History Main / WorksSetInWorldWarII

* See [[WorksSetInWorldWarII/Films here]].

!!Documentaries

[[folder:Films]]

[[AC:Wartime Documentary Films:]]

* ''Film/TheMemphisBelle''
* ''Film/TheNegroSoldier''
* ''Series/WhyWeFight''
** ''Film/PreludeToWar''
** ''Film/TheBattleOfRussia''

[[AC:Post-War Documentary Films:]]

* ''Film/AnneFrankRemembered''
* ''Film/TheCaptainFromNowhere''
* ''Film/{{Genocide|1981}}''
* ''Film/TheLifeAndTimesOfRosieTheRiveter''
* ''Film/TheLongWayHome''
* ''Film/NightAndFog''
* ''Film/DeNurembergANuremberg''
* ''Film/{{Shoah}}''
* ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity''

[[folder:Series]]

* ''Series/ApocalypseTheSecondWorldWar''
** ''Series/ApocalypseHitler''
** ''Series/ApocalypseStalin''
** ''Series/ApocalypseHitlerTakesOnTheWest''
** ''Series/ApocalypseHitlerTakesOnTheEast''
* ''Series/SovietStormWorldWarIIInTheEast''
* ''Series/TheWar'', 14-hour Creator/KenBurns miniseries which aired on Creator/{{PBS}} in 2007
* ''Series/TheWorldAtWar''
* ''Series/{{World War II in Colour}}''
* ''Series/WWIIInHD''

!!Films:

A number of the works below cover multiple categories and are grouped according to their main setting.

In an era where the only major forms of mass entertainment were radio, theatre and cinema (British television went off for the duration), it is not surprising that a very large number of movies were made during the war itself. Most of them were [[PropagandaMachine propaganda]] of some form or another, but some of these films (including some flag-wavers) have stood the test of time, such as ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', ''Film/InWhichWeServe'' and ''Film/WentTheDayWell''

[[folder:The Early War in Europe (1939-1940)]]

The early part of the war, from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the fall of France in summer 1940. It ended with the victory and domination of continental Western Europe by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, and the occupation of the Eastern half of Poland and the Baltic states by [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]].
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[[AC:Poland:]]
* ''[[Film/TheHeroesOfWesterplatte The Heroes of Westerplatte]]'' (2013), about the fierce, one-week long defense of a military depot by its Polish garrison against invading Germans on the peninsula of Westerplatte in September 1939.
* ''[[Film/{{Katyn}} Katyń]]'', a Polish film about the Katyń massacre in April-May 1940, a series of mass murders that claimed the lives of about 22000 Polish men, mostly intelligentsia and military officers. It was carried out by the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre NKVD]] when the Eastern half of Poland was under Soviet occupation.
* ''Film/{{Siege}}'' is a documentary short from 1940 about the German siege of Warsaw, UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} in September 1939.

[[AC:Scandinavia:]]
* ''Film/April9th'' follows a group of Danish bicycle infantry sent to slow down the German advance into Denmark until reinforcements can arrive.
* ''Film/TheKingsChoice'' (2016), focusing on the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the choices King Haakon VII has to make over whether to fight the Germans or surrender.

[[AC:France and the Low Countries:]]
* ''Film/The7thCompany'', a French-Italian film trilogy about the comedic antics of three French soldiers getting lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France.
* ''[[Film/AppealOf18June Appeal of 18 June]]'' (2010). A TV film about the famous 18 June 1940 speech by UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, who founded the Free French Forces and the Free French GovernmentInExile in London.
* ''Film/BonVoyage'' (2003), about the exodus of the French populations fleeing the German advance on the roads and the French government relocating itself in the city of Bordeaux.
* ''Film/DeGaulle'' (2020), in which Charles De Gaulle desperately tries to stiffen the spines of the French government and high command, then escapes to England to deliver his "Appeal of 18 June" speech starting the Free France movement.
* Films featuring "Operation Dynamo", the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops surrounded by Germans in the city of Dunkirk during the Battle of France in late May 1940:
** ''Film/{{Dunkirk|1958}}'' (1958) is about the siege and evacuation from the British point of view.
** ''Film/WeekendAtDunkirk'' (''Week-end à Zuydcoote'', 1964) is about the siege and evacuation from the French point of view.
** ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' (2007) has a section covering the evacuation on the beaches. It's mostly known for a stunning five-minute [[TheOner single tracking shot along the whole beach.]]
** ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'' (2017) also about the siege and evacuation, from three British points of view.
* ''Film/ThePiedPiper'' (1942), about an elderly Englishman and a group of children, trying to make their way through the Germans and find a boat to escape back to England, during and immediately after the fall of France in June 1940.
* ''Film/ForbiddenGames'' (1952), about a Parisian girl who bonds with a boy whose farm family takes her in after her parents are killed in in an air raid while fleeing the city.

[[AC:Others:]]
* ''Film/TheLionHasWings'' (1939) is a British propaganda film rushed into production and released in December 1939, a mixture of newsreel about the war effort and scripted drama about early RAF combat against the Luftwaffe, including a British raid on the Kiel Canal in September 1939.
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[[folder:The Finnish Front (1939-1944)]]

The war between Finland and USSR, more specifically the Winter War of 1939-40 and the Continuation War of 1941-44 (which is included in the Eastern Front as Finland was co-belligerent with Germany) as well as the Lapland War of 1944-45 (when Finland switched sides to the Allies and drove the German troops out of Lapland where they were stationed). Has been depicted several times on film, but these films are little known outside Finland.
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[[AC:Winter War:]]

* ''[[Literature/TheWinterWar Talvisota]]'' (''The Winter War''), a Finnish 1984 novel by Antti Tuuri and the 1989 movie based on it.

[[AC:Continuation War:]]

* ''Film/{{Kukushka}}'' (''The Cuckoo''), a Russian film.
* ''Tuntematon Sotilas'' (''The Unknown Soldier''), based on a [[Literature/TheUnknownSoldier novel of the same name]] written by war veteran Väinö Linna. Three versions exist, made in years 1955, 1985, and 2017.

[[AC:Lapland War:]]
* ''Film/{{Sisu}}'', an action film about an old Finnish gold miner and former commando who has to protect his treasure from a retreating German platoon.

[[/index]]

[[folder:The Eastern Front (1941-1945)]]

The biggest and bloodiest theatre of the war (the number of deaths there alone- over 25 million- would make the Eastern Front the worst war in history in its own right), and the one that embodied "total war", opposing Nazi Germany and its allies to USSR from the German invasion of the latter during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 to Germany's final defeat in May 1945. Has been covered in film quite a bit in the German, Soviet and Russian film industry for obvious reasons, but most of the Soviet and Russian examples aren't that well known outside of Russia and Eastern Europe. In most of the former USSR the focus is not on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in general, but on that front, named "The Great Patriotic War" there. A few US-made 1943-45 propaganda movies made about the Eastern Front glossed over many of the Soviet Union's more questionable activities, which would come back to haunt their creators and actors just a few years later during the late-40s to early-50s Red Scare.

In German works, it is common to see soldiers threatened with being sent to the Eastern Front - a posting there was nothing but trouble, and became a near-certain-death-sentence from 1943 onwards, hence the consistently bleak tone of them.

Somewhat under-represented in (non-German) Western and Anglophone media, for the likely reason that the protagonists weren't Western Allies, save for a few cases involving volunteers such as the French Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment and the Lend-Lease shipments to USSR. UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, meanwhile, has produced a noticeably large amount of World War II films since the mid-2000s, which more often than not put heavy emphasis on the bravery of the Red Army.
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[[AC:German/Axis Point of View:]]

* ''[[Film/NineteenFortyFour 1944]]'' (2015 Estonian film): A rare example that attempts to cover and treat [[GreyAndGrayMorality both sides of the war equally]]. It follows two Estonian platoons: one fighting in the Waffen-SS, another in the Red Army.
* ''[[Film/ZeroEightFifteen 08/15]]'' (1954-1955 West German film series): Covers the life of German conscripts during the war, mostly on the Eastern front. Based on the books by Hans Hellmut Kirst.
* ''Film/CrossOfIron'' (1977 British-German film): The conflict between German front-line and rear area soldiers after the defeat of Stalingrad. Relatively rare example of an English-language movie set here.
* ''Film/{{Downfall|2004}}'' (2004 German film): German film depicting the battle of Berlin, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's final moments and the downfall of Nazi Germany.
* About the battle of Stalingrad:
** ''Film/{{The Doctor of Stalingrad}}'' (1958 West German film), based on the eponymous novel by Heinz G. Konsalik.
** ''[[Film/DogsDoYouWantToLiveForever Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]]'' (1959 West German film), based on the eponymous novel by Fritz Wöss.
** ''Film/{{Stalingrad|1993}}'' (1993 German film): The slow and cold agony of the now-encircled 6th German Army in Stalingrad.

[[AC:Soviet Point of View:]]

* ''[[Film/TheAliveAndTheDead The Alive and the Dead]]'' (1964 Soviet film)
* ''Film/TheAscent1977'' (Soviet film)
* ''Film/AtWarLikeAtWar''
* ''Film/BalladOfASoldier'' (1959 Soviet film)
* ''Film/{{Bastards}}''
* ''Film/BattleForSevastopol'' (2015): A BioPic for Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a legendary Red Army soldier.
* ''Film/BattleOfMoscow'' (1985 Soviet film in two parts)
* ''[[Film/ChroniclesOfADiveBomber Chronicles of a dive bomber]]'' (1968 Soviet film)
* ''Film/ComeAndSee'' (1985 Soviet film): Belarusian partisans fight SS Einsatzgruppen. '''''[[NightmareFuel Not for the faint of heart]]'''''
* ''Film/{{Convoy 48}}'' (2019 Russian film): Story of the first trains to go to the relief of besieged Leningrad in 1943, after the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor.
* ''Film/TheCranesAreFlying'' (1957 Soviet film)
* ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' (2008 American film): A part of the movie takes place during the war. While working aboard a tug boat docked in the city of Murmansk, the Soviet Union, Pearl Harbor is bombed and the skipper informs Benjamin and rest of the crew that the boat will be commandeered by the [=U.S.=] Navy, to patrol the supply route going into the city's port.
* ''Film/TheDawnsHereAreQuiet'' (1972 Soviet film): An AmazonBrigade and their gruff male sergeant commander, manning an anti-aircraft battery
* ''Film/DaysOfGlory'': A 1944 American film about Soviet partisans operating in the German rear.
* ''Film/FateOfAMan'' (aka ''Destiny of a Man'', 1959 Soviet film): The suffering of a Russian soldier taken prisoner by the Germans.
* ''Film/FatherOfASoldier'' (1964) A Soviet film but a Georgian production, about a Georgian father who goes to the front to find his son after hearing that his son has been injured.
* ''Anime/FirstSquad'': (2009) an even rarer {{Anime}} set on the Russian front. Rather more science fiction, as it involves the last surviving member of an elite squad of ChildSoldiers with PsychicPowers, who gets (re)drafted to fight the invading Nazis in 1942.
* ''Film/FortressOfWar'' (2010), a Russia-Belarus coproduction about the doomed defenders of the old frontier fortress of Brest, cut off on the first day of the war.
* ''Film/IvansChildhood''
* ''Film/{{Leningrad}}'' (2009): British reporter is trapped in Leningrad during the terrifying starvation winter of 1941-42. Russian film in a mix of Russian, German, and English.
* The ''Film/{{Liberation}}'' series (1970-1971 Soviet films directed by Yuri Ozerov)
* ''Film/LocalSkirmish'': A squad of five Russians behind the lines blunder into an SS patrol on New Year's Day 1944.
* ''Film/MoscowStrikesBack'' -- documentary about the 1941-42 Soviet counteroffensive
* ''Film/NightWitchesOfTheSky'' (1981) -- the famous "Night Witches" squad of female bomber pilots
* ''Film/TheNorthStar'' (1943) -- An American film about Ukrainian villagers fight back against Nazi occupiers.
* ''Film/{{Officers}}''
* ''Film/OnlyOldMenAreGoingToBattle''
* ''Film/OnTheRoadToBerlin''
* ''Film/Panfilovs28Men''
* ''Film/SavingLeningrad''
* ''Film/{{The Star|2002}}'': A squad of Russian scouts goes on a horribly dangerous reconnaissance mission behind German lines.
* Film featuring the battle of Stalingrad:
** ''Film/{{The Turning Point|1945}}'' (1945 Soviet film)
** ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' (2002): A SniperDuel during the battle. A rare example of an English-language film entirely set on the Eastern Front with no Western protagonist.
** ''Film/{{Stalingrad|2013}}'' (2013 Russian film)
* ''Film/{{T 34}}''
* ''Film/TheyFoughtForTheirCountry''
* ''Film/TwoSoldiers''
* ''Film/WhiteTiger''

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[[folder:German Occupation of Europe (1939-1945)]]

Life and historical events in the countries of Europe that were occupied by the military forces of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany between 1939 and 1945. Often involves UsefulNotes/TheGestapo and LesCollaborateurs versus LaResistance. In many cases, it also overlaps with [[FinalSolution the Holocaust]].
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* A sizeable number of films are based on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of the Nazi posterboy, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia-Moravia [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich[[index]], in German-occupied Prague in May 1942:
** ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943 American film): The first film on the subject, filmed only a couple of months after the events, and [[InNameOnly very loosely based on them]].
** ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943 American film): A ''slightly more faithful'' version compared to ''Hangmen Also Die!''.
** ''[[Film/{{Atentat}} Atentát]]'' (1964 Czech film)
** ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975 Czech-American film)
** ''Film/{{Lidice}}'' (2011 Czech film): About the attack and its horrific aftermath, namely the massacre and destruction of the village of Lidice as reprisals.
** ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016 British film): Focuses entirely on the operation from the point of view of the Czechoslovak resistance protagonists who carried out the attack.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' (2017 French film): Based on a novel. It focuses both on Heydrich and his life and on the Czechoslovak resistance protagonists who carried out the attack.
* ''Film/AppointmentWithVenus'': British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.
* ''Film/BeyondTheBorder'' tells the story of a group of Swedish soldiers trying to save the younger brother of one of them who accidentally crossed the border into Norway and got captured by the Nazis.
* ''Film/BlackBook'': The Occupation and resistance in the Netherlands. Often seen as a polar opposite to ''Soliders of Orange'' due to its focus on betrayal within the Resistance and collaboration with the Germans, by the same director.
* ''WesternAnimation/Charlotte2021'': A biopic about Creator/CharlotteSalomon, who lived in Vichy France until her death by concentration camp.
* ''Film/CloselyWatchedTrains'': ComingOfAgeStory about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the war.
* ''Film/CommandosStrikeAtDawn'': A Norwegian fisherman escapes to England, and then guides a commando raid on a German base in his hometown.
* ''Film/{{Counterpoint|1968}}'': The Nazis capture an American orchestra and force them to perform.
* ''Film/ACuriousConjunctionOfCoincidences'': Part of the film takes place during WWII, and involves a German soldier having a very bad day who accidentally drops a bomb on Amsterdam.
* ''Film/DividedWeFall'': A Czech couple hide a young Jewish man in the storeroom of their apartment.
* ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|1943}}'': The people of a Norwegian fishing village rise up against the German occupiers.
* ''Film/EffroyablesJardins'': Two French villagers decide to blow up a railway station to make themselves a name in LaResistance. It backfires and Germans take hostages, including the two protagonists. One of the German soldiers, who was a clown before the war, takes pity on the hostages and starts entertaining them with his clown nose.
* ''Film/TheException'': A German agent in the Netherlands investigates former Kaiser Wilhelm II.
* ''Film/FannysJourney'': A band of Jewish war oprhans try to flee to Switzerland while being pursued by [[LesCollaborateurs the French police]] and the Nazi. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Based on Fanny Ben Ami's biography]].
* ''Film/FiveBrandedWomen'': Yugoslavia
* ''[[Film/FlammenOgCitronen Flammen og Citronen]]'' (Danish film): Tells the story of two Danish resistance movement fighters, nicknamed Flammen and Citron, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
* ''Film/ForbiddenGames'': Rural France under German occupation.
* ''Film/GeneralDellaRovere'': The Germans send a con artist into a prison in German-occupied 1944 Genoa, impersonating a leader of LaResistance, in order to gain valuable intelligence.
* ''Film/GrampsIsInTheResistance'': A comedy about a family of French musicians who support the Resistance and must deal with German soldiers occupying their mansion and some collaborators.
* ''Film/LaGrandeVadrouille'': French comedy in which a British Lancaster bomber plane gets shot over German-occupied Paris. Its crew and the two Frenchmen who find themselves forced to help them do everything they can to reach the Free Zone to escape.
* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': The last third takes place in occupied Paris
* ''Film/LacombeLucien'': A sullen teen in occupied France becomes a collaborator.
* ''Film/TheLastMetro'': A woman in Paris during the occupation struggles to hide her husband, who is Jewish.
* ''Film/LeonMorinPriest'': In France, a widow and a priest strike up a friendship that might turn platonic relationship amidst the German occupation.
* ''Film/MiracleAtMidnight'': About the German occupation of Denmark and their failure to capture most of its Jewish population due to the efforts of the local populace.
* ''Film/LesMiserables1995'': A story of deportation and resistance in France with plot points and character types that were borrowed to ''Literature/LesMiserables''.
* ''Film/TheMoonIsDown'': The occupation of Norway (as seen by Hollywood in 1943, the film served as propaganda, naturally).
* ''Film/TheNightOfTheGenerals'': A murder mystery set in occupied Poland and later France.
* ''Film/NoneShallEscape'', a 1944 film about a trial against a Nazi officer following the end of the (then-ongoing) second world war, told via {{flashback}}s from the points of view of the witnesses at the trial. The first flashback takes place the newly-formed Polish state in 1919 right after the end of WWI, the next one takes place in the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1923 right before and after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch Beer Hall Putsch]] before skipping ahead to 1929 and then to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1934 after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives Night of the Long Knives]], and the third and last one takes place in Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII.
* ''Film/OneOfOurAircraftIsMissing'': In which a British bomber crew are forced to bail out over the occupied Netherlands, and attempt to escape with the assistance of the Dutch.
* ''Film/TheOthers2001'', a ghost movie set on the Channel Island of Jersey during the German occupation.
* ''Film/ThePassage'': An elderly shepherd (Creator/AnthonyQuinn) attempts to help a scientist and his family escape across the mountains into Spain while pursued by evil Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.
* ''Film/LesPasseurs'': Two rival mountain men living in Vichy France/occupied France smuggle either people or goods to neutral Switzerland.
* ''Film/PopeJohnPaulII''
* ''Film/TheResistanceBanker''
* ''Film/{{Riphagen}}'': An (in)famous gangster from Amsterdam who turned collaborator.
* ''Film/TheScarletAndTheBlack'': Italy
* ''Film/ThisLandIsMine'': France
* ''Film/{{Le Silence de la mer|2004}}'' (2004): A young Frenchwoman and her grandfather are forced to house a German officer. They vow to never speak to him for as long as he's in their house, which is complicated by the fact that he is francophile, gentlemanly and not really into Nazi ideals.
* ''Film/SimonAndTheOaks'': Sweden
* ''Film/SuiteFrancaise'': Adaptation of the eponymous book. A romance between a French woman and a German soldier.
* ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'': A comedy about a Warsaw theater troupe of actors who use their acting skills to escape occupied Poland.
* ''Film/TheTripAcrossParis'': Two men involved in the BlackMarket in Paris in 1943.
* ''Film/UncertainGlory'': 100 Frenchmen are taken hostage and face execution after a bridge is blown up. A criminal facing a death sentence for ordinary crimes gets the idea to take the blame for himself and spare the hostages.
* ''Film/UnderTheRomanSky'' is about the occupation of Rome by the Germans, the deportation of the Eternal City's Jews and UsefulNotes/PopePiusXII's actions at the time.
* ''Film/LeVieuxFusil''
* ''Film/{{Volhynia}}'', the first film about the UsefulNotes/VolhynianSlaughter, which the Germans (who had no hand in it) had let happen.
* ''Film/{{Zelary}}'': A Czech woman has to assume a fake identity, marry a total stranger, and hide out in a rural village, all after the Resistance cell she belongs to is busted by the Gestapo.

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[[folder:North Africa (1940-1943)]]

Initially, just between The Commonwealth, Italy, and other independent nations. Later, the Germans (famously led by UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel) and the Americans also took part. An area of desert warfare where supplies are scarce, it also saw the creation of the SAS and the work of the Long Range Desert Group. Famous for the presence of ''two'' [[BunnyEarsLawyer very quirky but effective]] Allied generals, George S. Patton and Bernard "Monty" Montgomery.
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* ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' - the first part of the film is set during the Battle of North Africa.
* ''Film/TheDesertFox'' - starring James Mason as Rommel
* ''Film/TheDesertRats'' - Another telling of the siege of Tobruk, starring Creator/{{Richard Burton}}. Also stars Mason as Rommel.
* ''Film/ElAlameinTheLineOfFire'' - the Italian point of view of the Battle of El Alamein.
* ''Film/FiveGravesToCairo'', set in Egypt during Rommel's drive to El Alamein
* ''Film/IceColdInAlex''
* ''Film/{{Patton}}'' - the first half of the film takes place here.
* ''Film/PlayDirty'' - A group of convicted criminals go on a mission behind the battle lines to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot.
* ''Film/TheRatsOfTobruk'' - focuses on [=ANZACs=] holed up in the besieged Libyan coastal town of Tobruk
* ''Film/{{Sahara|1943}}'' - an impromptu multi-national force of stragglers gathers around a lost American tank to defend a strategic oasis.
* ''Film/UnTaxiPourTobrouk'' - after the siege of Tobruk, a Free French LRDG squad journeys through enemy lines to reach Allied territory with a German prisoner.
* ''Film/{{Tobruk}}'' - a fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) who endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk.
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[[folder:Southeastern Europe (1941-1945)]]

Greece, Yugoslavia, and the Mediterranean Theatre. The Yugoslav film industry celebrated the achievements of the Partisans, naturally. Note: there is some overlap with the LaResistance[=/=]Special Forces category (see below).
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* ''Adriatic Sea of Fire''
* ''Film/TheBattleOfNeretva''
* ''The Battle of Sutjeska''
* ''Boško Buha''
* ''Braća po materi''
* ''Literature/CaptainCorellisMandolin''
* ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone''
** ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone''
* ''Film/InWhichWeServe'' -- A British destroyer is bombed and sunk and many of its men killed by German strafing, leading to various flashbacks depicting HowWeGotHere.
* ''Kozara''
* ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun''
* ''Film/{{Mediterraneo}}'': A squad of Italian soldiers winds up having a pretty good war after they get marooned on a Greek island with some attractive local women.
* ''Occupation in 26 Pictures''
* ''The Secret Invasion''
* ''Film/ShipsWithWings''
* ''Silent Gunpowder''
* ''Film/{{Tri}}'' -- three discrete story segments showing the experiences of a Yugoslav officer at the beginning of, during, and at the end of the war with Germany.
* ''Underground''
* ''Walter defends Sarajevo''
* ''Film/WildWind''

[[folder:The Italian Front (1943-1945)]]

The invasion of Italy by the Allies, starting in 1943 after their victory in North Africa. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill thought the country was the [[AchillesHeel "Soft underbelly of the crocodile"]] for the Axis, given the pitiful state of the Italian forces by that point. Unfortunately, [[YouShallNotPass German defense lines proved to be much stronger than expected]], and the country suffered from both war crimes (from both sides) and a civil war between the pro-Allies and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini's loyalists.
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* ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'', a dramatic documentary about the bloody December 1943 battle for the eponymous town.
* ''Film/TheDevilsBrigade'' - about the joint American/Canadian commando unit the First Special Service Force and its mission to capture Monte la Difensa in December 1943.
* ''Film/TheFourDaysOfNaples'' - the people of Naples rise up in a spontaneous revolt against their German occupiers, in the days after the Italian surrender in September 1943.
* ''Film/{{Fortress|2012}}'' tells a fictional (but inspired by real events) story of Lucky Lass, a B-17 Flying Fortress as it flies in the campaign against Italy.
* ''Film/TheGreenDevilsOfMonteCassino'' - Follows German parachutists during the battle of Monte Cassino, in 1944.
* ''Film/HornetsNest'' - set in and around the fictional Italian town of Reanoto.
* ''[[Film/MiracleAtStAnna Miracle at St. Anna]]'', a Creator/SpikeLee joint.
* ''Film/{{Paisan}}'' - six-episode anthology starting with the invasion of Sicily and going to the Po Valley fighting in December 1944.
* ''Film/{{Road47}}'' takes place entirely in the winter of 1944 in Italy.
* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' - Torture porn at its most depraved, set in the city of the last fascist government. The fascist setting is really just an excuse for... icky stuff.
* ''Film/TwoWomen'' (''La Ciociara''). The story of an Italian woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war.
* ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' - About a group of [=POWs=] in an Italian escaping from an Italian camp by hijacking a train to Switzerland.
* ''Film/AWalkInTheSun'' - From UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a war drama set in Italy and made just as the war ended.
* Parts of the 1982 film adaptation of ''Music/TheWall'', by Music/PinkFloyd (carrying over from the album itself). Music/RogerWaters' father died in combat in Anzio, the song "When the Tigers Broke Free" (later included on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' since 2004) is dedicated to him.
* ''What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?'' - A comedy that follows an outfit of U.S. soldiers assigned to capture a small village in Sicily.

[[folder:The Western Front (1944-1945)]]

The fighting in Western Europe, from the "D-Day" Normandy landings in June 1944[[note]]technically, there was a botched landing attempt in Dieppe in 1942, which ended up serving as lesson to ensure the success of D-Day[[/note]] to the invasion of Western and Southern Germany and its final surrender in spring 1945. Americans had a large role, and the British, Canadians and Free French (as well as a few others) were involved, but [[AmericaWonWorldWarII they tend to be left out of US films]].
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* ''Film/ThirtySixHours1965'' concerns a German attempt to find out the date and place of the D-Day landings by means of an elaborate deception.
* ''Film/TheAmericanizationOfEmily'': A satire/black comedy about the high life as lived by high-ranking Navy brass in the month right before D-Day. Ends with the hero, a self-described coward, stumbling about Omaha Beach as one of the first people to land.
* ''Film/{{Battleground|1949}}'' depicts a company of infantrymen enduring the Siege of Bastogne.
* ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' - the second half of the film follows the US First Infantry Division during their campaign through Western Europe.
* ''Film/BrassTarget'' - In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
* ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}'' - A German film about seven teenaged soldiers defending a bridge against the Americans in the last days of the war
* ''Film/TheBridgeAtRemagen'' - A fictionalized version of the capture of the last standing bridge over the Rhine River in March 1945.
* ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' looks at the failed Allied offensive in the Netherlands, Operation Market Garden.
* ''Film/{{The Bunker|2001}}'' - horror film about a group of retreating German soldiers taking refuge in an abandoned bunker and find themselves haunted by dark figures as they try to retain order.
* ''Film/{{Days of Glory|2006}}'' focuses on North Africans fighting for the Free French, first in Italy, then for the bulk of the film on the Western Front
* ''Film/DecisionBeforeDawn'' - American intellligence unit recruits German prisoners to turn spy and filter back into German lines to gather intelligence.
* ''Film/{{Diplomacy|2014}}'' - in August 1944, a Swedish diplomat tries to persuade a German general not to destroy Paris.
* ''Film/EyeOfTheNeedle'' - A Nazi spy discovers the Allies are pulling a king-sized fast one with Operation Fortitude on Germany to hide the true invasion destination for D-Day.
* ''Film/TheForgottenBattle'' - A Dutch film about the Battle of the Scheldt, when the Allies had to attack strong German defensive positions to gain control of the approaches to the port of Amsterdam.
* ''Film/{{Fury|2014}}'' - follows the crew of the namesake [=M4A3 Sherman=] tank during the advance of the US forces into Germany in early 1945.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscaper'' - The true story of Bernard Jordan, a British veteran who escaped his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemorations of D-Day in 2014 to honor his fallen comrades. There are flashbacks to the events of 1944.
* ''Film/HellIsForHeroes'' - a squad on the Siegfried Line bluffs a German pillbox into thinking they are a much larger force.
* ''Film/IsParisBurning'' - deals with the liberation of Paris in August 1944, focusing on the German commander resisting his orders to destroy the city while the 1st Free French Armored Division spearheads a desperate Allied drive to save their capital and the French resistance launches an insurgency.
* ''Film/KellysHeroes'' focuses on a hodgepodge unit put together by the title character for an attempt to steal NaziGold during the Lorraine campaign.
* ''Film/TheLastDrop'' - focuses on a commando raid into Holland to recover NaziGold in the backdrop of Operation Market Garden.
* ''Film/TheLongestDay'' - covers both the events leading up to and on the 6th of June, 1944, the longest day for both the Allied invaders and the Axis defenders.
* ''Film/AMidnightClear'' - follows an American intelligence squad during the Battle of the Bulge, as they occupy a deserted chateau and encounter a German platoon that wishes to surrender.
* ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'' - BasedOnATrueStory film about a unit of art experts in the army tasked with protecting and rescuing plundered art from the Nazis.
* ''Film/{{Overlord|1975}}'' - follows a single British soldier, from the moment he's called up into the army at the age of 20, through his basic training, and up to June 6, 1944 when his platoon is part of the first wave of soldiers landing on Sword Beach.
* ''Film/{{Rommel}}'' - covers the last months of Erwin Rommel as he commands the defence of occupied France via the Atlantic Wall.
* ''Film/{{Patton}}'' - follows [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin General Patton]]. The second half of the film takes place here.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' focuses on a squad of Rangers as they make their way through the semi-organised chaos of Operation Overlord in search of the titular Private Ryan.
* ''Film/SnowAndFire'' - Two childhood friends fight in the French Army of the Liberation from Paris (August 1944) to the bitter battles in Lorraine and Alsace in late 1944 / early 1945.
* ''Film/StormingJuno'' - A docudrama retelling the Canadian assault of Juno Beach on D-Day
* ''Film/TheVictors'' follows one U.S. squadron through Britain, France, Italy, and Germany.
* ''Film/WhenTrumpetsFade'', set in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest.

[[folder:The Pacific Front (1941-1945)]]

Most of the works here focus on the American and Japanese part in the Far East, although Commonwealth forces also played a major role (primarily the ANZAC forces, for obvious reasons). Films about the Australian and New Zealand war efforts started appearing with the rise of those country's film industries, the relative lack of British films on the subject is probably due to the European theater being much important in the minds of most people at the time.

Only recently have films dealing with the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar started to appear, unsurprisingly given the delicate politics of the matter.

Think partisan warfare, big naval battles (most famously Midway and Guadalcanal), JungleWarfare, beach landings, starving civilians, and the inconsistent (mis)treatment of non-combatants.
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[[AC:American Point of View:]]

* ''Film/AwayAllBoats'': Jeff Chandler (not John Wayne) as a John Wayne/Vince Lombardi-type of Navy Captain, this time about one of the amphibious assault ships that the U.S. Navy invented out of whole cloth in order to prosecute the Pacific War.
* ''Film/{{Bataan}}''
* ''Film/{{Battle Cry|1955}}'': Covers the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan.
* ''Film/TheBattleOfMidway'': John Ford's famous documentary short (18 minutes) about the battle, including live combat footage taken by Ford and an assistant cameraman on Midway atoll on June 4, 1942.
* ''[[Film/CrusadeInThePacificAmericaGoesToWar Crusade In The Pacific: America Goes to War]]'', an early (1951) 24 episode documentary serial that is surprisingly FairForItsDay with relatively little of the racism, jingoism and triumphalism that mar other works of the period and not, despite the title, focused entirely on the US war effort. Covers both the prewar era and the postwar occupation, but does not cover the fire raids or the Soviet Union's last-minute contribution, perhaps because the Korean War was going on at the time. Useful if you're looking for coverage of some of the less ballyhooed aspects of the Pacific war, like the ANZAC campaign to liberate Indonesia. It even contains surprisingly sympathetic views of the causes and rise of Japanese militarism and Indonesia's postwar anti-colonialism.
* ''Film/CryHavoc'': Army nurses on Bataan during the doomed defense of the peninsula in 1942.
* ''Film/DestinationTokyo'': An American sub goes on a reconnaissance mission in Japanese home waters.
* ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'': The life of a boy living in the British concession in Shanghai, and then a POW camp.
* ''Film/FatherGoose'': 1960s romcom involving the adventures of Creator/CaryGrant as an unwilling coast watcher.
* ''Film/TheFightingLady'': A documentary filmed in color, and made DuringTheWar, featuring life aboard an ''Essex''-class class carrier, the USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-10).
* ''Film/TheFightingSeabees'': Another John Wayne propaganda film about some of the unsung heroes of World War II, the US Navy Construction Battalions ("CB" - get it?) who managed to build airfields, bases and port facilities across the Pacific much faster than anyone believed possible prior to the war.
* ''Literature/TheFivePeopleYouMeetInHeaven'': Only partially takes place during UsefulNotes/WW2. The protagonist Eddie fights in the Philippines.
* ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'': The lives of the flag-raisers in the famous photo of [[IwoJimaPose raising the flag]] upon Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Received a POVSequel, ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima''.
* ''[[Film/FrancisTheTalkingMule Francis]]'': Second Lieutenant Peter Sterling (Donald O'Connor) is caught behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II. Francis, a talking Army mule (voiced by Chill Wills), carries him to safety. When Sterling insists that the animal rescued him, he is placed in a psychiatric ward. Each time Sterling is released, he accomplishes something noteworthy (at the instigation of Francis), and each time he is sent back to the psych ward when he insists on crediting the talking mule.
* ''Film/TheGreatRaid'': about the raid at the Japanese POW camp near the Philippine city of Cabanatuan.
* ''Film/GuadalcanalDiary'' - made during the war, based on a 1943 memoir.
* ''Film/HacksawRidge'', the true story of conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss, who saved saving the lives of over 75 of his comrades during the Battle of Okinawa.
* ''Film/TheHastyHeart'', a group of allied soldiers in hospital at the end of the war befriend a dying man so that he can spend his last days with friends.
* ''Film/HeavenKnowsMrAllison'', about a U.S. Marine and an Irish nun who find themselves stranded on a Japanese-occupied island.
* ''Film/InHarmsWay'': Following the exploits of a group of American naval officers in Hawaii during the early part of the war. The last Creator/JohnWayne film produced in black and white.
* ''Film/InLoveAndWar1958'': Follows the war's effects on three U.S. Marines in the Pacific and their families back home.
* ''Film/{{Midway|1976}}'' (1976): About the turning point of the Pacific war, notable for lacking a special effects budget and using mostly StockFootage, though still surprisingly good.
* ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}'' (2019): A more modern retelling of the battle by Creator/RolandEmmerich.
* ''Film/MisterRoberts'': About one of the most essential but also most monotonous and least glamorous parts of the war, the men who served on the cargo ships far behind the fighting.
* ''[[Film/TheMissionOfTheShark The Mission of the Shark]]'', a [=TV=] movie, - tells the story of the [=U.S.S.=] Indianapolis, which after having delivered the atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, it was sunk by a Japanese submarine, and because of the top secret nature of its mission, the survivors were left floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to be devowered by sharks until only a handful were left alive when rescue finally arrived.
* ''Film/NeverSoFew'': An American OSS officer and a handful of American men lead a squad of Kachin natives, behind enemy lines in Burma, fighting the Japanese.
* ''Film/ObjectiveBurma'' - controversial at the time as Australian Errol Flynn leads a group of US army soldiers on a raid in Burma, leading to some of the first British complaints about AmericaWonWorldWarII as Burma was a wholly British Commonwealth theater.
* ''Film/OperationPetticoat'' - 1958 comedy starring Cary Grant as a submarine captain trying to escape the Philippines at the beginning of the war with a broke-down sub loaded with Army nurses and Filipino civilians—[[ItMakesSenseInContext and the sub is painted bright pink]]. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Film/PearlHarbor'' - A love triangle drama in addition to the battle as well as the Doolittle Raid, with a very brief foray into the the Battle of Britain. Notable for its many inaccuracies.
* ''Film/{{PT109}}'' - about the wartime exploits of future US President John F Kennedy.
* ''Film/ReportFromTheAleutians'': Creator/JohnHuston's propaganda documentary about a forgotten part of the Pacific war, namely, the Aleutian Islands campaign.
* ''Film/RunSilentRunDeep'': Submarine warfare off the Japanese home islands.
* ''[[Film/SandsOfIwoJima Sands of Iwo Jima]]'' - John Wayne propaganda film
* ''Film/SoProudlyWeHail'': Much like ''Film/CryHavoc'' above, this film is about Red Cross nurses in the Philippines.
* ''Film/SouthPacific''- Set mid-war, after the southern islands had become a backwater.
* ''Film/SubmarineCommand''
* ''Film/TheyWereExpendable'' - John Ford directs John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in this movie about PT Boats of the Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines in 1941-42. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn’t end well]], though it at least gets a BittersweetEnding for the leads.
* ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' - about a squad of US Army soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign, although the title is an allegorical reference to a small Scottish force in the Crimean War.
* ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' - the story of the Doolittle Raid.
* ''Film/ToraToraTora'' - An acclaimed joint US/Japanese production that depicts the Pearl Harbor attack from both sides.
* ''Film/USSIndianapolisMenOfCourage'': Revolves around the infamous sinking of Heavy Cruiser USS ''Indianapolis'' (CA-35) by Japanese Submarine ''I-58'', and the 5-day ordeal of her surviving crew members in shark-infested waters.
* ''Film/TheWackiestShipInTheArmy'': Two men man the ''USS Echo'' (a sailboat) alongside a fairly (at first) incompetent crew as they sail to Japan in hopes of studying enemy tactics.
* ''Film/WakeIsland'' is about that island and the 400 doomed Marines defending it from the Japanese in December 1941.
* ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'' - focuses on a group of Amerindians trained as signalmen because their language is entirely unknown outside the U.S.
* ''Film/TheWolverine'': The movie starts with a flashback when Nagasaki was about to be bombed.

[[AC:Australian Point of View]]

* ''Film/AttackForceZ'' - A fictionalised depiction of the exploits of the Z Special Unit.
* ''Film/{{Australia}}'' - Features a fictionalised version of the Japanese bombing of Darwin in February 1942.
* ''Film/{{Kokoda}}'' - Australian soldiers in New Guinea.

[[AC:British Point of View:]]

* ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' - focuses on British [=POWs=] put to work on the notorious "Railroad of Death" in Burma.
* ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' - focuses on a British missionary in China; ends with the beginning of the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar
* ''Film/ATownLikeAlice'': adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel about British civilian prisoners of the Japanese in Mayla (based on real-world events surrounding a group of Dutch women.)

[[AC:Chinese Point of View:]]

* ''Film/CityOfLifeAndDeath'' - Aka 'Nanjing, Nanjing', focuses on the aftermath of the Battle of Shanghai and the pacification of the lower Yangtze.
* ''Film/FlowersOfWar'' - About the Rape of Nanking, as witnessed by an American.
* ''Film/FortGraveyard'' - A rare example of a film focusing on Japan vs. Manchurian China.
* ''Film/GunBrothers'' - One of the earlier Shaw examples.
* ''Film/HeroesOfTheUnderground'' - Creator/ShawBrothers biopic about Ding Yi-shan, legendary IconOfRebellion during the Sino-Japanese war.
* ''Film/LadyFromChungking'' - Creator/AnnaMayWong plays a Chinese woman, leading a secret resistance cell behind Japanese lines. Her LaResistance group hides a downed American fighter pilot, and Wong's character flirts with a Japanese general in order to get intel about a Japanese offensive.
* ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' - not purely a World War II movie, it focuses on Puyi, the eponymous "last emperor" of China and only emperor of Manchukuo, a puppet state the Japanese established in UsefulNotes/{{Manchuria}} from 1931 to 1945.
* ''Film/LustCaution'' - focuses on the Japanese occupation of China and local Chinese resistance.
* ''Film/TheNavalCommandos'' - set in the Sino-Japanese war, a group of Chinese hooligans volunteers to infiltrate and destroy an otherwise impenetrable Japanese aircraft carrier.
* ''Film/PurpleSunset'' - an anti-war film released in 2001 that details about a Chinese farmer, a Soviet soldier, and Japanese schoolgirl together lost in the Manchurian forest during the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria.
* ''Film/SevenManArmy'' - The unofficial Creator/ShawBrothers remake of ''Film/CrossOfIron'', on '''steroids'''. A platoon of seven Chinese soldiers defends their fort from an invading army of 20,000 Japanese soldiers and holds the invaders off for an entire week, before they're finally defeated. The movie ends with the Japanese forces retreating ''out of respect''.
* ''Film/SonsOfTheGoodEarth'' - a pair of StarCrossedLovers in 1937 China gets caught in the Japanese invasion. One of the higher-budgeted films made by Shaw Brothers during the mid-60s, with a lengthy BigBadassBattleSequence (some 15 minutes long!) capping the end.
* ''Film/TheEightHundred'' - During the Battle of Shangai, Eight Hundred Chinese soldiers valiantly defend a Warehouse near the Shanghai International Settlement, in face of overwhelming Japanese numerical superiority.

[[AC:Japanese Point of View:]]


* ''Film/BattleOfOkinawa'': A Japanese film about the battle itself from Japanese POV.
* ''Film/TheEmperorInAugust'': A 2015 film about the Japanese government in the last chaotic days of the war, August 1945, as Hirohito resolves on surrender and junior officers respond by mounting a coup
** ''Film/JapansLongestDay'': A 1967 film with an AllStarCast dramatizing the exact same events
* ''Film/FiresOnThePlain'': Disorganized remnants of the IJA undergo terrible suffering on Leyte in the Philippines, February 1945.
* ''Film/TheHumanCondition'' - A socialist-leaning Japanese contractor in Manchuria starts to realize his country may be the bad guys...[[FromBadToWorse it got worse]]. Also includes the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, a subject rarely dramatized.
* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' - POVSequel to ''Flags of Our Fathers'' showing the Battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective.
* ''Anime/MomotarosSeaEagles'' (1943): A fictionalized 37-minute short film where the classic Peach Boy and his animal companions bomb the Oni Island (Pearl Harbor).
* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' (1945): A full length (74 minutes) sequel to ''Sea Eagles'' where the Peach Boy and his companions build a sea base and paradrop onto Oni island (which is either Singapore or Hong Kong).
* ''Film/{{Yamato}}'': The last two combat missions of the IJN ''Yamato'': the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the doomed Operation ''Ten-Go''.
* ''Film/{{Zero}}'': a film focusing on the development, testing and ultimate failure of the Zero fighter plane in aerial combat.

[[AC:Filipino Point of View:]]
* ''Theatre/APortraitOfTheArtistAsFilipino'': Originally a theatre production but released in two film versions: a 1965 DeliberatelyMonochrome English version and the 2017 full-colour Tagalog ''Ang Larawan'', both concerning an ImpoverishedPatrician family and their heirloom house and art, in Intramuros, the Philippine colonial capital, getting ready for war by scheduling rolling blackouts among other things.
* ''Film/OroPlataMata'': Depicts oligarchic families from Negros, in the Visayas region in the central Philippines, whose lives and wealth are disrupted by the Japanese invasion.

[[AC:Korean Point of View:]]
* ''Film/TheBattleshipIsland'': A group of 400 Koreans, Forced to work on the Mines of Hashima Island, attempt a daring escape from their Japanese captors.

[[folder:The Air War (1940-1945)]]

In which the two sides of the war try to bomb each other into submission. A fair chunk of these are British and a number are based on true stories.

[[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront The Blitz]], which followed the Battle of Britain, was a German attempt to bomb the UK into surrendering, which didn't really work. The Battle of Britain had been a close run thing, as the British had spent much of the 1930s not investing in their fighter force as they had believed "the bomber will always get through". It took UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill to persuade them otherwise- the Spitfire and the Hurricane arriving just in time. The Blitz was at its peak during 1940-1941 and 1944-1945, the latter mostly using V1 and V2 missiles. There were still attacks on the United Kingdom in-between, but Germany's resources were focused on the Eastern Front at the time.

While the actions of the Allied bombing missions in Germany have been subject to quite a bit of historical debate (although there were legitimate industrial targets in German cities, the bombing of German civilians did not have the planned effect of destroying German industry or morale- it simply made them more resolved, much like what had happened during the Blitz), it should be noted that these bombing raids were very dangerous for British airmen. They flew at night, unlike the USAAF (US Army Air Force) who did the day missions. Of every 100 airmen, 55 on average would end up dead. The issue of not awarding separate medals for the British Bomber Command crews (who got the Air Crew Europe star that everyone else who flew over Europe did) is raised from time to time.

This is not to say that the USAAF had it any better. Flying by day meant they had a monstrously high casualty rate, particularly before P-51s were available for long range escort. There was a policy of "25 and out". Once an airman had done 25 missions, his war was over. The ball turret gunner, despite not having a parachute close to hand and being exposed to ground fire, wasn't actually that dangerous, relatively speaking. Just unpleasant, as they ended up doing somersaults in a tiny, cold, plexiglass and metal ball looking at a really long drop. The 25 got upped to 30 and then 35. The average crew got shot down around the [[ShootTheShaggyDog 20th mission]].

The Air War in the Pacific has received comparatively less attention, even though the scope and nature of the Pacific theater meant that air power played an even larger role there than it did in Europe. The strategic bombing campaign against Japan in particular has not received much attention, perhaps because it's difficult to portray massive fire raids against civilians in a heroic light. Even those who participated rarely considered it to be anything more than a [[NecessarilyEvil necessary evil]].
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* ''Film/SixThreeThreeSquadron'': AirstrikeImpossible against a heavily defended German rocket fuel factory.
* ''Theatre/AliceByHeart'': The framing scenes are set during the 1941 London Blitz.
* ''Film/BattleOfBritain'': The RAF during the desperate days at the height of [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront The Blitz]].
* ''Literature/TheBigOne''
* ''Film/CaptainsOfTheClouds'': Canadian bush pilots attempt to join the Royal Canadian Air Force as fighter pilots after hearing Churchill's call to arms. Notable for being the first major Hollywood production filmed entirely in Canada.
* ''Film/CarryOnEngland'': AwfulBritishSexComedy set in a mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery regiment.
* ''Film/CatchTwentyTwo'': A very dark BlackComedy set in the Mediterranean campaign.
* ''Film/TheDamBusters'': Based on a true story about an elite air unit attempting a dangerous bombing mission on a major German dam.
* ''Film/DesperateJourney'': Well, sort of about the air war. The story involves an RAF bomber grew that gets shot down over Germany and then goes on a, yes, desperate journey across Germany.
* ''Film/TheGerman''
* ''Film/AGuyNamedJoe'': Deals with both the European and Pacific air wars.
* ''Film/IntoTheWhite'': A German and a British plane are shot down during a dog fight and the crews cooperate to survive in the Norwegian mountains.
* ''Film/LondonCanTakeIt'': 1940 documentary short showing a real German bombing raid on London, with firefighting efforts as well as a look at damage the next day.
* ''Film/MemphisBelle''
* ''Film/MosquitoSquadron''
* ''Film/OperationCrossbow'': Follows British efforts to spy on the Nazis' rocket production and make them vulnerable to bombings as the Nazi rockets hit London again and again. A group of soldiers with mechanical skills are recruited to pose as collaborating scientists and infiltrate the rocket project in Germany.
* ''Film/PassageToMarseille'': An odd example since the FramingDevice that begins and ends the film involves a Free French bomber squadron based in England, but the middle part of the film involves a bunch of prisoners in French Guiana trying to escape to join the war effort.
* ''Film/ReachForTheSky'': Biopic of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, a double amputee who became flying ace.
* ''Film/RedTails'': Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} finally gives the Tuskeegee Airmen the patriotic war movie they deserve a half-century after the war.
* ''Film/ShadowInTheCloud''
* ''Film/TheTuskegeeAirmen'': An earlier and arguably less patriotic take on the same subject as ''Red Tails'': Elite African American fighter pilots who are subjected to racism while fighting for their country.
* ''Film/TwelveOClockHigh'': The US 8th Air Force's daylight bombing campaign.

* ''Victory Through Air Power'': Disney WartimeCartoon (yes, Disney) that explains the vital role of airpower in modern warfare.
* ''The War Lover'': examines what it takes to be an AcePilot: is he a hero, or a psychopath?
* ''The Way To The Stars'' surveys the entire western European air war as the protagonist progresses from NewMeat RAF bomber pilot to a ground controller supporting both the British and American air forces.
[[/index]]

Though less common, there are several movies about the Air War in the Pacific:

* ''Film/AirForce'' - one of the earliest examples, a 1942 film about a B-17 bomber crew travelling to the Philippines in December 1941, passing through Hawaii on the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.
* ''Film/FlyingTigers'' -- 1942 propaganda film with John Wayne about the American mercenary air force defending China.
* ''The Flying Leathernecks'' -- John Wayne yet again!
* ''God Is My Copilot'' - About the Flying Tigers
* ''Film/PearlHarbor'' -- Features the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo.
* ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' -- All about the Doolittle Raid. John Wayne somehow missed this one.

[[folder:The Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)]]

In which the German submarines (U-Boote) try to starve Britain into submission and stop equipment from getting to the Allies. The subs (on both sides) are hot, cramped and nasty. In fact, calling them submarines is slightly inaccurate, considering that most of their time was spent on the surface.

This campaign started pretty much on day one of the war, making it the longest battle in human history. A German U-boat mistook a passenger liner running without lights for an armed merchant ship... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Athenia You get the idea]].

Three-quarters of those who went out in the U-Boote did not return. This was a result of a combination of the Allies' refining their convoy system and its defences, as well as simply producing more ships, both cargo and fighting types, than the U-Boats could sink and thus were overwhelmed.

* ''Film/ActionInTheNorthAtlantic'' -- a tribute to the Merchant Marine, the civilian crews who had to sail the ships that carried the supplies that sustained the allied effort in WWII. Starring Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/RaymondMassey. [[/index]]
* ''Crash Dive'' [[index]]
* ''Film/{{Below}}'' -- A psychological horror film set aboard an American sub on patrol in the Atlantic.
* ''Film/DasBoot''-- A German movie from the U-boat crews' perspective: "hunters" who are actually the hunted and not likely to survive in any case.
* ''Literature/TheCruelSea'' -- film version of the novel by Nicholas Monserrat, about the crew of a British corvette escorting convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic.
* ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'' -- An American destroyer escort and a German U-boat duel on the high seas. Inspired the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]".
* ''Enigma''
* ''Film/{{Greyhound}}'' -- A feature film about an American captain's (Creator/TomHanks) first convoy command in 1942 and being targeted by German U-Boats.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'' -- A half-live action/half-animated comedy starring Creator/DonKnotts as a wimpy accountant who [[TransformationFiction transforms]] into a talking fish with a MakeMeWannaShout power, which he uses to help the US Navy locate and destroy U-boats. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really]].
* ''Film/{{Lifeboat}}'' -- An Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie made in 1943 about the survivors of a sunken merchant ship who are trapped in the titular lifeboat with the U-Boat captain who sank them.
* ''Film/TheLongVoyageHome'' -- Merchant sailors taking military supplies to England while German U-boats prowled the Atlantic. Made prior to the American entry into the war.
* ''Film/MurphysWar'' A British ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat while conducting patrols in the rivers of South America. The submariners murder most of the UK survivors at the conclusion of the battle, but one man survives to seek revenge
* ''Film/{{U571}}''--an American movie that caused outrage in Britain due to showing the first captured Enigma machine to be recovered by an [[HollywoodHistory American submarine crew]].
* ''We Dive at Dawn'' -- A British movie made in 1942, set on a British submarine.

The early years of the war in the Atlantic also saw some combat between surface ships, in particular the raids of the German battleships ''Admiral Graf Spee'' and the (in)famous ''Bismarck''.

* ''The Battle of the River Plate''
* ''Film/SinkTheBismarck!''
* ''The Sea Chase''
* ''Film/UnderTenFlags'', a fictionalised account of the hunt for the commerce raider ''Atlantis''.

[[folder:Resistance Movements (1939-1945)]]

The most famous is arguably the French Resistance (TropeNamer of LaResistance), but the other movements throughout Europe, most notably Greeks, Yugoslavs, Soviets and Poles, were very effective in their respective countries too. The German Resistance is also portrayed for their valiant, though eventually futile due to their small numbers and lack of support, attempt to save Germany from Hitler's rule.
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* ''Film/TheTwelfthMan'': The film chronicles the true story of Jan Baalsrud, a British-trained Norwegian resistance fighter who is trapped in occupied territory after a failed sabotage mission. He struggles to make it from Norway to neutral Sweden while struggling with frostbite. He relies on the help of local patriots and {{Good Samaritan}}s.
* ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'': Dramatic film showing the work of a French Resistance unit. Directed by an actual veteran of the Resistance, Creator/JeanPierreMelville.
* ''Film/BlackBook''
* ''Film/{{Canaris}}'': A drama about Wilhelm Canaris opposing the Nazis from his position as chief of the Abwehr and executed for hispart in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler.
* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''
* ''Film/CharlotteGray''
* ''Film/ComeAndSee'': Belarusian partisans fight SS Einsatzgruppen.
* ''Film/{{Defiance}}'': About the Bielski Partisans, a group of Jews who hid in the Belorussian forests and fought the Nazis and local peasant collaborators
* ''Film/EscapeToAthena'': Greek resistance and [=POWs=] conspire against Nazis.
* ''Film/FlameAndCitron'': About the Danish Resistance.
* ''Film/AGeneration'': About a cell of young Communist guerillas in occupied Warsaw, 1942-1943.
* ''Film/{{Kanal}}'': The Warsaw Uprising in which the Polish Home Army fought against the Germans in occupied Warsaw in 1944.
* ''Film/AManEscaped'': About a French Resistance officer who has to escape from a Gestapo prison before he's executed.
* ''Film/MaxManus'': Norway's answer to ''Flame and Citron''.
* ''Film/MenWithoutWings'': A Czech resistance group, operating out of an aircraft factory, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Lidice massacre.
* ''Film/PimpernelSmith''
* ''Film/TheRedMeadows'': The Danish resistance blows up a German factory, but two of their guys get arrested.
* ''Film/RescuersStoriesOfCourage''
* ''Film/{{Resistance|2020}}'': The resistant life of Marcel Mangel (later known as mime Marcel Marceau). Overlaps with Holocaust as Marcel was Jewish and witnessed deportations.
* ''Film/RomeOpenCity'': An Italian resistance cell in Rome during the Aug. 1943-June 1944 German occupation.
* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': Paul Verhoeven's first film about the Netherlands during WWII.
* ''[[Film/SophieSchollTheFinalDays Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage]]'', about several members of the German resistance (against the Nazi regime, that is).
* ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity'' is an excellent documentary about both the French Resistance and the [[LesCollaborateurs Vichy regime]] that they opposed.
* ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot''
* ''Film/TheTrain'': About a group of French resistance fighters trying to stop a train filled with art treasures from leaving the country as the Germans retreat.
* ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'': About a group of German officers trying to assassinate Hitler.
* ''Film/LeVieuxFusil''
* ''Film/WeLeaveForEngland'' follows Norwegian resistance fighters in their flight from the Gestapo.
* ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''
* ''Film/WildWind''
* ''Winter in Wartime'' (''Oorlogswinter'')
[[/index]]
* Many local Yugoslav movies, some of the more famous being: ''The Battle of Sutjeska'', ''The Battle of Neretva'', ''Raid on Drvar'' and ''Walter Defends Sarajevo''. All involve the Yugoslav (communist-led resistance) fighting versus various Axis forces. Most were rather akin to Italian [[SpaghettiWestern Spaghetti Westerns]] [[RecycledInSpace recycled in the WW2-era Balkans]]. Movies made in the last 10-15 years of Yugoslavia sometimes had a much darker tone, focusing on topics like atrocities, betrayal and trying to survive what was effectively a civil war. A good example of this kind of movie is ''Occupation in 26 pictures''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Special Forces and Spies (1939-1945)]]

Films about various small forces carrying out special missions involving sabotage, [[SpyFiction spying]] or assassinations, most prominently coming from the Allied side. Outside of AlternateHistory, {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler, this is the genre where [[ArtisticLicenseHistory historical events tends to take a backseat the most]] to focus on flashy and sometimes glamorous action.
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[[AC:Historical Operations:]]
[[index]]
* ''Film/CarveHerNameWithPride'': Loosely based on the true story a French-English SOE agent serving in occupied France.
* ''Film/TheCatcherWasASpy'': About Major League Baseball catcher Moe Berg, who went to work for the UsefulNotes/{{OSS}} monitoring the Germans' efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
* ''Film/CounterfeitTraitor'': An American-born Swedish oilman agrees to spy for the Allies.
* ''Film/{{Enigma|2001}}'': Fictionalized account of British codebreakers trying to crack a cipher to track U-boat movements.
* ''Film/FemaleAgents'': Women who were recruited by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
* ''Film/{{Five Fingers|1952}}'': Loosely based on the real exploits of Agent Cicero spying for the Germans in neutral Turkey.
* ''The Heroes of Telemark'': About the Norwegian heavy water sabotage.
* ''Film/TheManWhoNeverWas'': Slightly fictionalized account of "Operation Mincemeat", the succesful attempt of British intelligence to deceive the Wehrmacht into thinking that the planned Allied invasion of Sicily would actually take place elsewhere.
* ''Film/OperationCrossbow'': Offers a fictionalized account of the [[OperationBlank titular Allied espionage operation]] to hinder the German development and use of long-range weapons.

[[AC:Fictional Operations:]]

* ''Film/AcrossThePacific'': A Japanese spy operation to destroy the Panama Canal, timed to coincide with the attack on Pearl Harbor, foiled by Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* ''Film/AirRaidWardens'': A very silly Creator/LaurelAndHardy movie where Stan and Ollie join the local Civil Defense patrol, and wind up foiling a plot by German spies to blow up the local magnesium plant.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTartu'': A British Captain is sent undercover into occupied Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the gas plant where it being manufactured.
* ''Film/AllThroughTheNight'': A German spy operation to sink a battleship in New York harbor, foiled by Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* ''Film/{{Allied}}'': A romance-thriller about an RCAF intelligence officer and a French resistance fighter, who is accused of being part of LesCollaborateurs.
* ''Film/AtlanticWall'': French comedy in which a peaceful French restaurant owner finds himself in possession of German [=V1=] flying bombs launching pads plans. He brings them to the Allies in London and reluctantly takes part to a secret assassination plot on the eve of D-Day.
* ''Film/TheDirtyDozen''
* ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'': About a German commando unit infiltrating the English countryside to assassinate UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.
* ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'': PropagandaPiece about a fictionalized plot to kill Hitler.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''
* ''Film/ISeeADarkStranger'': A feisty young woman gets in over her head when she gets mixed up with German spies trying to find out the location of the D-Day landings.
* ''Film/JourneyIntoFear'': An American naval engineer, returning home from Turkey by ship, is pursed by Nazi agents.
* ''Film/MinistryOfFear''
* ''Film/NorthernPursuit'': A German submarine lands some commandos in the frozen Canadian north; the commandos set out to find a hidden plane, which they will use to bomb a crucial waterway.
* ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prisoners of War (1940-1945)]]

Germans ''generally'' respected the Geneva Conventions with regards to US, UK and French [=POWs=], although by the end of the war when almost everyone was on the verge of starvation they were seriously considering throwing the Conventions out of the window with the Allied bombing raids as the excuse.

Geneva had never so much as been in the building when it came to the treatment of Slavic peoples by Germans - captured Red Army soldiers usually ended up as slaves or starved in death camps at best. And assuming they actually survived to be liberated their treatment upon returning home was frequently ''nearly as bad'' since Stalin's Soviet Union practiced YouHaveFailedMe on a massive scale and shuttled them directly from German prison camps to Siberian labor camps where they served, ironically enough, alongside the German prisoners of war the Soviets belatedly (and sometimes never) got around to releasing. The last German and ''Volkdeutsche'' prisoners to be released came back in the 1950s.

Conversely, the Allied POW camps, especially American and Canadian ones, kept to the Geneva Conventions so well that they became famous for being often more comfortable to Axis prisoners than their own side's barracks. This proved surprisingly beneficial for the Allies: the prisoners generally refrained from causing trouble, were more inclined to cooperate with interrogators and work details outside like on local farms, encouraged surrenders of the enemy and was excellent propaganda to the civilians of Allied nations that they were on the side of the good guys in that war. A number of repatriated Italian (and even some German) ex POW later emigrated back to the US and Canada, a testament both to the treatment they received and the relative lack of opportunity at home.

You did ''not'' want to be prisoner of the Japanese, as they considered surrendering as a shameful and degrading thing. Slave work, executions, torture and starvation were widespread, with also some infamous cases of experimentations on humans.
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[[index]]
* ''Film/TheBeastInHeat''
* ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''
* ''Film/TheCaptiveHeart''
* ''Film/TheColditzStory''
* ''Film/TheCowAndI''
* ''The Cross of Lorraine''
* ''Film/EscapeToVictory''
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape''
* ''Film/HartsWar''
* ''[[Literature/AsianSaga King Rat]]''
* ''Film/LandOfMine'': Danish-German film about young German [=POWs=] forced to clear land mines in Denmark after the end of the war.
* ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence''
* ''Film/ParadiseRoad''
* ''The Railway Man'': Based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a British signals officer who was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore and in the 1980s tried to find the man who tortured him.
* ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''
* ''Film/{{Stalag 17}}''
* ''Film/StalagLuft''
* ''Film/ToEndAllWars''
* ''Literature/ATownLikeAlice''
* ''Film/{{Unbroken}}''
* ''Film/VonRyansExpress''
* ''Film/TheWayBack2010''
* ''Film/TheWolverine'': The film starts with a flashback in Japanese POW-camp when Nagasaki was about to be bombed.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Holocaust (1939-1945)]]

UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust is the [[FinalSolution genocide]] UsefulNotes/NaziGermany carried out on its territory and throughout occupied Europe primarily against Jewish people, but also against a couple other sorts of people their ideology deemed worthy of being exterminated, such as political opponents, Slavs, homosexuals and Gypsies.
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[[index]]
* ''Film/{{Amen}}'' about the attempt of a priest to warn the Pope in Vatican about the gassings of Jews on behalf of SS officer Kurt Gerstein, who witnessed mass murders in gas chambers.
* ''Film/AngryHarvest'' - A Polish farmer hides a Jewish woman, but then proceeds to take advantage of her.
* ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants''
* ''Film/{{Bent}}''
* ''Film/TheBoatIsFull'' - A small group of Jewish refugees seeks shelter in Switzerland.
* ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas''
* ''Film/ComeAndSee'', set during the Nazis' extermination campaign in Belarus.
* ''Film/Conspiracy2001'', a film based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference Wannsee Conference]] where the FinalSolution was decided.
* ''Film/TheCounterfeiters''
* ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor''
* ''Film/EuropaEuropa'' - the true story of Solomon Perel, a Jewish boy who survived the Holocaust by pretending to be German and ended up being in the Hitler Youth
* ''Fog in August'' (''Nebel im August''), a teen age Yenish boy is tranfered to a mental isntitution until his father is released from prison, and slowly he figures out that place is a transit point for the Aktion-T4 programme before it becomes a killing center itself.
* ''Film/TheGardenOfTheFinziContinis'' - persecution of Italian Jews ending in their roundup for deportation
* ''Film/GodOnTrial''
* ''Film/TheGreyZone'', about the Jewish ''sonderkommandos'' in the death camps, forced to cooperate in the killing mechanism even as they knew could be next to die at any time.
* ''Film/HiddenInSilence'':
* ''Film/{{In Darkness|2011}}'' - A Christian man in Lviv hides a dozen Jews in the sewers beneath the city.
* ''Film/InThePresenceOfMineEnemies''
* ''Film/JacobTheLiar'', the original East German version
** ''Film/JakobTheLiar'', the American remake
* ''Film/{{Kapo}}'' - A teenaged Jewish girl escapes Auschwitz only to become a despised "kapo" (prisoner guarding other prisoners) in a different labor camp.
* ''Film/DerLetzteZug''
* ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful''
* ''Film/NightAndFog''
* ''Film/TheNinthCircle'': A Christian family in Yugoslavia tries to shelter a Jewish girl from the Nazis.
* ''Film/ThePianist'' about Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who escaped deportation and managed to survive in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945.
* ''Film/TheRevoltOfJob'': A Jewish couple in Hungary adopts a Christian child, in part to leave him their possessions as they see the Final Solution coming.
* ''The Round Up'' about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. 13000 Jews were arrested (including more than 4000 children) in Paris by the French police (which [[LesCollaborateurs collaborated]]) and deported to the death camps in Poland.
* ''Film/SarahsKey''
* ''Film/SchindlersList'' about the German industrialist who managed to save about 1200 Jews from extermination by employing them in his businesses.
* ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet''
* ''Film/SonOfSaul'' - A ''Sonderkommando'' prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
* ''Film/{{Sterne}}'' - (Translation: Stars)
* ''Film/Sunshine1999''
* ''Film/{{Toyland}}''
* ''Film/VisasAndVirtue''
* ''Film/WomanInGold'' - the true story of Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who fled during the Anschluss and fifty years later sought litigation to retrieve a painting of her aunt that was stolen by the Nazis
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Home Fronts (1939-1945)]]

The impact of the war on civilian life in the various unoccupied countries or areas that took part in the conflict.
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[[index]]
[[AC: Germany:]]

* ''Aimée & Jaguar'', the true story of the lesbian affair between German housewife Lilly Wust and Jewish woman Felice Schragenheim.
* ''Film/BeforeTheFall'', about the Nazi National Political Academy.
* ''Film/TheDevilStrikesAtNight'': The hunt for a SerialKiller in 1944 Berlin, and how the conscientious inspector on the case is confronted with interference from the party hierarchy.
* ''Film/AHiddenLife'', the story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to enlist in the German army.
* ''Lili Marleen'', a fictional story around the famous hit song.
* ''Film/TheMarriageOfMariaBraun'' deals with a woman's journey from the earliest stages of Germany's surrender to the mid-1950s in UsefulNotes/WestGermany.
* ''My Führer'', a comedy in which Adolf Hitler is so depressed that he hires a Jewish acting coach to help him prepare a New Year speech.
* ''The Night fell on Gotenhafen'', about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff tragedy of the Wilhelm Gustloff]], which was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. It is the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history, up to 9400 German civilians and soldiers died trying to evacuate East Prussia to flee the Soviet advance.
* ''Film/{{Rosenstrasse}}'', a film about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest 1943 protest in the eponymous street]]. Many "pure German blood" wives and relatives of Jewish men took to the street in protest against their deportation.
* ''Literature/TheTinDrum'' -- Set in the city of Danzig, which was part of Germany until 1919, when the League of Nations made it a Free City and allowed Poland access to the Baltic sea there, thus cutting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany. The city was still mostly German ethnically, and was the first to be invaded by the German armies on September 1st 1939.
* ''Film/{{Wunschkonzert}}'', a 1940 German propaganda film that shows the Luftwaffe bombing Poland and a combat scene in what appears to be the 1940 Western Front, but is mostly about the star-crossed romance between a German woman and her fighter pilot boyfriend. They're eventually reunited through the popular ''Wunschkonzert'' weekly radio show.

[[AC: Hungary]]
* ''Film/{{Bizalom}}'': A young woman in late 1944 Budapest is shocked to find out that her husband is part of LaResistance and has fled to avoid arrest. To avoid arrest herself she has to get fake papers and pretend to be the wife of another man who is also hiding under a false identity. They fall in love.

[[AC: Italy:]]

* ''Film/{{Malena}}'': A pubescent boy is entranced by the beauty of the most gorgeous woman in his village--who has been left in desperate straits after her husband is killed in battle.
* ''Film/LePupille'': A short film about how the privations of war--lack of food, lack of coal for heating--is impacting an orphanage full of {{Heartwarming Orphan}}s.
* ''Film/{{Shoeshine}}'': Two street urchins struggle to survive in the grim poverty of the Roman underclass immediately following liberation in 1944.

[[AC: Japan:]]

* ''Film/{{Army}}'', a Japanese film made ''during'' the war, 1944 to be exact, about the duty of the Japanese to support the war and the duty of Japanese parents to give their sons to the Emperor. Contains a very subtle anti-war message.
* ''Film/BridgeToTheSun'': Unusual in that it's an American film in English. The protagonist is a white woman who goes to Japan with her Japanese diplomat husband, when he and everyone else in the Washington embassy are sent home in December 1941.
* ''Film/DoctorAkagi'', set in a Japanese town during the last days of the war.
* ''Film/GraveOfTheFireflies''[[note]](2008 live-action film, not to be confused with the animated film of the same name)[[/note]] - a slice of [[FromBadToWorse Japanese civilian life]] in 1945. Based on the same novel as the animated film.
* ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' - a stylised account of the life of a Japanese entertainer-courtesan
* ''Film/MorningForTheOsoneFamily'', 1946 Japanese film about the suffering an upper-middle class family undergoes due to the conflict.
* ''Film/{{The Most Beautiful|1944}}'': 1944 Creator/AkiraKurosawa propaganda movie showing young Japanese women laboring away at a factory making precision lenses for the war effort.

[[AC: United Kingdom:]]

* ''Film/ACanterburyTale''. SliceOfLife about soldiers and civilians holding down the home front in 1943 Kent.
* ''{{Film/Churchill}}'', focusing on Churchill's fears about the possible failure of Operation Overlord and his difficulty adjusting to the new balance of power towards the end of the war.
* ''[[Film/DadsArmy1971 Dad's Army]]'', film spin-off of British sitcom about the Home Guard of a small seaside town.
* ''Film/{{Darkest Hour|2017}}'', focusing on UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill trying to see Britain through the crisis as the Western Front collapses, May-June 1940
* ''Film/TheDresser''
* ''Film/TheGatheringStorm''
* ''Film/GreenForDanger''', a murder mystery set in a British rural hospital during the last years of the war.
* ''Film/HopeAndGlory'', a rather sunny movie set in London on UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront.
* ''Film/TheImitationGame''
* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009''
* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech''
* ''Film/TheLandGirls''
* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak''
* ''Film/MrsHendersonPresents''
* ''Film/MrsMiniver''
* ''[[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'' has many flashbacks of the main character waiting for his father to return.
* ''Film/TheirFinest''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Valiant}}''
* ''Film/TheWaterHorseLegendOfTheDeep''
* ''Film/TheYearsBetween''

[[AC:USA:]]

* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', a comedy.
* ''Film/CoverGirl'': There's a comedy song about rationing, Danny [=McGuire=] was wounded in North Africa, and toward the end of the movie, Danny and Genius go on tour entertaining the troops.
* ''Film/DarkWaters1944''
* ''Film/FatManAndLittleBoy'', a historical drama about the Manhattan Project.
* ''Film/GovernmentGirl''
* ''Film/HailTheConqueringHero''
* ''Film/TheHumanComedy''
* ''Film/IllBeSeeingYou''
* ''I'll Remember April'' concerns a group of kids who discover a Japanese sailor washed ashore and shelter him from the authorities.
* ''Film/InTheMood''
* ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn''
* ''Film/LittleBoy'' is about a boy of a man sent to the war.
* ''Film/TheMajorAndTheMinor''
* ''Film/TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek''
* ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier''
* ''Film/MyDogSkip''
* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'': The Manhattan Project headed by UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, which led to the discovery of the [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons atomic bomb]].
* ''Film/PeytonPlace''
* ''Film/RadioDays''
* ''Film/SinceYouWentAway''
* ''Film/ASoldiersStory''
* ''Film/SummerOf42''
* ''Film/SwingShift''
* ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine''
* ''Film/WeveNeverBeenLicked''
* Luis Valdez's ''Film/ZootSuit'' takes place during the aftermath of the Sleepy Lagoon murder, and the Zoot Suit riots.

[[AC: USSR:]]

* ''Film/AK47'': A Russian {{Biopic}} that starts off with Mikhail Kalashnikov's service on the Eastern Front in 1941, then shifts to his engineering work on the Russian Home Front in Moscow throughout the rest of the war and then some of his post-war work involving the creation of his infamous AK-47 assault rifle.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fantasy / Horror / Science-Fiction]]

Where there's much outlandish genre fun to be had and where history definitely leaves the building.
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[[index]]
* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': A spinster who trains as a witch wants to use her powers to help the British war effort. She also must serve as ParentalSubstitute to three BlitzEvacuees.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Takes place in the United States and Europe during World War II. Leading an international Allied unit, [[SuperSoldier Captain America]] fights Hydra, a Nazi science division led by ComicBook/RedSkull that uses technology way beyond anything imaginable in the 1940s, thanks to the Cosmic Cube (the Tesseract).
* ''Film/TheFinalCountdown'': A magnetic storm sends the then-new modern nuclear powered USS Nimitz, just heading out of Pearl Harbor in 1980, back in time to the same spot in early December 1941 just before the Japanese attack.
* ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'': A squad of Russian soldiers go to a remote East German village to locate missing comrades towards the end of the war. Unearthing a plot to resurrect fallen soldiers, the squad becomes the target of cobbled-together monsters.
* ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': Seems like a typical horror film set during the war when actually [[spoiler:it is set in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture computer simulation]].
* ''Film/KingOfTheZombies'': A German agent in the Caribbean kidnaps an American admiral and tortures him in an attempt to learn the defences of the Panama Canal. Plus, you know, zombies.
* ''Film/{{Overlord|2018}}'': A group of paratroopers encounters Nazis and horrifying experiments underneath a radio tower.
* ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'': A horror slash science fiction set during the Battle of the Bulge, where the Nazis unleash a horde of gargoyles in Northern France, and the Allies end up having to find a way to both prevent the Germans from finding a way to control the monsters as well as find a way to stop the latter for good.
* ''Film/LesVisiteurs'': A 12th century French knight and his squire TimeTravel to 1943 by mistake at the end of ''Bastille Day'' (the third film), when France is occupied by the Germans.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]
Films that don't really fit elsewhere.
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[[index]]
* ''Film/FortyNinthParallel'' : A group of Nazi submariners are trapped in Canada when their sub is sunk, and attempt to escape to the neutral US.
* ''Film/BiloxiBlues'': Depicts a young draftee's experiences in basic training during the war.
* ''Film/TheBrylcreemBoys'': Depicting combatants from ''both'' sides in a POW camp in neutral Ireland.
* ''Film/TheDig'': Set in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. It is about an archeological excavation of a Viking ship in the months leading up to the War.
* ''Film/TheFirstOfTheFew'': Uses the Battle of Britain as a framing device to tell the story of British aircraft designer R. J. Mitchell and his development of the Submarine Spitfire in the 1930s.
* ''Film/FighterInTheWind'': The main character is a Korean who joined the Japanese air force in the first part of the movie.
* ''Film/HellInThePacific:'' Two [=WW2=] servicemen -- one American, one Japanese -- form an unexpected bond while stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific.
* ''Film/{{Homecoming}}'': Follows a doctor and his nurse in a U.S. Army surgical unit in both Italy and France.
* ''Film/HotelBerlin'' (1945), basically ''Film/GrandHotel'' if ''Grand Hotel'' was about Nazis and Nazi collaborators and German resistance inside a hotel in Berlin in the final months of the European theater (it was in fact written by the same author whose book ''Grand Hotel'' was based on).
* ''Film/HowIUnleashedWorldWarII''
* ''Film/ItHappenedHere'': AlternateHistory about the Nazi occupation of Britain.
* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': A young German boy in the Hitler Youth has an ImaginaryFriend who looks like a friendly Adolf Hitler with the war as backdrop.
* ''Film/TheManInGrey'': While the bulk of the film is a WholeEpisodeFlashback set in RegencyEngland, a framing story involves an RAF pilot and a Wren in 1943.
* ''Film/AMatterOfLifeAndDeath'': A supernatural love story about an RAF pilot who bailed out of a plane without a parachute and lived, much to heaven's chagrin. Set mainly in a British military convalescent hospital, and in the afterlife.
* ''Film/MenBehindTheSun'': Inspired by surviving records of the human experiments that were conducted within the Unit-731 facility in occupied China, the film shows numerous [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate gruesome experiments conducted by scientists led by Shiro Ishii]]. An accidental ExploitationFilm that is ''not'' for the faint of heart.
* ''Film/MissionToMoscow'': About the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in the years leading up to the war; now infamous for its pro-Stalinist message.
* ''Film/{{Morituri}}'': A German living in India is blackmailed into sabotaging a Nazi merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan.
* ''Film/MyWay'': Follows two Korean men who fight in the Imperial Japanese Army, then the Red Army, then the Wehrmacht before being captured by Americans after D-Day. Inspired by the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong Yang Kyoungjong]].
* ''Film/NowhereInAfrica'': Deals with a German Jewish family who flees to Kenya to avoid the Holocaust who try to run a ranch (in between being occasionally rounded up as enemy aliens, due to being German)
* ''Film/OneNightInLisbon'': An American pilot, transporting a bomber to London prior to America's entry into the war, gets involved with an aristocratic Englishwoman and a German spy ring.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand'': The story begins in World War II London, during the Luftwaffe's bombing campaign in preparation for ''Operation: Sea Lion''.
* ''Film/{{Saboteur}}'': Essentially ''Film/{{The 39 Steps|1935}}'' set in wartime America.
* ''Film/SailorOfTheKing''
* ''Series/SeventeenMomentsOfSpring'': A famous Soviet series about a spy in the Gestapo.
* ''Series/ShieldAndSword'': Another series about Soviet spies.
* ''Film/WentTheDayWell'': Depicts the [[TakingOverTheTown infiltration and takeover]] of a fictional English village by Nazi soldiers in advance of a planned invasion of Britain.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

!!Other media:

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
[[index]]
* ''Manga/{{Adolf}}''
* ''Manga/BarefootGen'': A 1973-1974 manga that was adapted by Creator/{{Madhouse}} into two anime films in 1983 and 1986. The story mainly concerns the bombing of Hiroshima, and is well known for its very graphic and horrifying depictions of the dead and dying as a result of the bombing.
* ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron'': A film focusing on a young Japanese boy who evacuates to the countryside after his mother's death in a bombing raid.
* ''Anime/TheCockpit''
* ''Manga/ElAlameinNoShinden''
* ''Anime/FirstSquad''
* ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' - The downward spiral a Japanese boy and his younger sister dying from starvation towards the end of the war. (No, that doesn't need a spoiler tag: [[ForegoneConclusion you are told this at the start of the movie]].) Based on the novel of the same name authored by Akiyuki Nosaka.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': The BigBad and his {{Mooks}} are SS troops who have since been turned into vampires. A prequel manga titled ''Hellsing: The Dawn,'' covers two major characters dropping into Poland to make sure their vampires don't see the frontlines.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', obviously, although it spans from the Roman Empire to the present day.
* ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'': A 2007-2009 manga that later received a 2011 LiveActionAdaptation and a 2016 anime film. Set mainly in Kure in 1944 and 1945, it starts out as a historical SliceOfLife story but the war steadily intrudes further and further into the characters' everyday lives, the clock ticking down all the while to Little Boy.
* ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' is an AlternateHistory version of WWII involving witches, magic, and Europe being terrorized by an alternate German Empire rather than one run by the Nazis.
* ''Manga/KuroganePukapukaTai'', a {{yuri}} manga about an IJN cruiser crewed entirely by women (except for the captain).
* ''Manga/KutsuzureSensen'': The adventures of a pagan witch and her friend, a young NKVD officer, on Eastern war front.
* ''Anime/MomotarosSeaEagles'': 37-minute 1943 film, one of the oldest surviving examples of Japanese anime. Cute cuddly animals who are also Imperial Japanese Navy pilots blow the hell out of Pearl Harbor.
* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'': 1945 film, sequel to the above, oldest anime feature film. Cute cuddly animals become fearless paratroopers, and wind up invading a British-held island.
* ''Rail of the Star'': an Anime about Japanese civilians desperate to escape North Korea after the war that notably glosses over ''why'' [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japanese civilians would be desperate to escape Korea after the war.]]
* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' uses a famous World War 2 battleship as the protagonist ship, while enemy small craft are torpedo and dive bombers,and the whole "Quest for Iscandar" is basically a sci-fi, cathartic fantasy of ''Yamato'''s sucidal last mission actually succeeding.
** Completely unrelated to the anime is the 2005 live action film "Otoko-tachi no Film/{{Yamato}}", literally "The Men's Yamato" - depicting Operation Ten-Go and the IJN Yamato's final mission, the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific.
* ''Manga/StrikeWitches'' is an AlternateHistory version of WWII with aliens and girls who don't wear pants.
* ''Anime/TheWindRises'': animated BioPic about Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the A5M "Claude" and the A6M "Zero" fighter planes. Set during the 1930s (The era of the Machurian incident) and teh start of the Second Sino-Japanse War.
* ''Manga/{{Zipang}}'': in a reverse of ''Film/TheFinalCountdown'' a Japanese Aegis destroyer is sent back in time to the Battle of Midway.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/AceOfSpace'' fought Nazis a few times.[[/index]]
* ''[[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]]'' is set during World War II, featuring the race for the atomic bomb and following the British Assassin Eddie Gorm, who influences the course of history.[[index]]
* Literature/{{Biggles}} appeared in a number of comics set in World War II.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' is mostly set in TheFifties, but occasionally uses the conflict in its backstory. Its first story's plot, ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', is basically World War II set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, when the villain is a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of Imperial Japan. The 2014 book ''Plutarch's Staff'' plot is set in 1944.
* ''ComicBook/Block109'', an AlternateHistory comic book.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica punched Hitler in his very first issue. Most [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superheroes, since they were published during the war, fought Nazis at some point.
* A time-travel story in ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' had the team's speedster Fastback forcibly sent back in time to Earth-C's D-Day, where he winds up briefly helping the Allies fight the [[ThoseWackyNazis Ratzis]] alongside [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] DC funny-animal hero, the Terrific Whatzit (who turns out to be Fastback's uncle).
* Franco-Belgian series ''ComicBook/TheChildrenOfTheResistance'' is set in France in the fictional rural town of Pontain-Lécluse. The main characters are three children (François, Eusèbe and Lisa) who fight the Nazi by posting flyers, spying on them, commiting acts of sabotage, saving refugees while remaining anonymous in a game of cat and mouse. While the series is aimed at children, it doesn't shy away from death and atrocities inflicted by the Third Reich.
* ''ComicBook/CodeNameGravedigger'' about the exploits of a black soldier deployed as a OneManArmy throughout the European theatre.
* ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'': A SpinOff of ''Comicbook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos'' about a squad of {{Boxed Crook}}s undertaking suicide missions.
* ''ComicBook/CommanderSteel''. The original 5-issue series has the eponymous SuperSoldier fighting in World War II.
* A recent example is ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells''
* ''ComicBook/TheDesertPeach'' is a well-researched comic based in Africa, about the Desert Fox's fictional gay younger brother.
* ''ComicBook/Duster2015'' is set on a farm in Texas near the end of World War II.
* ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'': A group of Rumanian soldiers participate during World War II, first fighting alongside the Germans, then with the Russians when Rumania switches sides in 1944.
* Northern Irish writer Creator/GarthEnnis, through his series ''War Stories'' and ''Battlefields'', along with DC books like ''[[Comicbook/EnemyAce Enemy Ace: War In Heaven]]'' and revivals of British titles like ''Battler Britton'' and ''Johnny Red''.
* ''Comicbook/TheHauntedTank'' centers on the ghost of 19th-century Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart, who is sent by the spirit of Alexander the Great to act as a guardian over his two namesakes, Lieutenant Jeb Stuart and the M3 Stuart he commands.
* ''ComicBook/TheHeap'' first rose from the the swamp in 1942 and the MuckMonster soon found itself battling the Axis forces.
* ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'' is about a black ops team of {{Boxed Crook}}s deployed behind enemy lines in the closing days of WWII.
* ''ComicBook/IlEtaitUneFoisEnFrance'' is a thriller centered around the life of RealLife historical figure [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joanovici Joseph Joanovici]].
* ''ComicBook/KismetManOfFate'' chronicled the adventures of a Muslim combatant on the European resistance.
* ''ComicBook/TheLoneWarrior'' is a {{Superhero}} thwarting Nazi plots on a military base.
* ''Comicbook/TheLosers'' were an elite combat unit during World War II, named for their terrible luck and habit of surviving dangerous situations. They fought Nazis behind enemy lines in the European theater of operations. Prior to the formation of the group, each character had his own adventures in DC's war anthology comics.
* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': The portions narrated by Art's father take place mostly in Poland during the Holocaust, while the framing story takes place in the modern day.
* ''Raid of No Return'', the seventh book in the ''ComicBook/NathanHalesHazardousTales'' series, discusses the events of the Pearl Harbor attack and the Doolittle raid.
* ''ComicBook/PatPatriotAmericasJoanOfArc'' was about a super heroine who acted as an inspirational figure among the Americans.
* Snoopy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' showed up a few times; Charles Schulz (himself having been in the military in this time) had these show up around 06 June during the later years.
* ''ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos'' was Marvel's [=WW2=]-set comic, and introduced Comicbook/NickFury.
* ''ComicBook/SgtRock'', the TropeNamer for the SergeantRock.
* ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' has a handful of work in WWII:
** ''The Diary of a Naive Young Man'' and its sequel ''Hope Despite Everything'' is a one-shot about Spirou in his younger teens months before the outbreak of the war and during the occupation of Belgium.
** Another one-shot is ''Le Groom vert-de-gris''. This time Spirou is an adult and works at the hotel Moustique as a groom (and a spy) which been used by the Nazis as their headquarters.
** The Count of Champignac gets his own series in his younger years, titled ''Champignac''. The Count is tasked of breaking the secret code of the Enigma machine used by the Nazis to encrypt their messages.
* ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' is an Italian satiric comic focused on the life and misadventures of an anonymous German battalion in France (hinted in an early strip), though some late strips are set with the Afrika Korps.
* ''ComicBook/SuperAmerican'' had a patriot from the future time traveling to fight the Nazis.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Clark Kent was rated 4F (unfit for military service) due to poor vision because he accidentally used his X-Ray vision to read the eye chart in the next room. And since everyone knew Clark [[ClarkKenting really, really needed his glasses]] he couldn't talk the military brass into letting it slide. Of course, all that meant was Superman kept showing up ''everywhere Clark Kent traveled as a war correspondent''. Hmmm... nothing suspicious about ''that''.
* ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''.
* ''ComicBook/TifEtTondu'' has a three-part series about [[StartOfDarkness Monsieur Choc's life before the beginning of series]], title ''Choc: The Ghosts of Knightgrave''. The last part relate his time during WWII.
* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'': An AlternateHistory with AlienSpaceBats. Days before defeat comes to the Axis Powers, the Nazis [[StupidJetpackHitler successfully create]] {{Super Soldier}}s (the titular Ubers) that turn the tide of the war back in their favor. The Allies have to create their own super soldiers in the process, and things rapidly go FromBadToWorse for both sides. Author Creator/KieronGillen wrote this as a {{deconstruction}} of more traditional "super soldiers in WWII" stories.
* ''Comicbook/UnknownSoldier'' was a U.S. Military operative active during World War II. He is a master of disguise who normally wears bandages, as his face was destroyed in an explosion. His identity has never been revealed, and his name is taken from the famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. In an EasterEgg during the course of the novel we learn that The Comedian saw action in his masked identity against the Japanese in the South Pacific in 1942. This was later elaborated on in ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen''.
* ''ComicStrip/WillieAndJoe'': One panel comics by Creator/BillMauldin, about two US infrantrymen in the European Theater, originally published in ''The Stars and Stripes''.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** In the original tales in ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' and ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' Diana leaves Paradise Island to aid the Allies during the war and return a the downed USAAF pilot ComicBook/SteveTrevor to the states.
** In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' Diana leaves the island and gets mixed up with the supernatural elements trying to take advantage of the ongoing war, similar to her original debut.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'':
*** Most of "I'm Ageless" is set during the war in 1944 France. The other sections have her reminicing about that time while paying her respects at the grave of one of the soldiers she met there.
*** "Wing Woman" has Diana, in her Invisible Jet, helping a Women Airforce Service Pilot ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots WASP]]) fend off a German Messerschmitt Me 262.
* In ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'', the titular character travels back in time during the occupation of the Dutch East Indies by the Japanese Empire. Yoko hopes to find her great uncle, colonel Toshio, and answers to the discovery of {{Antimatter}} by the Japanese.
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* The ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' episode "The Manhattan Conspiracy" takes place in New Mexico just before and during the first testing of the atomic bomb. [[Series/DoctorWho The Cult of Skaro]] is looking to utilize the radiation of the bomb, and the Tenth Doctor & Co. arrive just in time to interfere.
* ''Fanfic/{{Uplift}}'' is about [[VideoGame/MassEffect quarians]] making contact with humanity in the middle of World War II.
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* ''Literature/AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall'' is Creator/SpikeMilligan's account of serving in the Royal Artillery in North Africa during the war.
* Creator/AlistairMacLean wrote several novels based on his experiences in WWII, among them ''South by Java Head'' and ''HMS Ulysses''.* ''Literature/AllTheLightWeCannotSee'' takes place mostly in occupied France, specifically the walled city of Saint-Malo
* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''Elfangor's Secret'' has the heroes chasing a time-traveling Controller. By the time they get to World War II, things have been changed enough that Hitler is now a lowly jeep driver, though the war still happens, including the D-Day invasion happening on the same day.
* ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'': Joe Kavalier, one of the main characters, escapes from Prague in 1939 after Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and takes refuge in New York City. He enlists in the US Navy and is shipped to Antarctica [[spoiler:after the ship with refugees destined for New York City, in which his younger brother Thomas was travelling in, was destroyed by a German U-boat]].
* In Margery Benery-Isbert's ''The Ark'', the actual events of World War II are in flashback, but only months earlier for the refugee characters; one son managed to return from the front, but the father has not.
* ''Armored units in the Yugoslav battlefield 1941-1945'' (''Oklopne jedinice na jugoslovenskom ratištu 1941-45'') by Bojan Dimitrijević and Dragan Savić describes in great detail the armored units of ''all'' warring factions in Yugoslavia (Wehrmacht, Waffen SS, Italians, Red Army, Partisans, Chetniks, Croatian Ustaše etc.).
* ''Literature/{{Asiunia}}'' is based on the authors childhood in occupied Poland.
* ''Literature/{{Atonement}}'', or about two-thirds of the story - set in Dunkirk and the English homefront.
* ''Literature/AuntieMame'' and its sequel ''Around the World with Auntie Mame'' are partially set during the war.
* Some of the novels in the Literature/BernieGunther series, the whole set of which follows German detective Bernie Gunther from 1928 to 1957.
** ''Literature/PragueFatale'' finds Bernie investigating a murder for Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1941, after having returned from the horrors of the Eastern Front.
** ''Literature/AManWithoutBreath'' is set in the spring of 1943, soon after the defeat at Stalingrad. Bernie is investigating the discovery of the corpses of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn forest.
** ''Literature/TheLadyFromZagreb'' has two parts; the first is set in the summer of 1942 shortly after the events of ''Prague Fatale'', and the second part is set soon after ''A Man Without Breath'', in summer 1943 when Bernie gets back from Katyn and winds up getting involved in some espionage activities.
** ''Literature/FieldGrey''--about half the novel is set in 1954 but there are extensive flashbacks to Bernie's experiences in 1940 in occupied France, 1941 in the Ukraine as Bernie witnesses the Holocaust, and 1945 as Bernie is conscripted into the doomed defense of Konigsberg.
* Literature/{{Biggles}} appears in a number of books set in [=WW2=].
* The war heavily figures in the [[Literature/AuntDimity ''Aunt Dimity'' series]], although the books themselves are set in the present. Dimity Westwood and Lori's mother met and became friends in wartime London; following [[DeadManWriting her mother's wishes expressed in a letter]], Lori researches people in Dimity's past in the first book. Several of the residents of Finch were child evacuees who returned to live there as adults, and one Italian POW settled in the area, later fathering several children who appear in later books. In ''Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince'', Gracie Thames notes that she and her husband named three of their children for family members who were killed by the Nazis when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
* Creator/ConnieWillis wrote a series of novels (''Literature/{{Blackout}}[=/=]All Clear'') and short stories ('Firewatch' 'Jack') about the experiences of British citizens during the war (and especially London during the Blitz.)
* ''The Blindness of the Heart (Die Mittagsfrau)'' takes place in Germany and starts out in the World War I era, and then things [[FromBadToWorse get worse]] for the characters when the war begins: [[spoiler:at least one character dies in the camps, and the main character is forced to deny her Jewish heritage and carry falsified Aryan papers.]]
* ''Literature/TheBookThief'' is about Liesel Meminger growing up in a foster home in WWII Nazi Germany. And with a foster family that ends up [[spoiler: hiding a Jew in their basement]], too.
* ''Literature/LaBreche'' is a science-fiction novel about a history-themed RealityTV show from 2060 (it uses TimeTravel) sending a war correspondent and a WWII historian to cover the Omaha Beach landing.
* The fairytale adaptation ''Literature/BriarRose'' by Creator/JaneYolen is one of these. Definitely falls under TrueArtIsAngsty, even if [[spoiler:it doesn't COMPLETELY manage a DownerEnding.]]
** ''Literature/TheDevilsArithmetic'', also by Jane Yolen: The Holocaust, the GrandfatherParadox, and sadly, a bucketload of teachable moments.
* ''Literature/TheCaineMutiny''. Set on the Pacific front, but hardly features any combat.
* ''Literature/CampX''. Set in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, and based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_X Camp X]].
** ''Literature/Camp30''. A sequel to ''Camp X'' set in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowmanville_POW_camp the titular Camp 30]].
* ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo'', a very dark BlackComedy set in the Mediterranean campaign.
* The Guernsey / Armishire books in the ''Literature/ChaletSchool'' series are set during the Second World War, and the effects of the war on the school are a major part of the plots of ''The Chalet School in Exile'', ''The Chalet School Goes To It'' and ''The Highland Twins at the Chalet School''.
* ''Charlotte Gray'' is about an Englishwoman who goes to France to join LaResistance and find her boyfriend, an airmen who went MIA there. Thought to be [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very Loosely Based on the True Stories]] of Agents [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake Nancy Wake]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Cornioley Pearl Cornioley]].
* In ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' World War 2 is occasionally mentioned as one of the time periods the time doors can go to. Characters finally actually go there at the end of #10.
* ''Literature/CodeNameVerity'' revolves around a British spy in occupied France who's been captured by the Nazis and tortured into giving up the codes to the radios she was trying to smuggle to LaResistance. [[spoiler: The second half revolves around her best friend, the pilot who flew her to France, who ends up working with LaResistance to accomplish the spy's true objective--the destruction of the prison she's being held in.]]
* ''Constantine's crossing'' (''Konstantinovo raskršće'') by Dejan Stojiljković is a novel about Partisans, Chetniks and {{Ghostapo}} in search of the [[PublicDomainArtifact Spear of Destiny]].
* ''Literature/CourierFromWarsaw''
* ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}''
* The ''[[Literature/JokerGame D Agency]]'' novel series follows a covert Japanese intelligence agency across the years 1939-1941.
* The Barrett Tillman novel ''Dauntless'' set during Midway. One character killed during the story is the father of Bud Callaway, President in his earlier novel ''Literature/TheSixthBattle''.
* ''Literature/DeathIsMyTrade'', fictionalized biography about Rudolf Höß, the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz death camp.
* Taylor Anderson's ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'' series is set from early 1942 onwards, based around two Asiatic destroyers [[spoiler: and the Japanese Battlecruiser Amagi and her crew]] sent to an alternate reality.
* ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl'' (aka ''The Diary of Anne Frank'') is a diary written by a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the war. She was eventually captured and killed, and her family had parts of her diary published posthumously.
* Douglas Reeman has written at least twenty novels of the Royal Navy in WWII, including several set on the Pacific front (both ''The Pride and the Anguish'' and ''Strike from the Sea'' focus on the fall of Singapore).
* Creator/CatherynneMValente's children's novel ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCircumnavigatedFairylandInAShipOfHerOwnMaking'' takes place during and is affected by the war. The protagonist September is dealing with big changes in her home life while her father is away fighting and her mother works long hours in a factory.
* ''Literature/TheEmmyLakeChronicles'', starting with ''Dear Mrs Bird'' by AJ Pearce centres on the lives of women in World War II London.
* ''Literature/TheEnglishPatient'', set mostly in Italy and North Africa, with a bit of the 1941-45 Soviet-German war. A few US-made 1943-45 propaganda movies made about the Eastern Front glossed over many of the Soviet Union's more questionable activities, which would come back to haunt their creators and actors just a few years later during the late 40s to early 50s Red Scare.
* ''Literature/TheEndOfTheAffair'' is about a writer pursuing an affair with the wife of a civil servant in London during the war.
* ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'': During the war, an elderly Literature/SherlockHolmes meets a Jewish boy who's a refugee from Germany.
* ''Literature/FutureTimesThree'' is a TimeTravel novel set (and written) in Nazi-occupied France. Despite its ScienceFiction nature, it takes great care in describing the day-to-day realities of civilian life during war, such as rationing.
* Literature/{{Gerfaut|War}} war novels mostly take place during the war. Specifically, most are set on the Eastern Front and the WarIsHell trope is central to them.
* Part of ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' is set in the last months of the war.
* ''Literature/GuardOfHonor'' is a novel of the home front, taking place over three eventful days at an Army Air Force base in Florida, September 1943.
* ''The Hiding Place'' is the telling of survivor Corrie ten Boom's experiences in occupied Europe.
* ''[[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Illegal Alien]]'', a 1997 ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel set in 1940, both in London and on Nazi-occupied Jersey.
* Primo Levi's ''Literature/IfThisIsAMan'' details the author's survival in Auschwitz.
* ''Jedenje bogova'' (''Eating the Gods'') by Goran Čučković is a short novella about the atrocities committed by Croatian fascists in German-occupied Yugoslavia. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick It is not an easy read, by any means.]]
* The ''Literature/JustWilliam'' stories by Richmal Crompton began long before the war ([[PrintLongRunners and were still coming out long after it ended]]) but several collections were written during the war and see William and his family and friends cope with life on the Home Front, dealing with rationing and hunting for imagined German spies.
* Jonathan Littell's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kindly_Ones_%28Littell_novel%29 The Kindly Ones]]''. Maximilian Aue is an SS officer of French and German ancestry. He helps carry out massacres during the Holocaust and finally flees from Germany to start a new life in northern France. Aue is present during several of the major events of the war.
* ''Literature/TheLandMine'': The book is about a 13-year-old boy in 1943, having to move to his parents' home after the roof of his house is blown off by a land mine.
* ''Literature/TheLeagueOfSecretHeroes'' books are set during World War [=II=], following the adventures of three girls who gain superpowers and join a secret organization dedicated to aiding the war effort from American soil by foiling plots by spies of both the Nazis and the Japanese Army.
* ''Lelejska gora'' by Mihailo Lalić is an introspective novel about a Yugoslav Partisan named Lado Tajović.
* Creator/LenDeighton's loose "war trilogy": ''City of Gold'', set in North Africa; ''Bomber'', all about a single bombing raid and its effects on a town in England and a town in Germany; and ''Goodbye Mickey Mouse'' about a bomber escort group. There's also ''SS-GB'' which is AlternateHistory where England is under Nazi occupation.
* ''Life and Fate'' by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman Vasily Grossman]] is an epic novel which tells the struggle of Russian people against the German invasion. Since Grossman himself was a news reporter at the frontlines, his book is widely considered to be historically accurate. It portrays soldiers of the Red Army as heroes fighting against all odds, at the same time heavily criticizing Soviet bureaucracy. It was therefore banned in the Soviet Union for some time.
* Dean Koontz's ''Lightning'' [[spoiler:at least, that's Stefan's time period of origin and where various pivotal events take place. Other events range from 1955 to 1988.]]
* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': TheFilmOfTheBook turns a single sentence mentioning the Pevensie kids being sent to live in the country "because of the air raids" into a dangerous scene that takes place right in the middle of the London Blitz.
** Something of a reality to that- there was a second evacuation of vulnerable Londoners during the Blitz as many had returned after the initial feared raids hadn't materialised.
* ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14907/14907-h/14907-h.htm Living Alone]]'' by Stella Benson.
* Field marshall Erich von Manstein wrote ''Lost Victories'' as memoirs of his command over Wehrmacht in the Eastern front.
* ''Literature/MailedFist'' deals with a troop of British Churchill tanks between D-Day and the war's end.
* Elizabeth Enright's ''Literature/MelendyQuartet''
* ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' mainly took place during the Great Depression, though it was the start of the war that changed many things for the main character Sayuri.
* ''Literature/TheMidnightGuardians''
* ''Literature/MisterRoberts'' takes place in the Pacific but features no action, to the great dissatisfaction of the title character.
* ''Literature/TheNakedAndTheDead'', set on a fictional island at the Pacific.
* ''Literature/{{Night}}'' by Elie Wiesel, an autobiography about his time in the concentration camps and on the way there.
* ''Literature/TheNightGarden'' is set on a farm in Vancouver in 1945, and the third act deals with the protagonists [[spoiler:trying to cover up their involvement in crashing an experimental army plane]].
* ''[[Literature/TheNightingaleKristinHannah The Nightingale]]'' by Kristin Hannah is about two sisters in occupied France.
* Also, ''Literature/NumberTheStars'' takes place in Denmark, World War II.
* Creator/PoulAnderson's alternate history ''Literature/OperationChaos''. In fact, one of the first things the narrator says is, better too much information than too little, and if you already know who won World War II, let me say it anyhow. Turns out you don't even know who ''fought'' World War II or where. (The timelines diverged early in the twentieth century.)
** His ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'' has the story begin and end with the hero's fighting in the Danish Resistance.
* ''Literature/OttoAutobiographyOfATeddyBear'': A [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book|s}} about the odyssey of a Toys/{{teddy bear}} that belonged to a young Jewish boy before, during and after World War II.
* ''Literature/LosPajarosDeFuego'', which centres on a elite, Hispanophone Filipino family shocked by the Japanese invasion and occupation (the title, in fact, refers to Japanese Zero fighters).
* ''Literature/PerilousPassage'' by Bruce Nicolaysen, which is about fleeing from the Nazis through the icy Spanish mountains.
* ''Literature/PeytonPlace'' begins in the late 1930s and continues into the war years.
* ''Literature/TheRoadToMemphis'' by Creator/MildredDTaylor takes place in 1941, shortly before the US enters World War II, and while the war is more of a background subject, it's certainly on Cassie's mind. Cassie and company even learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor happening once they reach Memphis, and Jeremy Simms heads off to fight at the very end of the book, with Cassie implying in the narration that he ends up [[KilledOffscreen dying during the war.]]
* Creator/RobertLudlum has a few too.
* Creator/RobertWestall set several of his books and short stories during World War II, most famously ''The Machine Gunners'' but also, ''Blitzcat,'' ''The Blitz,'' and ''Blackham's Wimpey'' from the anthology ''Literature/BreakOfDark.''
* ''Literature/RoseUnderFire'' is set in Ravensbrück, a concentration camp, during the last year of the war.
* ''Literature/TheSecretOfCrickleyHall'', while set mainly in 2006, is driven by a 1943 atrocity, in whose wake linger the spirits of several BlitzEvacuees. Some scenes directly narrate the wartime events.
* ''Literature/TheSecretOfSantaVittoria''
* ''Literature/ASeparatePeace'' is set in 1942–43, and the prospect of the teenage protagonist and his friends fighting in the war in the near future provides part of the narrative backdrop.
* ''Literature/ShanghaiGirls'' starts out in China in 1937, around the time Japanese soldiers invade.
* Vercors' ''Literature/LeSilenceDeLaMer'', which was written in 1942 and secretly published in Occupied Paris.
* ''Silent Gunpowder'' by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_%C4%86opi%C4%87 Branko Ćopić]] tells the story of a [=WW2=] Serbian village located in central Yugoslavia (now Bosnia) whose inhabitants are forced to choose between alligning with royalist Chetniks or communist Partisans.
* ''Literature/SilentShipSilentSea'': A coming of age story aboard a damaged destroyer at Guadelcanal.
* ''[[Literature/TheAnderssons Skärvor av kristall]]'' by Solveig Olsson-Hultgren takes place in 1938 and 1939. The new great war hasn't started quite yet, but many people know that it's just around the corner. Louise's boyfriend is a Jewish refugee from Germany.
* ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'' by Kurt Vonnegut, in part based on his experiences during the bombing of Dresden.
* ''Snow Treasure'' by Marie [=McSwigan=] is based on a true story about a bunch of Norwegian kids that snuck their country's gold past Nazis in the winter of 1939-1940 and adults who got it to America.
* ''Literature/SoldierDogs'': Each book takes place somewhere during World War II.
* ''Literature/SpecialOperations'' follows three Norwegian teenagers involved in LaResistance. They end up fleeing to England after their actions are exposed and go on to take part in covert operations in France and Holland.
* ''Literature/SteppingOnTheCracks''
* ''Stuka Pilot'', the memoir of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the top scoring pilot in Germany and, single-handedly, the deadliest man in an airplane: the Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber.
* The French novel ''Literature/SuiteFrancaise'' by the Ukrainian-French writer Irène Némirovsky, set in the German occupied France. The author was planning 5 volumes of which she managed to [[OrphanedSeries complete only 2]] before [[DiedDuringProduction being deported and killed]] [[FinalSolution in Auschwitz as a Jew]].
* ''Literature/SummerOfMyGermanSoldier'', a YA novel about a Jewish-American girl who befriends a German POW in wartime Arkansas.
* The novels by Creator/SvenHassel on the 27th Penal Panzer Regiment.
* The protagonist of ''Literature/ATaleOfTimeCity'' is a [[BlitzEvacuees Blitz Evacuee]] who gets pulled outside of time on her way out of London.
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'' is a short story collection by James Michener meant to give an idea of what it was like to experience the war from one of the many dinky islands used as remote, isolated bases in the South Pacific. Two of the stories contained within were adapted into the famous musical ''Theatre/SouthPacific''.
* ''Literature/ThirdReichVictorious'': an anthology edited by Peter G. Tsouras, containing ten self-contained scenarios in which Germany ends up winning the war.
** ''Literature/RisingSunVictorious'': another anthology, this time focusing on Japan's fortunes.
* ''Literature/AThreadOfGrace'' takes place in the year and a half between Italy's surrender and V-E day.
* ''To Know Oneself in Combat'' (''Poznat sebya v boyu''), memoirs of Alexander Pokryshkin, Soviet Air Force Marshall and official Hero of the Soviet Union, who fought against the German Luftwaffe.
* Creator/HarryTurtledove:
** ''[[Literature/Timeline191 Settling Accounts]]'' (AlternateHistory pitting the USA against the Confederate States of America; CSA president Jake Featherston is Hitler in all but name. What minority is he wiping out in the death camps? [[spoiler:Confederate Negroes]]).
** The ''Literature/DarknessSeries'', which is WWII set in a fantasy environment, with each side replaced with a FantasyCounterpartCulture and [[{{Magitek}} magic wands and dragons instead of guns and bombers]].
** ''Literature/DaysOfInfamy'': An AlternateHistory where Japan invades and occupies Hawaii.
** ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series, about an alien invasion in May 1942, following to the end of that war, plus further series looking at the 1960s and the 1990s.
** ''Literature/TheWarThatCameEarly'', where World War II started a year early when the Munich Conference fell apart and Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia.
* ''Literature/TheUnwomanlyFaceOfWar'' is a collection of memories of hundreds of Soviet women who enlisted in the Red Army.
* ''Literature/WarEagles'', Just before World War II, An Air Force test pilot is court-marshalled and publicly humiliated after a stunt endangers Present Roosevelt but manages to get a job flying a plane from the north to South Pole, however his plane is attacked by a giant white eagle and he crash lands on an undiscovered island populated with LivingDinosaurs and Vikings and learns that the nazis have built a new super-weapon.
* ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' by [=Alistair MacLean=]
* ''Literature/TheWindsOfWar'' and ''Literature/WarAndRemembrance'' is practically a grand tour of World War II.
* The ''Literature/WingCommander'' novelizations are explicitly intended as sci-fi remakes of certain key points in [=WW2=].
* Ken Follett's ''[[Literature/TheCenturyTrilogy Winter of the World]]'' begins in 1933 and ends in 1949, more than half of the action describes the Second World War from the perspective of several protagonists from several origins (American, British, Russian, and German).
* ''Literature/WithoutSeeingTheDawn'' – depicts a Filipino (specifically, Visayan/Ilonggo) farming community that's quickly, and savagely, drawn into the war with the Japanese occupation bursting in midway through the novel. The protagonist joins the U.S. colonial Armed Forces to fight the Japanese, and upon returning to his hometown becomes a guerrilla.
* ''Literature/CagingSkies'' is the book Taika Watiti's ''Film/JojoRabbit'' is based on
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* ''Series/AlloAllo''
* ''Series/ASmallLight'': Details the life of Miep Gies in Amsterdam as she tries to save Anne Frank's family.
* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': Follows a paratrooper unit through France and into Germany.
** ''Series/ThePacific'': A SpiritualSuccessor following a group of US Marines through the Pacific island-hopping campaign
* ''Series/BlackSheepSquadron''
* ''Series/BombGirls''
* ''Series/{{Das Boot|2018}}'', the sequel/spin-off series to the film of the same name.
* ''Series/{{Brass}}'': briefly, at the end of the last of the three seasons.
* ''Series/CatchTwentyTwo'': A MiniSeries adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel.
* ''Series/{{Changi}}'': An Australian miniseries set in the titular Singaporean POW camp.
* ''Series/ChariteAtWar'': MedicalDrama about the doctors at a RealLife Berlin hospital, 1943-45.
* ''Series/TheCherryQueen'': A German Jewish woman who owns a cherry orchard decides to stay on her lands, and goes into clandestinity during the war.
* ''Series/{{Colditz}}'': A British series set in the titular Nazi POW castle.
* ''[[Series/Combat1962 Combat!]]''
* ''Series/CzterejPancerniIPies'' (''Four Tankmen and a Dog''): A Polish series about the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army.
* ''Series/DadsArmy''
* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' is set in [[AnachronismStew WWII in the 60s with dinosaurs and Japanese robot soldiers]]. It follows the Danger 5 [[MultinationalTeam team]] trying to kill [[StupidJetpackHitler Hitler]].
* ''Series/DangerUXB''
* ''Series/{{Dieppe}}'': MiniSeries based on the failed Dieppe raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** From the TV series, four stories -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric "The Curse of Fenric"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe"]].
** On the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse front, the novels ''Timewyrm: Exodus'', ''Just War'', ''Autumn Mist'', ''The Turing Test'', ''Illegal Alien'' and ''The Shadow in the Glass''.
* ''Series/{{Dogfights}}''-- a huge number of episodes focus on aerial and naval battles from both the European and Pacific theaters. Most of said episodes Season 1 focused on the Pacific, while Season 2's episodes during this war mainly focused on Europe.
* ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'' -- the occupation of Guernsey
* ''Series/FoylesWar''
* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'' -- Life in a French village under the German occupation with LaResistance and LesCollaborateurs featuring heavily.
* ''Series/GarrisonsGorillas''
* ''Series/GhostsUK'' -- the flashbacks of the episode ''Reddy Weddy'' takes place in this era.
* ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'' features accidental time traveller Gary Sparrow finding a portal into 1940 London. Coming from 1993, Gary [[ForegoneConclusion knows how the war ends]] and is able to capitalize on that, intimating that he works in intelligence and charming barmaid Phoebe with luxuries that she cannot otherwise get due to rationing.
* ''Series/TheHalcyon''
* ''Series/HogansHeroes''
* ''Series/HomeFires''
* ''Series/{{Homefront|1991}}''
* ''Series/IslandAtWar'' -- the occupation of a fictional Channel Island
* ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' -- BritCom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India (later Burma).
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' has the episode "Each Of Us Angels" which focuses on a group of Navy nurses before and during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Also the episode "Port Chicago" is based on a real-life accident.
* ''Series/Jericho1966'' was a short-lived series about a multinational trio of Allied spies behind enemy lines.
* ''Series/LazyCompany'', a (French) parody of films and series like ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', running on RuleOfFunny, and focusing on the RagtagBunchOfMisfits of a US camp in Normandy.
* ''Series/LifeAndFate'', a Russian 12-episode miniseries based on the Vasily Grossman novel about the battle of Stalingrad
* ''Series/Matador1978''
* ''Series/McHalesNavy''
* ''Series/MyMotherAndOtherStrangers'' -- the home front in Northern Ireland, with American soldiers all over the place
* ''Series/NineteenFortyOne2009'' (television production) Soviet partisans fight the occupation of a small town.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Tribunal", which is a TimeTravel plot, partially takes place at a concentration camp in 1944.
* ''Series/PrivateSchulz''
* ''Series/TheRatPatrol''
* ''Series/{{Ratched}}'': The backstory of the titular Nurse Ratched has her serving as an Army nurse [[spoiler:albeit one with fabricated credentials]] in the Philippines, specifically in Ormoc, Leyte province, during the Pacific theatre, presumably during the American Leyte landing.
* ''Series/RollOut''
* The ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' episode "Normandy" takes place during World War II, in which the immortal Helen Magnus fought on the side of the Allies. They're trying to stop the Nazis [[StupidJetpackHitler from using a superabnormal]] to destroy the Operation Overlord invasion fleet before it can land.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode ''Lost in Time'' has Clyde on the shores of Britain in 1941, discovering a Nazi plot involving alien tech.
* ''Series/SASRogueHeroes'' depicts the origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during the Desert War.
* ''Series/SecondsFromDisaster'' has three episodes that cover the war: The sinking of the German Battleship ''Bismarck'', The Attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
* ''Series/SecretArmy''
* ''Series/SeventeenMomentsOfSpring''--Soviet miniseries about a Russian deep-cover agent pretending to be an SS colonel in Berlin, April 1945
* ''Series/TheSinkingOfTheLaconia''
* ''Series/SpeerUndEr'': docudrama about Nazi Germany's Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, who got appointed during the war and made sure Germany would adapt to a total war economy.
* ''Series/{{Spyforce}}''
* ''Series/{{Tenko}}'' is set in a fictional prisoner of war camp.
* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Captain Jack Harkness" reveals where Jack, first introduced in ''Series/DoctorWho'''s "The Empty Child", stole his identity from.
* ''Series/Transatlantic2023'': A dramatization of the central figures of the Emergency Rescue Committee as they attempt to help refugees escape an increasingly tightening Marseille in 1940.
* ''Series/TheTerrorInfamy'' is a 10-episode miniseries set in the Japanese-American community, featuring relocation camps.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' had several episodes set in, or strongly relating to, WWII.
* ''Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter'', a German MiniSeries set between the Eastern Front and Berlin.
* ''Series/WallenbergAHerosStory''
* ''Series/WishMeLuck''
* The first season of the ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' TV series.
* ''Series/WorldOnFire''
* ''Series/XCompany'' A Canadian series about a group of Allied spies sent behind enemy lines into France.
* ''Series/YanksGoHome'', a '70s Creator/{{ITV}} sitcom about American pilots stationed in a small Lancashire town and clashing with the locals.
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[[folder:Music]]
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* About half to two-thirds of Music/{{Sabaton}}'s output is based on events and figures from World War II. The band's HorribleHistoryMetal theme, in fact, came about when frontman Joakim Brodén wrote a song but couldn't figure out what to use for lyrics, then he watched ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and decided to write about D-Day, which became the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbDLIXAp4o "Primo Victoria"]].
* Songs about longing for an absent lover's return have always been popular, but those from the Forties – "Till Then", "I'll Be Seeing You", "Waiting For The Train To Come In", etc. – take on greater significance when you think about what was going on when they were recorded.
* Music/IronMaiden has made "Aces High" (about the Battle of Britain), "The Longest Day" (about the Normandy landings), and "Brighter than a Thoudand Suns" (about the Manhattan Project).

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[[folder:Podcasts]]
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* Dan Carlin's ''Podcast/HardcoreHistory'' has had a few episodes centered around, or related to, the conflict such as the Eastern European Front, the Pacific Theater, and morality of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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[[folder:Radio]]
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* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' featured many war-related storylines before and during the U.S.A.'s involvement.
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* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfHarryNile'' has a 2017 series "Harry Nile Goes To War", set in Dec 1941 though early 1942, as the Private Detective deals with issues in panicked Los Angeles in teh first montsh of the war.
* ''Radio/XMinusOne'': "[[Recap/XMinusOneE056ProjectTrojan Project Trojan]]" is set during the war, and is about a team of counter-intelligence operatives trying to trick the Germans into chasing a fake scientific development.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
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* ''TabletopGame/AchtungCthulhu'' is a setting for TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu (with modifiers for Pulp Cthulhu) and ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'', with the pantheon of creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's writing making the war that much worse.
* ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies''
* ''Europe Engulfed''
** ''Pacific Engulfed''
* ''Flames of War'' - only covering the European and African parts of the war though.
* ''TabletopGame/WeirdWar'' is like ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', only [[RecycledINSPACE during WWII]]. [[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Werewolves of the SS included.]]
* ''World at War''
* ''TabletopGame/WorldWarCthulhu''
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* In the 1960s through the 1980s, Creator/AvalonHill and SPI thrived on tabletop games about WWII: ''Third Reich'', ''Afrika Korps'', ''Patton's War'', ''Midway'', ''Battle of the Bulge'', and a zillion others.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
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* The most notable theatre adaptation of Anne Frank's ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
* The best known play by Creator/GermainMuller, ''Enfin...Redde m'r nimm devon'' (''At last... let's not talk about it anymore''), takes place during the de facto annexation of Alsace by Nazi Germany and deals with the war as experienced by the locals, including the conscription of (French-born) people in the German armies.
* ''Imagine This''- a musical set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.
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* ''Theatre/TheLongAndTheShortAndTheTall'' is a play about a section of Britsh infantrymen trapped behind enemy lines in Burma.
* ''Literature/MisterRoberts'' takes place in the Pacific but far from combat. V-E Day happens during the course of the play's action.
* ''Theatre/APortraitOfTheArtistAsFilipino'': A borderline case. Set in October 1941, the war in Europe has been ongoing for two years, but it's yet to formally begin in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, then a U.S. colonial territory (of course, the Pacific theatre begins with Pearl Harbour in December 1941—Hawaii itself being an out-and-out U.S. colony—and reaches UsefulNotes/{{Manila}} itself a few weeks later). The spectre of war hangs over the entire city, however, with practice blackouts, air-raid sirens, and news of Americans being evacuated in advance.
* ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' is likewise set far from the action in a backwater Pacific island.
* ''Theatre/ThereShallBeNoNight'' is a play set in Finland as the Finns battle to save themselves during the 1939-40 Winter War.
* Luis Valdez's ''Valley of the Heart'', which revolves around two StarCrossedLovers, the daughter of a wealthy Japanese American land owner and a Mexican American farm hand. After she and her family are rounded up and locked up in an internment camp, his father reluctantly agrees to take care of the farm until they return.
* ''Theatre/LostInYonkers'' is a ComingOfAgeStory set on the home front.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
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* ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' starts out as a metaphor for World War II, until things take a twist for the weird toward the end.
* Sierra's ''Aces'' line, consisting of ''Aces of the Pacific'' (Pacific air war), ''Aces Over Europe'' (European air war), and ''Aces of the Deep'' (Battle of the Atlantic, from a U-boat viewpoint).
* * ''VideoGame/AirConflicts''
* ''VideoGame/AfrikaKorpsVsDesertRats''. Three other games followed with the same engine:
** ''D-Day''
** ''1944 Battle of the Bulge''
** ''Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege''
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' is set in the late 18th century, but it has Animus glitch segments that send Arno Dorian to other eras. In one instance, he finds himself in occupied Paris during World War II and has to climb the Eiffel Tower while being shot at by German Messerschmitts.
* ''VideoGame/AxisAndAllies'', based on the board game, features a campaign in which the Axis Powers win the war.
* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' is largely set in an AlternateUniverse of World War II, but with [[MoeAnthropomorphism shipgirls]] and otherworldly invaders; the tutorial starts with the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and the introductory story maps cover the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Midway, with [[TemporaryOnlineContent various limited-time events]] covering other fronts and battles in AnachronicOrder (barring some silly seasonal modern events). That said, the main plot does eventually start to diverge from the path of actual history.
* ''VideoGame/B17FlyingFortress''
* Several ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' games:
** ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942'' and its expansions, ''Road To Rome'' and ''[[StupidJetpackHitler Secret Weapons Of WWII]]''
** ''Battlefield 1943''.
** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHeroes'', at least a very cartoony version of it.
** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany 2''. "Operation Aurora", is set in 1944, involving a US team sent into Japan to discover a Japanese superweapon.
** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'', notable as one of few WWII FPS games that allows you to play on the Axis side in its Campaign.
* ''Battlestations Midway'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/BattlestationsPacific'' both cover aerial and naval warfare in the Pacific Theatre. ''Pacific'' features a new WhatIf scenario for the Japanese; what if they'd won the Battle of Midway and proceeded on to attack the United States?
* ''VideoGame/BeachInvasion1944''
* ''VideoGame/{{Blitzkrieg}}''
* ''VideoGame/BlazingAngels''
* ''VideoGame/BomberCrew'' is a management game about controlling the crew of a bomber based off the Avro Lancaster as it flies missions against Nazi Germany.
* ''VideoGame/BrothersInArms'' has paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne fighting on the Western Front in France for two games and later being deployed in Operation Market Garden in the series' third game.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' - except for the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games, which take place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' mostly takes place during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, but has a flashback to a Soviet special operation shortly after the Germans surrendered. ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII Black Ops III]]'' has a sort of DyingDream sequence set during a surreal version of the Battle of the Bulge with period-accurate soldiers using weapons from more than a hundred years in the future from said battle, dire wolves in a shape-changing forest, and then [[spoiler:a round of VideoGame/NaziZombies]].
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty1'' focuses on the Allied airborne landings in Normandy for the Americans and British, with several missions taking place behind enemy lines complementing both, while the Soviet campaign focuses on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Vistula-Oder Offensive, and finally the Battle of Berlin. The ''United Offensive'' ExpansionPack expands the Battle of the Bulge from the ending of the first game's American campaign, while the British campaign features British bombing missions over Europe, and later, commando raids in the Netherlands and Sicily. Finally, the expansion's Soviet campaign covers the Battle of Kursk, as well as the Battle of Kharkov.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyFinestHour'' is a console-exclusive entry that focuses on the Battle of Stalingrad for the Soviets, the North African campaign for the British, and the Battle for Germany for the Americans.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty2'' focuses on the Battles of Moscow and Stalingrad for the Soviets, the North African campaign and the Battles around Caen for the British, and the Battle of Pointe Du Hoc and the Battle of Germany for the Americans.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty2BigRedOne'' focuses on the 1st Infantry Division during the entirety of the European War, from Operation ''Torch'' to the Battle of the Siegfried Line.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' was an immediate return to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII following the release of the acclaimed ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare''. What makes this entry unique is that it's the first in the series to focus on the Pacific Theater of World War II, specifically the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII'' is a return to the roots of the series.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyVanguard'' has several WWII soldiers band together as a precursor to modern special forces units.
* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaSuperSoldier'': Video game adaptation of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' has WWII as its backdrop: the game is set in 1944, the prologue mentions all the loss of life from the war as the reason the castle has reappeared, it includes a grenade sub-weapon that looks like a US WWII-era grenade, and the cutscene preceeding the boss battle with Medusa shows a petrified GI ([[FridgeLogic don't ask how they got in Dracula's castle, let alone in one of Brauner's portraits]]).
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower3''[='=]s first stage features the protagonist evading a serial killer during the London bombings.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' series, a stealth-RTS combination about a team of British Commandos operators.
* ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'' starts off with Americans and Germans on the Western Front, later adding British forces to the ''Opposing Fronts'' stand-alone expansion. Canadians' appear in the original game's final mission as TheCavalry and serve as units for the British's Royal Canadian Artillery Support doctrine. The sequel ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes 2'' was set on the Eastern Front and is notably DarkerAndEdgier than its preceding game - the plot is a Russian veteran recounting his experiences in the brutal conflict under interrogation. The main fare of it involves the Russian Soviet Union and Germans, though Polish irregulars appear in a campaign mission and in some commanders for Soviet players.
** Later expansions of 2 added the Western Armies (first USA and OKW, then later the British forces), as well as a campaign focused on the Battle of the Bulge.
* ''VideoGame/DayOfDefeat''
* ''VideoGame/DayOfInfamy''
* ''VideoGame/DeathToSpies''
* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'', albeit a WWII with Nazi dinosaurs.
* The last three missions of the German campaign of ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth''. Not to mention the Pacific campaign of ''Art of Conquest'', two of the missions of the American campaign, a "Turning Point" D-Day scenario in the second game, and another "Turning Point" scenario taking place at the Battle of Kursk in ''Art of Supremacy''.
** ''VideoGame/EmpiresDawnOfTheModernWorld'''s Patton campaign.
* ''[[VideoGame/GraviteamTactics Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star]]'' is set during the Third Battle of Kharkov; the WWII DLC campaigns cover other battles near Kharkov. ''Mius Front'' will cover battles along the Mius River in summer 1943.
* ''VideoGame/EnemyFront''
* ''VideoGame/GerdaAFlameInWinter'': Set in Nazi-occupied Denmark, you play as Gerda, a woman whose husband has been captured by the Gestapo.
* ''VideoGame/TheGreatEscape''
* ''VideoGame/GunsGoreAndCannoli'': The sequel is set in 1944, smack dab in the middle of the war. Vinnie Cannoli, the main character, ends up finding out about a conspiracy involving ThoseWackyNazis wanting to experiment on and use the zombie poison from the first game, and ends up going to Europe to stop them from potentially winning the war and/or unwittingly causing the ZombieApocalypse.
* ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron''
* ''VideoGame/HellLetLoose'' is a multiplayer [[TacticalShooter Tactical]] FirstPersonShooter set during the WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica. Currently, maps are set in France, Belgium, and Germany, with the current belligerents being the US Army, Soviet Red Army, and the German Wehrmacht. Future updates plan on implementing the British Army, Polish Army, and Finnish Army.
* ''VideoGame/HeroesAndGenerals'' is set during the closing months of the war on the Western Front.
* ''Heroes of the Pacific'' revolves around a [=U.S.=] Navy fighter squadron as they fight in the skies over Pearl Harbor to above Iwo Jima.
* ''Heroes over Europe'' has an American pilot posing as a Canadian and fights in the Battle of Britain and later joins the [=U.S.=] Army Air Corps as the [=U.S.=] gets involved in the war.
* ''VideoGame/HourOfVictory'', when ''Midway'' tried making it's own ''Medal of Honor'' and ''Call of Duty''.
* ''VideoGame/HiddenAndDangerous'' and its sequel, a stealth[=/=]Third-Person-Shooter[=/=]Real-Time-Tactics combination focusing on a SAS team.
* ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik'', a series of hardcore combat flight sims set during WWII.
* ''VideoGame/LandOfWarTheBeginning'' - the German invasion of Poland, told from the POV of a young Polish soldier
* ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'' - the prologue of the game is set shortly after the end of World War II in the Pacific, onboard a troop transport converted into a freighter.
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' - except for [[VideoGame/MedalOfHonor2010 the 2010 reboot]] and its sequel ''Warfighter''.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor1999'' - the acclaimed 1st entry in the series that popularized World War II shooters and started the franchise.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorUnderground'' - the well-received second entry in the series, serving as a {{Prequel}} to the first and focusing on [[LaResistance French Resistance fighter and leader Manon Batiste]].
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault''- the acclaimed 3rd entry in the series and its two expansion packs that focus on battles stretching from Algeria to Berlin.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline''- the acclaimed 4th entry in the series, set in Western Europe around the time of the Normandy Invasion to Operation Market-Garden.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun''- an entry that focuses on the [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Pacific and CBI]] Theaters from 1941-44.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorPacificAssault''- an entry that focuses on the exploits of the [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]] during the early and middle parts of the [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Pacific War]], from Pearl Harbor to Tarawa.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'' - an entry that focuses exclusively on the [[ItsRainingMen Paratroopers]] of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' - just like the previous game 'Medal of Honor: Vanguard' this is an entry that focuses exclusively on the [[ItsRainingMen Paratroopers]] of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
* A bunch of Creator/MicroProse games covered various aspects of World War II, from the submarine and air campaigns in both oceans, to the land war in Europe and northern Africa.
* ''VideoGame/MenOfWar''
* The ''VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo'' series of {{Shoot Em Up}}s--at least most of the series anyway--is very loosely based on WWII.
* ''VideoGame/OperationDarkness'' (World War II [[RecycledINSPACE WITH WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRE NAZIS!]])
* ''VideoGame/PanzerFront''
* ''VideoGame/PanzerGeneral''
* ''Partisans 1941'', a ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}''-like with management and RPG elements, consisting in leading a team of Soviet partisans on the Eastern Front.
* ''VideoGame/PostScriptum'' is set in the Western Front between 1940 and 1945, from the Fall of France, to D-Day and Operation Market-Garden. The most recent updates have added the Battle of the Bulge into the mix.
* ''VideoGame/RAIDWorldWarII''
* ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra'' is a FirstPersonShooter set on the Eastern Front with combat Russian and Germans.
** ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra2HeroesOfStalingrad'' is a 2011 sequel, focusing on the famous Battle of Stalingrad, as well as a number of other battles taking place around the same time period. Notably, it is one of the very few World War II FPS to have a single-player campaign for the Germans. However, it's a short campaign with an ExcusePlot.
** ''VideoGame/RisingStorm'' is a standalone ExpansionPack for ''Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad'', set on the Pacific Front between Americans and Japanese forces. In contrast to the base game, this one features an AsymmetricMultiplayer, with the Americans and Japanese each having exclusive weapons, and encouraging differing tactics.
* ''VideoGame/RescueRaiders'' has present-day forces joining both sides of the war in a TerminatorTwosome scenario.
* ''VideoGame/RingOfRed''
* ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'' - one of the few games focused on the French Resistance.
* ''VideoGame/SecretWeaponsOfTheLuftwaffe''
** ''VideoGame/SecretWeaponsOverNormandy''
* ''VideoGame/SilentHunterSeries'' (I through IV)
* The first ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'' (the sequels are set during the early days of the Cold War)
* ''VideoGame/SniperElite'' - a HistoricalFiction takes place during the Battle of Berlin, where you play as a ColdSniper named Karl Fairburne, who is also a member UsefulNotes/{{OSS}} taking part in Operation Paperclip.
** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'' - a reboot of the first game that again takes place during the Battle of Berlin.
** ''Videogame/SniperEliteIII'' - a prequel to the second game showing Karl Fairburne's experiences during the North African campaign.
** ''Videogame/SniperElite4'' - an {{interquel}} set during the Italian campaign in 1943, detailing how Fairburne became part of the OSS.
** ''VideoGame/SniperElite5'' - an {{interquel}} set during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944, detailing Fairburne's first encounter with the V2 rocket program.
* ''VideoGame/SteelDivisionNormandy44'', a RealTimeStrategy that bases its maps on aerial reconnaissance photographs from the Western Front.
* ''VideoGame/Strikers1945'' is set in the summer of 1945, after the end of WWII when an extraterrestrial force called C.A.N.Y. starts a coup in an attempts to restart the war. Its sequel ''1945 II'' is set in the winter of 1945, where a new organization called F.G.R. picks up where C.A.N.Y. left off by threatening the world with more wars, thus disrupting the post-war peace.
* ''VideoGame/TitanicAdventureOutOfTime'' - the opening of the game has the protagonist being killed during The Blitz, and is promptly sent back in time through this. [[spoiler:The game's bad endings can also result in a different outcome for the war: [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory Nazi Germany defeating the United Kingdom by either forcing them to surrender]] [[StupidJetpackHitler or simply bombing them with a nuclear device]], the Soviets conquering the UK, or CommieNazis declaring war on Europe.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/TripleAAxisAndAllies TripleA]]'', based off of ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ubersoldier}}''
* ''VideoGame/UnityOfCommand''
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' is blatantly based off of WWII, complete with the attempted genocide of an ethnic minority.
* ''VideoGame/VelvetAssassin''
* ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'' is set in a version of WWII where a massive otherwordly fleet known as the Morgana has suddenly invaded all of the Earth's seas right when the invasion of Poland begins, with only warships that have manifested an onboard female personification (the eponymous "Belles") being able to effectively fight back. As such, the international community has agreed to organize all of the Belles and their crews into a single joint force under the command of the League of Nations. However, the Belles' parent nations remain at war with each other despite their tenuous cooperation against the Morgana.
* ''VideoGame/WarFrontTurningPoint'' puts the whole of World War 2 into a WhatIf scenario, complete with HumongousMecha and other advanced tech.
* ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' is a {{Allegedly Free|Game}} multiplayer game focused on aerial combat during this war.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warsaw}}'' is a turn-based tactical strategy {{Roguelike}} set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising (the player controls Polish resistants).
* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein''
** ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''
** ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''
** ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}''
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'': AlternateHistory set in 1960, ThoseWackyNazis have won the war, with the prologue level set during the last stages of the war in 1946.
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'': A prequel to ''The New Order'', also set in an alternate 1946.
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': AlternateHistory, again, as a follow-up to the above games since ''The New Order''. New York City was destroyed by a Nazi atomic bomb at the end of the games' alternate World War II, of all things.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' -- the heart of the game is here, although available tanks stretch from 1917 to 1966.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes''
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''--much like ''World of Tanks'', the heart of the game is focused here, although the available ships stretch from as early as 1898 all the way up to 1953.
* ''VideoGame/WorldWarIIOnline'' - a massively multiplayer first person shooter set during the Battle of France. Notable for featuring the [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades French Armed Forces]].
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* ''VisualNovel/DiesIraeInterviewWithKazikluBey'' - A HistoricalFantasy that takes place during the Warsaw Uprising. The fallout of the Katyn Massacre also serves as an important event during the story's first arc.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
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* ''WebComic/BumrapeIsland'', or what happens when homoeroticism meets Japanese internment camps.
* ''Webcomic/TheCobraDays'', a fan webcomic prequel to the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series. It chronicles the adventures of a ''very'' quirky Allied Special Forces MultinationalTeam, with plenty of MagicRealism and other weirdness that didn't quite make it into the history books.
* ''Webcomic/KatushaGirlSoldierOfTheGreatPatrioticWar'' tells the story of a 16-year-old living in Kiev in 1941 who joins the partisans and then the Red Army. Written and drawn by Wayne Vansant.
* ''WebComic/LottaSvardWomenOfWar'', a Finnish HistoricalFiction webcomic (in English) centered around four members of the women's auxiliary organization Lotta Svärd.
* ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'' is an AlternateHistory [[http://thespecialistscomic.com webcomic]] in which the Nazis use occult artifacts and eugenics to produce super-powered ''Übermenschen'' and America responds with its own super-soldier program.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
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* One episode of ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'' has the first half set late in the European War, where American soldiers discover an abandoned town hall just outside Hanover during the push into Germany. And it's heavily implied that [[{{Ghostapo}} the Nazis were doing research into the occult]] in the building's basement.
** Another episode, "The Curse of the Ourang Medan", while not set in World War II proper, makes mention of activities during and after the war, such as Operation Paperclip, the Allied effort to recruit German scientists to the West, as well as a German chemical weapon called Tabun, which is considered to be the most likely suspect in making the titular cargo ship sink.
** Season 4 has the Flight 19 incident, which takes place just months after the Japanese surrender, involving five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers going missing. The lead pilot of the flight, Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor, is even mentioned to have fought in the Pacific Theater during the war, as well as the fact that the narrator mentioned the Avenger's greatest World War II achievement of sinking both ''Yamato''-class battleships.
** "The Skies over Kecksburg" makes mention of the Nazi wonder weapon programs, specifically one called "Die Glocke", a mysterious bell-shaped device said to be able to travel through time and space. "For Whom The Bell Tolls" further expands on the device, specifically its background and possible purposes.
** "Evil Under the Ice" is set in the immediate aftermath of the war, detailing Operation ''Highjump'' and Nazi forces allegedly making bases in the Antarctic long after the German surrender.
** "The New York Nuke" brings up the possibility of the existence of the German nuclear weapons program, as well as the Junkers Ju 390 and it's ability to reach the East Coast of the United States.
** "The Peculiar Death of Peter Gibbs" mentions the titular ex-RAF pilot's career during World War II, flying Supermarine Spitfires from 1944 until the end of the war in Europe.
** "The Disappearance of the Nanjing Battalion" features the China-Burma-India campaign, specifically the disappearance of some 500 or so Japanese Army soldiers during the landings at Ramree Island.
** "Ghosts of Kadena Airbase" discusses the Battle of Okinawa, and how the massive losses of life led to several areas on the island becoming haunted, including the titular airbase.
* ''WebAnimation/EmperorTigerstar'' has videos depicting the changing front lines in World War II for both theatres separately or altogether in a single video every single day.
* ''Literature/RedsARevolutionaryTimeline'': Part 3, "The Great Crusade" is set in an alternate World War II.
* ''WebAnimation/WartimeStories'', being a series about horrifying events taking place DuringTheWar, inevitably covers World War II. Among the cases they've covered thus far are a mysterious disappearance off the West Coast in 1942, as well as UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust and the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Nazi doctors.
* ''WebAnimation/UnclassifiedEncounter'' is a series set during World War II...[[WeirdHistoricalWar with supernatural and paranormal creatures attacking both Allied and Axis Forces and threatening the world in the process]].
* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'' covers the events of the war summarized on a weekly basis in real time seventy-nine years after they occurred.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]

!![[WartimeCartoon Wartime Animation]]

Many theatrical cartoons made during World War II had popular characters like WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck]] and WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} doing their part in the war effort.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday'': Propaganda short starring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd promoting war bonds.
* ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'': A Tex Avery short in which ''The Three Little Pigs'' is spoofed with the wolf representing Hitler.
* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips'': Bugs defeats an entire Japanese regiment.
* ''WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando'': Daffy tries to get behind Nazi enemy lines and beats Hitler over the head with a mallet near the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'': A satire on the rise of the Axis set in a barnyard with caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo.
* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': A Disney cartoon showing how Nazis are brainwashed.
* ''WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace'': Donald dreams he is a Nazi working in a Nazi factory.
* ''WesternAnimation/HerrMeetsHare'': Bugs Bunny battles Nazi leader Hermann Göring. Hitler makes a cameo near the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit'': Donald is motivated by his radio to pay his income taxes and support the war effort.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy'': Daffy fights off a female Nazy spy. Cameos by Hitler, Göring and Goebbels.
* ''WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody'': Hitler decides to bomb Moscow himself and gets beaten up by Gremlins.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScrapHappyDaffy'': Daffy collects scrap iron for the Allied war effort. Hitler tries to destroy it by sending an ExtremeOmniGoat.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43'': Donald's conscience is put to the test by a thrifty Scot and a spentworthy man who want him to spent his money to their causes. Donald eventually pays to support the war effort.
* ''WesternAnimation/TokioJokio'': A horribly racist anti-Japanese cartoon.

!!Post-War Animation

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyGrandmotherIronedTheKingsShirts'' is a whimsical cartoon short that still manages to give a pretty accurate according of the German conquest of Norway and the escape of King Haakon VII.
* ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'' is set in Italy of 1944.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' is World War II RecycledINSPACE. It's not a complete rip-off but the premise just screams [=WW2=]. According to Website/ThatOtherWiki, the WordOfGod admits it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' had an episode about World War II featuring UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and UsefulNotes/JosephStalin as a group of superheroes fighting off an evil group led by a Satanic Adolf Hitler.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' gave us "Of Course You Know, This Means Warners", a parody of World War II era cartoons, featuring Yakko, Wakko and Dot supporting the troops with scrap drives and victory gardens.
* ''[[Recap/GargoylesS2MIA M.I.A.]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode in which Goliath travels in time and fights in the Battle of Britain.
* ''[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]'', an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' in which the League has to go back in time and help out in the 1944 Normandy invasion to prevent [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]]'s plan of taking Hitler's place and using his knowledge of the future to win the war. They meet classic Creator/DCComics war heroes including [[Comicbook/SgtRock Easy Company]], the [[ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} Blackhawks]] and [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLiberator'' avoids the [[invoked]]AnimationAgeGhetto, being a rotoscoped animated series for adults, following a single infantry battalion from Sicily to mainland Italy to Alsace to Dachau. (Imagine ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' made in animation.)
* The ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' instructional cartoons were made for the US military and tell soldiers what to do by showing them what not to do. Because these were made specifically for the military, they include some aspects of service life you won't see in over cartoons (including one on the dangers of dysentery and diarrhea).
* ''[[Recap/WhatIfS1E1WhatIfCaptainCarterWereTheFirstAvenger What If… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?]]'' (the first episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'') is an alternate retelling of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Instead of Steve Rogers becoming Captain America, it's Agent Peggy Carter who gets to take the SuperSoldier Serum.
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* ''Rosenstrasse'', a film about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest 1943 protest in the eponymous street]]. Many "pure German blood" wives and relatives of Jewish men took to the street in protest against their deportation.

* ''Film/MyWay'': Follows two men who fight in the Imperial Japanese Army, then the Red Army, then the Wehrmacht before being captured by Americans after D-Day. Inspired by the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong Yang Kyoungjong]].

* ''Film/LesVisiteurs'': A 12th century French knight and his squire TimeTravel to 1943 by mistake at the end, when France is occupied by the Germans.

* ''Film/TheEmperorInAugust'': The Japanese government in the last chaotic days of the war, August 1945, as Hirohito resolves on surrender and junior officers respond by mounting a coup

* ''Film/{{Overlord|2018}}'': Follows a group of paratroopers who encounter Nazis and horrifying experiments underneath a radio tower.

* ''Anime/MomotarosSeaEagles'' (1943): A fictionalized 37-minute short film where the classic Peach Boy and his animal companions bomb the Oni Island (Pearl Harbor).
* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' (1945): A full length (74 minutes) sequel to ''Sea Eagles'' where the Peach Boy and his companions build a sea base and paradrop onto Oni island (which is either Singapore or Hong Kong).

* ''Film/{{Yamato}}'': The last two combat missions of the IJN ''Yamato'': the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the doomed Operation ''Ten-Go''.

* ''Film/ASmallLight'': Details the life of Miep Gies as she tries to save Anne Frank's family.

* ''Series/ASmallLight''

* ''Series/ASmallLight''

* ''VideoGame/HiddenAndDangerous'' and its sequel.

* ''VideoGame/SilentStorm''

* ''Film/GreenForDanger''', a murder mystery set in a British rural hospital during the last years of the war.

* ''Film/TheTuskeegeeAirmen'': An earlier and arguably less patriotic take on the same subject as ''Red Tails'': Elite African American fighter pilots who are subjected to racism while fighting for their country.

!!Films (Fiction):

* ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' is a diary written by a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the war. She was eventually captured and killed, and her family had parts of her diary published posthumously.