American World War II films

1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

2011 film directed by Joe Johnston

1957 film directed by David Lean

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

2017 film by Christopher Nolan

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

2016 film directed by Mel Gibson

1953 film by Fred Zinnemann

2004 film directed by Nick Cassavetes

2009 film directed by Gavin Hood

2011 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

1998 film by Terrence Malick

2014 film directed by David Ayer

2001 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2019 film directed by Taika Waititi

1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2006 film by Clint Eastwood

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

2023 film directed by James Mangold

2017 film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts

2008 US-UK film directed by Mark Herman

1962 war film

2000 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

1970 film directed by Brian G. Hutton

1971 film directed by Robert Stevenson

1977 film by Richard Attenborough

1970 American-Japanese war film

2016 film directed by Tim Burton

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1979 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2022 film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson

2014 film by Brian Percival

2002 American animated film

1977 American musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese

1944 film by Howard Hawks

2018 film directed by Marc Forster

1967 UK-US film directed by Robert Aldrich

2015 film directed by Joe Wright

2016 film by Robert Zemeckis

2007 film by Ang Lee

1942 film by Ernst Lubitsch

2020 film directed by António Campos

2019 film directed by Roland Emmerich

1954 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

1958 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

2017 film directed by Dee Rees

1966 film directed by René Clément

1969 film by Veljko Bulajić

2010 film by Peter Weir

1965 film by Ken Annakin

2010 film by Susanna White

1984 film by Norman Jewison

2005 film directed by Gary Chapman

1999 film by Neil Jordan

1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

1949 American war film directed by William A. Wellman

Sisu is a 2022 action thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta. The film stars Jorma Tommila, alongside Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo and Onni Tommila. It is set during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany towards the end of World War II, where a legendary Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector attempts to defend himself from being robbed and murdered by a Waffen-SS platoon led by a brutal and corrupt officer.