World War II Movies Part 2
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- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClaudette ColbertPatric KnowlesFlorence DesmondDuring Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsNina HossEvgeniy SidikhinIrm HermannA woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
- DirectorRobert M. YoungStarsWillem DafoeEdward James OlmosRobert LoggiaIn Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsJudy DavisSam NeillAnthony HigginsMary Lindell works for the French Red Cross in occupied France during World War II and helps Allied airmen who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsBekim FehmiuVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicLjubisa SamardzicThe first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
- DirectorKen LoringStarsPaul Edwards Jr.Marlene DaudenClaude WilsonLate in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. officer, determined to win glory for himself, loses half his platoon in a bloody battle with Japanese soldiers. While trying to extract his men from their precarious position, a lieutenant blunders into another enemy force who plan to wipe out the remaining soldiers using a well-laid ambush. The officer and a beautiful villager are taken captive, but desperately try to escape to warn the Americans of their deadly peril.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsMartha PlimptonEric StoltzJack ShepherdWith the occupation of Brussels by the Germans, Helene could forget her ideas of a university degree. Her energy turns towards the hidden fight against the occupiers and gradually, inevitably, she joins the resistance movement.
- CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsMichael KitchenHoneysuckle WeeksAnthony HowellAs WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
- StarsEmma ThompsonKenneth BranaghCharles KayA British couple living in Romania try to survive as Europe is engulfed in World War II.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsLeopoldo SalcedoDiane JergensJohnny MonteiroIn the Philippines during World War II, a girl is rescued from bandits by a guerrilla fighter.
- DirectorCharles FrendBruno VailatiStarsLilli PalmerJames MasonGabriele FerzettiAn Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.
- DirectorBitto AlbertiniStarsGuy MadisonVenantino VenantiniAnthony SteelA German Captain and American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
- DirectorAlexander RamatiStarsHorst BuchholzDidi RamatiPiotr PolkThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsTab HunterHoward RossErika WallnerSix U.S. soldiers are sent to destroy a bridge that spans the Elbe, which will somehow prevent the Soviets from occupying Germany in this fictional vehicle.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda RichardsonA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsPaul MuniMarguerite ChapmanLarry ParksDuring WW2, a Mexican stand-off ensues between a group of German soldiers and a team of Soviet fighters trapped together in the basement of a bombed-out Russian building.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsStewart GrangerRaf ValloneMickey RooneyIn 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsChristopher GeorgeLaraine StephensJ.D. CannonA U.S. Air Force colonel convinces the Allies during World War II that a daylight bombing raid of Germany will bring a quick end to the war.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsAnthony QuinnVirna LisiGrégoire AslanIn World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsNicolas CagePenélope CruzJohn HurtWhen a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsGeorges PoujoulyBrigitte FosseyAmédéeA young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiStanislawa CelinskaAleksander BardiniThe film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- StarsAdrian LukisClare HigginsIngrid HafnerTwo boys Michael and Joe become friends when Joe arrives at St. George's school in England as a refugee student. Both are Jewish but one has grown up in a middle class English home, while the other has grown up under the spectre of the growing Nazi movemement. Their friendship lasts beyond school when both find careers in film. When they both fall for the same girl they must decide if she is worth destroying their friendship over.
- DirectorThad T. SmithStarsCole CarsonLauren BairMichael J. ProsserA battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend a small German town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war, against the assault of the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer Ghost division.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsRon EldardZak OrthFrank WhaleyA private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.
- StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsHenry FondaRobert ShawRobert RyanA dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
- DirectorKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsCharlton HestonHenry FondaJames CoburnA dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsRobert TaylorRichard ToddDana WynterEn route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
- DirectorRichard FleischerKinji FukasakuToshio MasudaStarsMartin BalsamSô YamamuraJason RobardsThe story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
- DirectorCarl ForemanStarsVince EdwardsAlbert FinneyGeorge HamiltonIntelligent, sprawling saga that follows a squad of American soldiers through Europe during World War II.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean-Paul BelmondoCharles BoyerLeslie CaronAugust 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- DirectorHeinz SchirkStarsDietrich MattauschGerd BöckmannFriedrich G. BeckhausAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
- DirectorArmand GattiStarsHans Christian BlechJean NégroniHerbert WochinzThis prison camp drama by director and co-scripter Armand Gatti, his first film, reflects the early '60s resurgence of interest in the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis in World War II. (In another year, the Adolph Eichmann trial would be the first ever seen live on American television.) Gatti focuses on two men in a German concentration camp who have been cruelly penned inside an enclosure. One of the men, Karl (Herbert Wochinz), is a strong, bitter anti-Nazi German -- a target of the Gestapo. The SS wants information on a rumored organization of resistance fighters inside the prison and they know he has it. The other man, David (Jean Negroni) is a Jew. If one of the men dies within a certain time then the other will be released. He will not be killed. Otherwise, both will be executed. The resistance fighters in the prison try to help the two as best they can, while the pair inside the enclosure slowly come to know each other as though they were brothers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsVictor MatureLi Hua LiWard BondAmerican pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsLoretta YoungAlan LaddWilliam BendixDuring the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsDavid BrianLynette BernayNorman WrightA ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsCharlton HestonMaximilian SchellKathryn HaysA famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
- DirectorKenneth G. CraneStarsCharles BronsonRichard JaeckelViolet RensingIn 1945, a GI falls in love with a German woman while elite German troops in U.S.uniforms carry out sabotage and assassinations behind American lines.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRobert MitchumStanley BakerElisabeth MüllerIn 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsJames DrurySteve CarlsonJonathan DalyIn World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniIn 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsHiroshi FujiokaTarô ShigakiNaoko ÔtaniEpic dramatization of the WWII memoirs of Saburô Sakai, the famous ace pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiHugo GrimaldiStarsYôsuke NatsukiToshirô MifuneKôji TsurutaLt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
- DirectorMichael BayStarsBen AffleckKate BeckinsaleJosh HartnettA tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsVivien LeighSimone SignoretJosé FerrerA varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsClifton WebbGloria GrahameRobert FlemyngIn order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
- DirectorBernhard WickiStarsMarlon BrandoYul BrynnerJanet MargolinA war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMarlon BrandoMontgomery CliftDean MartinThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
- DirectorDick PowellStarsRobert MitchumCurd JürgensDavid HedisonDuring WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsToshirô MifuneMakoto SatôReiko DanIn 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.
- DirectorTom AntosStarsLukasz AntosTom AntosPaul BayDuring World War II, a Canadian Pilot crash lands in German occupied France.
- StarsNeil DudgeonGeorge AntonBoyd GainesStories of the men of the RAF Hornet Squadron during the early days of World War II.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineTrevor HowardHarry AndrewsIn 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsDolores MichaelsPatricia OwensNeville BrandA small group of Red Cross doctors and nurses are held captive by Chinese guerrillas in Vietnam.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRon FosterMiiko TakaNorman AldenWWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsGregory PeckDan O'HerlihyEd FlandersBiopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsStephen BoydJames Robertson JusticeKathleen HarrisonEscaping British prisoners of war hide out in German-occupied France.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsAnthony Steel1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsDougray ScottKate WinsletSaffron BurrowsA young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsDerek JacobiAlun ArmstrongBlake RitsonA biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsJohn LuptonJames EdwardsBrett HalseyNative girl helps US Seabees free her villagers from Japanese troops.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsMerle OberonBrian AherneCarl EsmondNicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsMarsha HuntAlexander KnoxHenry TraversThe career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsPaul NewmanSylva KoscinaAndrew DugganIn 1943, a group of captured Allied brigadier generals cannot agree on an escape plan. Allied headquarters develops a plan to send in an escape artist to be captured himself so he can coordinate the generals escape.
- StarsRonald ReaganHarold AlexanderJohn AllisonDocumentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road - originally called The Ledo Road - a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsBilly CrystalKim DarbyPatrick DuffyThe decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
- DirectorDimis DadirasStarsKostas PrekasKostas KarrasOlga PolitouIn 1941 the Germans invaded Greece and two childhood friends, one a Greek naval officer and the other a German, are forced to fight each other, each one defending his homeland.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsDaijirô TsutsumiJun HashizumeYû HayamiTwo young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who dossn't qualify for the pilot traning and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsMike ConnorsJohn AshleyJewell LainDuring the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an American commando team is sent to an evacuated American base in the jungle to destroy classified documents.
- DirectorPhilip DunneStarsRobert WagnerDana WynterJeffrey HunterIn 1944, the family lives of three San Francisco Marines are affected by their personal experiences on the front lines in the Pacific and vice-versa.
- DirectorKôsaku YamashitaStarsKôji TsurutaNoboru AndôShinjirô EbaraThe historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War Two.
- DirectorSadao NakajimaStarsHiroki MatsukataShin'ichi ChibaIsao NatsuyagiTwo friends are drafted to the army and eventually becomes kamikaze pilots.
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsFaye EmersonHelmut DantineRaymond MasseyIn 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsHildegard KnefElly BurgmerErna SellmerAfter returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
- StarsNatalie WoodWilliam DevaneSteve RailsbackIn Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
- CreatorHarold GastStarsDavid LeBellWilliam DevaneRoy ThinnesSoapy antics of the servicemen and women of Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsKay FrancisCarole LandisMartha RayeReenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsClark GableLana TurnerAnne BaxterAt the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsJames GarnerEva Marie SaintRod TaylorGermans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsChristopher PlummerEdward WoodwardKenneth CranhamWhen members of a World War II bomber crew meet at a reunion, the consequences of their actions decades earlier start to emerge.
- StarsLen BawtreeChristopher BiglerMike ChalkUsing a unique blend of living history elements, CGI, first-person interviews and never-before-seen WWII footage, this dramatic four-part documentary series follows a new generation of young men - all of whom are descendants of WWII veterans - as they undergo training to become a Lancaster aircrew. While these new recruits struggle to come to terms with 1940s discipline and values, we hear the harrowing anecdotes of the "real" Bomber Boys - the veterans who flew into the night skies over Occupied Europe to fight in some of the most critical battles of the war. As the two groups come together, a special bond emerges, building a bridge between the generations and giving new understanding to the experiences of those who fought in the Second World War
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsRobert TaylorBrian DonlevyCharles LaughtonDuring WW2, two Navy officers take command of an obsolete, World War I-vintage, destroyer that is assigned to convoy-escort duty in the Japanese-controlled waters of the South Pacific.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsPeter LawfordDonald CrispJune LockhartLaddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage ?
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsLarry ParksJeanne BatesLoren TindallA soldier made into a dog handler falls in love with the mother of the dog's owner and both achieve fame in the Pacific.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames GarnerEtchika ChoureauJack WardenThe lives, loves, and battles of fictional characters in the Army's First Ranger Battalion during WWII.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsJohn AgarRichard WebbJoan HuntingtonU.S. Army demolition squad on a mission to destroy records in an evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of the 1958 film "Suicide Battalion".
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsJim BelushiAlan David LeeSimon WestawayA tank commander and his men along with a group of assorted stragglers they picked up along the way try to keep a limited supply of water away from the Nazis.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsRandolph ScottAlan CurtisNoah Beery Jr.The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
- DirectorIvo TomanStarsOtomar KrejcaAnonymousBedrich ProkosThe film is depicting Czechoslovak tank brigade fighting along with the Red Army in the WW II. During the War Czechoslovak armored brigade was formed and trained in the Soviet Union. Although aware that they will be fighting mighty enemy and that many of them will not survive, that did not stop them. Brigade was performing successfully in the battles for Kiev, Rudi, Bela Czernaczovo Cerkev and became renown in the battles for Dukla i Ostrawa. The film also deals with the faith of one tank crew, which fights on the most difficult terrain covered by the Czechoslovak Independent Brigade. The destiny of the tank commander, sergeant Juraj Klimke was followed during the bloody battle at Dukla. Juraj shows that his harshness is only a mask and that he is in fact a shy and sensitive person. Battle scenes in the film were enacted by 3000 members of Czechoslovak Army.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsAudrey HepburnPeter FinchEdith EvansAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRobert MitchumDeborah KerrDuring World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.