The following is a list of World War II documentary films.
The following is a list of World War II documentary films.
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) | Walter Ruttmann |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) | Walter Ruttmann |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland) | |
| 1941 | Canada | Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg |
| 1941 | Canada | Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg |
| 1941 | USA | Kukan | Rey Scott |
| 1941 | Kingdom of Italy | Uomini sul fondo (Men on the bottom) | Francesco De Robertis |
| 1942 | Nazi Germany | Männer, Meer und Stürme (Men, Sea and Storms) | Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger |
| 1942 | United Kingdom | The Soldier's Food | unknown |
| 1944 | Nazi Germany | Panorama | |
| 1944 | United States | The Battle for the Marianas | Gordon Hollingshead |
| 1944 | Japan | Calling Australia (Japanese : オーストラリアを呼び出します, romanized: Ōsutoraria o Yobidashimasu) | Dr. Huyung (formerly known as Hinatsu Eitaro, Hae Yeong, and Hŏ Yŏng) |
| 1944 | United States | Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | William Wyler |
| 1945 | Denmark | Danmark i Lænker (Denmark in Chains) | Sven Methling |
| 1946 | United States | Let There Be Light | y Huston |
| 1947 | United States | Lest We Forget | n.a. |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | United States | Victory at Sea | M. Clay Adams |
| 1955 | France | Night and Fog | Alain Resnais |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | United States | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| 1962 | Canada | Canada at War | ? |
| 1964 | Canada | Fields of Sacrifice | Donald Brittain |
| 1965 | Canada | Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton |
| 1965 | United States | France: Conquest to Liberation | Aram Boyajian |
| 1965 | United States | Prelude to War: Beginning of World War II | Alan Landsburg |
| 1965 | Soviet Union | Ordinary Fascism (Обыкновенный фашизм) (Obyknovennyy fashizm) | Mikhail Romm |
| 1968 | United States | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman |
| 1969 | France | The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) | Marcel Ophüls |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | United Kingdom | The World at War | Miscellaneous |
| 1974 | Israel | The 81st Blow (המכה ה-81) | Haim Gouri |
| 1976 | United Kingdom | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls |
| 1977 | United Kingdom | The Secret War (TV series) | Various |
| 1978 | Soviet Union | The Unknown War (Neizvestnaya voyna) (Неизвестная война) | Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | West Germany | The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 | Dieter Hildebrandt |
| 1981 | United States | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Connie Field |
| 1982 | United States | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman |
| 1982 | Sweden | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Chohen, Bo Kuritzen |
| 1982 | United States | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die | Laurence Jarvik |
| 1985 | France | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
| 1985 | United States | Unfinished Business | Steven Okazaki |
| 1987 | Japan | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara |
| 1988 | France | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophüls |
| 1989 | France | De Nuremberg à Nuremberg | Frédéric Rossif |
| 1989 | United Kingdom | Fascist Legacy | Ken Kirby |
| 1989 | Sweden | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | War Music | David Porteous | |
| 2011 | United States | We Were There | Jarod O'Flaherty |
| 2011 | Netherlands | 900 Days | Jessica Gorter |
| 2011 | Russia | Soviet Storm: World War II in the East | Anna Grazhdan |
| 2012 | United States | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Oliver Stone |
| 2013 | United States | The Ghost Army | Rick Beyer |
| 2014 | United States | Second War Diary: The War Day by Day | José Delgado |
| 2015 | Germany | Hostages of the SS | Christian Frey |
| 2016 | Australia | A Long Way Back | Samm Blake |
| 2018 | Italy | Visconti's Eagles | Claudio Costa |
| 2019 | United Kingdom | Greatest Events of WWII in Colour | Sam Taplin, Nicky Bolster, Kasia Uscinska, Josh Whitehead & Ailsa Fereday |
| Year | Country | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | United Kingdom | WWII in Color: Road to Victory | Sam Taplin, Lou Westlake, Kim Lask, Stan Griffin & Katie Boxer |
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II:
This is a list of World War II-related topic lists:
This is an index of lists of historical films.
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