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
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 |  USA |
King of the Zombies | Jean Yarbrough | Horror-comedy. Nazi doctor on island off US coast attempting to acquire war intelligence using zombies[1] | |
| 1942 | USA |
Black Dragons | William Nigh | SF. Scientist turns Japanese spies into Americans[1] | |
| 1942 | USA |
Spy Smasher (serial) | William Witney | ||
| 1942 |  UK |
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 | USA |
A Guy Named Joe | Victor Fleming | Fantasy. Spirit of dead pilot acts as "guardian angel" for new pilots | |
| 1943 | USA |
Revenge of the Zombies | Steve Sekely | Horror. | |
| 1943 | USA |
Tarzan Triumphs | Wilhelm Thiele | Adventure. German paratroopers conquer a lost city in Africa | |
| 1946 | UK |
A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) | Powell and Pressburger | Fantasy. | |
| 1964 |  USA |
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 | UK |
The Frozen Dead | Herbert J. Leder | SF horror. Scientist reanimates frozen heads of Nazi war criminals to revive Third Reich | |
| 1966 | USA |
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 | USA |
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 | USA |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Robert Stevenson | Children's fantasy musical. German raid on England repulsed with magic, 1940 | |
| 1972 | USA |
Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | SF based on Kurt Vonnegut novel. Firebombing of Dresden, 1945 | |
| 1975 | USA |
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 | USA |
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 | USA UK |
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 | UK Canada |
Death Ship | Alvin Rakoff | Horror-Mystery. Nazi prison ship sails seas since end of war luring unsuspecting victims aboard | |
| 1980 | USA |
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 | USA |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) | Steven Spielberg | Action-adventure. Professor battles Nazis in search of lost Ark of the Covenant | |
| 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 | USA |
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | Detective comedy. Nazis in Latin America with weaponized cheese mould | |
| 1984 | UK |
The Keep | Michael Mann | Action-horror. German Army and "Einsatzkommandos" occupy Romanian citadel with demonic forces | |
| 1984 | USA |
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 | USA |
Zone Troopers | Danny Bilson | SF. Soldiers find alien craft | |
| 1986 | Spain |
In a Glass Cage | Tras el cristal | Agustí Villaronga | Horror. |
| 1989 | USA |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indiana Jones 3) | Steven Spielberg | Action-adventure. Professor and archaeologist father battle Nazis in pursuit of Holy Grail | |
| 1989 | USA |
Puppetmaster (Puppet Master I) | David Schmoeller | SF horror. Nazi mission to capture US puppeteer with "secret to life" ate explored by modern scientists | |
| 1991 | USA |
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 | USA |
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 | USA |
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 | USA |
Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Horror based on Stephen King novella. | |
| 1999 | USA |
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
2000s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | USA | 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 | USA 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 | |
| 2004 | USA |
Hellboy | Guillermo del Toro | Infant summoned from Hell to Earth by Nazi occultists discovered by Allied Forces | |
| 2005 |  Japan |
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | Lorelai (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 | UK |
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 | USA |
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 | |
| 2007 | USA |
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 | UK |
Outpost | Steve Barker | Action-horror. Mercenaries on Eastern European mission battling mysterious Nazi evil in old Nazi bunker | |
| 2008 | USA |
WarBirds (TV) | Kevin Gendreau | American air crew in Pacific Theatre meet pterosaurs | |
| 2009 |  Norway |
Dead Snow | Død snø | Anders Banke | Horror-comedy. SS troops killed in Norway reanimate into zombies terrorizing a modern-day wilderness vacation |
| 2009 | USA |
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 | USA |
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
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | USA Canada Germany |
Bloodrayne: The Third Reich | Uwe Boll | Fantasy-thriller. Dhamphir battling vampire Nazi officer bent on making Hitler immortal | |
| 2010 | UK |
Jackboots on Whitehall | Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry | Animatronic satire. Alternative history of war where Nazi Germany occupies London | |
| 2010 | UK |
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 | USA 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 | UK |
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 | USA Canada Germany |
Blubberella | Uwe Boll | Action-Comedy. Dhamphir battling Nazis bent on eliminating Resistance group on Eastern Front; spoof of BloodRayne 3: The Third Reich | |
| 2011 | USA |
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 | USA 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 | USA |
Nazis at the Center of the Earth (V) | Joseph J. Lawson | A direct-to-video sci-fi film produced by The Asylum | |
| 2012 | UK |
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 USA Czech Republic |
Frankenstein's Army | Army of Frankenstein | Richard Raaphorst | Action, Horror, Sci-fi. Russian soldiers find secret Nazi lab in eastern Germany |
| 2013 | UK |
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 1940's, 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. | |
In development
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Finland |
I Killed Adolf Hitler | Timo Vuorensola | ||
| 201X | USA |
The Bleeding (The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen) | Josef Rusnak | Horror thriller. American spy in Romania infiltrates SS fighting partisans in Carpathians and encounters vampires[3] | |
| 201X | USA |
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[4][5][6] | |
| 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.[7] | |
| 201X | USA |
Panzer 88 | Peter Briggs | Action thriller. Eastern Front King Tiger tank crewmen battle creature | |
| 201X | USA |
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 |
Other films
In Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers, the troopship is named the Rodger Young, after Medal of Honor recipient Rodger Wilton Young.[8]
TV series
| Years | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 1964 | USA |
The Twilight Zone "The Man in the Bottle" (1960 episode) |
Fantasy. Genie turns man into Hitler at the Battle of Berlin, 1945 | |
| 1964 | 1965 | USA |
Jonny Quest "The Devil's Tower" (1965 episode) |
Animated. Nazi war criminal has slave cavemen | |
| 1964 | 1968 | USA |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Death from the Past" (1967 episode) |
SF adventure. Nazis who believe the war has not ended | |
| 1966 | 1967 | USA |
The Time Tunnel "The Day The Sky Fell In" (1966 episode) |
SF adventure. Time travellers at Pearl Harbor the day before | |
| "Invasion" (1966 episode) | SF adventure. Time travellers in Cherbourg before D-Day | ||||
| 1966 | 1969 | USA |
Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967 episode) |
SF drama. Time-travelling Dr. McCoy causes Hitler to win the war | |
| "Patterns of Force" (1968 episode) | SF drama. Alien society modelled after Nazi Germany | ||||
| 1975 | 1976 | USA |
Wonder Woman (The New Original Wonder Woman / The New Adventures of Wonder Woman) (Season 1 only) |
Diana Prince battles Nazi villains; Wonder Woman (TV) spinoff | |
| 1980 | 1980 | USA |
Galactica 1980 "Galactica Discovers Earth" (episode) |
SF adventure. V-2 rocket programme receives future technology | |
| 1989 | 1989 | UK |
Doctor Who Season Twenty Six "The Curse of Fenric" (4 episodes) |
SF adventure. The Doctor and Ace confront an ancient evil, while trying to stop the British Navy and a group of Soviet commandos from destroying each other | |
| 1993 | 1999 | UK |
Goodnight Sweetheart | Comedy-Fantasy. Time traveller living two lives, between 1940's wartime London and 1990s | |
| 1999 | 2004 | USA |
Angel "Why We Fight" (2004 episode) |
Vampires encounter undead U-boat crew | |
| 1999 | present | USA |
Family Guy "Road to Germany" (2008 episode) |
Animated SF comedy. Time-travelling Brian and Stewie in a Warsaw shul, 1 September 1939 | |
| 2004 | 2005 | Japan |
Zipang | Jipangu (ジパング) | Anime. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer travelling through time to early days of war |
| 2011 | 2011 | UK |
Doctor Who Sixth Series "Let's Kill Hitler" (episode) |
SF adventure. Time travellers lock Hitler in a cupboard, 1938 | |
Dramatized documentary
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 |  Russia USA |
Philosophy of a Knife (V) | Andrey Iskanov | Horror. Unit 731 and Japanese human experimentation |
See also
References
- 1 2 This film is available at the Internet Archive. Refer to the film's article for the link.
- 1 2 This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Brett Ratner Remaking Boys From Brazil". SideReel. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ "Boys From Brazil set for remake". BBC News. BBC. 10 August 2006. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ "The Boys From Brazil (Remake)". The New York Times: Movies. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ "Fangs Of War Synopsis". Fangs of War. Stealth Media Group. 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers. Biographical note on Rodger Young.
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