List of World War II films since 1990

Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

Restrictions

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

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

Common topics

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

Europe

• Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
• Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
• Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Gestapo and Waffen-SS
• Benito Mussolini
• Kingdom of Italy
• Royal Italian Army, Regia Marina, Regia Aeronautica and Blackshirts
• Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
• Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
• Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
• Occupied Norway
• The Holocaust

Asia–Pacific

• Emperor Hirohito
• Empire of Japan
• Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy
• Little Boy and Fat Man

Non-geographical

• POW

Before 1990

Main articles: List of World War II films before 1950 and List of World War II films (1950–1989)

1990s

1990–1994

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1990	Hong Kong Taiwan	Red Dust		Ho Yim	A female novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during World War II
1990	Canada France China	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	[1]	Phillip Borsos	Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in the Spanish Civil War, then his death aiding Mao Zedong's army
1990	Australia	Blood Oath		Stephen Wallace	War-crimes trial of Japanese for Laha massacre
1990	France	Dr. Petiot	Docteur Petiot	Christian de Chalonge	Crime drama. Serial killer Marcel Petiot in occupied France
1990	West Germany France Poland	Europa Europa	Hitlerjunge Salomon(in German)	Agnieszka Holland	Jewish boy conceals identity by joining Hitler Youth
1990	Sweden Hungary Norway	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten(in Swedish)	Kjell Grede	Drama. Biography of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Hungarian Holocaust
1990	United States	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV)		Peter Werner	Hiroshima after Enola Gay drops atomic bomb
1990	Poland West Germany United Kingdom	Korczak	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda	Drama. Biography of Dr. Korczak in Warsaw ghetto
1990	United States	A Man Called Sarge		Stuart Gillard	Comedy. Western Desert Campaign, battles of El Alamein and Tobruk
1990	United Kingdom United States	Memphis Belle		Michael Caton-Jones	Crew of US B-17 bomber Memphis Belle on their 25th mission, 1943
1990	West Germany	The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Michael Verhoeven	Comedy-drama based on Anna Rosmus. Young woman's research into her German village's history during Third Reich
1990	United States	Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming		Ferdinand Fairfax	Biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
1991	Soviet Union	Carpathian Gold	Карпатське золото Карпатское золото	Viktor Zhivolub	Drama.
1991	Sweden Norway Denmark Finland	The Boys from St. Petri	Drengene fra Sankt Petri(in Danish)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Students form Danish Resistance group Churchill Club under German occupation of Denmark
1991	Latvia	The Child of Man	Cilvēka bērns	Jānis Streičs	Adventure romance based on Jānis Klīdzējs' novel. Latgalian boy's attempts to prevent young woman from marrying shortly before Soviet and Nazi occupations
1991	United States	December (An Innocent War)		Stuart Gillard	US homefront and prep school boys debating military service after Pearl Harbor, 1941
1991	Spain Denmark Sweden France Germany Switzerland	Europa (Zentropa)	Europa	Lars von Trier	American with German railway job at end of war finds his position politically sensitive
1991	United States	For the Boys		Mark Rydell	Musical comedy-drama. USO performer entertains US troops from World War II to Vietnam War
1991	Poland	Just Beyond This Forest	Jeszcze tylko ten las	Jan Łomnicki	Holocaust
1991	Japan	Kayoko's Diary	Ushiro no shoumen daare ( うしろの正面だあれ )	Seiji Arihara	Anime. Japanese home front and bombing of Tokyo of 10 March 1945
1991	Italy	Mediterraneo	Mediterraneo	Gabriele Salvatores	Comedy-drama. Italian soldiers occupying Greek island
1991	Sweden Denmark	The Naked Trees	De nøgne træer	Morten Henriksen	Based on Tage Skou-Hansen novel. Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark
1991	Canada	The Quarrel		Eli Cohen	Holocaust survivors and estranged friends resume argument from years earlier
1991	Japan	Rhapsody in August	Hachi-gatsu no kyōshikyoku (Hachigatsu no rapusodī) (八月の狂詩曲)	Akira Kurosawa	Nagasaki family after Bockscar drops atomic bomb
1991	France Germany Poland	Warsaw – Year 5703	Warszawa. Année 5703(in French) Tragarz puchu(in Polish) Der Daunenträger(in German)	Janusz Kijowski	Romantic drama about a couple fleeing the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto
1992	Poland	All That Really Matters	Wszystko, co najważniejsze	Robert Gliński	Lwów, Poland under Soviet occupation then Gulag
1992	Denmark United States	A Day in October	En dag i oktober	Kenneth Madsen	Danish-Jewish relocation from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden
1992	United States	A Midnight Clear (Section 44)		Keith Gordon	A US intelligence unit finds a German platoon wishing to surrender near the end of the war
1992	Poland	Ring with a Crowned Eagle	Pierścionek z orłem w koronie	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Resistance, 1945–46
1992	United States	Shining Through		David Seltzer	Romance/Thriller. Irish-Jewish-German woman recruited as OSS agent in Nazi Germany
1993	Canada	For the Moment		Aaron Kim Johnston	Romance between an Allied bomber pilot stationed in Canada and a lonely married woman whose husband is fighting overseas
1993	Norway	The Last Lieutenant (The Second Lieutenant)	Secondløitnanten	Hans Petter Moland	Retired Norwegian sea-captain volunteers for duty after Operation Weserübung and coordinates volunteers against German occupation of Norway
1993	Romania	The Mirror	Oglinda (Începutul adevarului)	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Downfall of Ion Antonescu
1993	Taiwan	The Puppetmaster	Xi meng ren sheng (戲夢人生)	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937–1945)
1993	Japan	Rail of the Star	O-Hoshisama no Rail (お星さまのレール)	Toshio Hirata	Anime. Japanese family in Korea during World War 2
1993	United States	The Remains of the Day		James Ivory	Lavish meetings between German sympathizers and English aristocrats in an effort to influence international affairs in the years leading up to the Second World War
1993	United States	Schindler's List		Steven Spielberg	1993 Best Picture drama chronicling Oskar Schindler's rescue of nearly 1,200 Jews in occupied Poland from the Holocaust
1993	United Kingdom	Stalag Luft		Adrian Shergold	Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft
1993	Germany	Stalingrad	Stalingrad	Joseph Vilsmaier	Battle of Stalingrad
1993	United States	Swing Kids		Thomas Carter	Musical drama. High school Swing Kids in the Hitler-Jugend
1993	Estonia Poland Russia	Tear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear)	Saatana pisar(in Estonian) Łza księcia ciemności (in Polish) Слеза князя тьмы(in Russian)	Marek Piestrak	Horror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939
1994	United States Canada	The Ascent		Donald Shebib	Based on actual events. Italian escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya
1994	France	A Day Before Dawn	Un jour avant l'aube	Jacques Ertaud	French SAS commando in Brittany during Operation Overlord and Normandy Campaign, 1944
1994	Aotearoa New Zealand	The Last Tattoo		John Reid	A U.S. Marine is murdered in Wellington when soldiers fraternize with locals
1994	Italy	Dear Goddamned Friends	Cari fottutissimi amici	Mario Monicelli	Comedy. A group of boxers, including an American black deserter, travel from town to town in Tuscany during the summer of 1944

1995–1999

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1995	Italy	Childhood Enemies	Nemici d'infanzia	Luigi Magni	Italian Civil War in Rome, 1944
1995	France	A French Woman	Une femme française	Régis Wargnier	While waiting for his husband's return from a POW camp during WWII, Jeanne gets involved on different affairs with his husband's comrades-in-arms.
1995	Russia	The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov	Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (Великий полководец Георгий Жуков)	Yuri Ozerov	Docudrama (художественно-документальный). Biopic of Marshal Georgy Zhukov
1995	Canada Japan	Hiroshima (TV)		Roger Spottiswoode	Decision-making processes regarding use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1995	Poland Germany France	Holy Week	Wielki tydzień(in Polish)	Andrzej Wajda	Holocaust
1995	Denmark	Just a Girl	Kun en pige	Peter Schrøder	German occupation of Denmark
1995	Australia Japan	The Last Bullet (TV)	Rasutobaretto (ラストバレット)	Michael Pattinson	Australian and Japanese soldiers battle in South Pacific jungle on last day of war
1995	United States	Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV)		Robert Iscove	Sinking of USS Indianapolis and struggle of surviving crewmen in open water
1995	China	Red Cherry	Hóng yīng táo (红樱桃)	Daying Ye	Chinese boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union
1995	United States	Sahara (Desert Storm) (TV)		Brian Trenchard-Smith	Western Desert Campaign; remake of 1943 film Sahara
1995	United States	Truman (TV)		Frank Pierson	Drama. Biopic of US President Harry S. Truman from artillery service in World War I
1995	United States	The Tuskegee Airmen		Robert Markowitz	First African-American combat pilots of the war [2]
1995	Yugoslavia France Germany	Underground	Podzemlje (Подземље)	Emir Kusturica	German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia
1995	Netherlands	The Partisans (TV miniseries)	De Partizanen	Theu Boermans	Dutch resistance unit capture a group of German soldiers, just weeks before the liberation of The Netherlands. Based on true facts
1995	Japan	Tower of the Lilies	Himeyuri no Tô ( ひめゆりの塔 )	Seijirō Kōyama	Himeyuri students in Battle of Okinawa
1996	Italy	The Border	La Frontiera	Franco Giraldi	Drama. Italian officer born in Dalmatia spends his convalescence in a Dalmatian island occupied by the Italian Army
1996	United Kingdom	The Brylcreem Boys		Terence Ryan	Comedy-drama. British and German pilots in POW camp in neutral Ireland during Battle of Britain
1996	United Kingdom United States	The English Patient		Anthony Minghella	1996 Best Picture romantic-drama. Biography of Hungarian Count László Almásy, injured cartographer who charts Sahara Desert in Italian Campaign
1996	Germany Norway Sweden Denmark	Hamsun	Hamsun	Jan Troell	Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and wife during German occupation of Norway
1996	United States	Mother Night		Keith Gordon	American writer living in Germany at the start of the war. Based on Kurt Vonnegut novel
1996	France Germany United Kingdom	The Ogre	Der Unhold(in German)	Volker Schlöndorff	French POW recruiting children for Nazis believing he is protecting them
1996	Canada United Kingdom Luxembourg	On Dangerous Ground (TV)		Lawrence Gordon-Clark	Thriller based on Jack Higgins novel. Secret wartime agreement between Mountbatten and Mao
1996	United Kingdom	Over Here (TV)		Tony Dow	Comedy-drama. British and American aircrew rivalry in England
1996	United States	The Ring (Danielle Steel's The Ring) (TV)		Armand Mastroianni	Romance/Drama. Young German woman separated from her family and imprisoned by Nazis
1996	Italy Hungary	The Seventh Chamber	La settima stanza(in Italian) A hetedik szoba(in Hungarian)	Márta Mészáros	Jewish German philosopher Edith Stein, converts to Christianity, after being influenced by the writings of St Teresa of Avila amidst growing conflicts
1996	Thailand	Sunset at Chaophraya	Khu gamคู่กรรม(in Thai)	Euthana Mukdasanit	Free Thai Movement and Siam under Japanese occupation of Thailand, 1939–1944
1996	United States	Surviving Picasso		James Ivory	The stormy relationship between artist Pablo Picasso and his lover Francoise Gilot during the German occupation of France
1997	United Kingdom Japan	Bent	[1]	Sean Mathias	Drama based on Martin Sherman play. Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
1997	Germany	The Devil's General (TV)	Des Teufels General	Frank Castorf	Drama based on Carl Zuckmayer play. Successful Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet courted by Widerstand; remake of 1955 film Des Teufels General
1997	Denmark United Kingdom Germany	The Island on Bird Street	Øen i Fuglegaden(in Danish) Die Insel in der Vogelstrasse(in German)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Polish-Jewish boy hiding in ghetto from Nazis
1997	United Kingdom	The Land Girls		David Leland	Women's Land Army who worked on rural British farms during the war whilst farmworkers were away
1997	Italy	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Comedy-drama. Holocaust under German occupation of Italy
1997	France	Lucie Aubrac	Lucie Aubrac	Claude Berri	Lucie and Raymond Aubrac under German occupation of France
1997	Australia United States	Paradise Road		Bruce Beresford	Allied women POWs in Japanese-occupied Sumatra
1998	Poland	Deserter's Gold	Złoto dezerterów	Janusz Majewski	Heist comedy. World War I buddies reuniting with Polish Underground to liberate Nazi gold; sequel to 1986 film C.K. dezerterzy
1998	Japan France	Dr. Akagi	Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生)	Shohei Imamura	Comedy-drama. rural Japanese physician trying to eradicate hepatitis while at odds with Imperial Japanese Army
1998	Italy	Little Teachers	I piccoli maestri	Daniele Luchetti	Italian resistance movement in Veneto
1998	United States	Miracle at Midnight (TV)		Ken Cameron	Holocaust, Danish Resistance, and rescue of Danish Jews during German occupation of Denmark
1998	Japan	Pride: The Fateful Moment	Puraido: Unmei no toki (プライド – 運命のトキません)	Shunya Ito	Hideki Tojo during post-war Tokyo Trials
1998	United States	Saving Private Ryan		Steven Spielberg	Team of U.S. Army Rangers search for single U.S. soldier during the Normandy Campaign
1998	United States	The Thin Red Line		Terrence Malick	US infantrymen and Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal Campaign
1998	United States	When Trumpets Fade		John Irvin	US troops fighting German forces during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1999	Germany	Aimée & Jaguar (Aimee and Jaguar)	Aimée & Jaguar	Max Färberböck	Romance between lesbians Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust amidst Gestapo purge of Jews in Berlin
1999	Czech Republic Poland Slovakia	All My Loved Ones	Všichni moji blízcí(in Czech)	Matej Minac	Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton, and escape of 669 children from the Holocaust
1999	Finland	Ambush	Rukajärven tie	Olli Saarela	Finnish Army and Women's Auxiliary Corps Lotta Svärd during Continuation War, 1941
1999	Croatia	Bleiburg	Četverored	Branko Schmidt	Bleiburg death marches; forced repatriations of Axis-affiliated individuals from Allied-occupied Austria at the end of the war
1999	United Kingdom United States	The End of the Affair		Neil Jordan	Based on Graham Greene novel. British homefront and illicit romance; remake of 1955 film The End of the Affair
1999	Germany Hungary	Gloomy Sunday	Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (in German)	Rolf Schübel	Romance drama based on Nick Barkow novel.
1999	France United States Hungary	Jakob the Liar	[1]	Peter Kassovitz	Comedy-drama. "Secret radio" in Jewish ghetto of Poland and Holocaust
1999	China	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (Heart of China)	Húanghé júeliàn (黄河绝恋)	Feng Xiaoning	American pilot returns to pay respects to communist-led Chinese army that rescued him
1999	Russia Germany Japan Italy France	Moloch	Molokh (Молох) (in Russian)	Aleksandr Sokurov	Hitler visits Bavarian Berghof, 1942
1999	Germany Austria Canada Hungary	Sunshine	[1]	István Szabó	Three generations of Jewish family including Holocaust, Operation Margarethe and German occupation of Hungary
1999	Italy United Kingdom	Tea with Mussolini	[1]	Franco Zeffirelli	Comedy-drama. Italian boy's upbringing by English and American women before and during war in Fascist Italy

2000s

2000–2004

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000	Canada Germany United Kingdom	Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace  [ de ]	[1]	Eric Till	German Lutheran pastor and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2000	China	Devils on the Doorstep	Guizi lai le (鬼子来了)	Jiang Wen	Sino-Japanese War
2000	Czech Republic	Divided We Fall	Musíme si pomáhat	Jan Hřebejk	Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia
2000	Italy	Johnny the Partisan	Il partigiano Johnny	Guido Chiesa	Partisan warfare in North Italy
2000	Poland	Judgement of Franciszek Klos (TV)	Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa	Andrzej Wajda	Collaboration under German occupation of Poland
2000	Malaysia	Lieutenant Adnan	Leftenan Adnan	Aziz M. Osman	Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang
2000	Italy	Malena	Malèna	Giuseppe Tornatore	Romance/Comedy-drama. Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940
2000	Philippines	Markova: Comfort Gay	Tagalog please	Gil Portes	Drama based on Walter Dempster, Jr., account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines
2000	Canada United States	Nuremberg (TV miniseries)		Yves Simoneau	Nuremberg Trials
2000	Italy	The Sky Is Falling	Il cielo cade	Andrea Frazzi Antonio Frazzi	German occupation in Tuscany and the murder of Albert Einstein's relatives
2000	Czech Republic	Spring of Life	Pramen života	Milan Cieslar	Nazi SS and Lebensborn
2000	United States	U-571		Jonathan Mostow	American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine
2001	Russia Belarus	In August of 1944	В августе 44-го…	Mikhail Ptashuk	Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, War.
2001	Germany Russia	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me	So weit die Füße tragen(in German)	Hardy Martins	Based on Clemens Forell book. German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag
2001	United States	Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)		Phil Alden Robinson Richard Loncraine Mikael Salomon David Nutter Tom Hanks David Leland David Frankel Tony To	E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war
2001	United Kingdom	The Bunker (The Bunker: The Evil Is Within)		Rob Green	Horror-Mystery. [3] Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line
2001	United Kingdom France United States	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	[1]	John Madden	Italian occupation of Greece and massacre of the Acqui Division
2001	United Kingdom Australia	Charlotte Gray		Gillian Armstrong	Romance/Thriller. Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance
2001	United Kingdom United States	Conspiracy (TV)		Frank Pierson	German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of The Wannsee Conference )
2001	Czech Republic United Kingdom	Dark Blue World	Tmavomodrý svet	Jan Sverák	Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain
2001	Italy	The Days of Rage: Cefalonia	I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio	Claver Salizzato	Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia
2001	United States Germany United Kingdom Ireland	Enemy at the Gates	[1]	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad
2001	United Kingdom United States Germany Netherlands	Enigma	[1]	Michael Apted	How the German Enigma machine was cracked by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park
2001	Japan	Firefly	Hotaru ( ホタル )	Yasuo Furuhata	Based on true story of Korean kamikaze pilot
2001	United States	The Grey Zone		Tim Blake Nelson	Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp
2001	Japan	H Story	Japanese please (Kanji please)	Nobuhiro Suwa	Remake of 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour
2001	Philippines	In the Bosom of the Enemy	Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway	Gil Portes	Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband
2001	Italy	The Ones With White Lips - The Forgotten	Sos laribiancos - I dimenticati	Piero Livi	Sardinian soldiers are dispatched to the Russian Front
2001	United States	Pearl Harbor		Michael Bay	Attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid
2001	China	Purple Sunset	Zĭrì (紫日)	Feng Xiaoning	Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito
2001	France United Kingdom Germany Austria	Taking Sides	[1]	István Szabó	Wilhelm Furtwängler, controversial conductor of Berlin Philharmonic during Nazi era and Allied occupation
2001	United States	To End All Wars		David L. Cunningham	Drama based on Ernest Gordon book. Allied POWs build Burma Railway through jungle
2001	United States	Uprising (TV)		Jon Avnet	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2001	United Kingdom United States Canada	Varian's War (TV)		Lionel Chetwynd	Varian Fry builds underground rescue network in Vichy France saving 2–4,000 anti-Nazi/Jewish refugees and cultural figures from Holocaust
2001	United Kingdom Canada	The War Bride (Love and War)		Lyndon Chubbuck	Drama. English war bride in Canada without husband
2001	Philippines	Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure	Tagalog please	Chito S. Roño	Burial of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines
2002	United States	Below		David Twohy	American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission encounters German warship
2002	Italy	Senso '45	Senso '45	Tinto Brass	Erotic drama. The love affair of an Italian woman and an SS officer in German-occupied Venice
2002	Russia	The Cuckoo	Kukushka (Кукушка)	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Young Lapp woman shelters Finnish sniper and Red Army captain on her farm
2002	Italy	El Alamein: The Line of Fire (El Alamein: Bound of Honour, DVD)	El Alamein – La linea del fuoco	Enzo Monteleone	Italian volunteer assigned to Pavia Division in Egypt and Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942
2002	United States United Kingdom	The Gathering Storm		Richard Loncraine	Winston Churchill before outbreak of war
2002	United States Italy	The Good War	Texas 46 [1]	Giorgio Serafini	Based on true story of Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946
2002	United States	Hart's War		Gregory Hoblit	POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft
2002	France	Monsieur Batignole	Monsieur Batignole	Gérard Jugnot	Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France
2002	Italy	Perlasca, The Courage of a Just Man (TV miniseries)	Perlasca, un eroe italiano	Alberto Negrin	Giorgio Perlasca, pretending to be a Spanish diplomat, saves Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
2002	France Poland Germany United Kingdom	The Pianist	[1]	Roman Polanski	Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman years of searching for shelter during World War II
2002	France Germany	Safe Conduct	Laissez passer	Bertrand Tavernier	German occupation of France
2002	Canada	Silent Night		Rodney Gibbons	Based on true event during the Battle of the Bulge between German and American soldiers on Christmas Eve 1944
2002	Russia	The Star	Zvezda (Звезда)	Nikolai Lebedev	Soviet scouts behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration
2002	Netherlands	Twin Sisters	De Tweeling	Ben Sombogaart	Twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands and serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany and married to Waffen SS soldier
2002	United Kingdom	Two Men Went to War		John Henderson	Comedy-drama based on Raymond Foxall book. Amateur improvisational commando raid into occupied France
2002	Italy	The War Is Over (TV miniseries)	La guerra è finita	Lodovico Gasparini	Drama. Two Italian friends and soldiers on the Greek front, then on the Russian front and finally in the Italian Civil War
2002	United States	Windtalkers		John Woo	Bilingual Navajo speakers serving with the USMC during the Pacific War
2003	France	Bon Voyage	Bon Voyage	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France under German occupation
2003	United Kingdom	Entrusted		Giacomo Battiato	11-year-old chess prodigy, whose mother is in underground resistance, is entrusted with life-saving secret
2003	Malaysia	Paloh	Paloh	Adman Salleh	Japanese occupation of Malaya
2003	Poland	Pornography	Pornografia	Jan Jakub Kolski	German Occupation of Poland
2003	United States Netherlands	Resistance	[1]	Todd Komarnicki	American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi-occupied Belgium and is assisted by Maquis resistance
2003	Germany Netherlands	Rosenstrasse	Rosenstrasse(in German)	Margarethe von Trotta	Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin
2003	United States	Saints and Soldiers		Ryan Little	Survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information
2003	Japan Germany	Spy Sorge	Supai Sorge (スパイ・ゾルゲ) (in Japanese)	Masahiro Shinoda	Soviet spy Richard Sorge who worked undercover in wartime Germany & Japan
2003	France	Strange Gardens	Effroyables jardins	Jean Becker	French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans
2003	France United Kingdom	Strayed	Les égarés (Le garçon aux yeux gris)	André Téchiné	Romance-drama. French family escapes Battle of France and German occupation of Paris aided by young man, June 1940
2003	Czech Republic Slovakia Austria	Želary		Ondrej Trojan	Drama based on Květa Legátová novel. Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed
2004	Russia United States Belarus	The Burning Land	В июне 41-го	Mikhail Ptashuk	Action, Drama, Romance, War.
2004	Philippines	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (Aishite Imasu (Mahal Kita) 1941)	Joel Lamangan	Romance-Drama. Philippine Resistance during Battle of Bataan, Bataan Death March, and Japanese occupation
2004	United States	The Aryan Couple		John Daly	Undercover Eastern European Jews attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944
2004	Finland Sweden	Beyond the Front Line (Beyond Enemy Lines)	Framom främsta linjen(in Swedish)	Åke Lindman	Continuation War between USSR and Finland, 1941–1944
2004	Russia	The Cadets (TV miniseries)	Kursanty (Курсанты)	Andrei Kavun	Training of Russian boys as artillerymen for Eastern Front, 1942
2004	Philippines	The Call of the River	Panaghoy sa Suba	Cesar Montano	Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign
2004	Germany Italy Austria	Downfall	Der Untergang(in German)	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Last days of Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin
2004	United Kingdom	Dunkirk (TV miniseries)		Alex Holmes	Docudrama. Battle of Dunkirk and Dunkirk evacuation
2004	Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg	Edelweiss Pirates	Edelweisspiraten(in German)	Niko von Glasow	The Edelweiss Pirates and wartime German Resistance
2004	Japan	The Face of Jizo (film)	Chichi to Kuraseba (父と暮らせば)	Kazuo Kuroki	Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2004	United States Germany Italy	The Fallen (Letters From The Dead)	[1]	Ari Taub	German, Italian and US forces on Italian Front, 1944
2004	Russia	Freelance Assignment	Nesluzhebnoe zadanie ( Неслужебное задание )	Vitaly Vorobyev	Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945
2004	United Kingdom Canada	Head in the Clouds		John Duigan	Romance-drama. Friends' divergent paths and fight against Fascism in pre-war Europe
2004	Russia	Our Own	Свои	Dmitry Meshiev	Drama on occupied territory, early years of war
2004	United States	Ike: Countdown to D-Day		Robert Harmon	SHAEF organization and planning of Operation Overlord
2004	Canada	Il Duce Canadese (TV miniseries)	(in English)	Giles Walker	Italian-Canadian fascism and internment
2004	United States	In Enemy Hands (U-Boat)		Tony Giglio	Crew of US submarine returns home after months at sea as POWs aboard U-boat
2004	United Kingdom	Island at War (TV miniseries)		Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan	German Occupation of the Channel Islands
2004	Croatia	Long Dark Night	Duga mračna noć	Antun Vrdoljak	Croatia under both Fascism and Communism
2004	Germany	Before the Fall	Napola – Elite für den Führer	Dennis Gansel	Former Hitler Youths bond at Reich National-Political institution
2004	India	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero		Shyam Benegal	The film depicts the life of the Indian Independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: 1941–1943, and In Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of Azad Hind Fauj. [4]
2004	Germany	The Ninth Day	Der neunte Tag	Volker Schlöndorff	SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler
2004	Germany Austria	Operation Valkyrie (TV)	Stauffenberg	Jo Baier	July 20 plot by German army commanders to assassinate Hitler
2004	China	Purple Butterfly	Zǐ Húdié (紫蝴蝶)	Lou Ye	Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai
2004	United States	Straight Into Darkness		Jeff Burr	American deserters and Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault

Movie set from Black Book in The Hague, 2005

2005–2009

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2005	Italy	Cephalonia (TV miniseries)	Cefalonia	Riccardo Milani	Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia
2005	United States	Everything Is Illuminated		Liev Schreiber	Jewish American searches for woman who saved his grandfather during the Ukrainian Holocaust
2005	Lithuania	Forest of the Gods	Dievų miškas	Algimantas Puipa	Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis and Soviets
2005	Russia	Freelance Assignment 2	Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete ( Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете )	Vitaly Vorobyev	Postwar commandos in wartime minefield hope to be saved by soldier who was in field in 1943
2005	United States Australia	The Great Raid		John Dahl	Japanese occupation of Philippines and Raid at Cabanatuan
2005	Italy	The Heart in the Pit (TV miniseries)	Il cuore nel pozzo	Alberto Negrin	Foibe massacres of Italian civilians by Yuoslav Partisans
2005	United States	The Last Days		Eric Bryan	US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender
2005	United Kingdom	The Last Drop		David Teague	Operation Market Garden and secret mission to recover Nazi gold
2005	Singapore Japan	1942	1942 怨霊	Kelvin Tong	Comedy horror. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle
2005	Russia	Attention, Says Moscow! (TV miniseries)	Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (Внимание, говорит Москва)	Aleksandr Surin	Drama, War. Female Russian snipers.
2005	Finland Sweden	Mother of Mine	Äideistä parhain(in Finnish) Den bästa av mödrar(in Swedish)	Klaus Härö	Based on Heikki Hietamies novel. Evacuation of 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden
2005	Italy	Mussolini's Daughter (TV miniseries)	Edda	Giorgio Capitani	Story of Edda Mussolini
2005	India	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (Bose: The Forgotten Hero)	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: ek bhoola hua naayak (नेताजी सुभाषचन्द्र बोस: एक भूला हुआ नायक)	Shyam Benegal	Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army
2005	United States	Only the Brave		Lane Nishikawa	Rescue of Lost Battalion in France by US 442nd Regimental Combat Team
2005	China	On the Mountain of Tai Hang	Tài Háng shān shàng (太行山上)	Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian	Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China
2005	Finland	Promise	Lupaus (Uskolliset – Suomen lotat / Lotta)	Ilkka Vanne	Finnish women's Lotta Svärd during war
2005	Germany	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	Final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance
2005	Germany	Speer und Er (TV miniseries)	Speer und Er	Heinrich Breloer	Docudrama. Hitler's minister Albert Speer
2005	Taiwan	The Strait Story	Fu shih kuang ying (南方紀事之浮世光影)	Huang Yu-shan	Sinking of Japanese passenger liner Takachiho Maru by USS Kingfish, 1943
2005	Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan	The Sun	Solntse (Солнце) (in Russian)	Aleksandr Sokurov	Emperor Hirohito's life during the first days of Allied occupation
2005	United Kingdom	Valiant		Gary Chapman	Animated. British war pigeons carrying secret messages face German falcons
2005	United Kingdom United States Germany China	The White Countess	[1]	James Ivory	Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Sino-Japanese War
2005	Japan	Yamato	Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和)	Junya Sato	Yamato 's crew during Pacific War
2005	Ukraine	Long shot	Далекий постріл Далёкий выстрел	Valeriy Shalyga	War.
2006	Russia	Bastards	Svolochi (Сволочи)	Aleksandr Atanesyan	Teenaged convicts conscripted for partisan mission against Nazis
2006	United States	Beautiful Dreamer		Terri Farley-Teruel	Romance-drama. Amnesiac US bomber pilot captured by Germans after crashing and is assumed by family to be MIA
2006	Netherlands Germany United Kingdom Belgium	Black Book	Zwartboek(in Dutch)	Paul Verhoeven	Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance
2006	France Morocco Algeria Belgium	Days of Glory	Indigènes(in French)	Rachid Bouchareb	North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France
2006	Germany	Dresden (TV)	Dresden	Roland Suso Richter	German civilian assists downed and injured RAF pilot after bombing of Dresden
2006	United States	Flags of Our Fathers		Clint Eastwood	Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of American soldiers
2006	Germany Lithuania	Ghetto	Ghetto Vilniaus getas	Audrius Juzėnas	Holocaust in Lithuania
2006	Italy	The Good Battle - Don Pietro Pappagallo (TV miniseries)	La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo	Gianfranco Albano	Catholic priest Pietro Pappagallo, member of resistance, executed in the Ardeatine caves
2006	United States	The Good German		Steven Soderbergh	Mystery set in Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations just after the surrender of Nazi Germany
2006	United Kingdom	The Haunted Airman		Chris Durlacher	Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war
2006	Australia	Kokoda		Alister Grierson	Kokoda Track Campaign fought during 1942 in the then Australian Territory of Papua.
2006	Germany	The Last Days	Die letzten Tage	Oliver Frohnauer	American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of Volkssturm unit near end of war
2006	Germany	The Last Train	Der letzte Zug	Dana Vávrová, Joseph Vilsmaier	Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943
2006	United States	Letters from Iwo Jima	Iōjima kara no tegami (硫黄島からの手紙) [5]	Clint Eastwood	Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers
2006	Italy	Mafalda of Savoy (TV miniseries)	Mafalda di Savoia – Il coraggio di una principessa	Maurizio Zaccaro	Princess Mafalda of Savoy; a real Italian princess, forced by war into a concentration camp
2006	United States	Military Intelligence and You!		Dale Kutzera	Comedy. US Army Intelligence analyst attempts to locate Nazi "Ghost Squadron" fighter base
2006	Canada	Remembrance: A Soldier's Story (TV)		Andrew Forster	Drama. Canada's last surviving decorated World War II hero and Remembrance Day [6]
2006	Russia	Transit	Peregon (Перегон)	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Lend-Lease shipping through the ALSIB
2006	China	The Tokyo Trial	Dōngjīng Shěnpàn (东京审判)	Gao Qunshu	Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
2007	Belarus	The Witch and the Rumba	Чаклун и Румба	Andrey Golubev	Romance, War.
2007	Czech Republic	Operace Silver A		Jiří Strach	Operation Silver A by the Czech government-in-exile against the occupying Nazi forces
2007	United States	American Pastime		Desmond Nakano	Japanese-American jazz and baseball in Topaz, Utah internment camp
2007	United Kingdom	Atonement		Joe Wright	The Battle for France and Dunkirk evacuation
2007	Austria	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to destabilize the UK economy using vast amounts of forged money
2007	Australia	Curtin (TV)		Jessica Hobbs	Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin
2007	Japan	For Those We Love	Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく)	Taku Shinjō	Kamikaze pilots in the Pacific
2007	Poland	Katyń	Katyń	Andrzej Wajda	Katyn massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by Soviets, 1940
2007	United States China Taiwan Hong Kong	Lust, Caution	Sè, Jiè (色，戒)	Ang Lee	Spy thriller about Chinese spies in Japanese Occupied Shanghai
2007	Germany	My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler (My Führer)	Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler	Dani Levy	Comedy-drama. Depressed Hitler and his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945
2007	Canada	The Poet (Hearts of War)		Damian Lee	German soldiers gather information on Eastern Front partisans and Jewish refugees
2007	Belgium	Surviving with Wolves	Survivre avec les loups	Véra Belmont	Drama based on fake Misha Defonseca memoir. Jewish girl searches for deported parents while living among wolves
2007	Finland	Tali-Ihantala 1944	Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Mihin vapaat miehet pystyvät)	Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen	Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Continuation War, June 1944
2007	Poland	Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies	Jutro idziemy do kina	Michał Kwieciński	War disrupts the plans of three recent high school graduates Polish Campaign, 1939
2007	Japan	Yunagi City, Sakura Country	Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (夕凪の街 桜の国)	Kiyoshi Sasabe	Drama based on Fumiyo Kōno manga. Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2007	Belgium Ireland	Waiting for Dublin		Roger Tucker	Comedy. Allied and Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland
2008	Australia United States United Kingdom	Australia		Baz Luhrmann	Romance. Australian soldier and British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin
2008	United States	Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69		Keith J. Crocker	Horror drama. Captured USO showgirls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant
2008	Italy	Blood of the Losers	Il sangue dei vinti	Michele Soavi	Family torn apart by political divisions during the Italian civil war
2008	United States United Kingdom	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)		Mark Herman	Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew
2008	Germany	The Bridge (TV)	Die Brücke	Wolfgang Panzer	Drama based on Manfred Gregor novel. Youths defend bridge; remake
2008	Australia	Broken Sun		Brad Haynes	Drama based on the Cowra breakout
2008	Romania	Gruber's Journey	Călătoria lui Gruber	Radu Gabrea	Iaşi pogrom
2008	Australia China Germany United States	The Children of Huang Shi	[1]	Roger Spottiswoode	Nanking Massacre and Three Alls Policy
2008	United States	Defiance		Edward Zwick	Bielski partisans battle Nazi forces in Belarus
2008	Poland	11th of November	11 listopada	Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata	Zielonka boy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland
2008	France United Kingdom	Female Agents	Les Femmes de l'ombre	Jean-Paul Salomé	Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German officer and rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information
2008	Denmark	Flame and Citron	Flammen og Citronen	Ole Christian Madsen	Danish Resistance team sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators
2008	United Kingdom Germany Hungary	Good	[1]	Vicente Amorim	German university professor during Nazi regime. Drama based on C. P. Taylor play.
2008	Hong Kong	Ip Man	Yip Man (葉問)	Wilson Yip	Ip Man in Foshan, Sino-Japanese War
2008	Belarus	A Local Skirmish	Локальная стычка (Russian) Мясцовая сутычка (Belarusian)	Alexie Kozlov	Russian recovery team encounters a Nazi special operations squad on its mission to blow a bridge during Battle of Nevel on 1 January 1944
2008	Norway Germany Denmark	Max Manus: Man of War	Max Manus	Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg	Norwegian Resistance leader Max Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway
2008	United States	Miracle at St. Anna		Spike Lee	US troops fighting in Italy near the location of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
2008	United States Germany	The Reader		Stephen Daldry	War crimes trial of female guard at Nazi concentration camp
2008	Israel	Spring 1941	אביב 41	Uri Barbash	Romance between Warsaw grocer and Jewish man she is hiding
2008	Czech Republic Slovakia	Tobruk	Tobruk	Václav Marhoul	Siege of Tobruk
2008	United States	Valkyrie		Bryan Singer	July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler
2008	United States	Watch on the Rhine		Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson	Action/Comedy. US 106th Inf. Div. soldier in Battle of the Bulge
2008	France Tunisia	The Wedding Song	Le Chant des mariées اغنية العروس	Karin Albou	Friendship between Muslim woman and Sephardic Jewish woman during Nazi occupation of Tunisia
2008	Italy	Wild Blood	Sanguepazzo	Marco Tullio Giordana	Drama. The involvement of actors Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida with the Italian Social Republic and their murder by partisans
2008	Netherlands	Winter in Wartime	Oorlogswinter	Martin Koolhoven	Drama based on Jan Terlouw novel. Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance, 1944–45
2008	Germany Poland	A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin)	Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin(in German)	Max Färberböck	Drama based on Marta Hillers book. Journalist's relationship with Soviet officer during Soviet occupation of Berlin
2009	Belarus	Dnieper Line: Love and War	Днепровский рубеж	Denis Skvortsov	Action, Adventure, History, War.
2009	France	The Army of Crime	L'Armée du crime	Robert Guédiguian	Manouchian resistance group and Red Poster
2009	Russia United Kingdom	Attack on Leningrad (Leningrad)		Aleksandr Buravsky	Siege of Leningrad
2009	China	City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!)	Pinyin please (漢字 hanzi please)	Lu Chuan	Nanking Massacre
2009	China	Cow	Dòu niú (斗牛)	Guan Hu	Comedy-drama. Chinese peasant protects village's dairy cow during Sino-Japanese War
2009	United Kingdom	The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries)		Jon Jones	Anne Frank hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
2009	United States	Everyman's War		Thad Smith	US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge
2009	United States	Inglourious Basterds		Quentin Tarantino	Jewish-American soldiers on mission to kill Nazis; revenge of a Jewish fugitive girl
2009	United States United Kingdom	Into the Storm		Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Biopic of Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm
2009	Germany China France	John Rabe	John Rabe	Florian Gallenberger	Nanking Massacre
2009	Japan	Last Operations Under the Orion	Manatsu no Orion (真夏のオリオン)	Tetsuo Shinohara	Naval battle between Japan and US near end of war
2009	Italy	The Man Who Will Come	L'uomo che verrà	Giorgio Diritti	Marzabotto massacre of Italian civilians by Nazi forces
2009	China	The Message	Fēngshēng (风声)	Chen Kuo-fu, Gao Qunshu	Espionage in Nanking in 1942
2009	Russia	1941 (TV)	1941	Valery Shalyga	Nazi invasion of Russia and partisans in forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942
2009	Russia	The Priest	Pop (Поп)	Vladimir Khotinenko	Priest in occupied Latvia
2009	Czech Republic Germany	Protector	Protektor	Marek Najbrt	Romance/Drama. Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia and effects of Operation Anthropoid
2009	United Kingdom	Small Island (TV miniseries)		John Alexander	Drama. Jamaican airman in England

2010s

2010–2014

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	Ukraine Russia	Black Sheep	Паршиві вівці Паршивые овцы	Sergey Chekalov	Drama, War.
2010	Russia Belarus	Fortress of War	Brestskaya krepost (Брестская крепость)	Alexander Kott	Action-drama. Soviet defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941
2010	Russia	Burnt by the Sun 2	Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2)	Nikita Mikhalkov	Action-drama. Eastern Front
2010	Japan	Caterpillar	Kyatapirā (キャタピラー)	Kōji Wakamatsu	Drama. Wounded Japanese veteran of Sino-Japanese War returns home
2010	China	Death and Glory in Changde	Die Xue Gu Cheng (喋血孤城)	Dong Shen	Action-drama. Hunan's Battle of Changde
2010	United States	The Debt		John Madden	Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities; remake of 2007 film
2010	China	East Wind Rain	Dong feng yu (东风雨)	Yunlong Liu	Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor attack
2010	Czech Republic Germany Austria	Habermann	Habermannův mlýn(in Czech)	Juraj Herz	Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
2010	Russia	Heaven is on Fire (The Sky is On Fire) (TV miniseries)	Nebo v ogne (Небо в огне)	Dmitry Cherkasov	Action-drama. Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939–1945
2010	China	A Jewish Girl in Shanghai	You tai nu hai zai shang hai (猶太女孩在上海)	Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui	Animated. Girl and little brother in Shanghai, with parents in Europe
2010	Poland	Joanna	Joanna	Feliks Falk	German occupation and Holocaust in Kraków, Poland
2010	United Kingdom	The King's Speech		Tom Hooper	2010 Best Picture depicting King George VI during the war
2010	Hong Kong China	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen	Zing1 Mou5 Fung1 Wan4－Can4 Zan1 (精武風雲－陳真) (in Yue Chinese)	Andrew Lau Wai-Keung	Japanese invasion of Shanghai
2010	Russia	The Edge	Kray (Край)	Alexei Uchitel	Gulag camp shortly after the end of the war
2010	United States	The Pacific (TV miniseries)		Tim Van Patten David Nutter Jeremy Podeswa Graham Yost Carl Franklin Tony To	Action-drama. US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre
2010	France Germany Hungary	The Round Up	La rafle(in French)	Roselyne Bosch	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, the mass arrest of Jews by French police working for Nazi Germans in 1942
2010	France	Sarah's Key (Her Name was Sarah)	Elle s'appelait Sarah	Kristin Scott Thomas	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, the mass arrest of Jews by French police working for Nazi Germans in 1942
2010	Australia	Sisters of War (TV)		Brendan Maher	Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese during the New Guinea campaign
2010	United States	Spoils of War		Jean Liberté	Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent and destroy counterfeit money
2010	Canada	Storming Juno (TV)		Tim Wolochatiuk	Docudrama. Regina Rifles and 1st Hussars at Juno Beach on D-Day
2010	Italy Germany	Pius XII: Under the Roman Sky (TV)	Sotto il cielo di Roma(in Italian) Pius XII.(in German)	Christian Duguay	Pope Pius XII and Roman razzia
2010	Poland	Venice	Wenecja	Jan Jakub Kolski	German occupation of Poland, 1939–1945
2010	United States	The Way Back		Peter Weir	Prisoners and POWs escape Soviet Gulag
2010	Russia	Fog	Туман	Artyom Aksenenko Ivan Shurkhovetskiy	Drama, Fantasy, War.
2011	United Kingdom	Age of Heroes		Adrian Vitoria	Action-Thriller. British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to neutral Norway
2011	Germany, Ukraine, Russia	4 Days in May	Vier Tage im Mai	Achim von Borries	Group of Russian soldiers billeted in a German children's home near the end of the war
2011	Spain Hungary	Angel of Budapest (TV miniseries)	El ángel de Budapest (in Spanish)	Luis Oliveros	Drama based on Diego Carcedo book. Spanish ambassador Ángel Sanz Briz rescues Jews in Budapest
2011	Germany	Auschwitz		Uwe Boll	Drama
2011	Portugal	The Consul of Bordeaux	O Consul de Bordeus(in Portuguese)	João Correa Francisco Manso	The story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews
2011	Brazil	Webseries: Heroes	Websérie: Herois		Drama. Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy, 1944.
2011	Sweden	Beyond the Border	Gränsen
2011	India	Gandhi to Hitler (Dear Friend Hitler)	Priya Mitra Hitler (प्रिय मित्र हिटलर)	Rakesh Ranjan Kumar	Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler
2011	Italy Germany	General Della Rovere (TV miniseries)	Il generale Della Rovere (in Italian)	Carlo Carlei	Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader
2011	Austria Hungary Germany	In Another Lifetime	Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben	Elisabeth Scharang	Drama based on Peter Turrini play. Hungarian Jews marched to Mauthausen
2011	Poland Germany Canada	In Darkness	W ciemnosci(in Polish)	Agnieszka Holland	Drama. Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)
2011	Japan	Isoroku	Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六)	Izuru Narushima	Story of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
2011	Spain	Ispansi!	Ispansi (¡Españoles!)	Carlos Iglesias	Drama. Spanish war orphans in USSR in time for another war
2011	Philippines Japan	Liberation	Liberacion	Adolfo Alix Jr.	Drama. Japanese holdout hiding in Philippine jungle for 20 years after war
2011	Czech Republic	Lidice		Petr Nikolaev	Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the destruction of the village of Lidice
2011	United States	Little Iron Men		Jesse Kobayashi	Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team
2011	United Kingdom	The Lost Valentine		Darnell Martin	Woman's quest for husband declared MIA
2011	South Korea	My Way	Maiwei [7] (마이웨이)	Kang Je-gyu	Young Korean man conscripted into Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union and Germany
2011	Japan	Oba: The Last Samurai (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox)	Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (太平洋の奇跡－フォックスと呼ばれた男)	Hideyuki Hirayama	Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944
2011	United Kingdom Germany	The Sinking of the Laconia (TV miniseries)	[1]	Uwe Janson	Drama. RMS Laconia incident
2011	Latvia	Three to Dance	Dancis pa trim	Arvīds Krievs	Drama. Tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis and independence-seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS
2012	Russia	Three Days in the Life of Lt. Kravtsov	Три дня лейтенанта Кравцова	Aleksandr Daruga	Drama, War.
2012	Germany Netherlands Belarus Russia Latvia	In the Fog	В тумане	Sergei Loznitsa	Drama, History, War.
2012	Denmark	This Life	Hvidstens gruppen	Regner Grasten	Danish Resistance in Jutland
2012	Philippines	Corazon: The First Aswang	Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang	Richard V. Somes	Set in a Rural Barrio during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
2012	China	Back to 1942	Yī Jǐu Sì Èr (一九四二)	Feng Xiaogang	1942 drought in China during war with Japan
2012	Netherlands	The Blitz	Het Bombardement	Ate de Jong	An aspiring amateur boxer in love with the daughter of German refuge amidst Rotterdam blitz, bombing on 14 May 1940
2012	China Hong Kong	The Flowers of War	Jin líng shí san chai (金陵十三钗)	Zhang Yimou	Rape of Nanjing by Japanese forces in China during 1937
2012	Norway Sweden	Into the White (Comrade)	[1]	Petter Næss	Action-drama based on true story. Crashed German and English aircrew trying to survive Norwegian winter in wilderness, 1940
2012	India/Japan	Imphal in the Japanese war	(Japanese : 日本の戦争でインパール, Meitei : Japan Landa Imphal	Chandam Shyamcharan Singh	Battle of Imphal between Allied and Japanese forces in Northeast India 1944
2012	United Kingdom	Old Gold Times	Tempos Dourados	Edilberto Restino	Two lovers got separated by the WW2. 50 years later, by chance they found each other. Things started to get complicate for this new relationship, as they are not as sweet as they remembered each other.
2012	Australia United Kingdom Sweden	Lore		Cate Shortland	Based loosely on the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room , this film focused on five German siblings forced to flee to Hamburg once their Nazi-level parents are presumably killed in combat with the Allied forces
2012	United States	Red Tails		Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas (uncredited)	Tuskegee Airmen and 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre
2012	United States	Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed		Ryan Little	US airborne forces in France after the 1944 Normandy Landings
2012	Russia	White Tiger	Belyy tigr (Белый тигр)	Karen Shakhnazarov	A Russian tank crew is ordered to take out a German Tiger tank in the new T-34-85
2012	Russia	Fog 2	Туман 2	Ivan Shurkhovetsky
2013	United States	The Book Thief		Brian Percival	The fictional story of young Liesel Meminger. After she finds her first book beside her brother's graveside, she is sent to foster parents. While in the comfort of her new found parents, World War II breaks out and her foster parents shelter a Jewish refugee
2013	Poland Lithuania	1939 Battle of Westerplatte	Tajemnica Westerplatte	Pawel Chochlew	1 September 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland
2013	Philippines	Death March	Death March	Adolfo Alix, Jr.	Bataan Death March
2013	United States	Emperor		Peter Webber	General Douglas MacArthur begins an investigation of the role of Emperor Shōwa in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor
2013	Australia United Kingdom	The Railway Man		Jonathan Teplitzky	Drama based on true story of Eric Lomax. Victim from Burmese Death Railway setting out to find those responsible for his torture
2013	Portugal Brazil Italy	Road 47	A Estrada 47	Vicente Ferraz	Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy
2013	Russia	Stalingrad	Stalingrad (Сталинград)	Fyodor Bondarchuk	Battle of Stalingrad
2013	Japan	The Wind Rises	Kaze Tachinu (風立ちぬ)	Hayao Miyazaki	Animated historical drama animated by Studio Ghibli. Fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft
2014	China	Norjmaa		Bayin	Drama, History, War.
2014	Canada	Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (TV movies of Bomb Girls )		Jerry Ciccoritti	Canadian home front and Battle of the St. Lawrence
2014	Hungary	Dear Elza!	Drága Elza!	Zoltán Füle	A Hungarian soldier is captured by the Russians and made a mine trampler
2014	France Germany	Diplomacy	Diplomatie	Volker Schlöndorff	The Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling persuades gen. Dietrich von Choltitz to avoid the destruction of Paris
2014	United States	Fury		David Ayer	Allied final offensive in Germany from the perspective of a US tank crew of the 2nd Armored Division, April 1945
2014	Japan	Giovanni's Island	Joban'ni no Shima (ジョバンニの島)	Mizuho Nishikubo	Anime. Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands in 1945 and expulsion of the Japanese population
2014	Italy	Head High. The Martyrs of Fiesole (TV)	A testa alta - I martiri di Fiesole	Maurizio Zaccaro	Carabinieri's sacrifice to avoid a German reprisal on civilians in Fiesole
2014	United States United Kingdom	The Imitation Game		Morten Tyldum	Alan Turing decoding German cyphers at Bletchley Park
2014	India/Japan/U.K	Imphal 1944	Japanese : 1944年インパール	Junichi Kajioka	Battle of Imphal, China Burma India Theater
2014	Italy	Italia's Secret †	Il segreto di Italia	Antonello Bellucco	Massacre of Codevigo, 1945 of Italians who supported the occupying Germans, by partisan troops at the end of the war
2014	United States	The Monuments Men		George Clooney	Allied platoon made up of seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, tasked with going into Germany in the closing stages of World War II to rescue artworks requisitioned by the Nazis and returning them to their rightful owners
2014	Australia	Parer's War (TV movie)		Alister Grierson	Story of Australian wartime cameraman Damien Parer
2014	United States	Saints and Soldiers: The Void		Ryan Little	A fateful mission through the Harz Mountains of Germany
2014	Poland	Stones for the Rampart		Robert Glinski	Three Warsaw friends, whose plans for the future are interrupted by the life-changing advent of the Second World War in Poland.
2014	United Kingdom France Belgium	Suite Française	Suite Française(in French)	Saul Dibb	Romance between a French villager and a German officer during the German occupation of France
2014	United States	Unbroken		Angelina Jolie	Based on true life of US Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who survives a plane crash and ends up in a Japanese POW camp
2014	United States	Walking with the Enemy		Mark Schmidt	A young man (Elek Cohen) disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer
2014	Poland	Warsaw 44	Miasto 44	Jan Komasa	Warsaw Uprising 1944.

2015–2019

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2015	Russia	72 Hours	72 часа	Kira Angelina	Drama, War.
2015	Russia	Battery Number One	Единичка	Kirill Belevich	Drama, War.
2015	Russia	On the Road to Berlin	Дорога на Берлин	Sergei Popov	Drama, War.
2015	Denmark	9. April		Roni Ezra	Danish bicycle infantry sent as vanguard to slow down the German invasion until reinforcements can arrive
2015	Estonia	1944	1944	Elmo Nüganen	Battle of Tannenberg Line between German and Soviet forces
2015	Russia Ukraine	Battle for Sevastopol	Bitva za Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь)	Sergey Mokritskiy	A biographical film about the life path of the Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko
2015	Russia	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	А зори здесь тихие	Renat Davletyarov	A young Russian anti-aircraft crew confronts experienced Nazi saboteurs
2015	India	Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!	Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!! (डिटेक्टिव ब्योमकेश बक्शी!)	Dibakar Banerjee	Detective thriller film set around the events of the Japanese bombing of Calcutta.
2015	Japan	The Emperor in August	Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (日本のいちばん長い日)	Masato Harada	Imperial Japanese leadership in the final few months of the war
2015	Philippines	Felix Manalo	Felix Manalo	Joel Lamangan	Biography of Felix Manalo during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
2015	India	Kanche		Krish	A rivalry between two men, based on caste and social status, extends from an Indian village onto war torn Europe during WW2
2015	China	Hundred Regiments Offensive	Bǎi tuán dà zhàn (百團大戰)	Ning Haiqiang, Zhang Yuzhong	Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan during the Hundred Regiments Offensive
2015	Denmark	Land of Mine	Under sandet	Martin P. Zandvliet	German POWs in Denmark at the end of the war
2015	United States Mexico	Little Boy		Alejandro Monteverde	Comedy-drama about a young American boy attempting to reunite with his father serving in the Pacific Theater any way possible.
2015	Japan/India/Thailand	My Japanese Niece	Meitei : Eigi Japangi Imou Japanese : マイ・ジャパニーズ・ニース	Mohen Naorem (Manipuri), Fanny Fandora (French), Sheria Vallah (Iranian), Deepsikha Poddav (Bengali), Robert Megha (Manipuri)	Reminiscences of a Japanese girl at Manipur, India from the period of China Burma India Theater.
2015	Hungary	Son of Saul	Saul fia	László Nemes	A day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz concentration camp
2015	United States	War Pigs		Ryan Little	A US Army rag tag unit of misfits behind German lines
2016	Russia	Panfilov's 28 Men	28 panfilovtsev (28 панфиловцев)	Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa	Drama about the act of bravery of a group of Soviet soldiers from the Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen
2016	United States	Allied		Robert Zemeckis	Romantic espionage thriller about relationship between a Canadian airforce intelligence officer and a female French Resistance fighter
2016	United Kingdom France Czech Republic	Anthropoid		Sean Ellis	Operation Anthropoid to assassinate senior SS officer Reinhard Heydrich
2016	United Kingdom	Dad's Army		Oliver Parker	Comedy about elderly members of the British Home Guard in coastal England
2016	Norway Sweden Denmark Ireland	The King's Choice	Kongens nei	Erik Poppe	King Haakon VII and the Norwegian royal family before and after the German invasion of Norway
2016	France Belgium	Fanny's Journey	Le Voyage de Fanny	Lola Doillon	Œuvre de secours aux enfants, Jewish children fleeing France for Switzerland
2016	United States	Hacksaw Ridge		Mel Gibson	Historical drama about Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who became the only conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II
2016	Italy	My Honor Was Loyalty	Onore e lealtà	Alessandro Pepe	Fictionalized account of the SS Leibstandarte
2016	Canada France Germany	Race		Stephen Hopkins	Biographical sports drama film about African-American athlete Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany
2016	China	Railroad Tigers	Tiědào fēi hǔ (铁道飞虎)	Ding Sheng	Comedy-drama. A group of Chinese train engineers attempt to blow up a Japanese military railway during the Sino-Japanese war
2016	United Kingdom	Their Finest		Lone Scherfig	The story of a British Ministry of Information film team making a morale-boosting film about the Dunkirk evacuation during the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz
2016	Japan	In This Corner of the World	Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (この世界の片隅に)	Sunao Katabuchi	Animated drama based on real facts. A young Japanese woman has to endure the bombings of Kure and the aftermath the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2016	Philippines Japan	Tomodachi		Joel Lamangan	A Japanese merchant residing in the Philippines suddenly conscripted in Imperial Japanese Army during Pre-Pacific War
2016	United States	USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage		Mario Van Peebles	The USS Indianapolis, torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese in 1945
2016	Poland	Volhynia	Wołyń	Wojciech Smarzowski	Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and extermination of Jews
2016	Italy	At War with Love	In guerra per amore	Pierfrancesco Diliberto	Comedy-drama. Italo-American soldier takes part to the Invasion of Sicily
2016	Latvia	The Chronicles of Melanie	Melanijas hronika	Viesturs Kairišs	Real story of survival of a mother and son from Russian gulags of Siberia
2017	Spain	The Chessplayer	El jugador de ajedrez	Luis Oliveros	Diego wins the Spanish Championship of Chess in 1934. Later, in France, Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison
2017	China	The Chinese Widow	烽火芳菲	Bille August	Chinese war drama. Air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places like Honshu carried out by Doolittle Raid.
2017	United Kingdom United States	Darkest Hour		Joe Wright	Account of the early days of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister while Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht swept across Western Europe
2017	United Kingdom United States France Netherlands	Dunkirk		Christopher Nolan	Evacuation of Allied soldiers, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May & 4 June 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II
2017	United Kingdom	Goodbye Christopher Robin		Simon Curtis(filmmaker)	In the movie, the character's sensitivities are presented as a direct result of the war, with him flinching at the sounds of corks and balloons going pop. The movie is based on Ann Thwaite's 1990 biography A. A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh.
2017	France Belgium	The Man with the Iron Heart		Cédric Jimenez	Based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH , and focuses on Operation Anthropoid , the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II
2017	India	Raag Desh (Love the Country † )	Raag Desh (राग देश)	Tigmanshu Dhulia	Drama based on the Indian National Army and the Red Fort Trials
2017	India	Rangoon	Rangoon (रंगून)	Vishal Bhardwaj	Drama based on Burma Campaign and India's war for Independence
2017	Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Tuntematon sotilas	Aku Louhimies	Drama based on the 1954 Finnish classic novel of the same name by Väinö Linna, that follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War
2017	Norway	The 12th Man	Den 12. mann	Harald Zwart	Action-drama. They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away...
2017	Germany	The Captain	Der Hauptmann	Robert Schwentke	In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
2017	United States United Kingdom Czech Republic	The Zookeeper's Wife		Niki Caro	The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw Zoo during World War II.
2018	Russia	Frontier	Рубеж	Dmitriy Tyurin	Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, War.
2018	Russia	Never Say Goodbye	Прощаться не будем	Pavel Drozdov	Drama, War.
2018	Russia	Seven pairs of unclean	Семь пар нечистых	Kirill Belevich Yuriy Ilin	Action, Adventure, Drama, War.
2018	Russia	Anna's War	Война Анны	Aleksey Fedorchenko	Drama, War.
2018	Lithuania	Ashes in the Snow		Marius A. Markevicius	Drama, History, Romance, War.
2018	China	Air Strike (Unbreakable Spirit)	Dà Hōngzhà (大轰炸)	Xiao Feng	Set in 1943 during the World War II, the story revolves around the Japanese bombing of Chongqing, which started in 1938.
2018	United Kingdom	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society		Mike Newell	Romance/Drama based on novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Writer forms unexpected bond with Guernsey island residents in aftermath of war and writes a book about their wartime experiences [8]
2018	Poland United Kingdom	Hurricane (Hurricane: 303 Squadron, Mission of Honor)	303: Bitwa o Anglię(in Polish)	David Blair	A group of Polish pilots of 303 Squadron in the Battle of Britain
2018	Poland	303 Squadron	Dywizjon 303. Historia prawdziwa	Jerzy Skolimowski	Action-adventure based on Arkady Fiedler novel. Exploits of Polish pilots of RAF's 303 Squadron during Battle of Britain [9]
2018	Italy	Red Land	Rosso Istria	Maximiliano Hernando Bruno	Foibe massacres by Tito's partisans in the autumn of 1943
2018	Russia	Sobibor	Собибор	Konstantin Khabensky	Nazi Sobibor extermination camp in Poland, Alexander Pechersky
2018	Russia	Tankers	Несокрушимый	Konstantin Maksimov	The film is based on the true story of the crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, which took part in an unequal battle on 13 July 1942 and destroyed 16 tanks, two armored vehicles and eight other vehicles from enemy forces in the Tarasovsky District, Rostov Oblast.
2018	Russia	Axe	Топор	Vladimir Semenovykh	Drama. The Siberian hermit, whose whole life was destroyed by the millstones of the Great October Revolution and the Civil War, spends 17 years in exile. When the news of the attack of fascist Germany on the USSR reached him, the former Cossack officer rushes to the battlefield to protect his native land.
2018	France	To the Ends of the World	Les Confins du Monde	Guillaume Nicloux	A French soldier hunting a Việt Minh officer in a personal vendetta amidst the ongoing Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
2019	Russia	The Cry of Silence	Крик тишины	Vladimir Potapov	Drama, War.
2019	Russia	My Little Sister	Сестрёнка Һеңлекәш	Aleksandr Galibin	Drama, Family, War.
2019	Russia	Convoy 48. The war train.	Коридор бессмертия	Fedor Popov	Drama, War.
2019	Russia	Saving Leningrad	Спасти Ленинград	Aleksey Kozlov	Action, Drama, War.
2019	Russia	Rzhev	Ржев	Igor Kopylov	Drama, History, War.
2019	Russia	T-34	Т-34	Alexey Sidorov	A Soviet tank commander gets captured by the Germans
2019	Russia	Tanki	Танки	Kim Druzhinin	The film is set in the period 1939 - 1940 . The film tells a kind (but not having anything to do with the actual events) adventure story of a secret run on prototypes of the T-34 tank by designer Mikhail Koshkin along the Kharkov - Moscow route in order to approve the production of new combat vehicles, which later helped the Soviet Union to win the Great Patriotic War ...
2019	Russia	Soldier Boy	Солдатик	Viktoria Fanasiutina	An orphaned six-year-old boy is rescued by an army regiment where he distinguishes himself by numerous heroic acts.
2019	Poland	The Messenger	Kurier	Władysław Pasikowski	Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
2019	United States	Midway		Roland Emmerich	Battle of Midway between US & Japanese navies
2019	United States	Jojo Rabbit		Taika Waititi	Comedy-drama film about a 10-year-old boy, brainwashed by the Nazi regime, but who then questions his beliefs after interacting with a Jewish girl hidden by his mother in their house

2020s

2020–2024

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2020	Russia Belarus	The fate of a saboteur	Судьба диверсанта	Dmitry Astrakhan	Biography, Drama, History, War.
2020	Russia	Zoya	Зоя	Maksim Brius Leonid Plyaskin	Drama, War.
2020	Russia	AK-47	Калашников	Konstantin Buslov	Biopic of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle
2020	Russia	The Last Frontier	Подольские курсанты	Vadim Shmelyov	The cadets of the Podolsk artillery and infantry schools confront a German tank column at the Ilyinsky defence line and aim to hold out until the reserves approach. (Battle of Moscow, October 1941)
2020	Poland	The Champion	Mistrz	Maciej Barczewski	The story of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps. [10] [11]
2020	Latvia	The Sign Painter	Pilsēta pie upes/ Piļsāta pi upis	Viestur Kairish	The life of a sign painter in Latgale, Latvia, through various occupations (Soviet–Nazi–Soviet) during the Second World War.
2020	United States	Greyhound		Aaron Schneider	A US Navy skipper leading an Allied supply convoy stalked by Nazi U-boat wolf packs.
2020	China	The Eight Hundred	八佰	Guan Hu	Chinese historical war film about the Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
2020	Mongolia	Marked Man	Бууны сумыг буцааж болдоггүй	Delgerbayar Purevdorj	Mongolian cavalry Dandar baatar (Dandar the hero) during Battles of Khalkhin Gol and Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
2021	Russia	Siberian Sniper	Рядовой Чээрин	Dmitry Koltsov	History, War.
2021	Russia	Maria. Save Moscow	Мария. Спасти Москву	Vera Storozheva	Drama, War.
2021	Russia	V2. Escape from Hell	Девятаев	Timur Bekmambetov Sergei Trofimov	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War.
2021	Hungary Latvia France Germany	Natural Light	Természetes fény	Dénes Nagy	In occupied Russia a Hungarian unit travels from village to village in search of partisan groups. [12]
2021	France Belgium	Farewell, Mr. Haffmann	Adieu monsieur Haffmann	Fred Cavayé	French jeweller tries to escape from occupied Paris with his family, leaving his shop to an employee
2021	United States	American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally		Michael Polish	Life of Mildred Gillars, an American singer and actor who during World War II broadcast Nazi propaganda to American troops and their families back home
2021	Netherlands	The Forgotten Battle	De Slag om de Schelde	Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.	Dutch World War II film that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier, an English Allied pilot, and a resistance girl from Zeeland.
2021	Russia	The Red Ghost	Красный призрак	Andrei Bogatyryov	Russian horror war thriller. In 1941, a detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
2021	Russia	The Pilot. A Battle for Survival	Лётчик	Renat Davletyarov	Survivor story of Russian pilot Aleksey Maresyev. Remake of Tale of a True Man (1948)
2021	Russia	Axe. 1943	Топор. 1943	Vadim Ostrovsky
2021	Russia	Saving Pushkin	Учёности плоды	Igor Ugolnikov	Drama.
2021	Russia	Hero 115	Герой 115	Vasiliy Chiginskiy
2021	Greece	Echoes of the Past (Kalavryta 1943)		Nicholas Dimitropoulos	A fictional drama inspired by the infamous Massacre of Kalavryta.
2021	Israel	Berenshtein		Roman Shumunov	Biography, History, War.
2022	Belarus	Detonation	Подрыв	Ivan Pavlov	Drama, War.
2022	Kazakhstan	Summer 1941	Лето 1941 года 1941 жылдың жазы	Bekbolat Shekerov	Action, War.
2022	Russia	First Oscar	Первый Оскар	Sergey Mokritskiy	Drama, History, War.
2022	Russia	Return From the Front	Возвращение с фронта	Nikolay Gadomsky
2022	Russia	1941. Wings Over Berlin	1941. Крылья над Берлином	Konstantin Buslov	Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War.
2022	Russia	Axe. 1944	Топор. 1944	Evgeniy Zvezdakov
2022	United Kingdom	Operation Mincemeat		John Madden	Operation Mincemeat, a British deception operation ahead of the Invasion of Italy
2022	Philippines	Selina's Gold		McArthur Mac C. Alejandre	Set in Bataan during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
2022	Norway	Narvik	Kampen om Narvik	Erik Skjoldbjaerg	Allied forces engage German forces at the Battles of Narvik
2022	Norway	Gold Run	Gulltransporten	Hallvard Bræin	True story of the plan to save the Norwegian gold reserve from the hands of the occupying Germans (Flight of the Norwegian National Treasury)
2023	Russia Latvia France	The Jew	Еврей	Dmitriy Fiks	Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War.
2023	Russia	Treasures of the partisan forest	Сокровища партизанского леса	Yuriy Ilin	Adventure, Family, War.
2023	Russia	Spreading the wings	Расправляя крылья	Olga Muzaleva	Drama, Romance, War.
2023	Russia	Pardon	Помилование	Ainur Askarov	Drama, War.
2023	Russia	Air	Воздух	Aleksei Alekseivich German	Drama, War.
2023	Russia Czech Republic United Kingdom Germany	Nuremberg	Нюрнберг	Nikolai Lebedev	Nuremberg trials
2023	United States	Oppenheimer		Christopher Nolan	Biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.
2023	Ukraine	Shttl		Ady Walter	A shtetl in Western Ukraine on the eve of Operation Barbarossa.
2023	Belgium Netherlands Poland	Wil	WIL	Tim Mielants	Wil is an auxiliary police officer in Antwerp at the start of World War II.
2023	Australia United Kingdom United States	One Life		James Hawes	Attempting to help groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II.
2023	Italy	Comandante		Edoardo De Angelis	Salvatore Todaro in the Battle of the Atlantic [13] [14]
2023	Russia	The Righteous	Праведник	Sergei Ursuliak	Drama, War.
2023	Russia	Axe. 1945	Топор. 1945	Vadim Ostrovsky	Action.
2024	Russia	Suvorovets 1944	Суворовец 1944	Denis Kazantsev	Adventure, Family.
2024	France	The Last Men	Les Derniers Hommes	David Oelhoffen	French troops on the run following the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
2024	Russia	The Dugout	Блиндаж	Mark Gorobets	History, Sci-Fi, War.
2024	United States	Masters of the Air (TV miniseries)		Cary Joji Fukunaga Dee Rees Anna Boden Ryan Fleck Tim Van Patten	Miniseries portraying the story of the 100th Bomb Group during World War II and follows bomber crews on dangerous missions to destroy targets inside German-occupied Europe.
2024	United States	Escape from Germany		T. C. Christensen	In August 1939, 85 American Mormon missionaries get stranded inside Nazi Germany on the eve of outbreak of WWII and must escape to neighbouring countries while Hitler’s army is closing German borders.
2024	United States	The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare		Guy Ritchie	Based on the true story of the Special Operations Executive.
2024	United States	The Six Triple Eight		Tyler Perry	The story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black and all-female battalion, in World War II.

In development

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2022	Philippines	1941: Cordillera In The Hands of War	1941: Cordillera Sa Kamay ng Digmaan (Filipino) 1941: Cordillera Iti Ima Ti Gubat (Ilocano)	Jianlin de Los Santos Floresca Perry de Guzman	Set in the Mountain Province during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
2024	Philippines	Elena 1944		Olivia Lamasan	Comfort women system and war crimes during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
2025	Russia	Axe. 1945. July	Топор. 1945. Июль	Vadim Ostrovsky
2025	Russia	The moment of truth	Момент истины	Ilya Lebedev Nikita Vysotskiy	Drama, History, War.
2025	Russia	Litvyak	Литвяк	Kim Druzhinin Andrey Shalopa	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War.
2026	Russia	Bansu	Бансу	Pavel Kostomarov	Drama, Thriller, War.
202X	United States	Nuremberg		James Vanderbilt	Based on the 2013 non-fiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai
202X	United States	Truth and Treason		Matt Whitaker	Biopic of Helmuth Hübener, youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof
202X	United States	Agent Zigzag		Mike Newell	Comedy. Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes British double agent
202X	Mexico United States	Aztec Eagles	Águilas Aztecas	Alfonso Arau	Action comedy-drama. Training and service of Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana and Escuadrón 201 in Philippines Campaign
202X	United States	Atlantic Wall		Gavin O'Connor	D-Day paratroops operation
202X	United Kingdom	The Battle of Britain		To be determined	Action-adventure. Battle of Britain [15] [16] [17]
202X	United States	Brothers in Arms		Denzel Washington	Action-drama based on true story. US 761st tank battalion and their 183 days on frontline including Battle of the Bulge and Siegfried Line [18] [19] [20]
202X	Poland United Kingdom	Christine: War My Love		Agnieszka Holland	Biopic of Polish Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek [21]
202X	United States	Citizen Soldiers		To be determined	Action-drama. Ardennes Forest and Battle of the Bulge, 1944 [22] [23]
202X	United Kingdom United States New Zealand	Dambusters		Christian Rivers	RAF's Operation Chastise against German dams
202X	United States Japan	East Wind, Rain	Azuma no kaze, ame (東の風、雨)	Masato Harada	Drama based on Caroline Paul novel. Japanese family on Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau and crash-landing of Japanese pilot after Pearl Harbor Attack [24] [25]
202X	United States Germany	The Forgotten Soldier		Paul Verhoeven	Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography
202X	Poland	Garrison 100	Garnizon 100	Jarosław Banaszek	Action-drama. Polish defense of Przebraze against Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) campaign to purge Volhynia from Polish inhabitants under German occupation, Spring 1943 [26]
202X	United Kingdom	Grace and Danger		Rhys Hayward	Action-drama. Allied soldiers rescue young woman from village massacre and Nazi SS [27] [28]
202X	Finland	Mannerheim	Mannerheim	Renny Harlin (resigned)	Drama. Marshal Mannerheim
202X	United Kingdom	Monte Cassino		John Irvin	Romance based on true story. American soldier behind enemy lines and Italian nurse at Monte Cassino monastery during Battle of Monte Cassino and Italian campaign [29] [30] [31]
202X	Australia Japan	Yellow Earth	Kiiro no chikyū (黄色の地球)	Max Mannix	Action-drama based on true story. Cowra breakout and attempted escape of captured Japanese soldiers from Cowra, Australia POW camp, 1944 [32] [33] [34]
202X	Russia	Steel	Сталь	Alexey Silyanov	Operation Barbarossa, tank battles

Science fiction, fantasy and horror

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

TV series

Main article: List of World War II TV series

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 partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia

References

Note

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

1. This film is an international co-production shot in English.
2. First African-American combat pilots fought in World War I; see Eugene Bullard, "The Black Swallow of Death" and Ahmet Ali (Arap Ahmet)
3. The Bunker is evidently a psychological horror film, not a monster movie.
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External links

• List of World War II Movies
• World War 2 movies – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.