4. The Greatest World War II Movies of All Time
(part 1)

5. Schindler's List (1993)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Thomas Keneally (book), Steven
Zaillian (screenplay)
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben
Kingsley
Businessman Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson)
arrives in Krakow in 1939, ready to make his
fortune from World War II, which has just
started. After joining the Nazi party primarily
for political expediency, he staffs his factory
with Jewish workers for similarly pragmatic
reasons. When the SS begins exterminating
Jews in the Krakow ghetto, Schindler arranges
to have his workers protected to keep his
factory in operation, but soon realizes that in
so doing, he is also saving innocent lives.

11. The Human Condition.
A Soldier's Prayer.
(1961)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama,
Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu
The Human Condition is a Japanese epic
film trilogy made between 1959 and 1961,
based on the six-volume novel published
from 1956 to 1958 by Junpei Gomikawa.It
was directed by Masaki Kobayashi and
stars Tatsuya Nakadai. The trilogy follows
the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and
socialist, as he tries to survive in the
totalitarian and oppressive world of World
War II-era Japan.

15. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Director: Roberto Benigni
Writers: Vincenzo Cerami (story), Roberto
Benigni (story)
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi,
Giorgio Cantarini
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice
(Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta
Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her
over with his charm and humor. Eventually
they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio
Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted,
however, when Guido and Giosue are
separated from Dora and taken to a
concentration camp. Determined to shelter his
son from the horrors of his surroundings,
Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the
camp is merely a game.

21. Casablanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein (screenplay),
Philip G. Epstein (screenplay)
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid
Bergman, Paul Henreid
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who
owns a nightclub in Casablanca,
discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid
Bergman) is in town with her husband,
Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a
famed rebel, and with Germans on his
tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get
out of the country.

27. Saving Private Ryan
(1998)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Robert Rodat
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom
Sizemore
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes
his men behind enemy lines to find
Private James Ryan, whose three
brothers have been killed in combat.
Surrounded by the brutal realties of war,
while searching for Ryan, each man
embarks upon a personal journey and
discovers their own strength to triumph
over an uncertain future with honor,
decency and courage.

33. Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Lawrence Kasdan
(screenplay), George Lucas (story)
Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul
Freeman
Renowned archeologist and expert in
the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired
by the U.S. Government to find the Ark
of the Covenant, which is believed to
still hold the ten commandments.
Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also
after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame
Marion, escape from various close
scrapes in a quest that takes them
from Nepal to Cairo.

39. The Pianist (2002)
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Ronald Harwood (screenplay),
Wladyslaw Szpilman (book)
Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann,
Frank Finlay
In this adaptation of the autobiography "The
Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One
Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,"
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish
Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw
change gradually as World War II begins.
Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto,
but is later separated from his family during
Operation Reinhard. From this time until the
concentration camp prisoners are released,
Szpilman hides in various locations among
the ruins of Warsaw.

45. The Great Dictator
(1940)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard,
Jack Oakie
After dedicated service in the Great War, a
Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends
years in an army hospital recovering from
his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous
rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel (also
Chaplin) and his anti-Semitic policies. When
the barber, who bears a remarkable
resemblance to Hynkel, returns to his quiet
neighborhood, he is stunned by the brutal
changes and recklessly joins a beautiful girl
(Paulette Goddard) and her neighbors in
rebelling.

52. Grave of the Fireflies
(1988)
Director: Isao Takahata
Writers: Akiyuki Nosaka (novel), Isao
Takahata
Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano
Shiraishi, Akemi
A devastating meditation on the
human cost of war, this animated tale
follows Seita (Tsutomu Tatsumi), a
teenager charged with the care of his
younger sister, Setsuko (Ayano
Shiraishi), after an American
firebombing during World War II
separates the two children from their
parents. Their tale of survival is as
heartbreaking as it is true to life. The
siblings rely completely on each other
and struggle against all odds to stay
together and stay alive.

57. The Boat (1981)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writers: Wolfgang Petersen (screenplay),
Lothar G. Buchheim (novel)
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert
Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
A German submarine patrols the Atlantic
Ocean during World War II, manned by a crew
that must contend with tense conflicts and
long stretches of confined boredom. While
war correspondent Werner (Herbert
Grönemeyer) observes day-to-day life aboard
the U-boat, the grizzled captain (Jürgen
Prochnow) struggles to maintain his own
motivation as he attempts to keep the ship's
morale up in the face of fierce battles, intense
storms and dwindling supplies.

62. The Third Man (1949)
Director: Carol Reed
Writers: Graham Greene (by), Graham
Greene (screen play)
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida
Valli
Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, "The Third
Man" stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins,
a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives
penniless as a guest of his childhood chum
Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him
dead. Martins develops a conspiracy theory
after learning of a "third man" present at the
time of Harry's death, running into
interference from British officer Maj.
Calloway (Trevor Howard) and falling head-
over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover,
Anna (Alida Valli).

67. Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
(uncredited)
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
It is the first year of Germany's occupation
of France. Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad
Pitt) assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to
commit violent acts of retribution against
the Nazis, including the taking of their
scalps. He and his men join forces with
Bridget von Hammersmark, a German
actress and undercover agent, to bring
down the leaders of the Third Reich. Their
fates converge with theater owner Shosanna
Dreyfus, who seeks to avenge the Nazis'
execution of her family.

73. Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade
(1989)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George
Lucas (story), 3 more credits »
Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison
Doody
An art collector appeals to Jones to embark
on a search for the Holy Grail. He learns that
another archaeologist has disappeared
while searching for the precious goblet, and
the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry
Jones. The artifact is much harder to find
than they expected, and its powers are too
much for those impure in heart.

79. The Great Escape
(1963)
Director: John Sturges
Writers: Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell
(screenplay)
Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner,
Richard Attenborough
Imprisoned during World War II in a German
POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are
intent on breaking out, not only to escape,
but also to draw Nazi forces away from
battle to search for fugitives. Among the
prisoners determined to escape are
American Captain Virgil Hilts (Steve
McQueen) and British Squadron Leader
Roger Bartlett (Richard Attenborough).
Outwitting their captors by digging a tunnel
out of the prison grounds, the soldiers find
the stakes much higher when escape
becomes a reality.

85. Downfall (2004)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay),
Joachim Fest (book)
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Ulrich Matthes
In 1942, young Traudl Junge (Alexandra
Maria Lara) lands her dream job -- secretary
to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz) at the peak of
his power. Three years later, Hitler's empire
is now his underground bunker. The real-life
Traudl narrates Hitler's final days as he
rages against imagined betrayers and barks
orders to phantom armies, while his
mistress, Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler), clucks
over his emotional distance, and other
infamous Nazis prepare for the end.

90. Come and See (1985)
Director: Elem Klimov
Writers: Ales Adamovich (screenplay), Ales
Adamovich (stories)
Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova,
Liubomiras Lauciavicius
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by
German forces sends young Florya (Alexei
Kravchenko) into the forest to join the weary
Resistance fighters, against his family's
wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha (Olga
Mironova), who accompanies him back to
his village. On returning home, Florya
finds his family and fellow peasants
massacred. His continued survival amidst
the brutal debris of war becomes
increasingly nightmarish, a battle between
despair and hope.

95. Judgment at
Nuremberg (1961)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writers: Abby Mann, Abby Mann (based on
his original story by
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark
In 1947, four German judges who served on
the bench during the Nazi regime face a
military tribunal to answer charges of crimes
against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood
(Spencer Tracy) hears evidence and
testimony not only from lead defendant
Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and his
defense attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian
Schell), but also from the widow of a Nazi
general (Marlene Dietrich), an idealistic U.S.
Army captain (William Shatner) and reluctant
witness Irene Wallner (Judy Garland).

101. The Bridge on the
River Kwai (1957)
Director: David Lean
Writers: Pierre Boulle (novel), Carl Foreman
(screenplay
Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack
Hawkins
Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel about
POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to
aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.
British and American officers plot to blow up
the structure, but the commander of the
bridge's construction has different plans

107. Letters from Iwo Jima
(2006)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Iris Yamashita (screenplay), Iris
Yamashita (story)
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari
Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Long-buried missives from the island
reveal the stories of the Japanese troops
who fought and died there during World
War II. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari
Ninomiya), a baker; Baron Nishi
(Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic champion;
and Shimizu (Ryo Kase), an idealistic
soldier. Though Lt. Gen.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe)
knows he and his men have virtually no
chance of survival, he uses his
extraordinary military skills to hold off
American troops as long as possible.

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