Resistance During World War II - Dramatisations

Dramatisations

• 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992) a situation comedy about the French resistance movement (a parody of Secret Army)
• L’Armée des ombres (1969) internal and external battles of the French resistance. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
• Battle of Neretva (film) (1969) is a movie depicting events that took place during the Fourth anti-Partisan Offensive (Fall Weiss), also known as The Battle for the Wounded
• Black Book (film) (2006) depicts double and triple crosses amongst the Dutch Resistance
• Bonhoeffer (2004 premier at the Acacia Theatre) is a play about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor in the Confessing Church executed for his participation in the German resistance.
• Boško Buha (1978) tells the tale of a boy who conned his way into partisan ranks at age of 15 and became legendary for his talent of destroying enemy bunkers
• Charlotte Gray (2001) – thought to be based on Nancy Wake
• Come and See (1985) is a Soviet made film about partisans in Belarus, as well as war crimes committed by the war's various factions.
• Defiance (2008) tells the story of the Bielski partisans, a group of Jewish resistance fighters operating in Belorussia.
• Flame & Citron (2008) is a movie based on two Danish resistance fighters who were in the Holger Danske (resistance group).
• A Generation (1955) (Polish) two young men involved in resistance by GL
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965) is very loosely based on the Norwegian sabotage of the German nuclear program (the later Real Heroes of Telemark is more accurate)
• Het Meisje met het Rode Haar (1982) (Dutch) is about Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft
• Kanał (1956) (Polish) first film ever to depict Warsaw Uprising
• The Longest Day (1962) features scenes of the resistance operations during Operation Overlord
• Massacre in Rome (1973) is based on a true story about Nazi retaliation after a resistance attack in Rome
• My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner (2007) is a Canadian film about Justice Inspector Friedrich Kellner of Laubach who challenged the Nazis before and during the war
• Secret Army (1977) a television series about the Belgian resistance movement, based on real events
• Soldaat van Oranje (1977) (Dutch) is about some Dutch students who enter the resistance in cooperation with England
• Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (2005) is about the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl
• Stärker als die Nacht (1954) (East German) follows the story of a group of German Communist resistance fighters
• The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) is a movie based on the events that took place during the Fifth anti-Partisan Offensive (Fall Schwartz)