Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini-series which feature events of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 in the narrative.

A separate list of full-fledged TV series appears at the end.

Restrictions

• The film or mini-series must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
• For short films, see List of World War II short films.
• For documentaries, see List of World War II documentary films.

Films made during the war

Note: films are in Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 and originate in the  Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, unless otherwise noted.

1939

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Hitler, Beast of Berlin Hitler, Beast of Berlin Hitler, Beast of Berlin was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of the World War II era, based on the novel Goose Step by Shepard Traube. The film was the first production of Producers Releasing Corporation. It was recut and released as Beasts of Berlin the same year, having been banned...	Sam Newfield Sam Newfield Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over 250 feature films to his credit, and a large number of shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes, and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for...	German political prisoner
UK	The Lion Has Wings The Lion Has Wings The Lion Has Wings is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda, war film. The film was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger... , Adrian Brunel Adrian Brunel Adrian Brunel was an English film director and screenwriter. Brunel's directorial career started in the silent era, and reached its peak in the latter half of the 1920s... , Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...	RAF mobilization - the first British propaganda film of the war

1940

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK	Convoy Convoy (1940 film) - Plot summary :A Royal Navy cruiser returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. They are sent to meet a convoy and escort them safely into English coastal waters...	Pen Tennyson Pen Tennyson Frederick Penrose Tennyson was a British film director whose promising career was cut short when he was killed in a plane crash. Tennyson gained experience as an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock in several of his British films during the 1930s...	The Battle of the Atlantic
Nazi Germany	Feinde (Enemies)	Viktor Tourjansky	Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland.
Empire of Japan	Moyuru ōzora Moyuru ozora is a 1940 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Yutaka Abe.Moyuru ōzora is a war film.Special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.*Song: Ichiro Fujiyama....	Yutaka Abe Yutaka Abe was a Japanese film director and actor. He went to America to study theater and began acting in Hollywood, appearing in such films as The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa. He was often billed as "Jack Abbe" or "Jack Yutake Abbe." He returned to Japan in 1925, finding work at the Nikkatsu studio, and soon...
UK	Secret Journey Secret Journey (film) Secret Journey is a 1939 British thriller film directed by John Baxter and starring Basil Radford, Silvia St. Claire and Thorley Walters. A British agent travels to Berlin to recover a top-secret invention that has been stolen by German intelligence.-Cast:...	John Baxter John Baxter (director) John Philip Baxter was a somewhat prolific British film-maker active from the 1930s to the late 1950s. During that time he produced, wrote, or directed dozens of films...	Espionage Espionage Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
UK	The Big Blockade The Big Blockade The Big Blockade is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy-drama, propaganda film, war film, directed by Charles Frend and starring Will Hay, Ronald Shiner as the Shipping Clerk and John Mills. It was produced by Ealing Studios...	Charles Frend Charles Frend Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...	The Economic blockade of Germany
USA	The Great Dictator The Great Dictator The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was...	Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...	A satirical film of Nazism Nazism Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...  and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
USA	The Long Voyage Home The Long Voyage Home The Long Voyage Home is an American drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	The Battle of the Atlantic
USA	Watch on the Rhine Watch on the Rhine Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.-Plot:...	Herman Shumlin Herman Shumlin Herman Shumlin was a prolific Broadwaytheatrical director and theatrical producer beginning in 1927 with the play Celebrity and continuing through 1974 with a short run of As You Like It, notably with an all male cast...	Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.
USA	Waterloo Bridge Waterloo Bridge (1940 film) Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 remake of the 1931 film of the same title, adapted from the 1930 play of the same title.The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay is by S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau and George...	Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and sometime actor.-Early life:Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake...	While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance
USA	Women in War	John H. Auer	Nurses in the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940... .

1941

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
Nazi Germany	Annelie	Josef von Bákyn	A heroic German mother during war.
USA	Caught in the Draft Caught in the Draft Caught in the Draft is a 1941 comedy/war film, directed by David Butler.-Plot:Don Bolton is a famous Hollywood star who tries to get married in order to avoid the draft, as he feels it will interfere with his career...	David Butler	Bob Hope Bob Hope Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...  gets drafted.
USA	Parachute Battalion Parachute Battalion Parachute Battalion is a 1941 film starring Robert Preston and Nancy Kelly. The supporting cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey, and Buddy Ebsen, and the movie was directed by Leslie Goodwins.-Production:...	Leslie Goodwins	Three individuals who have signed up for a parachute batallion, features Buddy Ebsen dancing. http://www.archive.org/details/parachute_battalion
UK	Dangerous Moonlight Dangerous Moonlight Dangerous Moonlight is a 1941 British film, starring Anton Walbrook, best known for its score written by Richard Addinsell with orchestrations by Roy Douglas, which includes the Warsaw Concerto...	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...	The Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
UK	49th Parallel 49th Parallel (film) 49th Parallel is the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel, which forms much of the U.S.-Canadian border...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...	Survivors of a sunken U-boat U-boat U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...  in Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Hudson Bay , sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...  trek across Canada to the neutral USA
UK	Freedom Radio	Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...	German Resistance German Resistance The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...
Soviet Union	Frontovye podrugi (The Girl from Leningrad)	Viktor Eisymont Viktor Eisymont Viktor Vladislavovich Eisymont was a Soviet film director.He was a three-time recipient of the Stalin Prize, in 1942, 1947, and 1951.-Filmography:* Friends ; co-directed with Lev Arnshtam...
UK	Pimpernel Smith Pimpernel Smith "Pimpernel" Smith is a British 1941 anti-Nazi thriller, produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in the 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel from Revolutionary France to pre-World War II Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the most valuable...	Leslie Howard Leslie Howard (actor) Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and roles in Berkeley Square , Of Human Bondage , The Scarlet Pimpernel , The Petrified Forest , Pygmalion , Intermezzo , Pimpernel Smith...	The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro and Batman.... updated to World War II
UK	Ships with Wings Ships with Wings Ships with Wings is a 1941 British war film directed by Sergei Nolbandov and starring John Clements, Leslie Banks and Jane Baxter. During the Second World War the British fleet air arm fight the Germans in Greece.-Release:...	Sergei Nolbandov Sergei Nolbandov Sergei Nolbandov was a Russian-born screenwriter, film producer and director. Nolbandov was born in Moscow in 1895. He later moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry...	Battle of Taranto Battle of Taranto The naval Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, flying a small number of obsolescent biplane torpedo bombers from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea...
Nazi Germany	Soldaten von morgen (Soldiers of Tomorrow)	Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia...	Nazi Hitler Youth Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...  film
USA	Sundown Sundown (film) Sundown is a 1941 war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Bruce Cabot and Gene Tierney. The film's adventure story, set against a war backdrop was well received by critics, earning three Academy Award nominations and was a box office success....	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...	The North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
Nazi Germany	U-Boote westwärts U-Boote westwärts U-Boat Westwards was a 1941 German war film promoting the Kriegsmarine. It concerns a U-boat mission in the Second Battle of the Atlantic.- Plot :...	Günther Rittau Günther Rittau Günther Rittau was a German camera operator and film director.After study of science in Berlin, Rittau started his career in 1919 at the documentary-film department of Decla, later at Universum Film AG. He learned the job of camera operator "on the side". From 1924, he was active as a feature...	U-boat U-boat U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II... s in the Battle of the Atlantic
USA	Underground Underground (1941 film) Underground is a 1941 film about the German Resistance opposing the Nazis in World War II. Jeffrey Lynn and Philip Dorn play two brothers initially on opposite sides.-Cast:*Jeffrey Lynn as Kurt Franken*Philip Dorn as Eric Franken...	Vincent Sherman Vincent Sherman Vincent Sherman was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington , Nora Prentiss , and The Young Philadelphians ....	German Resistance German Resistance The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...
USA	A Yank in the RAF A Yank in the RAF A Yank in the RAF is a black-and-white 1941 movie directed by Henry King, and is considered a typical early-World War II movie.-Plot Summary:...	Henry King Henry King (director) Henry King was an American film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the...	American volunteers in the RAF Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

1942

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	A Yank in Libya A Yank in Libya - Plot summary :American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Libya. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window...	Albert Herman	US journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa. http://www.archive.org/details/AYankinLibya
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Alfa Tau!	Francesco De Robertis	Italian submarine warfare; Mediterranean Theatre of World War II Mediterranean Theatre of World War II The African, Mediterranean and Middle East theatres encompassed the naval, land, and air campaigns fought between the Allied and Axis forces in the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and Africa...
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Bengasi Bengasi (film) Bengasi is a 1942 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....	Augusto Genina Augusto Genina Augusto Genina was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua...	The North Africa campaign
USA	The Bugle Sounds The Bugle Sounds The Bugle Sounds is a 1942 World War II movie starring Wallace Beery as a cavalry sergeant resistant to replacing horses with tanks. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone, George Bancroft, Donna Reed, and Chill Wills. The film was directed by S...	S. Sylvan Simon S. Sylvan Simon S. Sylvan Simon was an American stage/film director and producer. He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. In 1937, he moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers' The Big Store, supervising many of the slapstick sequences...	Cavalry and tank warfare
USA	Captains of the Clouds Captains of the Clouds Captains of the Clouds is a 1942 Warner Bros. war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney , with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay and Norman Reilly Raine,...	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...	Canadian bush pilots in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan British Commonwealth Air Training Plan The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan , known in some countries as the Empire Air Training Scheme , was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War... , WWI ace Billy Bishop Billy Bishop Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire.-Early life:Bishop was born in Owen Sound,...  as himself
USA	Casablanca Casablanca (film) Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...	Romantic film in Vichy France Vichy France Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic... -controlled Morocco
UK	The Day Will Dawn The Day Will Dawn The Day Will Dawn, released in the U.S. as The Avengers, is a 1942 war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence...	Harold French Harold French Harold French was an English director and actor of stage and screen. As an actor most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936. He did not garner as much attention as an actor as he would as a director. From 1940 to 1955 he had a several solid box-office successes...	Norwegian resistance
USA	Desperate Journey Desperate Journey Desperate Journey is a 1942 American World War II aviation film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Raymond Massey, Alan Hale and Arthur Kennedy, and the movie was directed by Raoul Walsh...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied Holland
USA	Eagle Squadron	Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films and created the TV series Mr. Ed.Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California in 1898...	Eagle Squadron Eagle squadron The Eagle Squadrons were 3 fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force formed during World War II with volunteer pilots from the United States... , American volunteers in the RAF during the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
UK	The First of the Few The First of the Few The First of the Few, known as Spitfire in the United States, is a 1942 British film directed by and starring Leslie Howard as R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, alongside co-star David Niven. The film's score was written by William Walton...	Leslie Howard Leslie Howard (actor) Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and roles in Berkeley Square , Of Human Bondage , The Scarlet Pimpernel , The Petrified Forest , Pygmalion , Intermezzo , Pimpernel Smith...	Development of the Spitfire Supermarine Spitfire The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s...  http://www.archive.org/details/TheFirstOfTheFew
USA UK	Flying Fortress	Walter Forde Walter Forde Walter Forde was a British actor, Screenwriter and Director. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1896 he directed over fifty films between 1920 and 1949.-Silent era filmography:* The Wanderer * The Handyman ...	B-17 planes
USA	Flying Tigers Flying Tigers (film) Flying Tigers is a 1942 black-and-white war film, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as mercenary fighter pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the U.S. entry into World War II....	David Miller David Miller (director) David Miller was an American movie director who directed such varied films as Billy the Kid with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy, Flying Tigers with John Wayne, and Love Happy with the Marx Brothers.-Filmography:* Bittersweet Love * Executive Action * Hail, Hero! * Hammerhead...	American Volunteer Group American Volunteer Group The American Volunteer Groups were volunteer air units organized by the United States government to aid the Nationalist government of China against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War... , the Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
UK	The Foreman Went to France The Foreman Went to France The Foreman Went to France, also known as Somewhere in France, is a 1942 British World War II war film starring Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings and Gordon Jackson...	Charles Frend Charles Frend Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...	The Battle of France Battle of France In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...
Nazi Germany	Fronttheater	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	The Battle of Greece Battle of Greece The Battle of Greece is the common name for the invasion and conquest of Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941. Greece was supported by British Commonwealth forces, while the Germans' Axis allies Italy and Bulgaria played secondary roles... ?
Nazi Germany	Die große Liebe (The Great Love)	Rolf Hansen Rolf Hansen (director) Rolf Hansen was a German film director. He directed 20 films between 1936 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Die grosse Liebe * Dr. Holl * Desires...	Some part of battle between Nazi Germany and USSR.
Empire of Japan	Hawai Mare oki kaisen Hawai Mare oki kaisen , literally: The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay, is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto.There are special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya who would later co-create the widely-popular Godzilla franchise and fully create the also widely-popular Ultraman series.- Cast :* Susumu... (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya)	Kajiro Yamamoto Kajirō Yamamoto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was known for his war films and comedies and as the mentor of Akira Kurosawa.-Early life:Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto attended Keio University where he helped form a film appreciation society...	Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...  and Malayan Campaign.
USA	Jungle Siren Jungle Siren - Cast :*Ann Corio as Kuhlaya*Buster Crabbe as Captain Gary Hart*Evelyn Wahl as Frau Anna Lukas*Paul Bryar as Sergeant Mike Jenkins*Milton Kibbee as Dr. Thomas Harrigan*Arno Frey as Herr George Lukas*Jess Lee Brooks as Chief Selangi...	Sam Newfield Sam Newfield Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over 250 feature films to his credit, and a large number of shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes, and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for...	Free French, with two Americans, are sent to a small village in Africa to build an airfield. http://www.archive.org/details/JungleSiren
USA	Hillbilly Blitzkrieg Hillbilly Blitzkrieg Hillbilly Blitzkrieg is a 1942 American film directed by Roy Mack.The film is also known as Enemy Round-Up .- Cast :*Bud Duncan as Pvt. Snuffy Smith*Edgar Kennedy as Sgt. Homer Gatling*Cliff Nazarro as Barney Google...	Roy Mack Roy Mack Roy Mack was the co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League with his brother Earle Mack from through . In 1954, the brothers sold the Athletics to Arnold Johnson, who moved the team to Kansas City, Missouri one season later. Mack was the son of Hall of Fame manager and former...	Nazi Sies steal rocket formula in the US http://www.archive.org/details/HillbillyBlitzkrieg
UK	In Which We Serve In Which We Serve In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information ....	Noel Coward Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...  and David Lean David Lean Sir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...	Based on the sinking of HMS Kelly HMS Kelly (F01) HMS Kelly was a K-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, and flotilla leader of her class. She served through the early years of the Second World War; in Home Waters, off Norway and in the Mediterranean. Throughout her service, Kelly was commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten. She was lost in...  http://www.archive.org/details/In_Which_We_Serve
USA	Lady from Chungking Lady from Chungking The Lady from Chungking is a 1942 American War film.-Synopsis:The film tells the story of an aristocratic Chinese woman leading a group of Chinese fighters against Japan during World War II.-Cast:* Anna May Wong... Kwan Mei...	William Nigh William Nigh William Nigh was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin....	The Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...  http://www.archive.org/details/LadyfromChungking
USA	Let's Get Tough! Let's Get Tough! Let's Get Tough! is a 1942 film and the ninth film in the East Side Kids series, starring Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall , Bobby Jordan , and Robert Armstrong...	Wallace Fox Wallace Fox Wallace Fox was an American film director. He directed 84 films between 1927 and 1953.He was born in Purcell, Oklahoma and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Bowery Blitzkrieg...	Juvenile delinquents battle the Black Dragon Society Black Dragon Society The was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist right-wing group in Japan.-History:The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by Uchida Ryohei, and was descended from the Genyōsha. Its name is derived from the Amur River, called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese , read as Kokuryū-kō in...  saboteurs in New York
USA	Mrs. Miniver Mrs. Miniver (film) Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright. Based on the fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, the film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture,...	William Wyler William Wyler William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...	The British Home Front
USA	Navy Comes Through	A. Edward Sutherland A. Edward Sutherland A. Edward Sutherland aka Eddie Sutherland was a film director and actor. Born Albert Edward Sutherland in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer...	The Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its...
UK	The Next of Kin The Next of Kin The Next of Kin, also known as Next of Kin, is a 1942 World War II propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios.The film was originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government propaganda message that "Careless talk costs lives"...	Thorold Dickinson Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britains's first university Professor of Film.-Early life and career:...	Careless talk costs lives - message and fictional commando Commando In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...  raid
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)  Kingdom of Romania	Odessa in fiamme (Odessa in Flames)	Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...
UK	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing One of Our Aircraft is Missing One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a 1942 British war film, the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...  and Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...	Allied aircrew escaping from the occupied Netherlands http://www.archive.org/details/OneofOurAircraftIsMissing
USA	Pacific Rendezvous Pacific Rendezvous Pacific Rendezvous is a 1942 film directed by George Sidney. It stars Lee Bowman and Jean Rogers.-Cast:*Lee Bowman as Lt. William 'Bill' Gordon*Jean Rogers as Elaine Carter*Mona Maris as Olivia Kerlov*Carl Esmond as Andre Leemuth...	George Sidney George Sidney George Sidney was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Career:...	Spy film Spy film The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy . Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, John Le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton...  about cryptography Cryptography Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...  in the Pacific War
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Un Pilota ritorna	Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...
Estonia	Punane udu (The Red Fog)		The Soviet occupation of Estonia
USA	Reunion in France Reunion in France Reunion in France is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Phillip Dorn, and John Wayne in a story about a woman who, suspecting her well-heeled lover has Nazi connections, aids a downed American flyer. The screenplay by Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky and Marc Connelly was based...	Jules Dassin Jules Dassin Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...	The French Resistance French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...  helps a downed US pilot
UK	Sabotage at Sea Sabotage at Sea Sabotage at Sea is a 1942 British, black-and-white, drama, mystery, war film, directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Ronald Shiner as Ernie, the Cook and Ian Fleming. It was produced by British National Films and Shaftesbury Films.-Synopsis:...	Leslie S. Hiscott Leslie S. Hiscott Leslie S. Hiscott was a British film director and screenwriter who made over sixty films between 1925 and 1956. He was born in London in 1894. In 1931 he directed Alibi, the first ever depiction of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous detective, with Austin Trevor in the lead role...
USA	Somewhere I'll Find You Somewhere I'll Find You Somewhere I'll Find You is a film released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1942. The film stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner. The film took almost two years to complete. This was the last film Gable starred in before he enlisted in World War II...	Wesley Ruggles	War correspondent War correspondent A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. In the 19th century they were also called Special Correspondents.-Methods:... s in China and Pacific
USA	Stand by for Action Stand by for Action Stand by for Action is a 1942 war film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy and Charles Laughton and featuring Walter Brennan. Suggested by a story by Laurence Kirk, and with an original story by Captain Harvey Haislip and R. C. Sherriff, the film's screenplay was...	Robert Z. Leonard Robert Z. Leonard Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...	The Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
Nazi Germany	Stukas	Karl Ritter	Stuka, German dive bomber http://www.archive.org/details/1941-Stukas
USA	They Raid by Night They Raid By Night - Plot summary :The story follows the insertion of covert British Commandos into Norway to rescue Norwegian General Heden from captivity and to return him to England to lead the Free Norwegian Forces....	Spencer Gordon Bennet Spencer Gordon Bennet Spencer Gordon Bennet was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director.-Biography:...	Commando Commando In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...  raids in occupied Norway
USA	To Be Or Not To Be To Be or Not to Be (1942 film) To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. It was adapted by Lubitsch and Edwin Justus Mayer from the story by Melchior Lengyel...	Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...	Effects on Warsaw; Polish Air squadron in London
USA	To the Shores of Tripoli To the Shores of Tripoli To the Shores of Tripoli is a Technicolor 1942 film starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly and Minor Watson. The film was directed by H...	H. Bruce Humberstone H. Bruce Humberstone H. Bruce 'Lucky' Humberstone was a movie actor , a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several...
Empire of Japan	Tsubasa no gaika (A Triumph of Wings)	Satsuo Yamamoto Satsuo Yamamoto was a Japanese film director.Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after...	Co-written by Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
Soviet Union	Uchinari Jani	Isidor Annensky and Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Petrov (director) Vladimir Petrov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1928 and 1964. Vladimir Petrov was awarded Stalin Prize five times: in 1941 , 1946 and 1950.-Filmography:* The Russian Forest ; 1963...
USA	Wake Island Wake Island (1942 film) Wake Island is a 1942 American film written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and directed by John Farrow. The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor...	John Farrow John Farrow John Villiers Farrow, CBE was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.-Life and career:Farrow was...	The Battle of Wake Island Battle of Wake Island The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan...
UK	Went the Day Well? Went the Day Well? "Went the Day Well?" is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as unofficial propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers . Made during the war, it reflects the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, although the threat of...	Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...	A fictional German invasion of England (see Operation Sea Lion)
USA	A Yank on the Burma Road	George B. Seitz George B. Seitz George Brackett Seitz was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:*The Perils of Pauline *The Exploits of Elaine...	The Burma Road Burma Road The Burma Road is a road linking Burma with the southwest of China. Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan, and Lashio, Burma. When it was built, Burma was a British colony.The road is long and runs through rough mountain country...

1943

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Action in the North Atlantic Action in the North Atlantic Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 war film directed by Lloyd Bacon, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II.-Plot:...	Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.-Life:Bacon was born in San Jose California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long running Broadway show 'Lightnin' , and Jennie Bacon. He was not related to actor Irving Bacon whom he...	The Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its...
USA	Aerial Gunner Aerial Gunner Aerial Gunner is a 1943 American war film directed by William H. Pine and starring Chester Morris, Richard Arlen and Jimmy Lydon. Robert Mitchum, Kirk Alyn and Jeff Corey make uncredited appearances...	William H. Pine	The B-17 bomber in the Pacific http://www.archive.org/details/aerial_gunner
UK	The Adventures of Tartu The Adventures of Tartu The Adventures of Tartu is a 1943 British Second World War spy film starring Robert Donat.-Plot:...	Harold S. Bucquet Harold S. Bucquet Harold S. Bucquet was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film Torture Money won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject ....	British Spy aids Czech partisans against the Nazis. http://www.archive.org/details/TheAdventuresofTartu_
USA	Air Force	Howard Hawks Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...	B-17 bombers in the Battle of the Philippines Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) The Philippines Campaign or the Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941–1942 and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces....
USA	Bataan Bataan (1943 film) Bataan is a war film about the defense of the Bataan Peninsula at the start of World War II. It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Tay Garnett and produced by Irving Starr, with Dore Schary as executive producer...	Tay Garnett Tay Garnett Tay Garnett was an American film director and writer.Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928...	The Battle of Bataan Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast... , Philippines
USA	Behind the Rising Sun Behind the Rising Sun (film) Behind the Rising Sun is a 1943 American war film based on the 1941 book by the same name written by James R Young. Later-blacklisted Edward Dmytryk directed the film, and it stars Margo, Tom Neal, J...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...
UK	The Bells Go Down The Bells Go Down The Bells Go down is a black-and-white wartime film made by Ealing Studios in 1943. The reference in the title is to the alarm bells in the fire station that "go down" when a call to respond is made...	Basil Dearden Basil Dearden Basil Dearden was an English film director.-Life and career:Dearden was born at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. He graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean...	Auxiliary Fire Service Auxiliary Fire Service The Auxiliary Fire Service was first formed in 1938 in Great Britain as part of Civil Defence Air raid precautions. Its role was to supplement the work of brigades at local level. In this job it was hampered severely by the incompatibility of equipment used by these different brigades - most...  during The Blitz The Blitz The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
Nazi Germany	Besatzung Dora Besatzung Dora Besatzung Dora is a 1943 German film about Luftwaffe men. It depicts a love triangle involving the two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together....	Karl Ritter	All about Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....  men.
USA	Bombardier Bombardier (film) Bombardier is a 1943 film war drama about the training program for bombardiers of the United States Army Air Forces. The film stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott. Bombardier was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 for the special effects used in the film...	Richard Wallace	B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific
USA	Bombs Over Burma Bombs over Burma -Plot:The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during World War II. During the construction of a military supply road like the Ledo Road, the project is sabotaged by an English nobleman who is a Nazi agent....	Joseph H. Lewis Joseph H. Lewis Joseph H. Lewis was an American B-movie film director whose stylish flourishes came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966...	http://www.archive.org/details/BombsOverBurma
USA	Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas was a major war film made by Twentieth Century Fox in 1943. The film starred Philip Dorn, Anna Sten, and Martin Kosleck. The movie, originally titled The Seventh Column, was directed by Louis King based on a story by Jack Andrews, who also co-wrote the screenplay....	Louis King Louis King Louis King was an American actor and movie director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He was born on June 28, 1898 in Christiansburg, Virginia....	Chetniks Chetniks Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement , were Serbian nationalist and royalist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century. The Chetniks were formed as a Serbian resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II...  - Yugoslav guerrillas under General Draza Mihailovich
USA	China China (film) China is a 1943 film directed by John Farrow. It stars Loretta Young and Alan Ladd.-Cast:*Loretta Young as Carolyn Grant*Alan Ladd as David Jones*William Bendix as Johnny Sparrow*Philip Ahn as Lin Cho, First Brother*Iris Wong as Kwan Su...	John Farrow John Farrow John Villiers Farrow, CBE was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.-Life and career:Farrow was...
USA	Corregidor	William Nigh William Nigh William Nigh was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin....	The Battle of Corregidor Battle of Corregidor The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S... , Philippines
USA	Corvette K-225 Corvette K-225 Corvette K -225 is a 1943 film starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines. It was released in the UK as The Nelson Touch. Tony Gaudio was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film....	Richard Rosson Richard Rosson Richard Rosson is a British contortionist who has come to some prominence in the British media in recent years. He has appeared on a variety of television shows, including Channel 4 News, The Richard and Judy Show, and the Saturday morning children's show Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow...  and Howard Hawks Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...	The Battle of the Atlantic, RCN Royal Canadian Navy The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...  corvette Corvette A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
USA	Crash Dive Crash Dive Crash Dive is a World War II film in Technicolor released in 1943. It was directed by Archie Mayo, written by Jo Swerling and W.R. Burnett, and starred Tyrone Power, Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter...	Archie Mayo Archie Mayo Archie Mayo was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917....	US submarine in the North Atlantic
USA	The Cross of Lorraine The Cross of Lorraine The Cross of Lorraine is a 1943 war film about French prisoners of war held by the Germans in World War II. It stars Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly and was adapted from Hans Habe's novel A Thousand Shall Fall.-Cast:*Jean-Pierre Aumont as Paul...	Tay Garnett Tay Garnett Tay Garnett was an American film director and writer.Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928...
USA	Cry 'Havoc' Cry 'Havoc' This article is about the 1943 motion picture. For the board game see Cry Havoc.Cry 'Havoc' is a 1943 American drama film, produced by MGM and directed by Richard Thorpe...	Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe was an American film director.Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred...
USA	Destination Tokyo Destination Tokyo Destination Tokyo is a 1943 submarine war film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and written by Daves, Steve Fisher and Albert Maltz, and stars Cary Grant and John Garfield with featured performances by Dane Clark, Robert Hutton and Warner Anderson. Production began on June 21, 1943 and continued...	Delmer Daves Delmer Daves Delmer Daves was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.-Life and career:Born in San Francisco, Delmer Daves first pursued a career as a lawyer...	US submarine patrol for the Doolittle Raid Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the...
USA	Destroyer Destroyer (1943 film) Destroyer is a 1943 war film starring Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford as U.S. Navy sailors in World War II.-Plot:Steve "Boley" Boleslavski helps build the destroyer John Paul Jones, the namesake of the ship he served on in World War I...	William A. Seiter William A. Seiter William A. Seiter was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy...	The fictional story of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones USS John Paul Jones USS John Paul Jones refers to two destroyers of the United States Navy:, a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, commissioned 1956, redesignated DDG-32 in 1967, decommissioned 1982, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned 1993, in active service as of 2008...  from commissioning
USA	Edge of Darkness	Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	The Norwegian resistance movement Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:...
UK	Fires Were Started Fires Were Started Fires Were Started is a British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II...	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...	The Blitz The Blitz The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
USA	Five Graves to Cairo Five Graves to Cairo Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. It is one of a number of films based on Lajos Biró's play Színmü négy felvonásban, including Hotel Imperial .-Plot:...	Billy Wilder Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...	Spy film set after the fall of Tobruk Tobruk Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....  in the North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
UK	The Flemish Farm	Jeffrey Dell Jeffrey Dell Jeffrey Dell was a British screenwriter and film director. He is also known for his 1939 novel Nobody Ordered Wolves which was based on the British film industry.-Selected filmography:Director* The Flemish Farm...	Commando raids in occupied Belgium
Vichy France	Forces occultes Forces occultes Forces occultes is a French film of 1943, notable as the last film to be directed by Paul Riche .- Plot :...	Jean Mamy Jean Mamy Jean Mamy was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter and journalist, notable for his collaboration with the Vichy regime . He was also known by the pseudonym Paul Riche, and wrote for L'Appel...	(in English "Occult Forces". Plot concerns the Freemasons working with Jews to bring France into the war. http://www.archive.org/details/occultForces1943--NationalSocialistAnti-freemasonryFilm
USA	Guadalcanal Diary Guadalcanal Diary (film) Guadalcanal Diary is a 1943 World War II war film starring Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the film debut of Richard Jaeckel...	Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler was an American film director. He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.He was born in New York, New York, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* A Bankrupt Honeymoon...	US Marines in Guadalcanal campaign Guadalcanal campaign The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II...
USA	Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Gung Ho! (1943 film) Gung Ho! is a 1943 war film starring Randolph Scott. The story is based on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.-Plot:The film begins with a tough Greek Lieutenant Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's...	Ray Enright Ray Enright Ray Enright was an American film director. He directed 73 films between 1927 and 1953.He was born in Anderson, Indiana and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...	Marine Raiders Marine Raiders The Marine Raiders were elite units established by the United States Marine Corps during World War II to conduct amphibious light infantry warfare, particularly in landing in rubber boats and operating behind the lines...  in the Central Pacific http://www.archive.org/details/Gung_Ho
USA	A Guy Named Joe A Guy Named Joe A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm. It starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson, with Esther Williams...	Victor Fleming Victor Fleming Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz , and Gone with the Wind , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.-Life and career:Fleming was born in La Canada, California, the son of Elizabeth Evaleen ...	The spirit of a deceased US pilot acts as the "guardian angel Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity... " of new pilots
USA	Hangmen Also Die Hangmen Also Die Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht and Lang. The film stars Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan and Anna Lee, and features Gene Lockhart and Dennis O'Keefe...	Fritz Lang Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...	Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the targeted killing of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the... , the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich , also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.He was SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia...  by the Czech resistance
USA	Immortal Sergeant Immortal Sergeant Immortal Sergeant is a 1943 war film set in the North African desert during World War II. It stars Henry Fonda as a corporal lacking in confidence in both love and war, Maureen O'Hara as his girlfriend, and Thomas Mitchell as the title character...	John M. Stahl John M. Stahl John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer.Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B...	British and Canadian troops in the North Africa Campaign
Soviet Union ( Georgian SSR)	He will come back	Diomide Antadze and Nikoloz Shengelaia
UK	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...  and Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...	The Home Guard
UK	Millions Like Us Millions Like Us Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder...	Frank Launder Frank Launder Frank Launder was an English writer, director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat....  and Sidney Gilliat Sidney Gilliat Sidney Gilliat was an English film director, producer and writer.He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich , directed by...	The Home Front
USA	Mission to Moscow Mission to Moscow Mission to Moscow is a book by the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies published by Simon and Schuster in 1941. It was adapted into a film directed by Michael Curtiz in 1943....	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...	Various negotiations between Allies
USA	The Moon is Down The Moon Is Down The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaption for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian Haakon VII Cross of freedom, was published by Viking Press in March 1942...	Irving Pichel Irving Pichel Irving Pichel was an American actor and film director. He married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry...	Resistance
USA	The More the Merrier The More the Merrier The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.. The picture stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Stanley Clements and Richard Gaines. The movie was directed by...	George Stevens George Stevens George Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Among his most notable films were Diary of Anne Frank , nominated for Best Director, Giant , winner of Oscar for Best Director, Shane , Oscar nominated, and A Place in the Sun , winner of Oscar for Best...
USA	The North Star The North Star (1943 film) The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim...	Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...  http://www.archive.org/details/TheNorthStar
USA	Pilot #5 Pilot no. 5 Pilot #5 is a 1943 propaganda war film starring Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kellyand Van Johnson. It was directed by George Sidney.-Cast:*Franchot Tone as George Braynor Collins*Marsha Hunt as Freddie Andrews*Gene Kelly as Vito S...	George Sidney George Sidney George Sidney was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Career:...	Battle of the Java Sea Battle of the Java Sea The Battle of the Java Sea was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, that sealed the fate of the Netherlands East Indies....
USA	Rookies in Burma	Leslie Goodwins Leslie Goodwins Leslie Goodwins was an English film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967...	The Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
USA	Sahara	Zoltan Korda Zoltán Korda Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...	Allied troops at the Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
USA	Salute to the Marines Salute to the Marines Salute to the Marines is a 1943 World War II war film starring Wallace Beery. The movie, set in the Philippines and shot in Technicolor , was directed by S...	S. Sylvan Simon S. Sylvan Simon S. Sylvan Simon was an American stage/film director and producer. He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. In 1937, he moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers' The Big Store, supervising many of the slapstick sequences...	The Battle of the Philippines
UK	The Silver Fleet The Silver Fleet The Silver Fleet was written and directed by British filmmakers Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell & Pressburger under the banner of The Archers.-Plot:...	Gordon Wellesley Gordon Wellesley Gordon Wellesley was an Australian-born screenwriter and writer. Born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1894 he wrote over thirty screenplays and television scripts in Britain often collaborating with the director Carol Reed. He was married to the scriptwriter Katherine Strueby...	Dutch resistance
USA	So Proudly We Hail! So Proudly We Hail! So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 film directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard – who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance – and Veronica Lake...	Mark Sandrich Mark Sandrich Mark Sandrich was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer.Sandrich was an engineering student at Columbia University when he began in the film business by accident. While visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a shot; Sandrich offered...	The Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) The Philippines Campaign or the Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941–1942 and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces....
USA	The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler	James Patrick Hogan James Patrick Hogan James Patrick Hogan was an American filmmaker.His movies included Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police and The Mad Ghoul , his last film...
USA	This Land Is Mine	Jean Renoir Jean Renoir Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...	French Resistance French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
USA	Three Russian Girls Three Russian Girls Three Russian Girls is a 1943 American World War II pro-Soviet propaganda film produced by R-F Productions and distributed by United Artists. It followed in the footsteps of Mission to Moscow . It was nominated for an Oscar in 1945 for best musical score. It starred Anna Sten.-External links:*...	Henry S. Kesler and Fyodor Otsep	The Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
UK	Undercover	Sergei Nolbandov Sergei Nolbandov Sergei Nolbandov was a Russian-born screenwriter, film producer and director. Nolbandov was born in Moscow in 1895. He later moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry...	Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
UK	We Dive at Dawn We Dive at Dawn We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder...	Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...	Submarine warfare during the Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its...

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Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
UK	2,000 Women	Frank Launder Frank Launder Frank Launder was an English writer, director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat....	Internment camps for British women in occupied France
	Aeroporto	Piero Costa	Italian aviators flying for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana thumb|250px|Wing emblem of the A.N.R. from 1944 to 1945.The National Republican Air Force was the air force of the Italian Social Republic during World War II, closely linked with the German Air Force in northern Italy.-Description:This air force was tasked with defending the industrial areas of... ; the only surviving film made in the Italian Social Republic Italian Social Republic The Italian Social Republic was a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by the "Duce of the Nation" and "Minister of Foreign Affairs" Benito Mussolini and his Republican Fascist Party. The RSI exercised nominal sovereignty in northern Italy but was largely dependent on the Wehrmacht to maintain control...
USA	Days of Glory	Jacques Tourneur Jacques Tourneur Jacques Tourneur was a French-American film director.-Life:Born in Paris, France, he was the son of film director Maurice Tourneur. At age 10, Jacques moved to the United States with his father. He started a career in cinema while still attending high school as an extra and later as a script clerk...	Soviet partisans Soviet partisans The Soviet partisans were members of a resistance movement which fought a guerrilla war against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II....
USA	Dragon Seed	Harold S. Bucquet Harold S. Bucquet Harold S. Bucquet was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film Torture Money won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject .... , Jack Conway	The Second Sino-Japanese war Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
USA	Four Jills in a Jeep Four Jills in a Jeep Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 film starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, re-enacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.-Cast:*Kay Francis as Herself*Carole Landis as Herself...	William A. Seiter William A. Seiter William A. Seiter was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy...	The experiences of female stars in USO shows; Betty Grable Betty Grable Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable was an American actress, dancer and singer.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later included in the LIFE magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World"... , Carole Landis Carole Landis Carole Landis was an American film and stage actress whose break-through role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C.. Landis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1765 Vine Street....  and others play themselves
USA	In the Meantime, Darling In the Meantime, Darling In the Meantime, Darling is a 1944 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Arthur Kober and Michael Uris focuses on a wealthy war bride who is forced to adjust to living in spartan conditions in military housing during World War II.-Plot:Due to limited wartime...	Otto Preminger Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
Nazi Germany	Junge Adler	Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia...	Germany during the war
Soviet Union ( Georgian SSR)	Jurgais pari	Siko Dolidze and Davit Rondeli
Empire of Japan	Kato hayabusa sento-tai Kato hayabusa sento-tai aka Colonel Tateo Katō's Flying Squadron and aka Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron is a 1944 black and white Japanese film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto.It is a war film and there are special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya....	Kajiro Yamamoto Kajirō Yamamoto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was known for his war films and comedies and as the mentor of Akira Kurosawa.-Early life:Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto attended Keio University where he helped form a film appreciation society...
USA	Ladies Courageous	John Rawlins John Rawlins (director) John Rawlins was an American film director. He directed 44 films between 1932 and 1958. He was born in Long Beach, California and died in Arcadia, California.-Filmography:* Lost Lagoon...	Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
USA	Lifeboat Lifeboat (film) Lifeboat is an American war film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a lifeboat.The film is...	Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...	The Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its...
Second Philippine Republic Second Philippine Republic The Second Philippine Republic, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , was a state in the Philippines established on October 14, 1943 under Japanese occupation....	Liwayway ng kalayaan (Dawn of Freedom)	Gerardo de León Gerardo de León Gerardo de León was a Filipino actor turned film director, who made his acting debut in the 1934 film Ang Dangal.... , Yutaka Abe Yutaka Abe was a Japanese film director and actor. He went to America to study theater and began acting in Hollywood, appearing in such films as The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa. He was often billed as "Jack Abbe" or "Jack Yutake Abbe." He returned to Japan in 1925, finding work at the Nikkatsu studio, and soon...	Propaganda film about Japan–Philippines relations during Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
Soviet Union	Malakhov kurgan	Iosif Kheifits Iosif Kheifits Iosif Kheifits was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes , People's Artist of USSR , Hero of Socialist Labor . Member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union since 1945....  and Aleksandr Zarkhi Aleksandr Zarkhi Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Aleksandr Zarkhi was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received Stalin Prize in 1946...	Battle of Sevastopol Battle of Sevastopol The Siege of Sevastopol took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in Crimea on the Black Sea. On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union under...
USA	Marine Raiders Marine Raiders (film) Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal, R&R in Australia, retraining in Camp Elliott and a fictional attack in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Robert Fellows, and directed by Harold D...	Harold D. Schuster	The Battle of Guadalcanal
USA	Marriage Is a Private Affair	Robert Z. Leonard Robert Z. Leonard Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...
USA	Mr. Winkle Goes to War Mr. Winkle Goes to War Mr. Winkle Goes to War is a 1944 war comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Warrick, based on a novel by Theodore Pratt.-Plot:On June 1, 1942, after fourteen years, mild-mannered 44-year-old Wilbert G. Winkle quits his boring bank job to follow his dream, to open a repair shop...	Alfred E. Green
Empire of Japan	Nichijô no tatakai	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....
USA	Passage to Marseille Passage to Marseille Passage to Marseille is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall...	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
USA	Passport to Destiny Passport to Destiny Passport to Destiny is a RKO Radio Pictures comedy adventure fantasy war film. It stars Elsa Lanchester in her only leading role as an English cleaning woman who, believing herself invulnerable by being protected by a magic eye amulet, single handedly travels to Nazi Germany to personally...	Ray McCarey Ray McCarey Raymond Benedict "Ray" McCarey was an American film director. He began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. Most of his feature film work consisted of "B" pictures and low-budget films...
Empire of Japan	Raigekitai shutsudo	Kajirô Yamamoto Kajirō Yamamoto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was known for his war films and comedies and as the mentor of Akira Kurosawa.-Early life:Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto attended Keio University where he helped form a film appreciation society...	Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war.
Soviet Union	Rainbow Rainbow (1944 film) Rainbow , is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, Tecza. The film depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II from the view point of the terrorized villagers...	Mark Donskoy
USA	Rosie the Riveter Rosie the Riveter (film) Rosie the Riveter is a 1944 American film starring Jane Frazee.-Cast:* Jane Frazee as Rosalind "Rosie" Warren* Frank Albertson as Charlie Doran* Barbara Jo Allen as Vera Watson* Frank Fenton as Kelly Kennedy* Lloyd Corrigan as Clem Prouty...	Joseph Santley Joseph Santley Joseph Santley was an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays and motion pictures....
USA	See Here, Private Hargrove	Wesley Ruggles
USA	Sergeant Mike	Henry Levin Henry Levin Henry Levin began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. He broke into film in 1943 as a dialogue director for the films Dangerous Blondes and Appointment in Berlin for Columbia Pictures...
USA	Since You Went Away Since You Went Away Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret...	John Cromwell John Cromwell (director) Elwood Dager Cromwell , known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer.-Biography:...	Home Front Home front Home front is the informal term commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system of their military....  in the United States
USA	Song of Russia Song of Russia Song of Russia is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by MGM Studios. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by László Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited...	Gregory Ratoff Gregory Ratoff Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing in All About Eve ....
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)  Kingdom of Romania	Squadriglia bianca (The White Squadron)	Ion Sava
USA	Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon andbased on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.The film tells the story of a poor family in Florida who wants to host a meal for a serviceman from the Army airbase nearby....	Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.-Life:Bacon was born in San Jose California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long running Broadway show 'Lightnin' , and Jennie Bacon. He was not related to actor Irving Bacon whom he...
USA	The Eve of St. Mark	John M. Stahl John M. Stahl John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer.Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B...
USA	The Fighting Seabees The Fighting Seabees The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 war film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. The picture portrays a heavily fictionalized account of the dilemma that led to the creation of the U.S. Navy's "Seabees" in World War II...	Edward Ludwig Edward Ludwig Edward Irving Ludwig was a Russian-born American film director and writer. He directed nearly 100 films between 1921 and 1963....	The US Navy Seabee Seabee Seabees are members of the United States Navy construction battalions. The word Seabee is a proper noun that comes from the initials of Construction Battalion, of the United States Navy... s
USA	The Impostor	Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...
USA	The Master Race	Herbert J. Biberman
USA	The Navy Way The Navy Way The Navy Way is a 1944 American film directed by William Berke concentrating on US Navy recruit training with many sequences filmed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.- Cast :*Robert Lowery as Johnny Zumano aka Johnny Jersey...	William A. Berke William A. Berke William A. Berke was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly 90 films between 1934 and 1958...
USA	The Purple Heart The Purple Heart The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone.It is a dramatization of the trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during the Second World War...	Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	Prisoners of war captured during the Doolittle Raid Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the... .
Australia	The Rats of Tobruk The Rats of Tobruk The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in World War II...	Charles Chauvel	Siege of Tobruk Siege of Tobruk The siege of Tobruk was a confrontation that lasted 240 days between Axis and Allied forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War...
USA	The Story of Dr. Wassell The Story of Dr. Wassell The Story of Dr. Wassell is a Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, and Dennis O'Keefe. It is based on the wartime activities of US Navy Doctor Corydon M...	Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...	Navy doctor in the Battle of Java
USA	The Sullivans The Fighting Sullivans The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...	Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.-Life:Bacon was born in San Jose California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long running Broadway show 'Lightnin' , and Jennie Bacon. He was not related to actor Irving Bacon whom he...	The Sullivan brothers Sullivan brothers The Sullivan brothers were five siblings who were all killed in action during or shortly after the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau , the vessel on which they all served, on November 13, 1942, in World War II....
USA	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Thirty Seconds over Tokyo Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist. The screenplay by...	Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and sometime actor.-Early life:Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake...	The Doolittle Raid Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the...
USA	Till We Meet Again	Frank Borzage Frank Borzage Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor.-Biography:Frank Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in Ronzone, in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg , where she worked in a silk factory...
USA	To Have and Have Not To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not is a 1944 romance-war-adventure film. The movie was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, and Lauren Bacall in her first film...	Howard Hawks Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...
USA	Two-Man Submarine	Lew Landers Lew Landers Lew Landers was a prolific American film and television director.-Biography:Born Louis Friedlander in New York City, he began his movie career as an actor. In 1914 he appeared in two features, D. W. Griffith's The Escape and the comedy short Admission -- Two Pins, opposite Glen White, under his...
USA	U-Boat Prisoner	Lew Landers Lew Landers Lew Landers was a prolific American film and television director.-Biography:Born Louis Friedlander in New York City, he began his movie career as an actor. In 1914 he appeared in two features, D. W. Griffith's The Escape and the comedy short Admission -- Two Pins, opposite Glen White, under his...
USA	Waterfront Waterfront (1944 film) Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely.- Plot summary :Set during World War II, J. Carrol Naish plays an optometrist who is really a Nazi spy. A book of his that he uses to decode a Nazi spy code is stolen from him while he was walking on the San Francisco...	Steve Sekely Steve Sekely Steve Sekely was a Hungarian film director. Born Székely István, he was known by several names, based on his changing professional and immigration status, including Stefan Szekely.He directed films in Hungarian, German, and English....
UK	The Way Ahead The Way Ahead The Way Ahead is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as The Immortal Battalion.The film was... [aka The Immortal Battalion]	Carol Reed Carol Reed Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...	Conscripts are trained and fight in the North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...  http://www.archive.org/details/The_Way_Ahead_1944
USA	The White Cliffs of Dover The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film) The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was by Claudine West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel, based on the Alice Duer Miller poem titled The White Cliffs with additional...	Clarence Brown Clarence Brown Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...
USA	Wing and a Prayer Wing and a Prayer Wing and a Prayer is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche...	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...	The Battle of Midway Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...
USA	Winged Victory Winged Victory (film) Winged Victory is a 1944 drama film directed by George Cukor, a joint effort of 20th Century Fox and the U.S. Army Air Forces. Based upon the successful play with the same name by Moss Hart, who also wrote the screenplay, the film only opened after the play's theatre run.-Plot:Frankie Davis , Allan...	George Cukor George Cukor George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...

1945

Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
USA	Back to Bataan Back to Bataan Back to Bataan is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures. It depicts events that took place after the Battle of Bataan on the island of Luzon in the Philippines...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...	Battle of Bataan Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast... , guerilla warfare in the Philippines, in the Battle of Leyte Battle of Leyte The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by...
USA	Blood on the Sun Blood on the Sun Blood on the Sun is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on the history behind the Tanaka Memorial document....	Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer...	An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government. http://www.archive.org/details/BloodontheSun
USA	China's Little Devils	Monta Bell Monta Bell Monta Bell was an American film director, film producer and film editor.-Biography:Starting as a journalist in Washington DC, Bell later played on stage and entered films in 1923 as an actor. Charlie Chaplin employed Bell as a film editor and assistant director and in 1924, he became a...
USA	Cornered Cornered (film) Cornered is a film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk. This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk .Many scenes shot by cinematographer Harry J. Wild and Dmytryk stand out as classic film noir...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...	Ex-Nazis Ex-Nazis The list of notable people who were at some point members of the Nazi Party, before it was declared illegal and disbanded upon the victory of the Allies. After 1945 many former party members had to go through a process of denazification and some were indicted and convicted at the Nuremberg Trials,...  in Argentina
USA	Combat Fatigue:Insomnia	Dick York Dick York Richard Allen "Dick" York was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched...	US soldiers dealing with insomnia, post traumatic stress disorder, and homosexual temptation. http://www.archive.org/details/CombatFa1945
USA	Counter-Attack Counter-Attack Counter-Attack is a 1945 war film starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman as two Russians trapped in a collapsed building with seven enemy German soldiers during World War II...	Zoltan Korda Zoltán Korda Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...	The Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
Denmark	Den usynlige hær The Invisible Army The Invisible Army is a 1945 Danish war film directed by Johan Jacobsen and starring Bodil Kjer.-Cast:* Bodil Kjer - Alice* Ebbe Rode - Jørgen* Mogens Wieth - Poul* Maria Garland - Alices mor* Poul Müller - Michelsen* Asbjørn Andersen - Direktøren... (The Invisible Army)	Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen was a Danish film director.Jacobsen was born in Aarhus in 1912. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen and actress Christel Holch . He made his first films at the film studio Palladium that also produced the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer...	Danish Partisan
Denmark	De røde Enge The Red Meadows The Red Meadows is a 1945 Danish war drama directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. The film, starring Poul Reichhardt and Lisbeth Movin, is a suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison... (The Red Meadows)	Bodil Ipsen Bodil Ipsen Bodil Ipsen was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas... , Lau Lauritzen Jr. Lau Lauritzen Jr. Lau Lauritzen, Jr., , was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director. As a director, he was a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Lauritzen co-founded the Danish film studio ASA Film and served as the studio's artistic director and administrative director .-Career:Lau...	Young Danish saboteur
Mexico	Escuadrón 201	Jaime Salvador	Squadron 201 Escuadrón 201 El Escuadrón 201 was a Mexican fighter squadron, part of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana that aided the Allied war effort during World War II...  of the Mexican Air Force Mexican Air Force The Mexican Air Force is the aviation branch of the Mexican Army and depends on the National Defense Secretariat . Since 2008, its commander is Gen...  in the Battle of Luzon Battle of Luzon The Battle of Luzon was a land battle fought as part of the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II by the Allied forces of the U.S., its colony The Philippines, and Mexico against forces of the Empire of Japan. The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory...  against the Japanese
USA	First Yank Into Tokyo First Yank into Tokyo First Yank into Tokyo is a 1945 United States war film; it takes place within World War II. It was directed by Gordon Douglas.-Plot:In the film, the U.S. government assigns Major Steve Ross to receive plastic surgery to appear Japanese; Ross had lived in Japan and is well versed with Japanese culture...	Gordon Douglas Gordon Douglas (director) Gordon Douglas was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.-Hal Roach and Our Gang:...
USA	God Is My Co-Pilot God is My Co-Pilot (film) God is My Co-Pilot is a 1945 American propaganda film based on the autobiography of the same name by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. The film tells the story of Scott's association with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army Air Forces in China and Burma during World War II.-Plot:God Is My Co-Pilot was...	Robert Florey Robert Florey Robert Florey was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. In 1950, Florey was made a knight in the French Légion d'honneur....	The Flying Tigers Flying Tigers The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The ground crew and headquarters...
USA	Keep Your Powder Dry Keep Your Powder Dry Keep Your Powder Dry is a 1945 drama film starring Lana Turner, Susan Peters, and Laraine Day. The film was directed by Edward Buzzell and written by George Bruce and Mary C...	Edward Buzzell Edward Buzzell Edward Buzzell was an American film director whose credits for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer included Honolulu , the Marx Brothers films At the Circus and Go West , the musicals Best Foot Forward with Lucille Ball and Neptune's Daughter with Esther Williams, and Easy to Wed, starring Van Johnson,...	Women's Army Corps Women's Army Corps The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on 15 May 1942 by Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943...
Nazi Germany	Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On)	Wolfgang Liebeneiner Wolfgang Liebeneiner Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...	About how the V-2 rocket would turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour
Empire of Japan	Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for the war by the Japanese Naval Ministry. Shochiku Moving Picture Laboratory shot the 74-minute film in 1944 and screened it on April 12, 1945. It is a sequel to Momotarō...	Mitsuyo Seo Mitsuyo Seo was a Japanese animator, screenwriter and director of animated films who played a central role in the development of Japanese anime. He was born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture.-Career:...	The first full length anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  film; shows Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island
USA	Objective, Burma! Objective, Burma! Objective, Burma! is an Oscar-nominated 1945 war film which was loosely based on the six month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	The Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
USA	Out of the Depths	D. Ross Lederman D. Ross Lederman David Ross Lederman was an American film director noted for his western/action/adventure films of the 1930s and 1940s....	Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the surrender ceremony
USA	The Last Chance The Last Chance The Last Chance is a 1945 Swiss war film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prize of the Festival .-Cast:* Ewart G...	D. Leopold Lindtberg	Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American (Ewart G. Morrison) and a British (John Hoy) soldier set out for the Swiss border. http://www.archive.org/details/TheLastChance_
USA	Pride of the Marines Pride of the Marines Pride of the Marines is a 1945 biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker. It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent...	Delmer Daves Delmer Daves Delmer Daves was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.-Life and career:Born in San Francisco, Delmer Daves first pursued a career as a lawyer...	The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment
USA	Prison Ship Prison ship A prison ship, historically sometimes called a prison hulk, is a vessel used as a prison, often to hold convicts awaiting transportation to penal colonies. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries....	Arthur Dreifuss
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Roma, Città Aperta Rome, open city Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944... (Rome, Open City)	Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...	About the Italian resistance movement Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...  after the Nazis occupied northern Italy
USA	Samurai	Raymond Cannon
USA	The Story of GI Joe	William A. Wellman William A. Wellman William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation...	Ernie Pyle Ernie Pyle Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944...  accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...  and the Battle of Monte Cassino Battle of Monte Cassino The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four battles during World War II, fought by the Allies against Germans and Italians with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome.In the beginning of 1944, the western half of the Winter Line was being anchored by Germans...
USA	They Were Expendable They Were Expendable They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. The film is based on the book by William L. White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	PT boat PT boat PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were... s in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) The Philippines Campaign or the Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941–1942 and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces....
USA	Too Young to Know	Frederick De Cordova Frederick de Cordova Frederick "Fred" Timmins de Cordova was an American stage, motion picture and television director and producer. He is best known for his work on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...	War in the South Pacific separates a young couple
USA	A Walk in the Sun	Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	The Invasion of Salerno
UK	The Way to the Stars The Way to the Stars The Way to the Stars, also known as Johnny in the Clouds, is a 1945 British war drama film made by Two Cities Films and released by United Artists. It was produced by Anatole de Grunwald and directed by Anthony Asquith...	Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...	RAF Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...  and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England
USA	What Next, Corporal Hargrove?	Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe was an American film director.Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred...	The final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe European Theater of Operations The European Theater of Operations, United States Army was a United States Army formation which directed U.S. Army operations in parts of Europe from 1942 to 1945. It referred to Army Ground Forces, United States Army Air Forces, and Army Service Forces operations north of Italy and the...

Late 1940s

1940s in film

The decade of the 1940s in film involved many significant films. Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane was also released...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1946	Philippines	Death March	Leopoldo Salcedo Leopoldo Salcedo Leopoldo Salcedo was a two-time FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actor who specialized in portraying dramatic heroes. Dubbed as "The Great Profile" , he was said to be among the first kayumanggi or dark-skinned Filipino film stars, in contrast to the lighter-skinned mestizo actors of his...	The Bataan Death March Bataan Death March The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.The march was characterized by...
1946	Philippines	Dugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan)	Fernando Poe, Sr. Fernando Poe, Sr. Fernando Poe was a famous actor during the early cinema era in the Philippines. He was the father of the late Ronald Allan K. Poe, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr., who was also a famous actor and icon. Prior to his son's rise to fame, Poe had been known simply as 'Fernando Poe'...	Filipino Resistance.
1946	Philippines	Garrison 13	Unknown	War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Army -Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...  in the Philippines.
1946	Philippines	Guerilyera	Octavio Silos	The guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II....
1946	UK	Journey Together	John Boulting	Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat
1946	Early Modern France	La Bataille du rail La Bataille du rail La Bataille du rail is a 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains....	René Clément	Stories on railroad French resistance
1946	Philippines	Orasang Ginto	Manuel Conde Manuel Conde Manuel Conde was born on October 15, 1915 in Daet, Camarines Norte . He was an actor, director and producer. As an actor, he also used the screen name Juan Urbano during the 1930s aside from his more popular screen name. His first film was "Mahiwagang Biyolin" in 1935. He made almost three dozen...	The Battle of Bataan Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast...  and Battle of Corregidor Battle of Corregidor The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S... .
1946	Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Paisà Paisà Paisà is a 1946 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini, the second of a trilogy by Rossellini. It is divided into six episodes. They are set in the Italian Campaign during World War II when Nazi Germany was losing the war against the Allies, using themes such as the difficulty of communication...	Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...	About the Italian campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...
1946	UK	School for Secrets School for Secrets School for Secrets is a 1946 British film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring David Tomlinson, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern...	Peter Ustinov Peter Ustinov Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...	Operation Biting
1946	USA	The Best Years of Our Lives The Best Years of Our Lives The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell, a United States paratrooper who lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States...	William Wyler William Wyler William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...	American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war
1946	UK	The Captive Heart The Captive Heart The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden for Ealing Studios. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...	Basil Dearden Basil Dearden Basil Dearden was an English film director.-Life and career:Dearden was born at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. He graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean...	British prisoners of war in Germany
1946	UK	Theirs is the Glory Theirs is the Glory Theirs Is the Glory , a Rank production, is a 1946 British film about the British Airborne element of the World War II Operation Market Garden, and specifically the Battle of Arnhem. It was the first film to be made about this battle, and the biggest grossing war movie for nearly a decade...	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...  and Terence Young	Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....
1946	Soviet Union  Kingdom of Yugoslavia	V gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia)	Abram Room Abram Room Abram Room was aRussian film director.Room's best known film is Bed and Sofa . In the film, a woman who is married to a construction worker has an affair with their lodger. The film tracks the evolution of a housewife into a strong liberated woman, which was very unusual for its time...	Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks
1946	Philippines	Walang Kamatayan	Tor Villano	The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1946	Poland  Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Wielka droga Wielka droga Wielka droga is a 1946 Polish film directed by Michał Waszyński.-Cast:*Albin Ossowski ... Adam*Renata Bogdanska ... Irena*Jadwiga Andrzejewska ... Jadwiga*Wieslawa Buczerowa*Feliks Fabian*Ludwik Lawinski*Mieczyslaw Malicz*Boleslaw Orlicz... (La Grande strada)	Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi Vittorio Cottafavi Vittorio Cottafavi was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985...	Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
1946	Poland	Zakazane piosenki Zakazane piosenki Zakazane piosenki is a 1946 Polish musical film directed by Leonard Buczkowski. It was the first feature film to be created in Poland following the six years of World War II.... (Forbidden Songs)	Leonard Buczkowski	Polish Resistance Polish resistance movement in World War II The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. The Polish defence against the Nazi occupation was an important part of the European...  1939-1945 - the first post-war Polish film, and a musical Musical film The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
1947		The Spring River Flows East	Cai Chusheng Cai Chusheng Resting Place= Babaoshan Revoluntionary CemeteryCai Chusheng was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era. Known best for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng later became a victim to the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution.- Early career :Born in Shanghai to Cantonese... , Zheng Junli Zheng Junli Zheng Junli was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema.-Early years:...	The Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
1947	Poland	Ostatni etap (The Last Stop)	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1947	Denmark	Jenny and the Soldier Jenny and the Soldier Jenny and the Soldier is a 1947 Danish dramatic film written and directed by Johan Jacobsen. The black-and-white film is based on a stage play written by Danish playwright Carl Erik Soya. The gritty romantic drama received critical praise for its authentic portrayal of everyday life... (Soldaten og Jenny)	Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen was a Danish film director.Jacobsen was born in Aarhus in 1912. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen and actress Christel Holch . He made his first films at the film studio Palladium that also produced the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer...
1947	UK	Frieda Frieda (film) Frieda is a 1947 British film, directed by Basil Dearden, screenplay by Angus MacPhail and Ronald Millar and was produced by Michael Balcon. Frieda is a German woman who helps an English airman, Robert , to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in April 1945...	Basil Dearden Basil Dearden Basil Dearden was an English film director.-Life and career:Dearden was born at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. He graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean...
1947	USA	13 Rue Madeleine 13 Rue Madeleine 13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 World War II spy film starring James Cagney, Annabella and Richard Conte.The title refers to the Le Havre address where a Gestapo headquarters is located.-Plot:...	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...
1948	USA	Command Decision Command Decision (film) Command Decision is a 1948 war film starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson and Brian Donlevy and directed by Sam Wood, based on a stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George...	Sam Wood Sam Wood Samuel Grosvenor "Sam" Wood was an American film director, and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees...	Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force Eighth Air Force The Eighth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command . It is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana....
1948	UK	Against the Wind Against the Wind (1948 film) Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948...	Charles Crichton Charles Crichton Charles Crichton was an English film director and film editor. He became best known for directing comedies produced at Ealing Studios...	A Commando Commando In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...  raid into occupied Belgium
1948	UK	A Piece of Cake A Piece of Cake A Piece of Cake is a 1948 British fantasy comedy film directed by John Irwin and starring the husband and wife team of Cyril Fletcher and Betty Astell as well as Laurence Naismith and Jon Pertwee.-Plot:...	John Irwin
1948	Norway	Kampen om tungtvannet		Norwegian heavy water sabotage Norwegian heavy water sabotage The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water , which could be used to produce nuclear weapons...
1948	USA	Fighter Squadron Fighter Squadron Fighter Squadron is a 1948 Technicolor war film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Edmond O'Brien as a maverick World War II fighter pilot.-Plot:...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	P-47 fighters in the US air war Air War "Air War" is a single by Crystal Castles. It was released on 17 December 2007 on London UK's Trouble Records as 7" vinyl. An earlier version of the song was released in July 2006 as the B-Side to "Alice Practice" on London UK's Merok Records. The lyrics are from the James Joyce book Ulysses...  in Europe
1948	USA  Switzerland	The Search The Search The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe...	Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed films like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.-Life and career:...	Displaced persons in postwar Germany
1948	Occupied Germany	Morituri Morituri (1948 film) Morituri is a 1948 German drama film directed by Eugen York and starring Lotte Koch. It features the onscreen debut of German actor Klaus Kinski. The title comes from the Latin expression Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant.-Cast:* Lotte Koch - Lydia...	Eugen York Eugen York Eugen York was a German film director. He directed 35 films between 1938 and 1984.He was born in Rybinsk, Russia and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Morituri...	The first post-1945 German film about the war
1948	Poland	Ulica Graniczna (Border Street)	Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford born Mosze Lifszyc was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union. Ford became director of the nationalized "Film Polski" company at the end of World War II...	The Holocaust in occupied Poland
1948	Poland	Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts)	Stanisław Januszewski	Silesia Poland 1944 / 45
1948	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Na svoji zemlji Na svoji zemlji On Our Own Land was a 1948 film directed by France Štiglic. It was the first Slovene full-length film. The script was written by Ciril Kosmač, based on his novel. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :... (On the own territory)	France Štiglic France Štiglic France Štiglic was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. His 1948 film On Our Own Land was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival...	People are fighting to kill Germans and Italians
1948	Denmark	Støt står den danske sømand The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman is a 1948 Danish war drama directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. The film, written by Grete Frische based upon the wartime diary of Kaj Frische, tells the true story of Danish sailors who sailed with the Allied forces during the German occupation of... (The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman)	Bodil Ipsen Bodil Ipsen Bodil Ipsen was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas... , Lau Lauritzen Jr. Lau Lauritzen Jr. Lau Lauritzen, Jr., , was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director. As a director, he was a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Lauritzen co-founded the Danish film studio ASA Film and served as the studio's artistic director and administrative director .-Career:Lau...	Tells the true story about Danish sailors
1948	Denmark	Tre år efter	Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen Johan Jacobsen was a Danish film director.Jacobsen was born in Aarhus in 1912. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen and actress Christel Holch . He made his first films at the film studio Palladium that also produced the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer...	Situation after the war termination
1949	USA	Battleground Battleground (1949 film) Battleground is a 1949 American war film that tells the story of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon of Item Company, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. It stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo...	William A. Wellman William A. Wellman William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation...	The 101st Airborne Division 101st Airborne Division The 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles"—is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France, Operation Market Garden, the...  in the Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
1949	Denmark	Det gælder os alle Det gælder os alle Det gælder os alle is a 1949 Danish drama film directed by Alice O'Fredericks.-Cast:* Poul Reichhardt - Jørgen Vedel* Lisbeth Movin - Edith* Ib Schønberg - Direktør Lassen* Agnes Rehni - Fru Lassen* Lily Broberg - Karen* Ilselil Larsen - Leni Rosner...	Alice O'Fredericks Alice O'Fredericks Alice O'Fredericks was a Danish actress, screen writer, and film director. She is best known for directing the series of Far til Fire comedies and the series of family dramas based on Morten Korch novels. Having written 38 produced screenplays and directed 72 feature films, O'Fredericks was one...	A young survivor from a concentration camp.
1949	Early Modern France	Mission in Tangier Mission in Tangier Mission in Tangier is a 1949 French drama film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Gaby Sylvia and Mila Parély. It was the first in the trilogy of films featuring dashing reporter Georges Masse, it was followed in 1950 by Méfiez-vous des blondes...	André Hunebelle André Hunebelle André Hunebelle was a French director born September 1, 1896 in Meudon , died 27 November 1985 in Nice .Hunebelle was a former publisher of a French newspaper called La Fleché...	A journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers.
1949	Soviet Union	Padeniye Berlina The Fall of Berlin (film) The Fall of Berlin is a 1950 two-part Soviet film directed by Mikhail Chiaureli. The plot revolves around the history of the Great Patriotic War, focusing on the role that Joseph Stalin played in the events...	Mikheil Chiaureli Mikheil Chiaureli Mikheil Chiaureli was a Soviet Georgian film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. Mikheil Chiaureli was awarded the Stalin Prize six times, twice in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950.-Selected filmography:as actor...	The Battle of Berlin
1949	USA	Sands of Iwo Jima Sands of Iwo Jima Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...	Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...	The Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...
1949	UK	The Small Back Room The Small Back Room The Small Back Room is a film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...  and Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...	Bomb disposal
1949	Soviet Union	Stalingradskaya Bitva The Battle of Stalingrad (1949 movie) The Battle of Stalingrad is a 1949 two-part Soviet epic film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.-Film I:...	Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Petrov (director) Vladimir Petrov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1928 and 1964. Vladimir Petrov was awarded Stalin Prize five times: in 1941 , 1946 and 1950.-Filmography:* The Russian Forest ; 1963...	The Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
1949	UK	They Were Not Divided They Were Not Divided They Were Not Divided is a 1950 British war film, which depicted the Guards Armoured Division in Second World War Europe. It was written and directed by Terence Young, a former Guards officer who served in the campaigns depicted in the film....	Terence Young	The British Guards Armoured Division British Guards Armoured Division The Guards Armoured Division was a Second World War British Army formation.The Guards Armoured Division was formed on 17 June 1941. The division remained in the United Kingdom, training, until 26 June 1944, when it landed in Normandy as part of VIII Corps...
1949	USA	Twelve O'Clock High Twelve O'Clock High Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...	Henry King Henry King (director) Henry King was an American film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the...	B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force Eighth Air Force The Eighth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command . It is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana....
1949	Soviet Union	Vstrecha na Elbe Encounter at the Elbe Encounter at the Elbe is a Soviet movie released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the East and the American Army advancing from the West, that met each other for the first time on the River Elbe, at the closing time of...	Grigori Aleksandrov Grigori Aleksandrov Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973...  and Aleksei Utkin	Elbe Day Elbe Day Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the date Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of the World War II in Europe. The first contact was made between patrols near Strehla, when First Lieutenant Albert Kotzebue crossed the River...
1949	Poland	Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow)	Antoni Bohdziewicz Antoni Bohdziewicz Antoni Bohdziewicz was a Polish screenplay writer and director, best known for his 1956 adaptation of Zemsta by Aleksander Fredro.Bohdziewicz was born in the city of Wilno, then part of the Russian Empire...	Warsaw, Polish resistance
1949	USA	Home of the Brave Home of the Brave Home of the Brave, a phrase from "The Star Spangled Banner", may refer to:In film:* Home of the Brave , a film directed by Mark Robson* Home of the Brave , a concert film featuring and directed by Laurie Anderson...	Mark Robson Mark Robson Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.-Career:Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios...	Black soldier is paralyzed after recon unit is attacked on Pacific island

1950s

1950s in film

The decade of the 1950s in film involved many significant films.----Contents1 Events2 List of films: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.-Events:...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1950	USA	American Guerrilla in the Philippines American Guerrilla in the Philippines American Guerrilla in the Philippines is a 1950 war film starring Tyrone Power as a U.S. Navy ensign stranded by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II...	Fritz Lang Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...	The Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1950	USA	Francis Francis (1950 film) Francis is a 1950 black-and-white comedy film that launched the Francis the Talking Mule series. It starred Donald O'Connor as an American soldier who gets into trouble when he insists an Army mule named Francis can speak. The distinctive voice of Francis was provided by Chill Wills...	Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films and created the TV series Mr. Ed.Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California in 1898...	Francis the Talking Mule Francis the Talking Mule Francis the Talking Mule was a mule celebrity, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s. The character originated in a novel by writer David Stern, and Universal Studios bought the rights for a film series, with Stern adapting his own script for the first entry, simply titled...  unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific
1950	Philippines	Mapuputing Kamay	Fausto J. Galauran	Filipina nurses in the battles in Bataan Bataan Bataan is a province of the Philippines occupying the whole of the Bataan Peninsula on Luzon. The province is part of the Central Luzon region. The capital of Bataan is Balanga City and it is bordered by the provinces of Zambales and Pampanga to the north...  and Corregidor Corregidor Corregidor Island, locally called Isla ng Corregidor, is a lofty island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Due to this location, Corregidor was fortified with several coastal artillery and ammunition magazines to defend the entrance of... .
1950	Poland	Miasto nieujarzmione Unvanquished City Unvanquished City is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jan Kurnakowicz - Piotr Rafalski* Zofia Mrozowska - Krystyna* Igor Śmiałowski - Andrzej* Jerzy Rakowiecki - Jan... (Unvanquished City)	Jerzy Zarzycki Jerzy Zarzycki Jerzy Zarzycki was a Polish film director. He directed 24 films between 1931 and 1970. He co-directed the 1933 film The Sea, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject ....	Poland Warsaw 1944
1950	UK	Odette Odette (film) Odette is a 1950 film that was directed by Herbert Wilcox and used a screenplay by Warren Chetham-Strode. The film starred Anna Neagle as Odette Sansom, an Allied French-born heroine of World War II who joined the Special Operations Executive and was sent to France to work with the resistance...	Herbert Wilcox Herbert Wilcox Herbert Sydney Wilcox was a British film producer and director.-Early life:Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, Ireland, but he was born in Norwood and attended school in Brighton...	SOE Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...  agent Odette Samson.
1950	USA	Three Came Home Three Came Home Three Came Home is a post-war film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith. It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from...	Jean Negulesco Jean Negulesco Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....	Battle of Borneo (1941-42)
1950	USA	When Willie Comes Marching Home When Willie Comes Marching Home When Willie Comes Marching Home is a 1950 World War II comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet. It is based on the 1945 short story When Leo Comes Marching Home by Sy Gomberg.-Plot:...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
1950	UK	The Wooden Horse The Wooden Horse The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British Second World War war film starring Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson and directed by Jack Lee. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay....	Jack Lee Jack Lee (film director) Jack Lee was a film director, writer, editor and producer.Wilfred John Raymond Lee was born in the village of Slad near Stroud in Gloucestershire...	True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
1951	Italy	Achtung! Banditi!	Carlo Lizzani	The Italian resistance movement Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...
1951	UK	Albert	Guy Morgan Guy Morgan Munden Guy Morgan is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'8" guard from Wake Forest University, Morgan was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the second round of the 1982 NBA Draft. He played eight games for the Pacers during the 1982-83 NBA season, scoring 15 points.-Note:...  and Edward Sammis
1951	USA	Decision Before Dawn Decision Before Dawn Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II...	Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages...	The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945
1951	USA	Fighting Coast Guard	Joseph Kane Joseph Kane Jasper Joseph Inman Kane was a prolific American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter...
1951	USA	Flying Leathernecks Flying Leathernecks Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 action film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger, and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators during World War II...	Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....	A US Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific
1951	USA	Force of Arms Force of Arms Force of Arms is a 1951 romantic drama film set in the Italian theater of World War II. It reteamed William Holden and Nancy Olson in the third of their four movies together , all released in 1950 or 1951...	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...	The US Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...
1951	USA	Go For Broke! Go for Broke! (1951 film) Go for Broke! is a 1951 war film directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura....	Robert Pirosh Robert Pirosh Robert Pirosh was an American screenwriter and director.-Early years:Pirosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1928...	U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team The 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army, was composed of Japanese-American enlisted men and mostly Caucasian officers. They fought primarily in Europe during World War II, beginning in 1944. The families of many of its soldiers were subject to internment...  in Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...  and France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1951	Philippines	Makapili		Makapili Makapili Makapili was a militant group formed in the Philippines during World War II to give military aid to Japan. Organised by Benigno Ramos and Artemio Ricarte, they were born out of José P. Laurel's refusal to conscript Filipinos for Japan...  during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... ..
1951	USA	Operation Pacific Operation Pacific Operation Pacific is a 1951 World War II submarine film starring John Wayne and directed by George Waggner. The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A...	George Waggner George Waggner George Waggner was an American film director, producer and actor.Born in New York City, he made his film debut as Yousayef in The Sheik . He later went on to appearances in Western films. The first film he directed was Western Trails and his most well-known directorial effort arguably remains The...	A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War
1951	USA	Submarine Command Submarine command Submarine Command is a 1951 film starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, and Darryl Hickman, directed by John Farrow...	John Farrow John Farrow John Villiers Farrow, CBE was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.-Life and career:Farrow was...
1951	USA	Target Unknown	George Sherman George Sherman George Sherman was a film director of action movies beginning in the 1930s. The New York-born director's films include The Sleeping City and Tomahawk.-Filmography:*Red River Range...
1951	USA	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel is a 1951 biographical film about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the later stages of World War II. It stars James Mason in the title role, was directed by Henry Hathaway, and was based on the book Rommel by Brigadier Desmond Young, who served in the Indian Army in...	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...	Biopic of Erwin Rommel Erwin Rommel Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , popularly known as the Desert Fox , was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought....  from the Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...  to the July 20 plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...
1951	USA	The Magic Face	Frank Tuttle Frank Tuttle Frank Tuttle was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 to 1959 ....	An actor takes Hitler's place
1951	USA	The Wild Blue Yonder	Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...
1951	USA	You're in the Navy Now You're in the Navy Now You're in the Navy Now is a Hollywood film released in 1951 by Twentieth Century Fox about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II. Its initial release was titled USS Teakettle...	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...	A US submarine chaser Submarine chaser A submarine chaser is a small and fast naval vessel specially intended for anti-submarine warfare. Although similar vessels were designed and used by many nations, this designation was most famously used by ships built by the United States of America...  in development
1952	USA	Above and Beyond Above and Beyond (film) Above and Beyond is a 1952 film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore played security officer Major Bill Uanna.-Cast:...	Melvin Frank Melvin Frank Melvin Frank was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades... , Norman Panama Norman Panama Norman Panama was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades...	The 509th Composite Group 509th Operations Group The 509th Operations Group is the flying component of the United States Air Force 509th Bomb Wing , assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It is equipped with all 20 of the USAF's B-2 Spirit stealth bombers...  and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
1952	UK	Angels One Five Angels One Five Angels One Five is a 1952 British film directed by George More O'Ferrall, and starring Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Cyril Raymond, Veronica Hurst and also featuring Bill Everett. Based on the book 'What Are Your Angels Now?' by Pelham Groom Angels One Five is a 1952...	George More O'Ferrall George More O'Ferrall George More O'Ferrall was a British film and television director.-Selected filmography:*The Holly and the Ivy *Angels One Five *The Heart of the Matter...	The Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
1952	UK	Appointment in London Appointment in London Appointment in London is a 1952 war film starring Dirk Bogarde and set during World War II. The film was directed by Philip Leacock from a screenplay by John Wooldridge and Robert Westerby and based on an original story by Wooldridge...	Philip Leacock Philip Leacock Philip David Charles Leacock was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock.-Career:...	RAF Bomber Command RAF Bomber Command RAF Bomber Command controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. During World War II the command destroyed a significant proportion of Nazi Germany's industries and many German cities, and in the 1960s stood at the peak of its postwar military power with the V bombers and a supplemental...
1952	Japan	Children of Hiroshima Children of Hiroshima Children of Hiroshima is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. -Cast:* Nobuko Otowa - Takako Ishikawa* Osamu Takizawa - Iwakichi* Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa* Tsuneko Yamanaka...	Kaneto Shindō Kaneto Shindo , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...	The dropping of Little Boy Little Boy "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon...  on Hiroshima Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
1952	UK	Gift Horse Gift Horse (film) Gift Horse is a 1952 British war film starring Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough.The film follows the story of the fictional ship HMS Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until they go on a one-way mission to destroy a German-held dry dock in France.-Synopsis:A...	Compton Bennett Compton Bennett Herbert William "Bob" Compton Bennett , better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain...	The St Nazaire Raid
1952	Early Modern France	Jeux interdits Forbidden Games Forbidden Games , is a 1952 French-language film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits.While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and is still one of the most popular French films... (Forbidden Games)	René Clément	The Occupation of France
1952	Norway	Nødlanding (Emergency Landing)	Arne Skouen	American bomber shot down in Norway. Surviving crew hidden by Norwegian resistance Milorg Milorg Milorg was the main Norwegian resistance movement in World War II....  and smuggled out of the country.
1952	United States	Flat Top Flat Top Flat Top, with an elevation of 4,142 feet, is the 20th-highest peak in Georgia. It is located in Rabun County, Georgia and is within the boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest. There is a view of the rock face of Flat Top from the Bartram Trail....	Lesley Selander Lesley Selander Lesley Selander was a prolific American film director of Westerns and science fiction movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and 15 TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968...	Sterling Hayden Sterling Hayden Sterling Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr...  stars as Dan Collier, a captain in charge of training pilots on U.S. Navy carriers.
1952	USA	Okinawa	Leigh Jason Leigh Jason Leigh Jason was an American film director and sceeenwriter. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Filmography:* The Price of Fear * Wolves of the City...	The Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
1952	USA	Operation Secret	Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler was an American film director. He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.He was born in New York, New York, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* A Bankrupt Honeymoon...	Espionage Espionage Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
1952	USA	Red Ball Express Red Ball Express The Red Ball Express was an enormous truck convoy system created by Allied forces to supply their forward-area combat units moving through Europe following the breakout from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. The term "Red Ball" was a railroad phrase referring to express shipping...	Budd Boetticher Budd Boetticher Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of...	Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations European Theater of Operations The European Theater of Operations, United States Army was a United States Army formation which directed U.S. Army operations in parts of Europe from 1942 to 1945. It referred to Army Ground Forces, United States Army Air Forces, and Army Service Forces operations north of Italy and the...  during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
1952	USA	Thunderbirds	John H. Auer	The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talker Code talker Code talkers was a term used to describe people who talk using a coded language. It is frequently used to describe 400 Native American Marines who served in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages... s.
1953	UK	Albert RN Albert RN Albert R.N. is a 1953 British war film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Anthony Steel.-Plot:The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	British POWs in a German camp
1953	Japan	Anatahan Anatahan (film) , also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg.It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg...	Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...	Japanese soldiers on a remote Pacific island will not accept that the war has been over for years
1953	USA	China Venture	Don Siegel Don Siegel Donald Siegel was an influential American film director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.-Early life:...
1953	USA	Destination Gobi Destination Gobi Destination Gobi is a 1953 Technicolor war film in which Sam McHale heads a group of US Navy men, sent to Mongolia for weather observation. McHale must lead his men across the treacherous Gobi desert to the freedom of the seacoast...	Robert Wise Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...	A US Navy weather unit in Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
1953	USA	El Alaméin El Alamein El Alamein is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the Mediterranean Sea, it lies west of Alexandria and northwest of Cairo. As of 2007, it has a local population of 7,397 inhabitants.- Climate :...	Fred F. Sears Fred F. Sears Frederick Francis Sears was an American film actor and director. Though a marginalized figure in 1950s cinema, he created 52 feature films in a number of genres for Columbia Pictures from 1949 to 1957, before his death at the age of 44....	The Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
1953	USA	Fighter Attack	Lesley Selander Lesley Selander Lesley Selander was a prolific American film director of Westerns and science fiction movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and 15 TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968...	The Italian Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...  and Partisans Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...
1953	USA	From Here to Eternity From Here to Eternity From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...	Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed films like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.-Life and career:...	The attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
1953	USA	Guerrilla Girl	John Christian	Greek Resistance Greek Resistance The Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.-Origins:...
1953	UK	Malta Story Malta Story Malta Story is a 1953 British war film based on the heroic defence of Malta, the island itself, its people and the RAF aviators who fought to defend it...	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...	The Siege of Malta Siege of Malta (1940) The Siege of Malta was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War. From 1940-1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of Malta pitted the air forces and navies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal...
1953	UK	Single-Handed	Roy Boulting	Royal Navy Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...  (based on Brown on Resolution Brown on Resolution Brown on Resolution is a 1929 nautical novel written by CS Forester. It is set during World War I. The hero of the novel, seaman Brown, is the sole able-bodied survivor of a sunken British warship, who is able single-handedly to discomfit its attacker, a German cruiser, long enough to ensure its... )
1953	USA	Stalag 17 Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is a traitor...	Billy Wilder Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...	German Prisoner of War Prisoner of war A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...  camp for US flyers
1953	Japan	Taiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Pacific)	Ishirō Honda Ishiro Honda Ishirō Honda , sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese film director...	Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1953	UK	The Cruel Sea The Cruel Sea (film) The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film from Ealing Studios starring Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden, with Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister...	Charles Frend Charles Frend Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...	The Battle of the Atlantic
1953	USA	The Desert Rats The Desert Rats (film) The Desert Rats is a 1953 American war film about the World War II siege of Tobruk. It stars Richard Burton and was directed by Robert Wise.-Plot:...	Robert Wise Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...	The Australian 7th Division Australian 7th Division The 7th Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army. It was formed in February 1940 to serve in World War II, as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force...  at Tobruk Tobruk Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 .... , during the North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1953	UK	The Red Beret The Red Beret The Red Beret is a 1953 British made Technicolor war film starring Alan Ladd, Leo Genn and Susan Stephen. It deals with the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War. It is notable as the first film made by Warwick Films with many of the crew working on various Warwick Films and Albert R....	Terence Young	British paratroops Operation Biting Operation Biting Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was the codename given to a British Combined Operations raid on a German radar installation in Bruneval, France that occurred between 27–28 February 1942 during World War II...
1953	Canada	Tit-Coq	René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas Gratien Gélinas Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film....	A French Canadian serviceman comes home
1954	West Germany	08/15	Paul May Paul May Paul May was a German film director. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.He was born in Munich, Germany and died in Taufkirchen, Germany.-External links:...
1954	USA	Betrayed Betrayed (1954 film) Betrayed is a 1954 war drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, from a screenplay by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel. The music score was by Walter Goehr and Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Freddie Young....	Gottfried Reinhardt	Dutch resistance Dutch resistance Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized by its prominent non-violence, summitting in over 300,000 people in hiding in the autumn of 1944, tended to by some 60,000 to 200,000 illegal landlords and caretakers and tolerated knowingly...  in the Battle of Arnhem Battle of Arnhem The Battle of Arnhem was a famous Second World War military engagement fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze, Driel and the surrounding countryside from 17–26 September 1944....
1954	USA	The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...	Destroyer warfare in the Pacific
1954	West Germany	Canaris	Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia...	Admiral Canaris Wilhelm Canaris Wilhelm Franz Canaris was a German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and member of the German Resistance.- Early life and World War I :...  was head of the German military intelligence and was part of several plots against Hitler.
1954	UK	The Dam Busters The Dam Busters (film) The Dam Busters is a 1955 British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd and directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Wallis's...	Michael Anderson Michael Anderson (director) Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...	RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise Operation Chastise Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the "Dambusters", using a specially developed "bouncing bomb" invented and developed by Barnes Wallis...
1954	Spain	La patrulla	Pedro Lazaga Pedro Lazaga Pedro Lazaga was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 94 films between 1948 and 1979.-External links:...	Spanish volunteers on the Eastern Front
1954	UK	The Purple Plain The Purple Plain The Purple Plain is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife...	Robert Parrish Robert Parrish Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....	RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
1954	UK	The Sea Shall Not Have Them The Sea Shall Not Have Them The Sea Shall Not Have Them is a 1954 British war film starring Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Steel. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and is based on the 1953 novel by John Harris, set during the Second World War. Musical soundtrack by composer Malcolm Arnold.A British aircraft is...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	Air Sea Rescue Search and rescue Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...
1954	UK  Norway	Shetlandsgjengen	Michael Forlong	Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves
1954	UK	They Who Dare They Who Dare They Who Dare is a 1954 World War II war film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Dirk Bogarde, Harold Siddons, Akim Tamiroff and Eric Pohlmann. The story is based on events that took place during World War II in the Dodecanese islands where special forces attempted to disrupt the Luftwaffe...	Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	SAS Special Air Service Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...  raid in occupied Greece
1954	Mainland China	Letter with Feather Letter with Feather Leather with Feather is a 1954 Chinese film directed by Shi Hui and written by the playwright and filmmaker, Zhang Junxiang...	Shi Hui Shi Hui (actor) Shi Hui , born Shi Yutai , was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame, Shi became a victim of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter....	A story of a young boy who, through his wits, delivers an important message to the 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
1955	Denmark	Der kom en dag	Sven Methling Sven Methling Sven Johan Methling or Sven Methling Jr., , was a Danish film director and screenwriter. The son of actor and film director Svend Methling, Methling Jr. was best known for a series of light-hearted comedies. His 1959 comedy Vi er allesammen tossede received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...	About the last days of the Occupation Occupation of Denmark Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark began with Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940, and lasted until German forces withdrew at the end of World War II following their surrender to the Allies on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish...
1955	West Germany	08/15 - In der Heimat	Paul May Paul May Paul May was a German film director. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.He was born in Munich, Germany and died in Taufkirchen, Germany.-External links:...
1955	West Germany	08/15 - Zweiter Teil	Paul May Paul May Paul May was a German film director. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.He was born in Munich, Germany and died in Taufkirchen, Germany.-External links:...
1955	UK	Above Us the Waves Above Us the Waves (film) Above Us the Waves is a 1955 war film directed by Ralph Thomas. It tells the story of human torpedo and midget submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. It is based on true-life attacks on the Tirpitz, first using manned torpedoes , and then the Royal Navy's midget X-Craft submarines in...	Ralph Thomas Ralph Thomas Ralph Thomas was an English film director, born in Hull. He is perhaps best known for directing the Doctor series of films....	Submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz German battleship Tirpitz Tirpitz was the second of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Imperial Navy, the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven in November 1936 and launched two and a half years later in April...
1955	USA	Battle Cry Battle Cry (film) Battle Cry is a 1955 CinemaScope film, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Raymond Massey, and Mona Freeman...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	US Marines at the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa Battle of Tarawa The Battle of Tarawa, code named Operation Galvanic, was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region....  and Saipan Battle of Saipan The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...
1955	Poland	Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross)	Andrzej Munk	The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Eastern Front in 1945
1955	UK	The Cockleshell Heroes The Cockleshell Heroes The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. Set during the Second World War, it is a fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bordeaux Harbour...	José Ferrer José Ferrer José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón , best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director...	Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton Operation Frankton Operation Frankton was a commando raid on shipping in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in the Bay of Biscay during the Second World War. The raid was carried out by a small unit of Royal Marines known as the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment , part of Combined Operations.The plan was...
1955	UK	The Colditz Story The Colditz Story The Colditz Story is a 1955 prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman and directed by Guy Hamilton.It is based on the book written by P.R...	Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton is an English film director.Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance...	British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp
1955	West Germany  Austria	Der letzte Akt (The Last Act, Hitler: The Last Ten Days)	Georg Wilhelm Pabst Georg Wilhelm Pabst -Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...
1955	USA	The Eternal Sea	John H. Auer	Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1955	Poland	Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope)	Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski	Poland 1945
1955	West Germany	Jackboot Mutiny Jackboot Mutiny It Happened on July 20th is a 1955 Austria film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst about the July 20 Plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Bernhard Wicki as Stauffenberg...	Georg Wilhelm Pabst Georg Wilhelm Pabst -Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...	The July 20 plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...  to assassinate Hitler
1955	USA	Mister Roberts	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...  and Melvin LeRoy	A US Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific
1955	Poland	Pokolenie A Generation A Generation is a 1955 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the novel Pokolenie by Bohdan Czeszko, who also wrote the script, and it was Wajda's first film and the opening installment of what became his Three War Films trilogy set in the Second World War, completed by Kanal and... (A Generation)	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	Polish Resistance
1955	Federation of Malaya	Sergeant Hassan	P. Ramlee P. Ramlee Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr. P. Ramlee, was a Malaysian film actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. Due to his contributions to the movie and music industry and his literary work, he is often considered the icon of Malay entertainment in Malaysia, Singapore, and Sumatra .-Biography:P...	war legend
1955	USA	To Hell and Back To Hell and Back (film) To Hell and Back is a CinemaScope war film released in 1955. It was directed by Jesse Hibbs and starred Audie Murphy as himself and Kyle Sanville. It is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy's World War II experiences as a soldier in the U.S. Army...	Jesse Hibbs Jesse Hibbs Jesse John Hibbs was an American film and television director and assistant director. He was previously an All-American offensive tackle for the University of Southern California football team in 1927 and 1928....	Combat biography of Audie Murphy Audie Murphy Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
1955	Finland	The Unknown Soldier The Unknown Soldier (1955 film) The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and premiered in December 1955. It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers...	Edvin Laine Edvin Laine Edvin Laine was a Finnish film director. Laine was born Bovellán.Laine directed Aaltoska orkaniseeraa, a comedy, in 1949....	Finno-Soviet Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
1956	UK	A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war....	Jack Lee Jack Lee (film director) Jack Lee was a film director, writer, editor and producer.Wilfred John Raymond Lee was born in the village of Slad near Stroud in Gloucestershire...	British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore Battle of Singapore The Battle of Singapore was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War when the Empire of Japan invaded the Allied stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in Southeast Asia and nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East"...
1956	USA	Attack	Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...	US infantry in France after D-Day
1956	USA	Away All Boats Away All Boats Away All Boats is a 1956 American war film produced by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Howard Christie from a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman based on the 1953 novel by Kenneth M. Dodson....	Joseph Pevney Joseph Pevney Joseph Pevney was an American film and television director.-Biography:Pevney was born on September 15, 1911 in New York City, New York.He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924...	US attack transport Attack transport Attack Transport is a United States Navy ship classification.-History:In the early 1940s, as the United States Navy expanded in response to the threat of involvement in World War II, a number of civilian passenger ships and some freighters were acquired, converted to transports and given hull...  in the Pacific
1956	USA	Battle Stations	Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler Lewis Seiler was an American film director. He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.He was born in New York, New York, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* A Bankrupt Honeymoon...	US Navy battleship in the Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1956	USA	Between Heaven and Hell Between Heaven and Hell (film) Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 20th Century Fox Cinemascope colour war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely...	Richard Fleischer Richard Fleischer -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...	A National Guard United States National Guard The National Guard of the United States is a reserve military force composed of state National Guard militia members or units under federally recognized active or inactive armed force service for the United States. Militia members are citizen soldiers, meaning they work part time for the National...  unit in the Philippines
1956	USA	D-Day the Sixth of June D-Day the Sixth of June D-Day the Sixth of June is a 1956 romantic war film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Harry Brown, based on the novel, The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro....	Henry Koster Henry Koster Henry Koster was born Hermann Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man...	The Normandy invasion Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
1956	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Dolina miru (Quiet Valley)	France Štiglic France Štiglic France Štiglic was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. His 1948 film On Our Own Land was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival...	American soldier saves two children
1956	Spain	Embajadores en el infierno	José María Forqué José María Forqué José María Forqué was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:* 1947 : Juventudes de España, bajo una Patria hermosa* 1951 : María Morena* 1951 : Niebla y sol...	Spanish prisoners at a Russian camp
1956	Poland	Kanał	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	Warsaw Uprising 1944 Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
1956	UK	Reach for the Sky Reach for the Sky Reach for the Sky is a 1956 British biographical film of aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film of 1956.-Plot:In 1928, Douglas Bader, a...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	Douglas Bader Douglas Bader Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL was a Royal Air Force fighter ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 20 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.Bader joined the...  and the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
1956	UK	The Battle of the River Plate The Battle of the River Plate (film) The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 British war film by director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...  and Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...	Battle of the River Plate Battle of the River Plate The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War. The German pocket battleship had been commerce raiding since the start of the war in September 1939...
1956	UK	The Black Tent The Black Tent The Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.-Plot:During the British retreat...	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...	The North African campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1956	USA	The Bold and the Brave The Bold and the Brave The Bold and the Brave is a 1956 Hollywood World War II movie written by Robert Lewin and directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor. The movie was produced by Filmmakers Production Organization and released by RKO....	Lewis R. Foster Lewis R. Foster Lewis R. Foster was an American screenwriter, film/television director, and film/television producer. He directed and wrote over one hundred films and television series between 1926 and 1960.-Director:...	The Italian Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...
1956	Japan	The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...	The Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
1956	UK	The Man Who Never Was The Man Who Never Was The Man Who Never Was is a nonfiction 1953 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book and dramatising actual events...	Ronald Neame Ronald Neame Ronald Elwin Neame CBE, BSC was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early career:...	The Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception plan during World War II. As part of the widespread deception plan Operation Barclay to cover the intended invasion of Italy from North Africa, Mincemeat helped to convince the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and...
1957	UK	The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William...	David Lean David Lean Sir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...	British POWs work on the Burma Railway
1957	Poland	Con bravura	Andrzej Munk	The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Polish Resistance
1957	West Germany	Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris)	Paul May Paul May Paul May was a German film director. He directed 40 films between 1935 and 1972.He was born in Munich, Germany and died in Taufkirchen, Germany.-External links:...	The Battle of Normandy Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...  from the German soldiers' perspective
1957	West Germany	Der Stern von Afrika Der Stern von Afrika Der Stern von Afrika is a 1957 black-and-white German war film portraying the combat career of Luftwaffe World War II fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille. It stars Joachim Hansen and Marianne Koch and was directed by Alfred Weidenmann...	Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia...	Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille Hans-Joachim Marseille Hans-Joachim Marseille was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his bohemian lifestyle. One of the best fighter pilots of World War II, he was nicknamed the "Star of Africa"... , ace of the Luftwaffe.
1957	USA	The Enemy Below The Enemy Below The Enemy Below is a 1957 war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum, Curt Jürgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel. The movie was directed and produced by Dick...	Dick Powell Dick Powell Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:...	The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse Cat and mouse Cat and mouse, often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." The "cat" is unable to secure a definitive victory over the "mouse", who despite not being able to...  action between US destroyer Destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...  and a German submarine U-boat U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...
1957	West Germany	Haie und kleine Fische	Frank Wisbar	The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats
1957	USA	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 CinemaScope film which tells the story of two people stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II....	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...	A U.S. Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in the South Pacific
1957	USA	Hellcats of the Navy Hellcats of the Navy Hellcats of the Navy is a World War II submarine movie starring Ronald Reagan and his wife, billed as Nancy Davis, her then professional name...	Nathan Juran Nathan Juran Naftuli "Nathan" Hertz Juran was an American film art director and film director who is most noted for winning the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for How Green Was My Valley and for directing science fiction and fantasy films such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. He was also the brother of...	Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1957	Soviet Union	Летят журавли (Letyat zhuravli) The Cranes Are Flying The Cranes are Flying The Cranes Are Flying is a Soviet film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II . It was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana...	Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Kalatozov born Mikheil Kalatozishvili was a Georgian/Russian film director. Born in Tiflis , he studied economics before starting his film career as an actor and later cinematographer....	Damage suffered to the Soviet Soviet people Soviet people or Soviet nation was an umbrella demonym for the population of the Soviet Union. Initially used as a nonspecific reference to the Soviet population, it was eventually declared to be a "new historical, social and international unity of people".-Nationality politics in early Soviet...  psyche as a result of World War II.
1957	Norway	Ni Liv Ni Liv Nine Lives is a 1957 Norwegian film about Jan Baalsrud, who was a member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. In 1943, he participated in an operation to destroy a German air control tower...	Arne Skouen	Story of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian resistance man who's forced to make an epic escape to neutral Sweden following a failed sabotage operation in Tromsø, Norway.
1957	UK	The One That Got Away	Roy Ward Baker Roy Ward Baker Roy Ward Baker , born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film in 1959...	True story of German escaper Franz von Werra Franz von Werra Franz Xaver Baron von Werra was a German World War II fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over England and captured...
1957	UK	The Steel Bayonet The Steel Bayonet The Steel Bayonet is a 1957 British war film directed by Michael Carreras and starring Leo Genn, Kieron Moore and Michael Medwin. Michael Caine also had a small role in the film, early in his career. It is set during the Second World War, in the Tunisian desert when a small British observation...	Michael Carreras Michael Carreras Michael Carreras was a British film producer and director. He was best known for his association with Hammer Studios, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years.As producer, he worked on The Curse of Frankenstein , Dracula ...
1957	USA	The Wings of Eagles The Wings of Eagles The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 Metrocolor film about Frank "Spig" Wead and US Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. The film is a tribute to Wead from his friend, director John Ford....	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	A biography of Navy flier Frank W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater.
1958	UK	Carve Her Name with Pride Carve Her Name with Pride Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. Set during World War II, the film is based on the true story of the heroism of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, with Virginia McKenna in the lead role.The film includes the...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	SOE Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...  agent Violette Szabo Violette Szabo Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, was a Second World War French-British secret agent.-Early life and marriage:...
1958	USA	Darby's Rangers Darby's Rangers (1958 film) Darby's Rangers is a 1958 war film starring James Garner as William Orlando Darby, World War II commander of the 1st Ranger Battalion. The movie was shot by Warner Brothers Studios in black and white to match wartime stock footage included in the production and was directed by William...	William Wellman	The Battle of Cisterna Battle of Cisterna The Battle of Cisterna took place during World War II, on 30 January-2 February 1944, near Cisterna, Italy, as part of the battle of Anzio that followed Operation Shingle. The battle was a clear German victory which also had repercussions on the employment of U.S...  and Battle of Anzio.
1958	West Germany	Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad)	Géza von Radványi Géza von Radványi Géza von Radványi , was a Hungarian film director, cinematographer, producer and writer.- Biography :...	Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
1958	Poland	Dezerter Dezerter Dezerter, founded as SS-20 in 1981 in Warsaw, Poland, is one of the most popular punk bands from Poland. They had to change their original name to Dezerter because of the reaction of the Communist authorities... (Deserter)	Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.-External links:...	A Pole from Silesia in the Wehrmacht
1958	UK	Dunkirk Dunkirk (film) Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film directed by Leslie Norman and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. It was based on two novels: Elleston Trevor's The Big Pick-Up and Lt. Col. Ewan Hunter and Maj. J. S...	Leslie Norman Les Norman Leslie A. Norman was a British director and producer. His career spanned nearly fifty years, from 1930 until 1978, and in that time he tried his hand at many different jobs, including editor, producer, and writer...	Operation Dynamo Operation Dynamo The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 26 May and the early hours of 3 June 1940, because the British, French and Belgian troops were... ; the Dunkirk Evacuation
1958	Poland	Eroica	Andrzej Munk	The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW Camp 1944/45
1958	Poland	Historia jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter)	Hubert Drapella	The Battle of Britain 1940
1958	West Germany	Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!, Battle Inferno)	Frank Wisbar	The Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
1958	UK	Ice-Cold in Alex Ice-Cold in Alex Ice-Cold in Alex is a British film based on the novel of the same name by British author Christopher Landon. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, the film was a prizewinner at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival...	J. Lee Thompson J. Lee Thompson John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...	North African campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1958	UK	I Was Monty's Double I Was Monty's Double (film) I Was Monty's Double is a 1958 film made by Associated British Picture Corporation . It was directed by John Guillermin, from a screenplay adapted by Bryan Forbes.- Plot :...	John Guillermin	General Montgomery Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC , nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General" was a British Army officer. He saw action in the First World War, when he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the 8th Army from...
1958	Poland	Krzyż walecznych Krzyz Walecznych The Cross of Valor is a Polish military decoration. It was first introduced by the Council for Defense of the State on 11 August 1920. It is awarded to an individual who "has demonstrated deeds of valor and courage on the field of battle." It may be awarded to the same person up to four times... (Cross of Valour)	Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Julian Kutz is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.- Biography :...	The Eastern Front, 1945
1958	UK	Operation Amsterdam Operation Amsterdam Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 British action film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story as described in the book Adventure in Diamonds, by David E Walker. The action of the story covers a few days in May 1940 when the...	Michael McCarthy
1958	Poland	Orzeł Orzeł (film) Orzeł is a Polish black and white war movie based on the true story of the Polish World War II submarine ORP Orzeł. Since the real Orzeł was sunk in the war, to assure authenticity her role was played by her sister ship, the ORP Sęp.-Cast:...	Leonard Buczkowski	The story of ORP Orzeł ORP Orzeł Three boats of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Orzeł :* ORP Orzeł was an commissioned in 1939 and lost in 1940.* ORP Orzeł was a commissioned in 1962 and decommissioned in 1983....
1958	Poland	Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia)	Stanisław Lenartowicz	Polish Resistance
1958	Poland	Popiół i diament Ashes and Diamonds Ashes and Diamonds is a 1948 novel by the Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. It was adapted into a film by the same title in 1958 by the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. English translation, entitled Ashes and Diamonds, appeared in 1962... (Ashes and Diamonds)	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	Polish Resistance 1945
1958	USA	Run Silent, Run Deep Run Silent, Run Deep Run Silent, Run Deep is a novel published first in 1955 by then-Commander Edward L. Beach, Jr.. The name refers to "silent running", a submarine stealth tactic. It is also the name of a 1958 movie based on the same novel...	Robert Wise Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...	Japanese submarine chase during the Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1958	UK	Sea of Sand Sea of Sand Sea of Sand is a 1958 war film produced by Tempean Films starring Michael Craig, John Gregson and Richard Attenborough... (Desert Patrol)	Guy Green Guy Green (director) Guy Green OBE BSC was an English film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1946 he won an Academy Award as cinematographer on the film of Great Expectations...	Long Range Desert Group Long Range Desert Group The Long Range Desert Group was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The commander of the German Afrika Corps, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, admitted that the LRDG "caused us more damage than any other British unit of equal strength".Originally called... , North Africa Campaign
1958	USA	South Pacific South Pacific (film) South Pacific is a 1958 musical romance film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, and based on James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific...	Joshua Logan Joshua Logan Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American stage and film director and writer.-Early years:Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas, the son of Susan and Joshua Lockwood Logan. When he was three years old his father committed suicide...	Musical set in the Pacific Theater
1958	Czechoslovakia	Tenkrát o Vánocích	Karel Kachyňa Karel Kachyna Karel Kachyňa was a Czech film director. His career spanned over five decades.Kachyňa was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers in the 1960s which included Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel....	Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front, Christmas 1944
1958	UK	The Battle of the V 1	Vernon Sewell Vernon Sewell Vernon Campbell Sewell was a British film director, screenwriter, producer writer and, briefly, an actor. Sewell was born in London, England in 1903. He was educated at Marlborough College. He directed over 30 films during his career, starting with Morgenrot in 1933...	Polish resisters Polish resistance movement in World War II The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. The Polish defence against the Nazi occupation was an important part of the European...  spy on German rocket tests
1958	UK	The Camp on Blood Island The Camp on Blood Island The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring Carl Möhner, André Morrel, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald....	Val Guest Val Guest Val Guest was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.-Early life and career:He was born Valmond Maurice...	British and Dutch POWs in Malaya
1958	UK	The Key The Key (1958 film) The Key is a 1958 war film set in 1940 during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic. It was based on the novel Stella by Jan de Hartog.-Plot:...	Carol Reed Carol Reed Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...	The Battle of the Atlantic
1958	USA	The Naked and the Dead The Naked and the Dead (film) The Naked and the Dead is a 1958 widescreen film based on Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead. Directed by Raoul Walsh and filmed in Panama the screenplay attributed to the Sanders Brothers adds a strip tease and larger action scenes to Mailer's original narrative...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	The Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1958	UK	The Wind Cannot Read The Wind Cannot Read The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser...	Ralph Thomas Ralph Thomas Ralph Thomas was an English film director, born in Hull. He is perhaps best known for directing the Doctor series of films....	The RAF in Burma
1958	USA	The Young Lions The Young Lions The Young Lions is a 1958 war drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin.-Outline:...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...	Story of 3 soldiers during World War II. One is German, Two others are American (one of them is Jewish)
1958	USA	Imitation General Imitation General Imitation General is a 1958 war/comedy film starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons and Taina Elg.-Plot summary:In the aftermath of a big battle, Brigadier General Charles Lane , Master Sergeant Murphy "Murph" Savage and Corporal Chan Derby find themselves cut off...	George Marshall George Marshall George Catlett Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense...	[Comedy] Europe. Sergeant impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers
1958	Poland	Wolne miasto (Free City)	Stanisław Różewicz	Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939
1958	Mainland China	Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo	Ping Wang	Communist Party undercover agents operate in Shanghai in 1939 against the Japanese.
1959	Soviet Union	Ballad of a Soldier Ballad of a Soldier Ballad of a Soldier , is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film...	Grigori Chukhrai Grigori Chukhrai Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.-Career:He was born in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine...
1959	Poland	Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear)	Jerzy Zarzycki Jerzy Zarzycki Jerzy Zarzycki was a Polish film director. He directed 24 films between 1931 and 1970. He co-directed the 1933 film The Sea, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject ....	Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain Zakopane, Holocaust
1959	Poland	Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe)	Bronisław Brok	Polish Resistance Comedy
1959	USA	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens George Stevens George Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Among his most notable films were Diary of Anne Frank , nominated for Best Director, Giant , winner of Oscar for Best Director, Shane , Oscar nominated, and A Place in the Sun , winner of Oscar for Best...	The biography of Anne Frank Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt... .
1959	West Germany	Die Brücke Die Brücke (film) Die Brücke is a West-German anti-war novel written by Gregor Dorfmeister, under the pseudonym of Manfred Gregor, and published in 1958 by Heyne Bücher....	Bernhard Wicki	The Western Front Western Front (World War II) The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and West Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale ground combat operations...
1959	Italy  Early Modern France	Estate Violenta Estate Violenta Estate violenta is a 1959 Italian award-winning black-and-white drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini, depicting a love affair between a young draft-dodging son of a prominent Fascist, portrayed by Jean Louis Trintignant, and a navy officer's widow older than he, portrayed by Eleonora Rossi Drago...	Valerio Zurlini Valerio Zurlini Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...	Dismissal of Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....  during the Allied invasion of Sicily Allied invasion of Sicily The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis . It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.Husky began on the night of... .
1959	Japan	Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain (film) is a 1959 Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi. The screenplay, written by, Natto Wada, is based on the novel Nobi by Shohei Ooka, translated as Fires on the Plain. It initially received mixed reviews from both Japanese and international critics concerning its...	Kon Ichikawa Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...	War in the Philippines.
1959	Italy	General della Rovere General della Rovere General della Rovere is a 1959 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a novel by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.-Plot:...	Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...	A petty thief, who is hired by the Nazis, impersonating an Italian resistance leader. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli.
1959	Japan  Early Modern France	Hiroshima Mon Amour Hiroshima Mon Amour Hiroshima mon amour is an acclaimed 1959 drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. It is the documentation of an intensely personal conversation between a French-Japanese couple about memory and forgetfulness...	Alain Resnais Alain Resnais Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
1959	Poland	Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	The Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1959	Poland	Lotna Lotna Lotna is a Polish war film released in 1959 and directed by Andrzej Wajda.-Overview:This highly symbolic movie is both the director's tribute to the long and glorious history of the Polish cavalry, as well as a more ambiguous portrait of the passing of an era...	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	The Polish Campaign, 1939
1959	USA	Never So Few Never So Few Never So Few 1959 CinemaScope war film directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Charles Bronson, Dean Jones and Steve McQueen with uncredited roles by renowned Asian actors Mako, George Takei and James Hong. The script was loosely based on an actual OSS...	John Sturges John Sturges John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock , Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , The Magnificent Seven , The Great Escape and Ice Station Zebra .-Career:He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932...	The Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
1959	Japan	Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition: No Greater Love The Human Condition (film trilogy) is a Japanese epic film trilogy made between 1959 and 1961. It is based on a novel by Gomikawa Junpei 五味川純平 .-Background:It was directed by Masaki Kobayashi and stars Tatsuya Nakadai. The trilogy follows the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, as he tries to survive in the fascist... )	Masaki Kobayashi	Japanese resistance; Manchukuo Manchukuo Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...
1959	Japan	Ningen no joken II (The Human Condition: Road to Eternity The Human Condition (film trilogy) is a Japanese epic film trilogy made between 1959 and 1961. It is based on a novel by Gomikawa Junpei 五味川純平 .-Background:It was directed by Masaki Kobayashi and stars Tatsuya Nakadai. The trilogy follows the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, as he tries to survive in the fascist... )	Masaki Kobayashi	Japanese resistance
1959	Soviet Union	Sudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a Man)	Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...	Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov
1959	USA	Ten Seconds to Hell Ten Seconds to Hell Ten Seconds To Hell is a 1959 British, American and German film directed by Robert Aldrich and based upon Lawrence P. Bachmann's novel, The Phoenix...	Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...	A German bomb disposal Bomb disposal Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the following fields:*Military:...  squad in post-war Berlin
1959	Poland	Zamach	Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....	Polish Resistance - Operation Kutschera, 1944

1960s

1960s in film

The decade of the 1960s in film involved many significant films.----Contents1 Events2 List of films: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the 1960s....

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1960	Denmark	Frihedens Pris	Annelise Hovmand Annelise Hovmand Annelise Hovmand is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed 12 films between 1955 and 1991...
1960	Denmark	Den sidste vinter	Edvin Tiemroth Edvin Tiemroth Edvin Tiemroth was a Danish actor and film director. He appeared in 15 films between 1939 and 1976. He also directed 13 films between 1954 and 1974.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Denmark.... , Anker Sørensen
1960	Czechoslovakia	Práče Prace Prace is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoniawy-Bramura, within Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.-References:...	Karel Kachyňa Karel Kachyna Karel Kachyňa was a Czech film director. His career spanned over five decades.Kachyňa was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers in the 1960s which included Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel....	Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front.
1960	Japan	Storm Over the Pacific Storm Over the Pacific is a 1960 color Japanese film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi.It is the first color widescreen war film from Toho Studios...	Shuei Matsubayashi Shuei Matsubayashi was a Japanese film director. He is best known for films in the comedy and war genres.-Filmography:He directed over 69 movies:* * 戦艦大和...	A story about a pilot who serves on the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway
1960	Early Modern France	Un taxi pour Tobrouk Un taxi pour Tobrouk Un taxi pour Tobrouk is a 1960 French film directed by Denys de La Patellière. The music is written by Georges Garvarentz.Story takes place during the World War II in the African desert at the crucial battle in El Alamein....	Denys de La Patellière Denys de La Patellière Denys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay...	A group of Free French commandos in North Africa try to reach Allied lines and capture a German officer.
1960	USA	Hell to Eternity Hell to Eternity Hell to Eternity is a 1960 World War II film starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone and directed by Phil Karlson. This film biopic is about the true experiences of Marine hero Pfc...	Phil Karlson Phil Karlson Phil Karlson was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s...	The Battle of Saipan Battle of Saipan The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was... ; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II
1960	UK	Sink the Bismarck! Sink the Bismarck! Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white British war film based on the book, the "Last Nine Days of the Bismarck" by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date, it is the only movie made that deals directly with the operations, chase, and...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	Operation Rheinübung Operation Rheinübung Operation Rheinübung was the sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18–27 May 1941, during World War II... , part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic Second Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its...
1960	Italy	Escape by Night	Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...
1960	Italy	Everybody Go Home Everybody Go Home Everybody Go Home is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani...	Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....	The Four days of Naples Four days of Naples The Four days of Naples refers to the popular uprising in the Italian city of Naples between 27 and 30 September 1943 against the German forces occupying the city during World War II... .
1960	Italy	Long Night in 1943 Long Night in 1943 Long Night in 1943, The Long Night of '43 or It Happened in '43 is an Italian film of 1960 set during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during the Second World War. It was directed by Florestano Vancini and adapted by Vancini, Ennio De Concini and Pier Paolo Pasolini from a novel by Giorgio...	Florestano Vancini Florestano Vancini Florestano Vancini was an award-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.He directed over 20 movies since 1960...	The Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of Italy The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign... .
1960	Italy	Two Women Two Women Two Women is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi...	Vittorio De Sica Vittorio de Sica Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
1960	Italy   USA	Under Ten Flags Under Ten Flags Under Ten Flags is a 1960 Italian-American war film directed by Duilio Coletti. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...	Duilio Coletti Duilio Coletti Duilio Coletti was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 29 films between 1934 and 1977. His film Submarine Attack was entered into the 4th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the jury at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Mr...	The Battle of the Atlantic.
1961	Denmark	Alarm i Østersøen	Sven Methling Sven Methling Sven Johan Methling or Sven Methling Jr., , was a Danish film director and screenwriter. The son of actor and film director Svend Methling, Methling Jr. was best known for a series of light-hearted comedies. His 1959 comedy Vi er allesammen tossede received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
1961	USA  Early Modern France	Bridge to the Sun Bridge to the Sun Bridge to the Sun is a 1961 film, directed by Etienne Périer, starring Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi and Tetzuro Tamba. It is based on the 1957 autobiography Bridge To The Sun by Gwendolen Terasaki, which detailed events in Gwen's life and marriage.The memoir narrates the life of Gwen...	Etienne Périer Étienne Périer Étienne Périer was the fifth governor of the Louisiana colony. He became governor in 1727. His governorship was marked by the arrival of the first Ursuline nuns in New Orleans in 1727 to establish the first convent within the limits of what was to become the United States as well as a war against...	The life of Gwendolen Terasaki.
1961	German Democratic Republic	Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case)	Gerhard Klein	The 1939 Gleiwitz incident Gleiwitz incident The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany on the eve of World War II in Europe.... .
1961	Poland	Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die)	Jan Rybkowski	Dresden, Germany, 1945
1961	India	Hum Dono Hum Dono (1961 film) Hum Dono is a 1961 Hindi film produced by Dev Anand and Navketan films. Written by Vijay Anand, the film is directed by Amarjeet. The film stars Dev Anand in a double role, and also has Nanda, Sadhana and Leela Chitnis....	Amarjeet	Some part of Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from... .
1961	Poland	Kwiecień (Spring)	Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.-External links:...	Germany Eastern Front, 1945
1961	Poland	Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train)	Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Julian Kutz is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.- Biography :...	Poland - The German Occupation
1961	Poland	Samson Samson (1961 film) Samson is a 1961 film made by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the Holocaust. Wajda's World War II film alludes to the Old Testament story of Samson, who had supernatural physical strength...	Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	The Holocaust in occupied Poland
1961	Poland	Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate)	Stanisław Różewicz	The Polish Campaign, 1939
1961	Italy	The Fascist	Luciano Salce Luciano Salce Luciano Salce was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....
1961	UK	The Guns of Navarone The Guns of Navarone (film) The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American Action/Adventure war film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley...	J. Lee Thompson J. Lee Thompson John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...	The Mediterranean Theatre Mediterranean Theatre of World War II The African, Mediterranean and Middle East theatres encompassed the naval, land, and air campaigns fought between the Allied and Axis forces in the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and Africa...
1961	UK	Very Important Person Very Important Person (film) Very Important Person is a 1961 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin, and written by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies. In the United States, the film was re-titled A Coming Out Party....	Ken Annakin Ken Annakin Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE was an English film director.- Biography :Annakin grew up in Beverley, Yorkshire where he attended the local school. He began his career in feature films following an early experience making documentaries. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation...	Comedy - British POWs in a German camp
1962	Netherlands	Als twee druppels water	Fons Rademakers	A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance
1962	Netherlands	De Overval De Overval De Overval is a 1962 Dutch film directed by Paul Rotha. It shows a true story from World War II: the raid on Leeuwarden prison of December 8th, 1944. Without firing a shot, Dutch resistance members disguised as German SD and their prisoners enter the prison, free 39 prisoners and vanish into the... (The Raid)	Paul Rotha Paul Rotha Paul Rotha was a British documentary film-maker, film historian and critic. He was educated at Highgate School....	Wartime prison raid
1962	USA	Hell Is for Heroes Hell Is for Heroes (film) Hell Is for Heroes is a 1962 war film directed by Don Siegel and starring Steve McQueen. It tells the story of a squad of American soldiers, who in the fall of 1944 must hold off an entire German company for approximately 48 hours along the Siegfried Line until reinforcements reach them.-Plot:Squad...	Don Siegel Don Siegel Donald Siegel was an influential American film director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.-Early life:...	The Western front Western Front (World War II) The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and West Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale ground combat operations...
1962	USA	Merrill's Marauders Merrill's Marauders (film) Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign. The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr., a communications officer who served...	Samuel Fuller Samuel Fuller Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...	Merrill's Marauders Merrill's Marauders Merrill’s Marauders or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit , was a United States Army long range penetration special operations unit in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II which fought in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, or CBI...
1962	Philippines	Suicide Commandoes	Armando Garces	Six Filipino Guerrilas received a task to bring their Lieutenant safe to a Japanese airport in order to destroy it during Battle of Bessang Pass Battle of Bessang Pass Bessang Pass is located in Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, a province more than 260 km north of Manila. The area serves as a gateway to the Cordillera mountains and the city of Baguio.... .
1962	Italy	The Four Days of Naples	Nanni Loy Nanni Loy Nanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia...	The Four Days of Naples The Four Days of Naples The Four Days of Naples is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the uprising which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffrè, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli, Charles Belmont, Gian Maria Volonté and Frank Wolff.... .
1962	USA	The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made...	Story of a German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism.
1962	USA	The Gallant Men The Gallant Men The Gallant Men is a 1962-1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.-Description:...	Various Various Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2003. The group blends samples, acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and singing from a revolving cast of vocalists. Its members, Adam and Ian, purposefully give very little information about the group or...	American 5th Army in Italy
1962	USA	The Longest Day The Longest Day (film) The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II....	Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton Andrew Marton Andrew Marton was a Hungarian-American director, producer and editor...  and Ken Annakin Ken Annakin Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE was an English film director.- Biography :Annakin grew up in Beverley, Yorkshire where he attended the local school. He began his career in feature films following an early experience making documentaries. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation...	The Normandy landings Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
1962	UK	The War Lover The War Lover The War Lover is a 1962 British black-and-white war film directed by Philip Leacock and written by Howard Koch loosely based on the 1959 novel, The War Lover by John Hersey, altering the names of characters and events but retaining its basic framework...	Philip Leacock Philip Leacock Philip David Charles Leacock was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock.-Career:...	American bomber crews station in England
1962	Poland	Walter P-38 (TV)	Edward Etler	Polish Resistance
1962	Greece	Psila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler)	Panos Glykofridis	Black comedy about the Greek Resistance Greek Resistance The Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.-Origins:...
1963	USA  Philippines	Cry of Battle Cry of Battle Cry of Battle is a 1963 coming of age story and war film based on the 1951 novel Fortress in the Rice by Benjamin Appel who was a journalist and special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner for the Philippines from 1945-46. The film stars Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Rita Moreno, Leopoldo Salcedo...	Irving Lerner Irving Lerner Irving Lerner Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department. In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later,...	Mercenary fighting with partisans in The Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1963	Poland	Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?)	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy, Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945... , 1945
1963	Poland	Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails)	Jarosław Brzozowski	War in Arctica
1963	Poland	Naganiacz (Manhunter)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	The Holocaust in Poland
1963	Poland	Pasażerka	Andrzej Munk	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1963	Philippines	Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig	Pablo Santiago	An heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1963	USA	PT 109 PT 109 (film) PT 109 is a 1963 biographical film which depicts the actions of John F. Kennedy in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 as an officer of the United States Navy during World War II. The movie was adapted by Vincent Flaherty and Howard Sheehan from the book PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II by...	Leslie H. Martinson Leslie H. Martinson Leslie "Les" H. Martinson is an American television and film director. He is married to television host and writer Connie Martinson.-Career:...	John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.... 's Naval service on the Pacific Front Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1963	USA	The Quick and the Dead	Robert Totten Robert Totten Robert C. Totten was an American television director, writer, and actor, best known for his work on the CBS series Gunsmoke. He directed twenty-seven Gunsmoke episodes between 1966 and 1971 and guest starred in eight episodes between 1967 and 1973...	The Fantastic Story of a Handful of Men and Two Girls Fighting Against Unbelievable Odds! Italian Campaign 1944.
1963	Philippines	Sierra Madre	Armando A. Herrera	The campaigns of two demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1963	Philippines	Sigaw ng Digmaan	Efren Reyes, Sr. Efren Reyes, Sr. Efren Reyes, Sr. was a Filipino actor and director. He was the father of Efren Reyes, Jr.-Early life:Efren Ongpin-Reyes, Sr. was a popular action star of the 50s appearing mostly in action and costume epic movies. He was born on June 18, 1924 in Manila...	Philippine Army Philippine Army The Philippine Army is the ground arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines . Its official name in Tagalog is Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas. On July 23, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III appointed Maj. Gen...  (1941) Resistance.
1963	Finland	Sissit	Mikko Niskanen	Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
1963	USA	The Great Escape The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough...	John Sturges John Sturges John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock , Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , The Magnificent Seven , The Great Escape and Ice Station Zebra .-Career:He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932...	British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen. It was in the German Province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan , southeast of Berlin...
1963	UK	The Password is Courage The Password is Courage The Password Is Courage is a 1962 World War II film, directed, produced and written by Andrew L. Stone, and starring Dirk Bogarde. The film is a lighthearted take on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, and the screenplay is based on the biography of Coward written by John...	Andrew Stone Andrew L. Stone Andrew L. Stone was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known for his hard hitting, realistic films, Stone frequently collaborated with his wife, editor and producer Virginia Lively Stone Andrew L. Stone (July 16, 1902, Oakland, California – June 9, 1999, Los Angeles,...	True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward Charles Coward Charles Joseph Coward , known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz and smuggled himself into Auschwitz for one night, subsequently testifying about his experience at the Nuremberg Trials and the IG Farben...
1963	Philippines   USA	The Raiders of Leyte Gulf	Eddie Romero Eddie Romero Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....	Philippines before the Battle of Leyte Battle of Leyte The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by... .
1963	UK	The Victors The Victors (film) -Overview:The film follows a group of U.S. soldiers through Europe during World War II, from Britain in 1942, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin. It is adapted from a collection of short stories called The Human Kind by British author Alexander Baron,...	Carl Foreman Carl Foreman Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the notable film High Noon. He was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.-Biography:...	American soldiers in Europe following D-Day D-Day D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar...
1964	UK	633 Squadron 633 Squadron 633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by...	Walter Grauman Walter Grauman Walter E. Grauman is an American director of stage shows, films and television shows.-Early life:Grauman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jacob and Irene Grauman, both children of German immigrants who married after settling in the United States...	Occupied Norway Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and ended on May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht...
1964	USA	The Americanization of Emily The Americanization of Emily The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day....	Arthur Hiller Arthur Hiller Arthur Hiller, OC is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story...	Planning for the Normandy landings Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
1964	Czechoslovakia	Atentát	Jiří Sequens Jirí Sequens -Life:Sequens was born in Brno. After the Second World War, he went to Moscow where he studied film techniques. When he returned to Czechoslovakia he worked for Czechoslovak movie industry.Sequens was an author of the propagandistic Czech movies/tv series....	Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the targeted killing of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the...
1964	USA	Back Door to Hell Back Door to Hell Back Door to Hell is a 1964 film concerning a three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's World War II return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. It was produced on a relatively small budget and received lukewarm reviews, and is...	Monte Hellman Monte Hellman Monte Hellman is an American film director, producer, and film editor.Hellman is among a group of directing talent mentored by Roger Corman, who produced several of the director's early films...	Three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur Douglas MacArthur General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the... 's return to the Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...  by destroying a Japanese communications center.
1964	Poland	Barwy walki (Battle Colours)	Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....	Polish Resistance, 1944
1964	Japan   USA	Flight from Ashiya	Michael Anderson Michael Anderson (director) Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...	USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific
1964	Poland	Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw)	Stanisław Lenartowicz	Cult comedy - Italian soldier in Poland, 1943
1964	Philippines   USA	Intramuros (The Walls of Hell)	Eddie Romero Eddie Romero Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003.... , Gerardo de León Gerardo de León Gerardo de León was a Filipino actor turned film director, who made his acting debut in the 1934 film Ang Dangal....	The Battle of Intramuros.
1964	Poland	Koniec naszego świata (End of our World)	Wanda Jakubowska	Auschwitz
1964	Philippines	Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor	Jose de Villa José de Villa José de Villa was a Filipino film actor in the 1950s and a film director in the late 1950s and 1960s. He made his made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, Maria Kapra, which starred Ángel Esmeralda.... , Mar S. Torres	The Battle of Corregidor Battle of Corregidor The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S... .
1964	Poland	Nieznany Nieznany Nieznany is a 1964 Polish film, directed by Witold Lesiewicz. A war film set in a Soviet labour camp in 1943, it stars Leszek Herdegen, Bronisław Pawlik and Bolesław Płotnicki.-External links:* at filmpolski... (The Unknown)	Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz Witold Lesiewicz is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.-External links:...	Soviet Gulag / Eastern Front, 1943/44
1964	Soviet Union ( Georgian SSR)	Otets soldata (Father of a Soldier)	Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze)
1964	Poland	Pierwszy dzień wolności The First Day of Freedom The First Day of Freedom is a 1964 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tadeusz Lomnicki - Lt. Jan* Beata Tyszkiewicz - Inga Rhode* Tadeusz Fijewski - Dr... (The First Day of Freedom)	Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford born Mosze Lifszyc was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union. Ford became director of the nationalized "Film Polski" company at the end of World War II...	Germany, 1945, Polish POWs
1964	Poland	Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Resistance
1964	USA	Shell Shock	John Hayes John Hayes (director) John Hayes was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget drive-in B-movie features and later, exploitation films.-Career:...	Italy during war.
1964	USA	The Thin Red Line The Thin Red Line (1964 film) The Thin Red Line is a 1964 Cinemascope film based on James Jones's novel of the same name. The film follows the life of a number of American soldiers during the battle of Guadalcanal.The black-and-white film was filmed in Spain...	Andrew Marton Andrew Marton Andrew Marton was a Hungarian-American director, producer and editor...	The Guadalcanal Campaign Guadalcanal campaign The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II... .
1964	USA  Early Modern France  Italy	The Train	John Frankenheimer John Frankenheimer John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films...	Resistance French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...  in Occupied France German occupation of France in World War II The Military Administration in France was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It remained in existence from May 1940 to December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation...
1964	Early Modern France	Week-end à Zuydcoote Week-end à Zuydcoote Weekend at Dunkirk is a 1964 drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote by Robert Merle....	Henri Verneuil Henri Verneuil Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...	The Battle of Dunkirk Battle of Dunkirk The Battle of Dunkirk was a battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. A part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May–4 June 1940.After the Phoney War, the Battle of...
1965	USA	36 Hours 36 Hours 36 Hours is a 1965 American suspense film, based on the short story "Beware of the Dog" by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton...	George Seaton George Seaton George Seaton was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ. John L...	On early June 1944, Germans kidnap an American officer and try to convince him that they are in 1948, that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe.
1965	USA	Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge (film) Battle of the Bulge is a widescreen war film produced in Spain that was released in 1965. It was directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews and Charles Bronson...	Ken Annakin Ken Annakin Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE was an English film director.- Biography :Annakin grew up in Beverley, Yorkshire where he attended the local school. He began his career in feature films following an early experience making documentaries. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation...	The Ardennes Offensive
1965	UK	The Heroes of Telemark The Heroes of Telemark The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during World War II...	Anthony Mann Anthony Mann Anthony Mann was an American actor and film director, most notably of film noirs and Westerns. As a director, he often collaborated with the cinematographer John Alton and with James Stewart in his Westerns.-Biography:...	Norwegian resistance movement Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:...  Operation Gunnerside Norwegian heavy water sabotage The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water , which could be used to produce nuclear weapons...
1965	UK	The Hill The Hill (film) The Hill is a 1965 film directed by Sidney Lumet, set in a British army prison in North Africa in World War II. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear and Michael Redgrave.-Plot:...	Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict...	Life in a brutal military prison Military prison A military prison is a prison operated by the military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by the military or national authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime...  in North Africa North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1965	USA	In Harm's Way In Harm's Way In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda.It was the last black-and-white...	Otto Preminger Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...	The Pacific Front
1965	USA	King Rat	Otto Preminger Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...	POWs in asia. From James Clavell book.
1965	Philippines	Iginuhit ng Tadhana	Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa José de Villa José de Villa was a Filipino film actor in the 1950s and a film director in the late 1950s and 1960s. He made his made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, Maria Kapra, which starred Ángel Esmeralda.... , Conrado Conde Conrado Conde Conrado Conde is a Filipino film director and an actor who made his first acting appearance as an extra in Parlatone Hispano-Filipino Carmelita a Roy de Silva movie and in 1941 Musical's Panambitan....	Biography of Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...  during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II....
1965	USA  Japan	None But the Brave None But the Brave None But the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film starring Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros...	Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...	American United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  and Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... ese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island
1965	UK	Operation Crossbow Operation Crossbow (film) Operation Crossbow is a British 1965 spy thriller and World War II film, made from a story from Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli and filmed at MGM-British Studios... (The Great Spy Mission)	Michael Anderson Michael Anderson (director) Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...	Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow Operation Crossbow Crossbow was the code name of the World War II campaign of Anglo-American "operations against all phases of the German long-range weapons programme—operations against research and development of the weapons, their manufacture, transportation and their launching sites, and against missiles in flight"...
1965	Poland	Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet)	Janusz Morgenstern Janusz Morgenstern Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern was a Polish film director and producer.Janusz Morgenstern was born in 1922 to a Jewish family in the village of Mikulińce near Tarnopol , to Dawid Morgenstern and Estera .He debuted as a director with the film Goodbye, See You Tomorrow...	Polish Resistance, 1944
1965	Philippines   USA	The Ravagers	Eddie Romero Eddie Romero Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....	Filipino guerrillas take on the last of the Japanese forces remaining on their country.
1965	Philippines	Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib	Armando A. Herrera	Five Filipino guerrillas is on a mission to rescue two American soldiers who have an important information that can help the guerrilla movement.
1965	UK	The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...	Robert Wise Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...	Drama about the Von Trapp Von Trapp Von Trapp could refer to:* Georg Ludwig von Trapp and Maria von Trapp of the Trapp family * The von Trapp Children, great-grandchildren of Georg and Maria von Trapp...  family in Austria
1965	Japan	Story of a Prostitute Story of a Prostitute is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is based on a story by Taijiro Tamura who, like Suzuki, had served as a soldier in the war.-Synopsis:...	Seijun Suzuki Seijun Suzuki , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility...	Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
1965	Mainland China	Tunnel War Tunnel War Tunnel War , also known as Tunnel Warfare, is a 1965 Chinese film produced before the Cultural Revolution about a small town which defends itself from the Japanese by use of a network of tunnels during the Second Sino-Japanese War...	Ren Xudong	Tunnel warfare Tunnel warfare Tunnel warfare is a type of warfare that occurs in tunnels.It can be sometimes linked with urban warfare, as tunnels are often found in urban area and cities, although urban warfare as a whole usually dominates any tunnel considerations...  in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
1965	USA	Von Ryan's Express Von Ryan's Express Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard, based on a novel by David Westheimer, and directed by Mark Robson.-Plot:...	Mark Robson Mark Robson Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.-Career:Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios...	British and American POWs escape from Italian camps
1965	Poland  Early Modern France  West Germany	Czas pokoju (TV)	Tadeusz Konwicki Tadeusz Konwicki Tadeusz Konwicki is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council.-Life:Konwicki was born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka near Wilno, where he spent his early childhood. He spent his adolescence in Wilno, attending a local gymnasium...	Poland - German Occupation
1965	Poland	Buty Buty Buty is a Czech music group, originally from Ostrava, formed in 1986 by Richard Kroczek and Radek Pastrňák.The founding members were soon joined by Vít Kučaj, Ivan Myslikovjan and Luděk Piásečný... (The Boots) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Eastern Front, military hospital
1965	Poland	Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV)	Lech Lorentowicz	Eastern Front, 1945
1965	Poland	Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Poland, 1944
1965	Poland	Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV)	Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki	Poland - German Occupation
1965	Poland	Wózek (The Cart) (TV)	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Poland Soviet POWs
1965	Poland	Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series)	Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki	Polish Resistance, 1941–45
1966	UK  Early Modern France	The Night of the Generals The Night of the Generals The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak. Set during World War II, the story was adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret.The...	Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages...	The July 20 plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...
1966	Early Modern France	La ligne de démarcation	Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...	In 1941, the life in a little town cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the unoccupied zone
1966	USA  Early Modern France	Is Paris Burning? Is Paris Burning? Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces.-Plot:...	René Clément	The Liberation of Paris Liberation of Paris The Liberation of Paris took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on August 25th. It could be regarded by some as the last battle in the Battle for Normandy, though that really ended with the crushing of the Wehrmacht forces between the...
1966	Czechoslovakia	Closely Watched Trains Closely Watched Trains Closely Watched Trains is a 1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel. It was released in the United Kingdom as Closely Observed Trains. It is a coming-of-age story about a boy working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a story by... (Ostře sledované vlaky)	Jiří Menzel Jirí Menzel Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...
1966	USA	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? is a 1966 comedy film written by William Peter Blatty and directed by Blake Edwards. It stars James Coburn and Dick Shawn.-Plot:...	Blake Edwards Blake Edwards Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...	The Allied invasion of Sicily Allied invasion of Sicily The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis . It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.Husky began on the night of...
1966	Poland	Don Gabriel	Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska	Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy
1966	Denmark	Der var engang en krig Once There Was a War (film) Once There Was a War is a 1966 Danish drama film directed by Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt. The film was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Ole Busck as Tim... (Once There Was a War)	Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 32 films between 1957 and 1995. His 1964 film To was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival...	About the life of a boy after the occupation Occupation of Denmark Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark began with Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940, and lasted until German forces withdrew at the end of World War II following their surrender to the Allies on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish...
1966	Poland	Kontrybucja (Contribution)	Jan Łomnicki	Polish Resistance
1966	Poland	Mistrz (The Master) (TV)	Jerzy Antczak Jerzy Antczak Jerzy Antczak is a Polish film director. His film Nights and Days was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival....	Poland - German Occupation
1966	Early Modern France	La Grande Vadrouille La Grande Vadrouille La Grande Vadrouille is a 1966 Franco-British comedy film about how the crew of a Royal Air Force B-17 shot down over Paris must then make their way through German-occupied France with the main help of two French citizens with very different mindsets.For over forty...	Gérard Oury Gérard Oury Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...	Comedy about RAF aircrew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets
1967	UK	Attack on the Iron Coast Attack on the Iron Coast Attack on the Iron Coast is a 1967 British-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden and Maurice Denham...	Paul Wendkos Paul Wendkos Paul Wendkos was an American television and film director....	Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid
1967	USA	Beach Red Beach Red Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island...	Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...	The Pacific Theater of Operations Pacific Theater of Operations The Pacific Theater of Operations was the World War II area of military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, a geographic scope that reflected the operational and administrative command structures of the American forces during that period...
1967	Poland	Długa noc (Long Night)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943
1967	Poland  West Germany	Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime)	Jan Rybkowski	Germany during the war
1967	Poland	Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace)	Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski	Polish Resistance
1967	Japan	Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's Longest Day)	Kihachi Okamoto Kihachi Okamoto was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted in 1943 and entered World War II during its most difficult hours, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work,...	The Kyūjō Incident Kyujo Incident The ' was an attempted military coup d'état in Japan at the end of the Second World War. It happened on the night of 14 August 1945 – 15 August 1945, just prior to announcement of Japan's surrender to the Allies... .
1967	USA	The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...	Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...	Battle of Normandy Battle of Normandy The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. It was the largest amphibious operation in history...
1967	Poland	Westerplatte Westerplatte (film) Westerplatte is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1967....	Stanisław Różewicz	Battle of Westerplatte Battle of Westerplatte The Battle of Westerplatte was the very first battle that took place after Germany invaded Poland and World War II began in Europe. During the first week of September 1939, a Military Transit Depot on the peninsula of Westerplatte, manned by fewer than 200 Polish soldiers, held out for seven days...
1967	Poland	Zosia (Zosya)	Jerzy Lipman	Poland - Eastern Front - Love story
1967	Poland	Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night)	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	Polish Resistance, Comedy
1968	Philippines	Ang Mangliligpit	Pablo Santiago	Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Makapili Makapili Makapili was a militant group formed in the Philippines during World War II to give military aid to Japan. Organised by Benigno Ramos and Artemio Ricarte, they were born out of José P. Laurel's refusal to conscript Filipinos for Japan... .
1968	Italy	Anzio Anzio (film) Anzio, also known as Lo Sbarco di Anzio or The Battle for Anzio, is a 1968 war film about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II...	Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.-Early life:Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada,...	The Battle of Anzio
1968	USA	Hell in the Pacific Hell in the Pacific Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the entire film. It was directed by John Boorman....	John Boorman John Boorman John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...	Marooned American and Japanese soldiers on an unnamed Japanese island
1968	Soviet Union ( Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic)	Inimesed sõdurisinelis	Jüri Müür	Mobilized Estonians in the Red Army Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
1968	Soviet Union ( Georgian SSR)	Jvartsmuli kundzuli	Shota Managadze
1968	Poland	Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin)	Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....	Eastern Front, 1945
1968	Philippines	Manila, Open City	Eddie Romero Eddie Romero Eddie Romero is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines.Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003....	The Manila Massacre Manila massacre The Manila massacre refers to the February 1945 atrocities conducted against Filipino civilians in Manila, Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II.-Description:...  and the Battle of Manila.
1968	Czechoslovakia	Nebeští jezdci Nebeští jezdci Nebeští jezdci is a Czechoslovakian movie directed by Jindřich Polák in 1968 about Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in northern Europe....	Jindřich Polák	Czech pilots in the RAF
1968	Albania	Prita (Ambush)	Mithat Fagu	Albanian resistance under German occupation, 1943
1968	Soviet Union	Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword)	Vladimir Basov Vladimir Basov Vladimir Pavlovich Basov was a Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter. Vladimir Basov was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983.-Biography:...	Soviet spy in German intelligence
1968	UK	Submarine X-1 Submarine X-1 Submarine X-1 is a 1969 British World War II war film loosely based on the Operation Source attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in 1943. In the film James Caan stars as Lt...	William A. Graham William A. Graham (director) William A. Graham is an American television and film director.Graham directed episodes of many TV series including The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, The Big Valley, Batman and Ironside...	Royal Navy Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...  midget submarine Midget submarine A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to 6 or 8, with little or no on-board living accommodation... s
1968	USA	The Devil's Brigade The Devil's Brigade (film) The Devil's Brigade is a 1968 American war film based on the 1966 book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col...	Andrew V. McLaglen	The Devil's Brigade Devil's Brigade The Devil's Brigade , was a joint World War II American-Canadian commando unit organized in 1942 and trained at Fort William Henry Harrison near Helena, Montana in the United States...
1968	USA	The Hell with Heroes The Hell with Heroes The Hell with Heroes is a 1968 film directed by Joseph Sargent set in Africa immediately after World War II. Although by this stage Rod Taylor was a reasonably big film star, the producers could get him cheap for this movie under an old multi-picture contract he had signed with Universal in...	Joseph Sargent Joseph Sargent Joseph Sargent is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He has won four Emmy Awards...	In 1946 North Africa, two former USAF pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life
1968	Japan	The Human Bullet The Human Bullet is a 1968 Japanese film about Him , a Japanese soldier during World War II who becomes assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. It is an anti-war satire written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto....	Kihachi Okamato	Story of a kamikaze Kamikaze The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....  soldier
1968	USA	The Secret War of Harry Frigg The Secret War of Harry Frigg The Secret War of Harry Frigg is a 1968 comedy film set in World War II. It was directed by Jack Smight and starred Paul Newman.-Plot:Several brigadier generals are unexpectedly taken prisoner by the Italians while in the sauna - which is a public relations disaster. The generals are held in an...	Jack Smight Jack Smight Jack Smight was an American theatre and film director.Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to school with future actor Peter Graves...	Comedy about Generals held in a special POW camp
1968	USA	Where Eagles Dare Where Eagles Dare Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 World War II action-adventure spy film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton and shot on location in Upper Austria and Bavaria....	Brian G. Hutton Brian G. Hutton Brian G. Hutton is a film director whose most notable credit is for the 1970 action classic Kelly's Heroes.-Filmography:*Wild Seed *The Pad and How to Use It *Sol Madrid...	Allied Allies of World War II The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War . Former Axis states contributing to the Allied victory are not considered Allied states...  operation to rescue a captured American General
1969	Early Modern France  Italy	Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville	French Resistance French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
1969	UK	Battle of Britain Battle of Britain (film) Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz. The film broadly relates the events of the Battle of Britain...	Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton is an English film director.Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance...	The Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
1969	Poland	Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification)	Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....	Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944
1969	Italy	Eagles Over London Eagles Over London Eagles Over London, also known as Battle Squadron and Battle Command , is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.-Plot:...	Enzo G. Castellari Enzo G. Castellari Enzo G. Castellari is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti...	British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London.
1969	Poland	Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War)	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy - Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944
1969	Poland	Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan)	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Battle of Kolberg (1945), on the Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
1969	Italy	La Battaglia di El Alamein	Giorgio Ferroni	The Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
1969	Soviet Union	Liberation Liberation (film series) Liberation is an epic five-part film series considered the most large-scale World War II film ever made in the Soviet Union. Filmed from 1967 to 1971, the first part was released during 1970 for the 25th anniversary of Victory Day...	Yuri Ozerov Yuri Ozerov (director) Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1950 and 1995.-Early life:...	Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin
1969	UK	Mosquito Squadron Mosquito Squadron #Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum, with a memorable music score , which was composed and conducted by Frank Cordell.-Plot:During a Second World War Royal Air Force attack against German V-1...	Boris Sagal Boris Sagal Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director.-Early life and career:Born in Yekaterinoslav, Soviet Union, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama. Sagal's many TV credits include directing episodes of The Twilight Zone, "T.H.E...	A British bomber squadron must destroy Germany's new Vergeltungswaffe Vergeltungswaffe V-weapons also, known in the original German as Vergeltungswaffen , were a particular set of long range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly terror bombing and/or aerial bombing of cities. They comprised the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 rocket and the V-3...  at a research camp
1969	Albania	Njësiti guerril Njësiti guerril Njësiti guerril is a 1969 Albanian action war film drama directed and written by Hysen Hakani with Muharrem Skënderi. The film starred Saimir Kumbaro and Ndrek Luca.-Cast:*Pëllumb Dërvishi*Drita Haxhiraj*Saimir Kumbaro*Petrit Llanaj... (The Guerrilla Unit)	Hysen Hakani Hysen Hakani Hysen Hakani was an Albanian film director and screenwriter. Hakani is credited with directing Albania's first short film, Fëmijët e saj, which was released in 1957...	Guerrilla resistance in Tirana Tirana Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...  during the occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy
1969	Poland	Ostatnie dni (The Last Days)	Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer Jerzy Passendorfer was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II, and member of parliament....	Eastern Front, 1945
1969	Philippines	Pambihirang tatlo	Felix Villar	A mission to destroy the Japanese bastion along the San Bernardino Strait San Bernardino Strait The San Bernardino Strait is a strait in the Philippines. It separates the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon island from the island of Samar in the south.-Filipinos and San Bernardino Strait:... .
1969	UK	Play Dirty Play Dirty Play Dirty is a 1969 British film inspired by the North African exploits of units such as the Long Range Desert Group, Popski's Private Army and the SAS during World War II. It was directed by André De Toth and written by Melvyn Bragg and Lotte Colin...	Andre de Toth André De Toth André de Toth was a Hungarian-American filmmaker, born and raised in Makó, Csongrád, Kingdom of Hungary Austro-Hungarian Empire. He directed the 3-D film House of Wax, despite being unable to see in 3-D himself, having lost an eye at an early age. He is known for his gritty B movies in the western...	The North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1969	Italy	Salt in the Wound Salt in the Wound Salt in the Wound is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Tonino Ricci and starring Klaus Kinski and George Hilton.-Plot:...	Tonino Ricci
1969	Poland	Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours)	Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski	Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939
1969	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	The Battle of Neretva The Battle of Neretva Battle of Neretva is a 1969 Yugoslavian partisan film. The film was written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against...	Veljko Bulajić Veljko Bulajic Veljko Bulajić , today is a Croatian film director and actor of Montenegrin descent, most of his life working in Croatia...	The Battle of Neretva
1969	USA	The Bridge at Remagen The Bridge at Remagen The Bridge at Remagen is a 1969 war film starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by John Guillermin and was shot on location in Czechoslovakia....	John Guillermin	Operation Lumberjack Operation Lumberjack Operation Lumberjack was a military operation conducted in the last stages of the war in Europe during World War II. It was launched by the First United States Army in March 1945 to capture strategic cities in Germany such as Cologne, and to give the Allies a foothold along the Rhine River.With the... , on the Western Front Western Front (World War II) The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and West Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale ground combat operations...
1969	USA	The Secret of Santa Vittoria The Secret of Santa Vittoria The Secret of Santa Vittoria is a 1969 film made by Stanley Kramer Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the novel by Robert Crichton...	Stanley Kramer Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies...	The aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
1969	Poland	Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day)	Jan Rybkowski	Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941

1970s

1970s in film

The decade of the 1970s in film involved many significant films.----Contents1 World cinema2 Hollywood3 List of films: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.4 Events-World cinema:...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1970	Denmark	Oktoberdage	Bent Christensen
1970	USA	Catch-22 Catch-22 (film) Catch-22 is a 1970 satirical war film adapted from the book of the same name by Joseph Heller. Considered a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel, it was the work of a talented production team which included director Mike Nichols and...	Mike Nichols Mike Nichols Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate...	The Italian Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...
1970	Japan	Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu'	Hiromichi Horikawa	Hideki Tōjō Hideki Tōjō Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944... 's biography during Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East... .
1970	UK   USA	Hell Boats Hell Boats Hell Boats is a 1970 British war film directed by Paul Wendkos that was filmed in Malta. It stars James Franciscus and Elizabeth Shepherd in a story about British Motor Torpedo Boats in the Mediterranean in World War II.-Cast:...	Paul Wendkos Paul Wendkos Paul Wendkos was an American television and film director....	British motor torpedo boat Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Torpedo Boat was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the Royal Navy, and the Royal Canadian Navy.The capitalised term is generally used for the Royal Navy boats and abbreviated to "MTB"... s operating in the Mediterranean
1970	USA  Italy	Hornet's Nest	Phil Karlson Phil Karlson Phil Karlson was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s... , Franco Cirino	Italian Campaign Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...  - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam
1970	USA  Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 comedy/war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G...	Brian G. Hutton Brian G. Hutton Brian G. Hutton is a film director whose most notable credit is for the 1970 action classic Kelly's Heroes.-Filmography:*Wild Seed *The Pad and How to Use It *Sol Madrid...	The Western Front Western Front (World War II) The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and West Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale ground combat operations...
1970	Poland	Kolumbowie	Janusz Morgenstern Janusz Morgenstern Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern was a Polish film director and producer.Janusz Morgenstern was born in 1922 to a Jewish family in the village of Mikulińce near Tarnopol , to Dawid Morgenstern and Estera .He debuted as a director with the film Goodbye, See You Tomorrow...	Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944
1970	Poland  Soviet Union	Legenda Legenda Legenda, or the MKRC Legenda system, is a Soviet satellite targeting system mated to the SS-N-19 missile. It consisted of the US-P SIGNIT satellites and the US-A Radar Ocean reconnaissance satellites, which were nuclear powered....	Sylwester Chęciński Sylwester Checinski Sylwester Chęciński is a Polish film and television director.-Filmography:*Rozmowy Kontrolowane *Kochaj albo rzuć *Nie ma mocnych *Sami Swoi -References:...	Polish Resistance
1970	Philippines	Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force)	Jerry Hopper Jerry Hopper Jerry Hopper was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s....	Japanese invasion of Manila Bay Manila Bay Manila Bay is a natural harbor which serves the Port of Manila , in the Philippines.The bay is considered to be one of the best natural harbors in Southeast Asia and one of the finest in the world... .
1970	USA	Patton Patton (film) Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...	Franklin Schaffner Franklin Schaffner Franklin James Schaffner was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes , Patton , Papillon , and The Boys from Brazil .-Early life:...	General George S. Patton George S. Patton George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...
1970	Japan	Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze)	Yahagi Toshihiko	Kamikaze Kamikaze The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....  attacks.
1970	Philippines	Santiago!	Lino Brocka Lino Brocka Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....	Life in occupied Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1970	Italy  Russia	Sunflower (I Girasoli)	Vittorio De Sica Vittorio de Sica Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....	The first Occidental film to be made in the USSR.
1970	UK	The Last Escape The Last Escape The Last Escape also known as O.S.S. is a 1970 American/German international co-production war film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Stuart Whitman, John Collin and Martin Jarvis...	Walter Grauman Walter Grauman Walter E. Grauman is an American director of stage shows, films and television shows.-Early life:Grauman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jacob and Irene Grauman, both children of German immigrants who married after settling in the United States...	British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist
1970	USA	Too Late the Hero Too Late the Hero Too Late the Hero is a 1970 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Lance Percival, Ronald Fraser, Harry Andrews and Percy Herbert.-Plot:...	Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...	British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign Pacific Theater of Operations The Pacific Theater of Operations was the World War II area of military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, a geographic scope that reflected the operational and administrative command structures of the American forces during that period...
1970	USA  Japan	Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...	Richard Fleischer Richard Fleischer -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO... , Kinji Fukasaku Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...  and Toshio Masuda Toshio Masuda is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu...	The Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
1970	Poland	Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel)	Zbigniew Chmielewski	Poland - Children in a German concentration camp
1970	Poland	Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire)	Lech Lorentowicz	Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance
1971	Poland	Agent nr 1	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, a Polish SOE Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...  agent in the Greek resistance
1971	USA	Bedknobs and Broomsticks Bedknobs and Broomsticks Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company which combines live action and animation and was released in North America on December 13, 1971...	Robert Stevenson Robert Stevenson (director) Robert Stevenson was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society....	Disney Walt Disney Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...  children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic
1971	UK	Dad's Army Dad's Army (film) Dad's Army is a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series...	Norman Cohen Norman Cohen Norman Cohen was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing a number of feature films based on television comedy programmes during the 1970s, including Till Death Us Do Part and Dad's Army , as well as Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall.He was also a...	Comedy about the British Home Guard British Home Guard The Home Guard was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War... , based on the TV series.
1971	Japan	Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen	Kihachi Okamoto Kihachi Okamoto was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted in 1943 and entered World War II during its most difficult hours, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work,...	The Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...  from the eyes of the Army, Navy, Air Force, civilians, and the Generals who commanded them
1971	UK	Murphy's War Murphy's War Murphy's War is a 1971 war film starring Peter O'Toole. It was directed by Peter Yates.-Plot:In the closing days of World War II, an Irishman Murphy is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-Boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in...	Peter Yates Peter Yates Peter James Yates was an English director and producer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.The son of an army officer, he attended Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager...	The Battle of the Atlantic
1971	Soviet Union	Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road)	Aleksei German Aleksei German Aleksei Yuryevich German is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, most active as a director and screenwriter. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is frequently spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.Almost all of German's films have been set during the Stalin era and have...	Winter, 1942. A former Russian POW joins the partisans.
1971	USA	Raid on Rommel Raid on Rommel Raid on Rommel is an American B movie from 1971, set in North Africa during the Second World War. It stars Richard Burton as a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk...	Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.-Background:...	North African Campaign North African campaign During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
1971	Philippines	Sangre	Armando Garces	Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Army -Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū... .
1971	Greece	Ti ekanes sto polemo Thanasi; (What did you do during the war Thanasis?)	Dinos Katsourides	Greek Resistance comedy
1971	Poland	Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night)	Andrzej Żuławski	Polish Resistance
1972	India	Lalkar Lalkar Lalkar is a London-based bi-monthly political magazine. The word ‘lalkar’ means ‘challenge’ in Punjabi and the expression ‘lal kar’ means ‘red work’....	Ramanand Sagar Ramanand Sagar Ramanand Sagar was an Indian film director. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan television series, a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita.Sagar was born at Asal Guru-Ke near Lahore...	Burma Campaign, 1941–1945
1973	Philippines	Dugo ng Bayan	Armando A. Herrera	Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.
1973	Italy UK	Hitler: The Last Ten Days Hitler: The Last Ten Days Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward. The original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky...	Ennio De Concini Ennio de Concini Ennio De Concini was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.-Life and career:...	The last days of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...  during the Battle of Berlin Battle of Berlin The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II....
1973	Poland	Hubal Hubal Hubal was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably at the Kaaba in Mecca.-Hubal in Mecca:Hubal most prominently appears at Mecca, where an image of his was worshipped at the Kaaba. According to Karen Armstrong, the sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal, who was worshipped as the greatest of the...	Bohdan Poręba	Polish Campaign, 1939/1940
1973	Early Modern France	Le Train (The Last Train or The Train)	Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....	A Frenchman and a Jewish German woman met on a train while escaping the German army entering France
1973	Mainland China	Little 8th Route Army Little 8th Route Army Little 8th Route Army is a Chinese animated puppet film. It is also referred to as "Little 8th Route Heroes" and "Small 8th Route Army".-Background:...	Lei You	Chinese animated puppet film; The Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
1973	Early Modern France	Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? is a French film directed by Robert Lamoureux-Plot:France, 1940, three soldiers of the French army are cut off from the main body of their company by the invading Germans.... (Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?)	Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 37 films between 1951 and 1994...	Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 débâcle
1973	Italy	Massacre in Rome Massacre in Rome Massacre in Rome is a 1973 film directed by George Pan Cosmatos about the Ardeatine massacre which occurred at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, 24 March 1944, committed by the Germans as a reprisal for a partisan attack.-Summary:...	George P. Cosmatos	The Ardeatine massacre Ardeatine massacre The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome.... .
1973	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	The Battle of Sutjeska The Battle of Sutjeska (film) The Battle of Sutjeska is a partisan film directed by Stipe Delić, and made in SFR Yugoslavia. It tells the story of the famous Battle of Sutjeska, the greatest engagement of the Yugoslav Partisan War. It is one of the most expensive films made in Yugoslavia.-Plot synopsis:Nazi-occupied Bosnia and...	Stipe Delić	Battle of the Sutjeska.
1973	Hong Kong	When Taekwondo Strikes When Taekwondo Strikes When Taekwondo Strikes is a 1973 martial art film directed and written by Feng Huang, produced by Raymond Chow. The exception with this film is the collective martial arts experience of the cast and the high quality fight choreography...	Feng Huang
1973	Poland	Zasieki Zasieki Zasieki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brody, within Żary County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, close to the German border. It lies approximately south-west of Brody, west of Żary, and west of Zielona Góra.... (Barbed Wire)	Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski	Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943
1974	Early Modern France  West Germany  Italy	Lacombe Lucien Lacombe Lucien Lacombe Lucien is a 1974 French film that tells the story of a teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II. It is based in part on director Louis Malle's own experiences.-Plot:...	Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...	French resistance and collaboration
1974	Soviet Union ( Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic)	Ohtlikud mängud Ohtlikud mängud Ohtlikud mängud is a 1974 film directed by Veljo Käsper and starring Leonhard Merzin & Jüri Järvet. It is also known under its Russian name, Opasnye Igry .- Cast :*René Urmet .... Old man...	Veljo Käsper	The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Army Group North reached Estonia in July.Initially the Germans were perceived by most Estonians as liberators from the USSR and its repressions, having arrived only a week after the first mass deportations from the Baltics...
1974	Early Modern France	Les guichets du Louvre Les Guichets du Louvre Black Thursday is a French film from 1974 directed by Michel Mitrani. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.- Synopsis :On 16 July 1942, in Paris...	Michel Mitrani Michel Mitrani Michel Mitrani was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels...	The first big roundup of Jews in 1942 Paris, and the story of a man who tries to save as many Jews as he can.
1974	Poland	Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars)	Janusz Kondratiuk	Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944
1974	Poland  Soviet Union	Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Name)	Siergiej Kołosow	Tragedy of children in war
1974	Republic of China	The Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋)	Tin Shan Sui	Zhang Zizhong Zhang Zizhong Zhāng Zìzhōng was a Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Born in Linqing in Shandong province, he was the highest-ranked officer and the only Army group commander of the NRA to die in the war... 's biography movie during Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
1975	German Democratic Republic  Czechoslovakia	Jacob, the Liar	Frank Beyer Frank Beyer Frank Beyer was German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Traces of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the...
1975	USA  Czechoslovakia	Operation Daybreak Operation Daybreak Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague - starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It was adapted from the book Seven Men...	Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:He was the son of music hall performers, and spent his early years travelling with his parents, and watching the shows from the side of the stage. He first performed on-stage at the age of 5, when asked to drive a...	Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the targeted killing of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the...
1975	Early Modern France	On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie	Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 37 films between 1951 and 1994...	Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle, and in an officers POW camp, in a castle.
1975	Greece	The Travelling Players The Travelling Players The Travelling Players is a 1975 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos that traces the history of mid-20th century Greece from 1939 to 1952.-Plot:...	Theodoros Angelopoulos	The German invasion and occupation of Greece
1975	Early Modern France	Section spéciale Section spéciale Section spéciale is a 1975 French film, directed by Costa Gavras. It stars Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennett and Claude Piéplu...	Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...	During the French Occupation, hours in a special court room where judges are asked to condemn to death penalty people who didn't do anything, to please Germans.
1975	Italy	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
1975	Poland	W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring)	Andrzej Konic	The Eastern Front, 1945
1975	Poland	Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument)	Janusz Zaorski Janusz Zaorski Janusz Zaorski is a Polish film director, scenarist and actor, representative of the cinema of moral concern , trend in Polish cinema. Zaorski was directed mainly psychological dramas, comedies and TV series....	Polish Resistance
1975	Poland	Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love)	Janusz Nasfeter	Polish Campaign 1939
1975	Poland	Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen)	Stanisław Różewicz	Polish Resistance
1975	UK	Overlord Overlord (film) Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white film written and directed by Stuart Cooper. Set around the D-Day invasion , Overlord is a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death...	Stuart Cooper Stuart Cooper Stuart W. Cooper is an American filmmaker, actor and writer.Cooper was a resident in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s where his most notable film appearance was as one of The Dirty Dozen, Roscoe Lever....	A young soldier trains with the East Yorkshire Regiment East Yorkshire Regiment The East Yorkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment , becoming The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of...  in preparation for the Normandy landings
1975	Soviet Union	В бой идут одни старики (V boy idut odni stariki) Only Old Men Are Going to Battle	Leonid Bykov	Soviet World War II pilots.
1976	Japan	Barefoot Gen	Tengo Yamada	Live-action depiction of the dropping of Little Boy Little Boy "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon...  on Hiroshima Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
1976	Denmark	Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer)	Edward Fleming Edward Fleming Edward Lascelles Fleming was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He unsuccessfully contested the Leigh constituency at the 1922 general election, and did not stand again until the 1931 general election, when he won the Manchester Withington seat...	Woman gets in love with a German soldier
1976	USA	Farewell to Manzanar (TV)	John Korty John Korty John Korty is an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time...	The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar Manzanar Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is...
1976	Republic of China	Mei hua	Chia Chang Liu	The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945).
1976	USA	Midway Midway (film) Midway is a 1976 war film directed by Jack Smight and produced byWalter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford. The music score was by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling, Jr... (The Battle of Midway)	Jack Smight Jack Smight Jack Smight was an American theatre and film director.Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to school with future actor Peter Graves...	The Battle of Midway Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...
1976	Early Modern France  Italy	Monsieur Klein Monsieur Klein Monsieur Klein is a 1976 French film directed by Joseph Losey, with Alain Delon starring in the title role.- Synopsis :It is 1942, the war is in full swing and France is occupied by the Nazis. To Robert Klein, however, these events are of little concern... (Mr. Klein)	Joseph Losey Joseph Losey Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...	French resistance and collaboration
1976	Poland	Ocalić miasto	Jan Łomnicki	Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945
1976	Poland	Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series)	Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern	Poland, 1939–43
1976	Poland	Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds)	Paweł Komorowski	Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939
1976	Philippines	Tatlong taong walang Diyos Tatlong taong walang Diyos Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos is a 1976 award-winning Filipino Film by Mario O'Hara starred by Nora Aunor , Christopher De Leon and Bembol Roco .-Plot:...	Mario O'Hara Mario O'Hara Mario O'Hara is an award winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of realism often with dark but realistic social messages. He is of American descent....	The Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1976	UK	The Eagle Has Landed The Eagle Has Landed (film) The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 film version of the novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins. It was directed by John Sturges and starred Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall...	John Sturges John Sturges John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock , Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , The Magnificent Seven , The Great Escape and Ice Station Zebra .-Career:He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932...	A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
1976	Japan	Zero Pilot	Seiji Maruyama	Based on the book Samurai! Samurai! Samurai is a 1957 book by Martin Caidin, based on the life and career of Saburō Sakai, the Japanese combat aviator who fought against American fighter pilots in the pacific theater of World War II, surviving the war with 64 kills as one of Japan's leading flying aces... ; Saburō Sakai Saburo Sakai Sub-Lieutenant was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the war .... 's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1977	UK   USA	A Bridge Too Far	Richard Attenborough Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...	Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....
1977	Poland	Akcja pod Arsenałem Akcja pod Arsenałem Akcja pod Arsenałem is a Polish historical film, based on the novel Kamienie na szaniec, by Aleksandra Kamińskiego.It was released in 1977.... (Operation Arsenal)	Jana Łomnicki	Polish resistance, 1943
1977	UK  West Germany	Cross of Iron Cross of Iron Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. The film is set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviet's Caucasus operations that forced the Wehrmacht to retreat from the Taman Peninsula on the...	Sam Peckinpah Sam Peckinpah David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch...	German soldiers on the Russian Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
1977	Early Modern France	La septième compagnie au clair de lune	Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux Robert Lamoureux was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 37 films between 1951 and 1994...	Comic story about three French veterans who resist the Germans.
1977	USA	MacArthur MacArthur (film) MacArthur is a 1977 American biographical war film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General Douglas MacArthur.-Plot:...	Joseph Sargent Joseph Sargent Joseph Sargent is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He has won four Emmy Awards...	General Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
1977	Poland	Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV)	Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska	Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo
1977	Poland	Palace Hotel	Ewa Kruk	Poland, 1939–44
1977	Netherlands	Soldier of Orange Soldier of Orange Soldier of Orange is a 1977 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students have different roles in the war... (Survival Run)	Paul Verhoeven	Dutch resistance
1977	Soviet Union	Восхождение (Voskhozhdeniye) The Ascent The Ascent The Ascent , is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet war film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979...	Larisa Shepitko Larisa Shepitko -Early Life:She went to the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Alexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film Heat, made when she was 22 years old...	During the Great Patriotic War (World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... ), two Soviet partisans Soviet partisans The Soviet partisans were members of a resistance movement which fought a guerrilla war against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II....  go to a Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... ian village in search of food. On their way back they were spotted by a German Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...  patrol.
1977	Czechoslovakia	Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea is a 1977 Czechoslovak comical science fiction film directed by Jindřich Polák. It is a screen adaptation of Josef Nesvadba's short story with the same title.-Plot:...	Jindrich Polák
1978	Poland	... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1978.... (Wherever You Are, Mr. President)	Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki	Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939
1978	Poland	Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood)	Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Hoffman is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is the father of early Macintosh development team member Joanna Hoffman.-Selected filmography:*Battle of Warsaw 1920...	Eastern Front, 1943
1978	UK	Force 10 from Navarone	Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton Guy Hamilton is an English film director.Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance...	British commando raid in Yugoslavia
1978	USA	Holocaust	Marvin J. Chomsky Marvin J. Chomsky Marvin J. Chomsky is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer. He is a cousin of academic Noam Chomsky....	Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust
1978	Netherlands	Pastorale 1943	Wim Verstappen Wim Verstappen Wim Verstappen was a Dutch film director and producer, television director, and screen writer.Verstappen grew up on Curaçao. He started at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1961, and released his first movie in 1966, De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van...	Dutch resistance
1978	Italy	Quel maledetto treno blindato Quel maledetto treno blindato The Inglorious Bastards is a 1978 Italian "macaroni combat" comedy-drama war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari, written by Sandro Continenza, Sergio Grieco, Franco Marotta, Romano Migliorini, and Laura Toscano, and starring Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, and...	Enzo G. Castellari Enzo G. Castellari Enzo G. Castellari is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti...
1978	Poland	Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores)	Zbigniew Kuźmiński	A courier travelling through Europe has to deliver a special letter to London
1978	Poland	Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration)	Edward Żebrowski	German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital
1978	Poland	Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead)	Julian Dziedzina	Silesia Polish Resistance
1979	Soviet Union ( Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic)	Tuulte pesa	Olev Neuland	Forest Brothers Forest Brothers The Forest Brothers were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II...
1979	UK	Yanks Yanks Yanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, in Greater Manchester, England. Starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody....	John Schlesinger John Schlesinger John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director and actor.-Early life:Schlesinger was born in London into a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician...	Americans stationed in England
1979	UK	Escape to Athena Escape to Athena Escape to Athena is a British adventure war film released in 1979, directed by George Pan Cosmatos and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. The international cast included many well-known actors of the 1970s, including Roger Moore, Telly Savalas and Elliott Gould.The film is set during the...	George Pan Cosmatos George Pan Cosmatos George Pan Cosmatos was a Greek/Italian film director. After studying film in London, he became assistant director to Otto Preminger on Exodus , Leon Uris's epic about the birth of Israel. Thereafter he worked on Zorba the Greek , in which Cosmatos had a small part as Boy with Acne...	German-occupied Greece
1979	UK   USA	Hanover Street	Peter Hyams Peter Hyams Peter Hyams is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, probably best known for directing the 1984 science fiction adventure 2010 , Capricorn One, the comic book adaptation Timecop and the Arnold Schwarzenegger horror/action film End of Days.-Family:Hyams was born in New York...	American bomber crews based in England
1979	Poland	Elegia Elegia "Elegia" is a song by the British electro/rock band, New Order. Unusually for New Order, it is an instrumental and a waltz. It can be found on their third studio album, Low-Life ....	Paweł Komorowski	Eastern Front 1945
1979	USA	Ike (miniseries)	Boris Sagal Boris Sagal Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director.-Early life and career:Born in Yekaterinoslav, Soviet Union, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama. Sagal's many TV credits include directing episodes of The Twilight Zone, "T.H.E... , Melville Shavelson Melville Shavelson Melville Shavelson was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987. He came to Hollywood in 1938 as one of comedian Bob Hope's joke writers, a job he held for the next...	Story (and love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II.
1979	Poland	Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars)	Henryk Bielski	Eastern Front, 1944
1979	Poland	Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go)	Władysław Ślesicki	Escape from a POW camp
1979	Poland	Zielone lata (Salad Days)	Stanisław Jędryka	Poland Sosnowiec, tragedy of children in war
1979	Albania	Radiostacioni	Rikard Ljarja
1979	Poland	Sekret Enigmy Sekret Enigmy Sekret Enigmy is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1979.... (Secret of Enigma)	Roman Wionczek	Poland, France, England - Enigma
1979	West Germany	Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough)	Andrew V. McLaglen	The July 20 plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...
1979	Italy  Early Modern France  Spain	From Hell to Victory	"Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi Umberto Lenzi Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries .... )	Occupied Europe
1979	USA	1941 1941 (film) 1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including John Belushi, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Dan Aykroyd...	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...	California, one week after the attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...

1980s

1980s in film

The decade of the 1980s in film involved many significant films.----Contents1 Events2 Top Grossing films3 Trends4 List of films: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.-Events:...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1980	Poland	Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day)	Tadeusz Kijański	Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980	Poland	Godzina "W" (W' Hour)	Janusz Morgenstern Janusz Morgenstern Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern was a Polish film director and producer.Janusz Morgenstern was born in 1922 to a Jewish family in the village of Mikulińce near Tarnopol , to Dawid Morgenstern and Estera .He debuted as a director with the film Goodbye, See You Tomorrow...	Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980	Philippines	Kalibre .45	Nilo Saez	A story of vengeance set during the near end of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1980	Poland	Olimpiada '40	Andrzej Kotkowski	A POW Camp, 1940
1980	USA	The Big Red One The Big Red One The Big Red One is a World War II war film starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller, it was produced by Lorimar and released by United Artists in the US on July 18, 1980...	Samuel Fuller Samuel Fuller Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...	U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa North Africa North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and... , Sicily Sicily Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,... , and Europe
1980	USA	The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific)	Don Taylor Don Taylor (actor) Don Taylor was an American movie actor and director best known for his performances in 1950s classics like Stalag 17 and Father of the Bride and the 1948 film noir The Naked City...	Science fiction movie. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz is lost in a storm, then arrives at the same place in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and meets Japanese aircraft en route to Pearl Harbor.
1980	Early Modern France	The Last Metro The Last Metro The Last Metro is a 1980 film made by Les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu....	François Truffaut François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...	The German occupation of France during World War II.
1980	UK  Switzerland   USA	The Sea Wolves The Sea Wolves The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...	Andrew V. McLaglen	Calcutta Light Horse
1980	Poland	Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday)	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1980	Poland	Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence)	Witold Orzechowski	Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance
1981	Early Modern France	Allons Z'enfants	Yves Boisset Yves Boisset Yves Boisset is a French film director and scriptwriter.French director Yves Boisset began his career as an assistant director. After working with such directors as Hossein, Cioampi and Clement, he began directing short films until the late 1960s when he made his feature film debut...	A cadet in a French military school doesn't like the army and is taken in the 1939-40 war.
1981	Poland	Bołdyn (General Boldyn)	Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski	Polish Resistance
1981	West Germany	Das Boot Das Boot Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann... (The Boat)	Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...	The Battle of the Atlantic
1981	USA	Escape to Victory Escape to Victory Escape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during World War II... (Victory)	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...	A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs
1981	UK	Eye of the Needle Eye of the Needle (film) Eye of the Needle is a 1981 film directed by Richard Marquand, based on the novel of the same title by Ken Follett, and starring Donald Sutherland...	Richard Marquand Richard Marquand Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for directing the 1983 blockbuster Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi.-Early life:...	A German spy in England before D-Day
1981	Netherlands	Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair)	Ben Verbong Ben Verbong Ben Verbong is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He has directed 18 films since 1981. His debut film The Girl with the Red Hair was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...	Dutch resistance
1981	Early Modern France	Les uns et les autres (Bolero: dance of life)	Claude Lelouch	Four families with different backgrounds and nationalities are followed from the 1930s to the 1980s as their paths cross time and again.
1981	Japan	Rengo kantai (The Imperial Navy)	Shûe Matsubayashi	The Operation Ten-Go Operation Ten-Go was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten-ichi-gō.... .
1981	Poland	Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye)	Stanisław Różewicz	Polish Resistance
1981	USA	The Bunker The Bunker (1981 film) The Bunker is a 1981 CBS television film, Time/Life production based on the book The Bunker. The movie makes significant deviations from James O'Donnell's book--published in 1978. The deviations are mainly due to an effort to clarify the events, and allowing the actors license to interpret some of...	George Schaefer George Schaefer (director) George Louis Schaefer was a director of television and Broadway theatre from the 1950s to the 1990s.-Life and career:...	Based on the book The Bunker The Bunker The Bunker is an account, written by American journalist James P. O'Donnell, of the history of the Führerbunker in early 1945, as well as the last days of German dictator Adolf Hitler... ; The last days of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945... .
1982	Australia	Attack Force Z Attack Force Z Attack Force Z is a 1982 Australian World War II film, directed by Tim Burstall. It is based on an actual event that took place during World War II, and was shot in Taiwan in 1980...	Tim Burstall Tim Burstall Tim Burstall was an Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for the motion picture Alvin Purple....	Z Special Unit Z Special Unit Z Special Unit was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia...
1982	West Germany	Die Weiße Rose Die Weiße Rose (film) Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...	Michael Verhoeven Michael Verhoeven -Life and work:Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven . He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films...	The execution of White Rose White Rose The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor...  members.
1982	Poland	Do góry nogami (Upside Down)	Stanisław Jędryka	Polish Silesia, tragedy of children in war
1982	Poland	Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day)	Krzysztof Prymek, Roman Wionczek	Polish Resistance
1982	Philippines	Oro, Plata, Mata Oro, Plata, Mata Oro, Plata, Mata is a 1982 multi-awarded Filipino film directed by Peque Gallaga, and is considered his most significant contribution to Philippine cinema. Set in the Philippine province of Negros during World War II, it tells the story of how two haciendero families cope with the changes brought...	Peque Gallaga Peque Gallaga Peque Gallaga is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker. His most significant achievement in film is "Oro, Plata, Mata", which he directed after winning a scripwriting contest sponsored by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines...	The Fall of Corregidor Battle of Corregidor The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S... .
1982	Poland	Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV)	Ryszard Ber	A Polish village during the German occupation
1982	USA	Sophie's Choice Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American romantic drama film that tells the story of a Polish immigrant, Sophie, and her tempestuous lover who share a boarding house with a young writer in Brooklyn. The film stars Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Peter MacNicol. Alan J...	Alan J. Pakula Alan J. Pakula Alan Jay Pakula was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.-Career:...	Holocaust
1982	Australia	The Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross)	Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell Peter Maxwell Peter Maxwell is an Austrian-born director of British films and television.-Selected filmography:* Blind Spot * The Desperate Man * The Ghost Train Murder * The Long Shadow * Impact...	Operation Rimau Operation Rimau Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during World War II using Australian built MKIII folboats. It was a follow-up to the successful Operation Jaywick, which had taken place in 1943, and Rimau, a shortened...
1983	Japan	Barefoot Gen	Mori Masaki	Anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  film: depiction of the dropping of Little Boy Little Boy "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon...  on Hiroshima Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M... , Japan
1983	Hong Kong	Hong Kong, 1941	Leong Po-Chih	The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began after the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the territory of Hong Kong to Japan on 25 December 1941 after 18 days of fierce fighting by British and Canadian defenders against overwhelming Japanese Imperial forces. The occupation lasted...
1983	Denmark	Forræderne	Ole Roos
1983	Poland	Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey)	Waldemar Dziki	Poland Holocaust
1983	Poland	Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar)	Bohdan Poręba	General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943
1983	UK  Japan	Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence	Nagisa Oshima Nagisa Oshima is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope in 1959....	British POWs on Java Island
1983	Poland	Nie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs)	Juliusz Janicki	The Holocaust in Poland
1983	Mainland China	One and Eight One and Eight One and Eight is a landmark Chinese film from 1983. The film tells the story of eight criminals and a deserting Chinese officer in the communist Eighth Route Army caught in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Zhang Junzhao, One and Eight also features cinematography by the...	Zhang Junzhao Zhang Junzhao Zhang Junzhao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter who was mainly active in the 1980s. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and a contemporary of such acclaimed directors as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Junzhao was a prominent early member of China's Fifth...	Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army was the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that formed a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China which fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Communist...  battle Japanese in China
1983	Early Modern France	Papy fait de la résistance	Jean-Marie Poiré Jean-Marie Poiré Jean-Marie Poiré is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.-Filmography as director:* Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice Jean-Marie Poiré (born July 10, 1945) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer...	(Comedy Comedy Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in... ) French Resistance French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...  in Occupied France German occupation of France in World War II The Military Administration in France was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It remained in existence from May 1940 to December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation...
1983	Philippines	Roman Rapido	Argel Joseph	Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Army -Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū... .
1983	USA UK  Italy	The Scarlet and the Black The Scarlet and the Black The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 made for TV movie starring Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer. This production should not be confused with the 1993 British television mini series Scarlet and Black, which starred Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz....	Jerry London	Biographical film about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.
1983	Poland	Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV)	Stefan Szlachtycz	The Holocaust in Poland
1983	Poland  West Germany	Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee)	Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Hoffman is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is the father of early Macintosh development team member Joanna Hoffman.-Selected filmography:*Battle of Warsaw 1920...	The Holocaust in Poland
1983	USA	Winds of War Winds of War (mini-series) The Winds of War is a 1983 miniseries that follows the book of the same name closely and depicts events from March 1939 until the entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941. Just as in the book, in addition to the lives of the Henry and Jastrow families, much time in the...	Dan Curtis Dan Curtis Dan Curtis was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for his miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, his afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, and the made for TV movie, . Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication...	The saga of a family and events leading up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941... . Based on the novel The Winds of War The Winds of War is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny . Published in 1971, it was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance; originally conceived as one volume, Wouk decided to break it in two when he realized it took nearly 1000 pages just to...  by Herman Wouk.
1984	Soviet Union ( Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic)	Võõra nime all	Peeter Urbla	Estonians in a Soviet camp
1984	Poland	Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard)	Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Julian Kutz is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.- Biography :...	Silesia, 1939-42 Polish Resistance
1984	Poland	Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day)	Ludmiła Niedbalska	The Warsaw Uprising, 1944
1984	Poland	Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder)	Waldemar Podgórski	The Polish Campaign, 1939
1984	Poland	Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV)	Stanisław Jędryka	Polish Resistance, 1941
1984	Mainland China	Yellow Earth Yellow Earth Yellow Earth is a 1984 Chinese drama film. It was the directorial debut for Chen Kaige. The film's notable cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. At the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005, a list of 100 Best Chinese Motion Pictures was tallied, and Yellow Earth came in...	Chen Kaige Chen Kaige Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...	The Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
1984	Australia	The Last Bastion The Last Bastion The Last Bastion is a television mini-series which aired in Australia in November 1984. It tells the story of Australia's involvement in World War II, and its often strained relations with its two main allies, Great Britain and the United States.-Cast:...	Chris Thompson Chris Thompson Chris Thompson, also known as Chris Hamlet Thompson is an English singer and guitarist known both for his work with Manfred Mann's Earth Band and for his solo accomplishments.- Biography :...	TV mini-series on WWII from the Australian perspective.
1985	Soviet Union	The Battle for Moscow Battle of Moscow (film) The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet two-part film, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The films were a Soviet-East German-Czechoslovak-Vietnamese co-production directed by Yuri Ozerov who also wrote the script...	Yuri Ozerov Yuri Ozerov (director) Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1950 and 1995.-Early life:...	Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...  to the Battle of Moscow Battle of Moscow The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
1985	USA	Code Name: Emerald Code Name: Emerald Code Name: Emerald is a 1985 action-drama film about a spy for the Allies working undercover in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film was directed by Jonathan Sanger, and stars Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Eric Stoltz, and Patrick Stewart...	Jonathan Sanger	Battle of Normandy Battle of Normandy The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. It was the largest amphibious operation in history...
1985	Soviet Union	Come and See Come and See Come and See directed by Elem Klimov, is a 1985 Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR. Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova star as the protagonists Florya and Glasha. The screenplay is by Ales Adamovich and...	Elem Klimov Elem Klimov Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. He is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See , a powerful tale of a teenage boy in German-occupied Byelorussia during the German-Soviet War,...	The Eastern Front Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
1985	Netherlands	De IJssalon De IJssalon De IJssalon is a 1985 Dutch film directed by Dimitri Frenkel Frank.... (The Ice-cream Parlour)	Dimitri Frenkel Frank	A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer
1985	Netherlands	Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet)	Kees van Oostrum	A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
1985	Poland  Czechoslovakia	Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest)	Antonín Moskalyk	Children in war
1985	Kingdom of Romania	Noi, cei din linia întâi	Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu is a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He is best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul , Dacii , Razboiul Independenţei , as well as for his series of...	Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary
1985	Japan	Seburi Monogatari Seburi monogatari Seburi monogatari is a 1985 Japanese drama film directed by Sadao Nakajima. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Kenichi Hagiwara as Hajime Kinoshita* Yumiko Fujita as Kuni* Michiko Kohno as Hide... (The Seburi Story)	Sadao Nakajima Sadao Nakajima is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza film and jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Tōei studio in 1959...	Hardships of nomadic Seburi people during wartime.
1985	Poland	Tate Tate -Places:*Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States*Tate County, Mississippi, a county in the United States*Táté, the Hungarian name for Totoi village, Sântimbru Commune, Alba County, Romania*Tate, Filipino word for States... (Dad)	Jan Rutkiewicz	The Holocaust in Poland
1985	Japan	The Burmese Harp The Burmese Harp (1985 film) is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film is a color remake of the 1956 black-and-white The Burmese Harp, which was also directed by Ichikawa.-Reception:...	Kon Ichikawa Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...	Remake Version; The Burma Campaign Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
1985	Finland	The Unknown Soldier The Unknown Soldier (1985 film) The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish 1985 film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is a remake of the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine and based on the best selling Finnish novel by the same name written by Väinö Linna. Mollberg used young and unknown actors, many of them now famous,...	Rauni Mollberg Rauni Mollberg Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie...	The Finno-Soviet Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
1985	Poland	W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred)	Wojciech Żółtowski	The Holocaust in Poland, 1943
1986	Netherlands	In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory)	Ate de Jong Ate de Jong Ate de Jong is a Dutch film director who was nominated for 2002 Golden Calf Best Film for The Discovery of Heaven .-Director:* Alle dagen feest...	Dutch resistance
1986	Poland  Switzerland	Kołysanka (The Lullabye)	Federo Sevella	The Holocaust in Poland
1986	Poland	Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War)	Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz	Polish Resistance
1986	Netherlands	The Assault The Assault (film) The Assault is a 1986 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch. The film was directed and produced by Fons Rademakers... (De Aanslag)	Fons Rademakers	An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation
1986	Japan	Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison)	Kei Kumai Kei Kumai was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he worked as director's assistant....	The Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East... .
1987	UK   USA  Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Escape from Sobibor Escape from Sobibor Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibor, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps...	Jack Gold Jack Gold Jack Gold is a British film and television director. He was part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema.-Career:...	Sobibor Sobibór Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...  Uprising during the Holocaust
1987	UK   USA  Kingdom of Yugoslavia	The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror)	Gordon Hessler Gordon Hessler Gordon Hessler is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries...
1987	Early Modern France	Au revoir, les enfants Au revoir, les enfants Au revoir les enfants is a 1987 film written, produced and directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was published by Gallimard in the same year...	Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...	Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France Vichy France Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
1987	USA	Empire of the Sun Empire of the Sun (film) Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...	British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
1987	UK	Hope and Glory	John Boorman John Boorman John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...	The Blitz The Blitz The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
1988	Mainland China	Evening Bell Evening Bell Evening Bell is a 1988 Chinese war film directed by Wu Ziniu. The film stars Tao Zeru, Chong Peipei, and others, and was produced in part by the August First Film Studio, a production company associated with the People's Liberation Army....	Wu Ziniu Wu Ziniu Wu Ziniu , is a Chinese film director and a member of the "Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Unlike his better-known contemporaries, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who made their names with historical dramas, Wu...	Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...  in China
1988	USA	Farewell to the King Farewell to the King Farewell to the King is a 1989 film written and directed by John Milius. It stars Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez and Nick Nolte, and is based on the 1969 novel L'Adieu au Roi by Pierre Schoendoerffer. Longtime Milius collaborator Basil Poledouris composed the musical score...	John Milius John Milius John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures.-Early life:Milius was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elizabeth and William Styx Milius, who was a shoe manufacturer. Milius attempted to join the Marine Corps in the late 1960s, but was rejected...	Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo
1988	Japan	Grave of the Fireflies Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 Japanese animated war tragedy film written and directed by Isao Takahata. This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work...	Isao Takahata Isao Takahata is a Japanese anime filmmaker that have earned critical international acclaim for his work as a director. Takahata is co-founder of Studio Ghibli with long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki. He has directed films such as the war-themed Grave of the Fireflies, the romantic-drama Only...	The Firebombing of Kobe Bombing of Kobe in World War II On March 17, 1945, 331 American B-29 bombers launched a firebombing attack against the city of Kobe, Japan. Of the city's residents, 8,841 were confirmed to have been killed in the resulting firestorms, which destroyed an area of three square miles and included 21% of Kobe's urban area. At the...
1988	Poland   USA	I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing)	Alexander Ramati	Gipsy - The Holocaust
1988	Poland	Kornblumenblau	Leszek Wosiewicz	Auschwitz-Birkenau
1988	Hong Kong	Men Behind the Sun	Mou Tun Fei Mou Tun Fei Mou Tun-fei is a Chinese film director.-Biography:Better known as T.F. Mou and born in 1941 in Shandong, China. Mou's family left China for Taiwan in 1949. Mou graduated from a state run film school in Taiwan that could not even afford equipment for the students...	The Japanese human experimentation on the Chinese.
1988	Poland  Soviet Union	Przeprawa (Passage)	Wiktor Turow	Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans
1988	Mainland China	Red Sorghum Red Sorghum Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor. It is based on a novel by Mo Yan....	Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....	Young woman's life working at a kaoliang Kaoliang Kaoliang jiu is a strong distilled liquor, made from fermented sorghum . It is made and sold in both mainland China and Taiwan, and also popular in Korea, where it is called goryangju...  distillery during the Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
1988	UK	Return from the River Kwai Return from the River Kwai Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 film directed by Andrew McLaglen. It stars Timothy Bottoms and Nick Tate.. It is loosely based on events concerning the Burma-Thailand Death Railway and subsequent that inspired the earlier film Bridge on the River Kwai, although both films use separate...	Andrew V. McLaglen	British POWs in Japan
1988	Netherlands UK	Shadow Man Shadow Man (1988 film) Shadow Man is a 1988 film about a Polish-Jewish refugee during a fictional war in Amsterdam. Like a `Walker between two worlds´ the famous Shadowman comics hero, created some years after this film, he partly belongs to the unseen world of darkness. Tom Hulce as the Shadow Man, created an...	Piotr Andrejew Piotr Andrejew Piotr Andrejew is a Polish film director, now living in the Netherlands with his son, Victor Andrejew. He is sometimes credited as Piotr Andreyev or Piotr Andreev....	A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam
1988	Japan	Tomorrow Tomorrow (1988 film) is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki....	Kazuo Kuroki Kazuo Kuroki -Filmography:* Silence Has No Wings * Preparation for the Festival * Yūgure made * The Bridge of Tears * Tomorrow * Pickpocket * The Face of Jizo * The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko...	The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months... .
1988	USA	War & Remembrance	Dan Curtis Dan Curtis Dan Curtis was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for his miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, his afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, and the made for TV movie, . Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication...	The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s. Based on the novel War and Remembrance War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1978, which is the sequel to The Winds of War. It continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 6 August 1945. This novel was adapted into a mini-series presented on...  by Herman Wouk.
1989	Japan	Black Rain Black Rain (Japanese film) is a 1989 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura and based on the novel of the same name by Ibuse Masuji. The events are centered on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.-Plot:...	Shohei Imamura Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...	The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
1989	Philippines	Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice	Celso Ad. Castillo	The life of a Filipina comfort women Comfort women The term "comfort women" was a euphemism used to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars to as high as 410,000 from some Chinese...  during Japanese occupation of the Philippines Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II.... .
1989	USA	Fat Man and Little Boy Fat Man and Little Boy Fat Man and Little Boy is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the nuclear weapons known by the code names "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". The code names can be taken for joking...	Roland Joffé Roland Joffé Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...	The Manhattan project Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
1989	Soviet Union	Stalingrad Stalingrad (1989 film) Stalingrad is a 1989 two-part Soviet-East German-Czechoslovak-American co-production directed by Yuri Ozerov, who also wrote the script. The film revolves around the Battle of Stalingrad.-Film I:...	Yuri Ozerov Yuri Ozerov (director) Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1950 and 1995.-Early life:...	The Battle for Stalingrad
1989	Finland	Talvisota Talvisota (film) The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka, based on The Winter War, a novel by Antti Tuuri. It tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment "JR 23", which consists almost solely of men from Southern Ostrobothnia, focusing mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava...	Pekka Parikka Pekka Parikka Pekka Parikka was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. His 1989 film The Winter War was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...	The Winter War Winter War The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...
1989	USA	Triumph of the Spirit Triumph of the Spirit Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 American film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos. The majority of the film is set in the death camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch was forces to fight other internees to the...	Robert M. Young	The story of Salamo Arouch Salamo Arouch Salamo Arouch was a Jewish Greek boxer who survived the Holocaust by entertaining Nazi officers in Auschwitz with his boxing skills. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit.-Biography:...
1989	Poland	Virtuti	Jacek Butrymowicz	The Polish Campaign, 1939

1990s

1990s in film

The decade of the 1990s in film involved many significant films.-Events:* Thousands of full-length films were produced during the 1990s....

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1990	Australia	Blood Oath Blood Oath (film) Blood Oath is a 1990 Australian feature film, known in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies , such as the Laha massacre of...	Stephen Wallace	Japanese war crimes trial for the Laha massacre
1990	Early Modern France	Docteur Petiot	Christian de Chalonge	Serial killer Serial killer A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...  Marcel Petiot Marcel Petiot Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot was a French doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris during World War II...  in Occupied France
1990	Germany	Europa Europa Europa Europa Europa Europa is a 1990 German language film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Its original German title is Hitlerjunge Salomon, i.e. "Hitler Youth Salomon". It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish boy who escaped The Holocaust by masquerading not just as a non-Jew, but...	Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...	A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...
1990	Sweden	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	Kjell Grede Kjell Grede Kjell Grede is a Swedish film director. He directed nine films between 1967 and 2003. He was married to actress Bibi Andersson from 1960 to 1973. His film Harry Munter was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, his film Good Evening, Mr...	Story of Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for his successful efforts to rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust, during the later stages of World War II...
1990	Poland	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	The Holocaust in Poland: life of Dr. Korczak Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor...  in the Warsaw ghetto
1990	USA	A Man Called Sarge A Man Called Sarge A Man Called Sarge is a 1990 American parody film, written and directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Gary Kroeger, Marc Singer, Gretchen German and introducing a young Natasha Lyonne...	Stuart Gillard Stuart Gillard Stuart Gillard is a Canadian film and television director. He is most notably known for directing RocketMan in 1997.He also wrote and directed the romance film Paradise in 1982....	Comedy - Western Desert Campaign Western Desert Campaign The Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War, was the initial stage of the North African Campaign during the Second World War. The campaign was heavily influenced by the availability of supplies and transport. The ability of the Allied forces, operating from besieged Malta, to... , Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...  and capture of Tobruk Tobruk Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....
1990	USA	Memphis Belle Memphis Belle (film) Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut...	Michael Caton-Jones Michael Caton-Jones Michael Caton-Jones is the director of such films as Scandal, Rob Roy, Memphis Belle and The Jackal...	Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle Memphis Belle (B-17) Memphis Belle is the nickname of a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress during the Second World War that inspired the making of two motion pictures: a 1944 documentary film, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, and a 1990 Hollywood feature film, Memphis Belle...
1991	Poland	Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest)	Jan Łomnicki	The Holocaust
1991	Denmark	Drengene fra Sankt Petri The Boys from St. Petri The Boys from St. Petri is a 1991 Danish drama film directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.The film is inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club, but the actual plot is fiction.-Cast:... (The Boys from St. Petri)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...	Danish resistance group
1991	Denmark	De nøgne træer	Morten Henriksen
1991	Poland  Germany  Early Modern France	Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703)	Janusz Kijowski	The Holocaust
1991	Italy	Mediterraneo	Gabriele Salvatores Gabriele Salvatores Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...	Italian soldiers on a Greek island
1992	Denmark   USA	En dag i oktober (A Day in October)	Kenneth Madsen	About the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940s
1992	Poland	Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle)	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	Polish Resistance, 1945/46
1992	Poland	Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters)	Robert Gliński	Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag
1992	USA	A Midnight Clear A Midnight Clear A Midnight Clear is a 1992 American war film directed by former actor Keith Gordon with an ensemble cast featuring Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, and Arye Gross...	Keith Gordon Keith Gordon Keith Gordon is an American actor and film director.-Life and career:Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Barbara, an actress, and Mark Gordon, an actor and stage director. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family and was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James...	The Western Front Western Front (World War II) The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and West Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale ground combat operations...
1993	Kingdom of Romania	Oglinda Oglinda Oglinda , also known as Începutul adevărului , is a controversial 1993 film by Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu...	Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu is a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He is best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul , Dacii , Razboiul Independenţei , as well as for his series of...	Downfall of Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships...
1993	Estonia  Poland	Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear)	Marek Piestrak	NKVD NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....  actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939.
1993	USA	Schindler's List Schindler's List Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...	The story of Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the... , who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust The Holocaust The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi... .
1993	Germany	Stalingrad Stalingrad (film) Stalingrad is a 1993 war drama film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It depicts combat on the Eastern Front of World War II, specifically the Battle of Stalingrad and showing the German Wehrmacht in a sympathetic light....	Joseph Vilsmaier Joseph Vilsmaier Joseph Vilsmaier is a German film director.-Work:After attending a boarding school near Augsburg, he was trained as a technician to make film cameras and then spent nine years at a music conservatory. Following this he was a member of a jazz group...	The Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943... .
1993	USA	Swing Kids Swing Kids The Swing Kids were a group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany in the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year-old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well...	Thomas Carter Thomas Carter Thomas Carter may refer to:*Thomas Carter *Thomas Carter , Irish politician*Thomas Carter , British politician and Member of Parliament for Tamworth...	A college student forced into the Hitler-Jugend but is also a Swing Kid Swing Kids The Swing Kids were a group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany in the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year-old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well... .
1993	Republic of China	The Puppetmaster The Puppetmaster (film) The Puppetmaster is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan’s fifty-year occupation of Taiwan in 1945.-Plot:It tells the story of Li Tian-lu...	Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...	The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945).
1994	Early Modern France	Un jour avant l'aube	Jacques Ertaud	Story of a French SAS Special Air Service Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...  commando in Brittany Brittany Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain... , during the Normandy battle in 1944.
1995	Mainland China	Don't Cry, Nanking Don't Cry, Nanking Don't Cry, Nanking, also known as Nanjing 1937 , is a 1995 Chinese film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the former capital city Nanjing, China.-Plot:...	Wu Ziniu Wu Ziniu Wu Ziniu , is a Chinese film director and a member of the "Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Unlike his better-known contemporaries, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who made their names with historical dramas, Wu...	Nanking Massacre Nanking Massacre The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...
1995	Canada  Japan	Hiroshima Hiroshima (film) Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors,...	Roger Spottiswoode Roger Spottiswoode Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring...	The atomic bombing of Hiroshima
1995	Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...	Kun en pige Just a Girl "Just a Girl" is a song written by Gwen Stefani and Tom Dumont for No Doubt's third album Tragic Kingdom. The song was released in 1995 as the album's lead single and helped the band break into mainstream music, peaking at number 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.Upon release in the UK in 1996 the... (Just a Girl)	Peter Schrøder	About Lise Tønder Jensens life until the end of the war
1995	USA	The Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Force, that fought in World War II.-Plot:...	Robert Markowitz Robert Markowitz Robert Markowitz is an American film/television director. He has directed a number television films that include Too Young to Die? , Decoration Day , The Tuskegee Airmen , The Great Gatsby , The Pilot's Wife , Word of Honor and among other films.He also directed episodes...	The story of the first African-American pilots
1995	Mainland China	Red Cherry Red Cherry Red Cherry is a 1995 film directed by Ye Ying . The Director of Photography was Zhang Li, a fifth generation filmmaker and classmate of Chen Kaige. Red Cherry won Best Picture at the 1996 Golden Rooster Awards....	Ye Ying	Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union
1995	USA	Sahara Sahara (1995 film) Sahara is a 1995 American war film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. The film stars James Belushi, Alan David Lee and Simon Westaway. This film is a remake of the 1943 film Sahara and was film on location in Australia....	Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Trenchard-Smith is an English film and television director, producer, writer, consultant and actor who is notable for his contributions to the horror and action genre during the 1970s and 1980s in Australia. Most of his work has been in television, and the majority of his films have been...	The Western Desert Campaign Western Desert Campaign The Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War, was the initial stage of the North African Campaign during the Second World War. The campaign was heavily influenced by the availability of supplies and transport. The ability of the Allied forces, operating from besieged Malta, to...
1995	Serbia	Underground	Emir Kusturica Emir Kusturica Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...	German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia
1995		Великий полководец Георгий Жуков (Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov) The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov	Yuri Ozerov Yuri Ozerov (director) Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1950 and 1995.-Early life:...	Biopic about Marshal Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union was the de facto highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ....  Georgy Zhukov Georgy Zhukov Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov , was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who, in the course of World War II, played a pivotal role in leading the Red Army through much of Eastern Europe to liberate the Soviet Union and other nations from the Axis Powers' occupation... .
1995	Poland  Early Modern France  Germany	Wielki tydzień (Holy Week)	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	The Holocaust
1996	USA	The Ring The Ring - Film :* The Ring , a film by Alfred Hitchcock* The Ring , a film by Kurt Neumann* The Ring , a film by Armand Mastroianni...	Armand Mastroianni	During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis
1996	UK	The Brylcreem Boys The Brylcreem Boys The Brylcreem Boys is a 1998 film directed and co-written by Terence Ryan about the extraordinary neutrality arrangements pertaining to Ireland during World War II, by the Éamon de Valera government...	Terence Ryan	British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland
1996	UK   USA	The English Patient The English Patient (film) The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...	Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....	Tobruk Tobruk Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....
1996	USA	Mother Night Mother Night (film) Mother Night is a 1996 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 book of the same name.Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American who moves with his family to Germany after World War I and goes on to become a successful German language playwright...	Keith Gordon Keith Gordon Keith Gordon is an American actor and film director.-Life and career:Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Barbara, an actress, and Mark Gordon, an actor and stage director. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family and was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James...
1996	UK	Over Here Over Here Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II... (TV)	Tony Dow Tony Dow Tony Lee Dow is an American film producer, director, sculptor, and a television child actor of the 1950s and 1960s.Dow is best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which ran in primetime from 1957 to 1963...	Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England
1996	Thailand	Sunset at Chaophraya Sunset at Chaophraya Sunset at Chaophraya is a 1996 romantic-drama film directed by Euthana Mukdasanit. Adapted from the novel Khu Kam by Thommayanti, the story is a love triangle, set in World War II-era Thailand, and depicts the star-crossed romance between a Imperial Japanese Navy officer and a Thai woman who is...	Euthana Mukdasanit Euthana Mukdasanit Euthana Mukdasanit is a Thai film director and screenwriter. As a contemporary of Chatrichalerm Yukol, Euthana was among a group of directors that during the 1970s made films that focused on social problems...	The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement Free Thai Movement The Free Thai Movement was a Thai underground resistance movement against Imperial Japan during World War II. Seri Thai were an important source of military intelligence for the Allies in the region, and were notable for being the only World War II resistance movement to use fighter aircraft of its...
1997	Early Modern France	Lucie Aubrac Lucie Aubrac (film) Lucie Aubrac is a 1997 French biopic of the World War II French Resistance member Lucie Aubrac. The film starred Carole Bouquet in the title role...	Claude Berri Claude Berri Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...	The story of Lucie Lucie Aubrac Lucie Samuel born Lucie Bernard , and better known as Lucie Aubrac, was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance during World War II....  and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France German occupation of France in World War II The Military Administration in France was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It remained in existence from May 1940 to December 1944. As a result of the defeat of France and its Allies in the Battle of France, the French cabinet sought a cessation...
1997	UK	The Land Girls	David Leland David Leland David Leland is a director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987.-Life:...	Women's Land Army Women's Land Army The Women's Land Army was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls...
1997	Italy	La vita è bella Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and... (Life is Beautiful)	Roberto Benigni Roberto Benigni Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...	The Holocaust The Holocaust The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
1997	Australia   USA	Paradise Road	Bruce Beresford Bruce Beresford Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...	Allied women POWs in Sumatra
1998	Japan	Pride	Shunya Ito Shunya Ito is a Japanese film director famed for starting the Sasori series of 1970s exploitation films based on Toru Shinohara's manga and starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career...	A depiction of Tojo Hideki during the Tokyo Trials International Military Tribunal for the Far East The International Military Tribunal for the Far East , also known as the Tokyo Trials, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, or simply the Tribunal, was convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of crimes: "Class A" crimes were reserved for those who...
1998	USA	Miracle at Midnight Miracle at Midnight Miracle at Midnight is a TV movie based on the Rescue of the Danish Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust. It is a Disney production and premiered on ccc in 1998. It was also portrayed in Ms... (TV)	Ken Cameron Ken Cameron Ken Cameron is an Australian film and television director. Cameron graduated from Sydney University with BA in 1968...	Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust
1998	USA	Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...	The landing at Omaha Beach Omaha Beach Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II...  and fighting inland
1998	USA	The Thin Red Line The Thin Red Line (1998 film) The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...	Terrence Malick Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....	The Guadalcanal campaign Guadalcanal campaign The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II...
1998	USA	When Trumpets Fade When Trumpets Fade When Trumpets Fade is a 1998 war film directed by John Irvin, produced by John Kemeny and written by W.W. Vought. It is based on a true story of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Autumn of 1944 during World War II...	John Irvin John Irvin John Irvin is an English film director. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he began his career by directing a number of documentaries and television works, including the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...	The Battle of Huertgen Forest
1999	Early Modern France   USA  Hungary	Jakob the Liar Jakob the Liar Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American tragicomedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland in the times of the Holocaust and is based on the book by...	Peter Kassovitz Peter Kassovitz Peter Kassovitz is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of film director Mathieu Kassovitz....	A Jewish ghetto
1999	Russia  Germany  Japan  Italy  Early Modern France	Moloch Moloch (film) Moloch is a 1999 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Marina Koreneva. It portrays Adolf Hitler as a humanized figure, living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps...	Aleksandr Sokurov	A visit by Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...  to the Berghof Berghof (Hitler) The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Other than the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Hitler spent more time at the Berghof than anywhere else during World War II. It was also one of the most widely known of Hitler's...
1999	Finland  Russia	Ambush Rukajärven tie Ambush is a 1999 Finnish war film directed by Olli Saarela. Literally "The Road to Rukajärvi", the film debuted on 22 January 1999 in Finland, after which it was released internationally. The film is based on a book written by Antti Tuuri and its leads are played by Peter Franzén as Lt. Eero...	Olli Saarela Olli Saarela Olli Saarela is a Finnish film director. He has directed films such as Ambush, Bad Luck Love, Rollo and the Woods Sprite and Year of the Wolf, which is based on a book written by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila....	The Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
1999	Independent State of Croatia	Četverored Cetverored Četverored is 1999 Croatian film directed by Jakov Sedlar. Based on the novel by Ivan Aralica, the plot of the film deals with Bleiburg massacre....	Branko Schmidt Branko Schmidt Branko Schmidt is an acclaimed Croatian film director.-Filmography:* Sokol Did Not Love Him * Đuka Begović * Vukovar: The Way Home ...	The Bleiburg massacre Bleiburg massacre The Bleiburg massacre, which also encompasses Operation Keelhaul is a term encompassing events that took place during mid-May 1945 near the Carinthian town of Bleiburg, itself some four kilometres from the Austrian-Slovenian border....
1999	Germany	Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck, based upon Erica Fischer's book, chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during that time period. The book was based on the work of the American...	Max Färberböck Max Färberböck Max Färberböck is a German film director and writer. He was born in Degerndorf, Münsing, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at...	While the Gestapo Gestapo The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...  purge Purge In history, religion, and political science, a purge is the removal of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, from another organization, or from society as a whole. Purges can be peaceful or violent; many will end with the imprisonment or exile of those purged,...  Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...  of Jews Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation... , a love affair blooms between two women, Felice Schragenheim Felice Schragenheim Felice Rahel Schragenheim was a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II. She is known for her tragic love story with Lilly Wust and death during a march from Gross-Rosen concentration camp to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany...  and Lilly Wust.
1999	Mainland China	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River Lover's Grief over the Yellow River Lover's Grief over the Yellow River is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Feng Xiaoning. It was China's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination.-External links:...	Feng Xiaoning Feng Xiaoning Feng Xiaoning is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is considered a member of the "Fifth Generation" Chinese directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982...	A story of an American pilot about to pay his respects to the communist-led Chinese army who rescued him.

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This article is about 2000s decade in film.-Events:Thousands of full-length films were produced during the first decade of the 21st Century...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000	Canada  Germany	Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace	Eric Till Eric Till Eric Till is a British film and television director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s.-Career:...	German Lutheran pastor Pastor The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps".... , theologian Theology Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...  and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plans by members of the Abwehr to assassinate Adolf Hitler... .
2000	Mainland China	Devils on the Doorstep	Jiang Wen Jiang Wen Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...	The Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
2000	Italy	Johnny the Partisan	Guido Chiesa	Partisan warfare Partisan (military) A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity...  in Northern Italy.
2000	Malaysia	Leftenan Adnan Leftenan Adnan Leftenan Adnan is a 2000 Malaysian film directed by Aziz M. Osman and produced by the Malaysian Army and Grand Brilliance Sdn Bhd.-Plot:The movie is about one Adnan bin Saidi, a young Malay from Sungai Ramal in Kajang, Selangor who had joined the Malay Regiment of the British Colonial Forces just...	Aziz M. Osman Aziz M. Osman Aziz M. Osman is a Malaysian actor and director. He has been involved in a number of other areas of the Malaysian film industry as well, having been a producer, screenwriter and editor. He is currently the director general of AceMotion Pictures Sdn Bhd...	Story of Adnan Bin Saidi Adnan Bin Saidi Adnan bin Saidi, , was a Malayan soldier of the 1st Infantry Brigade which fought the Japanese in the Battle of Singapore. He is regarded by Malaysians and Singaporeans today as a hero for his actions on Bukit Chandu.-Personal life:...  and the Battle of Pasir Panjang Battle of Pasir Panjang The Battle of Pasir Panjang, which took place between 13 and 14 February 1942, was part of the final stage of the Empire of Japan's invasion of Singapore during World War II... .
2000	Italy	Malèna Malèna Malèna is a 2000 Italian romantic drama film starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. It was directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni.-Plot:...	Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...	Set in Sicily Sicily Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...  in 1940 just as Italy enters the war. Malèna's husband leaves to serve in the military.
2000	Philippines	Markova: Comfort Gay	Gil Portes Gil Portes Gil M. Portes is a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Early life and education:He was educated at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines; and received a master's degree in theater from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York....	A story based on the life of Walter Dempster Walter Dempster Walter Dempster, Jr., better known by his alias Walterina Markova was a Filipino gay man who served as a "comfort gay" for Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II....  Jr., the last surviving comfort gay from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
2000	Czech Republic	Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall)	Jan Hrebejk Jan Hrebejk Jan Hřebejk is a Czech film director.-Early life and education:Born in Prague, Hřebejk studied together with his classmate Petr Jarchovský at high school. Now Jarchovsky is a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter...	Czechoslovakia - German occupation, collaboration, resistance
2000	USA	U-571 U-571 (film) U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...	Jonathan Mostow Jonathan Mostow Jonathan Mostow is an American film director, writer and producer.-Biography:A graduate of Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut and Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute...	American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate a German U-boat U-boat U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...  with orders to capture an Enigma machine Enigma machine An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I...  that could turn the tide of the war.
2000	Poland	Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Kłos) (TV)	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	Poland - German occupation, collaboration
2001	UK   USA	Band of Brothers (TV)	Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...	Easy Company E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is one of the most well-known companies in the United States Army. Their experiences in World War II are the subject of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers based on the book... , 506th Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division 101st Airborne Division (United States) The 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles"—is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France, Operation Market Garden, the...  from D-Day Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...  through Holland, Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...  and Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... .
2001	UK  Early Modern France   USA	Captain Corelli's Mandolin Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 film directed by John Madden and based on the novel of the same name by Louis de Bernières. It stars Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.-Plot:...	John Madden John Madden (director) John Philip Madden is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio.- Biography :Madden was educated at Clifton College. He was in the same house as friend and fellow director Roger Michell. He began his career in British independent films, and graduated from the University of...	The Italian occupation of the Greek islands.
2001	UK   Australia	Charlotte Gray Charlotte Gray (film) Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks...	Gillian Armstrong Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.- Career :Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and...	Special Operations Executive Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local... .
2001	UK   USA	Conspiracy (TV)	Frank Pierson	In 1942, 15 German officials attend a conference in Wannsee Wannsee Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee and the Kleiner Wannsee , are located on the river Havel and are separated only by the Wannsee bridge...  headed by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich , also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.He was SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia...  to discuss the Final Solution Final Solution The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust...  to the Jewish question Jewish Question The Jewish question encompasses the issues and resolutions surrounding the historically unequal civil, legal and national statuses between minority Ashkenazi Jews and non-Jews, particularly in Europe. The first issues discussed and debated by societies, politicians and writers in western and...
2001	Czech Republic UK	Dark Blue World Dark Blue World Dark Blue World is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák about Czechoslovak pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the father of the director....	Jan Sverák Jan Sverák Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...	Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940... .
2001	USA  Germany UK  Republic of Ireland	Enemy at the Gates Enemy at the Gates Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....	Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, film producer and screenwriter.- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne...	Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and a German sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943... .
2001	UK   USA  Germany  Netherlands	Enigma Enigma (2001 film) Enigma is a 2001 British film about the Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park in World War II. The film, directed by Michael Apted, stars Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet. The film's screenplay was by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel Enigma by Robert Harris...	Michael Apted Michael Apted Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation but is best known for his work on the Up Series of documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.On 29 June 2003 he was elected...	Enigma machine Enigma machine An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I...  mystery.
2001	Philippines	Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway	Gil Portes Gil Portes Gil M. Portes is a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Early life and education:He was educated at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines; and received a master's degree in theater from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York....	A Filipina offers to be a wet nurse Wet nurse A wet nurse is a woman who is used to breast feed and care for another's child. Wet nurses are used when the mother is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures the families are linked by a special relationship of...  to a Japanese soldier's new son for the conditional freedom of her husband.
2001	Japan	Hotaru (Firefly)	Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Poppoya.-Filmography:* Eki * Izakaya Chōji...	Based on the true story of a Korean kamikaze pilot.
2001	USA	Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay...	Michael Bay Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...	The Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...  and the Doolittle Raid Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the... .
2001	Mainland China	Purple Sunset Purple Sunset Purple Sunset is a 2001 Chinese film written and directed by Feng Xiaoning. Feng also acted as the film's cinematographer.Purple Sunset is a anti-war film set in August 1945, at the time when the Japanese were in the throes of defeat during World War II and losing control of mainland China...	Feng Xiaoning Feng Xiaoning Feng Xiaoning is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is considered a member of the "Fifth Generation" Chinese directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982...	The unconditional surrender Unconditional surrender Unconditional surrender is a surrender without conditions, in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party. In modern times unconditional surrenders most often include guarantees provided by international law. Announcing that only unconditional surrender is acceptable puts psychological...  of Emperor Hirohito.
2001	Germany  Russia	So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me is a 2001 film about German World War II prisoner of war Clemens Forell's escape from a Siberian Gulag in Russia back to Germany. It is based on the eponymous book written by Josef Martin Bauer... )	Hardy Martins	Adaptation of Clemens Forell's book: a German soldier walks over 11,000 km to escape from the Siberian gulag.
2001	UK	The Bunker The Bunker (2001 film) The Bunker is a 2001 horror film directed by Rob Green, written by Clive Dawson and starring Jason Flemyng.-Plot:In late 1944 the remnants of a platoon of German Panzergrenadiers from the Großdeutschland Division are caught in an Ambush by American troops. In their retreat, they find a bunker,...	Rob Green Rob Green (film director) Rob Green is a film director, producer, editor and screenwriter.-Biography:He is most notable for The Bunker and the drama-horror-thriller House...	The Battle of the Siegfried Line.
2001	USA	The Grey Zone The Grey Zone The Grey Zone is a 2001 film directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli....	Tim Blake Nelson Tim Blake Nelson Tim Blake Nelson is an American director, writer, singer, and actor.-Early life:Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Kaiser Nelson, who is a noted social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and a geologist father...	The Jewish Sonderkommando Sonderkommando Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during The Holocaust... XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...  in October 1944.
2001	USA  Myanmar	To End All Wars To End All Wars To End All Wars is a 2001 war film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Cunningham.- Storyline :...	David L. Cunningham	The Burma Railway.
2001	USA	Uprising Uprising (film) Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman... (TV)	Jon Avnet Jon Avnet Jonathan Michael "Jon" Avnet is an American director, writer and producer.-Early life:Avnet was born in Brooklyn, the son of Joan Bertha and Lester Francis Avnet, a corporate executive and electronics distributor. He attended Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, New York...	The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.... .
2001	Philippines	Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure	Chito S. Roño	The burying of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita Tomoyuki Yamashita General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...  in the Philippines.
2002	Early Modern France  Germany	Amen.	Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...	Alleged collusion between Nazis and the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity... .
2002	UK	Two Men Went to War Two Men Went to War Two Men Went to War is a 2002 British film based on a true World War II story, from Raymond Foxall's book Amateur Commandos which describes the adventures of two army dentists who sneak off on their own personal invasion of France...	John Henderson John Henderson (director) John Henderson is a British film and television director His first directing job was for Spitting Image on ITV, which won him a BAFTA...	Based on a true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France.
2002	USA	Hart's War Hart's War Hart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Marcel Iureş...	Gregory Hoblit Gregory Hoblit Gregory King Hoblit is an American Hollywood film director and TV producer.Hoblit was born in Abilene, Texas, the son of Elizabeth Hubbard King and Harold Foster Hoblit, an FBI agent. Much of Hoblit's work is oriented towards police, attorneys, and legal cases...	A trial is conducted in a POW camp in Germany
2002	Russia	Кукушка (Kukushka) The Cuckoo	Aleksandr Rogozhkin Aleksandr Rogozhkin -Selected filmography:In 1990, he directed Karaul, which won the Alfred-Bauer Prize at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.Rogozhkin's film The Chekist was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....	A Lapp Sami people The Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe’s northernmost...  woman Anni gives a shelter to a Finnish Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...  sniper Sniper A sniper is a marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. Snipers typically have specialized training and distinct high-precision rifles....  and a captain Military ranks of the Soviet Union The military ranks of the Soviet Union were those introduced after the October Revolution of 1917. At that time the Imperial Russian Table of Ranks was abolished, as were the privileges of the pre-Soviet Russian nobility....  of the Soviet Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....  army Soviet Armed Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, also called the Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet Union refers to the armed forces of the Russian SFSR , and Soviet Union from their beginnings in the...  at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
2002	Early Modern France  Germany	Laissez passer (Safe Conduct Safe Conduct (film) Safe Conduct is a 2002 French historical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and Jean Cosmos.-Plot:The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and... )	Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...	France under German occupation
2002	Early Modern France	Monsieur Batignole	Gérard Jugnot Gérard Jugnot Gérard Jugnot is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc...	A butcher hides and protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France
2002	Early Modern France  Germany UK  Poland	The Pianist The Pianist (2002 film) The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...	Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...	Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman
2002	USA UK	The Gathering Storm The Gathering Storm (2002 film) The Gathering Storm is a BBC–HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II...	Richard Loncraine Richard Loncraine Richard Loncraine is a British film and television director.Loncraine received early training in the features department of the BBC, including a season directing items for Tomorrow's World...	Story of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...  before the war.
2002	Russia	Zvezda Zvezda (film) The Star is a 2002 Russian film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, a large modern project of Mosfilm. It is based on a short story of the same name by Emmanuil Kazakevich, about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II.Aleksei Kravchenko won a...	Nikolai Lebedev	Soviet scouts work behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration
2002	Italy	El Alamein	Enzo Monteleone	The Second Battle of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
2002	USA	Windtalkers Windtalkers Windtalkers is a 2002 action war film directed by John Woo. Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star as two US Marine sergeants assigned to protect Navajo code talkers in Saipan during World War II.-Plot:World War II Sgt...	John Woo John Woo John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...	Battle of Saipan Battle of Saipan The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...
2003	Early Modern France	Bon Voyage Bon Voyage (2003 film) Bon Voyage is a French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, released 16 April 2003. The film was a critical success due in part to its tight interweaving of various genres, including spy, romance, World War II, and comedy. The film features the first reteaming of stars Isabelle Adjani and Gérard...	Jean-Paul Rappeneau Jean-Paul Rappeneau Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director, screenwriter, and actor.He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le metro in 1960 and Vie privee in 1961...	France under German occupation
2003	UK	Entrusted	Giacomo Battiato Giacomo Battiato Giacomo Battiato is an Italian film director and writer.According to “The History Of The Italian Cinema”, published in 2009 in US and in England by Princeton University Press: “GIACOMO BATTIATO is one of the most erudite and flexible directors of his generation. A cultural organizer, he has also...	An 11-year-old chess Chess Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...  prodigy, son of a mother working with the underground resistance Resistance during World War II Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns... , is entrusted with a life-saving secret
2003	Poland	Pornografia Pornografia (film) Pornografia is the name of a number of films, with the 2003 version being the best known one. In 1992, a short film with the same name was made in Brazil. The 2003 version was a collaboration of the Polish and French film industries.-2003 version:... (Pornography)	Jan Jakub Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.-Early life and career:Kolski comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa Pakulska were film editors. His brother, Włodzimierz Kolski, is a production manager. His paternal...	The German Occupation of Poland
2003	Germany  Netherlands	Rosenstrasse Rosenstrasse (film) Rosenstraße is a 2003 film directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Maria Schrader and Katja Riemann. It deals with the Rosenstrasse protest of 1943.- Plot :In the present day, a widow mourns the death of her husband...	Margarethe von Trotta	Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin
2003	Japan	Spy Sorge Spy Sorge Spy Sorge is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003, about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge.-Technical details:*Writers: Robert Mandy & Masahiro Shinoda...	Masahiro Shinoda Masahiro Shinoda is a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.-Career:...	Biography of a Soviet spy SPY SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...  Richard Sorge Richard Sorge Richard Sorge was a German communist and spy who worked for the Soviet Union. He has gained great fame among espionage enthusiasts for his intelligence gathering during World War II. He worked as a journalist in both Germany and Japan, where he was imprisoned for spying and eventually hanged.... .
2003	Early Modern France	Strange Gardens	Jean Becker	French hostages held captive in a giant pit
2003	USA	Saints and Soldiers Saints and Soldiers Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 drama-war film featuring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby and Peter Holden.It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where several US soldiers and a downed British...	Ryan Little Ryan Little Ryan Little is a movie director, cinematographer and producer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Awards and nominations:*Won, 2006, Heartland Film Festival's Crystal Heart Award for independent filmmakers, for Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy*Won, 2003, Viewer's Choice...	A group of Allied soldiers is trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save thousands of American lives
2003	Germany   USA  Italy	The Fallen The Fallen (film) The 2004 film, The Fallen by director Ari Taub is a World War II film depicting the confusion of both sides in occupied Italy. The film portrays partisans and regular soldiers ineffectively coursing through the difficult mountainous terrain... (Letters From The Dead)	Ari Taub Ari Taub Ari Taub is a Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler.Taub is Jewish, and was born in Montreal, Quebec. He resides in Calgary, Alberta, and is an attorney....	German, Italian and US combatants on the Italian Front, 1944
2003	Czech Republic	Želary Želary Želary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan, starring Anna Geislerová. The movie received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was produced by Barrandov Studios in Prague.- Plot :...	Ondrej Trojan Ondrej Trojan Ondřej Trojan is a Czech film producer, actor and film director. Two of the films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : Divided We Fall and Želary , which he also directed...	Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding after their group is exposed
2003	Malaysia	Paloh Paloh (film) Paloh is a 2003 Malaysian historical film directed by Adman Salleh. This film is produced by Filem Negara Malaysia and the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia...	Adman Salleh	Japanese occupation of Malaya Japanese occupation of Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak Throughout much of World War II, British Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak were under Japanese occupation.The Japanese Empire commenced the Pacific War with the invasion of Kota Bahru in Kelantan on 8 December 1941 at 00:25, about 90 minutes before the Attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii at 07:48 on 7...
2004	Philippines	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita Aishite Imasu 1941 is a drama, romance, and war movie released in Philippines in 2004 and is a story of love, betrayal and honor in wartime set in the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II...	Joel Lamangan Joel Lamangan Joel Lamangan is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur dramatic filmmaker. His award-winning films includes Sidhi, Deathrow, Hubog, Aishte Imasu 1941, Blue Moon and Mano Po.On August 19, 2008, Lamangan directed his first indie movie...	The Battle of Bataan Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast... , and Bataan Death March Bataan Death March The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.The march was characterized by... .
2004	Japan	Chichi to Kuraseba	Kazuo Kuroki Kazuo Kuroki -Filmography:* Silence Has No Wings * Preparation for the Festival * Yūgure made * The Bridge of Tears * Tomorrow * Pickpocket * The Face of Jizo * The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko...	The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
2004	Germany	Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day)	Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...	An SS officer tries to coerce a Catholic Catholic The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...  priest into writing to the Vatican Holy See The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...  on behalf of the Church National church National church is a concept of a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state. The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of modern nationalism....  of Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...  demanding that the Pope Pope The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...  support Hitler
2004	Germany  Italy  Austria	Der Untergang (Downfall Downfall (film) Downfall is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945.... )	Oliver Hirschbiegel Oliver Hirschbiegel Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...	The last days of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...  in the Führerbunker Führerbunker The Führerbunker was located beneath Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. It was part of a subterranean bunker complex which was constructed in two major phases, one part in 1936 and the other in 1943...  during the Battle of Berlin Battle of Berlin The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II....
2004	Germany  Switzerland  Netherlands  Luxembourg	Edelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates)	Niko von Glasow Niko von Glasow Niko von Glasow is a feature film director as well as a documentary film director. Von Glasow is the son of Ernst Brücher and Majella Neven DuMont, founders of the DuMont Publishing house in Cologne....	German resistance group, the Edelweiss Pirates Edelweiss Pirates The Edelweiss Pirates were a loose group of youth culture in Nazi Germany. They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth...
2004	USA	Ike: Countdown to D-Day Ike: Countdown to D-Day Ike: Countdown to D-Day is a 2004 American television film originally aired on the American television channel A&E and was directed by Robert Harmon and written by Lionel Chetwynd....	Robert Harmon Robert Harmon Robert Harmon is an American film and television director. He is best known for the 1986 horror classic The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer, as well as for films like They and Nowhere to Run....	The organization and planning of Operation Overlord Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...  at SHAEF
2004	USA	The Aryan Couple	John Daly John Daly John Daly may refer to:*John Daly , former colonial Anglican bishop* J. Burrwood Daly , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania* John Charles Daly , veteran radio & TV newsman and television host on What's My Line? 1950–1967...	Eastern Europe in 1944 - An undercover Jewish couple's attempt to escape under the name of the Third Reich's "Europa Plan", then being enacted throughout Eastern Europe
2004	UK	Island at War Island at War Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four German officers. The fictional island of St...		Occupation of the Channel Islands Occupation of the Channel Islands The Channel Islands were occupied by Nazi Germany for much of World War II, from 30 June 1940 until the liberation on 9 May 1945. The Channel Islands are two British Crown dependencies and include the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey as well as the smaller islands of Alderney and Sark...
2004	Independent State of Croatia	Long Dark Night Long Dark Night (film) Long Dark Night is a 2004 Croatian film directed by Antun Vrdoljak and starring Goran Višnjić. It was Croatia's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:...	Antun Vrdoljak Antun Vrdoljak Antun Vrdoljak is a Croatian screenwriter, film director and former actor and political appointee.-Life:Antun Vrdoljak was born in Imotski, Kingdom of Yugoslavia . He studied acting at the Academy of Drama Arts at the University of Zagreb. His acting debut was in 1957 film Nije bilo uzalud...	Croatia under both Fascism Fascism Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...  and Communism Communism Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
2004	Germany	Napola (Before the Fall)	Dennis Gansel Dennis Gansel Dennis Gansel is a film director, writer and actor from Germany.-Movie career:Gansel is best known for directing The Wave; his following project is the vampire film We Are The Night, which stars Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt.- Filmography :* 1999 — Das...	Two former Hitler Youth Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...  form an unsuspecting bond at a Reich National-Political institution at the height of the war
2004	Russia	Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание)	Vitaly Vorobyev	Cossacks shoot; Fascists die.
2004	Philippines	Panaghoy sa Suba Panaghoy sa Suba Panaghoy sa Suba, titled "The Call of the River" in English, also referred to as "Cry of the River" is a 2004 film produced, directed and starred by Filipino actor Cesar Montano. It features Filipino actors Juliana Palermo, Jackie Woo, Phil Anthony, Caridad Sanchez, Joel Torre, Daria Ramirez,...	Cesar Montano César Montano Cesar Manhilot, known by his screen name Cesar Montano, is a multi-awarded Filipino actor and film director.He started in show business as a stuntman. He played roles in numerous B movies...	The Second Battle of Bohol - Part of Philippines Campaign (1944–45).
2004	Mainland China	Purple Butterfly Purple Butterfly Purple Butterfly is a 2003 Chinese film, directed by Lou Ye. It is Lou's third film after Weekend Lover and Suzhou River. It stars Chinese mainland actors, Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye and Li Bingbing, as well as Japanese actor Tôru Nakamura...	Lou Ye Lou Ye Lou Ye , born 1965, is a Chinese writer-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.-Films:Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film Weekend Lover, but it was not released until two years later in 1995...	Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
2004	USA	Saints and Soldiers Saints and Soldiers Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 drama-war film featuring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby and Peter Holden.It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where several US soldiers and a downed British...	Ryan Little Ryan Little Ryan Little is a movie director, cinematographer and producer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Awards and nominations:*Won, 2006, Heartland Film Festival's Crystal Heart Award for independent filmmakers, for Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy*Won, 2003, Viewer's Choice...	Survivors of the Malmedy massacre Malmedy massacre The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...  during the Ardennes Offensive
2004	Germany	Stauffenberg Stauffenberg (Film) Stauffenberg is a German-Austrian TV movie released in 2004 by Das Erste , about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.... (TV)	Jo Baier	The July 20 plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...  to assassinate Hitler
2004	United States	Straight Into Darkness Straight Into Darkness Straight Into Darkness is a 2004 war film directed by Jeff Burr. It stars Ryan Francis and Scott MacDonald.-Plot:When two American GIs desert their platoon in the final days of World War II, they find themselves struggling against all odds to stay alive...	Jeff Burr Jeff Burr Jeff Burr is an American film director, Writer and producer best known for his work in horror sequels, such as Stepfather II, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Puppet Master 4 and 5, and Pumpkinhead II....	2 American deserters and a group of orphans hold back a Nazi assault.
2005	Lithuania	Forest of the Gods Forest of the Gods Forest of the Gods is a 2005 film, directed by Algimantas Puipa, based on the Balys Sruoga novel of the same name....	Algimantas Puipa	An artist and intellectual is imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Soviets
2005	Finland  Sweden	Framom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines)	Åke Lindman Åke Lindman Åke Leonard Lindman , born Åke Leonard Järvinen, was a Finnish director and actor.In his youth Lindman was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. He represented the football club HIFK in the Finnish league. In the 1960s, the British...	The Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...  between the USSR and Finland from 1941-1944.
2005	Japan	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean is a Japanese film directed by Shinji Higuchi. A fictional story of the Japanese military saving Tokyo from the third atomic bomb during the waning days of the Second World War, it was the highest-grossing film in Japan during the week of its release.-Plot:...	Shinji Higuchi Shinji Higuchi is a storyboard artist and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, best known for his work on the Heisei Gamera Trilogy. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.-Biography:...  Cellin Gluck	A Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo.
2005	India	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero The music score that accompanies the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features 19 pieces composed by Rahman, including 13 instrumentals and orchestral themes, in addition to 6 further songs, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Performers include the Western Choir Chennai and the Mumbai...	Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...	Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army Indian National Army The Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance... .
2005	USA	Only the Brave Only the Brave Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit completely made up of Japanese Americans, which for its size and length service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history...	Lane Nishikawa Lane Nishikawa Lane Nishikawa is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright and performance artist. He is Sansei ; and his work often deals with Asian American history and identity issues. He is widely known for a series of one-man shows, including Life in the Fast Lane, I'm on a Mission From Buddha, Mifune and...	The rescue of the Lost Battalion Lost Battalion (World War II) "The Lost Battalion" refers to the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry , which was surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains on 24 October 1944....  by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team The 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army, was composed of Japanese-American enlisted men and mostly Caucasian officers. They fought primarily in Europe during World War II, beginning in 1944. The families of many of its soldiers were subject to internment... .
2005	Mainland China	On the Mountain of Tai Hang On the Mountain of Tai Hang On the Mountain of Tai Hang is a 2005 Chinese film about the newly formed Eighth Route Army, led by general commander Zhu De, marching east cross the Yellow River to form Mount Tai Hang military region during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was produced by the People's Liberation Army-associated...	Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian	The campaigns of the Eighth Route Army Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army was the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that formed a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China which fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Communist...  in China.
2005	Germany	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – The Final Days is a 2005 German film by director Marc Rothemund and writer Fred Breinersdorfer. It is about the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old member of the anti-Nazi non-violent student resistance group the White Rose, part of the German Resistance movement...	Marc Rothemund Marc Rothemund Marc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das...	The final days and trial of Sophie Scholl Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans... , a member of the White Rose White Rose The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor...  resistance.
2005	USA   Australia	The Great Raid The Great Raid The Great Raid is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan, adapted from William Breuer's book of the same name. It tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp on the Philippine island of Luzon during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin...	John Dahl John Dahl John Dahl is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the neo-noir genre.-Life and career:John Dahl was born in Billings, Montana, the second of four children . Dahl spent his young life in and around Montana all the way up through his college years...	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... ese occupation of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan Raid at Cabanatuan The Raid at Cabanatuan was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines... .
2005	UK	The Last Drop The Last Drop The Last Drop is a 2005 war adventure film from writer/director Colin Teague. Teague teamed up with screenwriter Gary Young, with whom he had previously collaborated on the British crime drama films Shooters and Spivs...	David Teague	Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....  and a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...  gold.
2005	Republic of China	The Strait Story The Strait Story The Strait Story or Fu shih kuang ying as it is known in its country of origin, is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Yu-shan Huang.-Plot summary:...	Yu-shan Huang
2005	Russia  Early Modern France  Italy  Switzerland  Japan	The Sun The Sun (film) The Sun is a 2005 Russian biographical film surrounding Japanese Emperor Shōwa during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy following on the leaders of Russia and Germany's .-Plot:Towards the conclusion of the Second World War, Japan...	Aleksandr Sokurov	The life of Emperor Hirohito Hirohito , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to... .
2005	UK   USA  Mainland China	The White Countess The White Countess The White Countess is a 2005 British/American/Chinese drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s.-Plot:...	James Ivory James Ivory (director) James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
2005	Russia	Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva	Artyom Nazarov ?	Gorgeous Soviet women snipers
2005	Japan	Yamato	Junya Sato Junya Sato is a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Sato graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 with a degree in French literature. He joined the Toei studio and worked as an assistant to such directors as Tadashi Imai and Miyoji Ieki. He debuted as a director in 1963 with Rikugun zangyaku...	The Yamato Yamato class battleship The were battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy constructed and operated during World War II. Displacing at full load, the vessels were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. The class carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, nine naval... 's crew during the Pacific War Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East... .
2006	Mainland China	Tokyo Trial Tokyo Trial (film) -Story:This film was directed by Gao Qunshu and is about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after Japan surrendered after World War II. The movie presents the Trial from the point of view of the Chinese judge Mei Ju-ao....	Gao Qunshu	Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
2006	USA	Flags of Our Fathers Flags of Our Fathers (film) is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved...	Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...	The Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...  from the perspective of American soldiers
2006	Germany  Lithuania	Ghetto	Audrius Juzėnas	The Holocaust in Lithuania
2006	Early Modern France  Morocco  Algeria  Belgium	Days of Glory	Rachid Bouchareb Rachid Bouchareb Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...	Four North Africans enlist in the French Army to liberate France
2006	Australia	Kokoda Kokoda (film) Kokoda is a 2006 Australian film directed by Alister Grierson and is based on the experiences of Australian troops fighting Japanese forces during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign....	Alister Grierson Alister Grierson Alister Grierson is an Australian film director and scriptwriter. Born in Canberra in 1969, he completed his secondary schooling at Canberra Grammar, graduated in Economics and Arts from the Australian National University and studied Japanese in Tokyo...	Kokoda Track Campaign Kokoda Track campaign The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua...
2006	USA	Letters from Iwo Jima Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...	Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...	The Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...  from the perspective of Japanese soldiers
2006	Russia	Svolochi Svolochi - Synopsis :In Soviet Russia, 1943, a group of teenage convicts are secretly trained for a guerrilla mission to stop the actions of a German army group called "Edelweiss".-Plot summary:...	Aleksandr Atanesyan	Teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission
2006	Netherlands  Germany UK  Belgium	Zwartboek (Black Book)	Paul Verhoeven	A young Jewish woman joins the Dutch Resistance Dutch resistance Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized by its prominent non-violence, summitting in over 300,000 people in hiding in the autumn of 1944, tended to by some 60,000 to 200,000 illegal landlords and caretakers and tolerated knowingly...  and becomes entangled in a deadly web of collaboration and betrayal in the final months of the war
2006	Germany	The Last Train	Dana Vávrová Dana Vávrová Dana Vávrová was a Czech-German film actress and director.-Biography:Vávrová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and played her first main film role in Ať žijí duchové! in 1976, having played a minor role in Jak se točí Rozmarýny...  Joseph Vilsmaier Joseph Vilsmaier Joseph Vilsmaier is a German film director.-Work:After attending a boarding school near Augsburg, he was trained as a technician to make film cameras and then spent nine years at a music conservatory. Following this he was a member of a jazz group...	A cattle train with 688 Jews Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...  bound for Auschwitz in 1943.
2007	USA	American Pastime American Pastime (film) American Pastime is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah camp which housed thousands of people during the Japanese American internment during World War II....	Desmond Nakano Desmond Nakano  This article about a United States film director is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by [/w/index.php?stub&title=&action=edit expanding it]....	Love, jazz and baseball at the Topaz, Utah internment Internment Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...  camp
2007	UK	Atonement Atonement (film) Atonement is a 2007 British romantic suspense war film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006...	Joe Wright Joe Wright Joe Wright is an English film director best known for Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna.-Early life and career:...	Dunkirk evacuation.
2007	Australia	Curtin Curtin (2007 film) Curtin is a telemovie about the wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin.-Plot:The film covers the period from just before Curtin became Prime Minister until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia at the start of the Pacific war.... (TV)	Jessica Hobbs	The wartime Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister of Australia The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful... , John Curtin John Curtin John Joseph Curtin , Australian politician, served as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia. Labor under Curtin formed a minority government in 1941 after the crossbench consisting of two independent MPs crossed the floor in the House of Representatives, bringing down the Coalition minority...
2007	Japan	For Those We Love For Those We Love For Those We Love is a 1921 silent film rural drama produced by and starring Betty Compson and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It co-starred Lon Chaney and was directed by Arthur Rosson. Today it is a lost film. -Cast:*Betty Compson - Bernice Arnold...	Taku Shinjō	Stories of kamikaze pilots
2007	Poland	Jutro idziemy do kina Jutro idziemy do kina Jutro idziemy do kina is a 2007 Polish Television movie, directed by Michał Kwieciński. It tells a story of three friends, who graduated from high school in May 1938. Two of them joined the army, and the third became a student of medicine... (Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies)	Michał Kwieciński	The Polish Campaign, 1939
2007	Poland	Katyń Katyn (film) Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk...	Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...	The Katyń massacre Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre , was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs , the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of...  of Polish Poles thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...  POWs and civilians by the Soviets in 1940.
2007	Mainland China   USA  Republic of China	Lust, Caution	Ang Lee Ang Lee Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...	An espionage thriller set in occupied Shanghai
2007	Germany	Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler is a 2007 German comedy directed by Dani Levy....	Dani Levy Dani Levy Dani Levy is a film maker, theatrical director and actor.-Work:Dani Levy's films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul...
2007	Belgium	Surviving with Wolves	Véra Belmont Véra Belmont Véra Belmont is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. She has produced over 40 films since 1960. Her 1985 film Red Kiss was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where Charlotte Valandrey won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.-Selected filmography:* The Cop * Quest...	A young Jewish girl combs Europe for her deported parents.
2007	Finland	Tali Ihantala 1944	Åke Lindman Åke Lindman Åke Leonard Lindman , born Åke Leonard Järvinen, was a Finnish director and actor.In his youth Lindman was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. He represented the football club HIFK in the Finnish league. In the 1960s, the British... , Sakari Kirjavainen	Battles of the Continuation War Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
2007	Austria	The Counterfeiters The Counterfeiters (film) The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize Great Britain by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England bank notes.The film centres on a...	Stefan Ruzowitzky Stefan Ruzowitzky Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna...	Operation Bernhard Operation Bernhard Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes...
2007	Estonia	Ühe metsa pojad	Ats Surva	Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944.
2007	Japan	Yunagi City, Sakura Country	Kiyoshi Sasabe	The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
2008	Germany	Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin A Woman in Berlin A Woman in Berlin is an account of the period from 20 April to 22 June 1945 in Berlin . At the author's request, the work was published anonymously for her protection. The book purports to detail the writer's experiences as a rape victim during the Red Army occupation of the city...	Max Färberböck Max Färberböck Max Färberböck is a German film director and writer. He was born in Degerndorf, Münsing, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at...	Soviet occupation of Berlin
2008	Australia	Australia Australia (2008 film) Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...	Baz Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...	A love story between an Australian soldier and a British aristocrat during the first attack on Darwin.
2008	USA UK	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 historical-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne. Directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, it stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend.A Holocaust drama, the film...	Mark Herman Mark Herman Mark Herman is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing & directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas....	The Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of a death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew
2008	Australia  Mainland China  Germany	The Children of Huang Shi The Children of Huang Shi The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...	Roger Spottiswoode Roger Spottiswoode Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring...	The Nanking Massacre Nanking Massacre The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second... , and Three Alls Policy Three Alls Policy The Three Alls Policy was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China during World War II, the three alls being: "Kill All", "Burn All" and "Loot All" . In Japanese documents, the policy was originally referred to as... .
2008	USA	Defiance Defiance (2008 film) Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War...	Edward Zwick Edward Zwick Edward M. Zwick is an American filmmaker and film producer noted for his epic films about social and racial issues. He has been described as a "throwback to an earlier era, an extremely cerebral director whose movies consistently feature fully rounded characters, difficult moral issues, and plots...	Bielski partisans Bielski partisans The Bielski partisans were an organisation of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators in the vicinity of Nowogródek and Lida in German-occupied Poland...
2008	Denmark	Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron Flame & Citron Flame & Citron is a 2008 Danish drama/action co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film, a fictionalized account based on fact, is about two Danish resistance movement fighters during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.- Plot :... )	Ole Christian Madsen Ole Christian Madsen Ole Christian Madsen is a Danish film director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has achieved success in Denmark. Among the most successful projects are the movies Flammen og Citronen, Prague, Nordkraft and the TV series Rejseholdet and Edderkoppen...	Two members of the Danish Resistance Holger Danske (resistance group) Holger Danske was a Danish resistance group during World War II. It was created by veteran volunteers from the Winter War who had fought on the Finnish side against the Soviet Union. It was among the largest resistance groups and consisted of around 350 volunteers towards the end of the war...  are sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators
2008	Early Modern France UK	Les Femmes De L'Ombre (Female Agents)	Jean-Paul Salomé Jean-Paul Salomé Jean-Paul Salomé is a French director.- Selected filmography :*1994 Les Braqueuses with Clémentine Célarié, Catherine Jacob and Annie Girardot...	Five female SOE Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...  agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate the German head of counter-intelligence Counter-intelligence Counterintelligence or counter-intelligence refers to efforts made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them. National intelligence programs, and, by extension, the overall defenses of... ) and rescue a Briton with information on the D-Day D-Day D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar...  invasion
2008	Norway  Germany  Denmark	Max Manus Max Manus (film) Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus . The story follows Manus from the Winter War against the Soviet Union, through the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Norway until peacetime in 1945...	Joachim Rønning Joachim Roenning Joachim Rønning is a Norwegian film director who usually works in a team with Espen Sandberg – both natives of Sandefjord, Norway. As a directing team, they go under the name of Roenberg . They co-own one of Scandinavia's largest production companies for commercials called Motion Blur... Espen Sandberg	The story of Max Manus Max Manus Maximo Guillermo "Max" Manus DSO, MC & Bar was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.Manus was born in Bergen to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother... , a resistance member Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:...  fighting the Nazi occupation of Norway
2008	USA	Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war film, directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride, based on McBride's novel of the same name. The film was released on September 26, 2008, and is set during World War II, in fall of 1944 in Tuscany and in the winter of 1983 in New York City and Rome...	Spike Lee Spike Lee Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....	The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German atrocity in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement in 1944, during the Italian Campaign of World War II.-Facts:...
2008	Netherlands	Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime)	Martin Koolhoven Martin Koolhoven Martin Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch film school in 1996 and almost immediately made an impact on the Dutch film industry with his 53 minute television film Duister Licht in which the slaughtering of a pig was...	A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance Dutch resistance Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized by its prominent non-violence, summitting in over 300,000 people in hiding in the autumn of 1944, tended to by some 60,000 to 200,000 illegal landlords and caretakers and tolerated knowingly...  during the last winter of the war
2008	Israel	Spring 1941	Uri Barbash Uri Barbash Uri Barbash is an Israeli film director. His film co-wrote with Eran Preis, Beyond the Walls was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...	Warsaw female grocer falls in love with the husband of the jewish couple she is hiding
2008	Czech Republic	Tobruk Tobruk (2008 film) Tobruk is a 2008 film written and directed by Václav Marhoul and starring Jan Meduna and Petr Vanek. It is an adaptation of the classic American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane...	Václav Marhoul	Siege of Tobruk Siege of Tobruk The siege of Tobruk was a confrontation that lasted 240 days between Axis and Allied forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War...
2008	USA	Valkyrie Valkyrie (film) Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...	Bryan Singer Bryan Singer Bryan Singer is an American film director and film producer. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on The Usual Suspects, and is especially well-known among fans of the science fiction and superhero genres for his work on the X-Men films and Superman Returns.-Early life:Singer was born in New...	The July 20 Plot July 20 Plot On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...  to assassinate Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
2009	Early Modern France	The Army of Crime The Army of Crime The Army of Crime is a 2009 French drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian and based on a story by Serge Le Péron, one of three credited for the screenplay. It received a wide release in France on September 16, 2009 and opened in the United States in 2010.The film deals with the events of the...	Robert Guédiguian Robert Guédiguian Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....	The Manouchian Missak Manouchian Missak Manouchian was a French poet of Armenian birth, a militant communist in the MOI , and military commissioner of the FTP-MOI in the Paris region...  resistance group and the Red Poster Affiche Rouge The Affiche Rouge is a famous propaganda poster, distributed by Vichy French and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in occupied Paris, to discredit 23 French Resistance fighters, members of the Manouchian Group...
2009	Russia UK	Attack on Leningrad Attack on Leningrad Attack on Leningrad, or just Leningrad, is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad.- Plot :...	Aleksandr Buravsky	The Siege of Leningrad Siege of Leningrad The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last...
2009	Mainland China	City of Life and Death	Lu Chuan Lu Chuan Lu Chuan is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of the novelist, Lu Tianming.-Education:Educated at the People's Liberation Army International Relations University in Nanjing, Lu spent two years serving in the Army as a secretary to a general. After his time in the army, Lu...	The Nanking Massacre Nanking Massacre The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...
2009	Mainland China	Cow Cow (film) Cow is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Guan Hu. A black comedy, Cow takes place during the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A villager, played by Huang Bo, has been entrusted to care for a Dutch cow when a Japanese attack leaves him and the cow the only survivors.The film premiered at the...	Guan Hu Guan Hu Guan Hu is a sixth generation Chinese film director.- Career :A graduate of the class of 1991 of the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, Guan became the youngest director in the Beijing Film Studio. In the 1990s, Guan directed a handful of films making a name as an important voice of the sixth...
2009	USA	Everyman's War Everyman's War Everyman's War is an independent narrative feature war film directed by Thad Smith. It was released on DVD in the U.S. on May 18, 2010 by Virgil Films & Entertainment and in 43 countries internationally by Koan Entertainment. Additionally it was released in Spain by Paramount Pictures in May of...	Thad Smith	The US 94th Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
2009	Japan  Russia   Canada	First Squad First Squad First Squad is a joint animation project of Japan's Studio 4°C and Russian authors with Molot Entertainment. It won the Kommersant newspaper's prize.-Plot:Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front...	Yoshiharu Ashino	Anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  film about the Nazi-Soviet War.
2009	USA	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...	Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to kill a group of Nazis.
2009	USA UK	Into the Storm	Thaddeus O'Sullivan Thaddeus O'Sullivan Thaddeus O'Sullivan is an Irish director, cinematographer, writer.-Filmography:-Awards:*1990 won the Silver Rosa Camuna at the Bergamo Film Meeting for December Bride...	Biographical film about Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...  and his wartime leadership (sequel to The Gathering Storm The Gathering Storm The Gathering Storm may refer to:* The Gathering Storm, the first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's The Second World War** The Gathering Storm , a television film about Churchill, starring Richard Burton... ).
2009	Hong Kong	Ip Man Ip Man (film) Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong semi biographical martial arts film very loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and master of Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Second Sino-Japanese War...	Wilson Yip Wilson Yip Wilson Yip Wai-Shun is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. His films include Bio Zombie, The White Dragon, SPL: Sha Po Lang, Dragon Tiger Gate, Flash Point, Ip Man, and Ip Man 2.-Early career:...	Yip Man Yip Man Yip Man , also spelled as Ip Man, and also known as Yip Kai-Man, was a Chinese martial artist. He had several students who later became martial arts teachers in their own right, including Bruce Lee.-Early life:... 's life in the city of Foshan Foshan Foshan is a city in central Guangdong province in southern China. The prefectural area under the city's jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper ....  during the Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .
2009	Germany  Mainland China  Early Modern France	John Rabe John Rabe (film) John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....	Florian Gallenberger Florian Gallenberger Florian Gallenberger is a German film director. His film Quiero ser was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.-Career:...	The Nanking Massacre Nanking Massacre The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...
2009	Japan	Last Operations Under the Orion	Tetsuo Shinohara Tetsuo Shinohara Tetsuo Shinohara is a Japanese film director. His film First Love was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival.-Filmography:# Ogawa no Hotori # Clearless...	A naval battle between Japan and the USA
2009	Russia	Pop (The Priest)	Vladimir Khotinenko Vladimir Khotinenko Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko is a Russian actor, film director and designer.-Biography:In 1976, he received his diploma from the Institute of Architecture of Sverdlovsk, in what is now Ekaterinburg...	A priest in occupied Latvia

2010s

2010s in film

The 2010s decade has numerous films in production to be released in 2013 and beyond. While some films have announced release dates but have yet to begin filming, others are in production but do not yet have definite release dates.-January – March:...

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	Russia	Brest Fortress Brest Fortress (2010) The Brest Fortress is a 2010 Russian war film.It recounts the events surrounding the June 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II...	Alexander Kott Alexander Kott -External links:...	Defense of Brest Fortress Defense of Brest Fortress The defence of Brest Fortress took place 22–30 June 1941. It was one of the first battles of Operation Barbarossa. The Brest Fortress was defended by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht, held out longer than expected, and became a symbol of Soviet resistance during the Second World War...  by Soviet troops in June 1941
2010	Japan	Caterpillar Caterpillar (film) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Rampo's banned short-story .The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various...	Kōji Wakamatsu Koji Wakamatsu is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses...	Disfigured Japanese veteran returns home to Japan
2010	Poland UK	Christine: War My Love	Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...	Story of Polish spy Krystyna Skarbek
2010	People's Republic of China	Death and Glory in Changde City	Dong Shen	Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War, "Death and Glory in Changde" depicts the 1943 Battle of Changde Battle of Changde - Sources :* Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Pg...  (a city in the province of Hunan, China). A Chinese division of 8,000-9,000 soldiers defended the city from the attack of 30,000 Japanese soldiers.
2010	People's Republic of China	East Wind Rain	Yunlong Liu
2010	Czech Republic  Germany  Austria	Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill)	Juraj Herz	Life in Nazi Czechoslovakia
2010	Poland	Joanna	Feliks Falk Feliks Falk Feliks Falk is a Polish movie and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist...	Krakow, Poland - German occupation and Holocaust
2010	UK	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper Tom Hooper Tom Hooper is a Canadian songwriter and musician.He was a founding member of the Kelowna punk band Gentlemen of Horror, and also of The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular Canadian rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When singer/guitarist Kevin Kane was ejected from The Grapes of...	King George VI
2010	Early Modern France	La Rafle	Roselyne Bosch	The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
2010	Hong Kong	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is a 2010 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Andrew Lau. The film is a continuation of the 1994 film Fist of Legend starring Jet Li, with Donnie Yen as Chen Zhen, a role made famous by Bruce Lee in the 1972 film Fist of Fury...	Wai-keung Lau	Shanghai prior to the Japanese invasion
2010	USA	The Pacific The Pacific (miniseries) The Pacific is a 2010 television series produced by HBO, Seven Network Australia, Sky Movies, Playtone and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010....	Carl Franklin Carl Franklin Carl Franklin is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986... , Tim Van Patten Tim Van Patten Tim Van Patten is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. As a director, Van Patten has directed episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Rome, The Pacific, Game of Thrones, Ed, and Sex and the City. Van Patten is perhaps best known for portraying... , Graham Yost Graham Yost Graham John Yost is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His most famous works are the hit 1994 film Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.... , Jeremy Podeswa Jeremy Podeswa Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The... , Tony To Tony To Tony To is a television producer and director. He is best known for producing and also directing for the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, for which he won an Emmy Award. To later returned to produce and direct for the 2010 companion miniseries The Pacific...	1st Division of the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations
2010	Early Modern France	Sarah's Key Sarah's Key Sarah's Key is a French drama starring Kristin Scott-Thomas and follows an American journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup Sarah's Key is a French drama starring Kristin Scott-Thomas and follows an American journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv...	Kristen Scott Thomas	Vel' d'Hiv
2010	USA	The Way Back The Way Back The Way Back is a 2010 drama film about a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian Gulag camp during World War II. The film is directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay also by Weir and Keith Clarke, inspired by The Long Walk , a book by Sławomir Rawicz, a Polish POW in the Soviet Gulag. It...	Peter Weir Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir, AM is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films—many of them major box office...	A motley group of prisoners, including POWs, make a long escape from a Soviet Gulag Gulag The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
2010	Poland	Wenecja	Jan Jakub Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.-Early life and career:Kolski comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa Pakulska were film editors. His brother, Włodzimierz Kolski, is a production manager. His paternal...	Poland - German occupation, 1939-1945
2011	UK	Age of Heroes Age of Heroes (film) Age of Heroes is an action-thriller film directed by Adrian Vitoria. The film is based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit during World War II The film was released in the United Kingdom in 2011.-Plot:...	Adrian Vitoria
2011	India	Gandhi to Hitler	Rakesh Ranjan Kumar	Based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...  to Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
2011	Sweden	Gränsen (The Frontier)	Richard Holm	Two Swedish soldiers travel toward the border of Nazi-occupied Norway
2011	Denmark	Hvidstens gruppen	Regner Grasten	A resistance group from Jutland Jutland Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...
2011	USA	Little Iron Men	Jesse Kobayashi	Rescue of the Lost Battalion Lost Battalion (World War II) "The Lost Battalion" refers to the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry , which was surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains on 24 October 1944....  by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team The 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army, was composed of Japanese-American enlisted men and mostly Caucasian officers. They fought primarily in Europe during World War II, beginning in 1944. The families of many of its soldiers were subject to internment...
2011	Japan	Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox)	Hideyuki Hirayama Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. He was given a Best Director award at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival...	Story of Japanese holdout Japanese holdout Japanese holdouts or stragglers were Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theatre who, after the August 1945 surrender of Japan that marked the end of World War II, either adamantly doubted the veracity of the formal surrender due to strong dogmatic or militaristic principles, or were not aware of it...  Captain Sakae Ōba Sakae Oba was an officer of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He served in both China and in the Pacific campaign. After Japanese forces were defeated in the Battle of Saipan, he led a group of soldiers and civilians deep into the jungle to evade capture by Allied forces...  following the Battle of Saipan Battle of Saipan The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...  (1944).
2011	United States	Sarah's Key Sarah's Key Sarah's Key is a French drama starring Kristin Scott-Thomas and follows an American journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup Sarah's Key is a French drama starring Kristin Scott-Thomas and follows an American journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv...	Gilles Paquet-Brenner	The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
2011	USA	Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. It is the fifth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe...	Joe Johnston Joe Johnston Joseph Eggleston "Joe" Johnston II is an American film director and former effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, The Rocketeer, Jurassic Park III, the period drama October Sky, The Wolfman, and Captain America: The First Avenger.- Life and...	Story of Captain America as he battles a nazi leader the red skull.
2012	USA	Truth & Treason	Matt Whitaker	Story of Helmuth Hübener Helmuth Hübener Helmuth Guddat Kunkel Hübener was the youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed.-Life:... , youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof and executed for high treason
2012	USA	Red Tails Red Tails Red Tails is an upcoming 2012 action drama film directed by Anthony Hemingway, from a screenplay by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder. The story, written by Ridley, is inspired by true events. George Lucas serves as the executive producer for the project...	Anthony Hemingway Anthony Hemingway Anthony Hemingway is an American film and television director. He has directed episodes of The Wire, CSI: NY, and Treme. Before becoming a director he worked extensively as an assistant director in television and film....	It is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American combat pilots during World War II

In development

Year	|Country	|Title	|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
201X	USA	Agent Zigzag	Mike Newell Mike Newell (director) Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan...	Nazi spy Eddie Chapman Eddie Chapman Edward Arnold "Eddie" Chapman was an English pre-war criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and a traitor whilst intending all along to become a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers code named him 'ZIGZAG' in...  turns himself in to the British and becomes a double agent
201X	UK   USA  New Zealand	Dambusters	Christian Rivers Christian Rivers Christian Rivers is a New Zealand visual effects art director and filmmaker. He first met Peter Jackson as a 17 year old, and storyboarded all of Jackson's films since Braindead. He also cameos in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as a Gondorian soldier. He is set to make his...	Operation Chastise Operation Chastise Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the "Dambusters", using a specially developed "bouncing bomb" invented and developed by Barnes Wallis...
201X	USA	Panzer 88	Peter Briggs Peter Briggs Peter Briggs is a British born and based director, producer, screenwriter, and concept artist; hired generally by overseas Hollywood motion picture studios. Although having worked in the motion picture industry for close to 20 years, he is best known for his work on the acclaimed film Hellboy...	The crew of a King Tiger tank in the Eastern Front battles an unknown creature.
201X	USA  Germany	The Forgotten Soldier The Forgotten Soldier The Forgotten Soldier , originally published in French as Le Soldat Oublie, is presented as an autobiographical account of Guy Sajer, the pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux who was a well known french comics writer also known under the pseudonym of Dimitri...	Paul Verhoeven	Adaptation of Guy Sajer Guy Sajer Guy Sajer is a pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux , author of The Forgotten Soldier. The son of a French and German marriage, 'Sajer' is his mother's maiden name... 's autobiography
201X	South Korea	My Way	Kang Je-gyu Kang Je-gyu Kang Je-gyu is a South Korean film director. He studied in Chungang University.He firstly got his prize in Korea Youth Film festival and Korea Scenario Awards in 1991.-Career:...
201X	Estonia	Nemad (Them)	Ilmar Raag Ilmar Raag Ilmar Raag is an Estonian media executive, screenwriter and film director, best known for his socio-critical film The Class . He has served as CEO of Estonian National Television from 2002 to 2005. He is well known columnist in many prestigious Estonian newspapers...	A film about the Battle of the Tannenberg Line
201X	Brazil	A Montanha - O Filme (The Mountain - The movie)	Vicente Ferraz	A film about the Brazilian Expedition Force in Italy.

TV series

Years		|Country	|Title	OSS Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency...  in occupied France
1962	1966	USA	McHale's Navy McHale's Navy McHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11,1962, to August 31, 1966, on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated in a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962...	The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat PT boat PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...  crew in the Pacific Campaign Pacific War The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
1962	1967	USA	Combat!	A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France
1964	1967	USA	Twelve O'Clock High Twelve O'Clock High (TV series) Twelve O'Clock High or 12 O'Clock High is an American drama series set in World War II. This TV series originally broadcasted on ABC-TV for two-and-one-half TV seasons from September 18, 1964, through January 13, 1967; was based on the motion picture Twelve O'Clock High...
1965	1966	USA	The Wackiest Ship in the Army The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV series) The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966. Produced by Harry Ackerman and Herbert Hirschman, the series is loosely based on the 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.-Synopsis:The series is...
1965	1971	USA	Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to March 28, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E...	Comedy about a POW camp
1966	1966	UK	Court Martial Court Martial (TV series) Court Martial was an ITC Entertainment and Roncom Productions co-production crime drama TV series that premiered in 1966. Set during World War II, the series details the investigations of a Judge Advocate General's office....	During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime
1966	1968	USA	The Rat Patrol The Rat Patrol The Rat Patrol is an American television program that aired on ABC during the 1966–1968 seasons. The show follows the exploits of four Allied soldiers who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II...	Long Range Desert Patrol
1966	1970	Poland	Czterej pancerni i pies Czterej pancerni i pies Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War Two, and follows the adventures of... (Four tank men and a dog)	A tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 T-34 The T-34 was a Soviet medium tank produced from 1940 to 1958. Although its armour and armament were surpassed by later tanks of the era, it has been often credited as the most effective, efficient and influential design of World War II...  tank in the 1st Polish Army First Polish Army (1944-1945) The Polish First Army was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944, from the previously existing Polish I Corps as part of the People's Army of Poland . The First Army fought westward, subordinated to the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front, during the offensive against Germany that led to...  on the Eastern Front, 1943–45
1967	1968	Poland	Stawka większa niż życie Stawka wieksza niz zycie Stawka większa niż życie is a very successful cult Polish black and white TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss , who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.The series was... (More Than Life at Stake)	Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945
1968	1977	UK	Dad's Army Dad's Army Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...	Comedy about the Home Guard
1972	1973	UK	The Pathfinders	RAF pathfinding missions
1972	1974	UK	Colditz Colditz (TV series) Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to...	Colditz Castle Colditz Castle Colditz Castle is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. Used as a workhouse for the indigent and a mental institution for over 100 years, it gained international fame as a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II for...  POW camp
1973	1973	Soviet Union	Seventeen Moments of Spring Seventeen Moments of Spring Seventeen Moments of Spring is a 1973 Soviet TV miniseries. It was filmed at Gorky Film Studio, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the book of the same title by the novelist Yulian Semyonov. The series comprises 12 episodes of 70 minutes each...	A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany
1975	1975	Poland  Hungary	Trzecia granica (Third Border)	Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary
1976	1976	Iran	My Uncle Napoleon	Comedy set in Tehran Tehran Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...  under Allied occupation Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran was the Allied invasion of the Imperial State of Iran during World War II, by British, Commonwealth, and Soviet armed forces. The invasion from August 25 to September 17, 1941, was codenamed Operation Countenance...
1976	1978	USA	Baa Baa Black Sheep Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series) Baa Baa Black Sheep is a television series that aired on NBC from 1976 until 1978. Its premise was based on the experiences of United States Marine Corps aviator Pappy Boyington and his World War II "Black Sheep Squadron". The series was created and produced by Stephen J. Cannell...	Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington Pappy Boyington Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was a United States Marine Corps officer who was an American fighter ace during World War II. For his heroic actions, he was awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. Boyington flew initially with the American Volunteer Group in the Republic of China Air Force...  and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific
1977	1978	UK	Backs to the Land Backs to the Land Backs to the Land is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1977 to 1978. Starring Philippa Howell, Terese Stevens and Marilyn Galsworthy, Backs to the Land is set during World War II. It was written by David Climie...	Comedy about the Land Girls Women's Land Army The Women's Land Army was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls...
1977	1979	USA	Operation Petticoat
1977	1979	UK  Belgium	Secret Army Secret Army (TV series) Secret Army is a television drama series made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT created by Gerard Glaister. The series chronicled the history of a Belgian resistance movement during the Second World War dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually having been shot down by the...	Belgian resistance
1978	1981	Denmark	Matador Matador (TV series) Matador is a Danish TV series produced between 1978 and 1981. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The...	The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947
1981	1981	UK	Kessler
1982	1992	UK	'Allo 'Allo! 'Allo 'Allo! 'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army, and was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first 6...	Comedy about a café in Occupied France
1985	1985	USA	Jenny's War	A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941
1988	1988	UK	Piece of Cake Piece of Cake (TV series) Piece of Cake is a six part 1988 television series, depicting the life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain...	RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
1992	1992	Denmark	Mørklægning	Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark.
1997	1997	Singapore	The Price of Peace The Price of Peace The Price of Peace is a Singaporean World War II period drama television series first run on TCS Eighth Frequency on 30 June 1997. Although the series was originally in Mandarin, an English dubbed version was also broadcast on TCS Fifth Frequency in 1999. The drama was rerun in 2007 on MediaCorp...	Japanese occupation of Singapore Japanese Occupation of Singapore The Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II occurred between about 1942 and 1945 after the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. Military forces of the Empire of Japan occupied Singapore after defeating the combined Australian, British, Indian and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore...
2001	2001	Australia	Changi	Changi POW camp Changi Prison Changi Prison is a prison located in Changi in the eastern part of Singapore.-First prison and POW camp:...
2001	2001	Singapore	In Pursuit of Peace In Pursuit of Peace In Pursuit of Peace is a Singaporean Mandarin Chinese-language World War II period drama television series. The series was first run on the Chinese-language TCS 8th Frequency from 9 March to 11 May 2001 on Friday nights...	Japanese occupation of Singapore
2001	2001	Singapore	A War Diary A War Diary A War Diary was a Singapore English television series produced by Dream Forest Productions in 2001. It was aired on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. A total of 20 episodes were released...	Japanese occupation of Singapore
2002	now	UK	Foyle's War Foyle's War Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
2004	2005	Japan	Zipang Zipang (anime) is a twenty-six episode Japanese anime television series directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and produced by Studio Deen. It aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System in Japan from late 2004 to early 2005, and was licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment with DVD release starting in...	An anime TV series about Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II.... 's destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2.
2006	2007	Mainland China	Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù	The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...  in 1945
2007	2007	Mainland China	Gongxun	China Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor... , the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war
2007	2007	Mainland China	Sentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵)	The Eighth Route Army Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army was the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that formed a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China which fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Communist...  on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai
2007	2007	Poland	Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes)	Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945
2007	2007	Hong Kong	War and Destiny War and Destiny War and Destiny is a TVB period drama series released overseas in July 2006 and broadcast on TVB Jade Channel in March 2007.-Production note:...	The Nanjing Massacre
2007	2007	Iran  Hungary  Early Modern France  Lebanon	Zero Degree Turn	An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman
2007	2008	Mainland China	Xie Se Xiang Xi	The Battle of West Hunan Battle of West Hunan The Battle of West Hunan , also known as the Zhijiang Campaign was the Japanese invasion of west Hunan and the subsequent Chinese counterattack that occurred between 6 April and 7 June 1945, during the last months of the Second Sino-Japanese War...
2007	now	Mainland China	Soldiers Sortie
2008	2008	Russia	Apostol	Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence
2008	2008	Estonia	Tuulepealne maa Tuulepealne maa Tuulepealne maa is a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series about the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II....	Two Estonian families from World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...  until 1941
2008	2010	Poland	Czas honoru	Cichociemni (SOE Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...  agents) and the Polish Resistance
2008	2010	Japan	Hetalia: Axis Powers Hetalia: Axis Powers is a Japanese webcomic, later adapted as a manga and an anime series, by . The series presents an allegorical trivialisation of political and historic events, particularly of the World War II era, in which the various countries are represented by stereotyped anthropomorphic characters...	An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII
2009	now	UK	Land Girls Land Girls (2009 TV series) Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a...	Drama about the Land Girls Women's Land Army The Women's Land Army was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls...
2009	now	Mainland China	My Chief and My Regiment My Chief and My Regiment My Chief and My Regiment , also known in short by its fans as simply "Chief" or "The Chief Show" , is a highly popular 2009 Chinese TV series produced by Huayi Brothers Media Group. The series is directed by Kang Honglei , with Wu Yi as the chief producer, and is based on the novel of the same...
2009	now	Early Modern France	Un village français Un village français Un village français is a French television drama series that centers on the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.-Main cast :...	An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to... 1 month of war per episode.
2010	now	Hong Kong	No Regrets No Regrets (TV series) No Regrets is a 2010 TVB television drama from Hong Kong created and produced by Lee Tim-shing. The drama is the reboot successor of the 2009 award-winning drama Rosy Business, which was the second most-viewed drama in Hong Kong of the year by average rating.Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in...	Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in Canton Guangzhou Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port... , China History of the Republic of China The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing Dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China put an end to over two thousand years of Imperial rule. The Qing Dynasty, also known as the Manchu Dynasty, ruled from 1644 to 1912...  during Japanese occupation Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States... .

See also

• List of World War II short films
• List of World War II documentary films
• List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
• List of Holocaust films
• List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
• List of partisan films - films about World War II on Yugoslav front

External links

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