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World War II Action Movies

Name: World War II Action Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Action-packed WWII films featuring commando raids, aerial battles, and behind-enemy-lines missions.

World War Ii Action Movies is a structured movies dataset with 19 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 19 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1962 to 2024; Across 19 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 5.8 to 7.9; Across 19 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	7.9	Adventure, Drama, War	United States of America	173	The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War ...
The Dirty Dozen	1967	Robert Aldrich	7.6	Action, Adventure, War	United Kingdom	149	12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sente...
The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin	7.6	War, Action, Drama	United States of America	178	The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on t...
Fury	2014	David Ayer	7.5	War, Drama, Action	United States of America	135	April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy a...
Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	Clint Eastwood	7.5	Action, Drama, War	United States of America	141	The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Dunkirk	2017	Christopher Nolan	7.4	War, Action, Drama	United Kingdom	107	The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Greyhound	2020	Aaron Schneider	7.4	War, Action, Drama	Canada	92	A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the a...
Sisu	2022	Jalmari Helander	7.4	Action, War, Thriller	Finland	91	When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Midway	2019	Roland Emmerich	7.1	Action, War, History	Canada	138	The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
Captain America: The First Avenger	2011	Joe Johnston	7	Action, Adventure, Science Fiction	United States of America	124	During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of un...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare	2024	Guy Ritchie	7	Action, Comedy, War	United Kingdom	120	During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British WWII organization — the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against ...
The Way Back	2010	Peter Weir	7	Drama, Adventure, History	Poland	133	A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
Pearl Harbor	2001	Michael Bay	6.9	War, Romance, History, Action	United States of America	183	The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find thems...
Allied	2016	Robert Zemeckis	6.8	Action, Drama, War, Romance, Thriller	China	124	In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Defiance	2008	Edward Zwick	6.8	Action, Drama, History, War	United States of America	137	Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
U-571	2000	Jonathan Mostow	6.5	War, Action, Adventure	United States of America	116	In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Windtalkers	2002	John Woo	6.3	War, Action	United States of America	134	Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
The Monuments Men	2014	George Clooney	6.1	War, Drama, History, Action	Germany	118	Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces ...
Shadow in the Cloud	2021	Roseanne Liang	5.8	Horror, Action, War	United States of America	83	A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

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