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1. Story of the Men Who Wanted to Burn New York (2019)
100 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the "Decima Mas", an Italian commando frogman unit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) created during the Fascist regime.
Director: Giorgio Carella
2. The Frozen Front (2017)
140 min | War
January 1945. The first French regiment of paratroopers to fight with an American unit prepares to liberate Alsace in France during World War II.
Director: David Aboucaya | Stars: Manuel Gonçalves, Laurent Guiot, Laurent Cerulli, Benoit Davin
Votes: 312
3. Island at War (2004)
396 min | Drama, War
During the Second World War, a quiet channel island community is thrown into turmoil by the invasion forces of Nazi Germany.
Stars: Saskia Reeves, Owen Teale, Julia Ford, Clare Holman
Votes: 1,924
4. Camicia nera (1933)
73 min | Drama
A Fascist propaganda film that details Italy's sacrifices in WWI and Mussolini's 'transformation' of rural Italy.
Director: Giovacchino Forzano | Stars: Enrico Marroni, Antonietta Mecale, Enrico Da Rosa, Guido Petri
Votes: 61
5. Stauffenberg (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1944, in fear of a complete German defeat in the World War II, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (... See full summary »
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Hardy Krüger Jr., Christopher Buchholz
Votes: 2,684
6. The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 5,787
7. The Cruel Sea (1953)
Approved | 126 min | Drama, War
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 5,410
8. None Shall Escape (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
The career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf
Votes: 977
9. The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A long-entrenched British agent planted in the German Army is urged to continue his work during the Second World War, but struggles to keep secret his true identity from the Third Reich.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox
Votes: 933
10. Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011)
180 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
About the supposed conspiracy that led to the catastrophic deadly crash of the Hindeburg zeppelin in 1937.
Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Maximilian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach
Votes: 1,167
11. The Hindenburg (1975)
Approved | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes
Votes: 6,589 | Gross: $27.95M
12. The Emperor of Taste (2008–2009)
490 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Helena De Keyser, a descendant from a family of gin distillers who lost her lover during the Second World War, anno 2008 asks her granddaughter Alessandra to investigate exactly what happened back then.
Stars: Katelijne Damen, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy, Matthias Schoenaerts
Votes: 326
13. The Unknown Soldier (1955)
177 min | Drama, War
The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo
Votes: 7,817
14. The Unknown Soldier (1985)
197 min | Drama, War
This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski, Mika Mäkelä
Votes: 3,044
15. Burial (II) (2022)
95 min | Thriller, War
A small group of Russian soldiers have the task of taking Hitler's discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow.
Director: Ben Parker | Stars: Harriet Walter, Kimberley Howson, David Alexander, Charlotte Vega
Votes: 1,982
16. The Colditz Story (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, War
Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 3,077
17. Frozen Silence (2011)
106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In this World War II murder mystery, a series of bodies signal a serial killer on the loose. A cop turned soldier goes on a personal mission to find the sadistic, cunning killer.
Director: Gerardo Herrero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Carmelo Gómez, Víctor Clavijo, Jordi Aguilar
Votes: 693
18. 5 Branded Women (1960)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, War
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles
Votes: 610
19. The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, War
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani
Votes: 10,396
20. Churchill's Leopards (1970)
84 min | Action, Thriller, War
The mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.
Director: Maurizio Pradeaux | Stars: Richard Harrison, Pilar Velázquez, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Frank Braña
Votes: 296
21. Desert Commandos (1967)
PG | 96 min | Drama, War
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert and tasked with getting to Casablanca to assassinate Allied leaders.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valérie, Carlo Hintermann
Votes: 417
22. Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, War
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 297
23. From Hell to Victory (1979)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Anny Duperey
Votes: 489
24. The Victors (1963)
175 min | Drama, War
Intelligent, sprawling saga that follows a squad of American soldiers through Europe during World War II.
Director: Carl Foreman | Stars: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri
Votes: 1,789
25. The Biggest Battle (1978)
PG | 90 min | War, Drama
How World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston
Votes: 590
26. The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV Movie)
95 min | Action, War
During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Reisman to pick 12 soldiers from the military prison for the dangerous mission of killing a Nazi General.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox
Votes: 2,606
27. The Beast in Heat (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, War
A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor creates a genetic, mutant human hybrid; the beast is a, squat, mongoloid hyper-sexually-driven fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while get fellow Nazis watch.
Director: Luigi Batzella | Stars: Macha Magall, Gino Turini, Edilio Kim, Xiro Papas
Votes: 1,949
28. Dirty Heroes (1967)
G | 105 min | Drama, War
Holland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. On the one hand are the powerful forces of the Allies, on the other, all that remains of the Third Reich. -Leigh Thomas
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Daniela Bianchi, Curd Jürgens, John Ireland
Votes: 263
29. The Truce (1997)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,829 | Gross: $0.07M
30. Dieci italiani per un tedesco (Via Rasella) (1962)
95 min | Drama, War
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Carlo D'Angelo, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 68
31. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler
Votes: 6,710
32. Bitter Victory (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, War
A commander receives a citation for an attack on Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 2,292
33. Uomini e no (1980)
105 min | Drama, War
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the Fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ... See full summary »
Director: Valentino Orsini | Stars: Flavio Bucci, Monica Guerritore, Ivana Monti, Massimo Foschi
Votes: 45
34. Hornets' Nest (1970)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
Directors: Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | Stars: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 1,121
35. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Approved | 90 min | War, Drama
A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp. There they have to make use of his best resources to stay alive - and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf
Votes: 960
36. Take the High Ground! (1953)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Carleton Carpenter
Votes: 1,110
37. Terra Bruciata! - Scorched Earth! (2018)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
November 1st 1943, in Conca della Campania, a tiny village in a south Italian province, 19 civilians are slaughtered by a Nazi patrol. Graziella Di Gasparro, daughter of one of the fallen, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Luca Gianfrancesco | Stars: Antonio Pennarella, Lucianna De Falco, Paola Lavini, Arturo Sepe
Votes: 9
38. Freaks Out (2021)
141 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone starts looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini
Votes: 7,140
39. A Hidden Life (2019)
PG-13 | 174 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon, Karin Neuhäuser
Votes: 28,178
40. Addio, figlio mio! (1953)
92 min | Drama
Director: Giuseppe Guarino | Stars: Marco Vicario, Rossana Podestà, Paolo Dola, Nyta Dover
41. Ferramonti
Drama | Announced
In 1940 a concentration camp was set up next to a tiny impoverished village in Calabria, Italy. Ferramonti is the story of the extraordinary relationships that developed between those in ... See full summary »
42. Glory at Sea (1952)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald
Votes: 757
43. Wunderland (2018)
Not Rated | 85 min | War
Lt. Cappa and his American infantry platoon are ordered to defend a vital road junction against a German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge. Despite difficult winter conditions, they must hold their position to stop the German advance.
Director: Steven Luke | Stars: Steven Luke, Tom Berenger, Mikeal Burgin, Aaron Courteau
Votes: 1,174
44. Ciao nemico (1982)
82 min | Comedy, War
Soon after the Allies land in Sicily, the U.S. Army finds itself on the other side of a 2,000 year old Roman bridge from the Italian Army. Both armies want to be the first to blow up the bridge, but they are both doing their best not to.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Giuliano Gemma, Carmen Russo, Eros Pagni
Votes: 142
45. Fango e gloria (2014)
90 min | History
The story of Italian young friends Mario, Agnese and Emilio, and their struggle during the World War I. Contains archive footage from Istituto Luce.
Director: Leonardo Tiberi | Stars: Eugenio Franceschini, Valentina Corti, Domenico Fortunato, Francesco Martino
Votes: 44
46. Ike: The War Years (1979 TV Movie)
Biography, Drama, War
Dramatization of the World War II years of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Directors: Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Stars: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Dana Andrews, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 188
47. Il prezzo della gloria (1956)
79 min | War
A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs
Director: Antonio Musu | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pierre Cressoy, Mike Bongiorno
Votes: 10
48. War Pigs (2015)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, War
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Director: Ryan Little | Stars: Luke Goss, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Liddell, Mickey Rourke
Votes: 3,649
49. Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project (2014)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
WWII veteran, prisoner of war, accomplished test pilot, pace plane for the Unlimited Reno races, air show pilot - Bob Hoover is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of ... See full summary »
Director: Kimberley Furst | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Jim Brasier, Ron Catton, Eugene Cernan
Votes: 53
50. The Fighting Lady (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.
Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer
Votes: 616
51. 12 O'Clock High (1964–1967)
60 min | Drama, War
A WWII bomb group commander must fill the shoes of his predecessor and get the performance rating up to snuff. He struggles with his own men, until he is able to develop pride in the group and win the men over, but at a cost to him.
Stars: Frank Overton, Paul Burke, Chris Robinson, Robert Lansing
Votes: 1,489
52. Beyond the Line of Duty (1942)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Biography, War
This short film in support of the war effort dramatizes the training and missions of Army Air Forces Captain Hewett T. Wheless, a former Texas ranch hand who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in the early days of WWII.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Hewitt T. Wheless, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hubert R. Harmon
Votes: 325
53. Devotion (II) (2022)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski
Votes: 27,951
54. Dark Blue World (2001)
R | 112 min | War, Drama, Action
The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance
Votes: 6,101 | Gross: $0.26M
55. Report from the Aleutians (1943)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History, War
Filmmaker John Huston narrates this Oscar-nominated World War II-era film about life among the U.S. soldiers protecting Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Director: John Huston | Stars: John Huston, Walter Huston, Milton Ashkin, Lyle A. Bean
Votes: 773
56. Thunderbolt (1947)
Approved | 44 min | Documentary, Short, History
A WW2 documentary on the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bomber pilots in missions (Operation Strangle) from their base in Corsica to Northern Italy in 1944, destroying railroads, bridges, trains, vehicles and hard targets.
Directors: William Wyler, John Sturges | Stars: James Stewart, John K. Cannon, Ira C. Eaker, Howard Hickok
Votes: 696
57. The Battle of the Damned (1969)
79 min | War
After landing in North Africa in World War II, a group of soldiers led by Capt. Bruce Clay is assigned to attack an enemy position in order to destroy a large oil storage cellar in the desert.
Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Dale Cummings, Maurice Poli, Herb Andress, Lex Monson
Votes: 127
58. Probabilità zero (1969)
PG | 95 min | Action, Drama, War
Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: Henry Silva, Luigi Casellato, Riccardo Salvino, Ezio Sancrotti
Votes: 183
59. When Heroes Die (1970)
90 min | Romance, War
The story of a group of American commandos assigned to kidnap General Rommel. But the soldiers are caught by the Germans who decide to use their plan against them. Replacing the American ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Merino | Stars: Craig Hill, Manuel Zarzo, Annabella Incontrera, Carlos Quiney
Votes: 95
60. Wild Wind (1985)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a special Allied unit is formed to destroy a German armored train that has been terrorizing the Yugoslavian countryside.
Directors: Valeriu Jereghi, Aleksandar Petkovic | Stars: Jay North, George Montgomery, Dale Cummings, Dusan Janicijevic
Votes: 153
61. A Place in Hell (1969)
107 min | War
After the U.S. defeat in the Philippines, Madison leads a rag-tag group of U.S. soldiers against the Japanese occupiers. In this WW II drama, the Japanese set an island trap for the American troops.
Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Guy Madison, Maurice Poli, Hélène Chanel, Sandro Pizzochero
Votes: 125
62. Shell Shock (1964)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, War
On the front in Italy during World War II, a sergeant thinks that one of his men is faking battle fatigue, and sets out to expose him.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Carl Crow, Frank Leo, Beach Dickerson, Pamela Grey
Votes: 76
63. Operation Cross Eagles (1968)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, War
In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress.
Director: Richard Conte | Stars: Richard Conte, Rory Calhoun, Aili King, Rada Djuricin
Votes: 155
64. Suicide Battalion (1958)
Approved | 79 min | War, Drama
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an American commando team is sent to an evacuated American base in the jungle to destroy classified documents.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Mike Connors, John Ashley, Jewell Lain, Russ Bender
Votes: 211
65. Bomber's Moon (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, War
An American bomber pilot, who sees his brother machine-gunned to death, escapes a concentration camp with a beautiful Russian doctor, and exacts his revenge by shooting down a mysterious German flight mission led by his brother's killer.
Directors: Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster, John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 87
66. The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley
Votes: 3,914
67. 36 ore all'inferno (1969)
93 min | Action, War
A rag tag bunch of US marines are sent in to the Pacific Island of Rabaul to clear any remaining Japanese forces after heavy bombing. They meet fierce resistance.
Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Richard Harrison, Pamela Tudor, Alain Gerard, Carlo Gaddi
Votes: 127
68. The North Star (1943)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,792
69. The Mighty Eighth
Action, History, War | Announced
Five miles above the earth and deep behind enemy lines, eleven men inside a bomber known as the "Flying Fortress" fight for their lives against swarms of enemy German fighters. Inspired by true events.
Director: Rick Jacobson
70. Sergeant York (1941)
Passed | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Votes: 19,792 | Gross: $16.40M
71. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright
Votes: 70,561 | Gross: $23.65M
72. A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Passed | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond
Votes: 2,914
73. The Night Porter (1974)
R | 118 min | Drama
A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 14,725 | Gross: $0.63M
74. The Battle of Midway (1942)
TV-PG | 18 min | Documentary, Short, War
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Logan Ramsey, James Roosevelt
Votes: 2,272
75. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 21,493
76. Under Ten Flags (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War
German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.
Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson
Votes: 553
77. They Were Expendable (1945)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Votes: 9,262
78. Patton (1970)
GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Votes: 107,972 | Gross: $61.70M
79. Air Force (1943)
Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 3,816
80. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, War
The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders.
Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 12,343
81. Battlebox (2023)
77 min | Drama, History, War
With a sudden attack by the Japanese, British Major-General Maltby and his top officers struggle with the decision to either fight to the death or offer a humiliating surrender of the British Colony of Hong Kong.
Director: Craig McCourry | Stars: Michael Szuc, Mira Leung, Jai Day, Alexander Zorn
Votes: 636
82. The Conference (2022 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama, History, War
On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of 11 million Jews was decided.
Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer, Maximilian Brückner, Matthias Bundschuh
Votes: 4,058
83. Combat America (1943)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, War
A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are ... See full summary »
Stars: Clark Gable, William A. Hatcher, Philip J. Hulls, Kenneth L. Hulls
Votes: 151
84. Die gefrorenen Blitze (1967)
165 min | Drama
Director: János Veiczi | Stars: Alfred Müller, Leon Niemczyk, Dietrich Körner, Emil Karewicz
Votes: 62
85. Come Out Fighting (2022)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set during World War 2, a squad of American Army soldiers are sent on a mission behind lines to locate their missing commanding officer.
Director: Steven Luke | Stars: Kellan Lutz, Hiram A. Murray, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White
Votes: 1,732
86. Blockade (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 712
87. Most (1969)
105 min | Action, War
In order to check German offensive, Partizans send elite team of explosive experts to blow up strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost ... See full summary »
Director: Hajrudin Krvavac | Stars: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Boris Dvornik, Relja Basic
Votes: 1,279
88. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Approved | 70 min | Documentary, Animation, History
An animated documentary promoting of the soundness of strategic aerial bombing in World War II.
Directors: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter | Stars: Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Votes: 1,176 | Gross: $0.80M
89. Lancaster (2022)
110 min | Documentary
The Lancaster Bomber, synonymous with the Dambusters and night raids on Nazi Germany.
Directors: David Fairhead, Ant Palmer | Star: Charles Dance
Votes: 434
90. Combat! (1962–1967)
60 min | Action, Drama, War
Combat!, a one-hour World War II drama series, followed a front line American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe
Stars: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Pierre Jalbert, Jack Hogan
Votes: 3,143
91. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Votes: 50,829 | Gross: $30.50M
92. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,602 | Gross: $10.02M
93. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959)
Not Rated | 208 min | Drama, History, War
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Votes: 9,362
94. Hustler Squad (1975)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, War
World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative,... See full summary »
Director: Cesar Gallardo | Stars: John Ericson, Karen Ericson, Crystin Sinclaire, Nory Wright
Votes: 550
95. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, War
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop
Votes: 4,548
96. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
830 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 4,978
97. V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
118 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov, Evgeniy Serzin, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 645
98. Father & Soldier (2022)
98 min | Action, Drama, History
During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal.
Director: Mathieu Vadepied | Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet, Bamar Kane
Votes: 1,361
99. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, War
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm
Votes: 10,539
100. Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
102 min | Comedy, Music, War
Bourdelle, a family of musicians, refuse to play for Germans during the war. They would like to liberate France using all possible means.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot
Votes: 3,394
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