Best World War II movies of 1960s

Actors : Július Pántik, Lia Eliava, Aleksandre Omiadze, Otar Koberidze,

Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later. Unusual (for that time) co-production between Slovakia and Georgia (then part of the USSR).

Actors : Fritz Diez, Karel Höger, Angelica Domröse, Jirí Vrstála,
Directors : Zbynek Brynych,

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor ...

Actors : Lionel Jeffries, Jocelyn Lane, George Sanders, Terry-Thomas,
Directors : Robert Day,

Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of ...

Actors : Jelena Zigon, Izet Hajdarhodzic, Radmila Andric, Dragan Zaric,
Directors : Vlatko Filipovic,

A beautiful and poetic at the same time difficult and tragic story. In the distant mountain village in Herzegovina, shortly after the end of World War II, lonely women and children await ...

Actors : Jirina Sejbalová, Jana Zatloukalová, Marie Vásová, Karla Chadimová,

Marie Vlácilová (Jirina Sejbalová) is fifty-six years old. She lost her husband in the Second World War, herself having spent several years in the concentration camp, and her only child, ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

Actors : Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Rumyana Karabelova, Dimitar Buynozov, Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva,
Directors : Binka Zhelyazkova,

The film takes us back to the days of Bulgarian Resistance during Second World War. Beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.

Actors : Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Daniela Smutná, Oleg Strizhenov, Ladislav Chudík,
Directors : Jirí Weiss,

In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard ...

Actors : James Daly, Peter van Eyck, Nino Castelnuovo, Pier Angeli,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

During the Second World War, a major American seeks to recover, with the help of some partisans, a valuable memorandum from the hands of the Nazis.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Luis Dávila, Tano Cimarosa, Ugo Fangareggi,
Directors : Camillo Bazzoni,

World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune, Mie Hama, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Toshirô Mifune,

During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, ...

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara, Utako Mitsuya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshiki Onoda,

Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ...

Actors : Anton Diffring, Renato Romano, Carl Parker, Ugo Adinolfi,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.

Actors : Paul Austad, Tina Austad, James Franciscus, Wilfred Breistrand,
Directors : Irving Jacoby,

This movie is based on a book by Marie McSwigan. It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian ...

Actors : Sok-Yang Choo, Hang Jo, Mu-ryong Choi, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : Hyeon-cheol Ahn,

Imperial Japan makes a last ditch effort to hold onto the annexed Korea near the end of World War II, but the Korean people, seeing that independence is near, rise up in riots around the ...

Actors : Gianna Serra, Irina Demick, Gianni Garko, Marijan Lovric,
Directors : Leopoldo Savona,

World War II: The Italian secret agent Riccardo Cloro is sent undercover as a Swiss businessman to Graz by train, in which he gets to know Rada, a Czech Jew. He is then informed about his ...

Actors : Stepas Jukna, Eugenija Pleskyte, Vaclovas Muraska, Stasis Petronaitis,

A lithuanian village just after the end of the second World War: Neither German nor Russian its inhabitants must, despite their wounds, find new craft to dream of a better future ahead of them.

Actors : Howard Ross, Claudio Trionfi, Erika Wallner, Tab Hunter,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

End of World War II. The allies have reached the Rhine. The US command decided to blow up a bridge across the Elbe to prevent the Soviets to occupy Germany. Sergeant Richard was entrusted ...

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Yuri Volkov, Nina Urgant, Nikolay Burlyaev,
Directors : Igor Talankin,

A movie dedicated to the lives and fates of the youths, that were forced to face the harsh reality of the WWII.

Actors : Roberto Risso, John Mills, Robert Shaw, Ettore Manni,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War, the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held ...