakia	Men Without Wings	Muži bez křídel	František Čáp	Czech resistance in occupied Prague Airfield
1946	Italy	Monte Cassino	Montecassino	Arturo Gemmiti	Battle of Monte Cassino and destruction of the abbey
1946	France	Mr. Orchid	Le père tranquille	René Clément	French Resistance
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	'		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	France	Le Bataillon du ciel	Sky Battalion	Alexandre Esway	Paratroopers camp of Free France, England.
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	'	Ostatni etap	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1947	Italy	Men and Skies	Uomini e cieli	Francesco De Robertis	-
1947		Seven Journeys	In jenen Tagen	Helmut Käutner	Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car
1947	China	'	Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú	Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli	Sino-Japanese War
1947	United States	'		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	Fumio Kamei Satsuo Yamamoto	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	'	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.
1948	United States	Command Decision		Sam Wood	Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force
1948	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	'	La grande strada	Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi	Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
1948	United States	Jungle Patrol		Joseph M. Newman	P-40 fighters in the air war in the New Guinea campaign
1948	Italy	'	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	Eugen York
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 Kampen om tungtvannet	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
1948	Hungary	Somewhere in Europe	Valahol Európában	Géza von Radványi	Story of a group of orphans in the final stage of World War II in Hungary. The film was financed by the Hungarian Communist Party.
1948	Soviet Union	Tale of a True Man	Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke	Aleksandr Stolper	Biography of the fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev
1948	United States Switzerland	'		Fred Zinnemann	Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948	Poland	'	Stalowe serca	Stanisław Januszewski	Silesia, Poland 1944 / 1945
1948	Denmark	'	Støt står den danske sømand	Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr.	-
1949	United States	I Was A Male War Bride	Howard Hanks		Comedy. A biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse. Cary Grant, Ann Sheriden
1949	United States	Battleground		William A. Wellman	101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge
1949	Soviet Union	'	Stalingradskaya bitva	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	Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksei Utkin	Elbe Day
1949	Soviet Union	'	Padeniye Berlina	Mikheil Chiaureli	Battle of Berlin
1949	Italy	'	La fiamma che non si spegne	Vittorio Cottafavi	Italian hero Salvo D'Acquisto
1949	United Kingdom United States	'		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 Kingdom	Landfall		Ken Annakin	Pilot believes he has sunk a friendly submarine
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	Eusebio Fernández Ardavín	A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship
1949	Poland	'	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	Italy	Sailors Without Stars	Marinai senza stelle	Francesco De Robertis	Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat
1949	United States	Sands of Iwo Jima		Allan Dwan	Battle of Tarawa and Battle of Iwo Jima
1949	Czechoslovakia	Silent Barricade	Němá barikáda	Otakar Vávra	Nazi Resistance
1949	United Kingdom			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

Dramatised documentaries

A dramatised documentary is a documentary film which includes dramatised scenes using actors in costume.

This format is distinct from a docudrama, which is a fully dramatised fact-based fictional work in a documentary style.

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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		Mein Kampf – My Crimes		Norman Lee
1992	Canada	'		Brian McKenna	Drama. Royal Rifles regiment at Battle of Hong Kong, 1941
1992	Canada	'		Brian McKenna	Drama. RCAF Lancaster bombing of German cities
1992	Canada	'		Brian McKenna	Drama. Black Watch regiment at Battle of Verrières Ridge, 1944
1995	Canada	War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence		Brian McKenna	Drama.
1995	Canada	War at Sea: The Black Pit		Brian McKenna	Drama.
1996	Canada	'		Brian McKenna	Drama. Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Anders
2003	United Kingdom	Killing Hitler		Jeremy Lovering	Drama. Operation Foxley plan to kill Hitler, 1944

Spanish Civil War

In the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists are supported by Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and a small number of international rightist volunteers. The Republicans are supported by Stalin's Soviet Union and a large number of leftist volunteers, the International Brigades.
The Nationalists under Francisco Franco win.
During World War II, Franco remains neutral – so Gibraltar is never overrun – but nevertheless he sends the Blue Division to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front.
For films about the Blue Division, see the List of World War II films since 1950.