WWII

By: John

Set in, based on, or depiction of events leading up to or ensuing Word War 2 (that I’ve seen and recommend).

• 01
  Army of Shadows
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 02
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 03
  The Counterfeiters
  Stefan Ruzowitzky
• 04
  Days of Glory
  Rachid Bouchareb
• 05
  Defiance
  Edward Zwick
• 06
  The Diary of Anne Frank
  George Stevens
• 07
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 08
  Enemy at the Gates
  Jean-Jacques Annaud
• 09
  The English Patient
  Anthony Minghella
• 10
  Flags of Our Fathers
  Clint Eastwood
• 11
  Flame & Citron
  Ole Christian Madsen
• 12
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 13
  Katyń
  Andrzej Wajda
• 14
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 15
  Life Is Beautiful
  Roberto Benigni
• 16
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 17
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 18
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 19
  The Reader
  Stephen Daldry
• 20
  Saving Private Ryan
  Steven Spielberg
• 21
  South Pacific
  Joshua Logan
• 22
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 23
  Valkyrie
  Bryan Singer
• 24
  The Way Back
  Peter Weir
• 25
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 26
  The Good German
  Steven Soderbergh
• 27
  Mother Night
  Keith Gordon
• 28
  The Debt
  John Madden
• 29
  Patton
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 30
  Red Tails
  Anthony Hemingway
• 31
  Max Manus: Man of War
  Joachim Rønning