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List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

Below is an incomplete list of science fiction, fantasy, and horror feature films or miniseries on the theme of World War II.

A separate list of TV series appears at the end.

20th century

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Year Country Main title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1941 United States King of the Zombies Jean Yarbrough Horror-comedy. Nazi doctor on island off US coast attempting to acquire war intelligence using zombies[1]
1942 United States Black Dragons William Nigh SF. Scientist turns Japanese spies into Americans[1]
1942 United States Spy Smasher (serial) William Witney
1942 United Kingdom Thunder Rock Roy Boulting Fantasy/Drama. Outspoken anti-Fascist journalist in isolation of Lake Michigan lighthouse visited by immigrant spirits who encourage fight against Fascism
1943 United States A Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming Fantasy. Spirit of dead pilot acts as "guardian angel" for new pilots
1943 United States Revenge of the Zombies Steve Sekely Horror.
1943 United States Tarzan Triumphs Wilhelm Thiele Adventure. German paratroopers conquer a lost city in Africa
1946 United Kingdom A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) Powell and Pressburger Fantasy.
1964 United States The Incredible Mr. Limpet Arthur Lubin, Robert McKimson Live-action/animated comedy. Man turns into talking fish and helps US Navy destroy U-boats, 1941
1966 United Kingdom The Frozen Dead Herbert J. Leder SF horror. Scientist reanimates frozen heads of Nazi war criminals to revive Third Reich
1966 United States Spy Smasher Returns (TV) William Witney Action-adventure. Superhero Alan Armstrong battles Nazi villains and saboteurs determined to spread destruction; edited TV version of 1942 serial Spy Smasher
1968 United States They Saved Hitler's Brain (TV) David Bradley SF thriller. Nazis in South America kidnap scientist to maintain living head of Adolf Hitler in order to revive the Third Reich
1971 United States Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson Children's fantasy musical. German raid on England repulsed with magic, 1940
1972 United States Slaughterhouse-Five George Roy Hill SF based on Kurt Vonnegut novel. Firebombing of Dresden, 1945
1975 Italy
France
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma Pier Paolo Pasolini Talks about four libertines that kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, and sexual and psychological torture during the last days of the Italian Social Republic.
1975 United States Wonder Woman (The New Original Wonder Woman / The New Adventures of Wonder Woman) (TV) Leonard Horn Action-adventure. Pilot in dogfight with Nazi plane crash-lands in Bermuda Triangle on uncharted island inhabited by women
1977 United States Shock Waves (Almost Human / Shockwaves) Ken Wiederhorn SF horror. Island-shipwrecked party encounters former SS commander leading zombie storm troopers
1977 Czechoslovakia Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem Jindrich Polák SF comedy. Time travel by aging former Nazis conspiring to alter results of war
1978 United States
United Kingdom
The Boys from Brazil Franklin J. Schaffner SF thriller based on Ira Levin novel. Nazi hunter discovers doctor's plot to revive Third Reich by cloning Hitler in Paraguayan jungle
1980 United Kingdom
Canada
Death Ship Alvin Rakoff Horror-Mystery. Nazi prison ship sails seas since end of war luring unsuspecting victims aboard
1980 United States The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific) Don Taylor SF. Modern US nuclear aircraft carrier lost in storm arrives in South West Pacific Theatre on 7 December 1941
1981 France Oasis of the Zombies (Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies / The Treasure of the Living Dead) L'abîme des morts vivants Jesus Franco Horror. Treasure hunters seeking Nazi bullion, carried across Sahara Desert by Wehrmacht soldiers falling under Allied assault with only one survivor, encounter gold's zombie protectors
1981 France
Spain
Zombie Lake (The Lake of the Living Dead) Le lac des morts vivants Jean Rollin Horror. Wehrmacht soldiers killed in lake by French Resistance during war are reanimated into zombies
1982 United States Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Carl Reiner Detective comedy. Nazis in Latin America with weaponized cheese mould
1984 United Kingdom The Keep Michael Mann Action-horror. German Army and "Einsatzkommandos" occupy Romanian citadel with demonic forces
1984 United States The Philadelphia Experiment Stewart Raffill Adventure-fantasy. Military experiment sends USN destroyer escort from Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1943, to 1984 Nevada desert town; prequel to 1993 film Philadelphia Experiment II
1985 United States Zone Troopers Danny Bilson SF. Soldiers find alien craft
1986 Spain In a Glass Cage Tras el cristal Agustí Villaronga Horror.
1989 United States Puppetmaster (Puppet Master I) David Schmoeller SF horror. Nazi mission to capture US puppeteer with "secret to life" ate[clarification needed] explored by modern scientists
1991 United States Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge David DeCoteau Horror-thriller. Puppeteer avenging his wife killed by Nazis bent on developing drug that reanimates dead
1991 United States The Rocketeer Joe Johnston Action-adventure. Young pilot discovers Howard Hughes' jetpack prototype and as flying superhero battles Nazis before US entry into war
1993 United States Philadelphia Experiment II Stephen Cornwell Adventure-fantasy. Military experiment sends ex-WWII sailor to alternative "1993" where Germany has won war before arriving in Nazi Germany along with modern stealth bomber, 1943; sequel to 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment
1998 United States Apt Pupil Bryan Singer Horror based on Stephen King novella.
1999 United States The Devil's Arithmetic (TV) Donna Deitch Fantasy/Drama. Modern teenage girl projected into 1940's death camp prisoner to experience horrors firsthand

21st century

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2000s

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Year Country Main title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2001 United Kingdom The Bunker Rob Green In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen to the group.
2002 United States Below David Twohy Strange happenings occur on a United States WW II submarine after picking up three survivors from a sunken British hospital ship.
2002 United States
Canada
Australia
Return to Never Land Robin Budd, Donovan Cook Animated family adventure based on J.M. Barrie book. Peter Pan rescues young girl from Captain Hook in Never Land during Battle of Britain, 1940; sequel to the 1953 film Peter Pan
2003 Cuba
Spain
More Vampires in Havana Más Vampiros en la Habana Juan Padrón Sequel to the 1985 cuban animated film called Vampires in Havana talks about a Nazi scientist creating an army of Nazi vampires who cause trouble in the city of Havana, Cuba.
2004 United States Hellboy Guillermo del Toro Infant demon summoned from Hell to Earth by Nazi occultists discovered by Allied Forces
2005 Japan Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean Rōrerai (ローレライ) Shinji Higuchi, Cellin Gluck Experimental Japanese submarine attempts to prevent atomic bombing of Tokyo
2006 Sweden Frostbite Frostbiten Anders Banke Horror comedy. Former SS geneticist attempting to create master breed of vampires in Norrland
2006 United Kingdom Ghostboat (TV) Stuart Orme Mystery-thriller based on Neal R. Burger novel. Fictional RN submarine presumed lost in Baltic in 1943 resurfaces near end of Cold War, 1981
2006 United States Horrors of War (Zombies of War) Peter John Ross, John Whitney Action-horror. OSS conducts missions to discover source of Hitler's wunderwaffen and vergeltungswaffen terrorizing Allies
2006 Spain
Mexico
Pan's Labyrinth El laberinto del fauno Guillermo del Toro Fantasy/Drama. Parable influenced by fairy tale of young girl's escape into abandoned labyrinth with mysterious faun creature in Francoist Spain, May–June 1944
2006 Canada War of the Dead Sean Cisterna Horror. Special agent investigating deaths of WWII veterans being hunted down by Nazi zombies
2006 United States SS Doomtrooper David Flores Action Sci-Fi. A genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops.
2007 United States Reign of the Gargoyles (TV) Ayton Davis Action-horror. An American aircrew join forces with British soldiers and local townsfolk to battle living gargoyles and the German army
2008 United Kingdom Outpost Steve Barker Action-horror. Mercenaries on Eastern European mission battling mysterious Nazi evil in old Nazi bunker
2008 United States WarBirds (TV) Kevin Gendreau American air crew in Pacific Theatre meet pterosaurs
2009 Norway Dead Snow Død snø Tommy Wirkola Horror-comedy. SS troops killed in Norway reanimate into zombies terrorizing a modern-day wilderness vacation
2009 Russia
Japan
Canada
First Squad Pervyy otryad (Первый отряд) (in Russian); Fāsuto sukuwaddo ファースト・スクワッド (in Japanese) Yoshiharu Ashino Anime. Set during the Eastern Front, featuring Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities that are opposed by a supernatural army of crusaders
2009 United States The Land That Time Forgot C. Thomas Howell SF based on Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Stranded U-boat crew in time void on island inside Bermuda Triangle; loosely made re-make of similarly titled 1975 film
2009 United States Blood Creek (Town Creek) Joel Schumacher Horror-thriller. Brothers on revenge mission in rural West Virginia where Nazi professor has been waging occult war since 1936

2010s

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Year Country Main title
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Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010 United States
Canada
Germany
Bloodrayne: The Third Reich Uwe Boll Fantasy-thriller. Dhamphir battling vampire Nazi officer bent on making Hitler immortal
2010 United Kingdom Jackboots on Whitehall Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry Animatronic satire. Alternative history of war where Nazi Germany occupies London
2010 United Kingdom Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Nanny McPhee Returns) Susanna White Comedy fantasy. Operation Pied Piper and governess who uses magic to aid farm family in need of assistance
2010 United States
Canada
Germany
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil David DeCoteau Horror-SF. Young man dreaming of joining war effort finds dead puppeteer's crate of mysterious puppets before battling Axis agents on homefront
2010 United Kingdom The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Michael Apted Fantasy-adventure based on C. S. Lewis novel. Children travel from wartime England to the magical land of Narnia
2011 United States
Canada
Germany
Blubberella Uwe Boll Action-Comedy. Dhamphir battling Nazis bent on eliminating Resistance group on Eastern Front; spoof of BloodRayne: The Third Reich
2011 United States Captain America: The First Avenger Joe Johnston Based upon the Marvel comic book of Captain America,American soldier transformed into super soldier aids war effort against Hitler's head of advanced weaponry
2011 New Zealand The Devil's Rock Paul Campion Action-horror. A New Zealand commando on the Channel Islands discovers a Nazi occult plot to win the war
2011 United States
Lithuania
Italy
War of the Dead [2] Marko Mäkilaakso Action-horror. Medical experiments performed on captured Russian soldiers by Gestapo officer who are later encountered by platoon of American and Finnish soldiers, 1939/41
2012 Finland
Germany
Australia
Iron Sky [2] Timo Vuorensola Nazis attack Earth from Moon base
2012 United States Nazis at the Center of the Earth (V) Joseph J. Lawson A direct-to-video sci-fi film produced by The Asylum
2012 United Kingdom Outpost: Black Sun Steve Barker Action horror. Scientist develops technology to create immortal Nazi zombie army near end of war to prevent rise of 4th Reich; sequel to 2008 film Outpost
2013 Netherlands
United States
Czech Republic
Frankenstein's Army Army of Frankenstein Richard Raaphorst Action, Horror, Sci-fi. Russian soldiers find secret Nazi lab in eastern Germany
2013 United Kingdom Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz Outpost 3 Kieran Parker Action horror. Russian soldiers find themselves facing not only zombie soldiers but also the threat of becoming part of the zombie army too; sequel to 2012 film Outpost: Black Sun
2015 India Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! Dibakar Banerjee Based upon the novel Satyanweshi by the Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The film, set in the war-torn Calcutta of the 1940s, follows the first adventure of detective Byomkesh, fresh out of college, as he pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.
2017 United States Transformers 5 Michael Bay Science fiction; Relevant to the plot of the long history of Transformers, Bumblebee, who now transforms into a Mercedes-Benz 770 instead of a Chevy Camaro, is allied with the Devil's Brigade unit and helps them besiege Nazi territory with his war hammer.
2018 United States Overlord Julius Avery Thriller, Horror; During D-Day, American paratroopers stumble upon a strange Nazi experiment in a French village.
2018 Poland
Germany
Netherlands
Werewolf Wilkołak [pl] Adrian Panek [pl] A horror film set in the immediate aftermath of World War II in a temporary orphanage for children liberated from a concentration camp.[3][4]
2019 United States Hellboy Neil Marshall Thriller, Horror; Lobster Johnson crashes a Nazi ritual during the war in a flashback sequence.

2020s

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Year Country Main title
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Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2020 United Kingdom
Bulgaria
Ghosts of War Eric Bress horror - five American soldiers are ordered to hold a French castle formerly occupied by the Nazi high command and encounters virtual ghosts
2020 United States
New Zealand
Shadow in the Cloud Roseanne Liang Action-horror. A woman on a top-secret mission joins an all-male crew on a flight from New Zealand to Samoa in 1943 during the Pacific War.
2023 United States Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny James Mangold Action-adventure. Indiana Jones battles Nazi scientists in both 1944 and 1969.

In development

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Year Country Main title
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Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2014 Finland I Killed Adolf Hitler Timo Vuorensola [citation needed]
201X United States The Bleeding (The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen) Josef Rusnak Horror thriller. American spy in Romania infiltrates SS fighting partisans in Carpathians and encounters vampires[5]
201X United States Boys From Brazil Brett Ratner Thriller based on Ira Levin novel. Neo-Nazi plot to begin Fourth Reich in South America by cloning Hitler; remake/sequel to 1978 film The Boys From Brazil[6][7][8]
201X Canada
Germany
Fangs of War Jim Donovan Horror thriller. Nazi Supernatural Division secret lab at Castle Dracula, Transylvania unlocks secrets of Count Dracula's immortality, 1944.[9]
201X United States Panzer 88 Peter Briggs Action thriller. Eastern Front King Tiger tank crewmen battle creature
201X United States Toon Patrol: Roger Rabbit II To be determined Comedy and live-action/animated. Kidnapping of Jessica Rabbit by Nazi spies; prequel to 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit [citation needed]

Other films

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In Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers, the troopship is named the Rodger Young, after Medal of Honor recipient Rodger Wilton Young.[10]

Dramatized documentary

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Year Country Main title
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Original title
(Original script)
Director Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2008 Russia
United States
Philosophy of a Knife (V) Andrey Iskanov [ru] Horror. Unit 731 and Japanese human experimentation

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b This film is available at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's article for the link.
  2. ^ a b This film is an international co-production shot in English.
  3. ^ "Wilkołak". Filmweb.pl. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Werewolf". Cineuropa.org. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  5. ^ Barton, Steve (31 August 2011). "Vampires Run Amok During World War II in The Bleeding". Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Brett Ratner Remaking Boys From Brazil". SideReel. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  7. ^ "Boys From Brazil set for remake". BBC News. BBC. 10 August 2006. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  8. ^ "The Boys From Brazil (Remake)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  9. ^ "Fangs Of War Synopsis". Fangs of War. Stealth Media Group. 2012. Archived from the original on 22 January 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  10. ^ Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers. Biographical note on Rodger Young.