Door de jaren heen zijn er tal van matige tot zeer gave Tweede Wereldoorlogsfilms gemaakt in zowel Hollywood als daarbuiten.

Elke film belicht weer een ander deel van de zwarte periode uit ieders geschiedenis en het zijn er eigenlijk veel te veel om op te noemen.

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Toch is een Reddit-gebruiker erin geslaagd om een zo accuraat mogelijke lijst te maken waarop iedere titel bij het juiste jaartal staat vermeld. Tevens heeft Mike_v_E de ongelooflijke moeite genomen om te benoemen wat voor gebeurtenis er plaatsvond ten tijde van de betreffende titels.

De lijst begint helemaal in april 1899, oftewel de geboorte van Adolf Hitler himself, met Hitler: The Rise of Evil en eindigt definitief in mei 1960 met de arrestatie van SS officier Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale.

Van 1899 tot 1960
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1899 - Hitler's Rise to Power
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

1936 - Winston Churchill's Life Before the War
The Gathering Storm (1974)

Aug 1936 - Showcase of Hitler's Third Reich at the Berlin Olympics
Race (2016)

Dec 1937 - Battle of Nanking (Second Sino-Japanese War)
City of Life and Death (2009)
The Flowers of War (2011)
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Nanking (2007)

Mar 1938 - Annexation of Austria by Germany
The Sound of Music (1965)

Sep 1938 - Annexation of Sudetenland by Germany (Munich Agreement)
Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

Mar 1939 - Occupation of Czech Rump State (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)
Countdown to War (1989)

May 1939 - Battles of Khalkhin Gol (Battle at Nomonhan)
My Way (2011)

Sep 1939 - Invasion of Poland / Battle of Westerplatte
1939 Battle of Westerplatte (2013)
Tajemnica Westerplatte (2013)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Europa Europa (1990)
Uprising (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Katyn (2007)
The Secret of Westerplatte (2013)
The Book Thief (2013)
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Sep 1939 - Britain and France Declare War on Germany
The King's Speech (2010)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Countdown to War (1989)
Hope and Glory (1987)

Nov 1939 - Assassination Attempt on Hitler by Georg Elser
13 Minutes (2015)

Nov 1939 - Invasion of Finland (Winter War)
Talvisota (1989)
The Warrior's Heart (1992)

Dec 1939 - First Naval Battle (Battle of the River Plate)
Battle of the River Plate (1956)

Apr 1940 - Invasion of Norway & Denmark (Operation Weserübung)
Flame & Citron (2008)
Into The White (2012)
April 9th (2015)
The King's Choice (2016)
Hamsun (1996)
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Narvik (2022)
War Sailor (2022)

May 1940 - Invasion of France (Battle of France) and Benelux / Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Jean Moulin (2002)
Le Grand Charles (2006)
Atonement (2007)
Darkest Hour (2017)
A French Village (2009)
En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît (2015)
Resistance (2020)
Dunkirk (2017)
The Resistance Banker (2018)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Suite Francaise (2014)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

Jul 1940 - Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain (1969)
The First of the Few (1942)

Sep 1940 - Bombing of London (The Blitz)
Hope and Glory (1987)
The Bells Go Down (1943)
Fires Were Started (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Sep 1940 - Otto and Elise Hampel Encouraged Resistance Against the Third Reich
Alone In Berlin (2016)
Oct 1940 - Italian Invasion of Greece (Greco-Italian War)
Ohi (1969)

Apr 1941 - German Invasion of Greece (Operation Marita)
Hell in the Aegean (1970)
Apr 1941 - Siege of Tobruk
Tobruk (1967)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
The Desert Rats (1953)

Jun 1941 - Breaking the Enigma Code
Imitation Game (2014)

Jun 1941 - Invasion of USSR (Operation Barbarossa) / Defense of Brest Fortress
Holocaust (1978)
My Way (2011)
Europa Europa (1990)
Defiance (2008)
Leningrad (2009)
Generation War (2013)
Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Fortress of War (2010)
Days of Glory (1944)
The Cranes are Flying (1957)
The Brest Fortress (2010)

Oct 1941 - Battle of Moscow (Operation Taifun)
The Last Frontier (2020)
Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)

Oct 1941 - Siege of Sevastopol
Battle for Sevestapol (2015)

Oct 1941 - German Submarine U-96 (Battle of Atlantic)
Das Boot (1981)

Dec 1941 - Cassablanca Days Before the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Cassablanca (1943)

Dec 1941 - Battle of the Phillipines / Pearl Harbor / Japan's Invasion of Asia
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
1941 (1979)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Operation Petticoat (1959)

Jan 1942 - Battle of Bataan (Philippines Campaign)
Bataan (1943)

Jan 1942 - Meeting of Nazi Senior Government Officials and SS Leaders (Wannsee Conference)
Conspiracy (2001)
Die Wannseekonferenz (1984)
The Conference (2022)

Feb 1942 - Incarceration of Japanese Americans (Executive Order 9066)
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Feb 1942 - British surrender in Singapore (Battle of Singapore)
Canopy (2013)
The Railway Man (2013)

Feb 1942 - Multi-National Escort Destroyer Group (Battle of the Atlantic)
Greyhound (2020)

Feb 1942 - Invasion of Sumatra (The Pacific War)
Paradise Road (1997)

Feb 1942 - Bombing of Darwin (The Pacific War)
Australia (2008)

Feb 1942 - Fall of Singapore (Malayan Campaign)
To End All Wars (2001)

Apr 1942 - US Air Raid on Tokyo and Other Places on Honshu (Doolittle Raid)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

Jun 1942 - Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Operation Anthropoid)
Operation Daybreak (1975)
Anthropoid (2016)
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

Jun 1942 - Battle of Midway (The Pacific War)
Midway (1976 / 2019)

Jun 1942 - Construction of the Burma Railway
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Jul 1942 - Anne Frank Went Into Hiding
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Jul 1942 - Battle of the Caucasus
Cross of Iron (1977)

Aug 1942 - Battle of Stalingrad
They Fought For Their Motherland (1975)
Stalingrad (1993 / 2013)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever (1959)

Aug 1942 - Solomon Islands Campaign (The Pacific War)
PT-109 (1963)

Aug - Nov 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal (Operation Watchtower) (The Pacific War)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Pacific, Episode 2 (2010)
The Gallant Hours (1960)

Aug 1942 - Manhattan Project
Oppenheimer (2023)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Adventures of a Mathematician (2020)

Oct 1942 - Unsuccessful Allied Attack on German Battleship Tirpitz (Operation Title)
Above Us the Waves (1955)

Oct 1942 - Second Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
El Alemein: The Line of Fire (2002)

Nov 1942 - US Landing in North Africa (Operation Torch)
The Big Red One (1980)
Tobruk (2008)

Jan 1943 - First Bombing of Germany
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Feb 1943 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (Tunisian Campaign)
Patton (1970)

Feb 1943 - Operation Gunnerside
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Feb 1943 - Arrest of Sophie and Hans Scholl
Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (2005)

Mar 1943 - Axis Offensive Against Yugoslav Partisans (Case White / Battle of the Neretva)
Battle of Neretva (1969)

Mar 1943 - Khatyn Massacre
Come and See (1985)

Mar 1943 - Operation Martin Became Compromised
The 12th Man (2017)

Apr 1943 - Deception Operation to Disguise the Liberation of Sicily (Operation Mincemeat)
Operation Mincemeat (2021)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)

May 1943 - Attack on German Dams (Operation Chastise)
The Dam Busters (1955)

May 1943 - Liberation of Tunis (Tunisian Campaign)
Patton (1970)
The Big Red One (1980)

Jun 1943 - First Mission of African American Combat Pilots
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

Jul 1943 - Liberation of Sicily (Battle of Sicily) (Operation Husky)
Patton (1970)
Hell Boats (1970)
The Big Red One (1980)
Mussolini and I (1985)
To Hell and Back (1955)
Paisan (1946)
Anzio (1968)

Aug 1943 - Execution of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter
A Hidden Life (2019)

Aug 1943 - Battle of the Dnieper
Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Sep 1943 - Attack on German Warship Tirpitz (Operation Source)
Above Us the Waves (1955)

Sep 1943 - Allied Landing Near Port Salerno (Operation Avalanche)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)

Sep 1943 - Italy Surrenders to the Allies (Armistice of Cassibile)
The English Patient (1996)

Sep 1943 - Germany Disarming the Italian Armed Forces (Operation Achse) (Italian Campaign)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

Sep 1943 - Massacre of the Acqui Division
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

Sep 1943 - Battle of Leros (Dodecanese Campaign)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Oct 1943 - Raid on Choiseul (The Pacific War)
PT-109 (1963)

Jan 1944 - Battle of Anzio (Italian Campaign) / Allied Amphibious Landing (Operation Shingle)
To Hell and Back (1955)
Red Tails (2012)
Anzio (1968)

Mar 1944 - 250 Prisoners Escape from Stalag Luft III
The Great Escape (1963)

Mar 1944 - Execution of Anti-Fascist Don Pietro Pappagallo
Rome Open City (1945)

Mar 1944 - Nazi Invasion of Hungary (Operation Margarethe)
Sunshine (1999)
Walking with the Enemy (2014)

Apr 1944 - Special Operations Executive (SOE) Kidnap Heinrich Kreipe
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

Apr 1944 - Operations Against German V-weapons Program (Operation Crossbow)
Battle of the V-1 (1958)
Operation Crossbow (1965)

Jun 1944 - Winston Churchill
Churchill (2017)

Jun 1944 - Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord) / Naval phase (Operation Neptune) of Allied Invasion of Normandy / D-Day
The Longest Day (1962)
The Big Red One (1980)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Band of Brothers, Episode 2 (2001)
My Way (2011)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Overlord (1975)

Jun 1944 - Battle of Saipan (The Pacific War)
Windtalkers (2002)
Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox (2011)

Jun 1944 - Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive
1944 The Final Defence (2007)

Jul 1944 - Assasination Attempt on Hitler and Overthrow the Nazi Regime (20 July Plot) (Operation Valkyrie)
Valkyrie (2008)

Jul 1944 - Battle of Tannenberg Line
1944 (2015)

Aug 1944 - Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Aug 1944 - Seizing Nazi Train 40,044 that Attemped to Move Stolen Art Pieces
The Train (1964)

Aug 1944 - Liberation of France / Landing of Allied Offensive Force In Provence (Operation Dragoon)
Indigènes (2006)
Le Grand Charles (2006)
Diplomacy (2014)
The Monuments Men (2014)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Sep 1944 - The World's Greatest Robbery
Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Sep 1944 - Failed Liberation of Netherlands (Operation Market Garden)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Band of Brothers, Episode 4 (2001)
Black Book (2006)

Sep 1944 - Battle of Hürtgen Forest
When Trumpets Fade (1998)

Sep 1944 - Battle of Peleilu (Operation Stalemate II)
Hell in the Pacific (1968)
The Pacific, Episode 5 (2010)

Sep 1944 - Moonsund Landing Operation (Baltic Offensive)
1944 (2015)

Sep 1944 - Marzabotto Massacre
The Man Who Will Come (2009)

Nov 1944 - Battle of the Scheldt
The Forgotten Battle (2021)

Dec 1944 - Battle of the Bulge / Siege of Bastogne
Patton (1970)
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Hart's War (2002)
Saint and Soldiers (2003)
Band of Brothers, Episode 6 (2001)
Battle for the Bulge (1965)
Battleground (1949)
Dec 1944 - Escape of POW Camp Stalag 17
Stalag 17 (1953)

Jan 1945 - Russia Enters Warsaw (Liberation of Warsaw)
The Pianist (2002)
Katyn (2007)
Kanal (1957)

Jan 1945 - Raid at Cabanatuan
The Great Raid (2005)

Feb 1945 - Government Meeting to Discuss Post-War Reorganisation of Germany (Yalta Conference)
When Lions Roared (1994)

Feb 1945 - Battle of Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)
The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
The Pacific, Episode 8 (2010)

Mar 1945 - Capture of Ludendorff Bridge (Battle of Remagen)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

Apr 1945 - President Roosevelt Passes Away and Truman Becomes President
Truman (1995)

Apr 1945 - Willi Herold Executions in Aschendorfermoor II Prison Camp
The Captain (2017)

Apr 1945 - Fall of Nazi Germany
The Bridge (1959)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Europa Europa (1990)
Downfall (2004)
A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Joy Division (2006)
Generation War, Episode 3 (2013)
Fury (2014)
Lore (2012)

Apr 1945 - Battle of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg)
The Pacific, Episode 9 (2010)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Hiroshima (1995)

May 1945 - Liberation of Denmark
Land of Mine (2015)

Jun 1945 - Allied Occupied Germany
Germany Year Zero (1948)
The Good German (2006)

Aug 1945 - Fall of Imperial Japan / Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Truman (1995)
The Pacific, Episode 10 (2010)
Emperor (2012)
Unbroken (2014)
Black Rain (1989)
Hiroshima (1995)
Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, The Atomic Bomb (1980)
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)

Holocaust
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
The Grey Zone (2001)
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Schindler's List (1993)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
The Way Back (2010)
Son of Saul (2015)
The Champion (2020)

Post-War
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Dec 1946 - Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg (2000)
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)

Aug 1947 - Trial of the Concentration Camp Murderess Ilse Koch
The Reader (2008)

May 1960 - Capture of SS Officer Adolf Eichmann
Operation Finale (2018)