US

North America
- US
- Canada
- Mexico
Europe
- Spain
- UK
- Ireland
Oceania
- Australia

South America
- Argentina
- Chile
- Colombia
- Uruguay
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Ecuador
- Venezuela
- Costa Rica
- Honduras
- Guatemala
- Bolivia
- Dominican Rep.

More information

Click here to copy URL

Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War

All Rankings

Top rated Movies and TV Series about the Second World War on Filmaffinity with +500 votes

1

Schindler's List Schindler's List

1993

Steven Spielberg

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall ...

8.6

177,372
2

The Great Dictator The Great Dictator

1940

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell ...

8.6

86,926
3

To Be or Not to Be To Be or Not to Be

1942

Ernst Lubitsch

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart ...

8.5

36,597
4

Band of Brothers Band of Brothers

miniseries

2001

Stephen Ambrose (Creator), David Frankel ...

Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes, Donnie Wahlberg, Neal McDonough ...

8.5

62,503
5

Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful

1997

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Marisa Paredes, Giustino Durano ...

8.5

193,682
6

Casablanca Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt ...

8.4

100,235
7

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu ...

8.3

2,753
8

The Pianist The Pianist

2002

Roman Polanski

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Ed Stoppard, Emilia Fox ...

8.2

155,450
9

Judgment at Nuremberg Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Stanley Kramer

Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell ...

8.2

14,075
10

The Great Escape The Great Escape

1963

John Sturges

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn ...

8.2

68,517
11

The Best Years of Our Lives The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

William Wyler

Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright ...

8.2

9,303
12

A Man Escaped A Man Escaped

1956

Robert Bresson

François Leterrier, Roland Monod, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Jacques Ertaud

8.1

9,620
13

Rome, Open City Rome, Open City

1945

Roberto Rossellini

Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Harry Feist ...

8.1

17,888
14

The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity

1959

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Sato, Minoru Chiaki, Keiji Sada ...

8.1

2,846
15

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ineko Arima, Chikage Awashima, Keiji Sada ...

8.0

3,605
16

Grave of the Fireflies Grave of the Fireflies

1988

Isao Takahata

Animation

8.0

42,583
17

Germany, Year Zero Germany, Year Zero

1948

Roberto Rossellini

Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz, Franz-Otto Krüger, Alexandra Manys, Erich Gühne

8.0

8,553
18

This Land is Mine This Land is Mine

1943

Jean Renoir

Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith ...

7.9

4,716
19

To Have and Have Not To Have and Have Not

1944

Howard Hawks

Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael ...

7.9

13,639
20

The Cranes are Flying The Cranes are Flying

1957

Mikhail Kalatozov

Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Konstantin Nikitin, Svetlana Kharitonova ...

7.9

3,377
21

The Ascent The Ascent

1977

Larisa Shepitko

Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Viktoriya Goldentul, Lyudmila Polyakova ...

7.8

1,763
22

The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

David Lean

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, James Donald, Sessue Hayakawa ...

7.8

50,923
23

The Train The Train

1964

John Frankenheimer

Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Howard Vernon ...

7.8

6,973
24

Underground Underground

1995

Emir Kusturica

Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Ernst Stötzner ...

7.8

18,600
25

Come and See Come and See

1985

Elem Klimov

Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Victor Lorents

7.8

8,695
26

Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds

2009

Quentin Tarantino

Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender ...

7.8

158,952
27

Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan

1998

Steven Spielberg

Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper ...

7.8

143,544
28

The Shop on Main Street The Shop on Main Street

1965

Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

Josef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarik, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova, Martin Holly ...

7.8

1,808
29

Generation War Generation War

miniseries

2013

Philipp Kadelbach

Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte ...

7.8

14,017
30

Goodbye Children Goodbye Children

1987

Louis Malle

Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fetjo, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud ...

7.8

15,924

Ranking Information: 500 Movies. Considered Movies with more than 500 Votes

All Rankings

Title Cast Search Tab name Theaters

Welcome to the new FA search engine: it allows you to search even with misspellings
do multiple searches (De Niro Pacino) and colloquial searches (Ex: Tom Holland's Spiderman)

Search Suggest

Not results found

Exact matches

Search Tab name

Exact matches

Exact matches