List of World War II documentary films
The following is a list of World War II documentary films.
1940s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1940 | Germany | Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) | Walter Ruttmann |
1940 | Germany | Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) | Walter Ruttmann |
1940 | Germany | Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland | |
1941 | Canada | Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg |
1941 | Canada | Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg |
1941 | USA | Kukan | Rey Scott |
1941 | Italy | Uomini sul fondo (Men on the bottom) | Francesco De Robertis |
1942 | Germany | Männer, Meer und Stürme (Men, Sea and Storms) | Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger |
1942 | United Kingdom | The Soldier's Food | unknown |
1944 | Germany | Panorama | |
1944 | USA | The Battle for the Marianas | Gordon Hollingshead |
1944 | Japan | Calling Australia (オーストラリアを呼び出します) (Ōsutoraria o Yobidashimasu) | Hae Yeong |
1945 | Denmark | Danmark i Lænker (Denmark in Chains) | Sven Methling |
1946 | USA | Let There Be Light | John Huston |
1950s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1952 | USA | Victory at Sea | M. Clay Adams |
1955 | France | Night and Fog | Alain Resnais |
1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1962 | USA | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
1962 | Canada | Canada at War | ? |
1964 | Canada | Fields of Sacrifice | Donald Brittain |
1965 | Canada | Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton |
1965 | USA | France: Conquest to Liberation | Aram Boyajian |
1965 | USA | Prelude to War: Beginning of World War II | Alan Landsburg |
1965 | Soviet Union | Ordinary Fascism (Обыкновенный фашизм) (Obyknovennyy fashizm) | Mikhail Romm |
1968 | USA | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman |
1969 | France | The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) | Marcel Ophüls |
1970s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1973 | UK | The World at War | Miscellaneous |
1974 | Israel | The 81st Blow (המכה ה-81) | Haim Gouri |
1976 | UK | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls |
1978 | Soviet Union | The Unknown War (Neizvestnaya voyna) (Неизвестная война) | Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen |
1980s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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1980 | West Germany | The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 | Dieter Hildebrandt |
1981 | USA | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Connie Field |
1982 | USA | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman |
1982 | Sweden | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Chohen, Bo Kuritzen |
1982 | USA | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die | Laurence Jarvik |
1985 | France | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
1985 | USA | Unfinished Business | Steven Okazaki |
1987 | Japan | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara |
1988 | France | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophüls |
1989 | France | De Nuremberg à Nuremberg | Frédéric Rossif |
1989 | UK | Fascist Legacy | Ken Kirby |
1989 | Sweden | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen |
1990s
2000s
2000
Country | Title | Director |
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Czech Republic | A Story about a Bad Dream | Pavel Stingl |
USA | From Swastika to Jim Crow | Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub |
USA | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris |
Germany | Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman |
Germany | Shadows of Memory | Claudia von Alemann |
USA | Sisters in Resistance | Maia Wechsler |
UK | The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Sue Read |
2001
Country | Title | Director |
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UK | Horror in the East | Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova |
Japan | Japanese Devils | Minoru Matsui |
France | Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann |
USA | The Color of War | Peter Coyote |
2002
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | A Yiddish World Remembered | Andrew Goldberg |
Austria | Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary | André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer |
USA | Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII | Aviva Slesin |
Canada | The Boys of Buchenwald | Audrey Mehler |
2003
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | Marion's Triumph | John Chua |
Denmark | Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill) | Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen |
Canada | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender |
USA | The Holocaust Experience | Oeke Hoogendijk |
2004
2005
Country | Title | Director |
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Germany | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | Malte Ludin |
USA | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Eric Simonson |
UK | Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' | Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge |
UK | Hiroshima | Paul Wilmshurst |
USA | The 11th Day: Crete 1941 | Christos Epperson |
USA | The Mushroom Club | Steven Okazaki |
Poland | The Portraitist | Ireneusz Dobrowolski |
Austria | Unwanted Cinema | Petrus van der Let |
2006
Country | Title | Director |
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Russia | Blokada | Sergei Loznitsa |
USA | Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh |
USA | The Rape of Europa | Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham |
Estonia | The Blue Hills | Raimo Jõerand |
2007
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day | Douglas Cohen |
Canada | My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner | Fern Levitt |
USA | Nanking | Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman |
USA | Order Castles of the Third Reich | R.J. Adams |
USA | Ruins of the Reich | R.J. Adams |
Israel | Stalags | Ari Libsker |
USA | The War | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick |
USA | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki |
USA | Wings of Defeat | Risa Morimoto |
Japan | Yasukuni | Li Ying |
2008
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | Battle 360° | Tony Long |
Germany | Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss | Felix Moeller |
Netherlands | Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano | Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis |
Latvia | The Soviet Story | Edvīns Šnore |
UK | World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West | Laurence Rees, Andrew Williams |
2009
Country | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
France | Apocalypse: The Second World War | Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle |
USA | The Inheritance of War | Ashley Karras |
Netherlands | Patton 360° | Tony Long |
Finland | Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland | Imbi Paju |
UK | The Week We Went to War | Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie |
UK | World War II in HD Colour | Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett |
USA | WWII in HD | Frederic Lumiere, Matthew Ginsburg |
USA | Valor With Honor | Torasan Films |
2010s
2010
Country | Title | Director |
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Canada | War Music | David Porteous |
2011
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | We Were There | Jarod O'Flaherty |
Netherlands | 900 Days | Jessica Gorter |
Russia | Soviet Storm: World War II in the East | Anna Grazhdan |
2012
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Oliver Stone |
2013
Country | Title | Director |
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USA | The Ghost Army | Rick Beyer |
2016
Country | Title | Director |
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Australia | A Long Way Back | Samm Blake |
See also
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- List of World War II films
- List of World War II TV series
- List of World War II short films
- List of Holocaust films
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