List of World War II short films
Below is an incomplete list of short films or animated cartoons that pertain to World War II, or the years leading up to it.
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School scene from Walt Disney's Education for Death (1943)
Restrictions
Momotarō's Sea Eagles (1943)
- The film must be concerned with Hitler's rise, the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, or World War II itself.
- Feature-length live-action films are excluded.
- For documentaries, see: List of World War II documentary films.
Films made before the war
1930s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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Ferdinand the Bull | Dick Rickard (uncredited) | Pacifist Disney cartoon. | YouTube |
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Porky the Gob | Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton | Pro-preparedness cartoon where Porky Pig's battleship engages a "pirate submarine". | YouTube |
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What Price Porky | Robert Clampett | Pro-preparedness cartoon where farmer Porky Pig must mobilize his chickens against a heavily armed "ducktator" (Daffy Duck).[1] | YouTube |
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Peace on Earth | Hugh Harman | Anti-war cartoon. | YouTube |
Films made during the war
- Note on the two Canadian flags
Until 1965, Canada has two flags, the unofficial
In 1965, Canada adopted the familiar
Year undetermined
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Local Boy Makes Good: A Story With a Moral[2] | ? | Cartoon in which an RAF bomber is able to shoot down German fighters once the pilot and turret gunner put on their respirators. | YouTube |
1939
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Hitler Dances to Stalin's Tune[3] | Anson Dyer | Cartoon mocking the Soviet–Nazi pact, the friendship between Stalin and Hitler. | ITN YouTube |
1940
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Boobs in Arms | Jules White | Comedy with the Three Stooges in an unspecified army. | ||
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Channel Incident | Anthony Asquith | Dramatic film about a yachtsman at Dunkirk. | ||
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Der Störenfried | Hans Held | Cartoon in which a fox threatens a family of hares only to be strafed in turn by wasps of the Luftwaffe. | YouTube | |
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Inghilterra contro Europa | Luigi Liberio Pensuti | Anti-British cartoon. | ||
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Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt Das güldene Bäumchen |
Heinz Tischmeyer[4] | Anti-Semitic cartoon where a Jew plucks all the leaves from a golden tree, leaving it empty.[5] | YouTube | |
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You Nazty Spy! | Jules White | Comedy with the Three Stooges. |
1941
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Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland (Не тoптать фашистскому сапогу Нашей Родины)[6] |
A. Ivanov, I. Vano | Anti-Nazi cartoon with German pig soldier vs. Soviet cavalry and tanks. Music by Prokofiev from Alexander Nevsky (1938). |
[7] | YouTube |
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Il Dottor Churkill | Luigi Liberio Pensuti | Anti-British cartoon involving a Jekyll and Hyde story where Mr. Hyde becomes Dr. Jekyll (Winston Churchill).[8] | [9] | YouTube |
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I'll Never Heil Again | Jules White | Comedy with the Three Stooges. | IA | |
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A Journal of Political Satire № 2 (Журнал политсатиры № 2) |
Zinaida Brumberg, Alexander Ivanov, Valentina Brumberg, Olga Khodatayeva, Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Anti-Nazi cartoon, in 4 parts, exhorting Soviets to resist "Fascist pirates" (Бей фашистских пиратов).[10] | YouTube | |
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The Mighty Navy | Dave Fleischer | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube | |
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Rookie Revue | Friz Freleng | Cartoon which shows the different elements of the US Army: infantry, cavalry, armour, USAAF, artillery, and lampoons (accurately) makeshift weaponry. | YouTube[11] | |
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Rush Hour | Anthony Asquith | Comedy film asking casual travellers to leave transport to workers. | ||
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7 Wise Dwarfs | Dick Lyford & Ford Beebe[12] | Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Seven Dwarfs invest their gems in Canadian War Savings Certificates. | YouTube[11] | |
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The Thrifty Pig | Walt Disney (producer) | Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Big Bad Nazi Wolf is defeated by a house flying Canada's national flag and built of Canadian War Savings Certificates. | IA | |
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V for Victory | Norman McLaren | Cartoon in support of a war bond drive. Music by John Philip Sousa.[13] | ||
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The Vultures (Стервятники) |
Panteleimon Sazonov[14] (uncredited) | Anti-Nazi cartoon where German vultures become bombers only to be shot out of the skies by Red Air Force fighters. | [14] | YouTube |
1942
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All Together | Walt Disney (producer) | Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Pinocchio, Donald Duck, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Goofy and the Seven Dwarfs parade at Centre Block for Canadian War Savings Certificates.[15] | IA |
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Air Raid Warden | Alex Lovy | Cartoon featuring Andy Panda. | |
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Andy Panda's Victory Garden[16] aka Springtime for Andy | Alex Lovy | Cartoon in which Andy Panda's attempts to grow a victory garden are spoiled by a hungry rooster.[17] | YouTube |
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Any Bonds Today? | Bob Clampett | Morale-boosting cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny performing in blackface for the war effort. The title song is by Irving Berlin. | YouTube |
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Blitz Wolf | Tex Avery | Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. | YouTube |
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Blunder Below | Dave Fleischer | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube[18] |
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Cinema Circus (Кино-цирк) |
Olga Khodatayeva & Leonid Amalrik | Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring Hitler with his trained dogs, Mussolini, Horthy and Antonescu, and his mentor Napoleon, at a circus hosted by clown Karandash. | YouTube |
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The Devil with Hitler | Gordon Douglas | Comedy film where the Devil's job in Hell is threatened by Hitler. | YouTube |
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Donald Gets Drafted | Jack King (uncredited) | Disney cartoon in which Donald Fauntleroy Duck volunteers for the US Army. | YouTube |
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Donald's Decision | Walt Disney (producer) | Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Donald Duck's conscience makes him invest in Canadian War Savings Certificates. | IA |
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The Ducktators | Norman McCabe | Anti-Axis cartoon which portrays Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito as barnyard fowl. | YouTube |
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Eleventh Hour | Dan Gordon | Anti-Japanese cartoon portraying Superman as a saboteur at the Yokohama Navy Yard in Japan. | IA |
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Empty Rooms Mean Idle Machines | Philip Ragan | Cartoon which encourages citizens to rent their spare room to a munitions plant labourer.[19] | NFB[20] |
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Fleets of Stren'th | Dave Fleischer | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube |
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Hen Hop | Norman McLaren | Low-key cartoon in which a chicken dancing to "Turkey in the Straw" encourages Canadians to "save" for "V" (Victory). | YouTube[11] NFB[20] |
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Japoteurs | Seymour Kneitel | Anti-Japanese cartoon featuring Superman and a group of Japanese spies trying to hijack a bomber. | IA YouTube |
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Kill or Be Killed | Len Lye | Dramatic film of a confrontation between a Tommy and a German sniper.[21] | |
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The New Spirit | Walt Disney (producer) | Anti-Axis Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck learns to pay his taxes and fight the Axis, using only a "tax blank", pen, ink, and a blotter.[22] | IA YouTube |
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Safeguarding Military Information | Preston Sturges | Dramatic film. | IA |
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Scrap the Japs | Seymour Kneitel | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube |
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Sky Trooper | Jack King | Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck becomes a reluctant paratrooper. | YouTube |
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Stop That Tank! | Walt Disney (producer) | Instructional cartoon, animated for the DND and NFB by Disney, showing Canadian Tommies using the Boys ATR against German armour, sending Hitler straight to Hell. | YouTube (part 1) YouTube (part 2) |
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Tulips Shall Grow | George Pal | Anti-Nazi Puppetoon where a Dutch windmill is attacked by the Screwballs. | IA |
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Unmanned Machines Mean Unarmed Men | Philip Ragan | Cartoon which stresses the need for defence workers to be always on the job, not idle.[23] | NFB[20] |
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The Vanishing Private | Jack King | Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck has trouble with camouflage paint. | YouTube |
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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap | Dan Gordon | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube |
1943
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Bury the Axis | Lou Bunin | YouTube | |
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Canine Commandos | Alex Lovy | Cartoon featuring Andy Panda. | |
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Chicken Little | Clyde Geronimi (uncredited) | Disney cartoon in which the fox employs modern propaganda techniques to seize control of the farmyard. | YouTube |
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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs | Bob Clampett | Patriotic cartoon featuring an all-Negro jazz retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where the dwarfs are US soldiers. | YouTube |
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Confusions of a Nutzy Spy | Norm McCabe | Cartoon featuring policeman Porky Pig searching for a Nazi spy. The title parodies Confessions of a Nazi Spy. |
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Daffy – The Commando | Friz Freleng | Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring Daffy Duck on a mission to Berlin against Hitler. | YouTube |
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Der Fuehrer's Face | Jack Kinney | Anti-Axis Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck imagines life working in a German munitions plant. | YouTube |
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Fall Out Fall In | Jack King | Animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck as an army private marching with the soldiers. | |
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Dizzy Pilots | Jules White | Comedy with the Three Stooges. | |
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Donald's Tire Trouble | Dick Lundy | Disney cartoon featuring Donald Duck. | YouTube |
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Home Defense | Jack King | Disney cartoon featured Donald Duck and his three nephews serving as civilian aircraft spotters during World War II. | |
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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi |
Clyde Geronimi | Anti-Nazi Disney cartoon illustrating the indoctrination of a young boy into Nazism. | IA YouTube |
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Falling Hare | Robert Clampett | Cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is tormented by a gremlin. | YouTube |
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The Fifth-Column Mouse | Friz Freleng | Cartoon in which mice resist feline threats and prepare for war. | YouTube |
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Freedom Comes High | Lewis Allen | Dramatic film. | IA |
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A Jolly Good Furlough | Dan Gordon | Cartoon where Popeye's nephews practise their home defence techniques on Popeye. | IA |
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Momotarō's Sea Eagles (桃太郎の海鷲) |
Mitsuyo Seo | Feature-length anti-Allied cartoon. | YouTube |
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Nazty Nuisance aka The Last Three | Glenn Tryon | Comedy film with Hitler and his cronies in the tropics. | IA |
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The New Lot | Carol Reed | Dramatic film in which five civilians are conscripted. | |
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The Old Army Game | Jack King | Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck goes AWOL. | YouTube |
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Ration Fer the Duration | Seymour Kneitel | Cartoon featuring Popeye and his victory garden. | |
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Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter | Bernard Vorhaus | Part-animated dramatic film detailing differences between a Zero and a P-40. | IA |
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Scrap Happy Daffy | Frank Tashlin | Cartoon where Daffy Duck's efforts to salvage scrap are spoiled by Hitler's metal-eating goat. | YouTube |
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Secret Agent | Seymour Kneitel | Cartoon where Superman battles Nazi saboteurs. | IA YouTube |
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Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue | Dan Gordon | Anti-Axis cartoon where draft board Popeye plummels some tiny Tojos, Hirohito, then Hitler, making Göring cry. | YouTube |
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The Silent Village | Humphrey Jennings | Dramatic film in which the Nazi massacre at Lidice in Czechoslovakia is recreated in a Welsh village. | YouTube |
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Spinach Fer Britain | Izzy Sparber | Cartoon featuring Popeye. | YouTube |
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The Spirit of '43 | Jack King | Disney cartoon. | YouTube |
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Take Heed Mr. Tojo | Shamus Culhane (uncredited) | Anti-Japanese cartoon. | IA |
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They Stooge to Conga | Del Lord | Comedy with the Three Stooges. | |
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Tokio Jokio | Cpl. Norman McCabe | Anti-Japanese cartoon. | YouTube |
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Van den vos Reynaerde | Egbert van Putten | Anti-Semitic cartoon based on Van den vos Reynaerde, an anti-Semitic children's story, which was in turn based on the legend of Reynard the Fox.[24] | YouTube (fragments with seemingly pro-Nazi commentary) |
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Victory Vehicles | Jack Kinney | Disney cartoon where Goofy develops solutions to the home front transportation crisis.[25] | YouTube |
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War Dogs | William Hanna & Joseph Barbera | This cartoon follows the life of a dim-witted dog going through military training. | YouTube |
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Wedding in the Coral Sea (Hochzeit im Korallenmeer) | Horst von Möllendorff (credited) | Cartoon where the wedding of two fish can only occur once a Russian pirate octopus is defeated. | YouTube |
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The Yankee Doodle Mouse | William Hanna & Joseph Barbera | Cartoon of Tom and Jerry's cellar battle during World War II where Jerry deploys a brassiere parachute when his egg carton plane is shot down. | YouTube[26] |
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You, John Jones! | Mervyn LeRoy | Dramatic film about an air raid warden. | IA |
1944
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Aventure malgache | Alfred Hitchcock | Anti-Vichy film (in French) about resistance to the Vichy takeover in Madagascar. | Oldcinemovies YouTube (part 1) |
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Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips | Friz Freleng | Anti-Japanese cartoon in which Bugs Bunny targets Japanese soldiers with explosive ice cream. | YouTube |
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Donald Duck and the Gorilla | Jack King | Animated Donald Duck short cartoon about a dangerous enemy gorilla named Ajax chased viciously around Donald and his three nephews with ill intent. | YouTube |
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Commando Duck | Jack King | Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon. | YouTube |
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Hell-Bent for Election | Charles M. Jones | Cartoon, commissioned by the UAW, promoting the 1944 re-election of President Roosevelt. | YouTube |
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How to Be a Sailor | Jack Kinney | Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon where Goofy, the torpedo, sinks IJN warships. | YouTube |
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Keep Your Mouth Shut | Norman McLaren | Animated film in which a death's head thanks Canadians for revealing military secrets. | NFB[20] |
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Lend Lease | Shamus Culhane | Cartoon written by Phil Eastman. | |
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Nimbus libéré | Raymond Jeannin | Pro-Nazi cartoon in which bombers flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, Goofy and Felix the Cat kill Frenchmen. | YouTube |
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Plane Daffy | Frank Tashlin | Cartoon featuring Daffy Duck. Only World War II Cartoon to credit Warner Bros. Cartoons |
YouTube[18] |
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Proudest Girl in the World | Julian Roffman[28] | Morale-boosting film in which a chorus of CWACs sing the title song. Music by Louis Applebaum and Wayne and Shuster. | NFB[20] |
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Russian Rhapsody | Robert Clampett | Anti-Nazi cartoon where Hitler in his bomber takes on the "Gremlins from the Kremlin". | YouTube |
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Swooner Crooner | Frank Tashlin | YouTube | |
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Two Fathers | Anthony Asquith | Dramatic film about two fathers, English and French, with children in the war. | |
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The Weakly Reporter | Charles M. Jones | Cartoon lampooning sacrifices made on the homefront. | YouTube |
1945
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Herr Meets Hare | Friz Freleng | Anti-Nazi cartoon where Bugs Bunny meets Hermann Göring, then imitates both Hitler and Stalin. | YouTube |
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Momotarō's Devine Sea Warriors (桃太郎 海の神兵) |
Mitsuyo Seo | Feature-length anti-Allied cartoon. | YouTube |
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Swing Shift Cinderella | Tex Avery | Cartoon where a voluptuous glamour girl also works at the aircraft plant. | IA |
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When G.I. Johnny Comes Home | Seymour Kneitel | Musical cartoon with soldiers and sailors coming home. | YouTube |
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The Duce Dictates (Ο Ντούτσε αφηγείται) |
Stamatis Polenakis | The first animation made in Greece. Mussolini in his castle dictates the expoits of the fascist army during the Italian invasion of Greece to a personification of Italian history. | YouTube |
Films made after the war
1940s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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G.I. Wanna Home (G.I. Wanna Go Home) |
Jules White | Comedy with the Three Stooges. | |
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The Spring-man and the SS (Pérák a SS) |
Jiří Brdečka & Jiří Trnka | Anti-Nazi cartoon where the SS arrest any Czech subversive, like a bird whistling "Yankee Doodle". | YouTube |
1950s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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Good Will to Men | William Hanna & Joseph Barbera | Anti-war cartoon. Remake of Peace on Earth. |
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1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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Machorka-Muff | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet (uncredited) | Drama about lingering Nazi thought among German veterans, based on a story by Heinrich Böll. |
1970s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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Estado de sitio[29] | Jaime Chávarri Jaime Chávarri |
Spanish Civil War. |
1980s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? | Bill Meléndez | Animated TV programme in which the Peanuts characters visit war memorials. | YouTube YouTube YouTube |
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An Officer and a Duck | Jack King | Disney compilation cartoon detailing the adventures of Pvt. Donald Duck. | |
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Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓) |
Isao Takahata | Feature-length Anime based on the novel of Akiyuki Nosaka. Story about a boy and his sister in the last days of the war. |
1990s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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Ein Neuer Anfang[30] from The Rocketeer |
Mark Dindal | Fake pro-Nazi cartoon. | YouTube |
1994 | ![]() |
Alsasua 1936 | Helena Taberna | Spanish Civil War.[31][32] | |
1994 | ![]() |
Of Course, You Know This Means Warners from Animaniacs | Lenord Robinson & Dave Marshall | Retrospective cartoon showing how everyone, including Hollywood stars (Warner Bros.), helped fight on the home front. | |
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Carrotblanca | Douglas McCarthy | Cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny. The film parodies Casablanca. |
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1999 | ![]() |
Harry's War | Richard Frankland | The story of an Aboriginal Australian during World War II.[33] |
2000s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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The Release | Sebastien Laban | Animated film. | YouTube |
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Urda: The Third Reich | Romanov Higa | Anime in which the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel when the war is going badly for them. | YouTube (episodes 1–5) |
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Tama Tū | Taika Waititi | Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. | |
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The Colonial Friend[34] (L'ami y'a bon) |
Rachid Bouchareb | Animated film. | YouTube |
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Tertium non datur | Lucian Pintilie | YouTube (end credits) | |
2007 | ![]() |
End of a Rope | Daniel Lahr | A Nazi prisoner faces ghosts from his past before meeting his end. Based on the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." | YouTube |
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The Bridge | Sheldon Schwartz | Film where a Japanese-American soldier in Italy embarks on a dangerous mission. | YouTube |
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Red Letter | Edilberto Restino | Drama where a German soldier tries to kill Hitler in Paris, 1942. Followed by Brunette Kiss. |
YouTube (trailer) |
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Servants of War | Gillian MacLeod | Drama depicting lives of sisters torn apart by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers invading their home | |
2009 | ![]() |
Campás | Jairo Iglesias | Spanish Civil War. | YouTube (trailer) |
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Pedro | Regeene Ho | Drama. A man, who refuse to surrender to Japanese soldiers, on his journey to go back to his wife & daughter after escaping from hanging execution. | YouTube (trailer) |
2010s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted | View online |
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The Bridge | Marlon Torres | Drama in which a deceased US Army medic meets soldiers from his past. | Vimeo (trailer) |
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Brunette Kiss | Edilberto Restino | Drama in which a German soldier tells his life story to his grandson, a boy with Down syndrome and a prodigious memory. Sequel to Red Letter. |
YouTube (trailer) |
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | Ann Marie Fleming | Animated film. | NFB (clip) |
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X & O | Acim Vasic | Short film. In the depths of a snowy forest in an unknown wartime, two soldiers from opposing armies try to outwit each other in a perilous game of cat and mouse - until they find themselves outplayed by destiny. | (short film) |
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Breakdown | Thomas Lynskey | Short film. A vignette driven film about a Soviet trap against a squad of German soldiers. | (short film) |
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Courage Too Late | Thomas Lynskey | Short film. A romance brews between a male and female Soviet soldier while their platoon is sent to capture a German colonel. | (short film) |
2012 | ![]() |
Biomen Shampoo commercial[35] | Ad featuring film clip from Triumph of the Will | YouTube | |
2013 | ![]() |
舰队これくしょん | Kusakawa Keizou | Anime which describes IJN warship to girls. | |
2016 | ![]() |
Our Father | Calum Rhys | Short film. The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole - an odyssey of friendship, innocence and adventure set against a canvas of war-torn France. | |
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Freund | Nathan Cragun | A German sniper questions the morality of his actions after coming face to face with his enemy. | YouTube |
2017 | ![]() |
Esperanca | Nathan Cragun | After being separated from his unit during the battle for Montese, a Brazilian soldier fights a battle with himself to continue on. He must see if he has the hope and will to move on. | YouTube |
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Daily Bread | Ruby Challenger | In a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease, and starvation. Meanwhile, the Camp Commandant’s beloved white fluffy cat is fed fresh juicy meat. |
See also
- Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
- List of Private Snafu shorts featuring Private Snafu character
- Other cartoons of feature length
- Victory Through Air Power (1943)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- Graveyard of the Fireflies (1988)
- Valiant (2005)
- Earlier war cartoons
- The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
- China in Flames (1925) – Soviet cartoon about the Chinese Civil War
- Dinky Doodle in the Army (192?) with Dinky Doodle
- Great Guns! (1927) with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- I'm in the Army Now (1936) with Popeye and Bluto
- Other films of World War II
- List of World War II films – fictional features and miniseries
- List of World War II TV series – fictional TV series
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of Holocaust films – fictional and documentary
- List of German films 1933–1945
- List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
References
Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.
- ↑ The combat scenes in What Price Porky are unusually extended.
- ↑ This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
- ↑ ITN Source. This film is labelled War Cartoon № 4 and was released 23 October 1939. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ↑ The IMDb currently (as of November 2010) credits Tischmeyer only as the animator.
- ↑ The narrator makes a point of mentioning that fact.
- ↑ The film is also known as Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland.
- ↑ Ne Toptat' Fashistskomu Sapogu Nasjeh Rodiny at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- ↑ German Nazi and Italian Fascist policemen are unable to apprehend Churchill as he steals loot from around the world, so bombers must chase Churchill back to London.
- ↑ The opening credits read, Una produzione S.A. Incom Industrie Corti Metraggi, Roma. Direzione generale Sandro Pallavicini. The cartoon was made by Incom Short Films in Rome.
- ↑ Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian) and (in English). This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
- 1 2 3 Readers are encouraged to check the Internet to find replacements for any dead links.
- ↑ Source: Wikipedia article on the film. Neither the IMDb nor the BCDB lists a director for this film.
Lyford, presumably, is the Oscar-winning documentarian, Richard Lyford. Beebe was working at Disney at this time. - ↑ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
- 1 2 Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian) and (in English).
- ↑ Marching in the parade on Parliament Hill in Ottawa are, in order, Pinocchio with Geppetto and Figaro (but not Jiminy Cricket), all from the previous year's hit Pinocchio (1940); Donald Duck with Huey, Dewey, and Louie; Pluto; Mickey Mouse leading a band featuring Clarabelle and Goofy; and finally the Seven Dwarfs, with Dopey being the last character to appear.
- ↑ Source: The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.
The film's release date was 7 September 1942.
The IMDb incorrectly gives the release data as 7 September 1943 (as of March 2010). - ↑ Source: BCDB. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
- 1 2 The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
- ↑ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Available for public viewing at the NFB offices in Montreal and Toronto.
- ↑ "Kill or Be Killed [...] was considered by some critics to be one of the best of all wartime films. It was a fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding in a tree."
Horrocks, Roger. Len Lye: a biography, pp. 198–199. - ↑ Donald Duck's income tax for the calendar year 1941, on a gross income of $2501.00, is $13.00, which he remits by cheque.
- ↑ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
- ↑ The cartoon was finished in 1943 but never shown publicly.
- ↑ Goofy appears in many guises, including air raid warden. He even wears a zoot suit.
- ↑ This video contains content from Warner Bros. Entertainment, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
- ↑ Vichy France, or Occupied France.
- ↑ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not list a director for this film.
- ↑ Estado de sitio at Peliculasgratis.com (in Spanish)
- ↑ In German, ein neuer Anfang means "a new beginning".
- ↑ Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 at Salir.com (in Spanish)
- ↑ Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 (1994) at Hoycinema.com (in Spanish)
- ↑ Golden Seahorse Productions
- ↑ This film is included as a bonus on the DVD of the director's feature film Days of Glory.
- ↑ Turkey Hitler shampoo advert withdrawn, BBC, 27 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
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