The Second World War is the largest war in human history, leaving too many traumatic memories for future generations, and countless film and television works focus on showing its magnificent war scenes and tragic casualty scenes, reminding future generations of the terrible and cruel war, and can not repeat the mistakes of predecessors. Here are a few of the 100 classic World War II films (in no particular order), detailed below.
51. "Hitler's Boy"
Hitler's Boy is a drama film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Max Remet and Tom Shirin, released in the Czech Republic on July 4, 2004.
The film tells the story of Frederick, who was born into a working-class family, received militarist ideas such as "survival of the fittest" and "anti-Semitism" in an elite training school opened in Nazi Germany, and then began to fully awaken under the influence of the death of his good friend Albert.
52, "Goodbye, Children"
The film reflects the national feelings between a French child and a Jewish child during the German occupation of France, and resonates with European audiences.
53. "Hope and Resistance"
Hope and Defiance is a war film directed by Mark Rothman and starring Julia Yates, Fabian Henrich, Gerald Alexander Hyde, and Andrea Hannick, released in Germany on February 24, 2005.
The film follows The story of Sophie Skuller and her brother Hans, who were arrested for anti-Hitler activities and tried until they were sentenced to death.
54. "Death Terminal"
Death Terminal is an anti-war film directed by Dana Valova and Joseph Welsmere and starring Sibel Kekili and others.
Filmed by Germany and the Czech Republic, the film tells the story of the persecution of Jews during World War II.
55 Poland 1939
Poland 1939 is a war film directed by Diane Lee and starring Jonathan Skaver and others. The film tells the story of a pair of bitter Mandarin ducks in 1939, World War II, when the German army carried out a brutal genocide in Poland, and then the war spread throughout Europe.
56. "Book Thief"
Book Thief is a feature film directed by Brian Pasieville and starring Jeffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nelliser. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Australian author Markus Zusak, the film was released in the United States on November 8, 2013.
The film tells the story of Lisay, a "book thief" who loves books and steals books.
57, "A Bag of Marbles"
A Bag of Marbles is a film directed by Christine Dewar. The film is adapted from the autobiographical novel "Marble bag" by the famous French contemporary writer Joseph Joof. In German-occupied France, Maurice and Joe were young Jewish brothers, their father ran a barbershop, and the family lived a warm and happy life. Until the Nazis required all Jews to sew a yellow six-pointed star on their coats to distinguish them, because of the prejudice against Jews at that time, the attitudes of their classmates toward them also began to change. Seeing that the situation of the Jews was becoming more and more embarrassing, his father ordered the two brothers to flee to the free zone at once, and the family agreed to meet in Nice. Before leaving, his father instructed no one to tell them about their Jewish identity. It was on the departing train that they really saw the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people. The Nazis seemed to be everywhere on the long road to escape, and their amazing wit and courage and the help of strangers allowed them to escape the threat of death again and again, and the two brothers relied on each other to reunite with their families.
58. "Panfilov 28 Warriors"
Panfilov 28 Warriors is a war history film co-directed by Kim Druzhnin and Andrei Seroppa and starring Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Maksim Belborodov, and Andrey Bodrenkov.
The film tells the story of General Ivan Penfilov, who led his infantry to resist the Germans to the death during World War II and successfully snipped the German tank troops.
59. "The Day of Landing"
My Way is a South Korean-American war film directed by Kang Tik-kyu and starring Jang Dong-ken, Oda Chi-rang, and Fan Bingbing, released on July 10, 2012.
Set against the backdrop of World War II, the film tells the story of two East Asians, Kim Joon-sik and Takao Hasegawa, dressed in German uniforms during the Normandy landings.
60, "Where is my home"
"Love in Africa" is a 141-minute biopic co-produced by German Bavaria Pictures and MTM Cineteve. Written and directed by Caroline Link and starring Julianne Koehler, Miller Niniz, Stildi Anjulo, and Marseille Habage, the film was released in Germany on December 27, 2001.
Based on the autobiographical novel by Stephanie Zellweger, the film tells the story of the Redridge family who fled to Africa in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution of Jews.
61, "Tiger! tiger! tiger! 》
Tiger! tiger! tiger! is a historical and war film produced by Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, directed by Richard Fletcher and starring Satoshi Yamamura, Hessbend Kimmel, Tatsuya Mitsuhashi, and Joseph Cotton, released in the United States on September 23, 1970.
The film tells the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, resulting in the almost total annihilation of the entire unsuspecting U.S. Pacific Fleet.
62, "Yamato of Men"
Yamato of Men is a 145-minute war film produced and distributed by Toei Pictures in Japan. Written and directed by Junya Sato and starring Takashi Antimachi, Shinoko Nakamura, Kyoka Suzuki, Kenichi Matsuyama, and Kazushige Nagashima, the film was released in Japan on December 17, 2005.
The film is a commemorative work for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, and revolves around the battleship "Yamato" and its crew that was sunk in World War II, telling a story about the militarist dream and the disillusionment of faith.
63, "Forever 0"
Forever 0 is a Japanese war drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and co-starring Junichi Okada, Mayo Inoue, Haruma Miura, and Yukioka Hamada.
Alternating between the Pacific War and modern society, the film mainly tells the story of Kentaro Saburō, a young man with lofty ideals, who visits and reminisces about his grandfather's former comrades-in-arms, and explores the past experiences of his grandfather Miyabe Hisazo, who died in battle.
64. The Defender
Directed by Liao Xi and Han Ping, starring Bai En, He Ziming, Lu Xingchen, Wang Lu, Song Shaohuan, Yang Junsheng, Kobayashi Chengnan and other actors.
The film is based on real historical events and character stories, telling the story of Yao Ziqing, a heroic anti-Japanese martyr, who led 600 brave men to guard the strategically important Shanghai Baoshan County in the Battle of Songhu in China and Japan in 1937, and fought with the enemy for seven days and seven nights in a bloody battle with the enemy for seven days and seven nights in the extremely difficult predicament of the enemy being outnumbered, the firepower disparity, and the backward equipment, and finally all of them were martyred.
65. "Blood Lonely City"
"Blood Lonely City" is an anti-Japanese war film produced by China Film Group and Hunan Chucheng Film and Television Culture Production Co., Ltd., directed by Shen Dong, and starring Lu Liangwei, Yuan Wenkang, An Yixuan, Xie Mengwei, Yang Zi, etc.
Set against the backdrop of the 1943 War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the film tells the story of 8,000 soldiers of the 57th Division of the Kuomintang 74th Army, under the leadership of division commander Yu Chengwan, who fought against 30,000 elite Japanese troops.
66. "Blood Battle Taierzhuang"
Battle of Taierzhuang is a war film co-directed by Yang Guangyuan and Zhai Junjie, starring Shao Honglai, Chu Guoliang, Jiang Hualin, Zhao Hengduo, and Zhai Junjie.
The film tells the history of the National Revolutionary Army in the spring of 1938, when the National Revolutionary Army fought the Japanese army in Taierzhuang and finally won.
67. "Nineteen Forty-Four"
In 1944... The Germans fought a series of battles with the Soviet Leningrad Front over the Narva Isthmus. In July, the Soviets captured Narva, an ancient city that has been the dividing line between Russia and the Western world for nine hundred years. Behind Narva, the Last Line in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a group of young Estonians in their early 20s volunteered to join the 20th Division of the Waffen-SS and began to confront Soviet armored forces on the Eastern Front, fighting against soviet occupation.
This is not the first time Estonia has been reduced to a battleground between East and West, between The Germans and the Slavs. This battle has lasted for more than seven hundred years since the Ice War on Lake Chude, and the Estonians caught in the middle are inevitably wrapped up in it by both sides and become victims of history. ......
68. "The Day of War"
"Day of War" (9. April) is a 2015 war drama film directed by Roni Ezra and starring Johan Philip Asbak and Russ Mickelson.
The film tells the story of a German army crossing the border into Denmark in the early morning of April 9, 1940. The bicycle and motorcycle companies on the Danish island of Jutland were the first Danish units to resist the German attack...
The film was released in Denmark on March 12, 2015.
69. "The King's Choice"
The King's Choice is a Norwegian film directed by Eric Pupai and starring Gaspar Christensen and Anders Basmo Christiansen. Released in 2016.
The film tells the story of the difficult choices made by the King of Norway during World War II in the face of a German invasion.
70. "War Paradise"
War Paradise is a 130-minute drama film co-produced by Russia and Germany. Directed by Andrey Koncharovsky and starring Julia Vestoskaya, Christian Clauss, Philip Duxner, Peter Courth, etc., the film was released in Italy on September 8, 2016.
Set against the backdrop of World War II, the film tells the story of three people tormented by love and the illusion of paradise. On September 11, 2016, Andrey Konchalovsky won the Best Director Award at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival for the film.
71. "The Fog of August"
The Fog of August is a drama film directed by Kay Wesso and starring Sebastian Koch, released in Germany on September 29, 2016. In Germany during World War II, Ellers, a 13-year-old boy who was left unattended, was admitted to a hospital, but there he discovered shocking things (the Nazi euthanasia program of the Nazis) and united with his friends in an attempt to sabotage the plan, the film shows a shocking history from the perspective of a child, as well as the good and evil of human nature, where more than 5,000 children died in the Nazi euthanasia program during World War II.
72, "Warren" (friendly reminder: cautious)
Warren is a war film directed by Wojci smazowski and starring Jacek Braciak, Michalina Labacz, Arcadiush Yakubik, and others.
The film tells the story of a Polish girl who falls in love with a Ukrainian boy, but her parents decide to let her marry a Polish widower, when World War II is about to break out, and she has to run wild in front of death.
73. "Summer Solstice"
The Polish film Summer Solstice is also called Our Last Summer. The film tells the story of four teenagers who experienced the most tragic and unforgettable time during the German occupation of Poland in the summer of 1943.
74, "Naked in the Wolves"
Naked in the Wolves, a German film released in 1963, mainly about April 1945, on the eve of the collapse of German fascism. Buchenwald came a group of "prisoners" transferred from Auschwitz. In the procession, a suitcase of the Polish Jew Yankowski attracted the attention of the detained "prisoners" Hefel and Pippiş.
75. "Flemish and Hitron"
Flemish and Hitron is a 2008 Danish and German historical drama film directed by Ole Christian Madsen and starring Thor Lindhart and Medes Mikkelsen.
Flem and Hitlen tells the story of Flem and Hitron, an underground resistance group in Copenhagen, Denmark, who specializes in assassination missions in the late second period of World War II, and Fremont and Hitron (i.e. Flame and Lemon) are the most wanted criminals of the Nazi Gestapo's high-priced bounty in Denmark, and the Nazi Gestapo leader Hoffmann is their number one sworn enemy.
In the case of underground resistance groups infiltrated by the Gestapo and informants within the resistance groups could not be detected, suspicion and fear quietly affected their judgment. Is the task justified? Are the executed ones damned? Are the people who give them tasks trustworthy? Is the information obtained true? Different resistance organizations are supported and manipulated by different foreign organizations, and they also contradict each other, distrust each other, and even exclude each other. In the fog before dawn, can they see the final victory?
76, "Memphis Beauty"
Beauty of Memphis is a war-themed film directed by Kerr Caton Jones and starring Matthew Modian and Eric Storoz.
The film tells the story of a group of young American bomber crew members who fought tenacious and heroic air battles against fascism during World War II.
77. "Rip Hagen"
Rip Hagen is a 2016 Dutch film directed by Bit Kuipers. The true story of Rivargen, the biggest War criminal in the Netherlands during World War II and a Jewish hunter "Capone".
78. "Wolf Child"
Helmer-Skrib Rick Ostermann's Wolf Child is based on real historical events and tells the story of German orphans wandering in the chaotic wilderness of East Pru under Soviet occupation after Germany's defeat in World War II. They struggled to avoid being pursued by the Red Army, wandering alone or committing themselves to strange families, just to survive.
79. The Battle of Horgen Forest
The Battle of Horgen Forest tells the story of how after the surrender of Germany in World War II, the German army in some areas continued to resist, and the Allies paid a considerable price to eliminate these remnants. The description of this film is mainly based on the Battle of Hetgang Forest, saying that after the D-DAY Allied landings in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, the German army collapsed, and Hitler insisted that no troops should be allowed to carry out a strategic advance (to reorganize the front), resulting in tens of thousands of German troops being besieged, although the Morale of the Allied forces was high, thinking that the end of the war was just around the corner, but the subsequent Market Garden Operation was frustrated (the bridge was resented), and because the supply line was too long, the speed and momentum of the Allied attack were weakened, especially the American troops under Patton. After October, the war was in a stalemate, with the Americans confronting the Germans in the forested area in front of the Siegfried Line, and the fighting continued until the outbreak of the Battle of the Salient in December...
80. Iron Cross
The film looks back at a bloody experience in the Eastern Front in 1943 from the perspective of the German Army, and revolves around a war-weary veteran and an aristocratic officer whose goal is to obtain the Iron Cross. The several battles between the two represented the two mentalities of the German army at that time, and also revealed the ultimate direction of the war.
81. "Blood Battle of Xipan Island"
A war film set against the backdrop of the 1939 Battle of the West Plate Peninsula, a symbolic battle of Poland against Nazi Germany in the early days of World War II, with less than 200 Polish soldiers and nearly 2,000 German troops for seven days.
82. "Attack on Leningrad"
Attack on Leningrad is a war film directed by Aleksandr Buravsky and starring Alexander Bayer. In 1941, during the ravages of World War II, The Nazis of Germany invaded the Soviet Union. After four months of fruitless battles, Hitler decided to capture Leningrad by starvation and siege. After three years of Nazi siege, Leningrad became a city of the dead.
British journalist Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino) is on the front line when she is separated from her lover, American journalist Philip Parker (Gabriel Byrne), and stranded in Leningrad. Isolated, Kate is blessed with the help and shelter of Nina (Olga Sutulova), a policewoman of the Leningrad Volunteer Army. The two men fought for survival in the midst of the icy confluence of the war, along with the starving Soviet soldiers and civilians.
83. "Nanjing! nanking! 》
Nanjing! nanking! " is a historical theme film, directed by Lu Chuan, starring Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Fan Wei, Qin Lan, Zhongquan Hero and so on.
Through the experiences of an ordinary Japanese soldier and an ordinary Chinese soldier during the Nanjing Massacre, the film reveals the devastation of war on human nature. On April 22, 2009, the film was released in Chinese mainland; in the same year, the film won the Golden Shell Award at the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
84. "Rabe's Diary"
The Diary of Rabe is directed by Flori Gallenberg and co-starring Ulrich Tucker, Daniel Bruch, Steve Bussimi, Zhang Jingchu and Teruyuki Kagawa. The film was released on April 29, 2009 in Chinese mainland.
The film is based on The Rabe Diary, a wartime diary written by Rabe, and recreates the thrilling and tragic memory of Nanjing through this legendary story of the "Chinese version of Schindler". The film records the beginning and end of the "Nanjing Massacre" from the perspective of witnesses, and is the most complete and detailed historical material to confirm the information of the "Nanjing" incident. Rabe, who had been convinced of Nazism, stepped forward in the harsh reality of the war and single-handedly formed the "International Security Zone" during the "Nanjing Massacre", saving the lives of 200,000 Chinese people.
85, "Yellowstone's Children"
"Yellowstone's Children" is a film co-produced by China, Australia and Germany during the War of Resistance. Directed by Roger Spotwood, jonathan Les Meyers, Chow Yun Fat, Rada Mitchell and Yang Ziqiong co-starred. The film was released on April 3, 2008 in Chinese mainland.
The film is set in war-torn China in the late 1930s. The film tells the story of an Englishman, George Hok, who leads 60 orphans on an extraordinary journey based on real people.
86. "Nineteen Forty-Two"
"1942" is a drama film jointly produced by Huayi Brothers and Chongqing Film Group. The film is adapted from Liu Zhenyun's novel "Wen Gu 1942", directed by Feng Xiaogang, starring Zhang Guoguo, Chen Daoming, Li Xuejian, Zhang Hanyu and so on. The film was officially launched on October 19, 2011, and released in Chinese mainland on November 29, 2012.
Set against the backdrop of the 1942 drought in Henan, when millions of people left their hometowns and fled the wilderness, the film narrated in two threads: one is the people on the road to escape, mainly based on the two families of fan dianyuan and tenant blind deer; the other is the Kuomintang government, whose indifference and corruption and their contempt for the people promote and deepen this disaster.
87. "Tokyo Trial"
"Tokyo Trial" is a historical documentary directed by Gao Qunshu and starring Liu Songren, Zeng Jiang, Yingda and Zhu Xiaotian.
In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Japanese war criminals in Tokyo, which consisted of 11 judges from 11 countries. Appointed by the Chinese Nationalist Government, chinese judges headed by Mei Ruxuan, squeezed by forces dominated by the interests of major powers, struggled to break through, and finally sent seven war criminals led by Hideki Tojo to the gallows.
88. "Four Days in May"
Four Days of May is a German-produced war film directed by Achim van Borussia. Starring Aleksei Guskov, Girigli Dob and Miller Niñiz. The film was released on September 29, 2011. The film is set in the four days before the end of World War II, and the film is based on a 13-year-old child who looks at the war from an "innocent" point of view. This very small-cost war movie indicts the destruction of everyone in the most tranquil scenes, there are the most ordinary children, adults and troops, but their hearts are completely tired of the war, so through the film we see the unusual quiet moments on the second battlefield.
89. "Empire of the Sun"
Empire of the Sun is a war film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bell, John Markovich, Miranda Richardson, and others.
The film tells the story of a young boy Jim who was accidentally arrested in a concentration camp after the Japanese army invaded Shanghai in 1941, and grew from a naïve and innocent child to a stoic teenager on his own, and was released in the United States on December 9, 1987.
90. "The Conspiracy"
Conspiracy is a war suspense film directed by Frank Pierson. Starring Ley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh and Ben Daniels.
The film tells the story of the mid-World War II, the entry of U.S. troops into the war and shattered Hitler's wild dream of world unification. A secret meeting on January 20, 1942, changed the lives of human beings all over the world. One document in this meeting, how many secrets were hidden, whether the Jews were alive or dead, the answer was known only to the speakers in the secret dialogue.
91. "The Witness"
Based on the German writer Rolf Hochhuth's stage play The Deputy, SS Captain Kurt Gerstein was so shocked when he discovered that the chemical agent he had synthesized to purify the water had become a murderous gas and wanted to sue a neutral country or the Holy See for such a crime. Catholic Priest Riccardo was the only one willing to help him. However, the strength of the two not only failed to prevent the tragedy from happening, but also became victims under the wheel of history.
92, "Wandering Eurek"
Based on the best-selling book, in 1942 Israel, an eight-year-old boy escaped from a Warsaw concentration camp. He tried his best to survive, first hiding in the forest, then hiding his identity, and living as a Christian orphan on a Polish farm. After all kinds of tribulations, his inner Jewish faith will gradually be lost.....
93. "Operation Apes"
Based on true events, the British train two Czechoslovak soldiers to assassinate SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, code-named "Apes".
94 USS Indianapolis: The Brave Are Fearless
Based on true events, Nicholas Cage will play Colonel Charles Butler McWorth, a ship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the South Pacific in July 1945 carrying two atomic bombs.
About 300 of the ship's 1,196 officers and men sank, and the rest faced sun exposure, dehydration, salt water erosion and shark attacks while waiting for rescue. Only 317 were rescued, McVoy was court-martialed, and only half a century later was rehabilitated.
95. "Assassination of the Gestapo"
The young Heydrich (Jason Clark) falls in love with the woman Lina (Bae Chun-hwa) at the ball and deeply endorses Lina's Nazi ideas. After the marriage, Heydrich became a member of the SS with Lina's help and began to wreak havoc on the killing of Jews, making him the target of the "ape-like" operation. Jan Kubis (Jack O'Connell) and Joseph Gabicik (Jack Leno), who are in charge of the assassination mission, sneak into Prague alone, prepare under the cover of the Czech resistance, and Young also develops a poignant love affair with the young girl Anna (Mia Vasikowska), but the harsh reality reminds everyone that time is not waiting. The slaughter continues, and the assassinations have finally begun...
96 Hitler: The Rise of the Devil
This film is a very realistic reproduction of Hitler's history, and we can see that he does have the potential to be a leader: patriotic, eloquent, far-sighted, sinister and cunning (objectively speaking, even Hitler's enemies), good at buying people's hearts and minds, and so on. But I think the basic conditions for him to eventually become a great dictator in the midst of chaos are two unchanging truths: "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" and "he who wins the hearts and minds of the people wins the world." As we must not ignore the valuable things left by Hitler, this is the starting point of this film.
97, "The Great Sneak Attack"
The Great Sneak Attack is a war film directed by John Dyer and starring Benjamin Blatter, James Franco, Joseph Fiennes, Connie Nelson, and others. The film was released in the Philippines on August 10, 2005. At the beginning of the Pacific War, the U.S. military threw its forces into the European theater and was unable to save the war in the Philippines, resulting in 10,000 American troops and 60,000 Filipino troops being captured in the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese army has always treated these prisoners of war cruelly, and the military department decided to massacre the prisoners in January 1944, which tells the story of the four days of January 1944.
98, "Super Female Agent"
SuperGirl agent, directed by Jean-Paul Saromi and starring Sophie Marceau, Marie Gillian and Julie Depardieu, is a war-themed film released in Germany on February 8, 2008. The story of the film tells the true story of Louise and five other female agents who assassinated German officers and supported the Normandy landings in order to rescue British geologists who fell into the hands of the enemy.
99. "The Miracle of the Pacific"
The Miracle of the Pacific Ocean is based on Don Jones' "Ōba Ei, The Last Samurai: Saipan 1944-1945" live-action novel, directed by Japanese director Hideyuki Hirayama, starring Toyo Takeno, Masayoshi Inoue, Takayuki Yamada, Shouaki Karasawa, and Shon McGowan.
The film tells the story of June 15, 1944, in the fierce battle area of the Pacific War- Saipan Island, only 47 Japanese troops face the 45,000 troops of the U.S. army, there is a Japanese soldier known as the "fox" by the American soldiers, Japanese Army Lieutenant Ohbara Ei in a desperate state of the figure of the last moment. The film was released on February 11, 2011.
100. The Beautiful Legend of Sicily
The Beautiful Legend of Sicily is a drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornadore and starring Monica Bellucci and Guisepe Sur faro, released in Italy on October 27, 2000.
Through the perspective of the teenager Reinaldo, the film tells the story of Marina, a beautiful young woman on the Italian island of Sicily during World War II.