List of World War II films

This sortable list treated war films that have the Second World War on the topic and whose plot is a prominent part of the story. The list is not exhaustive. Other war films are in the main article List of war films.

Paul May Henry Hathaway George Seaton Cirio H. Santiago Henry King (director) George B. Seitz Atonement (film) Joe Wright Across the Pacific John Huston Arthur Maria Rabenalt Carlo Lizzani Age of Heroes (film) All Through the Night (film) Vincent Sherman Where Eagles Dare Brian G. Hutton Giuliano Montaldo The Valiant (1962 film) Roy Ward Baker The Fighting Seabees Boris Sagal Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert Fons Rademakers Fritz Umgelter Ray Enright Philip Leacock Archiv des Todes Attack (film) Robert Aldrich Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville Atlantic Convoy A Terrible Beauty (film) Tay Garnett Edge of Darkness (1943 film) Lewis Milestone The Ascent The McKenzie Break Lamont Johnson Australia (2008 film) Baz Luhrmann Barefoot Gen Bataan (Film) Augusto Genina Liberation (film series) Yuri Ozerov (director) David Twohy The Crew of the Dora Karl Ritter (director) Nicholas Ray Black Book (Film) Paul Verhoeven Bernard L. Kowalski Northern Pursuit Raoul Walsh Cornel Wilde Joseph H. Lewis Jean-Paul Rappeneau Mission to Moscow The Land Girls David Leland Stuart Heisler Spike Lee Casablanca (Film) John Farrow Monta Bell Mark Robson Armando Crispino John Madden (director) Corregidor (1943 film) Archie Mayo Richard Thorpe Dark Blue World Robert Enrico Das Boot Wolfgang Petersen The Dirty Dozen Andrew V. McLaglen The Secret of Santa Vittoria The Last U-Boat Frank Beyer Ben Verbong Katyń (film) Andrzej Wajda Empire of the Sun (film) Lifeboat (film) Alfred Hitchcock Peter Hyams Hart's War Gregory Hoblit Hornets’ Nest Phil Karlson Jacques Tourneur Gerard Soeteman Edward Zwick Ralph Thomas Gregg Toland The Plot to Assassinate Hitler The Eagle Has Landed (film) John Sturges Robert Montgomery (actor) The Turning Point (1983 film) The Hunchback of Rome The Bunker (1981 film) The English Patient (film) Anthony Minghella The Gleiwitz Case Roberto Rossellini The Winds of War (TV miniseries) Charles Frend Twelve O'Clock High The Long Voyage Home Andrew Marton Ken Annakin Bernhard Wicki Georg Wilhelm Pabst None But the Brave George Montgomery (actor) The Man Who Never Was Ronald Neame The Thin Red Line (1998 film) Terrence Malick Saving Private Ryan Soldier of Orange Der Stern von Afrika Alfred Weidenmann Downfall (2004 film) Luigi Comencini Force 10 from Navarone (film) Guy Hamilton The Train (1964 film) Des Teufels General William A. Seiter Germany, Pale Mother Helma Sanders-Brahms The Adventures of Werner Holt (film) The Best Years of Our Lives Joseph Sargent Arthur Pohl David Lean Harald Philipp The Caine Mutiny (film) The Tuskegee Airmen The First Polka Klaus Emmerich (director) A. Edward Sutherland March of Millions Gordon Hessler Frozen Flashes (film) Val Guest Les Morfalous Duilio Coletti Rolf Hansen (director) Nathan H. Juran John Boorman The Guns of Navarone (film) Arthur Hiller The Alive and the Dead Sink the Bismarck! Isao Takahata Battle of the Bulge (film) The Naked and the Dead (film) Eye of the Needle (film) Richard Marquand The Night of the Generals Anatole Litvak Fat Man and Little Boy Sea of Sand (film) Guy Green (filmmaker) The Victors (film) Carl Foreman The Devil's Brigade (film) Sundown (1941 film) Robert Wise Ben Sombogaart Jean Renoir The Story of Dr. Wassell Cecil B. DeMille Three Came Home Jean Negulesco Mervyn LeRoy Dresden (2006 film) Roland Suso Richter Sands of Iwo Jima Allan Dwan The Enemy Below Dick Powell Samuel Fuller Arthur Lubin Jean Becker (director) Paolo Cavara Play Dirty The Bold and the Brave Lewis R. Foster The Inglorious Bastards Destiny of a Man The One That Got Away (film) Lloyd Bacon Fred F. Sears Guido Malatesta Enzo Monteleone In Harm's Way Passage to Marseille John Milius Yesterday's Enemy Fires Were Started Humphrey Jennings Richard Fleischer Clint Eastwood Robert Parrish Flashback (1969 film) Robert D. Webb Walter Forde Anthony Asquith Front ohne Gnade Michael Anderson (director) Geheimarchiv an der Elbe Gordon Douglas (director) The Great Escape (film) Secret Agent (1947 film) Roger Spottiswoode Ennio De Concini Agnieszka Holland Philip Dunne (writer) Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? Konrad Wolf Robert Harmon Guido Chiesa The Dawns Here Are Quiet Ate de Jong The Scarlet and the Black John M. Stahl Air Force (film) Howard Hawks Noël Coward Inglourious Basterds Marvin J. Chomsky Lothar Mendes Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky Victor Fleming Anthony Mann Battleground (film) William A. Wellman Joseph Pevney Kurt Meisel Valerio Zurlini Lucie Aubrac (Film) Battle of Britain (film) Volker Vogeler Aleksandr Zarkhi Mama, I'm Alive Malta Story Max Manus: Man of War Winter in Wartime (film) Martin Koolhoven Memphis Belle (Film) Man and Beast Edwin Zbonek Kevin Hooks Wing and a Prayer Mrs. Miniver (film) So Proudly We Hail! Mark Sandrich Kazimierz Kutz Dennis Gansel Kihachi Okamoto Carmine Gallone Richard Wallace (director) Emeric Pressburger Jan Karol Chodkiewicz Richard Holm (tenor) Bryan Singer Tony Dow George Sidney Byron Haskin Paradise Road (1997 film) Bruce Beresford Wim Verstappen PT 109 (film) Franklin J. Schaffner Pappy Boyington Pearl Harbor (Film) Michael Bay Jeff Burr Jan Jakub Kolski Rainbow (1944 film) Mark Donskoy Wolfgang Schleif Sahara (1943 film) Brian Trenchard-Smith Vasilis Georgiadis Greece Jack Smight The Story of G.I. Joe They Were Expendable Henry Levin King Rat (film) Bryan Forbes Jack Gold Gregory Ratoff Speer und Er Heinrich Breloer Keith Gordon Stalag 17 Robert Z. Leonard Stauffenberg (Film) The Captive Heart Basil Dearden Stukas (film) Paul Wendkos Lesley Selander Ole Christian Madsen Un taxi pour Tobrouk The Big Red One S. Sylvan Simon Harold French Leslie Howard (actor) Jeffrey Dell John Dahl Julien Duvivier Adrian Brunel Thorold Dickinson The Pacific (TV miniseries) Tom Gries Charles Chauvel (filmmaker) Heiner Carow Gordon Wellesley When Trumpets Fade John Irvin James P. Hogan (director) Carol Reed H. Bruce Humberstone Tobruk (1967 film) Gianfranco Parolini Torpedo Run Frank Launder Harald Reinl Jonathan Mostow Budd Boetticher Kei Kumai Vittorio De Sica Alberto De Martino Flying Tigers (film) David Miller (director) Fred Zinnemann Wake Island (Film) Alberto Cavalcanti Windtalkers John Woo The War Lover Jesse Hibbs Henry Koster

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