List of documentary films about World War II
The following is a list of World War II documentary films.
1940s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1940 | Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) | Walter Ruttmann | |
1940 | Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) | Walter Ruttmann | |
1940 | Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland) | ||
1941 | Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg | |
1941 | Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg | |
1941 | Kukan | Rey Scott | |
1941 | Uomini sul fondo (Men on the bottom) | Francesco De Robertis | |
1942 | Männer, Meer und Stürme (Men, Sea and Storms) | Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger | |
1942 | The Soldier's Food | unknown | |
1944 | Panorama | ||
1944 | The Battle for the Marianas | Gordon Hollingshead | |
1944 | Calling Australia (オーストラリアを呼び出します) (Ōsutoraria o Yobidashimasu) | Hae Yeong | |
1944 | Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | William Wyler | |
1945 | Danmark i Lænker (Denmark in Chains) | Sven Methling | |
1946 | Let There Be Light | John Huston |
1950s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1952 | Victory at Sea | M. Clay Adams | |
1955 | Night and Fog | Alain Resnais |
1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1962 | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | Louis Clyde Stoumen | |
1962 | Canada at War | ? | |
1964 | Fields of Sacrifice | Donald Brittain | |
1965 | Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton | |
1965 | France: Conquest to Liberation | Aram Boyajian | |
1965 | Prelude to War: Beginning of World War II | Alan Landsburg | |
1965 | Ordinary Fascism (Обыкновенный фашизм) (Obyknovennyy fashizm) | Mikhail Romm | |
1968 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman | |
1969 | The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) | Marcel Ophüls |
1970s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1973 | The World at War | Miscellaneous | |
1974 | The 81st Blow (המכה ה-81) | Haim Gouri | |
1976 | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | |
1978 | The Unknown War (Neizvestnaya voyna) (Неизвестная война) | Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen |
1980s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1980 | The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 | Dieter Hildebrandt | |
1981 | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Connie Field | |
1982 | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman | |
1982 | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Chohen, Bo Kuritzen | |
1982 | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die | Laurence Jarvik | |
1985 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | |
1985 | Unfinished Business | Steven Okazaki | |
1987 | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara | |
1988 | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophüls | |
1989 | De Nuremberg à Nuremberg | Frédéric Rossif | |
1989 | Fascist Legacy | Ken Kirby | |
1989 | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen |
1990s
2000s
2000
Country | Title | Director |
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A Story about a Bad Dream | Pavel Stingl | |
From Swastika to Jim Crow | Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub | |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | |
Shadows of Memory | Claudia von Alemann | |
Sisters in Resistance | Maia Wechsler | |
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Sue Read | |
World War II׃ The Complete History | Matthew Hall |
2001
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Horror in the East | Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova | |
Japanese Devils | Minoru Matsui | |
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann | |
The Color of War | Peter Coyote |
2002
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
A Yiddish World Remembered | Andrew Goldberg | |
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary | André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | |
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII | Aviva Slesin | |
The Boys of Buchenwald | Audrey Mehler |
2003
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Marion's Triumph | John Chua | |
Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill) | Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen | |
Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender | |
The Holocaust Experience | Oeke Hoogendijk |
2004
2005
Country | Title | Director |
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | Malte Ludin | |
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Eric Simonson | |
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' | Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | |
Hiroshima | Paul Wilmshurst | |
The 11th Day: Crete 1941 | Christos Epperson | |
The Mushroom Club | Steven Okazaki | |
The Portraitist | Ireneusz Dobrowolski | |
Unwanted Cinema | Petrus van der Let |
2006
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Blokada | Sergei Loznitsa | |
Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh | |
The Rape of Europa | Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | |
The Blue Hills | Raimo Jõerand |
2007
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day | Douglas Cohen | |
My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner | Fern Levitt | |
Nanking | Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | |
Order Castles of the Third Reich | R.J. Adams | |
Ruins of the Reich | R.J. Adams | |
Stalags | Ari Libsker | |
The War | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | |
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki | |
Wings of Defeat | Risa Morimoto | |
Yasukuni | Li Ying |
2008
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Battle 360° | Tony Long | |
Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss | Felix Moeller | |
Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano | Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis | |
The Soviet Story | Edvīns Šnore | |
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West | Laurence Rees, Andrew Williams |
2009
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Apocalypse: The Second World War | Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | |
The Inheritance of War | Ashley Karras | |
Patton 360° | Tony Long | |
Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland | Imbi Paju | |
The Week We Went to War | Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie | |
World War II in HD Colour | Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett | |
WWII in HD | Frederic Lumiere, Matthew Ginsburg | |
Valor With Honor | Torasan Films |
2010s
2010
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
War Music | David Porteous |
2011
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
We Were There | Jarod O'Flaherty | |
900 Days | Jessica Gorter | |
Soviet Storm: World War II in the East | Anna Grazhdan |
2012
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Oliver Stone |
2013
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
The Ghost Army | Rick Beyer |
2015
Price of empire
2016
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
A Long Way Back | Samm Blake |
See also
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of World War II films
- List of World War II TV series
- List of World War II short films
- List of Holocaust films
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