A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. I was a little boy; I didn’t know anything about the Russian front. 51,972 Action, Drama, War. Dominique Horwitz, Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. Ivana Baquero, Like those birthday cards in the ‘For Boys’ section of card shops with a picture of a racing car jumping over a steam train full of cowboys, ‘Escape to Victory’ has everything for the sexually immature adolescent male. DJ. Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. James Garner, Stars: | Gross: Ken Annakin TH, Britain’s obsession with the demon drink has made for some terrific cinema, and second only to ‘Whisky Galore’ in the pantheon of pissed-up pictures is this rousing, surprisingly hard-nosed tale of dipsomania in the desert. WWII: The Lost Color Archives. The film is a masterclass in economical, tight-space storytelling, piling the pressure on both characters and audience until the sprockets squeak. When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander. This is a collection of World War II related motion pictures & historical related documentaries. Director: When his unit is attacked by the Germans, army captain Anson (John Mills) hijacks an ambulance and heads across the Sahara with two nurses and a dubious South African officer in tow. TH, Deeper and downOriginally made as a five-hour miniseries for German TV, cut to feature-length for worldwide consumption and finally expanded again to a 210-minute ‘director’s cut’, Wolfgang Petersen’s breathless, terrifying U-boat drama remains the most claustrophobic of all WWII movies. 30,687 | Ingrid Bergman, Director: Nagisa Ôshima TH, Roman Polanski kicked off the twenty-first century with a sophisticated, Oscar-winning WWII survival drama which not only offered an authentic depiction of the Warsaw ghetto, but proved that – controversy aside – the director could still deliver when it mattered. Steve McQueen heads a top-notch cast of international talent, all of whom are given plenty to do by the lively script and nimbly wrangled by John Sturges’s muscular direction. 27,533 David Niven, Director: The 25 best WW2 movies of all time (in my opinion) Honorable Mentions: Son Of Saul (2015) Land Of Mine (2015) The Imitation Game (2014) Fury (2014) Flame & Citron (2008) Before The Fall (2004) Life Is Beautiful (1997) The Hill (1965) Ivan's Childhood (1962) A Man Escaped (1956) Night And Fog (1956) From Here To Eternity (1953) Stalag 17 (1953) Rome, Open City (1945) Triumph Of The Will (1935) Ulrich Matthes, 26,699 $2.31M, PG-13 | Stars: Biography, Drama, History. Wolfgang Petersen | Jack Hawkins, Ryuichi Sakamoto, This perfectly pitched two-hander might have descended into an unholy mess of sentimentality and earnestness. It begins to fall apart with the introduction of Scott Glenn’s mystical Jewish translator (yes, his name really is Glaeken Trismegestus), but the film’s unashamed weirdness and wondrous sets have helped to build a pretty solid fanbase. William Holden, DJ, At the beginning of WWII, all UK cinemas were closed. Michael Apted ALD, Hollywood has a bad reputation for fixing tricky book titles, like going from ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ to ‘Blade Runner’. Adventure, Drama, Thriller. Action, Adventure, Drama. Richard Benjamin, Director: Forced to survive alone in the wilderness, he suffers unspeakable indignities at every turn. 104 min Billy Wilder And this goes against all the ponderous, violin-music diatribes we’ve seen in war movies since the ’80s.’, Burt on the beachIf all you remember is Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in the Hawaiian surf, it’s time to take another look at this hard-headed wartime drama set in the run-up to the attack on Pearl Harbour. | Ricky Gervais, Director: During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe in neutral Goa. Otto Preminger, Best of all is John Malkovich’s Machiavellian hipster Basie. 310,180 Henry Fonda, Denholm Elliott, G Christian Bale, Lyndon Brook, Nolan’s achievement is giving his film scale and intimacy at the same time. When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. John Mills, Well, between the bloodshed, aerial bombardment and displacement of civilians, not a huge amount (agreed, Edwin Starr). Under her unerringly tender care, fleeting memories of life prior to injury return to the ailing patient, including, most significantly, the juicy affair he had with a friend’s wife (Kristin Scott Thomas, looking enigmatic in linen). Director: Director: 149 min Drama, History, War. | Gross: 51,798 DJ, Buy, rent or watch ‘Germany, Pale Mother’, Given his hard-bitten reputation, it’s surprising Clint Eastwood hadn’t got around to directing a World War II movie before 2006. 170 min During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria. Director: Adapted (some would say quite loosely) from Michael Ondaatje’s novel, this amorous epic stars Ralph Fiennes as the unknown ‘English patient’ who, covered in burns, is being cared for by a young Canadian nurse (Juliet Binoche). PDS, Those of us who grew up with national treasure Dame Thora Hird being frightfully lovely on the BBC can only watch in amazement as, at the climax of Alberto Cavalcanti’s masterful wartime chiller, she gamely starts picking off invading Nazis with a rusty old hunting rifle. Anthony Quayle, 242,267 Robert Vaughn, 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. Emeric Pressburger In Andrei Tarkovsky’s shimmering (and surprisingly short) debut, a boy stumbles into the headquarters of a Russian platoon on the Eastern front, claiming to have important information. | Gross: In the case of French Army Officer Henri Rochard’s autobiography ‘I Was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Public Law 271 of the Congress’, we reckon they had a point. | It’s also an incredibly honest example of a film addressing a country’s horror-filled past: honest and uncomfortable to the last. Director: And one of them is the movie that I took the name “Inglourious Basterds” from.’, Tunnel visionPolish master director Andrzej Wajda’s second film follows the remnants of a ragtag platoon through the last days of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, beating a retreat in the face of German aggression. They have to cross a field of landmines, sending one guy in after another until he gets blown up. | | 150 min I love that film. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. | This story had no happy ending. | 12,587 Director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky would go on to make ‘Soy Cuba’, and their singular, mesmeric photographic style is evident here too: a startling blend of audacious framing and hand-held intimacy that wouldn’t filter into Western cinema for years. Directors: | Gross: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it. | | Proof that a work of art can still have direct political impact. DC, In the ghettoSpielberg had been circling the Holocaust for years, getting a little closer each time: the evacuation trains in ‘Close Encounters’, the sneering Nazis in ‘Raiders’, the brutal camps in ‘Empire of the Sun’, all of it leading him to this devastating adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel ‘Schindler’s Ark’. | | Art Garfunkel, Votes: Stars: His subjects range from Jewish concentration camp survivors to former Nazi guards. In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K. Director: | 01. of 20. Drama, History, War. Jack Smight Laurence Olivier, Votes: There’s not an inch of fat on its bones, just tommies, citizen sailors and the odd officer struggling bitterly for salvation in the face of extraordinary odds. Those directors had personal experience with the Nazis, and obviously they had … | But ‘Deliverance’ director Boorman has never had too much time for easy resolution, and maintains an even strain as his leads realise that the only way to survive is to collaborate. It’s also an incredibly honest example of a film addressing a country’s horror-filled past: honest and uncomfortable to the last. | | | J. Lee Thompson 15,211 120 min Drama, War. Almost all of them were made from the point of view of the Allied Forces.Very few movies show the second world war from the perspective of Nazi Germany. Stars: The film is a masterclass in economical, tight-space storytelling, piling the pressure on both characters and audience until the sprockets squeak. But ‘Dunkirk’, his visceral, fist-gnawingly tense ticking-clock, actually harks back to an era of war epics like ‘The Longest Day’ and ‘A Bridge Too Far’. You can tell it was made by someone who’d been there. | The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day. ALD, ‘Empire of the Sun’ came smack in the centre of Steven Spielberg’s mid-’80s slump: ‘Temple of Doom’ had been criticised for excessive violence, and there was still ‘Always’ and ‘Hook’ to come. As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. 172 min George C. Scott, | Sean Penn, | Although there are many movies about the European theater, but there aren’t many movies about the Pacific. | Gross: Drama, War. Jenny Agutter, PG Kirk Acevedo, Votes: The place is a wreck. Michael Caine, After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. | Sylvia Syms, | | Tom Conti, The plot serves up a string of icepick-sharp set-pieces but more importantly provides an excuse for Richard Burton and Clint to get out of their itchy, ill-fitting British togs and look sharp in German officers’ uniforms. TH, Makes you proud to be British. Brad Dexter, Votes: Originally made as a five-hour miniseries for German TV, cut to feature-length for worldwide consumption and finally expanded again to a 210-minute ‘director’s cut’, Wolfgang Petersen’s breathless, terrifying U-boat drama remains the most claustrophobic of all WWII movies. PDS, This is a gloriously bizarre cod-spiritualist dark castle chiller from a pre ‘Heat’ Michael Mann. | TH, welve angry menFoul-tempered, lusty and ludicrously enjoyable, this suicidal symphony to the futility of war fully deserves its status as ‘The Greatest Men-On-A-Mission Movie Ever Made’.Quentin Tarantino says... ‘The thing that’s just amazing about “The Dirty Dozen”, and why I don’t think it could ever be duplicated today, is the fact that you could never find eight actors like that now. From war-torn romances to bloody battles, these are the best films that depict the horrors of World War 2—and the humanity at the center of the conflicts Stars: Film reflects following events ofSecond World War: capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; pr… After much deliberation, we thought it fitting to place this singular film at the top of our list, not just for its strikingly candid take on the human toll of warfare but as a work of sublime visual and aural intensity that uses every tool in the filmmaker’s arsenal to unforgettable and often nauseating effect. WWII was still going on, the Nazis were an actual threat, not just movie bad guys. PF, ‘Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves?’ Yes, the hippies finally do their part for global security as Donald Sutherland’s superfreaky tank commander Oddball joins up with Clint Eastwood’s surly one-man warzone, Kelly, on a mission to raid a French bank and hightail it with buckets of Nazi loot. As a result, they send civilians: former soldiers who are about sixty years old. But like his colleague Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ from the same year, it also expounds on the methods used by children to block out the horrors of the world (namely daydreaming, fantasy and unrealistic optimism). But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline. | These are their true stories. | | Director: Stars: You’re watching that sequence and you think, could anything be worth this? Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Terse and stiff-lipped but never to a fault, this is one of the archetypal British combat films. Anthony Quinn, Forget ‘Enemy at the Gates’ and the 2015 Fyodor Bondarchuk CG-fest, this rare Germans’ eye view of the conflict is a much more authentic glimpse of the hell that was Stalingrad – the turning point in World War II and one of the most brutal battles in human history. A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Thomas Kretschmann, Comedy, Drama, War. 618,461 $96.90M. 177,719 The Best WW2 Movies by HelloHollywood | created - 29 Mar 2011 | updated - 20 Dec 2014 | Public and TV series. Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov. Stars: Robert Aldrich Ernest Borgnine, | Thomas Kretschmann plays a Nazi office leading a platoon into the crucible and, in the spirit of ‘Das Boot’ (with which this film shares producers), struggling to lead them out again. John Hurt, TH, Buy, rent or watch ‘From Here to Eternity’, Ten years after the liberation of the concentration camps, Alain Resnais made this mournful 32-minute documentary that offers as clear-sighted and painful an insight into the National Socialist mindset as any film before or since. Anthony Quayle, Votes: Action, Drama, Romance. The 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. There aren’t guys like that running around anymore.’, Spaghetti realismThe wounds of European conflict and Nazi occupation were still tender in Rome in late 1944, which chimed with the documentary instincts of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini. Sergi López, Stars: 171,767 167 min But when you’re watching it, it seems unfathomable that anything could be worth that.’, William Holden’s authority-defying, nurse-goosing square-jawed US Navy Commander Shears may be the supposed hero, but in this grandiose epic set in a Japanese labour camp it’s Alec Guinness’s hopelessly compromised Colonel Nicholson that we really relate to. TH, We’ve all been there. Drama, History, War. | Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on. Stars: | Gross: | It follows a group of paratroopers in Italy, but one of them’s a fuck-up who accidentally kills one of his team. Director: Action, Adventure, War. The photography, sets and supporting performances are all terrific, but it’s all in orbit around Guinness’s towering turn as the man torn between duty and a kind of twisted, self-sacrificial honour. 119 min Heart Pounding WWII Footage. Disclaimer: Some of the following links are affiliate links. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. Allan Dwan Clint Eastwood David Bowie, War, huh, what is it good for? These are our picks for the best free movies on YouTube right now. Wajda lets us know from the very beginning what we’re up against, as a doom-laden voiceover informs us: ‘These are the tragic heroes. Stars: Sam Peckinpah DJ, ‘The Dam Busters’ represents a particularly British type of cinematic military endeavour, shuffling us in and out of an endless series of stuffy boardrooms, past a chain-smoking array of lab-coated eggheads and through a rigorous testing process before allowing its audience to experience anything approaching excitement. | Three years later he would tell a similar story from a different perspective in ‘Germany, Year Zero’. It’s easy to be a tad sceptical about ‘Private Ryan’. Alexandra Maria Lara, Now let’s just hope there never needs to be a ‘best of’ list for World War III, eh? And the attack itself is a belter: lasting mere minutes on the screen, it’s got more punch than all three hours of Michael Bay’s awful ‘Pearl Harbour’. But while World War II, like all major conflicts, was characterised by destruction on an unfathomable scale, the films documenting the war have been endlessly creative. Andrew Marton, | So how to choose the best World War II movies ever made? | ‘Flags of our Fathers’ was weak, exploring the American culture of war. | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. | You haven’t slept for days. James Mason, Adrien Brody, But will it happen? The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), 16. Stars: | Gross: Action, Drama, History. Nemes’s camera stays – literally – right in Saul’s face, using as few cuts as possible to immerse the viewer in an all-too-believable vision of hell. $17.11M, R In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA. Brian G. Hutton Trevor Howard, Matthew Modine, By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. | Steve McQueen, The Best of WWII on YouTube. Penélope Cruz, Regularly updated content from the National Archives’ World War II film collection currently includes newsreels of West Point cadets on their way to war, American troops on the Alaskan front, and a secret visit to Washington by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov in 1942. Genre: Horror, Mystery. Charlton Heston, Hier gibt es eine Sammlung von ganzen Spielfilmen die man legal und kostenlos schauen kann. Miranda Richardson, Director: | Director: Another WWII compilation. Director Enzo G Castellari is a hero to cult film fans everywhere: his 40-year career has gifted us half a dozen decent Euro-Westerns, a few rip-offs of hits such as ‘Jaws’ (‘The Last Shark’) and ‘Mad Max’ (‘1990: The Bronx Warriors’) and the 1990s detective series ‘Extralarge’ on Italian TV. Drama, War. | | | Nicoletta Braschi, | Flowers of War. Nolan’s achievement is giving his film scale and intimacy at the same time. The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. 202,215 This claustrophobic account of the last days of Nazi Germany takes place within the dank corridors of Hitler’s bunker. Richard Attenborough | A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. | Ben Affleck, $216.54M. Sean Connery, The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. Humphrey Bogart, $24.91M, TV-PG | Gross: $1.38M, PG Stars: Jeremy Northam, Votes: Director: Stars: After much deliberation, we thought it fitting to place this singular film at the top of our list, not just for its strikingly candid take on the human toll of warfare but as a work of sublime visual and aural intensity that uses every tool in the filmmaker’s arsenal to unforgettable and often nauseating effect.‘Come and See’ is told from the perspective of Byelorussian lad Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko), an army recruit whose plucky optimism is torn away as the platoon he’s inducted into are massacred. Clint Eastwood, The mist-shrouded opening sequences, as Jürgen Prochnow’s dead-meat Nazi platoon occupy the titular demon-occupied fortress, are breathtaking, Mann’s superb eye for visual detail fusing with some spectacular design work to create a real atmosphere of impending dread. 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