Best World War II movies

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Martin Balsam, Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Actors : Ben Becker, Stefano Dionisi, Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król,
Directors : Rolf Schübel,

Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Rosanna Lavelle, Derek Jacobi,
Directors : John Henderson,

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

Actors : Biana Tamimi, Richard Romanus, Patrick Elyas, Gérard Rudolf,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.

Actors : Thelma Ritter, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift,
Directors : John Huston,

A divorcee falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.

Actors : James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner, James Coburn,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A German commander places a squad in extreme danger after its Sergeant refuses to lie for him.

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 : Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Post World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by memories and guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against ...

Actors : Simon Kunz, Hannah Tointon, Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Mark Schmidt,

A young man, separated from his family in WWII, disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.

Actors : JJ Feild, Liam Cunningham, Ji-hyun Jun, Allison Miller,
Directors : Chris Nahon,

A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.

Actors : Jake Abel, Nadia Parra, Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton,
Directors : Brian Falk,

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Matt Lanter, Thomas Jane, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Mario Van Peebles,

During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.

Actors : Evgenia Dodina, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory, Nelly Tagar,
Directors : Avi Nesher,

Past Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.

Actors : Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki,
Directors : Christopher Nolan,

An action epic revolving around international espionage, time travel, and evolution. Possibly about a man trying to prevent World War 3 through time travel and rebirth.

Actors : Laetitia Casta, Jean Texier, Guillaume Canet, Ilona Bachelier,
Directors : Christophe Barratier,

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

Actors : Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.

Actors : David Bowie, Tom Conti, Takeshi Kitano, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

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.