Topic: World War II

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Liam Neeson · Ben Kingsley · Ralph Fiennes · Caroline Goodall

Plot Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils,...

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot "Apocalypse: The Second World War" is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is comprised exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Plot Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to...

Direction Stephen Ambrose · David Frankel · Tom Hanks · David Leland

Cast Damian Lewis · Ron Livingston · Rick Gomez · Scott Grimes

Plot TV Miniseries (2001). 10 Episodes. This is the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting to the end of World War...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...

Direction Jeremy Isaacs · Hugh Raggett · John Pett · David Elstein

Plot "The World at War" is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II, including the events leading up to it and following in its wake. The series interviewed leading...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Plot Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis....

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Plot A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Anna Magnani · Marcello Pagliero · Maria Michi

Plot Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a prominent...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast François Leterrier · Roland Monod · Charles Le Clainche · Maurice Beerblock

Plot April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough

Plot The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Plot After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Plot The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Plot During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Plot TV Miniserie (1985-1987). 3 episodes. A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World...