List of World War II documentary films

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