Best war documentaries - Charts
Best war documentaries
![Night and Fog](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/002/161002101_3d89cb.jpg)
1. Night and Fog (1956)
France, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich
![They Shall Not Grow Old](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/968/162968687_b745b8.jpg)
2. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
UK / New Zealand, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Peter Jackson
![Shoah](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/540/158540269_29fe1f.jpg)
3. Shoah (1985)
France, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Claude Lanzmann, Richard Glazar
![Bitva o Ostravsko 1945](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/556/163556064_3aeabd.jpg)
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
![Waltz with Bashir](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/378/160378954_91c8d3.jpg)
6. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
![The War You Don't See](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/467/467764_51c656.jpg)
7. The War You Don't See (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Cast: Julian Assange, Tony Blair
![This Is Congo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/134/162134110_7ff321.jpg)
![Crisis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/371/371362_5140a0.jpg)
9. Crisis (1939)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Herbert Kline, Hanuš Burger
Cast: Leif Erickson, George Voskovec
![Sniper: Inside the Crosshairs](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/323/323286_305a17.jpg)
10. Sniper: Inside the Crosshairs (2009)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Emre Şahin
Cast: Scott Levy, Marco Morales
![Lessons of Darkness](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/672/162672405_6bab42.jpg)
11. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Germany / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog
![The Last Days](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/240/161240184_2c550f.jpg)
12. The Last Days (1998)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: James Moll
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Hans Frank
![The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/168/257/168257504_ihkwbk.jpg)
13. 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
![The Long Road to War](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/003/163003228_556dba.jpg)
14. The Long Road to War (2018)
Serbia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Miloš Škundrić
Cast: Lothar Hobelt, Dominic Lieven
![No End in Sight](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/053/53444_a5c03f.jpg)
15. No End in Sight (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Charles Ferguson
Cast: Campbell Scott, George W. Bush
![Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/056/56664_fcd53d.jpg)
16. Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
17. The Liberation of Auschwitz (1985)
West Germany, Documentary / Historical
![The Goebbels Experiment](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/071/71957_6b4610.jpg)
18. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Udo Samel
![Snipers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/059/59190_fc01a7.jpg)
![The Journey of Magdalena Robinson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/090/392/90392960_421fb5.jpg)
![The Atomic Cafe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/820/162820055_e6b2d3.jpg)
21. The Atomic Cafe (1982)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader
Cast: Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman
![The Battle of Britain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/934/160934014_9f0a0a.jpg)
22. The Battle of Britain (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
![Prelude to War](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/933/160933989_ffba70.jpg)
23. Prelude to War (1942)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
![The Nazis Strike](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/933/160933991_307b43.jpg)
24. The Nazis Strike (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
![The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/515/160515258_e00261.jpg)
25. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II
![Nanking](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/807/159807279_479234.jpg)
26. Nanking (2007)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff
![Hearts and Minds](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/166/734/166734672_f4fe83.jpg)
![Weird Weapons of WW II](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/334/334682_ebf08a.jpg)
28. Weird Weapons of WW II (2004)
USA, Documentary / War
![D-Day: Code Name Overlord](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/879/163879418_c1c067.jpg)
29. D-Day: Code Name Overlord (1998)
USA, Documentary / War
![The Battle of Russia](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/934/160934008_c96927.jpg)
![The Bloody Hundredth](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/168/689/168689606_2yyy8n.png)
31. The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau, Mark Herzog
Cast: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg
![Tank Battles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/054/54268_128bd7.jpg)
32. Tank Battles (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
![Restrepo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/530/159530577_989f6b.jpg)
![Why We Fight, 3](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/933/160933996_36174f.jpg)
34. Why We Fight, 3 (1943)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
![Trenches: Battleground WWI](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/334/334655_f88153.jpg)
35. Trenches: Battleground WWI (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
![Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/157/885/157885037_5d14d3.jpg)
36. Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force (1990)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Michael Campbell
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler
![Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Panzerkampfwagen (PZKPFW) – Panzer III., Die](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/484/484624_3aec15.jpg)
37. Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Panzerkampfwagen (PZKPFW) – Panzer III., Die (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
![Last Men in Aleppo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/608/161608062_eb4798.jpg)
38. Last Men in Aleppo (2017)
Denmark / Syria, Documentary / War
Directed by: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
![Oratorio for Prague](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/006/6401_739eb5.jpg)
39. Oratorio for Prague (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Jan Němec
Cast: George Voskovec
![Target for Tonight](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/222/158222863_924afe.jpg)
![Father Soldier Son](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/164/604/164604116_4a434a.jpg)
![The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/167/482/167482988_dv6pbz.jpg)
![Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/508/160508643_62c6da.jpg)
43. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
France / USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Dr. Daryl Isaacs
![Panzerkampfwagen PZKPFW IV, Panzer IV](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/484/484625_199c56.jpg)
44. Panzerkampfwagen PZKPFW IV, Panzer IV (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
![Iwo Jima - 36 Days of Hell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/334/334703_8b6a1c.jpg)
45. Iwo Jima - 36 Days of Hell (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
![The True Glory](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/980/158980663_fe3870.jpg)
![World War II - 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/050/50785_3dd897.jpg)
47. World War II - 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1983)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Anthony Rizzo
![The Nordic War - The Battle of Finland´s Independence 1939-1945](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/328/328240_b85805.jpg)
48. The Nordic War - The Battle of Finland´s Independence 1939-1945 (2006)
Finland, Documentary / War
Directed by: Huugos Huhtanen
Cast: Marko Putkonen, Erkki Kokko
![World War II - 7: Fury in the Pacific](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/053/53887_8d1a02.jpg)
![U-864 - Hitler's Last Deadly Secret](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57490_30e42e.jpg)
50. U-864 - Hitler's Last Deadly Secret (2006)
Germany, Documentary / War
Directed by: Marc Brasse, Christopher Rowley
![Bombers - The story of strategic bombing](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57582_fa0190.jpg)
51. Bombers - The story of strategic bombing (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Donald McFail
![Lost Airmen of Buchenwald](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/250/159250413_9520ca.jpg)
![Die Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Light Panzers 1 & 2, 35 (t) & 38 (t)](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/508/508303_1ebadf.jpg)
54. Die Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Light Panzers 1 & 2, 35 (t) & 38 (t) (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
![The Weight of Chains](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/120/457/120457814_1858b6.jpg)
55. The Weight of Chains (2010)
Canada / Croatia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Борис Малагурски
Cast: Branislav Lecic, Борис Малагурски
![Kamikaze - To Die For The Emperor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/054/54271_1bdced.jpg)
56. Kamikaze - To Die For The Emperor (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
![Last Days in Vietnam](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/265/158265235_f2b00d.jpg)
57. Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Rory Kennedy
Cast: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger
![Let There Be Light](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/090/393/90393371_383492.jpg)
59. Německé tanky II. světové války - Panzer V - Panther (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
![Warsaw: A City Divided](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/164/680/164680998_2486c3.jpg)
![Final Account](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/292/165292222_0fe727.jpg)
![Spitfire](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57581_ba70e5.jpg)
![Far from Vietnam](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/415/160415293_92a466.jpg)
63. Far from Vietnam (1967)
France, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker
Cast: Bernard Fresson, Karen Blanguernon
64. The Fighting Lady (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer
![War Comes to America](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/933/160933988_49e2a3.jpg)
66. War Comes to America (1945)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Walter Huston
![The Return to Homs](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/293/158293284_78352c.jpg)
![Messerschmitt BF 109](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57579_e5435d.jpg)
![Warsaw Uprising](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/526/162526608_75ffbf.jpg)
69. Warsaw Uprising (2014)
Poland, Drama / War
Directed by: Jan Komasa
Cast: Michal Zurawski, Maciej Nawrocki
![Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/166/161166809_94b20c.jpg)
71. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Dennis Wise
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler
![Tunisian Victory](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/157/897/157897451_314831.jpg)
72. Tunisian Victory (1944)
USA / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Huston, Frank Capra
Cast: Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith
![Focke-Wulf FW 190](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/002/2183_4fdd28.jpg)
![Fighter Aces](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57580_eaac68.jpg)
74. Fighter Aces (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Dave Flitton
Cast: Francisco Franco, Joseph Goebbels
75. Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes (2011)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Julian Carey
![Trials of Flight - Berlin ´48: The Great Airlift](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/060/60391_53cae7.jpg)
76. Trials of Flight - Berlin ´48: The Great Airlift (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
![The Distant Barking of Dogs](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/094/163094605_1e722c.jpg)
77. The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
Denmark / Finland, Documentary / War
Directed by: Simon Lereng Wilmont
78. Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms (2017)
USA, Animation / Fantasy
Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
![Taxi to the Dark Side](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/055/55496_29a025.jpg)
79. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Cast: Alex Gibney, George W. Bush
![Dirty Wars](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/160/159160973_130b55.jpg)
![Level Five](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/425/159425615_6cfdfd.jpg)
81. Level Five (1997)
France, Documentary / Romance
Directed by: Chris Marker
Cast: Chris Marker, Nagisa Ōshima
![Great Sea Battles of World War II](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57578_9658b3.jpg)
84. Italian Soldiers (2001)
Italy, Comedy / Documentary
Directed by: Francesco Cabras
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Hurt
![Access to the Danger Zone](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/004/158004542_7afe99.jpg)
85. Access to the Danger Zone (2013)
Belgium / Kenya, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Peter Casaer, Eddie Gregoor
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis
![After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/029/29729_429b76.jpg)
86. After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler (1940)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Norman Lee
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom
![Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/157/884/157884849_1fbfc0.jpg)
87. Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler (1996)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun
![Kosovo: Can You Imagine?](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/062/62168_15ace5.jpg)
![In the Year of the Pig](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/071/71022_eb743e.jpg)
89. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Emile de Antonio
Cast: Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower
90. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
USA, Documentary / War
![The Sorrow and the Pity](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/230/158230460_921332.jpg)
91. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Switzerland / West Germany, Documentary / War
Directed by: Marcel Ophüls
Cast: Marcel Ophüls, Reinhard Heydrich
![The Battle of China](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/934/160934013_326990.jpg)
93. The Battle of China (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
94. Rome Falls to the Allies (1944)
USA, Documentary / Short
![Tears of Gaza](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/166/134/166134993_b6d9d5.jpg)
![Victory Through Air Power](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/053/161053280_3f68cd.jpg)
96. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Perce Pearce, James Algar
Cast: Art Baker
![Bodysong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/039/39571_5f28dc.jpg)
![Iraqui Short Films](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/945/163945420_c23809.jpg)
100. The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Soviet Union, Documentary / War
Directed by: Yuliy Rayzman
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel