Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War

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Top rated Movies and TV Series about the Second World War on Filmaffinity with +500 votes

Schindler's List (1993)
- 8.6
  177,028
- Steven Spielberg
- Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes ...
1
The Great Dictator (1940)
- 8.6
  86,769
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie ...
2
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- 8.5
  36,485
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack ...
3
Band of Brothers (2001)

miniseries
- 8.5
  62,225
- Stephen Ambrose (Creator), David Frankel ...
- Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes ...
4
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
- 8.5
  193,258
- Roberto Benigni
- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini ...
5
Casablanca (1942)
- 8.4
  99,968
- Michael Curtiz
- Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...
6
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
- 8.3
  2,727
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu ...
7
The Pianist (2002)
- 8.2
  155,078
- Roman Polanski
- Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman ...
8
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- 8.2
  9,239
- William Wyler
- Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy ...
9
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- 8.2
  13,902
- Stanley Kramer
- Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark ...
10
The Great Escape (1963)
- 8.2
  68,400
- John Sturges
- Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson ...
11
A Man Escaped (1956)
- 8.1
  9,561
- Robert Bresson
- François Leterrier, Roland Monod, Charles Le Clainche ...
12
Rome, Open City (1945)
- 8.1
  17,792
- Roberto Rossellini
- Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero ...
13
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959)
- 8.1
  2,828
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Sato ...
14
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
- 8.0
  3,583
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ineko Arima ...
15
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- 8.0
  42,289
- Isao Takahata
- Animation
16
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
- 8.0
  8,501
- Roberto Rossellini
- Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz ...
17
This Land is Mine (1943)
- 7.9
  4,695
- Jean Renoir
- Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders ...
18
To Have and Have Not (1944)
- 7.9
  13,557
- Howard Hawks
- Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall ...
19
The Cranes are Flying (1957)
- 7.9
  3,327
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev ...
20
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- 7.8
  50,828
- David Lean
- William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins ...
21
The Ascent (1977)
- 7.8
  1,732
- Larisa Shepitko
- Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev ...
22
The Train (1964)
- 7.8
  6,844
- John Frankenheimer
- Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau ...
23
Underground (1995)
- 7.8
  18,569
- Emir Kusturica
- Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic ...
24
Come and See (1985)
- 7.8
  8,585
- Elem Klimov
- Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius ...
25
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- 7.8
  158,562
- Quentin Tarantino
- Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent ...
26
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- 7.8
  143,235
- Steven Spielberg
- Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns ...
27
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
- 7.8
  1,788
- Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
- Josef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarik, Ida Kaminska ...
28
Generation War (2013)

miniseries
- 7.8
  13,971
- Philipp Kadelbach
- Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler ...
29
Goodbye Children (1987)
- 7.8
  15,853
- Louis Malle
- Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fetjo, Francine Racette ...
30

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