It's impossible to come up with a definitive list but, for comparison, Wikipedia's list of films about the 1914-18 war totals a little more than 130, while the same source's compilation of second world war films comes to more than 1,300, and still counting. Some movie wars – Vietnam, the cold war, Iraq – come and go, but 1939-45 just won't fade away. By the end of 2014 we will have had films about the race to recover stolen artworks ( The Monuments Men), a US tank crew fighting their way across Germany ( Fury), a US soldier who survived shipwreck and a PoW camp ( Unbroken), a biopic of pioneering codebreaker Alan Turing ( The Imitation Game) and a fictional account of the German occupation of France ( Suite Française). Last year saw the release of films about Germany during the war ( The Book Thief), British soldiers imprisoned by the Japanese ( The Railway Man), and the confrontation between Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad ( Stalingrad). Nearly 70 years on, the demand for second world war movies appears unstoppable, the supply inexhaustible. The second world war may have ceased hostilities on 2 September 1945, with the formal surrender of Japan in a ceremony on the USS Missouri, but the film world has never stopped fighting.
It's a war that never ends – cinematically speaking, that is.
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