Movies by Lists - WWII - The Axis (1930-1945) (58 [68]) 
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| Amen.During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world. | 2002 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, War | 7.2 (14K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Battle of Okinawa, The [Gekido no showashi - Okinawa kessen]Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead. | 1971 | Kihachi Okamoto | Drama, History, War | 7.0 (392 votes) | 149 | 20220414 |
| Best Wishes for Tomorrow [Ashita e no yuigon]A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen. | 2007 | Takashi Koizumi | Drama, War | 7.0 (526 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Bridge, The [Die Brucke]In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers. | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | Drama, War | 8.0 (7.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Bridge, The [Die Brücke]In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers. | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | Drama, History, War | 8.0 (8.7K votes) | 103 | 20240524 |
| Bunker, TheGermany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker. | 2001 | Rob Green | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War | 5.4 (6.1K votes) | 88 | 20231013 |
| Bunker, TheDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins') last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city. | 1981 | George Schaefer | Drama, History, War | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| ConspiracyAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented. | 2001 | Frank Pierson | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.7 (20.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Cross of IronGerman commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him. | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Drama, War | 7.5 (26.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Das Boot [The Boat]The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (244.3K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Desert Fox, The - The Story of RommelThe story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel. | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | Biography, Drama, War | 6.9 (6.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| DownfallTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.2 (346.4K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| Downfall of Berlin - Anonyma, The [Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin]A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. | 2008 | Max Färberböck | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Eagle Has Landed, TheA German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II. | 1976 | John Sturges (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.9 (21K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| EichmannBased upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the fFnal Solution. Captur | 2007 | Robert Young | Biography, Drama, History, War | 5.9 (3.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Everybody Go Home! [Tutti a casa]When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes. | 1960 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.7 (1.2K votes) | 122 | 20220414 |
| Eye of the NeedleA ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband. | 1981 | Richard Marquand | Romance, Thriller, War | 7.1 (10.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Generation War [Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter]Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas. | 2013 | Philipp Kadelbach | Action, Drama, History, War | 8.4 (32.5K votes) | 2 | 20240407 |
| Great Dictator, TheDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. | 1940 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.4 (217.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| HitlerBiopic of Adolf Hitler focusing on his relationships with various women from 1923 to 1945. | 1962 | Stuart Heisler | Biography, Drama, War | 5.8 (328 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Hitler - The Rise of EvilA unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers' Party prior to World War II. | 2003 | Christian Duguay | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.3 (21.8K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Hitler The Last Ten DaysA dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. | 1973 | Ennio De Concini | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Hitler's S S - Portrait in EvilThe story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism | 1985 | Jim Goddard | Drama, War | 6.6 (774 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Human Condition I - No Greater Love, TheA 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. | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | Drama, History, War | 8.6 (7.6K votes) | 208 | 20211228 |
| Human Condition II - The Road to Eternity, TheAs a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals. | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | Drama, History, War | 8.5 (6.1K votes) | 181 | 20211228 |
| Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer, TheHis ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | Drama, History, War | 8.8 (5.9K votes) | 190 | 20211228 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet [Rengô kantai shirei chôkan - Yamamoto Isoroku]The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. | 2011 | Izuru Narushima | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 140 | 20230830 |
| It Happened on July 20th [Es geschah am 20. Juli]A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. | 1955 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.7 (294 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Last 4 Days, The [Mussolini ultimo atto]In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their t | 1974 | Carlo Lizzani | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.6 (737 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Letters From Iwo JimaThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. | 2006 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.9 (159.9K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Lion of the DesertIn 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar. | 1980 | Moustapha Akkad | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.3 (15.3K votes) | 173 | 20211228 |
| Massacre in Rome [Rappresaglia]Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that Italians. | 1973 | George P. Cosmatos | Drama, History, War | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Mein Führer - The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler [Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler]The action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels in the actor-teacher of Jewish concentration camp for lessons eloquence to inspire the German people | 2007 | Dani Levy | Comedy, Drama, War | 5.5 (4.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| MidwayA dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. | 1976 | Jack Smight | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.8 (19.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Misfit Brigade, TheWar story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army. | 1987 | Gordon Hessler | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 5.8 (2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Mussolini - The Untold StoryThe rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. | 1985 | William A. Graham | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.0 (594 votes) | 2 | 20230619 |
| Mussolini and IA compelling drama and documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce (Bob Hoskins), from his days as a terrorist, to his alliance with Hitler, to the betrayal of his son-in-law, and untimely demise. | 1985 | Alberto Negrin | Biography, Drama, War | 6.3 (400 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Generals, TheIn 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades. | 1967 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 7.2 (7.8K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Night Porter, TheA 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. | 1974 | Liliana Cavani | Drama | 6.7 (12.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Plot to Kill Hitler, TheOn July 20th, 1944, German Army Colonel von Stauffenberg plans to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with a briefcase-bomb, during a military conference, while other high-ranking plotters in Berlin are preparing to take power in a | 1990 | Lawrence Schiller | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.2 (465 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Rengô kantai shirei chôkan - Yamamoto Isoroku [Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto]As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believe | 1968 | Seiji Maruyama | Drama, War | 6.7 (177 votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Rome Open CityDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape. | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.1 (25.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| RommelThe story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. | 2012 | Niki Stein | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.6 (2.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Salon KittyKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. | 1976 | Tinto Brass (*) | Drama, War | 5.4 (4.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet and the Black, TheVatican efforts, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome. | 1983 | Jerry London | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Sophie Scholl The Final DaysA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. | 2005 | Marc Rothemund | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.6 (27.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| StalingradThe story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad. | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Drama, War | 7.5 (34.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Stalingrad - Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever [Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben]In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. | 1959 | Frank Wisbar | War, Drama | 7.2 (753 votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Stauffenberg [Operation Valkyrie]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 (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the... | 2004 | Jo Baier | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.7 (2.6K votes) | 92 | 20231001 |
| Storm Over the Pacific [Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen - Taiheiyô no arashi]Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up vic | 1960 | Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi | Drama, History, War | 6.3 (179 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Tea with MussoliniAn orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II. | 1999 | Franco Zeffirelli | Comedy, Drama, War | 6.9 (13.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Time To Love and A Time To Die, AOn the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind. | 1958 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (3.2K votes) | 132 | 20220414 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora!The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness. | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.5 (35.8K votes) | 144 | 20230619 |
| Under the Flag of the Rising Sun [Gunki hatameku motoni]One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II. | 1972 | Kinji Fukasaku | Drama, Mystery, War | 7.9 (974 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| ValkyrieA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. | 2008 | Bryan Singer (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.1 (237.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| VincereThe story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino. | 2009 | Marco Bellocchio | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (5.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| White Rose, The [Die Weisse Rose]During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newslet | 1982 | Michael Verhoeven | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.1 (967 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Wild Blood [Sanguepazzo]The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy. | 2008 | Marco Tullio Giordana | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (1K votes) | 148 | 20240910 |
| Speer und er | 2005 | nan | Biography, Drama, War | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Rommel ruft Kairo | 1959 | Wolfgang Schleif | Thriller, War | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Christabel | 1988 | nan | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Das letzte U-Boot | 1993 | Frank Beyer | Drama, War | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Dresden | 2006 | Roland Suso Richter | Drama, Romance, War | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Il giovane Mussolini | 1993 | nan | Biography, Drama, History, War | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Edda | 2005 | Giorgio Capitani | Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Maria Josè, l'ultima regina | 2002 | Carlo Lizzani | Drama, History | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cefalonia | 2005 | Riccardo Milani | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku | 2007 | Taku Shinjô | Drama, War | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |