Best World War II movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette, Murray Hamilton, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Actors : William Sanderson, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann...

Actors : George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Vince Edwards, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Carl Foreman,

Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Actors : Jack Albertson, Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Phil Silvers, Shelley Winters, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, John Beck, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Hart Bochner, Gilbert Roland, David Hemmings, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Charles Drake, John Gavin, Vera Miles,
Directors : David Miller,

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...

Actors : James Yagi, Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : Salvatore Baccaloni, Harry Guardino, Elsa Martinelli, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

In 1944, two American spies, posing as priests, infiltrate German occupied Rome to relay information to HQ but can only communicate via pigeons due to the imposed radio silence.