Subject: World War II
By Western reckoning, this epic war took place between 1939 and 1945, though it does include the Sino-Japanese war that began in 1937 and was more than The Hitler Channel.
49th Parallel (The Invaders)
- Director: Michael Powell
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United Kingdom
When their U-boat is sunk in Hudson's Bay, three German soldiers flee across the Canadian countryside, desperate to reach safety in neutral territory: the United States.
A Bridge Too Far
- Director: Richard Attenborough
- Release Date: 1977
- Production Country: United States, United Kingdom
Sent to execute a complex and dangerous mission involving blowing up a number of bridges, the British commander of the Allied forces must deal with logistical nightmares and strategic defeats, complications about which his commanders had been warned before the mission was launched, but through which he now must accomplish his task and get his men home safely.
A Yank in the R.A.F. (The Eagle Flies Again)
- Director: Henry King
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United States
Ace pilot Tim Baker takes a job ferrying newly made bombers from the U.S. to Britain, where he runs into his old girlfriend who, because of her belief in the necessity to fight Hitler, has joined up as a nurse in the British forces. Wanting to impress her, Tim joins the Royal Air Force, where he gradually begins to understand, after several missions, what the war is all about.
Action in Arabia
- Director: Léonide Moguy
- Release Date: 1944
- Production Country: United States
An American reporter in Damascus, while seeking information about his friend's murder, manages to fend off 'dangerous women' and 'sinister Arabs,' and to foil a Nazi plot to unite the Arab tribes against Allied interests.
Aimée & Jaguar
- Director: Max Färberböck
- Release Date: 1999
- Production Country: Germany
Left behind in Berlin with the children when her husband goes to war, Lily is not adverse to entertaining the occasional gentleman in her flat, but it isn't until she meets the lovely and intriguing journalist Felice that Lily discovers just how passionate and consuming love can be; however, the one secret Felice keeps from Lily is the one that will eventually destroy their happiness.
Air Force
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Release Date: 1943
- Production Country: United States
The crew of a B-17 flying fortress sacrifice life and limb while performing heroic acts as part of the early Allied war efforts in the Pacific.
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin)
- Director: Max Färberböck
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Germany, Poland
The Soviet army has "liberated" Berlin from Hitler's rule, yet this appears only to mean that no German woman is safe from rape at the hands of her liberators; as Anna, a young German journalist, records in her diary, she and her friends do not ask one another "whether" but "how often," while the chaos of war threatens to overwhelm Soviets and Germans alike.
Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children)
- Director: Louis Malle
- Release Date: 1987
- Production Country: France, West Germany, Italy
An immature French schoolboy befriends a fellow student only to discover his friend is a Jewish boy whom the schoolmaster has hidden in the midst of a Catholic boys' school.
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
- Director: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Interviews with soldiers and survivors, archival film footage, computer-generated imagery, and re-enactments provide a unique look at the history of Auschwitz, the most infamous of World War II Nazi death camps; both the camp itself and the larger story of Hitler's Final Solution comprise the larger story.
Australia
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
An English aristocrat struggles to adapt to life on an Australian ranch as she must fight to retain her property and livelihood, as well as endure the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
Away All Boats
- Director: Joseph Pevney
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United States
Two experienced officers take their inexperienced crew into the Pacific theater of World War II, facing incompetence, battle, and terrifying kamikaze attacks.
Back to Bataan
- Director: Edward Dmytryk
- Release Date: 1945
- Production Country: United States
Philippine guerrillas rely on American officers to lead them against the occupying Japanese army on Guam after the Allied forces have been forced to leave.
Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier)
- Director: Grigori Chukhrai
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: Soviet Union
Given a ten-day pass so he can return home to repair his mother's roof, a young Russian soldier observes the many faces of love and relationships on his journey.
Band of Brothers
- Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel, Tony To
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The men of E Company from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division come together, experiencing life, death, joy, and sorrow as they serve their country in the battlefields of Europe.
Bataan
- Director: Tay Garnett
- Release Date: 1943
- Production Country: United States
As Allied forces flee Bataan ahead of Japanese troops, soldiers volunteer to stay behind and prevent the enemy from taking or rebuilding a crucial bridge.
Battle Cry
- Director: Raoul Walsh
- Release Date: 1955
- Production Country: United States
Marines must go through boot camp and training before participating in battle, but it does not prepare them for the realities of war–or love.
Battle of the Bulge
- Director: Ken Annakin
- Release Date: 1965
- Production Country: United States
Lt. Colonel Kiley has photographic proof from his last recon flight that German Panzer divisions are massing in the Belgian woods, and it looks like their first target will be a fuel depot essential to the Allied battle plan--but no one at Allied headquarters will believe him. Meanwhile, the Germans have their own issues with inexperienced soldiers and what just might be an overly complicated plan.
Biloxi Blues
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Release Date: 1988
- Production Country: United States
The war is almost over when Jerome is drafted and sent for basic training, where he might as well be in a foreign country because nothing in Biloxi, Missouri reminds him of the streets of New York city–not the heat, not the women, and certainly not the people.
Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp)
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: Japan
When a Japanese lute player fails to convince fellow soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II, he must survive not only the British attack that follows, but also the harrowing walk home through fields strewn with the bodies of his countrymen.
Bitka na Neretvi (Battle of Neretva)
- Director: Veljko Bulajic
- Release Date: 1969
- Production Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany
In a desperate attempt to divert oncoming Axis forces, partisans pretend to destroy all the bridges across the River Neretva, hoping they can repair one and defeat the Chetnik cavalry on the other side before the Germans catch on and return with their vastly superior troops and weapons.