Best World War II movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Rob Marshall,

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, Ben Schnetzer, Emily Watson,
Directors : Brian Percival,

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.

Actors : John Haycraft, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : James Ivory,

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.

Actors : John Wood, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman,
Directors : John Badham,

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Actors : John Malkovich, Christian Bale, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Actors : Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Judd Hirsch, Gabriel LaBelle,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Jaroslava Adamová, Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan,
Directors : Ondrej Trojan,

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner,
Directors : John Sturges,

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Actors : Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, John Wayne,

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Actors : Robin Williams, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Actors : David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles, Geraldine Muir,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Trevor Howard, Frank Sinatra, Brad Dexter,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : István Szabó,

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...

Actors : Howard E. Rollins Jr., Art Evans, Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.