Best World War II movies of 2000s

Actors : Peter Mygind, Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade,
Directors : Ole Christian Madsen,

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Actors : Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Thomas Morrison,
Directors : Julian Jarrold,

A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.

Actors : James Franco, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, Robert Mammone,
Directors : John Dahl,

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Actors : Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Martin Landau, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : John Madden,

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Actors : Izabella Scorupco, Remy Sweeney, James D'Arcy, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

Actors : Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen, Raymond Thiry,
Directors : Martin Koolhoven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Actors : Michael Ealy, Omar Benson Miller, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Actors : Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Matthes,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Peter Dinklage, Peter O'Toole, John Lynch,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Actors : André Hennicke, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann, Penélope Cruz, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Duigan,

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee ...

Actors : Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Actors : Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby,
Directors : Ryan Little,

Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Actors : Martin Brambach, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Karl Markovics,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.

Actors : Jaroslava Adamová, Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan,
Directors : Ondrej Trojan,

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...

Actors : Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Actors : Meat Loaf, Laura Dern, David Paymer, William H. Macy,
Directors : Neal Slavin,

In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution...