World War II Movies
War Movies about World War II, 1939-1945
Ride of the Valkyries!
Looks like at least parts of the filming for Valkyrie (or maybe I should say "Rubicon?") are proceeding! I can only imagine what the older folks would think seeing a sight like this... Looks like at least one of them was a Junkers Ju 87, aka "Stuka".... Has the name of the picture changed?... »
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Face it, just about any war movie made in the fifties starring John Wayne is going to be considered a classic. By default. 1951's Flying Leathernecks is deserving of the title regardless of the main character's name. The story is a pretty standard war-time fare, about a squadron of Marine fighter pilots in WWII... »
Operation Bikini (1963)
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. What in the hell was that 90 minutes I just watched? Operation Bikini is on the surface supposed to be about a team of underwater demolition experts who head out on board a submarine to the Japanese held Bikini Atoll, where another sub carrying a prototype radar... »
Hell In The Pacific (1968)
I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when they pitched this movie. "What? A cast of *two*? With very little dialog? And only one of them speaks English and we won't subtitle the other? What?!" I'm really shocked this film made it out the door at all. But I'm... »
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
It's not often that you see one of the highest ranking officers of a despicable and evil empire celebrated in such a overwhelmingly positive light. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel does just that. It highlights the last days of German (but questionably Nazi) Field Marhsal Erwin Rommel, who is widely thought of... »
Halls of Montezuma (1950)
Wow. Talk about a movie that was ahead of its time in its message. Well, mostly anyway. Halls of Montezuma follows the journey of a squad of US Marines as they storm an anonymous Japanese held island in the Pacific during WWII. They are then tasked with locating a Japanese rocket emplacement before the... »
Letters From Iwo Jima (2007)
Hm. Its taken me a while to write this. I've really had to think about what I was going to put here after seeing Clint Eastwood's "sequel" to Flags of Our Fathers (WMB review here...) The story of "Letters From Iwo Jima" is the Japanese perspective of the invasion of Iwo Jima, which was... »
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1957's The Bridge on the River Kwai is a classic by any definition of the word. Based on the book "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boule, it tells the compelling story of a band of British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in Thailand during WWII, and how they overcome their... »
Wake Island (1942)
Two words: Um. Yeah. Two more words: Don't bother. Look, I'm all for classic war movies, and Wake Island just ain't one of 'em. Now, I understand the need for a little artistic license, especially in the name of much-needed (and wanted) wartime propaganda flicks. I'm not against that. But there's a line. First... »
Stalag 17 (1953)
If the environment of Stalag 17 looks vaguely familiar, its because it was the inspiration for the television series "Hogan's Heroes," the irreverent adventures of a group of Allied POW's held by the Germans in World War II. Based on Billy Wilder's Play of the same name, it gained William Holden an Oscar for... »
