Category
page 1Films set in 1942
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 film directed by Joe Johnston
The Pianist
2002 film directed by Roman Polanski
Downfall
2004 film by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Pearl Harbor
2001 film by Michael Bay
The Thin Red Line
1998 film by Terrence Malick
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
2008 US-UK film directed by Mark Herman
La Grande Vadrouille
1966 film by Gérard Oury
Ballad of a Soldier
1959 film by Grigori Chukhrai
Allied
2016 film by Robert Zemeckis
Nightmare Alley
2021 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
Mank
Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.
U-571
2000 war film directed by Jonathan Mostow
Lust, Caution
2007 film by Ang Lee
Midway
2019 film directed by Roland Emmerich
The Night of the Generals
1967 film by Anatole Litvak
Greyhound
2020 film directed by Aaron Schneider
Stalingrad
2013 film by Fedor Bondarchuk
Radio Days
1987 film by Woody Allen
Battle for Sevastopol
2015 film by Sergueï Mokritskiy
The Island
2006 film directed by Pavel Lungin
Anthropoid
2016 film directed by Sean Ellis
The Ascent
1977 Soviet film by Larisa Shepitko
Pollock
2000 film directed by Ed Harris
Persian Lessons
2020 film by Vadim Perelman
Heaven Can Wait
1943 film by Ernst Lubitsch
The Promise
2016 film directed by Terry George
They Fought for Their Country
1975 film by Sergei Bondarchuk
Summer of '42
1971 film by Robert Mulligan
Father of a Soldier
1964 film by Rezo Chkheidze
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 film by Billy Wilder
The Water Horse
2007 film by Jay Russell
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 film directed by Cédric Jimenez
How I Won the War
1967 film directed by Richard Lester
Sarah's Key
2010 film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 film by Henry Hathaway
The Devil's Brigade
1968 film by Andrew V. McLaglen
Too Late the Hero
1970 film by Robert Aldrich
MacArthur
1977 film by Joseph Sargent
The Young Guard
1948 film by Sergei Gerasimov
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944 American film by Mervyn LeRoy
Two Soldiers
1943 film by Leonid Lukov
How I Unleashed World War II
1970 film by Tadeusz Chmielewski
A Generation
1955 film by Andrzej Wajda
Murderers Among Us
1946 film by Wolfgang Staudte
Soldiers of Freedom
1977 Soviet miniseries by Yuri Ozerov
Moloch
1999 film by Alexander Sokurov
Conspiracy
2001 film directed by Frank Pierson
First Squad
2009 film
In Harm's Way
1965 film by Otto Preminger
Predator: Killer of Killers
Predator: Killer of Killers is a 2025 American adult animated science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Micho Robert Rutare, based on a story by Trachtenberg and Rutare. It is the sixth installment in the Predator film series and its first animated installment.
Racing with the Moon
1984 film by Richard Benjamin
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 film by Roland Joffé
The Unknown Soldier
1955 film directed by Edvin Laine
1942: A Love Story
1994 film by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
The Unknown Soldier
2017 war film by Aku Louhimies
Die Wannseekonferenz
2022 film directed by Matti Geschonneck
The Notorious Bettie Page
2005 film by Mary Harron
The Eternal Zero
2013 film by Takashi Yamazaki
Ice Cold in Alex
1958 film by J. Lee Thompson
Ithaca
2015 film by Meg Ryan