World War II Movies Part 3

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1. Above and Beyond (1952)

Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War

Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating

Votes: 1,342

2. Anzio (1968)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, History, War

Anzio: one of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead--four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.

Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman

Votes: 3,781

3. The Devil's Brigade (1968)

Approved | 130 min | Action, Drama, War

A US Army lieutenant colonel is tasked with forming an elite commando-style unit from crack Canadian troops and the dregs of the US Army.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine

Votes: 6,256

4. Kelly's Heroes (1970)

GP | 144 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

50 Metascore

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor

Votes: 53,712 | Gross: $1.38M

5. The Blockhouse (1973)

R | 93 min | Drama, War

During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.

Director: Clive Rees | Stars: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson

Votes: 653

6. Samson (1961)

117 min | Drama, Romance, War

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Jan Ciecierski

Votes: 238

7. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, War

55 Metascore

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O'Brien

Votes: 246,478 | Gross: $9.03M

8. Bad Luck (1960)

92 min | Comedy

The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of ... See full summary »

Director: Andrzej Munk | Stars: Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Ciesielska, Helena Dabrowska, Barbara Lass

Votes: 1,352

9. Miss Rose White (1992 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama

Sister given up by Italian family only to be reunited 22 years later.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Kyra Sedgwick, Maureen Stapleton, Bari Biern

Votes: 275

10. Hubal (1973)

126 min | Drama, War

Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939, an officer and his remaining men decide to continue fighting the invaders alone, thereby becoming the first guerrillas of World War II.

Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Ryszard Filipski, Malgorzata Potocka, Tadeusz Janczar, Emil Karewicz

Votes: 293

11. Defiance (I) (2008)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, History

58 Metascore

Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos

Votes: 155,688 | Gross: $28.64M

12. Akcja pod Arsenalem (1978)

93 min | Action, Drama, War

A historical film based on real events, it tells story of three scouts, Tadeusz Zawadzki "Zoska", Jan Bytnar "Rudy" and Maciej Dawidowski "Alek".

Director: Jan Lomnicki | Stars: Cezary Morawski, Miroslaw Konarowski, Ryszard Gajewski, Magdalena Wollejko

Votes: 267

13. The Outsider (1961)

Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War

Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 934

14. Fall from Grace (1994 TV Movie)

182 min | Drama

During the Second World War, an entire battle front developed in the field of espionage. "Fall from Grace" is the story of one young woman and how, after joining the British Secret Service,... See full summary »

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: James Fox, Michael York, Patsy Kensit, Richard Anconina

Votes: 124

15. Home of the Brave (1949)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, War

During WW2, a reconnaissance platoon is sent to map out a Japanese-held island but racial tensions arise between the white soldiers and the only black member of the group.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 796

16. Fireball Forward (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

A hard-nosed general takes over a division with a bad combat record.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Ricardo Montalban, Anne Francis, Dana Elcar

Votes: 227

17. Christabel (1988– )

149 min | Biography, Drama

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel ... See full summary »

Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Nigel Le Vaillant, Geoffrey Palmer

Votes: 202

18. Stalingrad (1993)

Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War

The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph

Votes: 37,726 | Gross: $0.08M

19. Angels One Five (1952)

TV-G | 98 min | Drama, War

The story of an RAF fighter squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.

Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond

Votes: 1,274

20. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.

Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyy, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev

Votes: 5,771

21. For Those We Love (2007)

135 min | Drama, War

Young Japanese pilots are trained to sink Allied warships by flying into them.

Director: Taku Shinjô | Stars: Ryôhei Abe, Tôru Emori, Ken'ichi Endô, Dennis Falt

Votes: 406

22. Sekret Enigmy (1979)

158 min | Biography, Drama, History

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ... See full summary »

Director: Roman Wionczek | Stars: Tadeusz Borowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Piotr Garlicki, Tadeusz Plucinski

Votes: 77

23. Shchit i mech (1968)

191 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.

Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Alla Demidova, Valentina Titova, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes: 692

24. Breakout (1959)

101 min | Drama, War

In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough

Votes: 758

25. The Enemy General (1960)

Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general, who is awaiting execution by the Germans, and help him escape to London.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Johnson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dany Carrel, John van Dreelen

Votes: 172

26. The Quick and the Dead (1963)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Drama, War

In 1944 a patrol of American soldier is driven off their observation post by German troops, then tries to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to their own lines with a partisan girl and with the Germans in hot pursuit.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Victor French, Majel Barrett, Louis Massad, Sandy Donigan

Votes: 176

27. Missiles from Hell (1958)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, War

A group of Polish fighters of the Polish resistance movement go on a mission to destroy the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde and cripple the German war effort during World War II.

Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale, David Knight

Votes: 370

28. The Garden of Redemption (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, War

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.

Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Marta Amaro, Anthony LaPaglia, João Arouca, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 376

29. The Train (1964)

Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War

80 Metascore

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon

Votes: 18,887 | Gross: $7.41M

30. Les Misérables (1995)

R | 175 min | Drama, History

A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch

Votes: 4,008 | Gross: $1.04M

31. Operation Amsterdam (1959)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History, War

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.

Director: Michael McCarthy | Stars: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox

Votes: 855

32. The Fall of Berlin (1945)

PG-13 | 70 min | Documentary, History, War

Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.

Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Hermann Göring

Votes: 154

33. Charlie Grant's War (1984 TV Movie)

125 min | Drama

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.

Director: Martin Lavut | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Jean Archambault, Chris Bark, Anthony Bekenn

Votes: 31

34. The Teacher with the Blonde Hair (1969)

96 min | Drama, Romance, War

Amid blinding prejudice, a vivacious blonde teacher gets married to an honest man, only to see him leave for the Greco-Italian Front, a few hours after their wedding ceremony. Will she cope with her loss, when there's no one to turn to?

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Angelos Antonopoulos, Pantelis Zervos

Votes: 737

35. Kozara (1962)

124 min | Drama, War

The struggle of the Yugoslav partisans against the Germans.

Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Bert Sotlar, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Olivera Markovic

Votes: 797

36. Winter in Wartime (2008)

R | 103 min | Drama, History, War

66 Metascore

In German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Director: Martin Koolhoven | Stars: Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen, Raymond Thiry

Votes: 13,529 | Gross: $0.54M

37. Probabilità zero (1969)

PG | 95 min | Action, Drama, War

Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.

Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: Henry Silva, Luigi Casellato, Riccardo Salvino, Ezio Sancrotti

Votes: 182

38. Hell Commandos (1969)

88 min | Action, Drama, War

An American major trains a group of elite soldiers for a dangerous covert mission behind enemy lines during WW2.

Director: José Luis Merino | Stars: Guy Madison, Raffaella Carrà, Stelvio Rosi, Manuel Zarzo

Votes: 115

39. Five for Hell (1969)

95 min | Action, Adventure, War

Five oddball American commandos infiltrate a well-guarded villa to steal the documents for "Plan K", which the Nazis intend to use to drive the Allies out of Italy.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Gianni Garko, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Aldo Canti

Votes: 673

40. Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (1968)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War

The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.

Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Guy Madison, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc, Philippe Hersent

Votes: 332

41. Aera! Aera! Aera! (1972)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, War

When an Italian submarine torpedoes a Greek destroyer, a trapped platoon must escape the Albanian coast with its honour intact.

Director: Kostas Andritsos | Stars: Giannis Voglis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Petros Fyssoun, Hristos Negas

Votes: 70

42. The Key to Rebecca (1985 TV Movie)

R | 194 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Cairo during World War II, a German Agent tries to infiltrate the British command to lay the groundwork for Erwin Rommel's conquest of Egypt.

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Cliff Robertson, David Soul, Season Hubley, Lina Raymond

Votes: 525

43. Heroes Die Young (1960)

Approved | 76 min | Action, War

Eight American soldiers, commanded by Lt. Eason, are chosen to infiltrate the Ploesti oil field in order to set signal fires to guide Allied bombers to Germany's most closely guarded target... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Shepard | Stars: Erika Peters, Scott Borland, Robert Getz, Roger Browne

Votes: 33

44. Paratroop Command (1959)

Approved | 71 min | Drama, War

A squad member of the U.S. Paratroop unit in WWII accidently shoots one of his unit. Over the forthcoming months there is some anamosity against him as they battle their way across Italy.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Richard Bakalyan, Ken Lynch, Jack Hogan, Jimmy Murphy

Votes: 257

45. Battle Cry (1955)

Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson

Votes: 2,628 | Gross: $17.44M

46. Red Rose of Normandy (2011 Video)

Not Rated | 102 min | War

Caught in the middle of the advancing Allies and the fanatical Gestapo during World War II, Klaus and Klaudia must fight their way out, only to make one last stand together surrounded in the middle of the biggest invasion in world history.

Director: Tino Struckmann | Stars: Tino Struckmann, Damian Chapa, Claudia Crawford, Jack Dimich

Votes: 461

47. Brothers War (2009)

R | 100 min | History, War

In the waning days of WWar II, enemies must become allies in order to deliver a message that could change the world.

Director: Jerry Buteyn | Stars: Tino Struckmann, Michael Berryman, Olivier Gruner, Hayley Carr

Votes: 895

48. Female Agents (2008)

TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War

London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain

Votes: 7,954

49. Black Book (2006)

R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War

71 Metascore

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn

Votes: 80,511 | Gross: $4.40M

50. Leningrad (2009)

R | 110 min | Drama, War

Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.

Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 4,795

51. They Who Dare (1954)

107 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Kay Callard, William Russell

Votes: 798

52. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War

At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell

Votes: 3,725

53. The Men (1950)

Passed | 87 min | Drama

A paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb

Votes: 5,143 | Gross: $7.10M

54. All Through the Night (1942)

Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell

Votes: 4,931

55. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Passed | 126 min | Drama, War

An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop

Votes: 4,548

56. Tokyo Joe (1949)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 2,692

57. Task Force (1949)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, War

As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,188

58. 7 Women from Hell (1961)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, War

Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.

Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean

Votes: 131

59. Passage to Marseille (1944)

Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn

Votes: 5,039

60. Mediterraneo (1991)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio

Votes: 16,421 | Gross: $4.53M

61. Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)

91 min | Drama, War

In early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not... See full summary »

Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Andreyev, Sergei Lukyanov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Nikolay Vingranovskiy

Votes: 159

62. The One That Got Away (1957)

Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War

69 Metascore

A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander

Votes: 2,483

63. Heroes Without Glory (1971)

92 min | Drama, War

A desert patrol is persuaded by 3 prisoners to follow them in their quest for the tomb of a Pharoah and its treasure.

Director: Alfredo Rizzo | Stars: Jeff Cameron, Isarco Ravaioli, Lemmy Carson, Rossella Como

Votes: 75

64. Fathers and Sons (1986)

30 min | Comedy

Former football player Merlin Olsen stars as Buddy Landau, just an ordinary guy who loves sports and coaches his son Lanny's baseball team. Lanny has no real talent for the sport and is only involved in it to please his dad.

Stars: Merlin Olsen, Nicholas Guest, Andre Gower, Ina Fried

Votes: 25

65. Halls of Montezuma (1951)

Approved | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner

Votes: 2,955

66. Okinawa (1952)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, History

Captain Hale takes over command of a U. S. Naval vessel as it prepares to take part in the invasion of Okinawa in the Second World War. His crew includes a rowdy gun crew who punctuate fire missions with banter and antics.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Denning, Rhys Williams

Votes: 269

67. Battle Stations (1956)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, War

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone

Votes: 297

68. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,920

69. Imitation General (1958)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, War

Sergeant Murphy Savage impersonates a dead general in order to inspire the demoralized troops in fighting their way out of Nazi encirclement.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg, Dean Jones

Votes: 748

70. Der Fuchs von Paris (1957)

98 min | Drama, Thriller, War

France remains occupied by Germans who are under constant French Resistance attack and some German officers plan to pass information from Berlin Headquarters to Allied troops in an attempt ... See full summary »

Director: Paul May | Stars: Martin Held, Marianne Koch, Hardy Krüger, Michel Auclair

Votes: 126

71. Flying Fortress (1942)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War

Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart

Votes: 128

72. Aerial Gunner (1943)

Approved | 78 min | Drama

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight over the same woman.

Director: William H. Pine | Stars: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Amelita Ward, Jimmy Lydon

Votes: 364

73. Mister Roberts (1955)

Passed | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, War

72 Metascore

In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.

Directors: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon

Votes: 18,241 | Gross: $21.20M

74. First Yank Into Tokyo (1945)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, Romance

An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Richard Loo

Votes: 270

75. Which Way to the Front? (1970)

G | 96 min | Comedy, War

Brendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, John Wood, Steve Franken

Votes: 1,425 | Gross: $0.40M

76. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond

Votes: 4,609

77. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance

75 Metascore

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 11,406

78. Bataan (1943)

Approved | 114 min | Drama, History, War

In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 2,705

79. Back to Bataan (1945)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, War

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli

Votes: 4,372

80. Wake Island (1942)

Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, War

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix

Votes: 2,198

81. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

72 Metascore

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 55,397 | Gross: $28.90M

82. Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

PG | 118 min | Action, Drama, War

42 Metascore

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Franco Nero

Votes: 19,753

83. Escape to Athena (1979)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A World War II adventure involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 5,834

84. The Longest Bridge (1976)

140 min | Drama, History, War

A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There ... See full summary »

Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Brigitte Lin, Feng Hsu, Sylvia Chang

Votes: 170

85. Up Periscope (1959)

Approved | 112 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1942, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden from the underwater demolition team is sent to a Japanese island to photograph secret radio codes.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr.

Votes: 2,253

86. The Cruel Sea (1953)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, War

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 5,409

87. The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, War

In the North Sea in 1944, passengers of a downed Royal Air Force transport aircraft talk about their lives while awaiting rescue in their dinghy.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Jack Watling

Votes: 731

88. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, History

The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith

Votes: 8,315 | Gross: $6.54M

89. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)

Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter

Votes: 4,866

90. The McKenzie Break (1970)

PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, War

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson

Votes: 1,702

91. A Soldier's Story (1984)

PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

66 Metascore

An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier

Votes: 11,399 | Gross: $21.82M

92. A Soldier's Tale (1989)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War

A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

Director: Larry Parr | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Marianne Basler, Paul Wyett, Judge Reinhold

Votes: 274

93. The Brylcreem Boys (1998)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether ... See full summary »

Director: Terence Ryan | Stars: Billy Campbell, Chris 'Kit' Ryan, Jean Butler, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 626

94. Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell

Votes: 126

95. The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Peter Carsten

Votes: 1,582

96. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

R | 115 min | Action, Drama, War

As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 10,548

97. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Music

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski

Votes: 2,885

98. The Only Way (1970)

G | 86 min | Drama, War

A Jewish family tries to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.

Director: Bent Christensen | Stars: Ebbe Rode, Helle Virkner, Jane Seymour, Ove Sprogøe

Votes: 322

99. Lassiter (1984)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

50 Metascore

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins

Votes: 2,728 | Gross: $17.50M

100. The Berlin Affair (1985)

R | 96 min | Drama

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ... See full summary »

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler

Votes: 661



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