France in World War II: Movies

Below is a list of movies and videos involving the French armies, underground, life, and history in WWII. Those films highlighted can be bought though Amazon.com by clicking on their titles.

Listed alphabetically by title

• Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women 1988 Claude Chabrol. Isabelle Huppert)
• Battlefield: France 1940 (PBS TV)
• The Big Red One (Sam Fuller. Lee Marvin, Mark Hammil)
• Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Heinreid, Peter Lorre)
• Indig�nes (Days of Glory 2006 Rachid Bouchareb. Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet, Assaad Bouab, Beno�t Giros, M�lanie Laurent)
• D-Day + 60: An Affair to Remember (2004 Robin Masse.)
• Le Dernier m�tro (The Last Metro '80 Fran�ois Truffaut. Catherine Deneuve, G�rard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andr�a Ferr�ol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard, Maurice Risch, Sabine Haudepin, Heinz Bennent)
• Double Crime in the Maginot Line (France '39 Felix Genders. Victor Francen, Vera Korene, Jacques Baumer, Fernand Fabre)
• Ernst Junger a Paris, journal d'occupation 1941-1944 (France 1986 Edgardo Cozarinsky.)
• Is Paris Burning? (1966 Ren� Cl�ment. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Bruno Cremer, Claude Dauphin, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Pierre Dux, Glenn Ford, Gert Fr�be, Daniel G�lin, Georges G�ret, Hannes Messemer, Harry Meyen, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli, Wolfgang Preiss, Claude Rich, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles, Konrad Georg, Jean Valmont, Charles de Gaulle, E.G. Marshall, )
• Le Franc-Tireur (Safe Conduct France 1972 Jean-Max Causse. Phillippe Leotard)
• Jeux interdits (The Forbidden Game France 1952 Rene Clement. Brigitte Fossey)
• Joan of Paris (1942 Bobert Stevenson. Michele Morgan)
• Laissez-Passer (France 2002 Bernard Tavernier. Jacques Gambin, Denis Podalydes)
• The Longest Day (Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault)
• Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein 1976 Joseph Losey. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berg�, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michael Lonsdale)
• Ni travail, ni famille, ni patrie (France 1993 Mosco Boucault.)
• Nurenburg to Nurenburg (TV documentary)
• Operation Open Arms (2004 Robin Massee.)
• Sahara (Humphrey Bogart)
• Passage to Marseille (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre)
• Des terroristes � la retraite (Terrorists in Retirement Mosco Boucault. Simone Signoret, G�rard Desarthe)
• This Land is Mine (1943 Jean Renoir. Charles Laughton, Maureen O' Hara, Georges Sanders)
• Four Bags Full (Four Bags Full France 1956 Claude Autant-Lara. Jean Gabin, Bourvil)
• Un Vivant Qui Passe (France 1997 Claude Lanzmann. Dr. Maurice Rossel)
• Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (Frank Capra)
• The World at War (PBS TV)

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