Late 1940s
| Year | Country | Main title |
Original title |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | France | Battle of the Rails | La Bataille du rail | René Clément | Resistance on French railways |
| 1946 | USA | Best !The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war | |
| 1946 | UK | Captive !The Captive Heart | Basil Dearden | British POWs in Germany | |
| 1946 | Philippines | Death March | Leopoldo Salcedo | Bataan Death March | |
| 1946 | Poland | Forbidden Songs | Zakazane piosenki | Leonard Buczkowski | Musical. Polish resistance 1939–1945 |
| 1946 | Philippines | Garrison 13 | Unknown | War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines | |
| 1946 | Philippines | Guerilyera | Guerilyera | Octavio Silos | Guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1946 | USSR Yugoslavia |
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia | V gorach Yugoslavii (В горах Югославии) (Russian) U planinama Jugoslavije (Serbo-Croatian) |
Abram Room | Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich and Chetniks |
| 1946 | Philippines | I Remember Bataan | Dugo ng Bayan | Fernando Poe, Sr. | Filipino resistance |
| 1946 | UK | Journey Together | John Boulting | Three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat | |
| 1946 | Philippines | Orasang Ginto | Orasang Ginto | Manuel Conde | Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor |
| 1946 | Italy | Paisan | Paisà | Roberto Rossellini | Italian campaign |
| 1946 | UK | School for Secrets | Peter Ustinov | Operation Biting | |
| 1946 | USA | Stranger !The Stranger | Orson Welles | A member of the United Nations War Crimes Committee hunts down a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut | |
| 1946 | UK | Theirs is the Glory | Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young | Operation Market Garden | |
| 1946 | Philippines | Walang Kamatayan | Walang Kamatayan | Tor Villano | Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 1946 | Poland Italy |
Wielka droga | Wielka droga (Polish) La Grande strada (Italian) |
Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 |
| 1947 | Italy | Christmas at Camp 119 | Natale al campo 119 | Pietro Francisci | Comedy-drama. Italian POWs in a US camp before repatriation |
| 1947 | UK | Frieda | Basil Dearden | ||
| 1947 | Denmark | Jenny and the Soldier | Soldaten og Jenny | Johan Jacobsen | |
| 1947 | Poland | Last !The Last Stop | Ostatni etap | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1947 | Occupied Germany (Soviet zone) | Marriage in the Shadows | Ehe im Schatten | Kurt Maetzig | Suicide of actor and Jewish wife |
| 1947 | Occupied Germany | Seven Journeys | In jenen Tagen | Helmut Käutner | Twelve years of Nazi rule as experienced by a car |
| 1947 | Taiwan | Spring !The Spring River Flows East | Pinyin, or ROC transliteration, please (漢字 hanzi please) | Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli | Sino-Japanese War |
| 1947 | USA | Thirteen !13 Rue Madeleine | Henry Hathaway | ||
| 1948 | UK | Against the Wind | Charles Crichton | Commando raid into occupied Belgium | |
| 1948 | Austria | Angel !The Angel with the Trumpet (The Angel with the Trombone) | Der Engel mit der Posaune | Karl Hartl | Drama based on Ernst Lothar novel. Salzburg through both world wars |
| 1948 | Poland | Border Street | Ulica Graniczna | Aleksander Ford | Holocaust in occupied Poland |
| 1948 | UK Netherlands |
But Not in Vain | Niet Tevergeefs | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama. |
| 1948 | USA | Command Decision | Sam Wood | Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force | |
| 1948 | USA | Fighter Squadron | Raoul Walsh | P-47 fighters in the air war in Europe | |
| 1948 | Occupied Germany | Morituri | Morituri (Latin) (Freiwild (German)) | Eugen York | |
| 1948 | Yugoslavia | On their own territory | Na svoji zemlji | France Štiglic | People fighting to kill Germans and Italians |
| 1948 | Norway France |
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water | Kampen om tungtvannet | Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller | Docudrama. Norwegian heavy water sabotage |
| 1948 | USA Switzerland |
Search !The Search | Fred Zinnemann | Displaced persons in postwar Germany | |
| 1948 | Poland | Steel !The Steel Hearts | Stalowe serca | Stanisław Januszewski | Silesia, Poland 1944 / 1945 |
| 1948 | Denmark | Three Years After †· | Tre år efter | Johan Jacobsen | Situation after the war's end |
| 1948 | Denmark | Viking !The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman | Støt står den danske sømand | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Docudrama. Danish sailors |
| 1949 | USA | Battleground | William A. Wellman | 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge | |
| 1949 | USSR | Battle of !The Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingradskaya bitva (Сталинградская битва) | Vladimir Petrov | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1949 | Philippines | Capas | Capas | Gregorio Fernandez | Bataan Death March survivor, appointed hometown mayor by Japanese, supports guerrilla activity |
| 1949 | USSR | Encounter at the Elbe | Vstrecha na Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе) | Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksei Utkin | Elbe Day |
| 1949 | USSR | Fall !The Fall of Berlin | Padeniye Berlina (Падение Берлина) | Mikheil Chiaureli | Battle of Berlin |
| 1949 | USA | Home of the Brave | Mark Robson | Black soldier paralyzed after unit attacked on Pacific island | |
| 1949 | USA | Lost Boundaries | Alfred L. Werker | Drama. White US Navy officer is actually Negro | |
| 1949 | USA | Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Smuggler paroled to sneak rubber crop out of Japanese-held Malaya | |
| 1949 | France | Mission in Tangier | Mission à Tanger | André Hunebelle | Journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers |
| 1949 | Poland | Others !The Others Will Follow | Za wami pójdą inni | Antoni Bohdziewicz | Warsaw, Polish resistance |
| 1949 | UK | Private Angelo | Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov | Light-hearted story. Reluctantly conscripted Italian soldier | |
| 1949 | USA | Sands of Iwo Jima | Allan Dwan | Battle of Iwo Jima | |
| 1949 | UK | Small !The Small Back Room | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Bomb disposal | |
| 1949 | Denmark | That applies to us all †· | Det gælder os alle | Alice O'Fredericks | Young survivor from a concentration camp |
| 1949 | UK | They Were Not Divided | Terence Young | The British Guards Armoured Division | |
| 1949 | USA | Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force |
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