The following is a list of World War II documentary films.
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) | Walter Ruttmann | |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) | Walter Ruttmann | |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany | Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland) | ||
| 1941 | Canada | Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg | |
| 1941 | Canada | Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg | |
| 1941 | USA | Kukan | Rey Scott | |
| 1941 | Kingdom of Italy | Uomini sul fondo (Men on the bottom) | Francesco De Robertis | |
| 1942 | Nazi Germany | Männer, Meer und Stürme (Men, Sea and Storms) | Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger | |
| 1942 | United Kingdom | The Soldier's Food | unknown | |
| 1944 | Nazi Germany | Panorama | ||
| 1944 | United States | The Battle for the Marianas | Gordon Hollingshead | |
| 1944 | Japan | Calling Australia | Dr. Huyung (formerly known as Hinatsu Eitaro, Hae Yeong, and Hŏ Yŏng) | |
| 1944 | United States | William Wyler | ||
| 1945 | Denmark | Danmark i Lænker (Denmark in Chains) | Sven Methling | |
| 1946 | United States | Let There Be Light | y Huston | |
| 1947 | United States | Lest We Forget | n.a. |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | United States | Victory at Sea | M. Clay Adams | |
| 1955 | France | Night and Fog | Alain Resnais |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | United States | Louis Clyde Stoumen | ||
| 1962 | Canada | Canada at War | ? | |
| 1964 | Canada | Fields of Sacrifice | Donald Brittain | |
| 1965 | Canada | Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton | |
| 1965 | United States | Aram Boyajian | ||
| 1965 | United States | Alan Landsburg | ||
| 1965 | Soviet Union | Ordinary Fascism (Обыкновенный фашизм) (Obyknovennyy fashizm) | Mikhail Romm | |
| 1968 | United States | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman | |
| 1969 | France | The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) | Marcel Ophüls |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | United Kingdom | The World at War | Miscellaneous | |
| 1974 | Israel | The 81st Blow (המכה ה-81) | Haim Gouri | |
| 1976 | United Kingdom | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | |
| 1977 | United Kingdom | The Secret War (TV series) | Various | |
| 1978 | Soviet Union | The Unknown War (Neizvestnaya voyna) (Неизвестная война) | Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | West Germany | The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 | Dieter Hildebrandt | |
| 1981 | United States | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Connie Field | |
| 1982 | United States | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman | |
| 1982 | Sweden | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Chohen, Bo Kuritzen | |
| 1982 | United States | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die | Laurence Jarvik | |
| 1985 | France | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | |
| 1985 | United States | Unfinished Business | Steven Okazaki | |
| 1987 | Japan | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara | |
| 1988 | France | Marcel Ophüls | ||
| 1989 | France | De Nuremberg à Nuremberg | Frédéric Rossif | |
| 1989 | United Kingdom | Fascist Legacy | Ken Kirby | |
| 1989 | Sweden | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | United States | Steven Okazaki | ||
| 1990 | Germany | Mein Krieg | Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus | |
| 1992 | Canada | The Valour and the Horror | Brian McKenna | |
| 1993 | France | L'Œil de Vichy | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1994 | United States | Battlefield | Miscellaneous | |
| 1994 | Germany | The Jewess and the Captain | Ulf von Mechow | |
| 1994 | Spain | Memory of Water | Héctor Fáver | |
| 1995 | United Kingdom | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair | |
| 1995 | United States | One Survivor Remembers | Kary Antholis | |
| 1995 | South Korea | Najeun moksori | Young-Joo Byun | |
| 1996 | United States | Fire on the Mountain | Beth Gage, George Gage | |
| 1997 | United States | The Long Way Home | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| 1997 | United Kingdom | Laurence Rees, Tilman Remme | ||
| 1997 | Estonia | We Lived for Estonia | Andres Sööt | |
| 1998 | United States | Tracy Atkinson, Joan Baran | ||
| 1998 | United States | Pola's March | Jonathan Gruber | |
| 1998 | United States | The Last Days | James Moll | |
| 1998 | Netherlands | The Saved | Paul Cohen, Oeke Hoogendijk | |
| 1998 | United States | Voices of the Children | Zuzana Justman | |
| 1998 | Canada | Unwanted Soldiers | Jari Osborne | |
| 1999 | United Kingdom | The Second World War in Colour | Polly Bide | |
| 1999 | United Kingdom | War of the Century | Laurence Rees |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Czech Republic | A Story about a Bad Dream | Pavel Stingl | |
| 2000 | United States | From Swastika to Jim Crow | Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub | |
| 2000 | United States | Mark Jonathan Harris | ||
| 2000 | Germany | Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | |
| 2000 | Germany | Shadows of Memory | Claudia von Alemann | |
| 2000 | United States | Sisters in Resistance | Maia Wechsler | |
| 2000 | United Kingdom | The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Sue Read | |
| 2000 | United Kingdom | World War II׃ The Complete History | Matthew Hall | |
| 2001 | United Kingdom | Horror in the East | Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova | |
| 2001 | Japan | Japanese Devils | Minoru Matsui | |
| 2001 | France | Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann | |
| 2001 | United States | The Color of War | Peter Coyote | |
| 2002 | United States | A Yiddish World Remembered | Andrew Goldberg | |
| 2002 | Austria | Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary | André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | |
| 2002 | United States | Aviva Slesin | ||
| 2002 | Canada | The Boys of Buchenwald | Audrey Mehler | |
| 2003 | United States | Marion's Triumph | John Chua | |
| 2003 | Denmark | Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill) | Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen | |
| 2003 | Canada | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender | |
| 2003 | United States | The Holocaust Experience | Oeke Hoogendijk | |
| 2004 | United Kingdom | Dunkirk | Alex Holmes | |
| 2004 | Netherlands | Goodbye Holland | Willy Lindwer | |
| 2004 | United States | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | ||
| 2004 | United States | Hiding and Seeking | Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky | |
| 2005 | Germany | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | Malte Ludin | |
| 2005 | United States | Eric Simonson | ||
| 2005 | United Kingdom | Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | ||
| 2005 | United Kingdom | Hiroshima | Paul Wilmshurst | |
| 2005 | United States | Christos Epperson | ||
| 2005 | United States | The Mushroom Club | Steven Okazaki | |
| 2005 | Poland | The Portraitist | Ireneusz Dobrowolski | |
| 2005 | Austria | Unwanted Cinema | Petrus van der Let | |
| 2006 | Russia | Blokada | Sergei Loznitsa | |
| 2006 | United States | Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh | |
| 2006 | United States | The Rape of Europa | Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | |
| 2006 | Estonia | The Blue Hills | Raimo Jõerand | |
| 2007 | United States | Douglas Cohen | ||
| 2007 | Canada | Fern Levitt | ||
| 2007 | United States | Nanking | Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | |
| 2007 | United States | Order Castles of the Third Reich | R.J. Adams | |
| 2007 | United States | Ruins of the Reich | R.J. Adams | |
| 2007 | Israel | Stalags | Ari Libsker | |
| 2007 | United States | The War | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | |
| 2007 | United States | Steven Okazaki | ||
| 2007 | United States | Wings of Defeat | Risa Morimoto | |
| 2007 | Japan | Yasukuni | Li Ying | |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | |
| 2008 | United States | Battle 360° | Tony Long | |
| 2008 | Germany | Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss | Felix Moeller | |
| 2008 | Netherlands | Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis | ||
| 2008 | Latvia | The Soviet Story | Edvīns Šnore | |
| 2008 | United Kingdom | Laurence Rees, Andrew Williams | ||
| 2009 | France | Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | ||
| 2009 | United States | The Inheritance of War | Ashley Karras | |
| 2009 | Netherlands | Patton 360° | Tony Long | |
| 2009 | Finland | Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland | Imbi Paju | |
| 2009 | United Kingdom | The Week We Went to War | Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie | |
| 2009 | United Kingdom | World War II in HD Colour | Robert Powell, Matthew Barrett | |
| 2009 | United States | WWII in HD | Frederic Lumiere, Matthew Ginsburg | |
| 2009 | United States | Valor With Honor | Torasan Films |
| 2010 | War Music | David Porteous | ||
| 2011 | United States | We Were There | Jarod O'Flaherty | |
| 2011 | Netherlands | 900 Days | Jessica Gorter | |
| 2011 | Russia | Anna Grazhdan | ||
| 2012 | United States | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Oliver Stone | |
| 2013 | United States | The Ghost Army | Rick Beyer | |
| 2014 | United States | José Delgado | ||
| 2015 | Germany | Christian Frey | ||
| 2016 | Australia | A Long Way Back | Samm Blake | |
| 2018 | Italy | Visconti's Eagles | Claudio Costa | |
| 2019 | United Kingdom | Greatest Events of WWII in Colour | Sam Taplin, Nicky Bolster, Kasia Uscinska, Josh Whitehead & Ailsa Fereday |