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World War II

EVENT1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945

World War II

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When: 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 · 6 years
Location: Global
Notable For: Deadliest conflict in history
Also known as: WWII · WW2 · World War 2 · Second World War

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1 September – 6 October 1939 Invasion of Poland
10 July – 31 October 1940 Battle of Britain
1941 – 1945 The Holocaust
7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack
4–7 June 1942 Battle of Midway
23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad
6 June 1944 D-Day (Normandy Landings)

Stories set during World War II334See them on the timeline →

Foreign Correspondent · Film · 1940
The Great Dictator · Film · 1940
The Long Voyage Home · Film · 1940
Waterloo Bridge · Film · 1940
49th Parallel · Film · 1941
Across the Pacific · Film · 1942
In Which We Serve · Film · 1942
Moscow Strikes Back · Film · 1942
Mrs. Miniver · Film · 1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

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When: 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 · 6 years. ⟷ Open on a timeline →

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16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945

Battle of the Bulge

8 May 1945 V-E Day

6–9 August 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

· Film · 1942

🎬To Be or Not to Be (1942) · Film · 1942

🎬Yankee Doodle Dandy · Film · 1942

🎬Batman (1943) · Film · 1943

🎬Five Graves to Cairo · Film · 1943

🎬Hangmen Also Die! · Film · 1943

🎬Sahara · Film · 1943

🎬The Human Comedy · Film · 1943

🎬The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · Film · 1943

🎬This Land Is Mine · Film · 1943

🎬Titanic (1943) · Film · 1943

🎬Victory Through Air Power · Film · 1943

🎬Watch on the Rhine · Film · 1943

🎬Lifeboat · Film · 1944

🎬Ministry of Fear · Film · 1944

🎬Passage to Marseille · Film · 1944

🎬Since You Went Away · Film · 1944

🎬The Most Beautiful · Film · 1944

🎬To Have and Have Not · Film · 1944

🎬A Walk in the Sun · Film · 1945

🎬Blood on the Sun · Film · 1945

🎬Rome, Open City · Film · 1945

🎬They Were Expendable · Film · 1945

🎬A Matter of Life and Death · Film · 1946

🎬Notorious · Film · 1946

🎬Paisà · Film · 1946

🎬The Best Years of Our Lives · Film · 1946

🎬Arch of Triumph · Film · 1948

🎬Germany, Year Zero · Film · 1948

🎬Sands of Iwo Jima · Film · 1949

🎬Twelve O'Clock High · Film · 1949

🎬Battleground · Film · 1950

🎬The Men · Film · 1950

🎬Decision Before Dawn · Film · 1951

🎬The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel · Film · 1951

🎬5 Fingers · Film · 1952

🎬Forbidden Games · Film · 1952

🎬From Here to Eternity · Film · 1953

🎬Stalag 17 · Film · 1953

🎬Carmen Jones · Film · 1954

🎬The Caine Mutiny · Film · 1954

🎬The Glenn Miller Story · Film · 1954

🎬Mister Roberts · Film · 1955

🎬A Man Escaped · Film · 1956

🎬The Battle of the River Plate · Film · 1956

🎬Canal · Film · 1957

🎬Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison · Film · 1957

🎬The Bridge on the River Kwai · Film · 1957

🎬The Cranes Are Flying · Film · 1957

🎬The Enemy Below · Film · 1957

🎬A Time to Love and a Time to Die · Film · 1958

🎬Ashes and Diamonds · Film · 1958

🎬South Pacific · Film · 1958

🎬The Inn of the Sixth Happiness · Film · 1958

🎬The Young Lions · Film · 1958

🎬Ballad of a Soldier · Film · 1959

🎬Destiny of a Man · Film · 1959

🎬General Della Rovere · Film · 1959

🎬Hiroshima mon amour · Film · 1959

🎬Operation Petticoat · Film · 1959

🎬The Bridge · Film · 1959

🎬The Nun's Story · Film · 1959

🎬Everybody Go Home · Film · 1960

🎬Sink the Bismarck! · Film · 1960

🎬Two Women · Film · 1960

📖Catch-22 · Book · 1961

🎬Léon Morin, Priest · Film · 1961

🎬The Guns of Navarone · Film · 1961

🎬Ivan's Childhood · Film · 1962

🎬The Four Days of Naples · Film · 1962

🎬The Longest Day · Film · 1962

🎬The Cardinal · Film · 1963

🎬The Great Escape · Film · 1963

🎬Father Goose · Film · 1964

🎬The Train · Film · 1964

🎬Battle of the Bulge · Film · 1965

🎬Operation Crossbow · Film · 1965

🎬The Heroes of Telemark · Film · 1965

🎬The Hill · Film · 1965

🎬Von Ryan's Express · Film · 1965

🎬Closely Watched Trains · Film · 1966

🎬Is Paris Burning? · Film · 1966

🎬La Grande Vadrouille · Film · 1966

🎬The Sand Pebbles · Film · 1966

🎬How I Won the War · Film · 1967

🎬The 25th Hour · Film · 1967

🎬The Dirty Dozen · Film · 1967

🎬The Night of the Generals · Film · 1967

🎬Hell in the Pacific · Film · 1968

🎬The Devil's Brigade · Film · 1968

🎬Where Eagles Dare · Film · 1968

🎬Army of Shadows · Film · 1969

🎬Battle of Britain · Film · 1969

🎬Battle of Neretva · Film · 1969

📖Slaughterhouse-Five · Book · 1969

🎬The Bridge at Remagen · Film · 1969

🎬The Secret of Santa Vittoria · Film · 1969

🎬Catch-22 · Film · 1970

🎬Kelly's Heroes · Film · 1970

🎬Patton · Film · 1970

🎬The Conformist · Film · 1970

🎬Too Late the Hero · Film · 1970

🎬Tora! Tora! Tora! · Film · 1970

🎬And Now for Something Completely Different · Film · 1971

🎬Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Film · 1971

🎬Slaughterhouse-Five · Film · 1972

🎬Distant Thunder · Film · 1973

🎬Hitler: The Last Ten Days · Film · 1973

🎬Lacombe, Lucien · Film · 1974

🎬The Odessa File · Film · 1974

🎬Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS · Film · 1975

🎬Le vieux fusil · Film · 1975

🎬Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom · Film · 1975

🎬The Mirror · Film · 1975

🎬They Fought for Their Country · Film · 1975

🎬Tommy · Film · 1975

🎬1900 · Film · 1976

🎬Marathon Man · Film · 1976

🎬Midway · Film · 1976

🎬The Eagle Has Landed · Film · 1976

🎬A Bridge Too Far · Film · 1977

🎬A Special Day · Film · 1977

🎬Cross of Iron · Film · 1977

🎬MacArthur · Film · 1977

🎬New York, New York · Film · 1977

🎬Soldier of Orange · Film · 1977

🎬The Ascent · Film · 1977

🎬Force 10 from Navarone · Film · 1978

🎬The Inglorious Bastards · Film · 1978

🎬1941 · Film · 1979

🎬Escape to Athena · Film · 1979

🎬Siberiade · Film · 1979

🎬The Passage · Film · 1979

🎬The Tin Drum · Film · 1979

🎬Lion of the Desert · Film · 1980

🎬The Big Red One · Film · 1980

🎬The Final Countdown · Film · 1980

🎬The Last Metro · Film · 1980

🎬Who's Singin' Over There? · Film · 1980

🎬Das Boot · Film · 1981

🎬Escape to Victory · Film · 1981

🎬Mephisto · Film · 1981

🎬Gandhi · Film · 1982

🎬Pink Floyd – The Wall · Film · 1982

🎬The Night of the Shooting Stars · Film · 1982

🎬Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence · Film · 1983

🎬The Keep · Film · 1983

🎬To Be or Not to Be · Film · 1983

🎬A Soldier's Story · Film · 1984

🎬A Year of the Quiet Sun · Film · 1984

🎬The Philadelphia Experiment · Film · 1984

🎬Come and See · Film · 1985

🎬The Assault · Film · 1986

🎬Empire of the Sun · Film · 1987

🎬Hope and Glory · Film · 1987

🎬The Last Emperor · Film · 1987

🎬Men Behind the Sun · Film · 1988

🎬Story of Women · Film · 1988

🎬The Winter War · Film · 1989

🎬Captain America · Film · 1990

🎬Europa Europa · Film · 1990 · Invasion of Poland

🎬Memphis Belle · Film · 1990

🎬Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah · Film · 1991

🎬Mediterraneo · Film · 1991

🎬For a Lost Soldier · Film · 1992

🎬Shining Through · Film · 1992

🎬The Power of One · Film · 1992

🎮Wolfenstein 3D · Game · 1992

🎬Stalingrad · Film · 1993

🎬Swing Kids · Film · 1993

🎬The Remains of the Day · Film · 1993

🎬All Things Fair · Film · 1995

🎬Les Misérables (1995) · Film · 1995

🎬Underground · Film · 1995

🎬The English Patient · Film · 1996

🎬Seven Years in Tibet · Film · 1997

🎬The Thin Red Line · Film · 1998

🎬Tea with Mussolini · Film · 1999

🎬The End of the Affair · Film · 1999

🎬Malèna · Film · 2000

🎬U-571 · Film · 2000

🎬As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me · Film · 2001

📖Atonement · Book · 2001

🎬Captain Corelli's Mandolin · Film · 2001

🎬Charlotte Gray · Film · 2001

🎬Enigma · Film · 2001

🎬Nowhere in Africa · Film · 2001

🎬The Believer · Film · 2001

🎬Hart's War · Film · 2002

🎬The Cuckoo · Film · 2002

🎬Windtalkers · Film · 2002

🎬Mona Lisa Smile · Film · 2003

🎬Saints and Soldiers · Film · 2003

🎬Before the Fall · Film · 2004

🎬Downfall · Film · 2004

🎬Head in the Clouds · Film · 2004

🎬The Notebook · Film · 2004

🎬Memoirs of a Geisha · Film · 2005

🎬Mrs Henderson Presents · Film · 2005

🎬Sophie Scholl – The Final Days · Film · 2005

🎬The Great Raid · Film · 2005

🎬Black Book · Film · 2006

🎬Days of Glory · Film · 2006

🎬Flags of Our Fathers · Film · 2006

🎬Letters from Iwo Jima · Film · 2006

📖The Book Thief · Book · 2006

🎬The Good German · Film · 2006

🎬The Good Shepherd · Film · 2006

🎬The White Countess · Film · 2006

🎬Atonement · Film · 2007

🎬Katyń · Film · 2007

🎬Lust, Caution · Film · 2007

🎬Australia · Film · 2008

🎬Max Manus: Man of War · Film · 2008

🎬Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day · Film · 2008

🎬The Children of Huang Shi · Film · 2008

🎬The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Film · 2008

🎬Valkyrie · Film · 2008

🎬John Rabe · Film · 2009

🎬The Brest Fortress · Film · 2010

🎬The Debt · Film · 2010

🎬The Edge · Film · 2010

🎬The Way Back · Film · 2010

🎬Captain America: The First Avenger · Film · 2011

🎬The Flowers of War · Film · 2011

🎬Emperor · Film · 2012

🎬Into the White · Film · 2012

🎬Red Tails · Film · 2012

🎬White Tiger · Film · 2012

🎬Stalingrad (2013) · Film · 2013

🎬The Railway Man · Film · 2013

🎬Fury · Film · 2014

🎬Monuments Men · Film · 2014

🎬The Imitation Game · Film · 2014

🎬Unbroken · Film · 2014

🎬Warsaw 44 · Film · 2014

🎬13 Minutes · Film · 2015

🎬1944 · Film · 2015

🎬Battle for Sevastopol · Film · 2015

🎬Pan · Film · 2015

🎬Suite française · Film · 2015

🎬The Woman in Gold · Film · 2015

🎬Allied · Film · 2016

🎬Anthropoid · Film · 2016

🎬Hacksaw Ridge · Film · 2016

🎬Panfilov's 28 Men · Film · 2016

🎬The Huntsman: Winter's War · Film · 2016

🎬USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage · Film · 2016

🎬Darkest Hour · Film · 2017

🎬Dunkirk · Film · 2017

🎬Goodbye Christopher Robin · Film · 2017

🎬The Captain · Film · 2017

🎬The Man with the Iron Heart · Film · 2017

🎬Overlord · Film · 2018

🎬T-34 · Film · 2018

🎬A Hidden Life · Film · 2019

🎬Greyhound · Film · 2019

🎬Midway (2019) · Film · 2019

🎬The Forgotten Battle · Film · 2020

🎬Munich: The Edge of War · Film · 2021

🎬Nightmare Alley · Film · 2021

🎬Operation Mincemeat · Film · 2021

🎬The Dig · Film · 2021

🎬Sisu · Film · 2022

🎬Oppenheimer · Film · 2023

🎬The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare · Film · 2024

🎬Nuremberg · Film · 2025

🎬Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man · Film · 2026

🎬Pearl Harbor · Film · 2001 · Battle of Britain

📖Diary of Anne Frank · Book · 1947 · The Holocaust

🎬The Last Stage · Film · 1948 · The Holocaust

🎬Kapò · Film · 1959 · The Holocaust

🎬The Diary of Anne Frank · Film · 1959 · The Holocaust

🎬The Ninth Circle · Film · 1960 · The Holocaust

🎬Judgment at Nuremberg · Film · 1961 · The Holocaust

📖Eichmann in Jerusalem · Book · 1963 · The Holocaust

🎬The Pawnbroker · Film · 1964 · The Holocaust

🎬The Shop on Main Street · Film · 1965 · The Holocaust

🎬The Garden of the Finzi-Continis · Film · 1970 · The Holocaust

🎬Jacob the Liar · Film · 1974 · The Holocaust

🎬The Night Porter · Film · 1974 · The Holocaust

🎬Seven Beauties · Film · 1975 · The Holocaust

🎬Monsieur Klein · Film · 1976 · The Holocaust

🎬Voyage of the Damned · Film · 1976 · The Holocaust

📖Sophie's Choice · Book · 1979 · The Holocaust

📚Maus · Comic · 1980 · The Holocaust

🎬Lili Marleen · Film · 1981 · The Holocaust

🎬Sophie's Choice · Film · 1982 · The Holocaust

🎬Shoah · Film · 1985 · The Holocaust

🎬Au revoir les enfants · Film · 1987 · The Holocaust

🎬Music Box · Film · 1989 · The Holocaust

🎬Schindler's List · Film · 1993 · The Holocaust

🎬Life Is Beautiful · Film · 1997 · The Holocaust

🎬Apt Pupil · Film · 1998 · The Holocaust

🎬Train of Life · Film · 1998 · The Holocaust

🎬Jakob the Liar · Film · 1999 · The Holocaust

🎬Sunshine · Film · 1999 · The Holocaust

🎬The Grey Zone · Film · 2001 · The Holocaust

🎬Amen. · Film · 2002 · The Holocaust

🎬The Pianist · Film · 2002 · The Holocaust

🎬Everything Is Illuminated · Film · 2005 · The Holocaust

🎬The Counterfeiters · Film · 2007 · The Holocaust

🎬Defiance · Film · 2008 · The Holocaust

🎬The Boy in the Striped Pajamas · Film · 2008 · The Holocaust

🎬The Reader · Film · 2008 · The Holocaust

🎬Inglourious Basterds · Film · 2009 · The Holocaust

🎬Sarah's Key · Film · 2010 · The Holocaust

🎬In Darkness · Film · 2011 · The Holocaust

🎬Hannah Arendt · Film · 2012 · The Holocaust

🎬Lore · Film · 2012 · The Holocaust

🎬The Book Thief · Film · 2013 · The Holocaust

🎬Son of Saul · Film · 2015 · The Holocaust

🎬The Zookeeper's Wife · Film · 2017 · The Holocaust

🎬Jojo Rabbit · Film · 2019 · The Holocaust

🎬The Painted Bird · Film · 2019 · The Holocaust

🎬Persian Lessons · Film · 2020 · The Holocaust

🎬Lee · Film · 2023 · The Holocaust

🎬One Life · Film · 2023 · The Holocaust

🎬The Zone of Interest · Film · 2023 · The Holocaust

🎬A Real Pain · Film · 2024 · The Holocaust

🎬The Brutalist · Film · 2024 · The Holocaust

🎬Enemy at the Gates · Film · 2001 · Battle of Stalingrad

🎬Saving Private Ryan · Film · 1998 · D-Day (Normandy Landings)

📺Band of Brothers · TV show · 2001 · D-Day (Normandy Landings)

🎬The Wolverine · Film · 2013 · Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings