Here we've displayed a list of the best World War Ii films : Schindler's List(1993), Saving Private Ryan(1998), The Pianist(2002), Casablanca(1942), The Boat(1981), Come and See(1985), Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), To Be or Not to Be(1942), Army in the Shadows(1969), Downfall(2004), Judgment at Nuremberg(1961), Hacksaw Ridge(2016) ... ...
8.9/10
Drama, History
USA
1993
195 Minutes
Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Caroline Goodall Jonathan Sagall Embeth Davidtz Malgoscha Gebel Shmulik Levy Mark Ivanir Beatrice Macola
oskar schindler worker nazi businessperson brooding emotional krakow, poland auschwitz factory office world war ii nazism concentration camp horrors of war freedom transformation discovery rescue 1940s
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
8.6/10
War, Drama, History
USA
1998
169 Minutes
Tom Hanks Ed Burns Tom Sizemore Jeremy Davies Vin Diesel Adam Goldberg Barry Pepper Giovanni Ribisi Matt Damon Dennis Farina Ted Danson
captain soldier brother enemy parachutist mother dark gritty gripping washington, d.c. france death world war ii invasion rescue honor horrors of war rescue quest 1940s
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
8.5/10
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
musician pianist military officer jew bleak powerful disturbing warsaw radio station attic holocaust music world war ii adaptation escape pursuit 1940s
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
8.5/10
Drama
USA
1942
102 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Peter Lorre Sydney Greenstreet Dooley Wilson Marcel Dalio S.Z. Sakall Joy Page
expatriates nightclub owner resistance fighter nazi spy sad cool gripping casablanca paris nightclub airport world war ii rebellion virtue love triangle sacrifice 1940s
A 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.
8.3/10
War, Drama
West Germany
1981
150 Minutes
Jürgen Prochnow Herbert Grönemeyer Klaus Wennemann Hubertus Bengsch Martin Semmelrogge Bernd Tauber Erwin Leder Martin May Heinz Hoenig Uwe Ochsenknecht
captain reporter sailor soldier tense somber thrilling submarine underwater germany battle fatigue world war ii disillusionment military quest pursuit 1940s
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
8.3/10
Drama
Soviet Union
1985
142 Minutes
Aleksey Kravchenko Olga Mironova L. Lautsyavichius Vladas Bagdonas Evgeny Tilicheev Aleksandr Berda
son girl peasant nazi mother eerie dreamy disturbing byelorussia forest village war massacre escape dreams survival world war ii growing up metamorphosis transformation
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
8.3/10
Documentary
USA
2002
72 Minutes
child parent activist soldier survivor sad inspiring germany eastern europe foster home holocaust nazism protection surrogacy family world war ii wretched excess growing up escape 2000s
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
8.2/10
Comedy
USA
1942
99 Minutes
Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack Felix Bressart Lionel Atwill Stanley Ridges Sig Ruman Tom Dugan Charles Halton Peter Caldwell Helmut Dantine
actor actress lieutenant spy nazi madcap hilarious suspenseful poland warsaw love triangle adolf hitler impersonation resistance world war ii adventure 1940s
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
8.2/10
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
8.2/10
War, Drama, History
Germany|Austria|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Corinna Harfouch Ulrich Matthes Juliane Köhler Heino Ferch Christian Berkel Matthias Habich Thomas Kretschmann Ulrich Noethen Gotz Otto
dictator eva braun josef goebbels wife secretary nazi frightening bleak fascinating shocking germany berlin bunker office world war ii adolf hitler disillusionment traudl junge paranoia defeat
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1961
186 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Burt Lancaster Richard Widmark Marlene Dietrich Maximilian Schell Judy Garland Montgomery Clift William Shatner Ed Binns Kenneth MacKenna Werner Klemperer
judge defendant lawyer military officer nazi widow dark disturbing courtroom nuremberg, germany world war ii nazism genocide court battles quest wretched excess 1940s
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
8.1/10
War, Biography, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2016
139 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Sam Worthington Luke Bracey Teresa Palmer Hugo Weaving Rachel Griffiths Vince Vaughn Richard Roxburgh Luke Pegler Richard Pyros Firass Dirani
private conscientious objector soldier commander enemy president confident emotional uplifting tense moving raw okinawa, japan airplane ship bunker white house car conscience world war ii
World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
8.1/10
War, Drama
UK|USA
1957
161 Minutes
William Holden Alec Guinness Sessue Hayakawa Jack Hawkins James Donald Geoffrey Horne Andre Morrell Peter Williams John Boxer Percy Herbert Harold Goodwin
soldier captain rival prisoner of war captor gritty military base bridge burma world war ii munitions construction military battle bombing rivalry quest revenge 1940s
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
8.0/10
Drama
France|West Germany|Italy
1987
104 Minutes
Gaspard Manesse Raphael Fejto Francine Racette Stanislas Carré de Malberg Philippe Morier-Genoud François Berléand Irène Jacob François Négret
student priest nazi headmaster dark emotional profound france boarding school world war ii holocaust friendship secret nazism trauma discovery growing up 1940s
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
8.0/10
War, Comedy
France|UK
1966
130 Minutes
Bourvil Louis De Funès Terry-Thomas Marie Dubois Claudio Brook Benno Sterzenbach Colette Brosset Andréa Parisy Pierre Bertin Henri Genes Gabriel Gobin
conductor house painter german soldier amusing france paris escape french resistance world war ii escape 1940s
Several ordinary Frenchmen, helping British pilots avoid Nazi captivity, go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone.
8.0/10
War
Japan
1959
100 Minutes
Eiji Funakoshi Mantaro Ushio Yoshiro Hamaguchi Osamu Takizawa
soldier doctor dark chilling bleak island philippines hospital desertion starvation battle fatigue war survival world war ii quest escape fall 1940s
In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.
8.0/10
War
USA
1953
120 Minutes
William Holden Otto Preminger Robert Strauss Don Taylor Harvey Lembeck Richard Erdman Peter Graves Neville Brand Sig Ruman Michael Moore Peter Baldwin
prisoner of war spy guard pilot sergeant nazi engaging gripping suspenseful tense germany prison camp world war ii prisoners of war loyalty imprisonment escape mystery quest 1940s
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1946
172 Minutes
Fredric March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Hoagy Carmichael Gladys George Steve Cochran
veteran wife amputee banker fiancée daughter powerful somber fascinating profound small town midwest family home war disillusionment world war ii love sacrifice discovery transformation
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
8.0/10
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2014
113 Minutes
Benedict Cumberbatch Keira Knightley Matthew Goode Rory Kinnear Allen Leech Matthew Beard Charles Dance Mark Strong Alex Lawther
scientist mathematician gay man military official government official emotional powerful moving united kingdom laboratory government building london apartment computers world war ii espionage homosexuality homophobia blackmail forbidden love
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
8.0/10
Drama
France
1952
87 Minutes
Brigitte Fossey Georges Poujouly Lucien Hubert Suzanne Contal Jacques Marin Laurence Badie
orphan son father emotional endearing profound france small town world war ii war childhood death friendship growing up 1940s
A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
8.0/10
Musical
USA
1965
174 Minutes
Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Eleanor Parker Richard Haydn Peggy Wood Charmian Carr Heather Menzies Nicholas Hammond Duane Chase Angela Cartwright Debbie Turner
governess captain child singer nun soldier heartwarming touching mansion austria cemetery church car mountain world war ii nazism song and dance education politics romance
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
7.9/10
War, Drama, History
USA|Japan
2006
141 Minutes
Ken Watanabe Kazunari Ninomiya Tsuyoshi Ihara Ryô Kase Shido Nakamura Yuki Matsuzaki Hiroshi Watanabe Takumi Bando Nobumasa Sakagami Takashi Yamaguchi Nae
soldier military officer athlete baker intense thrilling island tunnel japan cave showdown world war ii death daunting task invasion survival fall metamorphosis rivalry 1940s
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
7.9/10
Biography, Documentary
UK|USA
1996
55 Minutes
quentin tarantino martin scorsese writer soldier reporter director creative engaging passionate new york city hollywood, calif. europe samuel fuller journalism film industry world war ii adventure discovery transformation 1980s
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the ... See full summary »
7.9/10
Documentary
Canada
1985
114 Minutes
Artie Shaw Helen Forrest Mel Torme Evelyn Keyes Polly Haynes John Wexley
clarinetist ex-wife band leader actress singer musician fascinating uplifting new york city los angeles connecticut pennsylvania spain jazz marriage anti-semitism world war ii artie shaw fame love
Documentary cataloging the life and music of the band leader and clarinetist, Artie Shaw.
7.9/10
Comedy, Drama
New Zealand|Czech Republic|USA
2019
108 Minutes
Roman Griffin Davis Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie Scarlett Johansson Taika Waititi Sam Rockwell Rebel Wilson Alfie Allen Stephen Merchant Archie Yates Luke Brandon Field Sam Haygarth
boy hitler imaginary friend jewish child mother hitler youth amusing witty winsome hysterical heartwarming engaging germany outdoors family home world war ii change of heart friendship hiding discovery
A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
7.9/10
Drama
Poland
1957
96 Minutes
Teresa Izewska Tadeusz Janczar Wisczyslaw Glinski Emil Karewicz Vladek Sheybal Tadeusz Gwiazdowski Stanislaw Mikulski
resistance fighter nazi soldier bleak chilling dark tense powerful raw warsaw, poland sewer battlefield world war ii uprising destruction trapped struggle sacrifice fall underdog
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
7.9/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1963
114 Minutes
Cary Grant Audrey Hepburn Walter Matthau James Coburn George Kennedy Ned Glass Jacques Marin Paul Bonifas Dominique Minot Thomas Chelimsky
widow boyfriend thief police officer cool suspenseful charming paris french alps ski resort office hideout street crime heist investigation money world war ii mystery pursuit
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
7.8/10
Drama
USA
1940
100 Minutes
Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Robert Young Frank Morgan Robert Stack Bonita Granville Irene Rich William T. Orr Maria Ouspenskaya Gene Reynolds Russell Hicks
professor daughter soldier activist tense moving gutsy rousing germany austria family home world war ii nazism persecution fascism freedom escape transformation rescue 1930s
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
7.8/10
Drama, Romance
USA
2004
124 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Rachel McAdams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Kevin Connolly Sam Shepard Joan Allen David Thornton Jamie Anne Allman Heather Wahlquist
old man old woman nurse rich girl mill worker soldier emotional touching rousing south carolina small town mansion love triangle class distinctions love world war ii reunion second chance love transformation
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
7.8/10
Anime, Biography, Drama, History
Japan|France|USA
2013
126 Minutes
pilot designer engineer dreamy spectacular profound striking uplifting heartwarming japan town biography world war ii airplanes great depression japanese history love work adventure love
A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
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