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User:Datamgmt/List of WWII Movies Based On Real Events

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List of WWII Movies Based On Real Events is an incomplete collection of movies based on real events - sometimes very loosely due to when they were made and often with a fictionalise romantic sub-plot.

Theatre of Operations Real Life Event Start Date End Date Movie Name Movie Release Date
Europe Great Escape from Stalag Luft III 24 March 1944 25 March 1944 The Great Escape 20 June 1963
Europe Battle of Remagen 7 March 1945 25 March 1945 The Bridge at Remagen 25 June 1969
Europe Battle of the Bulge 16 December 1944 25 January 1945 Battle of the Bulge 16 December 1965
Europe Normandy landings 6 June 1944 6 June 1944 The Longest Day 25 September 1962
Europe Dunkirk evacuation 26 May 1940 4 June 1940 Dunkirk 20 March 1958
Europe Dunkirk evacuation 26 May 1940 4 June 1940 Dunkirk 13 July 2017
Europe Operation Market Garden 17 September 1944 25 September 1944 A Bridge Too Far 15 June 1977
Europe SOE Operative Violette Szabo 1 July 1943 5 February 1945 Carve Her Name with Pride 18 February 1958
Europe Oflag IV-C (Colditz) Prisoner of War Camp 1 November 1939 16 April 1945 The Colditz Story 25 January 1955
Atlantic Last battle of the battleship Bismarck 26 May 1941 27 May 1941 Sink the Bismarck! 11 February 1960
North Africa Operation Agreement at Tobruk 13 September 1942 14 September 1942 Tobruk 7 February 1967
Pacific Battle of Midway 4 June 1942 7 June 1942 Midway 18 June 1976
Europe Operation_Chastise (Dambusters Raid) 16 May 1943 17 May 1943 The Dam Busters 16 May 1955
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