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WWII English-Language Movies

by seanbarnespolo • Created 8 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
WW II movies with English as the dominant language. Try sorting by IMDB ranking. Then set the limit to 10,000+ votes and this list will drop from 400+ down to about 100 of the best/most popular ones.
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  • Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, and Peter Youngblood Hills in Band of Brothers (2001)

    1. Band of Brothers

    200110 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    9.4 (567K)
    The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
    StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon Livingston
  • Schindler's List (1993)

    2. Schindler's List

    19933h 15mR95Metascore
    9.0 (1.5M)
    In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen Kingsley
  • Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, and Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    3. Saving Private Ryan

    19982h 49mR91Metascore
    8.6 (1.6M)
    Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom Sizemore
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    4. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (636K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, and Ann Sears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    5. The Bridge on the River Kwai

    19572h 41mPG88Metascore
    8.1 (244K)
    British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack Hawkins
  • Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017)

    6. Dunkirk

    20171h 46mPG-1394Metascore
    7.8 (779K)
    Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsFionn WhiteheadBarry KeoghanMark Rylance
  • Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)

    7. The Sound of Music

    19652h 52mG63Metascore
    8.1 (279K)
    A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor Parker
  • Stalag 17 (1953)

    8. Stalag 17

    19532hApproved84Metascore
    7.9 (60K)
    After two American prisoners are killed by the guards in the act of escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenDon TaylorOtto Preminger
  • Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

    9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

    20081h 34mPG-1355Metascore
    7.7 (264K)
    Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
    DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert Friend
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    10. Empire of the Sun

    19872h 33mPG62Metascore
    7.7 (139K)
    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda Richardson
  • Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Sean Connery, Sal Mineo, Eddie Albert, Richard Beymer, Red Buttons, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, Arletty, Mel Ferrer, Steve Forrest, Gert Fröbe, Fabian, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bourvil, Ray Danton, Irina Demick, Leo Genn, Henry Grace, John Gregson, Paul Hartmann, Werner Hinz, Curd Jürgens, Alexander Knox, Peter Lawford, Christian Marquand, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Ron Randell, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Ryan, Tommy Sands, Richard Todd, Tom Tryon, Peter van Eyck, and Stuart Whitman in The Longest Day (1962)

    11. The Longest Day

    19622h 58mG75Metascore
    7.7 (61K)
    The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
    DirectorsKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard Burton
  • Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator (1940)

    12. The Great Dictator

    19402h 5mG
    8.4 (251K)
    Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack Oakie
  • Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, E.G. Marshall, Tatsuya Mihashi, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, James Whitmore, and Sô Yamamura in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    13. Tora! Tora! Tora!

    19702h 24mG46Metascore
    7.5 (39K)
    The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
    DirectorsRichard FleischerKinji FukasakuToshio MasudaStarsMartin BalsamSô YamamuraJason Robards
  • Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

    14. Hacksaw Ridge

    20162h 19mR71Metascore
    8.1 (645K)
    World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsAndrew GarfieldSam WorthingtonLuke Bracey
  • Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)

    15. The Great Escape

    19632h 52mApproved86Metascore
    8.2 (271K)
    Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard Attenborough
  • Combat! (1962)

    16. Combat!

    1962–1967152 epsTV Series
    8.4 (3.4K)
    Combat!, a one-hour World War II drama series, followed a front line American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe
    StarsVic MorrowRick JasonPierre Jalbert
  • Patton (1970)

    17. Patton

    19702h 52mPG86Metascore
    7.9 (112K)
    The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen Young
  • Lion of the Desert (1980)

    18. Lion of the Desert

    19802h 53mPG
    8.2 (18K)
    In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
    DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnOliver ReedRod Steiger
  • War and Remembrance (1988)

    19. War and Remembrance

    1988–198912 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    8.2 (3.4K)
    The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
    StarsRobert MitchumJane SeymourHart Bochner
  • Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray in The Caine Mutiny (1954)

    20. The Caine Mutiny

    19542h 4mApproved63Metascore
    7.7 (31K)
    When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartJosé FerrerVan Johnson
  • Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Maximilian Schell, and Richard Widmark in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

    21. Judgment at Nuremberg

    19612h 59mApproved60Metascore
    8.3 (93K)
    Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
    DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard Widmark
  • Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001)

    22. Enemy at the Gates

    20012h 11mR53Metascore
    7.5 (287K)
    A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
    DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJude LawEd HarrisJoseph Fiennes
  • Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse in The Book Thief (2013)

    23. The Book Thief

    20132h 11mPG-1353Metascore
    7.5 (146K)
    While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
    DirectorBrian PercivalStarsSophie NélisseGeoffrey RushEmily Watson
  • Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen in White Christmas (1954)

    24. White Christmas

    19542hApproved56Metascore
    7.5 (55K)
    A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBing CrosbyDanny KayeRosemary Clooney
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

    25. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    19432h 43mApproved93Metascore
    8.0 (18K)
    From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
    DirectorsMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRoger LiveseyDeborah KerrAnton Walbrook

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