Best World War II movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Mark Rylance, Barry Keoghan, Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead,
Directors : Christopher Nolan,

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Actors : Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

The 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.

Actors : Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan,
Directors : Joe Wright,

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Allen Leech, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : Morten Tyldum,

During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent,

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Actors : Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Actors : Jesse Bradford, Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Cross, Barry Pepper,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Gary Oldman, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn,
Directors : Joe Wright,

During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Thomasin McKenzie, Roman Griffin Davis,
Directors : Taika Waititi,

A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi, Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Angelina Jolie,

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Vincent Ebrahim, Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

In 1942, a Canadian 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.

Actors : Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Hanks, Matt Helm,
Directors : Aaron Schneider,

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Jonathan Banks, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Dee Rees,

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain,
Directors : Stephen Daldry,

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo,
Directors : Baz Luhrmann,

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Actors : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.