List of World War II short films

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Below is a list of short films or animated cartoons that pertain to World War II, or the years leading up to it.

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Momotarō's Sea Eagles (1943)

Films made before the war

1930s

YearCountryTitleDirectorEvents depictedView
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1938United States Ferdinand the Bull Dick Rickard (uncredited)Pacifist Disney cartoon. YouTube
1938United States Porky the Gob Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton Pro-preparedness cartoon where Porky Pig's battleship engages a "pirate submarine". YouTube
1938United States What Price Porky Robert Clampett Pro-preparedness cartoon where farmer Porky Pig must mobilize his chickens against a heavily armed "ducktator" (Daffy Duck). [1] YouTube

Year undetermined

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United KingdomLocal Boy Makes Good: A Story With a Moral [2] ?Cartoon in which an RAF bomber is able to shoot down German fighters once the pilot and turret gunner put on their respirators. YouTube

Films made during the war

1939

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United KingdomHitler Dances to Stalin's Tune [3] Anson Dyer Cartoon mocking the Soviet–Nazi pact, the friendship between Stalin and Hitler. ITN
YouTube
United States Peace on Earth Hugh Harman Anti-war cartoon. YouTube

1940

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United States Boobs in Arms Jules White Comedy with the Three Stooges in an unspecified army.
United Kingdom Channel Incident Anthony Asquith Dramatic film about a yachtsman at Dunkirk.
Nazi GermanyDer Störenfried Hans Held Cartoon in which a fox threatens a family of hares only to be strafed in turn by wasps of the Luftwaffe. YouTube
Fascist ItalyInghilterra contro Europa Luigi Liberio Pensuti Anti-British cartoon.
Nazi Germany Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt
Das güldene Bäumchen
Heinz Tischmeyer [4] Anti-Semitic cartoon where a Jew plucks all the leaves from a golden tree, leaving it empty. [5] YouTube
United States You Nazty Spy! Jules White Comedy with the Three Stooges.

1941

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Soviet UnionFascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
( Не тoптать фашистскому сапогу Нашей Родины ) [6]
A. Ivanov, I. Vano Anti-Nazi cartoon with German pig soldier vs. Soviet cavalry and tanks.
Music by Prokofiev from Alexander Nevsky (1938).
[ citation needed ] YouTube
Fascist ItalyIl Dottor Churkill Luigi Liberio Pensuti Anti-British cartoon involving a Jekyll and Hyde story where Mr. Hyde becomes Dr. Jekyll (Winston Churchill). [7] [8] YouTube
United States The Rookie Bear Rudolf Ising Cartoon feature Barney Bear drafted into USA Army during his hibernation.IA
United States I'll Never Heil Again Jules White Comedy with the Three Stooges.IA
Soviet UnionA Journal of Political Satire № 2
( Журнал политсатиры № 2 )
Zinaida Brumberg, Alexander Ivanov, Valentina Brumberg, Olga Khodatayeva, Ivan Ivanov-Vano Anti-Nazi cartoon, in 4 parts, exhorting Soviets to resist "Fascist pirates" (Бей фашистских пиратов). [9] YouTube
United StatesThe Mighty Navy Dave Fleischer Cartoon about Popeye joining the Navy to fight against 'The Enemy'. YouTube
United States Rookie Revue Friz Freleng Cartoon which shows the different elements of the US Army: infantry, cavalry, armour, USAAF, artillery, and lampoons (accurately) makeshift weaponry. YouTube [10]
United Kingdom Rush Hour Anthony Asquith Comedy film asking casual travellers to leave transport to workers.
Canada
United States
7 Wise Dwarfs Dick Lyford & Ford Beebe [11] [ circular reference ]Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Seven Dwarfs invest their gems in Canadian War Savings Certificates. YouTube [10]
Canada
United States
The Thrifty Pig Walt Disney (producer)Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Big Bad Nazi Wolf is defeated by a house flying Canada's national flag and built of Canadian War Savings Certificates. IA
CanadaV for Victory Norman McLaren Cartoon in support of a war bond drive. Music by John Philip Sousa. [12]
United StatesThe Flying Bear Rudolf Ising
Bob Allen
MGM Cartoon featured Barney Bear during WWII.IA
Soviet UnionThe Vultures
( Стервятники )
Panteleimon Sazonov [13] (uncredited)Anti-Nazi cartoon where German vultures become bombers only to be shot out of the skies by Red Air Force fighters. [13] YouTube

1942

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United States Ace in the Hole Alex Lovy A Woody Woodpecker cartoon that centers around Woody's shenanigans at a military air force.
Canada
United States
All Together Walt Disney (producer)Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Pinocchio, Donald Duck, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Goofy and the Seven Dwarfs parade at Centre Block for Canadian War Savings Certificates. [14] IA
United StatesAir Raid Warden Alex Lovy Cartoon featuring Andy Panda.
United States Andy Panda's Victory Garden [15] akaSpringtime for Andy Alex Lovy Cartoon in which Andy Panda's attempts to grow a victory garden are spoiled by a hungry rooster. [16] YouTube
United States Any Bonds Today? Bob Clampett A Racist cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny performing in blackface for the war effort. The title song is by Irving Berlin. YouTube
United StatesBarney Bear's Victory Garden Rudolf Ising MGM Cartoon featured Barney Bear planning his own victory garden during the days of World War II.IA
United States Blitz Wolf Tex Avery Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. YouTube
United States Blunder Below Dave Fleischer Cartoon featuring Popeye, depicting him defeating a Japanese submarine. YouTube [17]
Soviet UnionCinema Circus
( Кино-цирк )
Olga Khodatayeva & Leonid Amalrik Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring Hitler with his trained dogs, Mussolini, Horthy and Antonescu, and his mentor Napoleon, at a circus hosted by clown Karandash. YouTube
United States The Devil with Hitler Gordon Douglas Comedy film where the Devil's job in Hell is threatened by Hitler. YouTube
United States Donald Gets Drafted Jack King (uncredited)Disney cartoon in which Donald Fauntleroy Duck volunteers for the US Army. YouTube
Canada
United States
Donald's Decision Walt Disney (producer)Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Donald Duck's conscience makes him invest in Canadian War Savings Certificates. IA
United States The Ducktators Norman McCabe Anti-Axis cartoon which portrays Hitler, Mussolini and Tōjō as barnyard fowl. YouTube
United States Eleventh Hour Dan Gordon Anti-Japanese cartoon portraying Superman as a saboteur at the Yokohama Navy Yard in Japan. IA
CanadaEmpty Rooms Mean Idle MachinesPhilip RaganCartoon which encourages citizens to rent their spare room to a munitions plant labourer. [18] NFB [19]
United States Fleets of Stren'th Dave Fleischer Cartoon featuring Popeye, fighting against a fleet of enemy planes. YouTube
Canada Hen Hop Norman McLaren Low-key cartoon in which a chicken dancing to "Turkey in the Straw" encourages Canadians to "save" for "V" (Victory). YouTube [10]
NFB [19]
United States Japoteurs Seymour Kneitel Anti-Japanese cartoon featuring Superman and a group of Japanese spies trying to hijack a bomber. IA
YouTube
United Kingdom Kill or Be Killed Len Lye Dramatic film of a confrontation between a Tommy and a German sniper. [20]
United States The New Spirit Walt Disney (producer)Anti-Axis Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck learns to pay his taxes and fight the Axis, using only a "tax blank", pen, ink, and a blotter. [21] IA YouTube
United StatesOld Blackout JoePaul Sommer

John Hubley

A Phantasy cartoon that satirizes blackout drills.
United States Safeguarding Military Information Preston Sturges Dramatic film. IA
United Kingdom Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk Charles A. Ridley (uncredited)Short comedy film featuring clips from Triumph of the Will edited in such a way so as to make it appear that Hitler and other Nazis are dancing to The Lambeth Walk (a dance craze popular at the time but despised by the Nazis). [22] This film was supplied uncredited to newsreel companies that gave the film other titles such as Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style, [22] Gen. Adolf Takes Over, [23] Germany Calling, [22] Hitler Doing the Lambeth Walk, [22] Hoch der Lambeth Valk: A Laugh-Time Interlude [24] and Panzer Ballet. [25] The newsreel companies world also supply their own narration [26] IA
YouTube
United States Scrap the Japs Seymour Kneitel Cartoon featuring Popeye, battling against Japanese planes and naval ships. YouTube
United States Sky Trooper Jack King Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck becomes a reluctant paratrooper. YouTube
United StatesSong of VictoryBob Wickersham

Frank Tashlin (supervision)

A Color Rhapsody cartoon that portrays the Axis dictators as animals terrorizing a forest populated by small woodland creatures. IA
Canada
United States
Stop That Tank! Ub Iwerks (uncredited)

Walt Disney (producer)

Instructional cartoon, animated for the DND and NFB by Disney, showing Canadian Tommies using the Boys ATR against German armour, sending Hitler straight to Hell. YouTube (part 1)
YouTube (part 2)
United States Tulips Shall Grow George Pal Anti-Nazi Puppetoon where a Dutch windmill is attacked by the Screwballs. IA
CanadaUnmanned Machines Mean Unarmed MenPhilip RaganCartoon which stresses the need for defence workers to be always on the job, not idle. [27] NFB [19]
United StatesWolf Chases PigsBob Wickersham

Frank Tashlin (supervision)

A Colombia Fable which, similar to MGM's Blitz Wolf , puts The Three Little Pigs in a wartime setting.
United States The Vanishing Private Jack King Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck has trouble with camouflage paint. YouTube
United StatesYankee Doodle Swing Shift Alex Lovy A Swing Symphony cartoon that centers around a swing band working in a defense plant.
United States You're a Sap, Mr. Jap Dan Gordon Anti-Japanese cartoon featuring Popeye, depicting him fighting a Japanese navy ship. YouTube

1943

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United Kingdom Bury the Axis Lou Bunin YouTube
United States Canine Commandos Alex Lovy Cartoon featuring Andy Panda.
United States Chicken Little Clyde Geronimi (uncredited)Disney cartoon in which the fox employs modern propaganda techniques to seize control of the farmyard. YouTube
United States Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs Bob Clampett Patriotic cartoon featuring an all-Negro jazz retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where the dwarfs are US soldiers. YouTube
United States Confusions of a Nutzy Spy Norman McCabe Cartoon featuring policeman Porky Pig searching for a Nazi spy.
The title parodies Confessions of a Nazi Spy .
YouTube
United States Daffy – The Commando Friz Freleng Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring Daffy Duck on a mission to Berlin against Hitler. YouTube
United States Der Fuehrer's Face Jack Kinney Anti-Axis Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck imagines life working in a German munitions plant. YouTube
United States Fall Out Fall In Jack King Animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck as an army private marching with the soldiers.
United States Dizzy Pilots Jules White Comedy with the Three Stooges.
United States Donald's Tire Trouble Dick Lundy Disney cartoon featuring Donald Duck. YouTube
United StatesHe Can't Make It StickPaul Sommer

John Hubley

Color Rhapsody cartoon that satirizes Hitlers rise of power in Germany, the latter of which is symbolized as a widow with 3 children. Half of the cartoon visuals remains lost.
United States Home Defense Jack King Disney cartoon featured Donald Duck and his three nephews serving as civilian aircraft spotters during World War II.
United States Hop and Go Norman McCabe Cartoon features WWII-related content near the end of the film.
United States Education for Death:
The Making of the Nazi
Clyde Geronimi Anti-Nazi Disney cartoon illustrating the indoctrination of a young boy into Nazism. IA
YouTube
United States Falling Hare Robert Clampett Cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is tormented by a gremlin. YouTube
United States The Fifth-Column Mouse Friz Freleng Cartoon in which mice resist feline oppression and prepare for war. YouTube
United States Freedom Comes High Lewis Allen Dramatic film. IA
United StatesA Jolly Good Furlough Dan Gordon Cartoon where Popeye's nephews practise their home defence techniques on Popeye. IA
Imperial Japan Momotarō's Sea Eagles
( 桃太郎の海鷲 )
Mitsuyo Seo Feature-length anti-Allied cartoon. YouTube
United States Nazty Nuisance akaThe Last Three Glenn Tryon Comedy film with Hitler and his cronies in the tropics. IA
United Kingdom The New Lot Carol Reed Dramatic film in which five civilians are conscripted.
United States The Old Army Game Jack King Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck goes AWOL. YouTube
United States Pass The Biscuits Mirandy! James Culhane (uncredited)A Swing Symphony cartoon that depicts the feuding Foy and Barton families eventually working together in a WWII battlefield. IA
United States Ration Bored Emery Hawkins
Milt Schaffer
A Woody Woodpecker cartoon that satirizes rationing in the home front.
United StatesRation Fer the Duration Seymour Kneitel Cartoon featuring Popeye and his victory garden.
United States Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter Bernard Vorhaus Part-animated dramatic film detailing differences between a Zero and a P-40. IA
United States Scrap Happy Daffy Frank Tashlin Cartoon where Daffy Duck's efforts to salvage scrap are spoiled by Hitler's metal-eating goat. YouTube
United States Secret Agent Seymour Kneitel Cartoon where Superman battles Nazi saboteurs. IA
YouTube
United States Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue Dan Gordon Anti-Axis cartoon where draft board Popeye plummels some tiny Tojos, Hirohito, then Hitler, making Göring cry. YouTube
United Kingdom The Silent Village Humphrey Jennings Dramatic film in which the Nazi massacre at Lidice in Czechoslovakia is recreated in a Welsh village. YouTube
United States Spinach Fer Britain Izzy Sparber Cartoon featuring Popeye delivering spinach to Great Britain while avoiding a Nazi submarine. YouTube
United States The Spirit of '43 Jack King Disney cartoon. YouTube
United States Take Heed Mr. Tojo James Culhane (uncredited)Anti-Japanese cartoon. IA
United States They Stooge to Conga Del Lord Comedy with the Three Stooges.
United States Tokio Jokio Cpl. Norman McCabe Anti-Japanese cartoon. YouTube
Occupied Netherlands Van den vos Reynaerde Egbert van PuttenAnti-Semitic cartoon based on Van den vos Reynaerde, an anti-Semitic children's story, which was in turn based on the legend of Reynard the Fox. [28] YouTube (fragments with seemingly pro-Nazi commentary)
United States Victory Vehicles Jack Kinney Disney cartoon where Goofy develops solutions to the home front transportation crisis. [29] YouTube
United States War Dogs William Hanna & Joseph Barbera This cartoon follows the life of a dim-witted dog going through military training. YouTube
Bohemia and Moravia Wedding in the Coral Sea (Hochzeit im Korallenmeer) Horst von Möllendorff (credited)Cartoon where the wedding of two fish can only occur once a Russian pirate octopus is defeated. YouTube
United States The Yankee Doodle Mouse William Hanna & Joseph Barbera Cartoon of Tom and Jerry's cellar battle during World War II where Jerry deploys a brassiere parachute when his egg carton plane is shot down.
United States You, John Jones! Mervyn LeRoy Dramatic film about an air raid warden. IA
United States Back From the Front Jules White A comedy with The Three Stooges turning the tables on Nazis on the S.S. Schicklgruber YouTube}

1944

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United Kingdom Aventure malgache Alfred Hitchcock Anti-Vichy film (in French) about resistance to the Vichy takeover in Madagascar. Oldcinemovies
YouTube
(part 1)
United States Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Friz Freleng Anti-Japanese cartoon in which Bugs Bunny targets Japanese soldiers with explosive ice cream. YouTube
United States Commando Duck Jack King Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon. YouTube
United States Hell-Bent for Election Charles M. Jones Cartoon, commissioned by the UAW, promoting the 1944 re-election of President Roosevelt. YouTube
United States How to Be a Sailor Jack Kinney Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon where Goofy, the torpedo, sinks IJN warships. YouTube
CanadaKeep Your Mouth Shut Norman McLaren Animated film in which a death's head thanks Canadians for revealing military secrets.NFB [19]
United StatesLend LeaseUnknownCartoon written by Phil Eastman.
Vichy FranceNimbus libéréRaymond JeanninPro-Nazi cartoon in which bombers flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, Goofy and Felix the Cat kill Frenchmen. YouTube
United States Plane Daffy Frank Tashlin Cartoon featuring Daffy Duck against the Nazi spy Hatta Mari. YouTube [17]
CanadaProudest Girl in the WorldJulian Roffman [30] Morale-boosting film in which a chorus of CWACs sing the title song. Music by Louis Applebaum and Wayne and Shuster.NFB [19]
United States Russian Rhapsody Robert Clampett Anti-Nazi cartoon where Hitler in his bomber takes on the "Gremlins from the Kremlin". YouTube
United States Swooner Crooner Frank Tashlin Porky's wartime egg farm production is disrupted by his hens going crazy over a crooning Frank Sinatra rooster, so he enlists the help of a crooning Bing Crosby rooster to get production going again. YouTube
United Kingdom Two Fathers Anthony Asquith Dramatic film about two fathers, English and French, with children in the war.
United States The Weakly Reporter Charles M. Jones Cartoon lampooning sacrifices made on the homefront. YouTube
United StatesYankee Doodle Donkey I. Sparber A Noveltoons cartoon that features Spunky the Donkey drafting himself to the WAG (a reference to the WAC, but with dogs instead).

1945

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United States Draftee Daffy Robert Clampett A Looney Tunes cartoon that centers around Daffy Duck evading the Little Man from the Draft Board.
United States Herr Meets Hare Friz Freleng Anti-Nazi cartoon where Bugs Bunny meets Hermann Göring, then imitates both Hitler and Stalin. YouTube
Imperial Japan Momotarō's Devine Sea Warriors
( 桃太郎 海の神兵 )
Mitsuyo Seo Feature-length anti-Allied cartoon. YouTube
United States Swing Shift Cinderella Tex Avery Cartoon where a voluptuous glamour girl also works at the aircraft plant. IA
United StatesWhen G.I. Johnny Comes Home Seymour Kneitel Musical cartoon with soldiers and sailors coming home. YouTube
GreeceThe Duce Dictates
(Ο Ντούτσε αφηγείται)
Stamatis Polenakis The first animation made in Greece. Mussolini in his castle dictates the exploits of the fascist army during the Italian invasion of Greece to a personification of Italian history. YouTube

Films made after the war

1940s

YearCountryTitleDirectorEvents depictedView
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1946United States G.I. Wanna Home
(G.I. Wanna Go Home)
Jules White Comedy with the Three Stooges.
1946Czechoslovakia Springman and the SS
(Pérák a SS)
Jiří Brdečka & Jiří Trnka Anti-Nazi cartoon where the SS arrest any Czech subversive, like a bird whistling "Yankee Doodle" before the SS are stopped by the superhero Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague. YouTube

1950s

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1955United States Good Will to Men William Hanna & Joseph Barbera Anti-war cartoon.
Remake of Peace on Earth.
YouTube

1960s

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1963West GermanyMachorka-Muff Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet (uncredited)Drama about lingering Nazi thought among German veterans, based on a story by Heinrich Böll.

1970s

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1970SpainEstado de sitio [31] Jaime Chávarri
Jaime Chávarri
Spanish Civil War.
1971Soviet UnionThe Pioneer's Violin(Скрипка пионера) Boris Stepantsev About one of the Pioneers-heroes. YouTube

1980s

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1983United States What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? Bill Melendez Animated TV programme in which the Peanuts characters visit war memorials. YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
1985United StatesAn Officer and a Duck Jack King Disney compilation cartoon detailing the adventures of Pvt. Donald Duck.
1988Japan Grave of the Fireflies
( 火垂るの墓 )
Isao Takahata Feature-length Anime based on the novel of Akiyuki Nosaka. Story about a boy and his sister in the last days of the war.

1990s

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1991United StatesEin Neuer Anfang [32]
from The Rocketeer
Mark Dindal Fake pro-Nazi cartoon. YouTube
1994SpainAlsasua 1936 Helena Taberna Spanish Civil War. [33] [34]
1994United StatesOf Course, You Know This Means Warnersfrom Animaniacs Lenord Robinson & Dave MarshallRetrospective cartoon showing how everyone, including Hollywood stars (Warner Bros.), helped fight on the home front.
1995United States Carrotblanca Douglas McCarthyCartoon featuring Bugs Bunny.
The film parodies Casablanca .
YouTube
1999Australia Harry's War Richard Frankland The story of an Aboriginal Australian during World War II. [35]

2000s

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2003FranceThe ReleaseSebastien LabanAnimated film. YouTube
2003United States
Japan
Urda: The Third Reich Romanov HigaAnime in which the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel when the war is going badly for them. YouTube (episodes 1–5)
2004New ZealandTama Tū Taika Waititi Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray.
2005Germany
France
The Colonial Friend [36]
(L'ami y'a bon)
Rachid Bouchareb Animated film. YouTube
2005Romania
France
Tertium non-datur Lucian Pintilie YouTube (end credits)
2007United States End of a Rope Daniel Lahr A Nazi prisoner faces ghosts from his past before meeting his end. Based on the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". YouTube
2008United StatesThe BridgeSheldon SchwartzFilm where a Japanese-American soldier in Italy embarks on a dangerous mission. YouTube
2008United KingdomRed Letter Edilberto Restino Drama where a German soldier tries to kill Hitler in Paris, 1942.
Followed by Brunette Kiss.
YouTube (trailer)
2008CanadaServants of WarGillian MacLeodDrama depicting lives of sisters torn apart by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers invading their home
2009SpainCampás Jairo Iglesias Spanish Civil War. YouTube (trailer)
2009PhilippinesPedroRegeene HoDrama. A man, who refuses to surrender to Japanese soldiers, on his journey to go back to his wife & daughter after escaping from hanging execution. YouTube (trailer)

2010s

YearCountryTitleDirectorEvents depictedView
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2010United StatesThe Bridge Marlon Torres Drama in which a deceased US Army medic meets soldiers from his past. Vimeo
(trailer)
2010BrazilBrunette Kiss Edilberto Restino Drama in which a German soldier tells his life story to his grandson, a boy with Down syndrome and a prodigious memory.
Sequel to Red Letter.
YouTube (trailer)
2010Canada I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Ann Marie Fleming Animated film. NFB (clip)
2010Serbia
Switzerland
X & OAcim VasicShort film. In the depths of a snowy forest in an unknown wartime, two soldiers from opposing armies try to outwit each other in a perilous game of cat and mouse - until they find themselves outplayed by destiny. (short film)
2011United StatesBreakdownThomas LynskeyShort film. A vignette driven film about a Soviet trap against a squad of German soldiers. (short film)
2011United StatesCourage Too LateThomas LynskeyShort film. A romance brews between a male and female Soviet soldier while their platoon is sent to capture a German colonel. (short film)
2012TurkeyBiomen Shampoo commercial [37] Ad featuring film clip from Triumph of the Will YouTube
2013Japan艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- Kusakawa Keizou Anime which describes IJN warship to girls.
2016United Kingdom Our Father Calum RhysShort film. The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole - an odyssey of friendship, innocence and adventure set against a canvas of war-torn France.
2016FinlandRadio DoloresKatariina LillqvistStop motion puppet film of a Finnish volunteer of the Spanish Civil War. YouTube (director's interview)
2017United StatesFreundNathan CragunA German sniper questions the morality of his actions after coming face to face with his enemy. YouTube
2017United StatesEsperancaNathan CragunAfter being separated from his unit during the battle for Montese, a Brazilian soldier fights a battle with himself to continue on. He must see if he has the hope and will to move on. YouTube
2017AustraliaDaily BreadRuby ChallengerIn a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease, and starvation. Meanwhile, the camp commandant's beloved white fluffy cat is fed fresh juicy meat.
2019United StatesMinor Accident of WarDiane Fredel-WeisIn 1945, WWII veteran Edward Field, now 95 years of age, flew 27 missions over Germany during the war. On his 3rd mission, his plane was hit by flak and crash landed in the North sea. This is the story of Field's survival. Official Website

See also

Other cartoons of feature length
Earlier war cartoons
Other films of World War II

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References

Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.

  1. The combat scenes in What Price Porky are unusually extended.
  2. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
  3. ITN Source. This film is labelled War Cartoon № 4 and was released 23 October 1939. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  4. The IMDb currently (as of November 2010) credits Tischmeyer only as the animator.
  5. The narrator makes a point of mentioning that fact.
  6. The film is also known as Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland.
  7. German Nazi and Italian Fascist policemen are unable to apprehend Churchill as he steals loot from around the world, so bombers must chase Churchill back to London.
  8. The opening credits read, Una produzione S.A. Incom Industrie Corti Metraggi, Roma. Direzione generale Sandro Pallavicini . The cartoon was made by Incom Short Films in Rome.
  9. Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian and English). This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
  10. 1 2 3 [ dead link ] Readers are encouraged to check the Internet to find replacements for any dead links.
  11. Source: Wikipedia article on the film. Neither the IMDb nor the BCDB lists a director for this film.
    Lyford, presumably, is the Oscar-winning documentarian, Richard Lyford. Beebe was working at Disney at this time.
  12. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
  13. 1 2 Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian and English).
  14. Marching in the parade on Parliament Hill in Ottawa are, in order, Pinocchio with Geppetto and Figaro (but not Jiminy Cricket), all from the previous year's hit Pinocchio (1940); Donald Duck with Huey, Dewey, and Louie; Pluto; Mickey Mouse leading a band featuring Clarabelle and Goofy; and finally the Seven Dwarfs, with Dopey being the last character to appear.
  15. Source: The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia Archived 19 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine .
    The film's release date was 7 September 1942.
    The IMDb incorrectly gives the release data as 7 September 1943 (as of March 2010).
  16. Source: BCDB. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
  17. 1 2 The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
  18. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 Available for public viewing at the NFB offices in Montreal and Toronto.
  20. "Kill or Be Killed [...] was considered by some critics to be one of the best of all wartime films. It was a fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding in a tree."
    Horrocks, Roger. Len Lye: a biography, pp. 198–199.
  21. Donald Duck's income tax for the calendar year 1941, on a gross income of $2501.00, is $13.00, which he remits by cheque.
  22. 1 2 3 4 "Charles A. Ridley".
  23. "Gen. Adolf Takes over, 1942/01/07". 1942.
  24. "Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk (1941) - IMDb". IMDb .
  25. "GERMANY CALLING [Main Title]".
  26. "The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Video That Enraged Goebbels". 19 December 2014.
  27. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
  28. The cartoon was finished in 1943 but never shown publicly.
  29. Goofy appears in many guises, including air raid warden. He even wears a zoot suit.
  30. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not list a director for this film.
  31. Estado de sitio at Peliculasgratis.com (in Spanish)
  32. In German, ein neuer Anfang means "a new beginning".
  33. Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 Archived 16 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Salir.com (in Spanish)
  34. Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 (1994) at Hoycinema.com (in Spanish)
  35. "Golden Seahorse Productions". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  36. This film is included as a bonus on the DVD of the director's feature film Days of Glory .
  37. Turkey Hitler shampoo advert withdrawn, BBC, 27 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.