List of World War II feature films (1950–1989)

This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.

Common topics

Many aspects of this conflict have repeatedly been the subject of drama. These common subjects will not be linked when they appear in the film descriptions below:

Europe

• Adolf Hitler, Nazis and Nazism
• Nazi Germany and the Third Reich
• Gestapo and SS
• Benito Mussolini
• Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps
• Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish resistance
• Occupied France, Vichy France and French Resistance
• Occupied Norway
• The Holocaust

Asia–Pacific

• Emperor Hirohito

Non-geographical

• POW

1950s

1950–1954

1955–1959

1960s

1960–1964

1965–1969

1970s

1970–1974

1975–1979

1980s

1980–1984

1985–1989

Since 1990

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror

TV series

See also

• List of World War II short films
• List of World War II documentary films
• List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
• List of Holocaust films
• List of films based on war books – includes World War II section
• List of partisan films – films about World War II in Yugoslavia

Honorable mentions

• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) – Italian girl with 3 fathers, all US Army
• The Producers (1968) – Broadway Nazi musical
• Zelig (1983) – Woody Allen as a Nazi Brownshirt

References

Note

• This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.<br />This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.

Sources

• Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film – A study of the development of Russian cinema, from 1896 to the present. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 3rd edition, 1983. 513 pp.

External links

• World War 2 movies – reviews and trailers for popular World War II movies.