MB

No! I will pursue my dream until the point where it becomes obvious that I have wasted most of my life doing it - like most other people.

Sorry about the typos - it seems I like to get blind drunk and post my innermost thoughts on the internet.

bertie

What a useful list that is, but like all lists one can always think of something to add. One film which I particularly like - maybe because I'm a fan of the novels of Nevil Shute - is Landfall (1949). Michael Denison is the star and not at all a bad war film it is too.

batman

I didn't mean for you not to pursue your dream ..... what I meant was get yourself a stable financial base as well. You could regard the sarnies as a bit of a filler between scripts.

I wish I had claws.

Steve Crook

Contraband was set during WW1

Steve

batman

Not according to your IMDB summary.

"This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started). Written by Steve Crook."

I wish I had claws.

Nick Dando

The Battle of the River Plate
Sailors Three
Fiddlers Three
The Best of Enemies
Mediterraneo
Malena
Goodnight Mister Tom
Carrie's War
The Small Back Room
I Know Where I'm Going
I Was a Fireman
Target for Tonight
Thunder Rock
I See a Dark Stranger
The Great Escape
A Town Like Alice
The Tin Drum
Danger UXB
Closely Observed Trains
Das Boot
School for Secrets
The English Patient
The Land Girls
Tawny Pipit
The Camomile Lawn
Hotel Sahara
Gift Horse
Conspiracy
Pan's Labyrinth
Secret Mission
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers


Contraband was set during WW2, but the Spy in Black was from the Great War.

Nick

batman

I thought that Steve had probably got them muddled up.

I wish I had claws.

Steve Crook

I shouldn't post just before going to bed, after a very long day

Thanks Nick

Steve

maturin

Thanks for the additions, Nick. Most of the obvious Brit films are on the list but I pruned too enthusiastically: there are additional lists for foreign films like Malena and Das Boot as well as US movies. Anyone know of other UK WW2 related films?

CaptainWaggett

Carry On England
Get Cracking
Operation Bullshine

maturin

Cheers Captain,
oddly enough I have Carry on England on the menu for tonight. The other two I'll have to look up!

CaptainWaggett

Get Cracking is Formby and is one of the few films about the Home Guard. Operation Bullshine has more or less the same plot as Carry on England though it has a rather more likeable cast.

maturin

Landfall does look interesting - is it available anywhere? I've added it, and the others to the list.
many thanks

CaptainWaggett

Secret Journey was actually made in March 1939 and is a remake of a 1936 French film so shouldn't really be on the list

maturin

I can't find much on IMdb on Secret Journey. please see comments at the end of the post.

Here's a revision of the UK WW2 related list based on the comments in the thread.
I've excluded foreign films - should ones like Hitchcock's Bon Voyage be included? Some films have alternate titles e.g. Gift Horse. I also added some of the more famous contemporary documentaries at the end.
I do have a list of WW2 related TV, but it's probably nowhere near complete enough to form the core of a definitive list - one notable entry is the excruciating pilot for a 1990 (!) sitcom on Adolph Hitler and wife Eva with their Jewish neighbours: Heil Honey I'm Home. I managed about 5 minutes of it.
Anyone with more time (less of a life?) is welcome to the TV list, and the European/USA lists.
Please feel free to add/delete/comment. I'm still finding quite famous films which have been left out.

2000 Women 1944
49th Parallel 1941
633 Squadron 1964
Above Us the Waves 1955
Adventures of Tartu 1943
Against the Wind 1948
Albert R.N. 1953
An Angel for May 2002
Angels One Five 1952
Angry Hills, The 1959
Appointment in London 1952
Appointment with Venus 1951
Aryan Couple, The 2004
Attack on the Iron Coast 1968
Aventure Malgache 1944
Battle of Britain 1969
Battle of the River Plate 1959
Battle of the V-1 1958
Before Winter Comes 1969
Bells Go Down, The 1943
Bent 1997
Big Blockade, The 1940
Black Tent, The 1956
Blockhouse, The 1973
Bon Voyage 1944
Breaking the Code 1996
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957
British intelligence 1940
Brylcream Boys, The 1998
Cameleon 1997
Camp on Blood Island ,The 1958
Candlelight in Algeria 1944
Canterbury Tale, A 1944
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001
Captive Heart ,The 1946
Carry on England 1976
Carve Her Name with Pride 1958
Channel Incident 1940
Charlotte Gray 2001
Clouds Over Europe 1939
Cockleshell Heroes, The 1955
Colditz Story, The 1955
Confirm or deny 1941
Conspiracy 2001
Conspiracy of Hearts 1960
Contraband 1940
Convoy 1940
Cottage to Let 1941
Count Five and Die 1958
Court Martial of Major Keller 1961
Cross of Iron 1977
Cruel Sea, The 1953
Dam Busters, The 1955
Danger Within 1959
Dangerous Moonlight 1941
Dark Blue World 2001
Day Will Dawn ,The 1942
Desert Rats, The 1953
Diary for Timothy, A 1945
Dirty Dozen ,The 1967
Divided Heart, The 1954
Dunkirk 1958
Eagle Has Landed ,The 1976
Egares, Les 2003
Enigma 2001
Entrusted 2003
Escape To Athena 1979
Eye Of the Needle 1981
Fiddlers Three 1944
First of the Few, The 1942
Five Graves to Cairo
Flemish Farm 1943
Flying Fortress 1942
Foreign Field 1993
For Freedom 1940
For Those in Peril 1944
For Those In Peril 1939
Force 10 from Navarone 1978
Foreman Went to France, The 1942
Foxhole in Cairo 1961
Freedom Radio 1941
Frieda 1947
Friend or Foe 1981
Gasbags 1941
Gathering Storm, The 2002
Gentle Sex, The 1943
Get Cracking 1949
Ghost Train ,The 1941
Glory At Sea 1952
Goose Steps Out, The 1942
Green for Danger 1946
Guns of Navarone ,The 1961
Hand, the 1960
Hannibal Brooks 1969
Hanover Street 1979
Hasty Heart ,The 1949
Hero 2001
Heroes of Telemark ,The 1965
Hill ,The 1965
Hope and Glory 1987
Hotel Sahara 1951
How I Won the War 1967
I know Where I'm Going 1945
I Was Monty's Double 1958
I See a Dark Stranger 1946
Ice-Cold in Alex 1958
Ill Met by Moonlight 1957
In Which We Serve 1942
Invasion Quartet 1961
It Happened Here 1966
Journey Together 1946
Jungle Patrol 1944
Key, The 1958
Killing Hitler 2003
Lamp Still Burns, The 1943
Land Girls ,The 1998
Landfall 1949
Last Drop, The 2005
Last Reunion, The 1955
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943
Lion Has Wings, The 1939
Listen to Britain 1942
Long and the Short and the Tall ,The 1961
Long Day's Dying ,The 1968
Malta Story 1953
Man Called Intrepid, A 1979
Man Who Never Was, The 1956
Matter of Life and Death, A 1946
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983
Millions Like Us 1943
Miniver Story, The 1950
Morning Departure 1950
Mosquito Squadron 1969
Murphy's War 1971
My Childhood 1972
Next of Kin 1942
New Lot, The 1943
Night My Number Came Up, The 1955
Night of the Generals ,The 1967
Night Train to Munich 1940
Nine Men 1943
No Time to Die 1958
O.H.M.S. 1937
Odette 1950
On the Fiddle 1961
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942
Operation Amsterdam 1959
Operation Bullshine 1959
Operation Crossbow 1965
Overlord 1975
Passage ,The 1979
Password Is Courage ,The 1962
Piccadilly Incident 1948
'Pimpernel' Smith 1941
Play Dirty 1968
Plenty 1985
Purple Plain ,The 1954
Reach for glory 1963
Reach for the Sky 1956
Red Beret ,The 1953
Return from the River Kwai 1989
Rogue Male 1976
Sahara 1943
Sailor of the King 1953
Sailors Three 1940
San Demetrio, London 1943
School for Secrets 1946
Sea of Sand 1958
Sea Shall Not Have Them, The 1954
Sea Wife 1957
Sea Wolves, The 1980
Seagulls Over Sorrento 1954
Secret Journey 1940
Secret Mission 1942
Secret of Blood Island, The 1964
Seven Thunders 1957
Shetlandsgjengen 1954
Shine On Harvey Moon 1982
Ship That Died of Shame, The 1955
Ships with Wings 1942
Shunter Black's Night Off 1941
Silent Enemy, The 1958
Silent Village, The 1943
Silver Fleet, The 1943
Sink the Bismarck! 1960
Small Back Room, the 1949
Special Forces 1968
Squadron 992 1939
Stalag Luft 1993
Steel Bayonet, The 1957
Steel Tempest, The 2000
Submarine X-1 1968
Tarnished Heroes 1961
Tawney Pippet 1944
Tea with Mussolini 1999
Ten Seconds to Hell 1959
Theirs Is the Glory 1946
They Were Not Divided 1950
They Who Dare 1953
Third Reich 1982
This Happy Breed 1944
Thunder Rock 1942
Tomorrow We Live 1943
Town Like Alice, A 1956
Two Fathers 1944
Two Men Went to War 2002
Two-Headed Spy ,The 1958
Underground 1970
Unpublished Story 1942
Varian's War 2001
Very Important Person 1961
Victors ,The 1963
Volunteer, The 1943
War Lover ,The 1962
Waterloo Road 1945
Way Ahead, The 1944
Way to the Stars, The 1945
Went the Day Well? 1942
Western Approaches
Whisky Galore! 1949
Wish You Were Here 1987
Witness Against Hitler 1996
Wooden Horse, The 1950
Yesterday's Enemy 1959

Target for Tonight 1941
Fires Were Started 1943
Desert Victory 1943
True Glory, The 1945
Tunisian Victory 1944
Coastal Command 1942
Protect the Convoy 1940?

US films which are very British in focus or flavour could be added - I'm thinking of Mrs Miniver, The Pied Piper etc.

It could be argued that if the Last Reunion is on the list, what about the League of Gentlemen, It's Not Cricket, Carrington VC, Tunes of Glory, Separate Tables or any number of other post-war films which deal with events or characters influenced by the war? Then there are films like RAF or The Gathering Storm or Secret Journey