World War II Movies
War Movies about World War II, 1939-1945
THE WAR – on PBS September 23
Just found out about this one as well. This should be simply incredible.... THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores... »
Overlord (1975)
From across the pond comes a little-known film called Overlord, which of course was the code name for the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion. This film really is a hidden gem. Shot completely in black and white, and brilliantly intermixed with a ton of documentary footage from the Imperial War Museum's archives, Overlord is... »
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Man, I can honestly say I've just seen the most bleak, dark, depressing, demoralizing... and downright dull war movie I've seen to date.... A Walk in the Sun follows a squad of soldiers as they land on a beach in Italy, and proceed to an occupied farmhouse in a quest to blow up a... »
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... »
