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 |
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1940 | ![]() |
Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) | Walter Ruttmann |
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Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) | Walter Ruttmann |
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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 |
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1952 | ![]() |
Victory at Sea | M. Clay Adams |
1955 | ![]() |
Night and Fog | Alain Resnais |
1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A Story about a Bad Dream | Pavel Stingl |
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From Swastika to Jim Crow | Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub |
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris |
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Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman |
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Shadows of Memory | Claudia von Alemann |
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Sisters in Resistance | Maia Wechsler |
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The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Sue Read |
2001
Country | Title | Director |
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Horror in the East | Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova |
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Japanese Devils | Minoru Matsui |
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Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann |
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The Color of War | Peter Coyote |
2002
Country | Title | Director |
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A Yiddish World Remembered | Andrew Goldberg |
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Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary | André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer |
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Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII | Aviva Slesin |
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The Boys of Buchenwald | Audrey Mehler |
2003
Country | Title | Director |
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Marion's Triumph | John Chua |
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Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill) | Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen |
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Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender |
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The Holocaust Experience | Oeke Hoogendijk |
2004
2005
Country | Title | Director |
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | Malte Ludin |
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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Eric Simonson |
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Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' | Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge |
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Hiroshima | Paul Wilmshurst |
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The 11th Day: Crete 1941 | Christos Epperson |
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The Mushroom Club | Steven Okazaki |
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The Portraitist | Ireneusz Dobrowolski |
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Unwanted Cinema | Petrus van der Let |
2006
Country | Title | Director |
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Blokada | Sergei Loznitsa |
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Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh |
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The Rape of Europa | Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham |
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The Blue Hills | Raimo Jõerand |
2007
Country | Title | Director |
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A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day | Douglas Cohen |
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My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner | Fern Levitt |
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Nanking | Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman |
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Order Castles of the Third Reich | R.J. Adams |
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Ruins of the Reich | R.J. Adams |
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Stalags | Ari Libsker |
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The War | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick |
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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki |
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Wings of Defeat | Risa Morimoto |
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Yasukuni | Li Ying |
2008
Country | Title | Director |
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Battle 360° | Tony Long |
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Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss | Felix Moeller |
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Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano | Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis |
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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 |
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Apocalypse: The Second World War | Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle |
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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 |
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War Music | David Porteous |
2011
Country | Title | Director |
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We Were There | Jarod O'Flaherty |
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900 Days | Jessica Gorter |
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Soviet Storm: World War II in the East | Anna Grazhdan |
2012
Country | Title | Director |
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Oliver Stone |
2013
Country | Title | Director |
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The Ghost Army | Rick Beyer |
2016
Country | Title | Director |
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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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