ww2 movies

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

A young boy living on the outskirts of London comes of age during the uncertain days of World War II.

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

In 1940s London, Lily weds a Canadian soldier before his deployment. With her newborn, she joins his family in Canada, facing harsh realities contrary to his promises. His return remains uncertain.

The story of airmen training in rural Manitoba in the summer of 1942 to go overseas and become bomber pilots in World War II, as well as the romantic entanglements which overcome them while they contemplate life and love in a world at war.

True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.

In a cabin on a World War II front, a German mom with a young son mediates a truce between three German and three American soldiers so they can all celebrate Christmas Eve 1944 together.

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Molly is a girl living in the year 1943 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.

Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.

Follow the lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army who are working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.