Best war documentaries - Charts
Best war documentaries
1. Night and Fog (1956)
France, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich
2. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
UK / New Zealand, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Peter Jackson
3. Shoah (1985)
France, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Claude Lanzmann, Richard Glazar
4. Bitva o Ostravsko 1945 (2019)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Jaroslav Korytář
5. Atentát na Heydricha - Príbeh Jozefa Gabčíka a Jana Kubiša (2013)
Slovakia, Documentary / War
Directed by: Veronika Tóthová
Cast: Jaroslav Čvančara
6. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
7. The War You Don't See (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Cast: Julian Assange, Tony Blair
9. Crisis (1939)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Herbert Kline, Hanuš Burger
Cast: Leif Erickson, George Voskovec
10. Sniper: Inside the Crosshairs (2009)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Emre Şahin
Cast: Scott Levy, Marco Morales
11. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Germany / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog
12. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Robert McNamara, Errol Morris
13. The Last Days (1998)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: James Moll
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Hans Frank
14. No End in Sight (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Charles Ferguson
Cast: Campbell Scott, George W. Bush
15. Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
16. The Liberation of Auschwitz (1985)
West Germany, Documentary / Historical
17. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Udo Samel
20. The Battle of Britain (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
21. The Atomic Cafe (1982)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader
Cast: Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman
22. The Nazis Strike (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
23. Prelude to War (1942)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
24. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II
25. Nanking (2007)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff
27. Weird Weapons of WW II (2004)
USA, Documentary / War
28. D-Day: Code Name Overlord (1998)
USA, Documentary / War
30. The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau, Mark Herzog
Cast: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg
31. Tank Battles (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
33. Why We Fight, 3 (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
34. Trenches: Battleground WWI (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
35. Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force (1990)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Michael Campbell
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler
36. Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Panzerkampfwagen (PZKPFW) – Panzer III., Die (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
37. Last Men in Aleppo (2017)
Denmark / Syria, Documentary / War
Directed by: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
38. Oratorio for Prague (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Jan Němec
Cast: George Voskovec
42. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
France / USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Dr. Daryl Isaacs
43. Panzerkampfwagen PZKPFW IV, Panzer IV (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
44. Iwo Jima - 36 Days of Hell (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
46. World War II - 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1983)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Anthony Rizzo
47. The Nordic War - The Battle of Finland´s Independence 1939-1945 (2006)
Finland, Documentary / War
Directed by: Huugos Huhtanen
Cast: Marko Putkonen, Erkki Kokko
48. Bombers - The story of strategic bombing (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Donald McFail
50. The Weight of Chains (2010)
Canada / Croatia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Борис Малагурски
Cast: Branislav Lecic, Борис Малагурски
51. U-864 - Hitler's Last Deadly Secret (2006)
Germany, Documentary / War
Directed by: Marc Brasse, Christopher Rowley
54. Die Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Light Panzers 1 & 2, 35 (t) & 38 (t) (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
55. Kamikaze - To Die For The Emperor (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
56. Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Rory Kennedy
Cast: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger
58. Německé tanky II. světové války - Panzer V - Panther (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
61. The Fighting Lady (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer
62. Warsaw Uprising (2014)
Poland, Drama / War
Directed by: Jan Komasa
Cast: Michal Zurawski, Maciej Nawrocki
65. War Comes to America (1945)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Walter Huston
66. Far from Vietnam (1967)
France, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker
Cast: Bernard Fresson, Karen Blanguernon
67. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Dennis Wise
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler
71. Tunisian Victory (1944)
USA / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Huston, Frank Capra
Cast: Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith
73. Fighter Aces (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Dave Flitton
Cast: Francisco Franco, Joseph Goebbels
74. Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes (2011)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Julian Carey
75. Trials of Flight - Berlin ´48: The Great Airlift (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
76. The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
Denmark / Finland, Documentary / War
Directed by: Simon Lereng Wilmont
77. Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms (2017)
USA, Animation / Fantasy
Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
78. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Cast: Alex Gibney, George W. Bush
80. Level Five (1997)
France, Documentary / Romance
Directed by: Chris Marker
Cast: Chris Marker, Nagisa Ōshima
84. Italian Soldiers (2001)
Italy, Comedy / Documentary
Directed by: Francesco Cabras
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Hurt
85. Access to the Danger Zone (2013)
Belgium / Kenya, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Peter Casaer, Eddie Gregoor
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis
86. After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler (1940)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Norman Lee
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom
87. Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler (1996)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun
88. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Emile de Antonio
Cast: Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower
89. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
USA, Documentary / War
90. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Switzerland / West Germany, Documentary / War
Directed by: Marcel Ophüls
Cast: Marcel Ophüls, Reinhard Heydrich
92. Rome Falls to the Allies (1944)
USA, Documentary / Short
94. The Battle of China (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
95. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Perce Pearce, James Algar
Cast: Art Baker
