List films on the Second world war .
(NB: in each part, the films are classified chronologically, then alphabetically if there are several films of the same year)
Classification set of themes
In first line
In the Atlantic
In the Pacific
- Thirty seconds on Tokyo (of Mervyn LeRoy, 1944)
- Iwo Jima (of Allan Dwan, 1949)
- the Devils of Guadalcanal (of Nicholas Ray, 1951)
- Ouragan on Caine (of Edward Dmytryk, 1954)
- God alone knows it (John Huston, 1957)
- the Bridge of the river Kwaï (of David Lean , 1957)
- Duel in the Pacific (of John Boorman, 1968)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (of Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku, (1970)
- the Battle of Midway (of Jack Smight, 1976)
- 1941 (of Steven Spielberg, 1979)
- Furyo (of Nagisa Oshima, 1983)
- the Red line ( The Thin Red Line ) (of Terrence Malick, 1998)
- messengers of the wind (Windtalkers) (of John Woo, 2001)
- Pearl Harbor (of Michael Bay, 2001)
- Memories of our fathers (of Clint Eastwood, 2006)
- Letters of Iwo Jima (of Clint Eastwood, 2007)
In Europe
- the Battle of heavy water (of Titus Vibe-Müller, 1948)
- Bastogne ( Battleground ) (of William A. Wellman, 1949)
- the Breakers of stopping (of Michael Anderson, 1954)
- the Ball of cursed the (of Edward Dmytryk, 1957)
- When the storks pass (of Mikhaïl Kalatozov, 1957)
- the commandos pass to the attack ( Darby' S Rangers ) (of William A. Wellman, 1958)
- the Ballade of the soldier (of Grigori Tchoukhraï, 1959)
- the Great Disorder ( Tutti has Casa ) (Luigi Comencini, 1960)
- Guns of Navarone (of Jack Lee Thompson, 1961)
- the longest Day ( The Longest Day ) (of Ken Annakin, 1962)
- the hell is for the heroes (of Don Siegel, 1962)
- Week-end in Zuydcoote (of Henri Verneuil, 1964)
- the Heroes of Télémark (of Anthony Mann, 1965)
- the Battle of the Ardennes (of Ken Annakin, 1965)
- The Dirty Dozen (of Robert Aldrich, 1967)
- the Battle for Anzio (of Edward Dmytryk, 1968)
- the Brigade of the devil (of Andrew V. McLaglen, 1968)
- the Bridge of Remagen (of John Guillermin, 1968)
- the Battle of England (of Guy Hamilton, 1969)
- the Battle of Neretva (of Veljko Bulajic, 1969)
- a castle in hell (of Sydney Pollack, 1969)
- When the eagles attack (of Brian G. Hutton, 1969)
- Patton (of Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)
- Wrestling-22 (of Mike Nichols, 1970)
- Of gold for the brave men (of Brian G. Hutton, 1970)
- Third part of the night (of Andrzej Żuławski, 1971)
- the eagle flew away (of John Sturges, 1976)
- Cross of iron (of Sam Peckinpah, 1977)
- a bridge too far (of Richard Attenborough, 1977)
- Series from the Seventh company
- the hurricane comes from Navarone (of Guy Hamilton, 1978)
- Beyond glory ( The Big Red One ) (of Samuel Fuller, 1980)
- Memphis Belle (of Michael Caton-Jones, 1990)
- Stalingrad (of Joseph Vilsmaier, 1993)
- Wind East (1993) (of Robert Enrico, 1993)
- It is necessary to save the soldier Ryan (of Steven Spielberg, 1998)
- Stalingrad ( Enemy At the Gates ) (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2001)
- Capitaine Corelli (of John Madden, 2001)
- Dark Blue World (of Jan Sverák, 2001)
- Mission Escape (of Gregory Hoblit, 2002)
- Band off Brothers (of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001)
- '' the seat from Bitche 1944-1945 '' (of Mallory Grolleau, 2005)
- Indigenous (of Rachid Bouchareb, 2006)
- Mr Leon (of Pierre Boutron, 2006)
- (of Robert Harmon, 2004)
In Africa
Shoah
- Night and fog (of Alain Resnais, 1956)
- Sorrow and pity (of Marcel Ophuls, 1971)
- Shoah (of Claude Lanzmann, 1974)
- Holocaust (of Marvin Chomsky, 1978)
- Goodbye the children (of Louis Malle, 1987)
- Survivors of Sobibor (of Jack Gold, 1987)
- the List of Schindler (of Steven Spielberg, 1993)
- the Poor wretches (of Claude Lelouch, 1995)
- the life is beautiful (of Roberto Benigni, 1997)
- Way of life (of Radu Mihaileanu, 1998)
- Amen. (of Costa-Gavras, 2002)
- the Case Furtwängler ( Taking Sides ) (of István Szabó, 2002)
- the Pianist (of Romance Polański, 2002)
With the back
Policy
Resistance and collaboration
- To Be gold Not to Be (of Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
- the torturers dies also (of Fritz Lang, 1942)
- the Battle of the rail (of Rene Clément, 1945)
- Rome, city open (of Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
- the quiet Father (of Rene Clément and Christmas-Christmas, 1946)
- a friend will come this evening (of Raymond Bernard, 1946)
- the Silence of the sea (of Jean-Pierre Melville, 1947)
- the Business Cicéron (of Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, 1952)
- We all are of the assassins (of André Cayatte, 1952)
- the Army of the shades (of Jean-Pierre Melville, 1964)
- the Train (of John Frankenheimer, 1964)
- the Great Ramble (of Gerard Oury, 1966)
- does Paris burn? (of Rene Clement, 1966)
- the Night of the generals (of Anatole Litvak, 1967)
- Lacombe Lucien (of Louis Malle, 1974)
- Old Rifle (of Robert Enrico, 1975)
- Mr Klein (of Joseph Losey, 1976)
- the Weapon with the eye (of Richard Marquand, 1980)
- Lili Marleen (To groove Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
- Grandpa made of resistance (of Jean-Marie Pear, 1983)
- Goodbye the children (of Louis Malle, 1987)
- Lucie Aubrac (of Claude Berri, 1997)
- the blue Bicycle (of Thierry Binisti, 2000)
- Mr Batignole (of Gerard Jugnot, 2002)
- Appalling gardens (of Jean Becker, 2003)
- Sophie Scholl - the last days (of Marc Rothemund, 2005)
- Black Book (of Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
Prisoners of war
- the Bridge of the river Kwaï (film) ( The Bridge in to rivet Kwaï ) (David Lean, 1957)
- the Cow and the Prisoner (of Henri Verneuil, 1959)
- the Passage of the Rhine (of Andre Cayatte, 1960)
- the Corporal pinned (of Jean Renoir and Guy Lefranc, 1961)
- the Great escape (from John Sturges, 1963)
- the Express train of the colonel Von Ryan (of Mark Robson, 1964)
- With us the victory (of John Huston, 1981)
- Empire of the sun (of Steven Spielberg, 1987)
- Paradise Road (of Bruce Beresford, 1997)
- Mission escape ( Hart' S War ) (of Gregory Hoblit, 2002)
- Great Raid, The ( Great Raid, The ) (of John Dahl, 2005)
Life of civilians
- Mrs Miniver (of William Wyler, 1942) with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- Der Fuehrer' S Face (with Donald Duck, 1943)
- prohibited Jeux (of Rene Clement, 1951)
- the Crossing of Paris (of Claude Autant-Lara, 1956)
- Stop the drums (of Georges Lautner, 1960)
- Yanks (of John Schlesinger, 1979)
- the Last subway (of François Truffaut, 1980)
- Europa Europa ( Hitlerjunge Solomon , of Agnieszka Holland, 1990)
- the Tomb of the fireflies (of Isao Takahata, 1994)
- a very discrete hero (of Jacques Audiard, 1996)
- stray the (of Andre Techine, 2003)
Televised series
See too
External bonds
- Database of films over the Second world war