List of documentary films about World War II

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The following is a list of World War II documentary films.

Year Country Title Director
2000 Czech Republic A Story about a Bad Dream Pavel Stingl
2000 United States From Swastika to Jim Crow Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub
2000 United States Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris
2000 Germany Paragraph 175 Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
2000 Germany Shadows of Memory Claudia von Alemann
2000 United States Sisters in Resistance Maia Wechsler
2000 United Kingdom The Children Who Cheated the Nazis Sue Read
2000 United Kingdom World War II׃ The Complete History Matthew Hall
2001 United Kingdom Horror in the East Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova
2001 Japan Japanese Devils Minoru Matsui
2001 France Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Claude Lanzmann
2001 United States The Color of War Peter Coyote
2002 United States A Yiddish World Remembered Andrew Goldberg
2002 Austria Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
2002 United States Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII Aviva Slesin
2002 Canada The Boys of Buchenwald Audrey Mehler
2003 United States Marion’s Triumph John Chua
2003 Denmark Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill) Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen
2003 Canada Prisoner of Paradise Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
2003 United States The Holocaust Experience Oeke Hoogendijk
2004 United Kingdom Dunkirk Alex Holmes
2004 Netherlands Goodbye Holland Willy Lindwer
2004 United States Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler’s Sexuality Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
2004 United States Hiding and Seeking Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
2005 Germany 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him Malte Ludin
2005 United States A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Eric Simonson
2005 United Kingdom Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’ Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge
2005 United Kingdom Hiroshima Paul Wilmshurst
2005 United States The 11th Day: Crete 1941 Christos Epperson
2005 United States The Mushroom Club Steven Okazaki
2005 Poland The Portraitist Ireneusz Dobrowolski
2005 Austria Unwanted Cinema Petrus van der Let
2006 Russia Blokada Sergei Loznitsa
2006 United States Forgiving Dr. Mengele Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh
2006 United States The Rape of Europa Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham
2006 Estonia The Blue Hills Raimo Jõerand
2007 United States A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day Douglas Cohen
2007 Canada My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner Fern Levitt
2007 United States Nanking Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
2007 United States Order Castles of the Third Reich R.J. Adams
2007 United States Ruins of the Reich R.J. Adams
2007 Israel Stalags Ari Libsker
2007 United States The War Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
2007 United States White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Steven Okazaki
2007 United States Wings of Defeat Risa Morimoto
2007 Japan Yasukuni Li Ying
Year Country Title Director
2008 United States Battle 360° Tony Long
2008 Germany Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss Felix Moeller
2008 Netherlands Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis
2008 Latvia The Soviet Story Edvīns Šnore
2008 United Kingdom World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West Laurence Rees, Andrew Williams
2009 France Apocalypse: The Second World War Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
2009 United States The Inheritance of War Ashley Karras
2009 Netherlands Patton 360° Tony Long
2009 Finland Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland Imbi Paju
2009 United Kingdom The Week We Went to War Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie
2009 United Kingdom World War II in HD Colour Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett
2009 United States WWII in HD Frederic Lumiere, Matthew Ginsburg
2009 United States Valor With Honor Torasan Films
Year Country Title Director
2021 United Kingdom WWII in Color: Road to Victory Sam Taplin, Lou Westlake, Kim Lask, Stan Griffin & Katie Boxer

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