World War II Movies

List of the best movies about the Second World War, selected by visitors to our site: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, The Imitation Game, Pearl Harbor, 1944, Dunkirk, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Book Thief, Allied, Inglourious Basterds.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 9
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration03:15

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:49

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:54

    Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:03

    The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryEstonia, Finland
    Duration02:13

    The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
    Duration02:27

    The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:11

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:39

    In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:33

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration02:29

      WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom
      Duration02:01

        Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, military, history
        CountryUSA, China, Canada

        A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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        Genredrama, biography
        CountryRussia, Belarus

        The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany
        Duration02:11

        Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryItaly
        Duration01:56

        A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction, drama, military
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:38

        A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryRussia

        The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA, China, Canada, Hong Kong

        The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, drama, military
        CountryUSA, China, United Kingdom
        Duration02:14

        Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryGermany

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        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryRussia

        In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryRussia

        After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses - only a third of the personnel remain from the company. Exhausted to the limit, the soldiers are waiting for reinforcements, but an order comes from the headquarters - to keep the village at all costs, and this is tantamount to a death sentence. The company commander faces a difficult choice - either to lose the remnants of the company, following a meaningless command order, or to withdraw his people from mortar fire, but at the same time leave their positions and go to the tribunal for violating the order. In extremely realistic details, only one fierce battle is shown, in which, like in a drop of water, the whole truth about the war is reflected.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama, military
        CountryGermany, Russia, Ukraine
        Duration01:33

        Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

          Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryRussia

          Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genredocumentary, military, history
          CountryRussia

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          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genremilitary, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, military
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:45

          France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
          Duration02:23

          The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, drama, military, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:33

          Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, military
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:58

          Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrecomedy, drama, military, history
          CountryNew Zealand, Czech Republic, USA

          A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryRussia

          December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing. He's alive, but far from friendly territory. Ahead of him is a relentless trial of severe physical and mental endurance. After battling hunger and extreme cold, evading packs of wolves and detachments of Nazi soldiers, the wounded Komlev finally makes it back to safety. But there he faces another challenge, the most life-changing of them all.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genredrama, military, music, biography
          CountryFrance, Poland, United Kingdom, Germany
          Duration02:29

          The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany

          The story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Based on real events.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genremelodrama, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:26

          Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genredrama, military
          CountryNorway, Sweden, France
          Duration01:44

          Based on a true story. On 27 April 1940, Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' Heinkel 111 bomber is shot down near Grotli by an RAF Blackburn Skua L2940 fighter, which then crash-lands. The surviving German and English crew members begin to at shoot each other, but later find themselves huddled up in the same cabin. In order to survive the harsh winter in the Norwegian wilderness, they have to stand together. An unlikely, lifelong friendship blossoms.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:27

          In the third installment of the hit Nazi Zombie action horror movie, Outpost: Rise Of The Spetnaz, we discover the horrifying origins of these supernatural soldiers and see them in ferocious gladiatorial battle against the most ruthless and notorious of all military special forces: the Russian Spetsnaz.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
          CountryPoland
          Duration02:07

          A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA, Netherlands, Czech Republic
          Duration01:24

          Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Netherlands
          Duration01:59

          A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA

          The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genreaction, drama, military, biography
          CountryGermany, France, Poland
          Duration01:48

          Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, military
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:58

          May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, military
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:56

          In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrebiography, history
          CountryRussia

          Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration02:24

          In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genredrama, military
          CountrySerbia

          During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".




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