Best World War II movies

Actors : Audie England, Eric da Silva, Raven Snow, Costas Mandylor,
Directors : Zalman King,

A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Tamás Major, Imre Sinkovits, Iván Darvas, György Pálos,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch ...

Actors : Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.

Actors : Troy Kotsur, Jess Alexander, Zhiwen Wang, Naiwen Li, Johnny Sequoyah, Wu Jiang,
Directors : Linshan Zhao, Johannes Roberts,

Set against the backdrop of the bacterial experiments conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 in Northeast China, and reveals the crimes of Unit 731 through the turbulent fate of an ordinary individual.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, John Lund, Ricky Nelson, Chips Rafferty,
Directors : Richard Murphy,

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" - a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of ...

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Anna Mikhalkova, Oleg Menshikov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly ...

Actors : Sung-jun Yoo, Xing Yu, Baocheng Jiang, Heon Jun Nam,
Directors : Wing-Cheong Law,

Before the West entered World War II, a Japanese death cult called the Temple of Hades is ordered to aid in the spiritual destruction of China. Their method - abduct their enemies' children...

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Steve McQueen, Gary Cockrell, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this...

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Georgiy Burkov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops cross the bridge. ...

Actors : Arran Tulloch, Laura Fraser, Lesley Harcourt, Eddie Izzard,
Directors : Gillies MacKinnon,

It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet ...

Actors : Ballard Berkeley, Tom Betts, Ballard Berkely, Frieda Anderson,
Directors : Ella Wright,

This approach brings history to life through vividly restored archival footage and firsthand accounts of WWII Britain during the Blitz.

Actors : Hart Bochner, Gilbert Roland, David Hemmings, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

Actors : Gilles Marini, Cody Kasch, Brett Cullen, Ryan Merriman,
Directors : Eric Colley,

World War II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels, Heinz Schubert,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Biff Manard, Art LaFleur, Timothy Van Patten, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Danny Bilson,

In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.

Actors : Campbell Scott, Anthony Hopkins, Isabella Rossellini, Ronald Nitschke,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A young engineer is sent to post World War II Berlin to help the Americans, in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend, he falls in love ...

Actors : Chien-ru Huang, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Tian-Lu Li,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese...