Important films of World War II era
(Digital History ID 3725)

  • Best Years of Our Lives
    • From Here to Eternity
    • A League of Their Own (1992)
    • Zoot Suit (1981)
  • World War II
    • Anzio (1968)
    • Back to Bataan (1945)
    • Bataan (1943)
    • Battle of the Bulge (1965)
    • Battleground (1949)- about Battle of the Bulge
    • The Big Red One (1980)
    • Corregidor (1943)
    • D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
    • December 7th (1943)
    • Go for Broke! (1951)
    • God is My Co-Pilot (1945)
    • Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
    • The Halls of Montezuma (1950)
    • The Longest Day (1962)
    • Merrill's Marauder's (1962)- about Burma
    • Midway (1976)
    • Mission of the Shark (1991):
    • Objective, Burma! (1945)
    • Pearl Harbor (2001)
    • Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
    • Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
    • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    • The Thin Red Line (1964) (1998)
    • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
    • Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
    • U-571 (2000)
    • Wake Island(1942)
    • A Walk in the Sun (1945)- about Salerno
    • Wing and a Prayer (1944)- about Midway
  • War Biopics
    • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
    • The Gallant Hours (1960)- about Admiral William F. Halsey
    • Ike: the War Years (1978)
    • The Last Days of Patton (1986)
    • MacArthur (1977)
    • The Outsider (1961)- about Native American Ira Hayes, Iwo Jima flagraiser
    • Patton (1970)
    • Pride of the Marines (1945)- about Al Schmid
    • PT 109 (1963)- about John F. Kennedy
    • The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)- about Journalist Ernie Pyle
    • The Sullivans [The Fighting Sullivans] (1944)
    • To Hell and Back (1955)- about Audie Murphy
  • Atomic Bomb
    • Above and Beyond (1952)
    • Atomic CafĂ© (1982)
    • The Beginning or the End (1947)
    • Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
    • Hiroshima (1995)
    • Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
  • Holocaust
    • Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    • Nuremberg (2000)
  • Japanese American Relocation
    • Farewell to Manzanar (1976)
  • Biopics
    • The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
    • Bird (1988): Charlie Parker
    • Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975)- about Harry Truman
    • The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
    • The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
    • Raging Bull (1980)- about Boxer Jake LaMotta
    • The Stratton Story (1949)- about Baseball Player Monte Stratton

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