List of World War II films since 1990

Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

Restrictions

• The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events that feature as a part of the war effort.
• For short films, see the List of World War II short films.
• For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.

Fictional feature films specifically pertaining to the Holocaust appear in the List of Holocaust films#Narrative films.

Common topics

Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:

Europe

• Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
• Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
• Gestapo and SS
• Benito Mussolini
• Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
• Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
• Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
• Occupied Norway
• The Holocaust

Asia–Pacific

• Emperor Hirohito

Non-geographical

• POW

Before 1990

Early 1990s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1990	Canada  France  China	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	[1]	Phillip Borsos	Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in the Spanish Civil War, then his death aiding Mao Zedong's army
1990	Australia	Blood Oath		Stephen Wallace	War-crimes trial of Japanese for Laha massacre
1990	France	Dr. Petiot	Docteur Petiot	Christian de Chalonge	Crime drama. Serial killer Marcel Petiot in occupied France
1990	West Germany  France  Poland	Europa Europa	Hitlerjunge Salomon (in German)	Agnieszka Holland	Jewish boy conceals identity by joining Hitler Youth
1990	Sweden  Hungary  Norway	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	God afton, Herr Wallenberg - En Passionshistoria från verkligheten (in Swedish)	Kjell Grede	Drama. Biography of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Hungarian Holocaust
1990	USA	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV)		Peter Werner	Hiroshima after Enola Gay drops atomic bomb
1990	Poland  West Germany  UK	Korczak	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda	Drama. Biography of Dr. Korczak in Warsaw ghetto
1990	USA	A Man Called Sarge		Stuart Gillard	Comedy. Western Desert Campaign, battles of El Alamein and Tobruk
1990	UK  Japan  USA	Memphis Belle		Michael Caton-Jones	Crew of US B-17 bomber Memphis Belle on 25th mission, 1943
1990	West Germany	The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Michael Verhoeven	Comedy-drama based on Anna Rosmus. Young woman's research into her German village's history during Third Reich
1990	USA	Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming		Ferdinand Fairfax	Biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
1991	Sweden  Norway  Denmark  Finland	The Boys from St. Petri	Drengene fra Sankt Petri (in Danish)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Students form Danish Resistance group Churchill Club under German occupation of Denmark
1991	Latvia	The Child of Man (Son of Man)	Cilvēka bērns	Jānis Streičs	Adventure romance based on Jānis Klīdzējs novel. Latgalian boy's attempts to prevent young woman from marrying shortly before Soviet and Nazi occupations
1991	USA	December (An Innocent War)		Stuart Gillard	US homefront and prep school boys debating military service after Pearl Harbor, 1941
1991	Spain  Denmark  Sweden  France  Germany   Switzerland	Europa (Zentropa)	Europa	Lars von Trier	American with German railway job at end of war finds his position politically sensitive
1991	USA	For the Boys		Mark Rydell	Musical comedy-drama. USO performer entertains US troops from World War II to Vietnam War
1991	Poland	Just Beyond That Forest	Jeszcze tylko ten las	Jan Łomnicki	Holocaust
1991	Italy	Mediterraneo	Mediterraneo	Gabriele Salvatores	Comedy-drama. Italian soldiers occupying Greek island
1991	Sweden  Denmark	The Naked Trees	De nøgne træer	Morten Henriksen	Based on Tage Skou-Hansen novel. Danish Resistance under German occupation of Denmark
1991	Canada	The Quarrel		Eli Cohen	Holocaust survivors and estranged friends resume argument from years earlier
1991	Japan	Rhapsody in August	Hachi-gatsu no kyōshikyoku (Hachigatsu no rapusodī) (八月の狂詩曲)	Akira Kurosawa	Nagasaki family after Bockscar drops atomic bomb
1991	France  Germany  Poland	Warsaw - Year 5703	Warszawa. Année 5703 (in French) Tragarz puchu (in Polish) Der Daunenträger (in German)	Janusz Kijowski	Holocaust
1992	Poland	All That Really Matters	Wszystko, co najważniejsze	Robert Gliński	Lwów, Poland under Soviet occupation then Gulag
1992	Denmark  USA	A Day in October	En dag i oktober	Kenneth Madsen	Danish-Jewish relocation from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden
1992	USA	A Midnight Clear (Section 44)		Keith Gordon	Western Front
1992	Poland	Ring with a Crowned Eagle	Pierścionek z orłem w koronie	Andrzej Wajda	Polish Resistance, 1945–46
1992	USA	Shining Through		David Seltzer	Romance/Thriller. Irish-Jewish-German woman recruited as OSS agent in Nazi Germany
1993	Canada	For the Moment		Aaron Kim Johnston	Airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada
1993	Norway	The Last Lieutenant (The Second Lieutenant)	Secondløitnanten	Hans Petter Moland	Retired Norwegian sea-captain volunteers for duty after Operation Weserübung and coordinates volunteers against German occupation of Norway
1993	Romania	The Mirror	Oglinda (Începutul adevarului)	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Downfall of Ion Antonescu
1993	Taiwan	The Puppetmaster	Xi meng ren sheng (戲夢人生)	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945)
1993	USA	Schindler's List		Steven Spielberg	1993 Best Picture drama chronicling Oskar Schindler's rescue of nearly 1,200 Jews in occupied Poland from the Holocaust
1993	UK	Stalag Luft		Adrian Shergold	Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft
1993	Germany	Stalingrad	Stalingrad	Joseph Vilsmaier	Battle of Stalingrad
1993	USA	Swing Kids		Thomas Carter	Musical drama. High school Swing Kids in the Hitler-Jugend
1993	Estonia  Poland  Russia	Tear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear)	Saatana pisar (in Estonian) Lza ksiecia ciemnosci (in Polish) Слеза князя тьмы (in Russian)	Marek Piestrak	Horror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939
1994	USA  Canada	The Ascent		Donald Shebib	Based on actual events. Italian escape of British POW camp to plant Italian flag on summit of Mount Kenya
1994	France	A Day Before Dawn	Un jour avant l'aube	Jacques Ertaud	French SAS commando in Brittany during Operation Overlord and Normandy Campaign, 1944
1994	Italy	Dear Goddamned Friends	Cari fottutissimi amici	Mario Monicelli	Comedy. A group of boxers, including an American black deserter, travel from town to town in Tuscany during the summer of 1944

Late 1990s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1995	Italy	Childhood Enemies	Nemici d'infanzia	Luigi Magni	Italian Civil War in Rome, 1944
1995	China	Don't Cry, Nanking (Nanjing 1937)	Nánjīng yī jiǔ sān qī (南京１９３７)	Wu Ziniu	Nanking Massacre
1995	Russia	The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov	Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (Великий полководец Георгий Жуков)	Yuri Ozerov	Docudrama (художественно-документальный). Biopic of Marshal Georgy Zhukov
1995	Canada  Japan	Hiroshima (TV)		Roger Spottiswoode	Decision-making processes regarding use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1995	Poland  Germany  France	Holy Week	Wielki tydzień (in Polish)	Andrzej Wajda	Holocaust
1995	Denmark	Just a Girl	Kun en pige	Peter Schrøder	German occupation of Denmark
1995	Australia  Japan	The Last Bullet (TV)	Rasutobaretto (ラストバレット)	Michael Pattinson	Australian and Japanese soldiers battle in South Pacific jungle on last day of war
1995	USA	Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV)		Robert Iscove	Sinking of USS Indianapolis and struggle of surviving crewmen in open water
1995	China	Red Cherry	Hóng yīng táo (红樱桃)	Daying Ye	Chinese boarding school children in German-occupied Soviet Union
1995	USA	Sahara (Desert Storm) (TV)		Brian Trenchard-Smith	Western Desert Campaign; remake of 1943 film Sahara
1995	USA	Truman (TV)		Frank Pierson	Drama. Biopic of US President Harry S. Truman from infantry service in World War I
1995	USA	The Tuskegee Airmen		Robert Markowitz	First African-American combat pilots of the war[2]
1995	Yugoslavia  France  Germany	Underground	Podzemlje (Подземље)	Emir Kusturica	German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia
1995	Netherlands	The Partisans (TV miniseries)	De Partizanen	Theu Boermans	Dutch resistance unit capture a group of German soldiers, just weeks before the liberation of The Netherlands. Based on true facts
1996	Italy	The Border	La Frontiera	Franco Giraldi	Drama. Italian officer born in Dalmatia spends his convalescence in a Dalmatian island occupied by the Italian Army
1996	UK	The Brylcreem Boys		Terence Ryan	Comedy-drama. British and German pilots in POW camp in neutral Ireland during Battle of Britain
1996	UK  USA	The English Patient		Anthony Minghella	1996 Best Picture romantic-drama. Biography of Hungarian Count László Almásy, injured cartographer who charts Sahara Desert in Italian Campaign
1996	Germany  Norway  Sweden  Denmark	Hamsun	Hamsun	Jan Troell	Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and wife during German occupation of Norway
1996	USA	Mother Night		Keith Gordon	Based on Kurt Vonnegut novel
1996	France  Germany  UK	The Ogre	Der Unhold (in German)	Volker Schlöndorff	French POW recruiting children for Nazis believing he is protecting them
1996	Canada  UK  Luxembourg	On Dangerous Ground (TV)		Lawrence Gordon-Clark	Thriller based on Jack Higgins novel. Secret wartime agreement between Mountbatten and Mao
1996	UK	Over Here (TV)		Tony Dow	Comedy-drama. British and American aircrew rivalry in England
1996	USA	The Ring (Danielle Steel's The Ring) (TV)		Armand Mastroianni	Romance/Drama. Young German woman separated from her family and imprisoned by Nazis
1996	Italy  Hungary	The Seventh Room (The Seventh Chamber)	La settima stanza (in Italian) A hetedik szoba (in Hungarian)	Márta Mészáros	Drama. Saint Edith Stein
1996	Thailand	Sunset at Chaophraya	Khu gam (คู่กรรม)	Euthana Mukdasanit	Free Thai Movement and Siam under Japanese occupation of Thailand, 1939–1944
1997	UK  Japan	Bent	[1]	Sean Mathias	Drama based on Martin Sherman play. Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
1997	Germany	The Devil's General (TV)	Des Teufels General	Frank Castorf	Drama based on Carl Zuckmayer play. Successful Luftwaffe General Ernst Udet courted by Widerstand; remake of 1955 film Des Teufels General
1997	Denmark  UK  Germany	The Island on Bird Street	Øen i Fuglegaden (in Danish) Die Insel in der Vogelstrasse (in German)	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Polish-Jewish boy hiding in ghetto from Nazis
1997	UK	The Land Girls		David Leland	Women's Land Army
1997	Italy	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Comedy-drama. Holocaust under German occupation of Italy
1997	France	Lucie Aubrac	Lucie Aubrac	Claude Berri	Lucie and Raymond Aubrac under German occupation of France
1997	Australia  USA	Paradise Road		Bruce Beresford	Allied women POWs in Japanese occupied Sumatra
1998	Poland	Deserter's Gold	Złoto dezerterów	Janusz Majewski	Heist comedy. World War I buddies reuniting with Polish Underground to liberate Nazi gold; sequel to 1986 film C.K. dezerterzy
1998	Japan  France	Dr. Akagi	Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生)	Shohei Imamura	Comedy-drama. rural Japanese physician trying to eradicate hepatitis while at odds with Imperial Japanese Army
1998	Italy	Little Teachers	I piccoli maestri	Daniele Luchetti	Italian resistance movement in Veneto
1998	USA	Miracle at Midnight (TV)		Ken Cameron	Holocaust, Danish Resistance, and rescue of Danish Jews during German occupation of Denmark
1998	Japan	Pride: The Fateful Moment	Puraido: Unmei no toki (プライド - 運命のトキません)	Shunya Ito	Hideki Tojo during post-war Tokyo Trials
1998	USA	Saving Private Ryan		Steven Spielberg	Team of U.S. Army Rangers search for single U.S. soldier during the Normandy Campaign
1998	USA	The Thin Red Line		Terrence Malick	US infantrymen and Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal Campaign
1998	USA	When Trumpets Fade		John Irvin	Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1999	Germany	Aimée & Jaguar (Aimee and Jaguar)	Aimée & Jaguar	Max Färberböck	Romance between lesbians Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust amidst Gestapo purge of Jews in Berlin
1999	Czech Republic  Poland  Slovakia	All My Loved Ones	Všichni moji blízcí (in Czech)	Matej Minac	Jewish Czech family, Nicholas Winton, and escape of 669 children from the Holocaust
1999	Finland	Ambush	Rukajärven tie	Olli Saarela	Finnish Army and Women's Auxiliary Corps Lotta Svärd during Continuation War, 1941
1999	Croatia	Bleiburg	Četverored	Branko Schmidt	Bleiburg massacre
1999	UK  USA	The End of the Affair		Neil Jordan	Based on Graham Greene novel. British homefront and illicit romance; remake of 1955 film The End of the Affair
1999	Germany  Hungary	Gloomy Sunday	Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (in German)	Rolf Schübel	Romance drama based on Nick Barkow novel.
1999	France  USA  Hungary	Jakob the Liar	[1]	Peter Kassovitz	Comedy-drama. "Secret radio" in Jewish ghetto of Poland and Holocaust
1999	China	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (Heart of China)	Húanghé júeliàn (黄河绝恋)	Feng Xiaoning	American pilot returns to pay respects to communist-led Chinese army that rescued him
1999	Russia  Germany  Japan  Italy  France	Moloch	Molokh (Молох) (in Russian)	Aleksandr Sokurov	Hitler visits Bavarian Berghof, 1942
1999	Germany  Austria  Canada  Hungary	Sunshine	[1]	István Szabó	Three generations of Jewish family including Holocaust, Operation Margarethe and German occupation of Hungary
1999	Italy  UK	Tea with Mussolini	[1]	Franco Zeffirelli	Comedy-drama. Italian boy's upbringing by English and American women before and during war in Fascist Italy

Early 2000s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000	Canada  Germany  UK	Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace	[1]	Eric Till	German Lutheran pastor and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2000	China	Devils on the Doorstep	Guizi lai le (鬼子来了)	Jiang Wen	Sino-Japanese War
2000	Czech Republic	Divided We Fall	Musíme si pomáhat	Jan Hřebejk	Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia
2000	Italy	Johnny the Partisan	Il partigiano Johnny	Guido Chiesa	Partisan warfare in North Italy
2000	Poland	Judgement of Franciszek Klos (TV)	Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa	Andrzej Wajda	Collaboration under German occupation of Poland
2000	Malaysia	Lt. Adnan	Leftenan Adnan	Aziz M. Osman	Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang
2000	Italy	Malena	Malèna	Giuseppe Tornatore	Romance/Comedy-drama. Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service, 1940
2000	Philippines	Markova: Comfort Gay	Tagalog please	Gil Portes	Drama based on Walter Dempster, Jr. account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines
2000	Canada  USA	Nuremberg (TV miniseries)		Yves Simoneau	Nuremberg Trials
2000	Italy	The Sky Is Falling	Il cielo cade	Andrea Frazzi Antonio Frazzi	German occupation in Tuscany and the murder of Albert Einstein's relatives
2000	Czech Republic	Spring of Life	Pramen zivota	Milan Cieslar	Nazi SS and Lebensborn
2000	USA	U-571		Jonathan Mostow	American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine
2001	Germany  Russia	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me	So weit die Füße tragen (in German)	Hardy Martins	Based on Clemens Forell book. German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag
2001	UK  USA	Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)		Steven Spielberg	E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war
2001	UK	The Bunker (The Bunker: The Evil Is Within)		Rob Green	Horror-Mystery.[3] Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line
2001	UK  France  USA	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	[1]	John Madden	Italian occupation of Greece and massacre of the Acqui Division
2001	UK  Australia	Charlotte Gray		Gillian Armstrong	Romance/Thriller. Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance
2001	UK  USA	Conspiracy (TV)		Frank Pierson	German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question (remake of The Wannsee Conference)
2001	Czech Republic  UK	Dark Blue World	Tmavomodrý svet	Jan Sverák	Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain
2001	Italy	The Days of Rage: Cefalonia	I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio	Claver Salizzato	Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia
2001	USA  Germany  UK  Ireland	Enemy at the Gates	[1]	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and German sniper during Battle of Stalingrad
2001	UK  USA  Germany  Netherlands	Enigma	[1]	Michael Apted	Enigma machine mystery
2001	Japan	Firefly	Hotaru (蛍)	Yasuo Furuhata	Based on true story of Korean kamikaze pilot
2001	USA	The Grey Zone		Tim Blake Nelson	Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz concentration camp
2001	Japan	H Story	Japanese please (Kanji please)	Nobuhiro Suwa	Remake of 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour
2001	Philippines	In the Bosom of the Enemy	Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway	Gil Portes	Filipina offers to be wet nurse to Japanese soldier's son for conditional freedom of her husband
2001	Italy	The Ones With White Lips - The Forgotten	Sos laribiancos - I dimenticati	Piero Livi	Sardinian soldiers are dispatched to the Russian Front
2001	USA	Pearl Harbor		Michael Bay	Attack on Pearl Harbor and Doolittle Raid
2001	China	Purple Sunset	Zĭrì (紫日)	Feng Xiaoning	Unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito
2001	France  UK  Germany  Austria	Taking Sides	[1]	István Szabó	Wilhelm Furtwängler, controversial conductor of Berlin Philharmonic during Nazi era and Allied occupation
2001	USA	To End All Wars		David L. Cunningham	Drama based on Ernest Gordon book. Allied POWs build Burma Railway through jungle
2001	USA	Uprising (TV)		Jon Avnet	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2001	UK  USA  Canada	Varian's War (TV)		Lionel Chetwynd	Varian Fry builds underground rescue network in Vichy France saving 2–4,000 anti-Nazi/Jewish refugees and cultural figures from Holocaust
2001	UK  Canada	The War Bride (Love and War)		Lyndon Chubbuck	Drama. English war bride in Canada without husband
2001	Philippines	Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure	Tagalog please	Chito S. Roño	Burial of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Philippines
2002	USA	Below		Gregory Hoblit	American submarine on Atlantic rescue mission encounters German warship
2002	Italy	Black Angel	Senso '45	Tinto Brass	Erotic drama. The love affair of an Italian woman and an SS officer in German-occupied Venice
2002	Russia	The Cuckoo	Kukushka (Кукушка)	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Young Lapp woman shelters Finnish sniper and Red Army captain on her farm
2002	Italy	El Alamein: The Line of Fire (El Alamein: Bound of Honour, DVD)	El Alamein - La linea del fuoco	Enzo Monteleone	Italian volunteer assigned to Pavia Division in Egypt and Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942
2002	USA  UK	The Gathering Storm		Richard Loncraine	Winston Churchill before outbreak of war
2002	USA  Italy	The Good War (Texas '46)	[1]	Giorgio Serafini	Based on true story of Italian POWs in Texas camp before repatriation, 1946
2002	USA	Hart's War		Gregory Hoblit	POW trial conducted in German Stalag Luft
2002	France	Monsieur Batignole	Monsieur Batignole	Gérard Jugnot	Butcher hides Jewish boy in Occupied France
2002	Italy	Perlasca, The Courage of a Just Man (TV miniseries)	Perlasca, un eroe italiano	Alberto Negrin	Giorgio Perlasca, pretending to be a Spanish diplomat, saves Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
2002	France  Poland  Germany  UK	The Pianist	[1]	Roman Polanski	Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman years of searching for shelter during World War II.
2002	France  Germany	Safe Conduct	Laissez passer	Bertrand Tavernier	German occupation of France
2002	Canada	Silent Night		Rodney Gibbons	Based on true event during the Battle of the Bulge between German and American soldiers on Christmas Eve 1944
2002	Russia	The Star	Zvezda (Звезда)	Nikolai Lebedev	Soviet scouts behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration
2002	Netherlands	Twin Sisters	De Tweeling	Ben Sombogaart	Twin German sisters separated at young age, one raised in Netherlands and serves in Dutch resistance, other in Germany and married to Waffen SS soldier
2002	UK	Two Men Went to War		John Henderson	Comedy-drama based on Raymond Foxall book. Amateur improvisational commando raid into occupied France
2002	Italy	The War Is Over (TV miniseries)	La guerra è finita	Lodovico Gasparini	Drama. Two Italian friends and soldiers on the Greek front, then on the Russian front and finally in the Italian Civil War
2002	USA	Windtalkers		John Woo	Battle of Saipan
2003	France	Bon Voyage	Bon Voyage	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France under German occupation
2003	UK	Entrusted		Giacomo Battiato	11-year-old chess prodigy, whose mother is in underground resistance, is entrusted with life-saving secret
2003	Malaysia	Paloh	Paloh	Adman Salleh	Japanese occupation of Malaya
2003	Poland	Pornography	Pornografia	Jan Jakub Kolski	German Occupation of Poland
2003	USA  Netherlands	Resistance	[1]	Todd Komarnicki	American reconnaissance pilot survives plane crash in Nazi-occupied Belgium and is assisted by Maquis resistance
2003	Germany  Netherlands	Rosenstrasse	Rosenstrasse (in German)	Margarethe von Trotta	Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin
2003	USA	Saints and Soldiers		Ryan Little	Survivors of Malmedy massacre during Ardennes Offensive trapped behind enemy lines with vital information
2003	Japan  Germany	Spy Sorge	Supai Sorge (スパイ・ゾルゲ) (in Japanese)	Masahiro Shinoda	Soviet spy Richard Sorge
2003	France	Strange Gardens	Effroyables jardins	Jean Becker	French Resistance captives held in giant pit by Germans
2003	France  UK	Strayed	Les égarés (Le garçon aux yeux gris)	André Téchiné	Romance-drama. French family escapes Battle of France and German occupation of Paris aided by young man, June 1940
2003	Czech Republic  Slovakia  Austria	Želary	Želary	Ondrej Trojan	Drama based on Květa Legátová novel. Czechoslovakian Resistance forced into hiding after their group is exposed
2004	Philippines	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita	Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (Aishite Imasu (Mahal Kita) 1941)	Joel Lamangan	Romance-Drama. Philippine Resistance during Battle of Bataan, Bataan Death March, and Japanese occupation
2004	USA	The Aryan Couple		John Daly	Undercover Eastern European Jews attempt to escape under Third Reich's Europa Plan, 1944
2004	Finland  Sweden	Beyond the Front Line (Beyond Enemy Lines)	Framom främsta linjen (in Swedish)	Åke Lindman	Continuation War between USSR and Finland, 1941–1944
2004	Russia	The Cadets (TV miniseries)	Kursanty (Курсанты)	Andrei Kavun	Training of Russian boys as artillerymen for Eastern Front, 1942
2004	Philippines	The Call of the River	Panaghoy sa Suba	Cesar Montano	Second Battle of Bohol in Philippines Campaign
2004	Germany  Italy  Austria	Downfall	Der Untergang (in German)	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Last days of Hitler in Führerbunker during Battle of Berlin
2004	UK	Dunkirk (TV miniseries)		Alex Holmes	Docudrama. Battle of Dunkirk and Dunkirk evacuation
2004	Germany   Switzerland  Netherlands  Luxembourg	Edelweiss Pirates	Edelweisspiraten (in German)	Niko von Glasow	German Resistance and Edelweiss Pirates
2004	Japan	The Face of Jizo	Chichi to Kuraseba (父と暮らせば)	Kazuo Kuroki	Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2004	USA  Germany  Italy	The Fallen (Letters From The Dead)	[1]	Ari Taub	German, Italian and US forces on Italian Front, 1944
2004	Russia	Freelance Assignment	Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание)	Vitaly Vorobyev	Red Army chases renegade Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia after German surrender, 1945
2004	UK  Canada	Head in the Clouds		John Duigan	Romance-drama. Friends' divergent paths and fight against Fascism in pre-war Europe
2004	Russia	Our Own	Свои	Dmitry Meshiev	Drama on occupied territory, early years of war
2004	USA	Ike: Countdown to D-Day		Robert Harmon	SHAEF organization and planning of Operation Overlord
2004	Canada	Il Duce Canadese (TV miniseries)	(in English)	Giles Walker	Italian-Canadian fascism and internment
2004	USA	In Enemy Hands (U-Boat)		Tony Giglio	Crew of US submarine returns home after months at sea as POWs aboard U-boat
2004	UK	Island at War (TV miniseries)		Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Occupation of the Channel Islands
2004	Croatia	Long Dark Night	Duga mračna noć	Antun Vrdoljak	Croatia under both Fascism and Communism
2004	Germany	Napola: Hitler's Elite (Before the Fall)	Napola - Elite für den Führer	Dennis Gansel	Former Hitler Youths bond at Reich National-Political institution
2004	Germany	The Ninth Day	Der neunte Tag	Volker Schlöndorff	SS attempts to coerce Catholic priest into writing Vatican on behalf of Church of Luxembourg demanding that Pope support Hitler
2004	Germany  Austria	Operation Valkyrie (TV)	Stauffenberg	Jo Baier	July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler
2004	China	Purple Butterfly	Zǐ Húdié (紫蝴蝶)	Lou Ye	Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai
2004	USA	Straight Into Darkness		Jeff Burr	American deserters and Resistance orphans attempt to hold back Nazi assault

Movie set from Black Book in The Hague, 2005

Late 2000s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2005	Italy	Cephalonia (TV miniseries)	Cefalonia	Riccardo Milani	Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia
2005	USA	Everything Is Illuminated		Liev Schreiber	Jewish American searches for woman who saved his grandfather during the Ukrainian Holocaust
2005	Lithuania	Forest of the Gods	Dievų miškas	Algimantas Puipa	Lithuanian artist/intellectual imprisoned by both Nazis and Soviets
2005	Russia	Freelance Assignment 2	Nesluzhebnoe zadanie 2: Vzryv na rassvete (Неслужебное задание-2: Взрыв на рассвете)	Vitaly Vorobyev	Postwar commandos in wartime minefield hope to be saved by soldier who was in field in 1943
2005	USA  Australia	The Great Raid		John Dahl	Japanese occupation of Philippines and Raid at Cabanatuan
2005	Italy	The Heart in the Pit (TV miniseries)	Il cuore nel pozzo	Alberto Negrin	Foibe massacres
2005	USA	The Last Days		Eric Bryan	US Airborne unit processing German POWs encounters Wehrmacht unit unaware of Germany's surrender
2005	UK	The Last Drop		David Teague	Operation Market Garden and secret mission to recover Nazi gold
2005	Singapore  Japan	Men in White	1942	Kelvin Tong	Comedy horror. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle
2005	Russia	Moscow Says, Please Note (TV miniseries)	Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva (Внимание, говорит Москва)	Aleksandr Surin	Female Russian snipers[4]
2005	Finland  Sweden	Mother of Mine	Äideistä parhain (in Finnish) Den bästa av mödrar (in Swedish)	Klaus Härö	Based on Heikki Hietamies novel. Evacuation of 70,000+ Finnish children to neutral Sweden
2005	Italy	Mussolini's Daughter (TV miniseries)	Edda	Giorgio Capitani	Edda Mussolini
2005	India	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (Bose: The Forgotten Hero)	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: ek bhoola hua naayak (नेताजी सुभाषचन्द्र बोस: एक भूला हुआ नायक)	Shyam Benegal	Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army
2005	USA	Only the Brave		Lane Nishikawa	Rescue of Lost Battalion in France by US 442nd Regimental Combat Team
2005	China	On the Mountain of Tai Hang	Tài Háng shān shàng (太行山上)	Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian	Campaigns of Eighth Route Army in China
2005	Finland	Promise	Lupaus (Uskolliset - Suomen lotat / Lotta)	Ilkka Vanne	Finnish women's Lotta Svärd during war
2005	Germany	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	Final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, member of White Rose Resistance
2005	Germany	Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (TV miniseries)	Speer und Er	Heinrich Breloer	Docudrama. Hitler's minister Albert Speer
2005	Taiwan	The Strait Story	Fu shih kuang ying (南方紀事之浮世光影)	Huang Yu-shan	Sinking of Japanese passenger liner Takachiho Maru by USS Kingfish, 1943
2005	Russia  France  Italy   Switzerland  Japan	The Sun	Solntse (Солнце) (in Russian)	Aleksandr Sokurov	Emperor Hirohito's life during the first days of Allied occupation
2005	UK	Valiant		Gary Chapman	Animated. British war pigeons face German falcons
2005	UK  USA  Germany  China	The White Countess	[1]	James Ivory	Disparate group of displaced persons attempt to survive Sino-Japanese War
2005	Japan	Yamato	Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和)	Junya Sato	Yamato's crew during Pacific War
2006	Russia	Bastards	Svolochi (Сволочи)	Aleksandr Atanesyan	Teenaged convicts conscripted for partisan mission against Nazis
2006	USA	Beautiful Dreamer		Terri Farley-Teruel	Romance-drama. Amnesiac bomber pilot captured by enemy and assumed to be MIA
2006	Netherlands  Germany  UK  Belgium	Black Book	Zwartboek (in Dutch)	Paul Verhoeven	Jewish woman joins Dutch Resistance
2006	France  Morocco  Algeria  Belgium	Days of Glory	Indigènes (in French)	Rachid Bouchareb	North Africans enlist in French Army to liberate France
2006	Germany	Dresden (TV)	Dresden	Roland Suso Richter	German civilian assists downed and injured RAF pilot after bombing of Dresden
2006	USA	Flags of Our Fathers		Clint Eastwood	Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of American soldiers
2006	Germany  Lithuania	Ghetto	Ghetto	Audrius Juzėnas	Holocaust in Lithuania
2006	Italy	The Good Battle - Don Pietro Pappagallo (TV miniseries)	La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo	Gianfranco Albano	Catholic priest Pietro Pappagallo, member of resistance, executed in the Ardeatine caves
2006	USA	The Good German		Steven Soderbergh	Mystery set in Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations just after the surrender of Nazi Germany
2006	UK	The Haunted Airman		Chris Durlacher	Disabled British airman recovering from his experiences near end of war
2006	Australia	Kokoda		Alister Grierson	Kokoda Track Campaign
2006	Germany	The Last Days	Die letzten Tage	Oliver Frohnauer	American airmen behind enemy lines cooperate with German deserter to survive arrival of Volkssturm unit near end of war
2006	Germany	The Last Train	Der letzte Zug	Dana Vávrová, Joseph Vilsmaier	Cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz, 1943
2006	USA	Letters from Iwo Jima	Iōjima kara no tegami (硫黄島からの手紙)[5]	Clint Eastwood	Battle of Iwo Jima from perspective of Japanese soldiers
2006	Italy	Mafalda of Savoy (TV miniseries)	Mafalda di Savoia - Il coraggio di una principessa	Maurizio Zaccaro	Princess Mafalda of Savoy
2006	USA	Military Intelligence and You!		Dale Kutzera	Comedy. US Army Intelligence analyst attempts to locate Nazi "Ghost Squadron" fighter base
2006	Canada	Remembrance: A Soldier's Story (TV)		Andrew Forster	Drama. Canada's last surviving decorated World War II hero and Remembrance Day[6]
2006	Russia	Transit	Peregon (Перегон)	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Lend-Lease shipping through the ALSIB
2006	China	The Tokyo Trial	Dōngjīng Shěnpàn (东京审判)	Gao Qunshu	Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
2007	USA	American Pastime		Desmond Nakano	Japanese-American jazz and baseball in Topaz, Utah internment camp
2007	UK	Atonement		Joe Wright	The Battle for France and Dunkirk evacuation
2007	Austria	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Operation Bernhard
2007	Australia	Curtin (TV)		Jessica Hobbs	Wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin
2007	Japan	For Those We Love	Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく )	Taku Shinjō	Kamikaze pilots
2007	Poland	Katyn	Katyń	Andrzej Wajda	Katyn massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by Soviets, 1940
2007	USA  China  Taiwan  Hong Kong	Lust, Caution	Sè, Jiè (色，戒)	Ang Lee	Spy thriller. Occupied Shanghai
2007	Germany	Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (My Führer)	Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler	Dani Levy	Comedy-drama. Depressed Hitler and his preparation for New Year's speech of 1945
2007	Canada	The Poet (Hearts of War)		Damian Lee	German soldiers gather information on Eastern Front partisans and Jewish refugees
2007	Canada	The Great War		Brian McKenna	Award-winning documentarian's portrayal of Canada in the battle of Vimy Ridge, with many descendants portraying ancestors and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau portraying his fifth cousin, twice removed, Talbot Mercer Papineau.
2007	Belgium	Surviving with Wolves	Survivre avec les loups	Véra Belmont	Drama based on fake Misha Defonseca memoir. Jewish girl searches for deported parents while living among wolves
2007	Finland	Tali-Ihantala 1944	Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Mihin vapaat miehet pystyvät)	Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen	Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Continuation War, June 1944
2007	Poland	Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies	Jutro idziemy do kina	Michał Kwieciński	Polish Campaign, 1939
2007	Japan	Yunagi City, Sakura Country	Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni (夕凪の街 桜の国)	Kiyoshi Sasabe	Drama based on Fumiyo Kōno manga. Aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
2007	Belgium  Ireland	Waiting for Dublin		Roger Tucker	Comedy. Allied and Axis flyers stranded in neutral Ireland
2008	Australia  USA  UK	Australia		Baz Luhrmann	Romance. Australian soldier and British aristocrat during first attack on Darwin
2008	USA	Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69		Keith J. Crocker	Horror drama. Captured USO showgirls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant
2008	Italy	Blood of the Losers	Il sangue dei vinti	Michele Soavi	Italian civil war
2008	USA  UK	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)		Mark Herman	Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew
2008	Germany	The Bridge (TV)	Die Brücke	Wolfgang Panzer	Drama based on Manfred Gregor novel. Youths defend bridge; remake
2008	Australia	Broken Sun		Brad Haynes	Drama based on the Cowra breakout
2008	Romania	Gruber's Journey	Călătoria lui Gruber	Radu Gabrea	Iaşi pogrom
2008	Australia  China  Germany  USA	The Children of Huang Shi	[1]	Roger Spottiswoode	Nanking Massacre and Three Alls Policy
2008	USA	Defiance		Edward Zwick	Bielski partisans
2008	Poland	11th of November	11 listopada	Kamil Kulczycki, Urszula Szałata	Zielonka boy scouts resisting German occupation of Poland
2008	France  UK	Female Agents	Les Femmes de l'ombre	Jean-Paul Salomé	Female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate German officer and rescue Briton with D-Day invasion information
2008	Denmark	Flame and Citron	Flammen og Citronen	Ole Christian Madsen	Danish Resistance team sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators
2008	UK  Germany  Hungary	Good	[1]	Vicente Amorim	Drama based on C. P. Taylor play.
2008	Hong Kong	Ip Man	Yip Man (葉問)	Wilson Yip	Ip Man in Foshan, Sino-Japanese War
2008	Norway  Germany  Denmark	Max Manus: Man of War	Max Manus	Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg	Norwegian Resistance leader Max Manus during Nazi occupation of Norway
2008	USA	Miracle at St. Anna		Spike Lee	Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
2008	USA  Germany	The Reader		Stephen Daldry	War crimes trial of female guard at Nazi concentration camp
2008	Israel	Spring 1941	[7]	Uri Barbash	Romance between Warsaw grocer and Jewish man she is hiding
2008	Czech Republic  Slovakia	Tobruk	Tobruk	Václav Marhoul	Siege of Tobruk
2008	USA	Valkyrie		Bryan Singer	July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler
2008	USA	Watch on the Rhine		Nathan Hall, Chris Nelson	Action/Comedy. US 106th Inf. Div. soldier in Battle of the Bulge
2008	France  Tunisia	The Wedding Song	Le Chant des mariées	Karin Albou	Friendship between Muslim woman and Sephardic Jewish woman during Nazi occupation of Tunisia
2008	Italy	Wild Blood	Sanguepazzo	Marco Tullio Giordana	Drama. The involvement of actors Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida with the Italian Social Republic and their murder by partisans
2008	Netherlands	Winter in Wartime	Oorlogswinter	Martin Koolhoven	Drama based on Jan Terlouw novel. Young boy becomes involved in Dutch Resistance, 1944–45
2008	Germany  Poland	A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin)	Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (in German)	Max Färberböck	Drama based on Marta Hillers book. Journalist's relationship with Soviet officer during Soviet occupation of Berlin
2009	France	The Army of Crime	L'Armée du crime	Robert Guédiguian	Manouchian resistance group and Red Poster
2009	Russia  UK	Attack on Leningrad (Leningrad)		Aleksandr Buravsky	Siege of Leningrad
2009	China	City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!)	Pinyin please (漢字 hanzi please)	Lu Chuan	Nanking Massacre
2009	China	Cow	Dòu niú (斗牛)	Guan Hu	Comedy-drama. Chinese peasant protects village's dairy cow during Sino-Japanese War
2009	UK	The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries)		Jon Jones	Anne Frank hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
2009	USA	Everyman's War		Thad Smith	US 94th Infantry Division at Battle of the Bulge
2009	USA	Inglourious Basterds		Quentin Tarantino	Jewish-American soldiers on mission to kill Nazis
2009	USA  UK	Into the Storm		Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Biopic of Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership; sequel to 2002 film The Gathering Storm
2009	Germany  China  France	John Rabe	John Rabe	Florian Gallenberger	Nanking Massacre
2009	Japan	Last Operations Under the Orion (Battle Under Orion)	Manatsu no Orion (真夏のオリオン)	Tetsuo Shinohara	Naval battle between Japan and US near end of war
2009	Italy	The Man Who Will Come	L'uomo che verrà	Giorgio Diritti	Marzabotto massacre
2009	China	The Message	Fēngshēng (风声)	Chen Kuo-fu, Gao Qunshu	Espionage in Nanking in 1942
2009	Russia	1941 (TV)	1941	Valery Shalyga	Nazi invasion of Russia and partisans in forests; prequel to 2011 TV series, 1942
2009	Russia	The Priest	Pop (Поп)	Vladimir Khotinenko	Priest in occupied Latvia
2009	Czech Republic  Germany	Protector	Protektor	Marek Najbrt	Romance/Drama. Jewish-Czech actress during German occupation of Czechoslovakia and effects of Operation Anthropoid
2009	UK	Small Island (TV miniseries)		John Alexander	Drama. Jamaican airman in England

Director Elisabeth Scharang at In Another Lifetime première, 2011

2010s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	Russia	Brest Fortress (Fortress of War)	Brestskaya krepost (Брестская крепость)	Alexander Kott	Action-drama. Soviet defense of Brest Fortress, June 1941
2010	Russia	Burnt by the Sun 2	Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2)	Nikita Mikhalkov	Action-drama. Eastern Front
2010	Japan	Caterpillar	Kyatapirā (キャタピラー)	Kōji Wakamatsu	Drama. Wounded Japanese veteran of Sino-Japanese War returns home
2010	China	Death and Glory in Changde	Die Xue Gu Cheng (喋血孤城)	Dong Shen	Action-drama. Hunan's Battle of Changde
2010	USA	The Debt		John Madden	Drama-Thriller. Capture of Nazi war criminal and Auschwitz-Birkenau surgeon wanted for concentration camp atrocities; remake of 2007 film
2010	China	East Wind Rain	Dong feng yu (东风雨)	Yunlong Liu	Drama. Shanghai-based espionage and attempts by various agencies to decode coded "weather forecasts" prior to Pearl Harbor attack
2010	Czech Republic  Germany  Austria	Habermann	Habermannův mlýn (in Czech)	Juraj Herz	Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
2010	Russia	Heaven is on Fire (The Sky is On Fire) (TV miniseries)	Nebo v ogne (Небо в огне)	Dmitry Cherkasov	Action-drama. Eastern Front Soviet pilots, 1939-1945
2010	China	A Jewish Girl in Shanghai	You tai nu hai zai shang hai (猶太女孩在上海)	Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui	Animated. Girl and little brother in Shanghai, with parents in Europe
2010	Poland	Joanna	Joanna	Feliks Falk	German occupation and Holocaust in Kraków, Poland
2010	UK	The King's Speech		Tom Hooper	2010 Best Picture depicting King George VI during the war
2010	Hong Kong  China	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen	Zing1 Mou5 Fung1 Wan4－Can4 Zan1 (精武風雲－陳真) (in Cantonese)	Andrew Lau Wai-Keung	Japanese invasion of Shanghai
2010	Russia	The Edge	Kray (Край)	Alexei Uchitel	Gulag camp shortly after the end of the war
2010	USA  Australia	The Pacific (TV miniseries)		Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To	Action-drama. US 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre
2010	France  Germany  Hungary	The Round Up	La rafle (in French)	Roselyne Bosch	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942
2010	France	Sarah's Key (Her Name was Sarah)	Elle s'appelait Sarah	Kristin Scott Thomas	Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, 1942
2010	Australia	Sisters of War (TV)		Brendan Maher	Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese during the New Guinea campaign
2010	USA	Spoils of War		Jean Liberté	Allied commandos masquerading as Germans parachute behind Austrian lines to kidnap SS officer/double-agent and destroy counterfeit money
2010	Canada	Storming Juno (TV)		Tim Wolochatiuk	Docudrama. Regina Rifles and 1st Hussars at Juno Beach on D-Day
2010	Czech Republic  Germany  Austria	Under the Roman Sky (Pope Pius XII) (TV)	Pius XII. (in German)	Christian Duguay	Pope Pius XII and Roman razzia
2010	Poland	Venice	Wenecja	Jan Jakub Kolski	German occupation of Poland, 1939–1945
2010	USA	The Way Back		Peter Weir	Prisoners and POWs escape Soviet Gulag
2011	UK	Age of Heroes		Adrian Vitoria	Action-Thriller. British No. 30 Commando unit from Battle of Dunkirk to neutral Norway
2011	Spain  Hungary	Angel of Budapest (TV miniseries)	El ángel de Budapest (in Spanish)	Luis Oliveros	Drama based on Diego Carcedo book. Spanish ambassador Ángel Sanz Briz rescues Jews in Budapest
2011	Germany	Auschwitz		Uwe Boll	Drama
2011	Portugal	The Consul of Bordeaux (O Consul de Bordeus)	O Consul de Bordeus (in Portuguese)	João CorreaFrancisco Manso	The story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.
2011	Brazil	Webseries: Heroes	Websérie: Herois		Drama: Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy, 1944
2011	Sweden	The Frontier	Gränsen	Richard Holm	Swedish soldiers travel toward German-occupied Norwegian border
2011	India	Gandhi to Hitler (Dear Friend Hitler)	Priya Mitra Hitler (प्रिय मित्र हिटलर)	Rakesh Ranjan Kumar	Drama based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler
2011	Italy  Germany	General Della Rovere (TV miniseries)	Il generale Della Rovere (in Italian)	Carlo Carlei	Drama based on Indro Montanelli novel. Petty thief hired by Nazis to impersonate Italian resistance leader
2011	Austria  Hungary  Germany	In Another Lifetime	Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (in German)	Elisabeth Scharang	Drama based on Peter Turrini play. Hungarian Jews marched to Mauthausen
2011	Poland  Germany  Canada	In Darkness	W ciemnosci (in Polish)	Agnieszka Holland	Drama. Leopold Socha's rescue of Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)
2011	Japan	Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet	Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六)	Izuru Narushima	Isoroku Yamamoto
2011	Spain	Ispansi!	Ispansi! (¡Españoles!)	Carlos Iglesias	Drama. Spanish war orphans in USSR in time for another war
2011	Philippines  Japan	Liberation	Liberacion	Adolfo Alix Jr.	Drama. Japanese holdout hiding in Philippine jungle for 20 years after war
2011	Czech Republic	Lidice		Petr Nikolaev	Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the destruction of the village of Lidice
2011	USA	Little Iron Men		Jesse Kobayashi	Rescue of Lost Battalion by US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team
2011	UK	The Lost Valentine		Darnell Martin	Woman's quest for husband declared MIA
2011	South Korea	My Way	Maiwei[8] (마이웨이)	Kang Je-gyu	Young Korean man conscripted into Japanese Imperial Army with service in Battles of Khalkhin Gol through Soviet Union and Germany
2011	Japan	Oba: The Last Samurai (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox)	Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (太平洋の奇跡－フォックスと呼ばれた男)	Hideyuki Hirayama	Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after Battle of Saipan, 1944
2011	UK  Germany	The Sinking of the Laconia (TV miniseries)	[1]	Uwe Janson	Drama. RMS Laconia incident
2011	Denmark	This Life	Hvidstens gruppen	Regner Grasten	Danish Resistance in Jutland
2011	Latvia	Three to Dance	Dancis pa trim	Arvīds Krievs	Drama. Tragedy of Latvian General Jānis Kurelis and independence-seeking Latvian Legionnaires sentenced to death for leaving SS
2012	China	Back to 1942	Yī Jǐu Sì Èr (一九四二)	Feng Xiaogang
2012	China  Hong Kong	The Flowers of War	Jin líng shí san chai (金陵十三钗)	Zhang Yimou	Rape of Nanjing
2012	Norway  Sweden	Into the White (Comrade)	[1]	Petter Næss	Action-drama based on true story. Crashed German and English aircrew trying to survive Norwegian winter in wilderness, 1940
2012	Australia UK  Sweden	Lore		Cate Shortland	Based loosely on the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room, this film focused on five German siblings forced to flee to Hamburg once their Nazi-level parents are presumably killed in combat with the Allied forces
2012	USA	Red Tails		Anthony Hemingway, George Lucas (uncredited)	Tuskegee Airmen and 332d Fighter Group of USAAF in European Theatre
2012	USA	Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed		Ryan Little	Invasion of Southern France in World War II
2012	Russia	White Tiger	Belyy tigr (Белый тигр)	Karen Shakhnazarov	A Russian tank crew is ordered to take out a German Tiger tank in the new T-34-85
2013	USA	The Book Thief		Brian Percival	The fictional story of young Liesel Meminger. After she finds her first book beside her brother's graveside, she is sent to foster parents. While in the comfort of her new found parents, World War II breaks out and her foster parents shelter a Jewish refugee
2013	Poland  Lithuania	1939 Battle of Westerplatte	Tajemnica Westerplatte	Pawel Chochlew	September 1, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland
2013	Philippines	Death March	Death March	Adolfo Alix, Jr.	Bataan Death March
2013	USA	Emperor		Peter Webber	General Douglas MacArthur begins an investigation of the role of Emperor Shōwa in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor
2013	Australia  UK	The Railway Man		Jonathan Teplitzky	Drama based on true story of Eric Lomax. Victim from Burmese Death Railway setting out to find those responsible for his torture
2013	Portugal  Brazil  Italy	Road 47	A Estrada 47	Vicente Ferraz	Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy
2013	Russia	Stalingrad	Stalingrad (Сталинград)	Fyodor Bondarchuk	Battle of Stalingrad
2013	Japan	The Wind Rises	Kaze Tachinu (風立ちぬ)	Hayao Miyazaki	Animated historical drama animated by Studio Ghibli. Fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft
2014	Canada	Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (TV movies of Bomb Girls)		Jerry Ciccoritti	Canadian home front and Battle of the St. Lawrence
2014	France  Germany	Diplomacy	Diplomatie	Volker Schlöndorff	The Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling persuades gen. Dietrich von Choltitz to avoid the destruction of Paris
2014	USA	Fury		David Ayer	Allied final offensive in Germany in the view of a tank crew of the 2nd Armored Division, April 1945
2014	Italy	Head High. The Martyrs of Fiesole (TV)	A testa alta. I martiri di Fiesole	Maurizio Zaccaro	Carabinieri's sacrifice to avoid a German reprisal on civilians in Fiesole
2014	USA  UK	The Imitation Game		Morten Tyldum	Alan Turing decoding German cyphers at Bletchley Park
2014	Italy	Italia's Secret†	Il segreto di Italia	Antonello Bellucco	Massacre of Codevigo, 1945
2014	USA	The Monuments Men		George Clooney	Allied platoon made up of seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, tasked with going into Germany in the closing stages of World War II to rescue artworks requisitioned by the Nazis and returning them to their rightful owners
2014	Australia	Parer's War (TV movie)		Alister Grierson	Story of Australian wartime cameraman Damien Parer
2014	USA	Saints and Soldiers: The Void		Ryan Little	A fateful mission through the Harz Mountains of Germany
2014	UK  France  Belgium	Suite Française	Suite Française (in French)	Saul Dibb	Romance between a French villager and a German officer during the German occupation of France
2014	USA	Unbroken		Angelina Jolie	Based on true life of Louis Zamperini
2014	USA	Walking with the Enemy		Mark Schmidt	A young man (Elek Cohen) disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer
2014	Poland	Warsaw 44	Miasto 44	Jan Komasa	Warsaw Uprising 1944.
2014	Poland	Stones for the Rampart		Robert Glinski	Three Warsaw friends, whose plans for the future are interrupted by the life-changing advent of the Second World War in Poland.
2015	Denmark	9. April		Roni Ezra	Danish bicycle infantry sent as vanguard to slow down the German invasion until reinforcements can arrive
2015	Estonia	1944	1944	Elmo Nüganen	Battle of Tannenberg Line
2015	Russia  Ukraine	Battle for Sevastopol	Bitva za Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь)	Sergey Mokritskiy	A biographical film about the life path of the Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko
2015	Japan	The Emperor in August	Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (日本のいちばん長い日)	Masato Harada	Imperial Japan's government, military, and war council under Hirohito in the immediate period before the surrender of Japan in World War II between April 1945 to August 15, 1945
2015	Philippines	Felix Manalo	Felix Manalo	Joel Lamangan	Biography of Felix Manalo during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
2015	India	The Fence	Kanche	Krish	A rivalry between two men, based on caste and social status, extends from an Indian village onto war torn Europe during WW2
2015	China	Hundred Regiments Offensive	Bǎi tuán dà zhàn (百團大戰)	Ning Haiqiang, Zhang Yuzhong	Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan during the Hundred Regiments Offensive
2015	Denmark	Land of Mine	Under sandet	Martin P. Zandvliet	German POWs in Denmark at the end of the war
2015	USA  Mexico	Little Boy		Alejandro Monteverde	Comedy-drama about a young American boy attempting to reunite with his father serving in the Pacific Theater any way possible.
2015	Hungary	Son of Saul	Saul fia	László Nemes	A day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz concentration camp
2015	USA	War Pigs		Ryan Little	A US Army rag tag unit of misfits behind German lines
2016	Russia	28 panfilovtsev	28 panfilovtsev (28 панфиловцев)	Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa	Drama about the act of bravery of a group of Soviet soldiers from the Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen
2016	UK	Dad's Army (2016 film)		Oliver Parker	Comedy
2016	USA	Allied		Robert Zemeckis	Espionage
2016	UK  France  Czech Republic	Anthropoid		Sean Ellis	Operation Anthropoid
2016	France  Belgium	Fanny's Journey	Le Voyage de Fanny	Lola Doillon	Œuvre de secours aux enfants, Jewish children fleeing France for Switzerland
2016	USA	Hacksaw Ridge		Mel Gibson	Historical drama about Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who became the only conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II
2016	Germany	My Honor Was Loyalty	Leibstandarte	Alessandro Pepe	Fictionalized account of the SS Leibstandarte
2016	China	Railroad Tigers	Tiědào fēi hǔ (铁道飞虎)	Ding Sheng	Comedy-drama. A group of Chinese train engineers attempt to blow up a Japanese military railway during the Sino-Japanese war
2016	Philippines  Japan	Tomodachi		Joel Lamangan	A Japanese merchant residing in the Philippines suddenly conscripted in Imperial Japanese Army during Pre-Pacific War
2016	USA	USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage		Mario Van Peebles	The USS Indianapolis, torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese in 1945
2016	Poland	Volhynia	Wołyń	Wojciech Smarzowski	Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and extermination of Jews
2016	Italy	At War, for Love†	In guerra per amore	Pierfrancesco Diliberto	Comedy-drama. Italo-American soldier takes part to the Invasion of Sicily
2017	India	Rangoon	Rangoon (रंगून)	Vishal Bhardwaj	Drama based on Burma Campaign and India's war for Independence
2017	UK  USA  France  Netherlands	Dunkirk		Christopher Nolan	Evacuation of Allied soldiers, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 27 & June 4, 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II
2017	India	Raag Desh	Raag Desh (राग देश)	Tigmanshu Dhulia	Drama based on the Indian National Army and the Red Fort Trials
2017	Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Tuntematon sotilas	Aku Louhimies	Drama based on the 1954 Finnish classic novel of the same name by Väinö Linna, that follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War.
2018	Italy	Red Land	Rosso Istria	Maximiliano Hernando Bruno	Foibe massacres by Tito's partisans in the autumn of 1943.