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.
1940s
Year CountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted1941United StatesKing of the ZombiesJean YarbroughHorror-comedy. Nazi doctor on island off US coast attempting to acquire war intelligence using zombiesThis film is available at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's article for the link.1942United StatesBlack DragonsWilliam NighSF. Scientist turns Japanese spies into Americans1942United StatesSpy Smasher (serial)William Witney1942Thunder RockRoy BoultingFantasy/Drama. Outspoken anti-Fascist journalist in isolation of Lake Michigan lighthouse visited by immigrant spirits who encourage fight against Fascism1943United StatesVictor FlemingFantasy. Spirit of dead pilot acts as "guardian angel" for new pilots1943United StatesRevenge of the ZombiesSteve SekelyHorror.1943United StatesTarzan TriumphsWilhelm ThieleAdventure. German paratroopers conquer a lost city in Africa1946United Kingdom (Stairway to Heaven)Powell and PressburgerFantasy.
1960s
Year CountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted1964United StatesArthur Lubin, Robert McKimsonLive-action/animated comedy. Man turns into talking fish and helps US Navy destroy U-boats, 19411966United KingdomHerbert J. LederSF horror. Scientist reanimates frozen heads of Nazi war criminals to revive Third Reich1966United StatesSpy Smasher Returns (TV)William WitneyAction-adventure. Superhero Alan Armstrong battles Nazi villains and saboteurs determined to spread destruction; edited TV version of 1942 serial Spy Smasher1968United StatesThey Saved Hitler's Brain (TV)David BradleySF thriller. Nazis in South America kidnap scientist to maintain living head of Adolf Hitler in order to revive the Third Reich
1970s
Year CountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted1971United StatesBedknobs and BroomsticksRobert StevensonChildren's fantasy musical. German raid on England repulsed with magic, 19401972United StatesSlaughterhouse-FiveGeorge Roy HillSF based on the novel of the same name written by Kurt Vonnegut. Firebombing of Dresden, 19451975ItalyFranceSalò, or the 120 Days of SodomSalò o le 120 giornate di SodomaPier 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.1975United StatesWonder Woman (The New Original Wonder Woman / The New Adventures of Wonder Woman) (TV)Leonard HornAction-adventure. Pilot in dogfight with Nazi plane crash-lands in Bermuda Triangle on uncharted island inhabited by women1977United StatesShock Waves (Almost Human / Shockwaves)Ken WiederhornSF horror. Island-shipwrecked party encounters former SS commander leading zombie storm troopers1977CzechoslovakiaTomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with TeaZítra vstanu a opařím se čajemJindrich PolákSF comedy. Time travel by aging former Nazis conspiring to alter results of war1978United StatesUnited KingdomFranklin J. SchaffnerSF thriller based on Ira Levin novel. Nazi hunter discovers doctor's plot to revive Third Reich by cloning Hitler in Paraguayan jungle
1980s
Year CountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted1980United KingdomCanadaDeath ShipAlvin RakoffHorror-Mystery. Nazi prison ship sails seas since end of war luring unsuspecting victims aboard1980United States (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific)Don TaylorSF. Modern US nuclear aircraft carrier lost in storm arrives in South West Pacific Theatre on 7 December 19411981FranceOasis of the Zombies (Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies / The Treasure of the Living Dead)L'abîme des morts vivantsJesus FrancoHorror. Treasure hunters seeking Nazi bullion, carried across Sahara Desert by Wehrmacht soldiers falling under Allied assault with only one survivor, encounter gold's zombie protectors1981FranceSpainZombie Lake (The Lake of the Living Dead)Le lac des morts vivantsJean RollinHorror. Wehrmacht soldiers killed in lake by French Resistance during war are reanimated into zombies1982United StatesDead Men Don't Wear PlaidCarl ReinerDetective comedy. Nazis in Latin America with weaponized cheese mould1984United KingdomMichael MannAction-horror. German Army and "Einsatzkommandos" occupy Romanian citadel with demonic forces1984United StatesStewart RaffillAdventure-fantasy. Military experiment sends USN destroyer escort from Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1943, to 1984 Nevada desert town; prequel to 1993 film Philadelphia Experiment II1985United StatesZone TroopersDanny BilsonSF. Soldiers find alien craft1986SpainIn a Glass CageTras el cristalAgustí VillarongaHorror.1989United States (Puppet Master I)David SchmoellerSF horror. Nazi mission to capture US puppeteer with "secret to life" ate explored by modern scientists
1990s
Year CountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted1991United StatesDavid DeCoteauHorror-thriller. Puppeteer avenging his wife killed by Nazis bent on developing drug that reanimates dead1991United StatesJoe JohnstonAction-adventure. Young pilot discovers Howard Hughes' jetpack prototype and as flying superhero battles Nazis before US entry into war1993EstoniaPolandRussiaTear of the Prince of Darkness (Satan's Tear)Saatana pisar Łza księcia ciemności Слеза князя тьмы Marek PiestrakHorror. NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 19391993United StatesStephen CornwellAdventure-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 Experiment1998United StatesApt PupilBryan SingerHorror based on Stephen King novella.1999United States (TV)Donna DeitchFantasy/Drama. Modern teenage girl projected into 1940's death camp prisoner to experience horrors firsthand
2000s
YearCountryMain title(Alternative titles)Original title(Original script)DirectorBattles, campaigns, events depicted2001The BunkerRob GreenIn 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.2002United StatesBelowDavid TwohyStrange happenings occur on a United States WW II submarine after picking up three survivors from a sunken British hospital ship.2002United StatesCanadaAustraliaReturn to Never LandRobin Budd, Donovan CookAnimated 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 Pan2003CubaSpainMore Vampires in HavanaMás Vampiros en la HabanaJuan 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.2004United StatesHellboyGuillermo del ToroInfant demon summoned from Hell to Earth by Nazi occultists discovered by Allied Forces2005SingaporeJapan19421942 怨霊Kelvin TongAction, Horror, War. Japanese Sixth Army and war photographer in Malayan jungle2005JapanLorelei: The Witch of the Pacific OceanRōrerai (ローレライ)Shinji Higuchi, Cellin GluckExperimental Japanese submarine attempts to prevent atomic bombing of Tokyo2006SwedenFrostbiteFrostbitenAnders BankeHorror comedy. Former SS geneticist attempting to create master breed of vampires in Norrland2006United KingdomGhostboat (TV)Stuart OrmeMystery-thriller based on Neal R. Burger novel. Fictional RN submarine presumed lost in Baltic in 1943 resurfaces near end of Cold War, 19812006United StatesHorrors of War (Zombies of War)Peter John Ross, John WhitneyAction-horror. OSS conducts missions to discover source of Hitler's wunderwaffen and vergeltungswaffen terrorizing Allies2006SpainMexicoPan's LabyrinthEl laberinto del faunoGuillermo del ToroFantasy/Drama. Parable influenced by fairy tale of young girl's escape into abandoned labyrinth with mysterious faun creature in Francoist Spain, May–June 19442006CanadaWar of the DeadSean CisternaHorror. Special agent investigating deaths of WWII veterans being hunted down by Nazi zombies2006United StatesSS DoomtrooperDavid FloresAction Sci-Fi. A genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops. 2007United StatesReign of the Gargoyles (TV)Ayton DavisAction-horror. An American aircrew join forces with British soldiers and local townsfolk to battle living gargoyles and the German army2008United StatesBlitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69Keith J. CrockerHorror drama. Captured USO showgirls and Allied POWs under sadistic SS Stalag commandant2008United KingdomOutpostSteve BarkerAction-horror. Mercenaries on Eastern European mission battling mysterious Nazi evil in old Nazi bunker2008United StatesWarBirds (TV)Kevin GendreauAmerican air crew in Pacific Theatre meet pterosaurs2009NorwayDead SnowDød snøTommy WirkolaHorror-comedy. SS troops killed in Norway reanimate into zombies terrorizing a modern-day wilderness vacation2009RussiaJapanCanadaFirst SquadPervyy otryad (Первый отряд) ; Fāsuto sukuwaddo ファースト・スクワッド Yoshiharu AshinoAnime. Set during the Eastern Front, featuring Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities that are opposed by a supernatural army of crusaders2009United StatesC. Thomas HowellSF 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 film2009United StatesBlood Creek (Town Creek)Joel SchumacherHorror-thriller. Brothers on revenge mission in rural West Virginia where Nazi professor has been waging occult war since 1936
2010s