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List of World War II science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

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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.

21st century

2000s

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Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2001	United Kingdom	The Bunker		Rob Green	In 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.
2002	United States	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	United States 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
2003	Cuba Spain	More Vampires in Havana	Más Vampiros en la Habana	Juan 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.
2004	United States	Hellboy		Guillermo del Toro	Infant demon summoned from Hell to Earth by Nazi occultists discovered by Allied Forces
2005	Japan	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	Rōrerai (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	United Kingdom	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	United States	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
2006	United States	SS Doomtrooper		David Flores	Action Sci-Fi. A genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops.
2007	United States	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	United Kingdom	Outpost		Steve Barker	Action-horror. Mercenaries on Eastern European mission battling mysterious Nazi evil in old Nazi bunker
2008	United States	WarBirds (TV)		Kevin Gendreau	American air crew in Pacific Theatre meet pterosaurs
2009	Norway	Dead Snow	Død snø	Tommy Wirkola	Horror-comedy. SS troops killed in Norway reanimate into zombies terrorizing a modern-day wilderness vacation
2009	Russia Japan Canada	First Squad	Pervyy otryad (Первый отряд) (in Russian); Fāsuto sukuwaddo ファースト・スクワッド (in Japanese)	Yoshiharu Ashino	Anime. Set during the Eastern Front, featuring Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities that are opposed by a supernatural army of crusaders
2009	United States	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	United States	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

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Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	United States Canada Germany	Bloodrayne: The Third Reich		Uwe Boll	Fantasy-thriller. Dhamphir battling vampire Nazi officer bent on making Hitler immortal
2010	United Kingdom	Jackboots on Whitehall		Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry	Animatronic satire. Alternative history of war where Nazi Germany occupies London
2010	United Kingdom	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	United States 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	United Kingdom	The Chronicles of Narnia: 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	United States Canada Germany	Blubberella		Uwe Boll	Action-Comedy. Dhamphir battling Nazis bent on eliminating Resistance group on Eastern Front; spoof of BloodRayne: The Third Reich
2011	United States	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	United States 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	United States	Nazis at the Center of the Earth (V)		Joseph J. Lawson	A direct-to-video sci-fi film produced by The Asylum
2012	United Kingdom	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 United States Czech Republic	Frankenstein's Army	Army of Frankenstein	Richard Raaphorst	Action, Horror, Sci-fi. Russian soldiers find secret Nazi lab in eastern Germany
2013	United Kingdom	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 the 1940s, 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.
2017	United States	Transformers 5		Michael Bay	Science fiction; Relevant to the plot of the long history of Transformers, Bumblebee, who now transforms into a Mercedes-Benz 770 instead of a Chevy Camaro, is allied with the Devil's Brigade unit and helps them besiege Nazi territory with his war hammer.
2018	United States	Overlord		Julius Avery	Thriller, Horror; During D-Day, American paratroopers stumble upon a strange Nazi experiment in a French village.
2018	Poland Germany Netherlands	Werewolf	Wilkołak [pl]	Adrian Panek [pl]	A horror film set in the immediate aftermath of World War II in a temporary orphanage for children liberated from a concentration camp.^[3]^[4]
2019	United States	Hellboy		Neil Marshall	Thriller, Horror; Lobster Johnson crashes a Nazi ritual during the war in a flashback sequence.

TV series

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Years		Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1959	1964	United States	The Twilight Zone "The Man in the Bottle" (1960 episode)		Fantasy. Genie turns man into Hitler at the Battle of Berlin, 1945
1959	1964	United States	"A Quality of Mercy" (1961 episode)		Fantasy. A racist American officer is turned into a Japanese man during the Philippines Campaign.
1964	1965	United States	Jonny Quest "The Devil's Tower" (1965 episode)		Animated. Nazi war criminal has slave cavemen
1964	1968	United States	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	United States	The Time Tunnel "The Day The Sky Fell In" (1966 episode)		SF adventure. Time travellers at Pearl Harbor the day before
1966	1967	United States	"Invasion" (1966 episode)		SF adventure. Time travellers in Cherbourg before D-Day
1966	1969	United States	Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967 episode)		SF drama. Time-travelling Dr. McCoy causes Hitler to win the war
1966	1969	United States	"Patterns of Force" (1968 episode)		SF drama. Alien society modelled after Nazi Germany
1975	1976	United States	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	United States	Galactica 1980 "Galactica Discovers Earth" (episode)		SF adventure. V-2 rocket programme receives future technology
1989	1989	United Kingdom	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	United Kingdom	Goodnight Sweetheart		Comedy-Fantasy. Time traveller living two lives, between 1940's wartime London and 1990s
1999	2004	United States	Angel "Why We Fight" (2004 episode)		Vampires encounter undead U-boat crew
1999	present	United States	Family Guy "Road to Germany" (2008 episode)		Animated SF comedy. Time-travelling Brian and Stewie in a Warsaw shul, 1 September 1939
2001	2005	United States	Star Trek: Enterprise "Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise)" (2004 episode)		SF adventure. Aliens from an alternate timeline join with Nazis to attempt a takeover of Earth while at the same time attempting to return to their native timeline
2004	2005	Japan	Zipang	Jipangu (ジパング)	Anime. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer travelling through time to early days of war
2007	2020	Japan	Strike Witches	Sutoraiku Wicchīzu (ストライクウィッチーズ)	Anime. Set on an alternate Earth that being invaded by aliens call the "Neuroi", most of Witches are based on the World War II flying aces
2008	2010	Japan	Hetalia: Axis Powers	Hetaria Axis Powers (ヘタリア Axis Powers)	Anime. Characters as national personifications of wartime countries
2011	2011	United Kingdom	Doctor Who Sixth Series "Let's Kill Hitler" (episode)		SF adventure. Time travellers lock Hitler in a cupboard, 1938
2015	TBA	Japan	Kantai Collection	Kantai Korekushon -KanKore- (艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-)	Anime. Set in a world with the monsters from the deep sea called the "Abyssal Fleet", all Fleet Girls are based on the World War II warships
2016	2016	Japan	Izetta: The Last Witch	Shūmatsu no Izetta (終末のイゼッタ)	Anime. Set in an alternate Earth with a story based on World War II, featuring a witch that possesses the ability to magically manipulate any object that she touches
2018	2018	Japan	Katana Maidens: Toji No Miko	Toji no Miko (刀使ノ巫女)	Anime. Set in the modern time, however the story also focuses on a project dated from near the end of the World War II
2019	2019	Japan	Azur Lane	Azūru Rēn (アズールレーン)	Anime. Set in the world that being invaded by the mysterious creatures called the "Siren" and other nations fight each other, all ships are based on the World War II warships
2023	2024	South Korea	Gyeongseong Creature	Gyeongseong Keulicheo (경성크리처)	Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea in 1945, the series combined fictional elements with real life horror experiments of Unit 731

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Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1941	United States	King of the Zombies		Jean Yarbrough	Horror-comedy. Nazi doctor on island off US coast attempting to acquire war intelligence using zombies^[1]
1942	United States	Black Dragons		William Nigh	SF. Scientist turns Japanese spies into Americans^[1]
1942	United States	Spy Smasher (serial)		William Witney
1942	United Kingdom	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	United States	A Guy Named Joe		Victor Fleming	Fantasy. Spirit of dead pilot acts as "guardian angel" for new pilots
1943	United States	Revenge of the Zombies		Steve Sekely	Horror.
1943	United States	Tarzan Triumphs		Wilhelm Thiele	Adventure. German paratroopers conquer a lost city in Africa
1946	United Kingdom	A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven)		Powell and Pressburger	Fantasy.
1964	United States	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	United Kingdom	The Frozen Dead		Herbert J. Leder	SF horror. Scientist reanimates frozen heads of Nazi war criminals to revive Third Reich
1966	United States	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	United States	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	United States	Bedknobs and Broomsticks		Robert Stevenson	Children's fantasy musical. German raid on England repulsed with magic, 1940
1972	United States	Slaughterhouse-Five		George Roy Hill	SF based on Kurt Vonnegut novel. Firebombing of Dresden, 1945
1975	Italy France	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma	Pier 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.
1975	United States	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	United States	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	United States United Kingdom	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	United Kingdom Canada	Death Ship		Alvin Rakoff	Horror-Mystery. Nazi prison ship sails seas since end of war luring unsuspecting victims aboard
1980	United States	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	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	United States	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid		Carl Reiner	Detective comedy. Nazis in Latin America with weaponized cheese mould
1984	United Kingdom	The Keep		Michael Mann	Action-horror. German Army and "Einsatzkommandos" occupy Romanian citadel with demonic forces
1984	United States	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	United States	Zone Troopers		Danny Bilson	SF. Soldiers find alien craft
1986	Spain	In a Glass Cage	Tras el cristal	Agustí Villaronga	Horror.
1989	United States	Puppetmaster (Puppet Master I)		David Schmoeller	SF horror. Nazi mission to capture US puppeteer with "secret to life" ate^{[clarification needed]} explored by modern scientists
1991	United States	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	United States	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	United States	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	United States	Apt Pupil		Bryan Singer	Horror based on Stephen King novella.
1999	United States	The Devil's Arithmetic (TV)		Donna Deitch	Fantasy/Drama. Modern teenage girl projected into 1940's death camp prisoner to experience horrors firsthand

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2020	United Kingdom Bulgaria	Ghosts of War	Eric Bress	horror - five American soldiers are ordered to hold a French castle formerly occupied by the Nazi high command and encounters virtual ghosts
2020	United States New Zealand	Shadow in the Cloud	Roseanne Liang	Action-horror. A woman on a top-secret mission joins an all-male crew on a flight from New Zealand to Samoa in 1943 during the Pacific War.
2023	United States	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	James Mangold	Action-adventure. Indiana Jones battles Nazi scientists in both 1944 and 1969.

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2014	Finland	I Killed Adolf Hitler	Timo Vuorensola	^{[citation needed]}
201X	United States	The Bleeding (The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen)	Josef Rusnak	Horror thriller. American spy in Romania infiltrates SS fighting partisans in Carpathians and encounters vampires^[5]
201X	United States	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^[6]^[7]^[8]
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.^[9]
201X	United States	Panzer 88	Peter Briggs	Action thriller. Eastern Front King Tiger tank crewmen battle creature
201X	United States	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 ^{[citation needed]}

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