World War II Films


Any of these films may be viewed for extra credit. Read the Filmguide for instructions on how to write the report and the History on Film bibliography for resources.

recent films include
The Great Raid, U-571, Windtalkers, Hart's War, Charlotte Gray, Enigma, Dark Blue World, Gathering Storm, Uprsing
1941 (1979)
633 Squadron (1964)
Americanization of Emily (1964)
Anzio (1968)
Attack (1956)
Back to Bataan (1945)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Battle Cry (1955)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Battle of Midway, The (1942)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Bridge at Remagen, The (1969)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bridge Too Far (1977)
Brylcreem Boys (1996)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Casablanca (1942)
Charlotte Gray (2001)
Comrade X (1940)
Dark Blue World (2001)
Das Boot (1981)
Day After Trinity (1980)
December 7 (1942)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Empty Mirror (1997)
English Patient (1996)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Enigma (2001)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
FDR (1994 TV documentary)
Fighting Seabees (1944)
Flying Tigers (1942)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Gathering Storm (2002)
Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Great Raid (2005)
Great War, The (1996 TV documentary series)
Inside Nazi Germany (March of Time 1938)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Last Emperor (1987)
Life Is Beautiful (1998)
Longest Day, The (1962)
Memphis Belle, The (1944)
Midway (1976)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Negro Soldier (1944)
Nuremberg (2000 TV)
Outsider (1961)
Patton (1970)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
PT 109 (1963)
Ramparts We Watch (1940)
Richard III (1996) and web site
Saboteur (1942)
Sahara (1943 or 1995)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler's List (1993)
Sergeant York (1941)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The (Fighting) Sullivans (1944)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Thin Red Line (1999)
This Is the Army (1943)
To Hell and Back (1955)
Triumph of the Will (1934)
Truman (1995 on HBO)
U-571 (2000)
Uprising (2001)
Victory at Sea (1952 on NBC)
Wake Island (1942)
Why We Fight (1942-45)
Wilson (1944)
Winds of War (1981) and War and Remembrance (1985)
Windtalkers (2002)
Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
World at War (1974 for TV)
World War II: When Lions Roared (1994) (TV)


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