World War II Movies
War Movies about World War II, 1939-1945
Hart’s War (2002)
Hart’s War (2002) Hart’s War is a courtroom mystery twist drama movie wrapped up in a war movie. There, I said it. While it turns out to be a fair contender in the first categories, as a war movie it just isn’t all that. Lt. Thomas Hart (Colin Farrell) gets sent to Augsburg prison camp in... »
The Fallen (2004)
Sitting here trying to figure out what to write about 2004’s The Fallen. Honestly, I can’t come up with an awful lot. What you get here is some eh, alright-to-fair acting by a group of relative unknowns, in a picture that attempts to (I think) pay tribute to soldiers on three sides of WWII... »
The Last Drop (2005)
In 2005’s The Last Drop, a team of British paratroopers get diverted on a super-top-secret mission on the heels of Operation Market Garden. As “The Last Drop” (referring to the last glider drop of the operation) they will, well, they don’t know that yet… All the while, there’s this Nazi SS dude who’s trying to... »
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Where do I even begin. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is, plainly put, an excellent film that should move even the most hardened person in some way. Young Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the son of a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) who moves his family to a country house/bunker to avoid the coming Berlin air... »
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
Part social commentary, part war movie, 1956’s Between Heaven and Hell is all of one thing: dark. Not that dark is bad, and in this case, actually makes for one hell of a good film. The story revolves around one Francis Gifford (Robert Wagner), an affluent plantation owner in “the South.” As luck would have... »
The Rape of Europa (2006)
During WWII, one of the concerns of the Allied high command was how to protect the priceless artifacts of world culture present in Europe from the ravages of war. The Rape of Europa chronicles these efforts, and more interestingly, delves into the world of the Nazi preoccupation with pillaging and hoarding these works of art. The... »
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
To quote my favorite cartoon horse…. “Hmm. No sir, I don’t like it!” A renegade bunch of Nazi hunters loose in pre-invasion Germany? What could make for a better war movie?! Yeah, if only that’s what the movie was about. It’s not. Actually I’m still trying to figure out what this movie is actually about,... »
1941 (1979)
In all of Hollywood history, I don’t think there have been many projects involving quite as many famous names and faces, in front of and behind the camera, as the “epic” 1941. Directed by none other than Steven Spielberg, with a soundtrack by John Williams, and starring everyone from Dan Akroyd and John Belushi... »
No Man is an Island (1962)
Anyone who thinks the Hollywood “Formula” picture is a new or recent creation is fooling themselves. No Man is and Island is a direct ancestor of todays average fare, and unfortunately it just ain’t that good. As the Japanese rout the Allies from the South Pacific in the early days of WWII, George Tweed (Geoffrey... »
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
OK, lets take a bit of a different take on events in Asia during the early part of World War II…. The Japanese are rolling through China and Manchuria in 1937, and to top it off, China itself has its own problems between the Communists and the Partisans…. Caught in the middle are a group of... »
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