List of documentary films about World War II

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Anti-aircraft guns fire at night in Moscow Strikes Back (USSR, 1942)

The following is a list of World War II documentary films.

1940s[]

Year Country Title Director
1940 Nazi Germany (German Panzer) Walter Ruttmann
1940 Nazi Germany (German Weapons-Forge) Walter Ruttmann
1940 Nazi Germany Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland)
1941 Canada Churchill's Island Stuart Legg
1941 Canada Inside Fighting China Stuart Legg
1941 USA Kukan
1941 Kingdom of Italy Uomini sul fondo (Men on the bottom) Francesco De Robertis
1942 Nazi Germany (Men, Sea and Storms) , Hubert Schonger
1942 United Kingdom The Soldier's Food unknown
1944 Nazi Germany Panorama
1944 United States Gordon Hollingshead
1944 Japan Calling Australia (オーストラリアを呼び出します) (Ōsutoraria o Yobidashimasu) Hae Yeong
1944 United States Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress William Wyler
1945 Denmark (Denmark in Chains) Sven Methling
1946 United States Let There Be Light

1950s[]

Year Country Title Director
1952 United States Victory at Sea
1955 France Night and Fog Alain Resnais

1960s[]

Year Country Title Director
1962 United States Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Louis Clyde Stoumen
1962 Canada Canada at War ?
1964 Canada Fields of Sacrifice Donald Brittain
1965 Canada Memorandum Donald Brittain, John Spotton
1965 United States
1965 United States Alan Landsburg
1965 Soviet Union Ordinary Fascism (Обыкнове��ный фашизм) (Obyknovennyy fashizm) Mikhail Romm
1968 United States The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1969 France The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) Marcel Ophüls

1970s[]

Year Country Title Director
1973 United Kingdom The World at War Miscellaneous
1974 Israel The 81st Blow (המכה ה-81) Haim Gouri
1976 United Kingdom The Memory of Justice Marcel Ophüls
1978 Soviet Union The Unknown War (Neizvestnaya voyna) (Неизвестная война) , Roman Karmen

1980s[]

Year Country Title Director
1980 West Germany The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 Dieter Hildebrandt
1981 United States The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Connie Field
1982 United States Genocide Arnold Schwartzman
1982 Sweden The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz ,
1982 United States Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
1985 France Shoah Claude Lanzmann
1985 United States Unfinished Business Steven Okazaki
1987 Japan The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Kazuo Hara
1988 France Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophüls
1989 France De Nuremberg à Nuremberg Frédéric Rossif
1989 United Kingdom Fascist Legacy Ken Kirby
1989 Sweden The Architecture of Doom Peter Cohen

1990s[]

Year Country Title Director
1990 United States Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo Steven Okazaki
1990 Germany ,
1992 Canada The Valour and the Horror Brian McKenna
1993 France L'Œil de Vichy Claude Chabrol
1994 United States Battlefield Miscellaneous
1994 Germany The Jewess and the Captain
1994 Spain Memory of Water Héctor Fáver
1995 United Kingdom Anne Frank Remembered Jon Blair
1995 United States One Survivor Remembers Kary Antholis
1995 South Korea
1996 United States Fire on the Mountain ,
1997 United States The Long Way Home Mark Jonathan Harris
1997 United Kingdom The Nazis: A Warning from History Laurence Rees,
1997 Estonia We Lived for Estonia Andres Sööt
1998 United States Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy ,
1998 United States Pola's March Jonathan Gruber
1998 United States The Last Days James Moll
1998 Netherlands The Saved , Oeke Hoogendijk
1998 United States Voices of the Children Zuzana Justman
1998 Canada Unwanted Soldiers
1999 United Kingdom
1999 United Kingdom War of the Century Laurence Rees

2000s[]

Year Country Title Director
2000 Czech Republic A Story about a Bad Dream
2000 United States From Swastika to Jim Crow ,
2000 United States Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris
2000 Germany Paragraph 175 Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
2000 Germany Shadows of Memory Claudia von Alemann
2000 United States Sisters in Resistance
2000 United Kingdom The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
2000 United Kingdom
2001 United Kingdom Horror in the East Laurence Rees,
2001 Japan Japanese Devils
2001 France Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Claude Lanzmann
2001 United States Peter Coyote
2002 United States A Yiddish World Remembered Andrew Goldberg
2002 Austria Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary André Heller,
2002 United States Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII Aviva Slesin
2002 Canada The Boys of Buchenwald
2003 United States Marion's Triumph
2003 Denmark (With a Right to Kill) ,
2003 Canada Prisoner of Paradise Malcolm Clarke,
2003 United States The Holocaust Experience Oeke Hoogendijk
2004 United Kingdom Dunkirk Alex Holmes
2004 Netherlands Goodbye Holland Willy Lindwer
2004 United States Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
2004 United States Hiding and Seeking Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
2005 Germany 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him Malte Ludin
2005 United States A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Eric Simonson
2005 United Kingdom Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' Laurence Rees,
2005 United Kingdom Hiroshima Paul Wilmshurst
2005 United States The 11th Day: Crete 1941
2005 United States The Mushroom Club Steven Okazaki
2005 Poland The Portraitist
2005 Austria Unwanted Cinema
2006 Russia Sergei Loznitsa
2006 United States Forgiving Dr. Mengele ,
2006 United States The Rape of Europa , Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham
2006 Estonia Raimo Jõerand
2007 United States A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day Douglas Cohen
2007 Canada My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner
2007 United States Nanking Bill Guttentag,
2007 United States Order Castles of the Third Reich R.J. Adams
2007 United States Ruins of the Reich R.J. Adams
2007 Israel Stalags Ari Libsker
2007 United States The War Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
2007 United States White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Steven Okazaki
2007 United States Wings of Defeat
2007 Japan Yasukuni
Year Country Title Director
2008 United States Battle 360° Tony Long
2008 Germany Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss
2008 Netherlands Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano ,
2008 Latvia The Soviet Story Edvīns Šnore
2008 United Kingdom World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West Laurence Rees,
2009 France Apocalypse: The Second World War ,
2009 United States
2009 Netherlands Patton 360°
2009 Finland Imbi Paju
2009 United Kingdom ,
2009 United Kingdom World War II in HD Colour Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett
2009 United States WWII in HD Frederic Lumiere,
2009 United States Torasan Films

2010s[]

2010[]

Country Title Director
Canada War Music David Porteous

2011[]

Country Title Director
United States We Were There Jarod O'Flaherty
Netherlands Jessica Gorter
Russia Soviet Storm: World War II in the East Anna Grazhdan

2012[]

Country Title Director
United States Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Oliver Stone

2013[]

Country Title Director
United States The Ghost Army Rick Beyer

2014[]

Country Title Director
United States José Delgado

2015[]

Country Title Director
Germany  [de] Christian Frey

2016[]

Country Title Director
Australia A Long Way Back Samm Blake

2018[]

Country Title Director
Italy Visconti's Eagles Claudio Costa

See also[]


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