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This is a list of '''fictional feature films or miniseries''' which feature events of '''[[World War II]]''' in the narrative.

There is a separate list of [[List of World War II TV series|World War II TV series]].

== Criteria ==
* The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|War of Ethiopia]] and the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese War]]) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
* For short films, see the [[List of World War II short films]].
* For documentaries, see the [[List of World War II documentary films]] and the [[List of Allied propaganda films of World War II]].

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

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

;Europe
*[[Adolf Hitler]], [[Nazi Party]] and [[Nazism]]
*[[National Socialist Germany]] (Third Reich)
*[[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Fascism]]
*[[Kingdom of Italy]] (and [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]]) and [[Italian Social Republic]]
*[[Extermination camp|Death camps]], [[Nazi concentration camps]], earlier [[concentration camp]]s
*[[History of Poland (1939–1945)|Partition and occupation of Poland]] and [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]]
*[[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|Occupied France]], [[Vichy France]] and [[French Resistance]]
*[[Occupation of Norway by Germany|Occupied Norway]]
*[[The Holocaust]]

;Asia–Pacific
*[[Hirohito|Emperor Shōwa]] and [[Imperialism]]
*[[Empire of Japan]] (Japanese Imperial)
;Non-geographical
*[[Prisoner of war|POW]]

== Films made during the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War ==
Before the Second World War explicitly began with the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]], then later [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] ([[Russia]]n) invasions of [[Poland]] in September 1939, [[Germany]] had already absorbed [[Austria]] in the [[Anschluß]] of 1938, then the [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakian lands]] of [[Bohemia]] and [[Moravia]]. Meanwhile, [[Italy]], Germany, and the Soviet Union were involved in the [[Spanish Civil War]],<ref>For movies set during the Spanish Civil War please refer to [[List of Spanish Civil War films]]</ref> (1936–1939), and Italy had conquered [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Ethiopia]] (1935–1936) and [[Italian invasion of Albania|Albania]] (1939). [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]] had been fighting against [[Japan]] since the 1931 invasion of their northeastern province of [[Manchuria]] in a war that completely opened in 1937, called the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], until Japan attacked the [[United States of America|U.S.A.]] at [[Pearl Harbor]] on [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|7 December 1941]], then the [[British Empire]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]] colonial possessions also in December 1941.
=== 1936 ===
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|Italy
|''{{sort|Great|[[The Great Appeal]]}}''
|''Il grande appello''
|[[Mario Camerini]]
|Italian father and son in the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|War of Ethiopia]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Traitor|[[The Traitor (1936 German film)|The Traitor]]}}''
|''Verräter''
|[[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]]
|Foreign spies in a German armaments factory
|}

=== 1937 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
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! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|Italy
|''[[Sentinels of Bronze]]''
|''Sentinelle di bronzo''
|[[Romolo Marcellini]]
|[[Royal Corps of Somali Colonial Troops|Italian colonial soldiers]] defeat the Ethiopian attack on [[Abyssinia Crisis|Walwal]]
|-
|Japan
|''Song of Marching'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Shingun no uta]]'' (進軍の歌)
|[[Yasushi Sasaki]]
|Volunteer in the [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Army]] fighting in China
|}

=== 1938 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
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! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
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! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
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|Japan
|''[[Chocolate and Soldiers]]''
|''Chocolate to heitai'' (チョコレートと兵隊)
|[[Takeshi Sato (director)|Takeshi Sato]]
|[[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Army]] soldier's battlefield letters with chocolate wrappers sent to son while fighting in China
|-
|Soviet Union
|''Concentration Camp'' (''Bog Soldiers'' / ''Soldiers of the Swamp'')
|''[[Bolotnye soldaty]]'' (''[[:ru:Болотные солдаты (фильм)|Болотные солдаты]]'')
|{{sort|Macheret|[[:ru:Мачерет, Александр Вениаминович|Aleksandr Macheret]]}}
|Nazi concentration camp guards attempt to break spirits of [[Communists]]
|-
|China
|''{{sort|Eight|[[Defense of Sihang Warehouse#Legacy|The Eight Hundred Heroes]]}}''
|''Bā bǎi zhuàngshì'' (八百壮士) 
|[[Ying Yunwei]]
|[[Defense of Sihang Warehouse]]
|-
|France
|''[[Gibraltar (1938 film)|It Happened in Gibraltar]]''
|''Gibraltar''
|[[Fedor Ozep]]
|British officer in [[Gibraltar]] pretends to be traitor
|-
|Japan
|''Invisible Invader''
|''[[Sugata-naki shinnyūsha]]'' (姿無き侵入者)
|[[Shuzo Fukuda]]
|Foreign spies in Japan pretend to be travelers
|-
|Italy
|''[[Luciano Serra, Pilot]]''
|''Luciano Serra pilota''
|[[Goffredo Alessandrini]]
|[[Second Italo-Abyssinian War|Italo-Abyssinian War]]
|-
|Korea
|''Military Train''
|''[[Gun'yō ressha]]'' ({{lang|ja|軍用列車}})<br/>''Gun-yong-yeolcha'' ({{lang|ko|군용열차}})
|[[Gwang-je Seo]]
|A Korean train conductor is involved in espionage on a Japanese military train
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Pay|[[A Pay by the Wayside]]}}'' (''Five Scouts'')
|''Gonin no sekkôhei'' (五人の斥候兵)
|[[Tomotaka Tasaka]]
|Five Japanese Army soldiers on reconnaissance mission behind Chinese lines
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Road|The Road to Peace in the Orient}}''
|''[[Tōyō heiwa no michi]]'' (東洋平和の道)
|[[Shigeyoshi Suzuki (film director)|Shigeyoshi Suzuki]]
|Chinese farmers overcame their distrust of Japan after being helped by Japanese soldiers
|-
|France
|''{{sort|Shanghai|[[The Shanghai Drama]]}}''
|''Le drame de Shanghaï''
|[[Georg Wilhelm Pabst]]
|Japanese [[Black Dragon Society|Black Dragon agents]] in [[Shanghai]]
|}

== Films made during the Second World War ==
{{further|List of Allied propaganda films of World War II}}

'''Note:''' Soviet films are in [[Russian language|Russian]] and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.

=== 1939 ===
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! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|Italy
|''Battles in the Shadow'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Lotte nell'ombra|Lotte nell'ombra]]''
|[[Domenico Gambino]]
|Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive
|-
|United States
|''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]''
|
|{{sort|Litvak|[[Anatole Litvak]]}}
|Nazi spy ring in the United States
|-
|United States
|''[[Hitler, Beast of Berlin]]'' (''Hell's Devils'' / ''Beasts of Berlin'')
|
|{{sort|Newfield|[[Sam Newfield]]}}
|Drama. German anti-Hitler political prisoner
|-
|Hungary
|''[[Hungary's Revival]]''
|''Magyar feltámadás''
|{{sort|Csepreghy|[[Jenö Csepreghy]]}}
|Drama, romance. The film celebrates the recent Hungarian territorial gains following the [[Munich agreement]] and the [[First Vienna Award]].
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''{{sort|Lion|[[The Lion Has Wings]]}}''
|
|{{sort|Powell|[[Michael Powell]], [[Adrian Brunel]], [[Brian Desmond Hurst]], [[Alexander Korda]]}}
|[[RAF]] mobilization <ref>This is the first World War II British propaganda film.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}</ref>
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Little|The Little Adventurers}}''
|''[[:it:Piccoli naufraghi|Piccoli naufraghi]]''
|[[Flavio Calzavara]]
|Adventure. Twelve Italian boys embark on a merchantman ship to fight in the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|War of Ethiopia]], but are shipwrecked on an island. Then they manage to take control of another merchantman smuggling weapons to Ethiopia.
|-
|Japan Empire
|''[[Mud and Soldiers]]''
|''Tsuchi to heitai'' (土と兵隊)
|{{sort|Tasaka|[[Tomotaka Tasaka]]}}
|Drama based on [[Ashihei Hino]] novel. Effect of war on Japanese soldiers during Sino-Japanese War
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Q Planes]]'' (''Clouds Over Europe'')
|
|{{sort|Whelan|[[Tim Whelan]], [[Arthur B. Woods]]}}
|Thriller. Foreign spies suspected in disappearance of secret aircraft <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Secret Journey (1939 film)|Secret Journey]]'' (''Among Human Wolves'')
|
|{{sort|Baxter|[[John Baxter (director)|John Baxter]]}}
|Based on [[Charles Robert Dumas]]' short story. British secret service agent on mission
|-
|Japan Empire
|''Shanghai Landing Squad''
|''Shanhai Rikusentai'' ([[:ja:上海陸戦隊|上海陸戦隊]])
|{{sort|Kumagaya|[[Hisatora Kumagaya]]}}
|[[Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Shoulder Arms (1939 film)|Shoulder Arms]]''
|''Das Gewehr über''
|[[Jürgen von Alten]]
|German emigrant in Australia returns to his country for military service in the [[German Army (1935–1945)|Army]]
|-
|United States
|''[[South of the Border (1939 film)|South of the Border]]''
|
|{{sort|Sherman|[[George Sherman]]}}
|Action/Western. US Federal Agent on mission in Mexico to prevent German agents from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and inciting revolution
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Three Non-Coms'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Drei Unteroffiziere]]''
|[[Werner Hochbaum]]
|Luftwaffe NCO's
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Traitor Spy]]'' (''The Torso Murder Mystery'')
|
|{{sort|Summers|[[Walter Summers]]}}
|Mystery thriller based on [[T. C. H. Jacobs]] novel. German spy employed in anti-submarine patrol boat and torpedo factory
|-
|United States
|''[[Wings of the Navy (film)|Wings of the Navy]]''
|
|{{sort|Bacon|[[Lloyd Bacon]]}}
|Drama. Experimental fighter for the US Navy
|}

=== 1940 ===
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! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
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|United States
|''[[Arise, My Love]]''
|
|[[Mitchell Leisen]]
|Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through [[Second Armistice at Compiègne|French capitulation]], 1940
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Attention! The Enemy Is Listening!'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:de:Achtung! Feind hört mit!|Achtung! Feind hört mit!]]''
|[[Arthur Maria Rabenalt]]
|Foreign spies in a German armaments factory
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''{{sort|Big|[[The Big Blockade]]}}''
|
|[[Charles Frend]]
|[[Blockade of Germany (1939–1945)|Economic blockade of Germany]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Blazing|The Blazing Heavens}}'' {{ref|L|†}} (''The Burning Sky'' / ''Flaming Sky'')
|''[[Moyuru ōzora]]'' (燃ゆる大空)
|[[Yutaka Abe]]
|Action-drama. [[Imperial Japanese Army Air Service]] during Sino-Japanese War
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Cavalier|[[The Cavalier from Kruja]]}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Il cavaliere di Kruja''
|[[Carlo Campogalliani]]
|Adventure. An Italian journalist gets involved in the Albanian opposition to [[Zog I of Albania|King Zog]] and is finally saved by the [[Italian invasion of Albania]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Comrade X]]''
|
|[[King Vidor]]
|Spy drama. US journalist in the Soviet Union moonlights as spy.
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Convoy (1940 film)|Convoy]]''
|
|[[Pen Tennyson]]
|[[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Enemies (1940 film)|Enemies]]'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Feinde''
|[[Victor Tourjansky|Viktor Tourjansky]]
|[[Invasion of Poland]] justified by Polish persecution of [[ethnic Germans]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]''
|
|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]
|Spy thriller. American reporter tries to expose spies in Britain on the eve of World War II.
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Great|[[The Great Dictator]]}}''
|
|[[Charlie Chaplin]]
|Satire. Dictator [[Adolf Hitler|Adenoid Hynkel]] is replaced by identical Jew
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Long|[[The Long Voyage Home]]}}''
|
|[[John Ford]]
|[[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Man|[[The Man I Married]]}}'' (''I Married a Nazi'')
|
|[[Irving Pichel]]
|Drama. American woman's German husband develops Nazi sympathies
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Night Train to Munich]]'' (''Gestapo'')
|
|[[Carol Reed]]
|Mystery-thriller. Inventor and daughter kidnapped by Gestapo then rescued by British agent
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Phantom|[[The Phantom Submarine (film)|The Phantom Submarine]]}}''
|
|[[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
|Action-mystery. Journalist and US Navy [[frogman]] investigate [[U-boat]] terror
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Request Concert''
|''[[Wunschkonzert]]''
|[[Eduard von Borsody]]
|[[Luftwaffe]] airmen fighting over [[Invasion of Poland|Poland]] and then the [[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Ski Patrol (1940 film)|Ski Patrol]]''
|
|[[Lew Landers]]
|Olympians oppose each other again in the [[Winter War]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Story|[[The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi]]}}''
|''Nishizumi senshacho-den'' (西住戦車長伝)
|[[Kōzaburō Yoshimura]]
|[[Tanks in the Japanese Army|Japanese tank]] commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the [[Battle of Nanking]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Ten Days in Paris]]''
|
|[[Jeremy Brown]]
|Comedy mystery. 
|-
|United States
|''[[Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)|Waterloo Bridge]]''
|
|[[Mervyn LeRoy]]
|Called-up British officer reminisces over World War I romance <ref>Released on 17 May 1940, this is arguably the first Hollywood film set during the war.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Women in War]]''
|
|[[John H. Auer]]
|Action-drama. Allied nurses on pre-Dunkirk [[Battle of France]] front
|}

=== 1941 ===
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! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Above All Else in the World|Above All in the World]]'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Über alles in der Welt''
|[[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]]
|German civilians abroad get involved in the beginning of World War II
|-
|United States
|''[[All Through the Night (film)|All Through the Night]]''
|
|[[Vincent Sherman]]
|Lighthearted mystery-thriller. Nazi [[Fifth Column]]ists
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Annelie''
|''[[:de:Annelie (1941)|Annelie]]''
|[[Josef von Báky]]
|Heroic German mother during war
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Bomber Wing Lützow''
|''[[:de:Kampfgeschwader Lützow|Kampfgeschwader Lützow]]''
|[[Hans Bertram]]
|A bomber crew takes part in [[invasion of Poland]] and attacks on [[Battle of the Atlantic|British shipping]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Buck Privates]]''
|
|[[Arthur Lubin]]
|Comedy. [[Abbott and Costello]] enlist in the Army
|-
|United States
|''[[Caught in the Draft]]''
|
|[[David Butler (director)|David Butler]]
|Comedy. [[Bob Hope]] gets drafted
|-
|United States
|''[[Confirm or Deny]]''
|
|[[Archie Mayo]], [[Fritz Lang]] (uncredited)
|Comedy-drama. [[London Blitz]]
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''[[Cottage to Let]]'' (''Bombsight Stolen'')
|
|[[Anthony Asquith]]
|Lighthearted mystery. Kidnapping of [[bombsight]] inventor from [[Scotland#First and Second World Wars|Scotland]] by Nazi agents
|-
|United States
|''[[Dangerously They Live]]''
|
|[[Robert Florey]]
|Nazi agents in US pursue Allied spy with secret of U-boat fleet off US coast
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Dangerous Moonlight]]''
|
|[[Brian Desmond Hurst]]
|The [[Battle of Britain]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Dive Bomber (film)|Dive Bomber]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|Flight surgeons and medical flight research on pilots in Pacific
|-
|Hungary
|''Europe Doesn't Answer'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:hu:Európa nem válaszol|Európa nem válaszol]]''
|[[Géza von Radványi]]
|Spies on board of a transatlantic at the beginning of World War 2
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Forty-Ninth|[[49th Parallel (film)|49th Parallel]]}}'' (''The Invaders'')
|
|[[Michael Powell]]
|[[Battle of the St. Lawrence]] and survivors of a sunken [[U-boat]] in [[Hudson Bay]] trek across Canada
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Freedom Radio]]''
|
|[[Anthony Asquith]]
|[[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]]
|-
|Soviet Union
|''{{sort|Girl|[[The Girl from Leningrad]]}}''
|''[[Frontovye podrugi]]'' (''Фронтовые подруги'')
|[[Viktor Eisymont]]
|Russian woman volunteers as nurse on Finnish Front where she becomes involved with wounded soldiers; remade in US as ''[[Three Russian Girls]]''
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Goodbye, Franziska (1941 film)|Goodbye, Franziska]]''
|''Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska!''
|[[Helmut Käutner]]
|A German globetrotting reporter is drafted into a Wehrmacht Propagandakompanie
|-
|United States
|''[[Great Guns]]''
|
|[[Monty Banks]]
|Comedy. [[Laurel and Hardy]] are drafted into the US Army
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Hallgarten's Reconnaissance Patrol''
|''[[Spähtrupp Hallgarten]]''
|[[Herbert B. Fredersdorf]]
|Two German soldiers in the [[Norwegian Campaign]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Homecoming''
|''[[Heimkehr]]''
|[[Gustav Ucicky]]
|Drama. Poles persecute [[Volksdeutsche|ethnic Germans]]
|-
|United States
|''[[International Lady]]''
|
|[[Tim Whelan]]
|Spy drama.
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''In the Eye of the Storm''
|''[[Menschen im Sturm]]''
|[[Fritz Peter Buch]]
|Drama. Serbs persecute [[Volksdeutsche|ethnic Germans]]<ref>The IMDb, on the other hand, identifies the villainous Yugoslavs in ''Menschen im Sturm'' as Slovenians rather than Serbs.</ref>
|-
|Soviet Union
|''[[In the Rear of the Enemy]]''
|''[[V tylu vraga]]'' (''В тылу врага'')
|[[:ru:Шнейдер, Евгений|Yevgeni Shneider]]
|Comedy. Finnish War <ref>The IMDb lists ''In the Rear of the Enemy'' as ''V tylu vraga'' (1942) based on its 1942 release date in New York City.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Man Hunt (1941 film)|Man Hunt]]''
|
|[[Fritz Lang]]
|Prewar assassination attempt on Hitler
|-
|Italy
|''[[Men on the Sea Floor]]''
|''Uomini sul fondo''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]]
|The crew of an Italian submarine try to repair their damaged ship trapped on the sea bottom
|-
|United States
|''[[Parachute Battalion]]''
|
|[[Leslie Goodwins]]
|Three men join a parachute battalion <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Pimpernel Smith]]''
|
|[[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]
|''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' updated
|-
|Japan
|''Prayer to Mother Earth'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Daichi ni inoru]]'' (大地に祈る)
|[[:ja:村田武雄|Takeo Murata]]
|Japanese military nurses in China
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Ships with Wings]]''
|
|[[Sergei Nolbandov]]
|[[Battle of Taranto]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Six Days of Leave'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub]]''
|[[Jürgen von Alten]]
|German soldiers on leave
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Soldiers of Tomorrow'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Soldaten von morgen]]''
|[[Alfred Weidenmann]]
|[[Hitler Youth]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Sundown (1941 film)|Sundown]]''
|
|[[Henry Hathaway]]
|The [[North African Campaign]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''U-Boat, Course West!''
|''[[U-Boote westwärts]]''
|[[Günther Rittau]]
|[[U-boat]]s in the [[Battle of the Atlantic]]<ref name=GV>Available for viewing is this [https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=null ''public domain World War II film'']{{dead link|date=September 2014}} at [[Google Videos]]. Refer to the film's main page for the link.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Underground (1941 film)|Underground]]''
|
|[[Vincent Sherman]]
|[[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]]
|-
|Korea
|''Volunteer'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Shiganhei]]'' ({{lang|ja|志願兵}})<br />''Chiwŏnbyŏng'' ({{lang|ko|지원병}})
|[[Seok-yeong Ahn]]
|Korean volunteers in the Japanese Army
|-
|Vichy France
|''{{sort|Well|[[The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940 film)|The Well-Digger's Daughter]]}}''
|''La fille du puisatier''
|[[Marcel Pagnol]]
|A girl becomes pregnant by a military pilot, then shot down behind German lines during the [[Battle of France]]
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|White|[[The White Ship (1941 film)|The White Ship]]}}''
|''La nave bianca''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]], [[Roberto Rossellini]]
|Sailors on a hospital ship after wounds in battle (depicted by footage filmed during the [[Battle of Calabria]] and the [[Battle of Cape Spartivento]])
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Yank|[[A Yank in the RAF]]}}''
|
|[[Henry King (director)|Henry King]]
|American volunteers in the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]]
|-
|Korea
|''You and Me'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Kimi to boku (film)|Kimi to boku]]'' ({{lang|ja|君と僕}})<br />''Nŏ wa na'' ({{lang|ko|너와 나}})
|"Eitaro Hinatsu" ([[Hae Yeong]]), [[Tomotaka Tasaka]]
|Korean volunteer in the Japanese Army marries a Japanese woman
|}

=== 1942 ===
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! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[5 June (film)|5 June]]''
|''Der 5. Juni''
|[[Fritz Kirchhoff]]
|[[Battle of France]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Across the Pacific]]''
|
|[[John Huston]], [[Vincent Sherman]]
|Spy drama. Japanese plot against the [[Panama Canal]]
|-
|Italy
|''Alpha Tau!'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Alfa Tau!|Alfa Tau!]]''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]]
|Italian submarine warfare in [[Mediterranean Theatre of World War II|Mediterranean Theatre]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Atlantic Convoy]]''
|
|[[Lew Landers]]
|Allied naval operations based in [[Iceland in World War II|Iceland]] against U-boats in Atlantic
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Battle|[[The Battle of Hong Kong (film)|The Battle of Hong Kong]]}}''
|''Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi'' (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日)
|[[Shigeo Tanaka]]
|[[Battle of Hong Kong]]
|-
|Italy
|''Bengasi''
|''[[Bengasi (film)|Bengasi]]'' (''Bengasi anno '41'')<ref>New edition of the movie, released in theaters in 1955, with the addition of scenes before and after the original ''Bengasi'', which now becomes a long flash-back recalled by an Italian woman visiting the cemetery of El-Alamein with a British officer ten years after the end of the war.</ref>
|[[Augusto Genina]]
|Italian resistance to the British occupation of Benghazi in 1941
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Black|[[Black Dragons]]}}''
|
|[[William Nigh]]
|Japan's [[Black Dragon Society]], in collaboration with Nazis, recruits a mad scientist to create likenesses of Western leaders<ref name=IA>This film is available at the [[Internet Archive]]. Refer to the film's main page for the link.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Bugle|[[The Bugle Sounds]]}}''
|
|[[S. Sylvan Simon]]
|Cavalry and tank warfare
|-
|United States
|''[[Captains of the Clouds]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|Canadian [[bush pilot]]s in the [[British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]]<ref>Canadian World War I flying ace [[Billy Bishop]] appears as himself.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|1943 Best picture]] romantic-thriller set in Vichy-controlled [[Morocco]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]''
|
|[[John Farrow]]
|[[Norwegian resistance movement|Norwegian resistance]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Dawn|[[The Dawn Express]]}}''
|
|[[Albert Herman]]
| A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''{{sort|Day|[[The Day Will Dawn]]}}'' (''The Avengers'')
|
|[[Harold French]]
|Norwegian resistance
|-
|United States
|''[[Desperate Journey]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|RAF aircrew escape from Germany through occupied [[Netherlands in World War II|Netherlands]]
|-
|Italy
|''[[Document Z-3]]''
|''Documento Z-3''
|[[Alfredo Guarini]]
|Italian agents in Yugoslavia in the last days before the [[Invasion of Yugoslavia|invasion]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Eagle Squadron (film)|Eagle Squadron]]''
|
|[[Arthur Lubin]]
|[[Eagle Squadron]], American volunteers in the RAF during the [[Battle of Britain]]
|-
|Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)
|''Elusive Ian'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Uchinari Jani'' (''Georgian please'') {{in lang|ka}}<br />''Neulovimyy Yan'' (''[[:ru:Неуловимый Ян|Неуловимый Ян]]'') {{in lang|ru}}
|[[:ru:Анненский, Исидор Маркович|Isidor Annensky]], [[Vladimir Petrov (director)|Vladimir Petrov]]
| Confrontation between Czechoslovak patriots and German fascists
|-
|Japan
|''Fear of the Fifth Column''
|''[[Daigoretsu no kyofu]]'' (第五列的恐怖)
|[[Hiroyuki Yamamoto (director)|Hiroyuki Yamamoto]]
|British and Chinese spies try to steal the projects of a Japanese airplane engine
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|First|[[The First of the Few]]}}'' (''Spitfire'')
|
|[[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]
|Development of the [[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfire]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States<br />United Kingdom
|''[[Flying Fortress (film)|Flying Fortress]]''
|
|[[Walter Forde]]
|[[B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17]] bombers
|-
|United States
|''[[Flying Tigers (film)|Flying Tigers]]''
|
|[[David Miller (director)|David Miller]]
|[[American Volunteer Group]] in the Sino-Japanese War
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Foreman|[[The Foreman Went to France]]}}''
|
|[[Charles Frend]]
|[[Battle of France]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Front Theater'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:de:Fronttheater|Fronttheater]]''
|[[Arthur Maria Rabenalt]]
|[[Battle of Greece]]
|-
|Japan
|''General, Staff Officer and Soldiers'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Shōgun to sanbō to hei'' ([[:jp:将軍と参謀と兵|将軍と参謀と兵]])
|[[:jp:田口哲 (映画監督)|Taguchi Satoshi]]
|Sino-Japanese war
|-
|Italy
|''[[Giarabub (film)|Giarabub]]''
|''Giarabub''
|[[Goffredo Alessandrini]]
|The [[Siege of Giarabub]] in 1941
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Great|[[The Great Love (1942 film)|The Great Love]]}}''
|''[[Die große Liebe]]''
|[[Rolf Hansen (director)|Rolf Hansen]]
|War between Nazi Germany and USSR
|-
|Korea
|''Here We Go!'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Warera imazo yuku]]'' ({{lang|ja|吾等今ぞ征く}})<br />''Nanŭn kanda'' ({{lang|ko|나는 간다}})
|[[:ko:박기채|Ki-chae Park]]
|Korean volunteers in Japanese Army
|-
|United States
|''[[Hillbilly Blitzkrieg]]''
|
|[[Roy Mack (director)|Roy Mack]]
|Nazi spies steal rocket formula in the US <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Hitler – Dead or Alive]]''
|
|[[Nick Grinde]]
|Three American gangsters set out to collect the million-dollar reward for bringing Hitler to justice.<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[In Which We Serve]]''
|
|[[Noël Coward]], [[David Lean]]
|Based on the sinking of {{HMS|Kelly|F01|6}} <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Joan of Paris]]''
|
|[[Robert Stevenson (director)|Robert Stevenson]]
|Downed RAF aircrew meets the [[French Resistance]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Jungle Siren]]''
|
|[[Sam Newfield]]
|Free French, with two Americans, sent to African village to build an airfield <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[King Arthur Was a Gentleman]]''
|
|[[Marcel Varnel]]
|Comedy, Musical, Romance. Soldier fantasizes about King Arthur as he takes on the Wehrmacht
|-
|United States
|''[[Lady from Chungking]]''
|
|[[William Nigh]]
|Sino-Japanese War <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Lady from Lisbon]]''
|
|[[Leslie S. Hiscott]]
|Farce. Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and several copies of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]''
|-
|United States
|''[[Let's Get Tough!]]''
|
|[[Wallace Fox]]
|Juvenile delinquents battle [[Black Dragon Society]] saboteurs in New York <ref name=IA/>
|-
|Italy
|''MAS''
|''[[:it:M.A.S.|MAS]]''
|[[Romolo Marcellini]]
|[[MAS (boat)|MAS (Italian torpedo boat)]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Missus|[[Mrs. Miniver (film)|Mrs. Miniver]]}}''
|
|[[William Wyler]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|1942 Best picture]] depicting the [[Home front during World War II#Britain|British home front]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Navy|[[The Navy Comes Through]]}}''
|
|[[A. Edward Sutherland]]
|[[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Next|[[The Next of Kin]]}}''
|
|[[Thorold Dickinson]]
|Message that [[Careless Talk Costs Lives (propaganda)|careless talk costs lives]], and fictional [[commando]] raid
|-
|Italy<br/>Romania
|''[[Odessa in Flames]]''
|''Odessa in fiamme'' {{in lang|it}}, ''Odessa în flăcări'' {{in lang|ro}}
|[[Carmine Gallone]]
|[[Siege of Odessa (1941)|Battle of Odessa]], 1941 <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]''
|
|[[Michael Powell]], [[Emeric Pressburger]]
|Allied aircrew escape from the occupied Netherlands <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Pacific Rendezvous]]''
|
|[[George Sidney]]
|Spy drama. [[Cryptography]] in the Pacific War
|-
|Japan
|''Patriotic Flowers''
|''Aikoku no hana'' ([[:ja:愛国の花|愛國の花]])
|[[Keisuke Sasaki]]
|Japanese military nurses
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Phantom|[[The Phantom Plainsmen]]}}''
|
|[[John English (film director)|John English]]
|"[[The Three Mesquiteers]]" battle Nazi agents on a [[Western (genre)|Western]] ranch
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Pied|[[The Pied Piper (1942 film)|The Pied Piper]]}}''
|
|[[Irving Pichel]]
|Drama based on [[Nevil Shute]] novel. Holidaymaker rescues French children, 1940
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Pilot|[[A Pilot Returns]]}}''
|''Un pilota ritorna''
|[[Roberto Rossellini]]
|[[Greco-Italian War]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Private Buckaroo]]''
|
|[[Edward F. Cline]]
|Musical.<ref name=IA/>
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Red|[[The Red Terror (film)|The Red Terror]]}}''
|''GPU''
|[[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]]
|[[Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies|GPU]]'s plots in Rotterdam are foiled by the [[Netherlands in World War II|German occupation]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Reunion in France]]''
|
|[[Jules Dassin]]
|French Resistance helps a downed US pilot
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Sabotage at Sea]]''
|
|[[Leslie S. Hiscott]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Saboteur (film)|Saboteur]]''
|
|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]
|Airplane factory worker falsely accused of sabotage
|-
|United States
|''[[Seven Days' Leave (1942 film)|Seven Days' Leave]]''
|
|[[Tim Whelan]]
|Musical comedy. Soldier on leave must marry to inherit
|-
|United States
|''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon]]''
|
|[[Roy William Neill]]
|[[Sherlock Holmes]] vs Nazi agents and [[Professor Moriarty]] 
|-
|United States
|''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror]]''
|
|[[John Rawlins (director)|John Rawlins]]
|[[Sherlock Holmes]] vs. Nazi saboteurs
|-
|United States
|''[[Somewhere I'll Find You]]''
|
|[[Wesley Ruggles]]
|[[War correspondent]]s in China and Pacific
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Spy|The Spy Isn't Dead Yet}}''
|''[[Kanchō imada shisezu]]'' (間諜未だ死せず)
|[[Kōzaburō Yoshimura]]
|Chinese and American spies in Japan
|-
|United States
|''[[Stand by for Action]]''
|
|[[Robert Z. Leonard]]
|US Navy in the [[Pacific War]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Stukas (film)|Stukas]]''
|''Stukas''
|[[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]]
|German dive bomber, the [[Stuka]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[They Raid by Night]]''
|
|[[Spencer Gordon Bennet]]
|[[Commando]] raids in [[German occupation of Norway|occupied Norway]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Three|The Three Pilots}}''
|''[[I tre aquilotti]]''
|[[Mario Mattoli]]
|Three young pilots of the [[Regia Aeronautica]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|To be|[[To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)|To Be Or Not To Be]]}}''
|
|[[Ernst Lubitsch]]
|Occupied Warsaw, and [[Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain|Polish air squadron]] in London
|-
|United States
|''[[To the Shores of Tripoli]]''
|
|[[H. Bruce Humberstone]]
|
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Triumph|A Triumph of Wings}}''
|''[[Tsubasa no gaika]]'' (翼の凱歌)
|[[Satsuo Yamamoto]]
|Two young Japanese become pilots of the [[Imperial Japanese Army Air Service|Army Air Service]]<ref>''A Triumph of Wings'' (1942) was co-written by [[Akira Kurosawa]].</ref>
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''[[Two in a Big City]]''
|''Zwei in einer großen Stadt''
|[[Volker von Collande]]
|Luftwaffe pilot meets a nurse while on leave in Berlin
|-
|United States
|''[[Wake Island (1942 film)|Wake Island]]''
|
|[[John Farrow]]
|[[Battle of Wake Island]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|War|The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya}}''
|''[[Hawai Mare oki kaisen|Hawai Marē oki kaisen]]'' (ハワイまれ沖回線)
|[[Kajiro Yamamoto]]
|[[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] and [[Malayan Campaign]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Went the Day Well?]]''
|
|[[Alberto Cavalcanti]]
|Fictional German invasion of England (see [[Operation Sea Lion]])
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Yank in|[[A Yank in Libya]]}}''
|
|[[Albert Herman]]
|Journalist exposes Nazis trying to start an Arab revolt in North Africa <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Yank on|[[A Yank on the Burma Road]]}}''
|
|[[George B. Seitz]]
|[[Burma Road]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|[[George M. Cohan]]
|}

===1943===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=160|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|United States
|''[[Above Suspicion (1943 film)|Above Suspicion]]''
|
|[[Richard Thorpe]]
|Honeymooners spy on the Nazis
|-
|United States
|''[[Action in the North Atlantic]]''
|
|[[Lloyd Bacon]]
|The [[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''{{sort|Adventures|[[The Adventures of Tartu]]}}'' (''Sabotage Agent'')
|
|[[Harold S. Bucquet]]
|British spy posing as Romanian [[Iron Guard]] officer aids [[Czech resistance to Nazi occupation|Czech partisans]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Aerial Gunner]]''
|
|[[William H. Pine]]
|The [[B-34 Ventura]] in the Pacific <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Air Force (film)|Air Force]]''
|
|[[Howard Hawks]]
|B-17 bombers in the [[Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)|Battle of the Philippines]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Air Raid by|The Air Raid by Enemy Aircraft}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Tekki raishū]]'' (敵機空襲)
|[[:ja:野村浩将|Hiromasa Nomura]]
|Air war over Japan
|-
|United States
|''[[Air Raid Wardens]]''
|
|[[Edward Sedgwick]]
|[[Laurel and Hardy]] try to stop Nazi spies in the USA
|-
|Japan
|''All-out Attack on Singapore'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Shingapōru sōkōgeki]]'' (シンガポール総攻撃)
|[[Koji Shima]]
|Japanese conquest of [[Battle of Singapore|Singapore]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Background to Danger]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|Intrigue involving Nazis in neutral Turkey
|-
|United States
|''[[Bataan (1943 film)|Bataan]]''
|
|[[Tay Garnett]]
|The [[Battle of Bataan]], Philippines
|-
|United States
|''[[Behind the Rising Sun (film)|Behind the Rising Sun]]''
|
|[[Edward Dmytryk]]
|
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Bells|[[The Bells Go Down]]}}''
|
|[[Basil Dearden]]
|[[Auxiliary Fire Service]] during [[the Blitz]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Bombardier (film)|Bombardier]]''
|
|[[Richard Wallace (director)|Richard Wallace]]
|B-17 bomber crewmen in the Pacific
|-
|United States
|''[[Bomber's Moon]]''
|
|[[Edward Ludwig]], [[Harold D. Schuster]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Bombs Over Burma]]''
|
|[[Joseph H. Lewis]]
| <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Boy|[[The Boy from Stalingrad]]}}''
|
|[[Sidney Salkow]]
|Russian children resisting Nazi forces at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas]]''
|
|[[Louis King]]
|[[Chetniks]] – Yugoslav guerrillas under General [[Draza Mihailovich]]
|-
|United States
|''[[China (1943 film)|China]]''
|
|[[John Farrow]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Corregidor (1943 film)|Corregidor]]''
|
|[[William Nigh]]
|The [[Battle of Corregidor]], Philippines
|-
|United States
|''[[Corvette K-225]]''
|
|[[Richard Rosson (filmmaker)|Richard Rosson]], [[Howard Hawks]]
|The [[Battle of the Atlantic]], [[Royal Canadian Navy|RCN]] [[corvette]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Crash Dive]]''
|
|[[Archie Mayo]]
|USN submarine in the North Atlantic
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Crew|[[The Crew of the Dora]]}}''
|''Besatzung Dora''
|[[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]]
|The crew of a [[Junkers Ju 88|Ju 88]] bomber is forced to land in the desert and is saved by an Italian [[Savoia-Marchetti SM.79|SM.79]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Cross|[[The Cross of Lorraine]]}}''
|
|[[Tay Garnett]]
| [[French Resistance]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Cry 'Havoc' (film)|Cry 'Havoc']]''
|
|[[Richard Thorpe]]
|Drama based on [[Allan Kenward]] play. Army nurses on [[Bataan]] work with civilians during the [[Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Destination Tokyo]]''
|
|[[Delmer Daves]]
|USN submarine patrol for the [[Doolittle Raid]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]''
|
|[[William A. Seiter]]
|Fictional story of the destroyer USS ''John Paul Jones'' from commissioning 
|-
|United States
|''[[Edge of Darkness (1943 film)|Edge of Darkness]]''
|
|[[Lewis Milestone]]
|The [[Norwegian resistance movement]]
|-
|Korea
|''Figure of Youth'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Wakaki sugata]]'' ({{lang|ja|若き姿}})<br />''Chŏlmŭn mosŭp'' ({{lang|ko|젊은 모습}})
|[[Shirō Toyoda]]
|Korean volunteers in Japanese Army
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Fires Were Started]]'' (''I Was a Fireman'')
|
|[[Humphrey Jennings]]
|Docudrama.<ref>''Fires Were Started'' is often regarded as a documentary film.</ref> Firemen during [[the Blitz]]<ref name=BFI/>
|-
|United States
|''[[First Comes Courage]]''
|
|[[Dorothy Arzner]]
|[[Norwegian resistance]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Five Graves to Cairo]]''
|
|[[Billy Wilder]]
|Spy drama set after the fall of [[Tobruk]] in the [[North African Campaign]] depicting an English soldiers interactions with [[Erwin Rommel]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Flemish|[[The Flemish Farm]]}}''
|
|[[Jeffrey Dell]]
|Commando raids in occupied Belgium
|-
|United States
|''[[Gangway for Tomorrow]]''
|
|[[John H. Auer]]
|Anthology film. Five stories of American defense workers on way to work at munitions factory
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Bugle|[[Ghosts on the Loose]]}}''
|
|[[William Beaudine]]
|Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband buy a house next door to a nest of Nazi spies, but the East Side foil the Nazis' evil plot<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Gmen|[[G-Men vs the Black Dragon]]}}'' (serial)
|
|[[Spencer Gordon Bennet]], [[William Witney]], [[William J. O'Sullivan]]
|
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Golden|[[The Golden Spider]]}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Die goldene Spinne''
|[[Erich Engels]]
|Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank
|-
|United States
|''[[Guadalcanal Diary (film)|Guadalcanal Diary]]''
|
|[[Lewis Seiler]]
|US Marines in [[Guadalcanal Campaign]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Gung Ho! (1943 film)|Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders]]''
|
|[[Ray Enright]]
|[[Marine Raiders]] in the [[Central Pacific Area|Central Pacific]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Hangmen Also Die!]]''
|
|[[Fritz Lang]]
|[[Operation Anthropoid]], the assassination of [[Reinhard Heydrich]] by the Czech resistance
|-
|Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)
|''He Would Come Back''
|''[[Is kidev dabrundeba]]'' (''Georgian please'') {{in lang|ka}}<br />''On eshchyo vernyotsa'' (''Он ещё вернётся'') {{in lang|ru}}
|[[Diomide Antadze]], [[Nikoloz Shengelaia]]
|[[Kakhetian]] village and [[Battle of the Caucasus]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Hitler's Madman]]'' (''Hitler's Hangman'')
|
|[[Douglas Sirk]]
|[[Operation Anthropoid]], assassination of Nazi [[Reinhard Heydrich]] and revenge taken by the Germans
|-
|United States
|''[[Immortal Sergeant]]''
|
|[[John M. Stahl]]
|British and Canadian troops in the [[North Africa Campaign]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Journey into Fear (1943 film)|Journey Into Fear]]''
|
|[[Norman Foster (director)|Norman Foster]], [[Orson Welles]] (uncredited)
|Spy drama based on [[Eric Ambler]] novel. An American engineer, in [[Participants in World War II#Turkey|neutral Turkey]] to help upgrade the Turkish navy, that is targeted by Nazi agents
|-
|Italy
|''Letters to the Second Lieutenant'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Lettere al sottotenente]]''
|[[Goffredo Alessandrini]]
|Comedy. A girl writes letters to a young officer, but she does not want to meet him because she feels ugly
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Life|[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]}}''
|
|[[Michael Powell]], [[Emeric Pressburger]]
|The [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Man from|The Man from Chungking}}''
|''[[Jūkei kara kita otoko]]'' (重慶から来た男)
|[[Hiroyuki Yamamoto (director)|Hiroyuki Yamamoto]]
|Enemy agents try to sabotage Japanese war production
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Man with|[[The Man with a Cross]]}}''
|''L'uomo della croce''
|[[Roberto Rossellini]]
|A chaplain of the [[Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia]]
|-
|Italy
|''[[Men of the Mountain]]''
|''Quelli della montagna''
|[[Aldo Vergano]]
|[[Alpini]] against [[Italian invasion of France|France]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Millions Like Us]]''
|
|[[Frank Launder]], [[Sidney Gilliat]]
|The home front
|-
|United States
|''[[Minesweeper (film)|Minesweeper]]''
|
|[[William Berke]]
| <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Mission to Moscow]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|A biopic of Ambassador [[Joseph E. Davies]].
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Moon|[[The Moon Is Down]]}}''
|
|[[Irving Pichel]]
|Resistance
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|More|[[The More the Merrier]]}}''
|
|[[George Stevens]]
|Comedy. Soldier on [[Home front during World War II#United States|American home front]] with [[United States home front during World War II#Economics|housing shortage]]
|-
|Japan
|''Navy'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Kaigun (film)|Kaigun]]'' (海軍)
|[[Tomotaka Tasaka]]
|[[Attack on Pearl Harbor#Submarines|Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese midget submarines]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Night Plane from Chungking]]''
|
|[[Ralph Murphy]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Northern Pursuit]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|[[Royal Canadian Mounted Police#Service in wartime|Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] uncover Nazi plot against Allied war effort to cripple transatlantic shipping of war materials
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|North|[[The North Star (1943 film)|The North Star]]}}'' (''Armored Attack'')
|
|[[Lewis Milestone]]
|Guerrilla warfare on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|Vichy France
|''Occult Forces''
|''[[Forces occultes]]''
|"[[Jean Mamy|Paul Riche]]"
|Freemasons work with Jews to bring France into the war <ref name=IA/>
|-
|Japan
|''On the Eve of War''
|''[[Kaisen no zenya]]'' (开战前夜)
|[[Kōzaburō Yoshimura]]
|[[Kempeitai]] fights American spies in Japan
|-
|Japan
|''Our Planes Fly South'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Aiki minami e tobu]]'' (愛機南へ飛ぶ)
|[[Yasushi Sasaki]]
|The young pilot of a recon plane is shot down but survives
|-
|Italy
|''People of the Air'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Gente dell'aria|Gente dell'aria]]''
|[[:it:Esodo Pratelli|Esodo Pratelli]]
|Two brothers become pilots of the [[Regia Aeronautica]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Pilot No. 5|Pilot #5]]''
|
|[[George Sidney]]
|[[Battle of the Java Sea]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Rookies in Burma]]''
|
|[[Leslie Goodwins]]
|The [[Burma Campaign]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Sahara (1943 American film)|Sahara]]''
|
|[[Zoltan Korda]]
|Allied troops at the [[Second Battle of El Alamein]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Salute to the Marines]]''
|
|[[S. Sylvan Simon]]
|The [[Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942)|Battle of the Philippines]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Secret Service in Darkest Africa]]'' (serial)
|
|[[Spencer Gordon Bennet]]
|
|-
|Italy
|''Spies Among the Propellers'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Spie tra le eliche|Spie tra le eliche]]''
|[[Ignazio Ferronetti]]
|An Italian detective discovers enemy agents sabotaging a warplanes factory
|-
|United States
|''[[Sherlock Holmes in Washington]]''
|
|[[Roy William Neill]]
|[[Sherlock Holmes]] travels to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document that must be delivered to [[78th United States Congress|Congress]] from falling into Nazi hands.
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Silver|[[The Silver Fleet]]}}''
|
|[[Vernon Sewell]], [[Gordon Wellesley]]
|Dutch resistance <ref name=BFI>Available for viewing – from British libraries and universities only – are clips from this {{Screenonline title|null|British World War II film}}. Refer to the film's main page for the link.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[So Proudly We Hail!]]''
|
|[[Mark Sandrich]]
|Army nurses and the [[Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)]]
|-
|Italy
|''Special Correspondents'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Inviati speciali (film 1943)|Inviati speciali]]''
|[[Romolo Marcellini]]
|An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and then in [[Western Desert Campaign#Rommel.27s second offensive|Egypt]] during World War II
|-
|Korea
|''Straits of Chosun''{{ref|L|†}}
|''Chōsen Kaikyō'' ({{lang|ja|朝鮮海峡}})<br/>''[[Joseonhaehyeob]]'' ({{lang|ko|조선해협}})
|[[:ko:박기채|Ki-chae Park]]
|Korean man volunteers to serve in the Japanese Army
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Strange|[[The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (film)|The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler]]}}''
|
|[[James P. Hogan (director)|James P. Hogan]]
|Man with likeness for Adolf Hitler plans his assassination takeover of his identity
|-
|Japan
|''Suicide Squad at the Watchtower'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Bōrō no kesshitai]]'' (望楼の決死隊)
|[[Tadashi Imai]]
|Japanese, Koreans and Chinese cooperate against bandits near the Yalu river
|-
|United States
|''[[Tarzan Triumphs]]''
|
|[[Wilhelm Thiele]]
|German paratroopers invade Central Africa
|-
|United States
|''[[This Land Is Mine (film)|This Land Is Mine]]''
|
|[[Jean Renoir]]
| French Resistance
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Three|The Three-hundred of the Seventh}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:I trecento della Settima|I trecento della Settima]]''
|[[Mario Baffico]]
|[[Alpini]] on the [[Greco-Italian War|Greek front]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Thousands Cheer]]''
|
|[[George Sidney]]
|Musical comedy romance. Soldier wants to be airman
|-
|United States
|''[[Three Russian Girls]]''
|
|[[Henry S. Kesler]], [[Fyodor Otsep]]
|The [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Tiger Fangs]]''
|
|[[Sam Newfield]]
|Thriller. Nazis make man-eaters of [[British Malaya|Malayan]] tigers <ref name=IA/>
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Tiger|The Tiger of Malaya}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Marai no Tora]]'' (マライの虎)
|[[Koga Masato]]
|The story of Japanese secret agent [[Tani Yutaka]], known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger")
|-
|United States
|''[[Tonight We Raid Calais (film)|Tonight We Raid Calais]]''
|
|[[John Brahm]]
|
|-
|Japan
|''Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''Kessen no ōzora e'' ([[:jp:決戦の大空へ|決戦の大空へ]])
|[[:jp:渡辺邦男|Kunio Watanabe]]
|Training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Japanese Army and Navy
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Train|The Train with the Cross}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Il treno crociato|Il treno crociato]]''
|[[Carlo Campogalliani]]
|Italian hospital-train on the [[Italian participation in the Eastern Front|Russian front]]
|-
|United Kingdom
|''[[Undercover (1943 film)|Undercover]]'' (''Underground Guerrillas'')
|
|[[Sergei Nolbandov]]
|[[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav guerrillas]] in [[Serbia]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Watch on the Rhine]]''
|
|[[Herman Shumlin]]
|Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Wedive|[[We Dive at Dawn]]}}''
|
|[[Anthony Asquith]]
|Submarine warfare during the [[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Weve|[[We've Never Been Licked]]}}'' (''Texas to Tokyo'' / ''Fighting Command'')
|
|[[John Rawlins (director)|John Rawlins]]
|Japanese spies at [[Texas A&M University]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Wings Over the Pacific]]'' 
|
|Phil Rosen
|Luftwaffe and USAAF pilot meet in the South Pacific
|}

===1944===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|United States
|''[[Action in Arabia]]''
|
|[[Léonide Moguy]]
|Intrigue involving Nazis in [[Damascus]], [[Mandatory Syrian Republic#World War II and aftermath|Syria]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Address Unknown (1944 film)|Address Unknown]]''
|
|[[William Cameron Menzies]]
|German-American returns to Germany with his family and becomes a Nazi, cutting off contact with his Jewish friend in America
|-
|Italy
|''Air Base'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Aeroporto (film)|Aeroporto]]''
|[[:it:Piero Costa|Piero Costa]]
|Italian aviators flying for the [[Regia Aeronautica]] in the summer of 1943 and then, after the [[Armistice of Cassibile|armistice]], for the [[Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana]]
|-
|Japan
|''Battle Troop''
|''[[Raigekitai shutsudo]]'' (来撃退しゅつど)
|[[Kajirō Yamamoto]]
|[[Torpedo bomber]] squadron at war
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''[[Bees in Paradise]]''
|
|[[Val Guest]]
|Musical comedy. Allied bomber crashes on mysterious Atlantic island <ref name=IA/>
|-
|Japan
|''Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron'' (''Colonel Kato's Flying Squadron'')
|''[[Kato hayabusa sento-tai]]'' (過渡ハヤブサ線と歌い)
|[[Kajiro Yamamoto]]
|
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Conspirators|[[The Conspirators (1944 film)|The Conspirators]]}}''
|
|[[Jean Negulesco]]
|Spy drama
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Daily|The Daily Battle}}''
|''[[Nichijō no tatakai]]'' (日常の戦い)
|[[Yasujirō Shimazu]]
|Japanese teacher of English language serves as an Army interpreter in South-East Asia
|-
|Philippines
|''Dawn of Freedom'' (''Fire on That Flag!'')
|''Liwayway ng kalayaan''{{in lang|tl}}<br />''[[Ano hata o ute]]'' ({{lang|ja|あの旗を撃て}})
|[[Gerardo de León]], [[Yutaka Abe]]
|[[Japan–Philippines relations#Philippines and the Empire of Japan|Japan–Philippines relations]] during [[Japanese occupation of the Philippines]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Days of Glory (1944 film)|Days of Glory]]''
|
|[[Jacques Tourneur]]
|[[Soviet partisans]]
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Decisive|The Decisive Battle}}''
|''[[Kessen (film)|Kessen]]'' (決戦)
|[[Kōzaburō Yoshimura]]
|Japanese war production
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''{{sort|Degenhardts|[[The Degenhardts]]}}''
|''Die Degenhardts''
|[[Werner Klingler]]
|[[Bombing of Lübeck in World War II|Bombing of Lübeck]] on 28 March 1942
|-
|United States
|''[[Dragon Seed (film)|Dragon Seed]]''
|
|[[Harold S. Bucquet]], [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]]
|The Sino-Japanese War
|-
|Argentina
|''[[El Fin de la noche|End of the Night]]''
|''El Fin de la Noche''
|[[Libertad Lamarque]]<br/>[[Homero Cárpena]]
|A female [[Argentine]] [[Tango music|tango]] singer in occupied France gets romantically involved with a Resistance member
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Eve|[[The Eve of St. Mark]]}}''
|
|[[John M. Stahl]]
|[[Philippines campaign (1941–1942)]]
|-
|Italy
|''Everyday Is Sunday'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Ogni giorno è domenica|Ogni giorno è domenica]]''
|[[Mario Baffico]]
|An Italian soldier is wounded on the [[Greco-Italian War|Greek front]] and his leg is amputated, but when he returns home his girlfriend still loves him
|-
|Sweden
|''Excellency'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Excellensen]]''
|[[Hasse Ekman]]
|Austrian poet opposes Nazism and therefore is imprisoned in a concentration camp
|-
|Japan
|''Field Army Band'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Yasen gungakutai]]'' (野戦軍楽隊)
|[[Masahiro Makino]]
|Music band of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] in an occupied Chinese village
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Fighting Seabees|[[The Fighting Seabees]]}}''
|
|[[Edward Ludwig]]
|US Navy [[Seabee (US Navy)|Seabee]]s in the Pacific War
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Fighting Sullivans|[[The Fighting Sullivans]]}}'' (''The Sullivans'')
|
|[[Lloyd Bacon]]
|The [[Sullivan brothers]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Four Jills in a Jeep]]''
|
|[[William A. Seiter]]
|Female stars of [[USO]] shows <ref>Actresses [[Betty Grable]], [[Carole Landis]] and others play themselves.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Going My Way]]''
|
|[[Leo McCarey]]
| Ted Haines Jr. fights in Africa
|-
|United States
|''[[Hail the Conquering Hero]]''
|
|[[Preston Sturges]]
|Comedy. Civilian with medical discharge befriends Marines
|-
|Japan
|''Hot Wind'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Neppū]]'' (熱風)
|[[Satsuo Yamamoto]]
|War production in a Japanese steel foundry
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Hour|[[The Hour Before the Dawn]]}}''
|
|[[Frank Tuttle]]
|Drama based on [[W. Somerset Maugham]] novel. Austrian refugee is Nazi spy preparing for German invasion of England
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Human|The Human Bullet Volunteer Corps}}''
|''[[Nikudan teishintai]]'' (肉弾挺身隊)
|[[Shigeo Tanaka]]
|[[Guadalcanal Campaign]]
|-
|Hungary
|''[[Hungarian Eagles]]''
|''Magyar sasok''
|István László
|Wartime film about the Hungarian Air Force.
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Impostor|[[The Impostor (1944 American film)|The Impostor]]}}''
|''L'Imposteur''
|[[Julien Duvivier]]
|Condemned French killer escapes and joins Free French in [[Chad]]
|-
|United States
|''[[In the Meantime, Darling]]''
|
|[[Otto Preminger]]
|Stateside [[military housing]]
|-
|Sweden
|''The Invisible Wall'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:sv:Den osynliga muren|Den osynliga muren]]''
|[[Gustaf Molander]]
|In an unnamed country occupied by Nazis a girl becomes indirectly involved in a terrorist attack and helps Jews to escape
|-
|Soviet Union
|''Jurgais pari''
|''[[Jurgais pari]]'' (''ჯურღაის ფარი'') {{in lang|ka}}<br /> (''Щит Джургая'') {{in lang|ru}}
|[[Siko Dolidze]], [[Davit Rondeli]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Ladies Courageous]]''
|
|[[John Rawlins (director)|John Rawlins]]
|[[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Lifeboat (1944 film)|Lifeboat]]''
|
|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]
|Drama. Survivors adrift in [[Battle of the Atlantic]]
|-
|Sweden
|''Live Dangerously''
|''[[:sv:Lev farligt|Lev farligt]]''
|[[Lauritz Falk]]
|[[Norwegian resistance movement]]
|-
|Soviet Union
|''Malakhov Hill''
|''[[Malakhov Hill (film)|Malakhov kurgan]]'' (''Малахов курган'')
|[[Iosif Kheifits]], [[Aleksandr Zarkhi]]
|[[Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)|Siege of Sevastopol]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Marine Raiders (film)|Marine Raiders]]''
|
|[[Harold D. Schuster]]
|[[Battle of Edson's Ridge]] during [[Battle of Guadalcanal]], then Australian R&R
|-
|United States
|''[[Marriage Is a Private Affair]]''
|
|[[Robert Z. Leonard]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Ministry of Fear]]''
|
|[[Fritz Lang]]
|[[The Blitz]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Master|[[The Master Race (film)|The Master Race]]}}''
|
|[[Herbert J. Biberman]]
|
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Miracle|[[The Miracle of Morgan's Creek]]}}''
|
|[[Preston Sturges]]
|Comedy. Young woman wants big send-off for departing soldiers
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Mister Sa|Mr. Sailor}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Suihei-san]]'' (水兵さん)
|[[:ja:原研吉|Kenkichi Hara]]
|
|-
|Korea
|''{{sort|Mister So|Mr. Soldier}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Heitai-san]]'' ({{lang|ja|兵隊さん}})<br />''Byeongjeongnim'' ({{lang|ko|병정님}})
|[[Han-jun Bang]]
|Young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese Army
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Mister W|[[Mr. Winkle Goes to War]]}}''
|
|[[Alfred E. Green]]
|
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Most|[[The Most Beautiful]]}}''
|''Ichiban utsukushiku'' (一番美しく)
|[[Akira Kurosawa]]
|[[Home front during World War II#Japan|Japanese female workers]] in a war production factory
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Navy|[[The Navy Way]]}}''
|
|[[William A. Berke]]
| <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''[[Passage to Marseille]]''
|
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[Passport to Destiny]]''
|
|[[Ray McCarey]]
| Charwoman travels to Germany to assassinate Hitler
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Purple|[[The Purple Heart]]}}''
|
|[[Lewis Milestone]]
|POWs captured during [[Doolittle Raid]]
|-
|Soviet Union
|''[[Rainbow (1944 film)|Rainbow]]''
|''Raduga'' (''Радуга'')
|[[Mark Donskoy]]
|Drama based on [[Wanda Wasilewska]] novel.
|-
|Australia
|''{{sort|Rats|[[The Rats of Tobruk (1944 film)|The Rats of Tobruk]]}}'' (''The Fighting Rats of Tobruk'')
|
|[[Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)|Charles Chauvel]]
|[[Siege of Tobruk]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Rosie the Riveter (film)|Rosie the Riveter]]''
|
|[[Joseph Santley]]
|Musical.
|-
|Japan
|''Santarō Pitches In'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Santarō gambaru]]'' (三太郎頑張る)
|[[:ja:野村浩将|Hiromasa Nomura]]
|Santarō, a Japanese boy, works in a factory producing [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero|Zero]] fighters
|-
|United States
|''[[See Here, Private Hargrove (film)|See Here, Private Hargrove]]''
|
|[[Wesley Ruggles]]
|Comedy based on [[Marion Hargrove]] book. US Army training at [[Fort Bragg#World War II|Fort Bragg]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Sergeant Mike]]''
|
|[[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]]
| Dog handler in the Pacific War
|-
|United States
|''[[Since You Went Away]]''
|
|[[John Cromwell (director)|John Cromwell]]
|[[Home front]]
|-
|Japan
|''Sinking the Unsinkable'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Fuchinkan gekichin]]'' (不沈艦撃沈)
|[[Masahiro Makino]]
|[[Home front during World War II#Japan|Japanese workers]] in a factory increase their production of aerial torpedoes for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy#World War II|Japanese Navy]] after the [[Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse|sinking of the Prince of Wales]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Song of Russia]]''
|
|[[Gregory Ratoff]]
|
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Story|[[The Story of Dr. Wassell]]}}''
|
|[[Cecil B. DeMille]]
|Navy doctor in the [[Battle of Java]]
|-
|Italy
|''Stronghold'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Caposaldo]]''
|[[Andrea Miano]]
|Italian and German soldiers of the [[Army Group Liguria]] fighting against partisans<ref>Released only to Italian fascist military units and maybe a few theaters around Genoa in the last months of the war</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Sunday Dinner for a Soldier]]''
|
|[[Lloyd Bacon]]
|Drama. Home front
|-
|United States
|''[[Tampico (1944 film)|Tampico]]''
|
|[[Lothar Mendes]]
|[[U-boat]] operations in [[American Theater (1939–1945)#Gulf of Mexico|Gulf of Mexico]] with sinking of [[Allies of World War II#Mexico|Mexican oil tankers]] make Mexico an Allied nation
|-
|United States
|''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]''
|
|[[Mervyn LeRoy]]
|[[Doolittle Raid]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Till We Meet Again (1944 film)|Till We Meet Again]]''
|
|[[Frank Borzage]]
|
|-
|United States
|''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]''
|
|[[Howard Hawks]]
|
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Two Man|[[Two-Man Submarine]]}}''
|
|[[Lew Landers]]
|
|-
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Two Thou|[[2,000 Women]]}}'' (''Two Thousand Women'' / ''House of 1,000 Women'')
|
|[[Frank Launder]]
|Internment camps for British women in occupied France
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Uboat|[[U-Boat Prisoner]]}}'' (''Dangerous Mists'')
|
|[[Lew Landers]]
|Rescued seaman considered German agent amidst submarine warfare
|-
|United States
|''[[Uncertain Glory (1944 film)|Uncertain Glory]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|Condemned French killer escapes and aids Resistance
|-
|United States
|''[[Waterfront (1944 film)|Waterfront]]''
|
|[[Steve Sekely]]
| <ref name=IA/>
|-
|United Kingdom
|''The Immortal Battalion''
|''{{sort|Way|[[The Way Ahead]]}}''
|[[Carol Reed]]
|Conscripts are trained and fight in the [[North African Campaign]]<ref name=IA/>
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|White Cliffs|[[The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)|The White Cliffs of Dover]]}}''
|
|[[Clarence Brown]]
|
|-
|Italy<br />Romania
|''{{sort|White|The White Squadron}}''
|''[[:it:Squadriglia Bianca (film)|Squadriglia bianca]]'' {{in lang|it}}<br />''[[:ro:Escadrila albă (film)|Escadrila albă]]'' {{in lang|ro}}
|[[:ro:Ion Sava|Ion Sava]]
|[[Royal Romanian Air Force]] squadron of hospital airplanes piloted only by women
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Wingand|[[Wing and a Prayer]]}}'' (''The Story of Carrier X'')
|
|[[Henry Hathaway]]
|[[Battle of Midway]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Winged Victory (film)|Winged Victory]]''
|
|[[George Cukor]]
|Training of US [[Army Air Forces]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Young Eagles''
|''[[:de:Junge Adler|Junge Adler]]''
|[[Alfred Weidenmann]]
|Young boy in a factory of warplanes
|}

===1945===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|United States
|''[[Back to Bataan]]''
|
|[[Edward Dmytryk]]
|[[Raid at Cabanatuan]], [[Battle of Bataan]], guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, [[Battle of Leyte]]
|-
|Japan
|''Believe That Others Will Follow'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu]]'' (後に続くを信ず)
|[[:jp:渡辺邦男|Kunio Watanabe]]
|The actions of company commander Tōichi Wakabayashi in China, [[Battle of Singapore|Singapore]] and [[Guadalcanal Campaign|Guadalcanal]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Blood on the Sun]]''
|
|[[Frank Lloyd]]
|Journalist persecuted by Japanese militarist government <ref name=IA/>
|-
|British India
|''Queen of Burma'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Burma Rani]]''
|[[T. R. Sundaram]]
| An Indian spy ring in [[Japanese occupation of Burma|Japanese-occupied Burma]]
|-
|United States
|''[[China's Little Devils]]''
|
|[[Monta Bell]]
|A group of Chinese children assist downed American pilots escape the Japanese
|-
|United States
|''[[Christmas in Connecticut]]''
|
|[[Peter Godfrey (director)|Peter Godfrey]]
|Comedy. A food columnist hosts a coming-home banquet for a war hero.
|-
|United States
|''[[Cornered (1945 film)|Cornered]]''
|
|[[Edward Dmytryk]]
|Ex-Nazis in [[Argentina]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Counter-Attack]]''
|
|[[Zoltan Korda]]
|[[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]
|-
|Mexico
|''Escuadrón 201''
|''[[Escuadrón 201 (film)|Escuadrón 201]]''
|[[Jaime Salvador]]
|[[Escuadrón 201|201st Air Fighter Squadron]] of the [[Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana]] in the [[Battle of Luzon]] and [[Philippines Campaign (1944–1945)|Philippines Campaign]]
|-
|United States
|''[[First Yank Into Tokyo]]''
|
|[[Gordon Douglas (director)|Gordon Douglas]]
|American agent has to rescue a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the [[atomic bomb]].
|-
|Japan
|''Girls of the Air Base'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Otome no iru kichi]]'' (乙女のゐる基地)
|[[Yasushi Sasaki]]
|Girl mechanics work in a [[Kamikaze]] air base
|-
|United States
|''[[God Is My Co-Pilot (film)|God Is My Co-Pilot]]''
|
|[[Robert Florey]]
|Drama based on [[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]] book. [[Flying Tigers]]
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|House|[[The House on 92nd Street]]}}''
|
|[[Henry Hathaway]]
|Docudrama. [[Duquesne Spy Ring]]
|-
|United States
|[[Identity Unknown (1945 film)|''Identity Unknown'']]
|
|Walter Colmes
|A soldier suffering from amnesia is the only survivor of four infantrymen. When the four men's dog tags were found the Army does not know which of the four the surviving soldier is.  The soldier tries to discover his true identity by visiting the homes of the four different soldiers.
|-
|Denmark
|''{{sort|Invisible|[[The Invisible Army]]}}''
|''Den usynlige hær''
|[[Johan Jacobsen]]
|[[Danish resistance movement|Danish partisan]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Keep Your Powder Dry]]''
|
|[[Edward Buzzell]]
|[[Women's Army Corps]]
|-
|Switzerland
|''{{sort|Last C|[[The Last Chance (1945 film)|The Last Chance]]}}''
|''Die letzte Chance''
|[[Leopold Lindtberg]]
|Escaping Nazi prison train in Italy, an American and a British soldier head for Switzerland <ref name=IA/>
|-
|Japan
|''{{sort|Last V|The Last Visit Home}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Saigo no kikyō]]'' (最後の桔梗)
|[[Shigeo Tanaka]]<br />[[Misao Yoshimura]]
|[[Kamikaze]]
|-
|Nazi Germany
|''Life Goes On''
|''[[:de:Das Leben geht weiter (Film)|Das Leben geht weiter]]''
|[[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]]
|[[Home front during World War II#Germany|German home front]] [[V-2]] rockets will turn the tide of war in Germany's favour<ref>Never released in theaters.</ref>
|-
|Korea
|''Love and the Vow'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Ai to chikai]]'' ({{lang|ja|愛と誓ひ}})<br />''Sarang kwa maengsŏ'' ({{lang|ko|사랑과 맹서}})
|[[Tadashi Imai]]<br />[[In-kyu Ch'oe]]
|Korean orphan living with Japanese parents volunteers in a [[Kamikaze]] unit
|-
|Japan
|''[[Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors]]''
|''Momotaro no koumi no senshi'' (百田炉の香味の戦士)
|[[Mitsuyo Seo]]
|[[Anime]]. Japanese folk hero and animal buddies drive British soldiers off an island <ref>The first feature-length anime film.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Objective, Burma!]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|[[Burma Campaign]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Out of the Depths (1945 film)|Out of the Depths]]''
|
|[[D. Ross Lederman]]
|Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender#Surrender ceremony|surrender ceremony]]
|-
|United States
|''[[Pride of the Marines]]''
|
|[[Delmer Daves]]
|[[Battle of Guadalcanal]] and civilian readjustment
|-
|United States
|''[[Prison Ship (1945 film)|Prison Ship]]''
|
|[[Arthur Dreifuss]]
|Revolt of American POWs aboard a Japanese ship
|-
|Denmark
|''{{sort|Red|[[The Red Meadows]]}}''
|''De røde enge''
|[[Bodil Ipsen]], [[Lau Lauritzen Jr.]]
|Young Danish saboteur
|-
|Italy
|''[[Rome, Open City]]''
|''Roma città aperta''
|[[Roberto Rossellini]]
|[[Italian resistance movement|Italian resistance]] in German-occupied Rome
|-
|United States
|''[[Samurai (1945 film)|Samurai]]''
|
|[[Raymond Cannon (director)|Raymond Cannon]]
|Japanese spy in California
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Song|The Song of Life}}''{{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Il canto della vita]]''
|[[Carmine Gallone]]
|Italian partisan hiding in the countryside
|-
|Japan
|''Spy Ship "Sea Rose"''
|''[[Kanchō Umi no bara]]'' (間諜海の薔薇)
|[[Teinosuke Kinugasa]]
|[[Kempeitai]] discover an American spy ring and help sinking the enemy spy-submarine ''Sea Rose''
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Story|[[The Story of GI Joe]]}}''
|
|[[William A. Wellman]]
|Journalist [[Ernie Pyle]] with Company C, 18th Infantry in the [[North African Campaign]] and the [[Battle of Monte Cassino]]
|-
|United States
|''[[They Were Expendable]]''
|
|[[John Ford]]
|[[PT boat]]s in the [[Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)]]
|-
|United States
|''[[This Man's Navy]]''
|
|[[William A. Wellman]]
|Adventure. [[List of airships of the United States Navy|US Navy airships]]
|-
|Italy
|''{{sort|Timeless|The Timeless House}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:La casa senza tempo|La casa senza tempo]]''
|[[:it:Andrea Forzano|Andrea Forzano]]
|Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane <ref>Filmed in 1943, before the Italian Armistice, but released in theaters in 1945 after a relevant editing, which changed the nationality of the enemies.</ref>
|-
|United States
|''[[Too Young to Know]]''
|
|[[Frederick De Cordova]]
|War in the South Pacific separates young couple
|-
|Italy
|''[[Two Anonymous Letters]]''
|''Due lettere anonime''
|[[Mario Camerini]]
|[[Italian resistance movement|Italian resistance]] and collaboration in German-occupied Rome
|-
|United States
|''{{sort|Walk|[[A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)|A Walk in the Sun]]}}''
|
|[[Lewis Milestone]]
|[[Operation Avalanche (World War II)|Invasion of Salerno]]
|-
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''{{sort|Way|[[The Way to the Stars]]}}''
|
|[[Anthony Asquith]]
|[[Royal Air Force|RAF]] and [[USAAF]] bomber crews stationed in England
|-
|United States
|''[[What Next, Corporal Hargrove?]]''
|
|[[Richard Thorpe]]
|Comedy. Final adventures of [[Marion Hargrove|Private Hargrove]] in [[European Theater of Operations|Europe]]
|}

==Late 1940s==
{{further|1940s in film}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! class="unsortable"|Year
! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|1946
|France
|''Battle of the Rails''
|''[[La bataille du rail]]''
|[[René Clément]]
|Resistance on French railways
|-
|1946
|Italy
|''[[Before Him All Rome Trembled]]''
|''Avanti a lui tutta Roma tremava''
|[[Carmine Gallone]]
|[[Italian resistance]] in German-occupied Rome
|-
|1946
|United States
|''{{sort|Best|[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]}}''
|
|[[William Wyler]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|1946 Best Picture]] depicting American servicemen struggling to return to civilian life after the war
|-
|1946
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Captive|[[The Captive Heart]]}}''
|
|[[Basil Dearden]]
|British POWs in Germany
|-
|1946
|Italy
|''{{sort|Day|A Day in Life}}''
|''[[Un giorno nella vita]]''
|[[Alessandro Blasetti]]
|A group of [[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] seek refuge in a cloistered convent
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''[[Death March (1946 film)|Death March]]''
|
|[[Leopoldo Salcedo]]
|[[Bataan Death March]]
|-
|1946
|Poland
|''Forbidden Songs''
|''[[Zakazane piosenki]]''
|[[Leonard Buczkowski]]
|Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 <ref>The first post-war Polish film.</ref>
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''[[Garrison 13]]''
|
|[[Gregorio Fernandez]]
|War crimes committed by [[Imperial Japanese Army]] in the Philippines
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''Golden Clock''
|''[[Orasang Ginto]]''
|[[Manuel Conde]]
|[[Battle of Bataan]] and [[Battle of Corregidor]]
|-
|1946
|Poland<br />Italy
|''{{sort|Great|The Great Road}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[Wielka droga]]'' {{in lang|pl}}
|[[Michał Waszyński]]
|Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''Guerilyera''
|''[[Guerilyera (1946 film)|Guerilyera]]''
|[[Octavio Silos]]
|Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the [[Japanese occupation of the Philippines]]
|-
|1946
|Czechoslovakia
|''{{sort|Heroes|The Heroes Are Silent}}''
|''[[Hrdinové mlčí]]''
|[[Miroslav Cikán]]
|Resistance of [[Czech resistance to Nazi occupation|Czech partisans]]
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''I Remember Bataan''
|''[[Dugo ng Bayan (1946 film)|Dugo ng Bayan]]''
|[[Fernando Poe, Sr.]]
|[[Japanese occupation of the Philippines#Resistance|Filipino resistance]]
|-
|1946
|Soviet Union<br />Yugoslavia
|''In the Mountains of Yugoslavia''
|''[[V gorach Yugoslavii]]'' (''В горах Югославии'') {{in lang|ru}}<br />''U planinama Jugoslavije'' {{in lang|sh}}
|[[Abram Room]]
|[[Yugoslav partisans]]; [[Draza Mihailovich]] and [[Chetniks]]
|-
|1946
|United Kingdom
|''[[Journey Together]]''
|
|[[John Boulting]]
|Three [[RAF]] pilots from recruitment to first combat
|-
|1946
|Czechoslovakia
|''Men Without Wings''
|''[[Muži bez křídel]]''
|[[František Čáp]]
|[[Czech resistance to Nazi occupation|Czech resistance]] in occupied [[Prague]] Airfield
|-
|1946
|Italy
|''Monte Cassino''
|''[[:it:Montecassino (film)|Montecassino]]'' (''Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco'')
|[[Arturo Gemmiti]]
|[[Battle of Monte Cassino]] and destruction of the [[Monte Cassino|abbey]]
|-
|1946
|France
| ''[[Mr. Orchid]]''
|''[[Le père tranquille]]''
|[[René Clément]]
|[[French Resistance]]
|-
|1946
|Italy
|''[[O sole mio (film)|O sole mio]]''
|''O sole mio''
|[[Giacomo Gentilomo]]
|[[Four days of Naples]]
|-
|1946
|United States
|''[[O.S.S. (film)|O.S.S.]]''
|
|[[Irving Pichel]]
|US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France
|-
|1946
|United States
|''[[Rendezvous 24]]''
|
|[[James Tinling]]
|Germans planning revenge on Allies through atomic weapons
|-
|1946
|Italy
|''Outcry''
|''[[Il sole sorge ancora]]''
|[[Aldo Vergano]]
|Italian disbanded soldiers after the [[Armistice of Cassibile|armistice]] and [[Italian resistance movement|resistance]]
|-
|1946
|United Kingdom
|''[[School for Secrets]]''
|
|[[Peter Ustinov]]
|[[Operation Biting]]
|-
|1946
|United States
|''{{sort|Stranger|[[The Stranger (1946 film)|The Stranger]]}}''
|
|[[Orson Welles]]
|A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut
|-
|1946
|United Kingdom
|''[[Theirs is the Glory]]''
|
|[[Brian Desmond Hurst]] and [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
|[[Operation Market Garden]]
|-
|1946
|Philippines
|''Walang Kamatayan''
|''[[Walang Kamatayan]]''
|[[Tor Villano]]
|[[Japanese Occupation of the Philippines]]
|-
|1947
|Italy
|''[[Christmas at Camp 119]]''
|''Natale al campo 119''
|[[Pietro Francisci]]
|Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation
|-
|1947
|France
|''[[Le Bataillon du ciel]]'' 
|''Sky Battalion''
|[[Alexandre Esway]]
| Paratroopers camp of [[Free France]], England.
|-
|1947
|United Kingdom
|''[[Frieda (film)|Frieda]]''
|
|[[Basil Dearden]]
|
|-
|1947
|Italy
|''[[How I Lost the War]]''
|''Come persi la guerra''
|[[Carlo Borghesio]]
|Comedy. An unlucky soldier fights in nearly every Italian campaign since the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]]
|-
|1947
|Denmark
|''[[Jenny and the Soldier]]''
|''Soldaten og Jenny''
|[[Johan Jacobsen]]
|
|-
|1947
|Poland
|''{{sort|Last|The Last Stop}}''
|''[[Ostatni etap]]''
|[[Wanda Jakubowska]]
|[[Auschwitz-Birkenau]]
|-
<!--NOTE TO EDITORS: This movie is related to the prosecution of Jews, not to WW2 itself
|1947
|Occupied Germany
|''[[Marriage in the Shadows]]''
|''Ehe im Schatten''
|[[Kurt Maetzig]]
|Suicide of actor and Jewish wife
|--->
|1947<ref>Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1947 after a slight editing</ref>
|Italy
|''Men and Skies'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Uomini e cieli|Uomini e cieli]]''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]]
|-
|1947
|{{nowrap|Occupied Germany}}
|''Seven Journeys'' (''[[In Those Days]]'') {{ref|L|†}}
|''In jenen Tagen''
|[[Helmut Käutner]]
|Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car
|-
|1947
|China
|''{{sort|Spring|[[The Spring River Flows East]]}}''
|''Yījiāng Chūnshuǐ Xiàng Dōng Liú'' (一江春水向東流) 
|[[Cai Chusheng]], [[Zheng Junli]]
|Sino-Japanese War
|-
|1947
|United States
|''{{sort|Thirteen|[[13 Rue Madeleine]]}}''
|
|[[Henry Hathaway]]
|US agents infiltrate in German-occupied France
|-
|1947
|Italy
|''[[To Live in Peace]]''
|''Vivere in pace''
|[[Luigi Zampa]]
|Two former American PoWs hide in an Italian village occupied by the Germans in 1944
|-
|1947
|Japan
|''[[War and Peace (1947 film)|War and Peace]]''
|''Sensō to heiwa'' ([[:ja:戦争と平和 (1947年の映画)|戦争と平和]])
|[[Fumio Kamei]]<br/>[[Satsuo Yamamoto]]
|Japanese soldier falls prisoner of the Chinese and then returns to his home
|-
|1948
|Italy
|''...And Not Say Goodbye'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[...E non dirsi addio]]''
|[[Silvio Laurenti Rosa]]
|Three escaped Allied PoWs and three German soldiers fraternize near Rome in November 1943
|-
|1948
|United Kingdom
|''[[Against the Wind (1948 film)|Against the Wind]]''
|
|[[Charles Crichton]]
|[[Commando]] raid into occupied Belgium
|-
|1948
|Austria
|''{{sort|Angel|[[The Angel with the Trumpet (1948 film)|The Angel with the Trumpet]]}}'' (''The Angel with the Trombone'')
|''Der Engel mit der Posaune''
|[[Karl Hartl]]
|Drama based on [[Ernst Lothar]] novel. [[Salzburg]] through both world wars
|-
|1948
|Poland
|''Border Street''
|''[[:pl:Ulica Graniczna (film)|Ulica Graniczna]]''
|[[Aleksander Ford]]
|Holocaust in occupied Poland
|-
|1948
|United Kingdom<br />Netherlands
|''[[But Not in Vain]]''
|''Niet Tevergeefs''
|[[Edmond T. Gréville]]
|Drama.<ref name=Lost>This film is currently considered to be [[lost film|lost]].</ref>
|-
|1948
|United States
|''[[Command Decision (film)|Command Decision]]''
|
|[[Sam Wood]]
|Command stresses in the US [[Eighth Air Force]]
|-
|1948
|Italy
|''Damned War!...'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Accidenti alla guerra!...|Accidenti alla guerra!...]]''
|[[Giorgio Simonelli]]
|Comedy. An Italian disguises himself as a German soldier and is chosen to take part to the [[Lebensborn]]
|-
|1948
|United States
|''[[Fighter Squadron]]''
|
|[[Raoul Walsh]]
|[[P-47]] fighters in the [[air war]] in Europe
|-
|1948
|Italy
|''{{sort|Great|The Great Road}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[La grande strada]]''
|[[Michał Waszyński]], [[Vittorio Cottafavi]]
|Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 <ref>Italian remake of [[Wielka droga]]</ref>
|-
|1948
|United States
|''[[Jungle Patrol (1948 film)|Jungle Patrol]]''
|
|[[Joseph M. Newman]]
|[[P-40]] fighters in the [[air war]] in the [[New Guinea campaign]]
|-
|1948
|Italy
|''{{sort|Mascot|The Mascot of the Blue Devils}}'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[La mascotte dei Diavoli Blu]]''
|[[Carlo Baltier]]
|An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians
|-
|1948
|Occupied Germany
|''[[Morituri (1948 film)|Morituri]]''
|''Morituri'' {{in lang|la}} (''Freiwild'' {{in lang|de}})
|[[Eugen York]]
| <ref>First German film to show a concentration camp.</ref>
|-
|1948
|Yugoslavia
|''On Their Own Territory''
|''[[Na svoji zemlji]]''
|[[France Štiglic]]
|Slavs fighting to kill Germans and Italians on [[Eastern Front (World War 2)]]  
|-
|1948
|Norway<br />France
|''[[Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water]]''
|''La Bataille de l'eau lourde'' {{in lang|fr}}<br>''Kampen om tungtvannet'' {{in lang|no}}
|[[Jean Dréville]], [[Titus Vibe-Müller]]
|Docudrama. [[Norwegian heavy water sabotage]]
|-
|1948
|Italy
|''Phantoms of the Sea''
|''[[:it:Fantasmi del mare|Fantasmi del mare]]''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]]
|The effects of the [[Armistice of Cassibile|Italian armistice]] on an Italian warship (based upon the facts happened on the battleship [[Italian battleship Giulio Cesare|Giulio Cesare]])
|-
| 1948
| Hungary
|''[[Somewhere in Europe (film)|Somewhere in Europe]]''
|''Valahol Európában''
|[[Géza von Radványi]]
|Story of a group of orphans in the final stage of World War II in Hungary. The film was financed by the [[Hungarian Communist Party]].
|-
|1948
|Soviet Union
|''[[Tale of a True Man]]''
|''Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke'' (''Повесть о настоящем человеке'')
|[[Aleksandr Stolper]]
|Biography of the fighter pilot [[Aleksey Maresyev]]
|-
|1948
|United States<br />Switzerland
|''{{sort|Search|[[The Search]]}}''
|<ref name=Eng>This film is an international co-production shot in English.</ref>
|[[Fred Zinnemann]]
|[[Displaced persons]] in postwar Germany
|-
|1948
|Poland
|''{{sort|Steel|The Steel Hearts}}''
|''[[Stalowe serca]]''
|[[Stanisław Januszewski]]
|[[Silesia]], Poland 1944 / 1945
|-
<!--NOTE TO EDITORS: This movie is not about WW2, but post-war Denmark
|1948
|Denmark
|''Three Years After'' {{ref|L|†·}}
|''[[:da:Tre år efter|Tre år efter]]''
|[[Johan Jacobsen]]
|Situation after the war's end
|--->
|1948
|Denmark
|''{{sort|Viking|[[The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman]]}}''
|''Støt står den danske sømand''
|[[Bodil Ipsen]], [[Lau Lauritzen Jr.]]
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[I Was a Male War Bride|I Was A Male War Bride]]''
|Howard Hanks
|
|Comedy.  A biography of Henri Rochard ( pen name of Roger Charlier ), a Belgian who married an American nurse.  Cary Grant, Ann Sheriden
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Battleground (1949 film)|Battleground]]''
|
|[[William A. Wellman]]
|[[101st Airborne Division]] in the [[Battle of the Bulge]]
|-
|1949
|Soviet Union
|''{{sort|Battle of|[[The Battle of Stalingrad (1949 movie)|The Battle of Stalingrad]]}}''
|''Stalingradskaya bitva'' (''Сталинградская битва'')
|[[Vladimir Petrov (director)|Vladimir Petrov]]
|[[Battle of Stalingrad]]
|-
|1949
|Philippines
|''Capas''
|''[[Capas (film)|Capas]]''
|[[Gregorio Fernandez]]
|[[Bataan Death March]] survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity
|-
|1949
|Soviet Union
|''[[Encounter at the Elbe]]''
|''Vstrecha na Elbe'' (''Встреча на Эльбе'')
|[[Grigori Aleksandrov]], [[Aleksei Utkin]]
|[[Elbe Day]]
|-
|1949
|Soviet Union
|''{{sort|Fall|[[The Fall of Berlin (film)|The Fall of Berlin]]}}''
|''Padeniye Berlina'' (''Падение Берлина'')
|[[Mikheil Chiaureli]]
|[[Battle of Berlin]]
|-
|1949
|Italy
|''{{sort|Flame|[[The Flame That Will Not Die]]}}''
|''La fiamma che non si spegne''
|[[Vittorio Cottafavi]]
|Italian hero [[Salvo D'Acquisto]]
|-
|1949
|United Kingdom<br/>United States
|''{{sort|Hasty|[[The Hasty Heart]]}}''
|
|[[Vincent Sherman]]
|British and US wounded soldiers in the [[Burma campaign]]
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Home of the Brave (1949 film)|Home of the Brave]]''
|
|[[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]
|Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island
|-
|1949
|United Kingdom
|''[[Landfall (1949 film)|Landfall]]''
|
|[[Ken Annakin (film director)|Ken Annakin]]
|Pilot believes he has sunk a friendly submarine
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Lost Boundaries]]''
|
|[[Alfred L. Werker]]
|Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Malaya (film)|Malaya]]''
|
|[[Richard Thorpe]]
|Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held [[British Malaya|Malaya]]
|-
|1949
|France
|''[[Mission in Tangier]]''
|''Mission à Tanger''
|[[André Hunebelle]]
|Journalist carries documents to London from [[Tangiers]]
|-
|1949
|Italy
|''Monastery of Santa Chiara'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Monastero di Santa Chiara (film)|Monastero di Santa Chiara]]''
|[[:it:Mario Sequi|Mario Sequi]]
|Drama. Naples during the German and then the Allied occupations
|-
|1949
|Spain
|''[[Neutrality (film)|Neutrality]]''
|''Neutralidad'' (''Los caballeros del mar'')
|[[Eusebio Fernández Ardavín]]
|A neutral Spanish merchantman rescues American sailors from a sunk ship
|-
|1949
|Poland
|''{{sort|Others|The Others Will Follow}}''
|''[[Za wami pójdą inni]]''
|[[Antoni Bohdziewicz]]
|Warsaw, Polish resistance
|-
|1949
|United Kingdom
|''[[Private Angelo (film)|Private Angelo]]''
|
|[[Michael Anderson (director)|Michael Anderson]], [[Peter Ustinov]]
|Light-hearted story. Reluctantly [[conscript]]ed Italian soldier
|-
|1949<ref>Filmed in 1943, but released in cinemas in 1949 after a slight editing</ref>
|Italy
|''Sailors Without Stars'' {{ref|L|†}}
|''[[:it:Marinai senza stelle|Marinai senza stelle]]''
|[[Francesco De Robertis]]
|Italian boys embark on a torpedo boat (depicted by a [[Gabbiano-class corvette]])
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Sands of Iwo Jima]]''
|
|[[Allan Dwan]]
| [[Battle of Tarawa]] and [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]
|-
|1949
|Czechoslovakia
|[[Silent Barricade]]
|Němá barikáda
|[[Otakar Vávra]]
|Nazi Resistance
|-
|1949
|United Kingdom
|''{{sort|Small|[[The Small Back Room]]}}''
|
|[[Michael Powell]], [[Emeric Pressburger]]
|Bomb disposal
|-
|1949
|Denmark
|''That applies to us all'' {{ref|L|†·}}
|''[[Det gælder os alle]]''
|[[Alice O'Fredericks]]
|Young survivor from a concentration camp
|-
|1949
|United Kingdom
|''[[They Were Not Divided]]''
|
|[[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
|The British [[Guards Armoured Division]]
|-
|1949
|United States
|''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]''
|
|[[Henry King (director)|Henry King]]
|[[B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17 bombers]] of the US [[Eighth Air Force]]
|}

==Films made 1950–1989==
{{Main|List of World War II films 1950–1989}}

===1950s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1950#1950s}}

===1960s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1950#1960s}}

===1970s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1950#1970s}}

===1980s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1950#1980s}}

==Films made since 1990==
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990}}

===1990s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#1990s}}

===2000s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2000s}}

===2010s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2010s}}

===2020s===
{{Main|List of World War II films since 1990#2020s}}

==Science fiction, fantasy and horror==
{{Main|List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films}}

==TV series==
{{Main|List of World War II TV series}}

==Dramatised documentaries==
A dramatised documentary is a documentary film which includes dramatised scenes using actors in costume.<br />
This format is distinct from a docudrama, which is a fully dramatised fact-based fictional work in a documentary style.
<!--NOTE TO EDITORS: The "Main title" column is meant to be alphabetical within each year. Thanks.-->
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! class="unsortable"|Year
! width= 80|Country
! width=160|Main title<br /><small>(Alternative titles)</small>
! width=140|Original title<br /><small>(Original script)</small>
! width=100|Director
! class="unsortable"|Battles, campaigns, events depicted
|-
|1940
|France
|''[[My Crimes 1|My Crimes After Mein Kampf]]''
|''[[:fr:Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes|Après Mein Kampf, mes crimes]]''
|"[[Alexandre Ryder|Jean-Jacques Valjean]]"
|Assassinations of [[Ernst Röhm]] and [[Kurt von Schleicher]] on [[Night of the Long Knives]], 1934, then Austrian Chancellor [[Engelbert Dollfuß]], also 1934
|-
|1940
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
|''[[My Crimes 2|Mein Kampf – My Crimes]]'' (''After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler'')
|
|[[Norman Lee]] (uncredited)
|
|-
|1992
|Canada
|''{{sort|Valour 1|[[The Valour and the Horror#Savage Christmas|A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong]]}}'' (TV)
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama. [[Royal Rifles of Canada|Royal Rifles regiment]] at [[Battle of Hong Kong]], 1941
|-
|1992
|Canada
|''{{sort|Valour 2|[[The Valour and the Horror#Death by Moonlight|Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command]]}}'' (TV)
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama. [[RCAF]] [[Avro Lancaster|Lancaster]] bombing of German cities
|-
|1992
|Canada
|''{{sort|Valour 3|[[The Valour and the Horror#In Desperate Battle|In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944]]}}'' (TV)
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama. [[The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada|Black Watch regiment]] at [[Battle of Verrières Ridge]], 1944
|-
|1995
|Canada
|''[[War at Sea: U-boats in the St. Lawrence]]'' (TV)
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama.
|-
|1995
|Canada
|''[[War at Sea: The Black Pit]]'' (TV)
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama.
|-
|1996
|Canada
|''{{sort|Web|[[A Web of War]]}}''
|
|[[Brian McKenna]]
|Drama. Polish Gen. [[Wladyslaw Anders]]
|-
|2003
|United Kingdom
|''[[Killing Hitler]]'' (TV)
|
|[[Jeremy Lovering]]
|Drama. [[Operation Foxley]] plan to kill Hitler, 1944
|}

==Spanish Civil War==
{{Main|List of Spanish Civil War films}}

In the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists (the rebel side) are supported by [[Mussolini]]'s Italy, [[Hitler]]'s Germany, and a small number of international rightist volunteers. The Republicans (government side) are supported by Stalin's Soviet Union and a large number of leftist volunteers, the International Brigades.

The Nationalists under [[Francisco Franco]] win.

During World War II, Franco remains neutral – so [[Gibraltar]] is never overrun – but nevertheless he sends the Blue Division to fight for Germany on the Eastern Front.

For films about the Blue Division, see the [[List of World War II films since 1950]].

== 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]]
*[[Partisan film|List of partisan films]] – films about [[World War II in Yugoslavia]]

;Of related interest
*[[List of World War II video games]]

== Notes ==
* {{note|L|†}} This English language title is a '''literal''' translation from its original foreign language title.<br />This title should always be replaced by an English language '''release''' title when that information becomes available.
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== References ==
; Sources
*[[Jay Leyda|Leyda, Jay]]. ''Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present''. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp. {{ISBN|0-691-00346-7}}

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==External links==
* [http://www.war-films.com/conflict/world-war-2.html World War 2 movies] – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130112225716/http://topyaps.com/top-10-world-war-ii-movies/ Top 10 World War 2 Movies]}} – List by Topyaps

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