List of World War II short films
Below is a list of short films or animated cartoons that pertain to World War II , or the years leading up to it.
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Momotarō's Sea Eagles (1943)
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1930s
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United Kingdom
Local Boy Makes Good: A Story With a Moral [ 2] ?
Cartoon in which an RAF bomber is able to shoot down German fighters once the pilot and turret gunner put on their respirators.
YouTube
Films made during the war
1939
1940
1941
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Title
Director
Events depicted
IMDb
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Soviet Union
Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland Не тoптать фашистскому сапогу Нашей Родины [ 6] A. Ivanov , I. Vano
Anti-Nazi cartoon with German pig soldier vs. Soviet cavalry and tanks.Prokofiev from Alexander Nevsky
[citation needed
YouTube
Fascist Italy
Il Dottor Churkill
Luigi Liberio Pensuti
Anti-British cartoon involving a Jekyll and Hyde story where Mr. Hyde becomes Dr. Jekyll (Winston Churchill).[ 7]
[ 8] YouTube
United States
The Rookie Bear Rudolf Ising
Cartoon feature Barney Bear drafted into USA Army during his hibernation .
IA
United States
I'll Never Heil Again Jules White
Comedy with the Three Stooges .
IA
Soviet Union
A Journal of Political Satire № 2 Журнал политсатиры № 2 Zinaida Brumberg , Alexander Ivanov , Valentina Brumberg , Olga Khodatayeva , Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Anti-Nazi cartoon, in 4 parts, exhorting Soviets to resist "Fascist pirates" (Бей фашистских пиратов ).[ 9]
YouTube
United States
The Mighty Navy
Dave Fleischer
Cartoon about Popeye joining the Navy to fight against 'The Enemy'.
YouTube
United States
Rookie Revue Friz Freleng
Cartoon which shows the different elements of the US Army: infantry, cavalry, armour, USAAF, artillery, and lampoons (accurately) makeshift weaponry.
YouTube [ 10]
United Kingdom
Rush Hour Anthony Asquith
Comedy film asking casual travellers to leave transport to workers.
Canada
7 Wise Dwarfs Dick Lyford & Ford Beebe [ 11] [circular reference
Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Seven Dwarfs invest their gems in Canadian War Savings Certificates .
YouTube [ 10]
Canada
The Thrifty Pig Walt Disney (producer)
Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which the Big Bad Nazi Wolf is defeated by a house flying Canada's national flag and built of Canadian War Savings Certificates .
IA
Canada
V for Victory
Norman McLaren
Cartoon in support of a war bond drive. Music by John Philip Sousa .[ 12]
[1]
United States
The Flying Bear
Rudolf Ising MGM Cartoon featured Barney Bear during WWII.
IA
Soviet Union
The Vultures Стервятники Panteleimon Sazonov [ 13] Anti-Nazi cartoon where German vultures become bombers only to be shot out of the skies by Red Air Force fighters.
[ 13] YouTube
1942
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United States
Ace in the Hole Alex Lovy
A Woody Woodpecker cartoon that centers around Woody's shenanigans at a military air force.
Canada
All Together Walt Disney (producer)
Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Pinocchio, Donald Duck, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Goofy and the Seven Dwarfs parade at Centre Block for Canadian War Savings Certificates .[ 14]
IA
United States
Air Raid Warden
Alex Lovy
Cartoon featuring Andy Panda .
United States
Andy Panda's Victory Garden [ 15] aka Springtime for Andy
Alex Lovy
Cartoon in which Andy Panda 's attempts to grow a victory garden are spoiled by a hungry rooster.[ 16]
YouTube
United States
Any Bonds Today? Bob Clampett
A Racist cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny performing in blackface for the war effort. The title song is by Irving Berlin .
YouTube
United States
Barney Bear's Victory Garden
Rudolf Ising
MGM Cartoon featured Barney Bear planning his own victory garden during the days of World War II.
IA
United States
Blitz Wolf Tex Avery
Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring the three little pigs and the big bad wolf .
YouTube
United States
Blunder Below Dave Fleischer
Cartoon featuring Popeye , depicting him defeating a Japanese submarine.
YouTube [ 17]
Soviet Union
Cinema Circus Кино-цирк Olga Khodatayeva & Leonid Amalrik
Anti-Nazi cartoon featuring Hitler with his trained dogs, Mussolini , Horthy and Antonescu , and his mentor Napoleon, at a circus hosted by clown Karandash .
YouTube
United States
The Devil with Hitler Gordon Douglas
Comedy film where the Devil's job in Hell is threatened by Hitler.
YouTube
United States
Donald Gets Drafted Jack King (uncredited)
Disney cartoon in which Donald Fauntleroy Duck volunteers for the US Army.
YouTube
Canada
Donald's Decision Walt Disney (producer)
Cartoon, animated for the NFB by Disney, in which Donald Duck 's conscience makes him invest in Canadian War Savings Certificates .
IA
United States
The Ducktators Norman McCabe
Anti-Axis cartoon which portrays Hitler, Mussolini and Tōjō as barnyard fowl.
YouTube
United States
Eleventh Hour Dan Gordon
Anti-Japanese cartoon portraying Superman as a saboteur at the Yokohama Navy Yard in Japan.
IA
Canada
Empty Rooms Mean Idle Machines
Philip Ragan
Cartoon which encourages citizens to rent their spare room to a munitions plant labourer.[ 18]
NFB[ 19]
United States
Fleets of Stren'th Dave Fleischer
Cartoon featuring Popeye , fighting against a fleet of enemy planes.
YouTube
Canada
Hen Hop Norman McLaren
Low-key cartoon in which a chicken dancing to "Turkey in the Straw " encourages Canadians to "save" for "V" (Victory).
YouTube [ 10] [ 19]
United States
Japoteurs Seymour Kneitel
Anti-Japanese cartoon featuring Superman and a group of Japanese spies trying to hijack a bomber.
IA YouTube
United Kingdom
Kill or Be Killed Len Lye
Dramatic film of a confrontation between a Tommy and a German sniper.[ 20]
United States
The New Spirit Walt Disney (producer)
Anti-Axis Disney cartoon in which Donald Duck learns to pay his taxes and fight the Axis, using only a "tax blank", pen, ink, and a blotter.[ 21]
IA YouTube
United States
Old Blackout Joe
Paul Sommer
John Hubley
A Phantasy cartoon that satirizes blackout drills.
United States
Safeguarding Military Information Preston Sturges
Dramatic film.
IA
United Kingdom
Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk Charles A. Ridley (uncredited)
Short comedy film featuring clips from Triumph of the Will The Lambeth Walk (a dance craze popular at the time but despised by the Nazis).[ 22] Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style ,[ 22] Gen. Adolf Takes Over ,[ 23] Germany Calling ,[ 22] Hitler Doing the Lambeth Walk ,[ 22] Hoch der Lambeth Valk: A Laugh-Time Interlude [ 24] Panzer Ballet .[ 25] [ 26]
IA YouTube
United States
Scrap the Japs Seymour Kneitel
Cartoon featuring Popeye , battling against Japanese planes and naval ships.
YouTube
United States
Sky Trooper Jack King
Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck becomes a reluctant paratrooper.
YouTube
United States
Song of Victory
Bob Wickersham
Frank Tashlin (supervision)
A Color Rhapsody cartoon that portrays the Axis dictators as animals terrorizing a forest populated by small woodland creatures.
IA
Canada
Stop That Tank! Ub Iwerks (uncredited)
Walt Disney (producer)
Instructional cartoon, animated for the DND and NFB by Disney, showing Canadian Tommies using the Boys ATR against German armour, sending Hitler straight to Hell.
YouTube (part 1)YouTube (part 2)
United States
Tulips Shall Grow George Pal
Anti-Nazi Puppetoon where a Dutch windmill is attacked by the Screwballs.
IA
Canada
Unmanned Machines Mean Unarmed Men
Philip Ragan
Cartoon which stresses the need for defence workers to be always on the job, not idle.[ 27]
NFB[ 19]
United States
Wolf Chases Pigs
Bob Wickersham
Frank Tashlin (supervision)
A Colombia Fable which, similar to MGM's Blitz Wolf The Three Little Pigs in a wartime setting.
United States
The Vanishing Private Jack King
Disney cartoon in which Pvt. Donald Duck has trouble with camouflage paint.
YouTube
United States
Yankee Doodle Swing Shift
Alex Lovy
A Swing Symphony cartoon that centers around a swing band working in a defense plant.
United States
You're a Sap, Mr. Jap Dan Gordon
Anti-Japanese cartoon featuring Popeye , depicting him fighting a Japanese navy ship.
YouTube
1943
1944
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United Kingdom
Aventure malgache Alfred Hitchcock
Anti-Vichy film (in French) about resistance to the Vichy takeover in Madagascar .
Oldcinemovies YouTube
United States
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Friz Freleng
Anti-Japanese cartoon in which Bugs Bunny targets Japanese soldiers with explosive ice cream.
YouTube
United States
Commando Duck Jack King
Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon.
YouTube
United States
Hell-Bent for Election Charles M. Jones
Cartoon, commissioned by the UAW , promoting the 1944 re-election of President Roosevelt.
YouTube
United States
How to Be a Sailor Jack Kinney
Anti-Japanese Disney cartoon where Goofy , the torpedo, sinks IJN warships.
YouTube
Canada
Keep Your Mouth Shut
Norman McLaren
Animated film in which a death's head thanks Canadians for revealing military secrets.
NFB[ 19]
United States
Lend Lease
Unknown
Cartoon written by Phil Eastman .
Vichy France
Nimbus libéré
Raymond Jeannin
Pro-Nazi cartoon in which bombers flown by Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , Popeye , Goofy and Felix the Cat kill Frenchmen.
YouTube
United States
Plane Daffy Frank Tashlin
Cartoon featuring Daffy Duck against the Nazi spy Hatta Mari.
YouTube [ 17]
Canada
Proudest Girl in the World
Julian Roffman[ 30]
Morale-boosting film in which a chorus of CWACs sing the title song. Music by Louis Applebaum and Wayne and Shuster .
NFB[ 19]
United States
Russian Rhapsody Robert Clampett
Anti-Nazi cartoon where Hitler in his bomber takes on the "Gremlins from the Kremlin".
YouTube
United States
Swooner Crooner Frank Tashlin
Porky's wartime egg farm production is disrupted by his hens going crazy over a crooning Frank Sinatra rooster, so he enlists the help of a crooning Bing Crosby rooster to get production going again.
YouTube
United Kingdom
Two Fathers Anthony Asquith
Dramatic film about two fathers, English and French, with children in the war.
United States
The Weakly Reporter Charles M. Jones
Cartoon lampooning sacrifices made on the homefront.
YouTube
United States
Yankee Doodle Donkey
I. Sparber
A Noveltoons cartoon that features Spunky the Donkey drafting himself to the WAG (a reference to the WAC , but with dogs instead).
1945
Films made after the war
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2003
France
The Release
Sebastien Laban
Animated film.
YouTube
2003
United States
Urda: The Third Reich Romanov Higa
Anime in which the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel when the war is going badly for them.
YouTube (episodes 1–5)
2004
New Zealand
Tama Tū
Taika Waititi
Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray.
[2]
2005
Germany
The Colonial Friend [ 36] L'ami y'a bon )
Rachid Bouchareb
Animated film.
YouTube
2005
Romania
Tertium non-datur
Lucian Pintilie
YouTube (end credits)
2007
United States
End of a Rope Daniel Lahr
A Nazi prisoner faces ghosts from his past before meeting his end. Based on the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
YouTube
2008
United States
The Bridge
Sheldon Schwartz
Film where a Japanese-American soldier in Italy embarks on a dangerous mission.
YouTube
2008
United Kingdom
Red Letter
Edilberto Restino
Drama where a German soldier tries to kill Hitler in Paris, 1942.Brunette Kiss .
YouTube (trailer)
2008
Canada
Servants of War
Gillian MacLeod
Drama depicting lives of sisters torn apart by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers invading their home
2009
Spain
Campás
Jairo Iglesias
Spanish Civil War.
YouTube (trailer)
2009
Philippines
Pedro
Regeene Ho
Drama. A man, who refuses to surrender to Japanese soldiers, on his journey to go back to his wife & daughter after escaping from hanging execution.
YouTube (trailer)
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2010
United States
The Bridge
Marlon Torres
Drama in which a deceased US Army medic meets soldiers from his past.
Vimeo
2010
Brazil
Brunette Kiss
Edilberto Restino
Drama in which a German soldier tells his life story to his grandson, a boy with Down syndrome and a prodigious memory.Red Letter .
YouTube (trailer)
2010
Canada
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Ann Marie Fleming
Animated film.
NFB (clip)
2010
Serbia
X & O
Acim Vasic
Short film. In the depths of a snowy forest in an unknown wartime, two soldiers from opposing armies try to outwit each other in a perilous game of cat and mouse - until they find themselves outplayed by destiny.
[3] (short film)
2011
United States
Breakdown
Thomas Lynskey
Short film. A vignette driven film about a Soviet trap against a squad of German soldiers.
[4] (short film)
2011
United States
Courage Too Late
Thomas Lynskey
Short film. A romance brews between a male and female Soviet soldier while their platoon is sent to capture a German colonel.
[5] (short film)
2012
Turkey
Biomen Shampoo commercial[ 37]
Ad featuring film clip from Triumph of the Will
YouTube
2013
Japan
艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-
Kusakawa Keizou
Anime which describes IJN warship to girls.
2016
United Kingdom
Our Father Calum Rhys
Short film. The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole - an odyssey of friendship, innocence and adventure set against a canvas of war-torn France.
2016
Finland
Radio Dolores
Katariina Lillqvist
Stop motion puppet film of a Finnish volunteer of the Spanish Civil War.
YouTube (director's interview)
2017
United States
Freund
Nathan Cragun
A German sniper questions the morality of his actions after coming face to face with his enemy.
YouTube
2017
United States
Esperanca
Nathan Cragun
After being separated from his unit during the battle for Montese, a Brazilian soldier fights a battle with himself to continue on. He must see if he has the hope and will to move on.
YouTube
2017
Australia
Daily Bread
Ruby Challenger
In a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease, and starvation. Meanwhile, the camp commandant's beloved white fluffy cat is fed fresh juicy meat.
2019
United States
Minor Accident of War
Diane Fredel-Weis
In 1945, WWII veteran Edward Field , now 95 years of age, flew 27 missions over Germany during the war. On his 3rd mission, his plane was hit by flak and crash landed in the North sea. This is the story of Field's survival.
Official Website
See also
Other cartoons of feature length Earlier war cartoons Other films of World War II
References
Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb .
^ The combat scenes in What Price Porky are unusually extended.
^ This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb .
^ ITN Source . This film is labelled War Cartoon № 4 and was released 23 October 1939. Retrieved 16 June 2012.^ The IMDb currently (as of November 2010) credits Tischmeyer only as the animator.
^ The narrator makes a point of mentioning that fact.
^ The film is also known as Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland .
^ German Nazi and Italian Fascist policemen are unable to apprehend Churchill as he steals loot from around the world, so bombers must chase Churchill back to London.
^ The opening credits read, Una produzione S.A. Incom Industrie Corti Metraggi, Roma. Direzione generale Sandro Pallavicini . The cartoon was made by Incom Short Films in Rome.
^ Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian and English) . This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb .
^ a b c [dead link ] ^ Source: Wikipedia article on the film. Neither the IMDb nor the BCDB lists a director for this film.
^ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
^ a b Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian and English) .
^ Marching in the parade on Parliament Hill in Ottawa are, in order, Pinocchio with Geppetto and Figaro (but not Jiminy Cricket ), all from the previous year's hit Pinocchio Donald Duck with Huey, Dewey, and Louie ; Pluto ; Mickey Mouse leading a band featuring Clarabelle and Goofy ; and finally the Seven Dwarfs , with Dopey being the last character to appear.
^ Source: The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia Archived 19 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine .IMDb incorrectly gives the release data as 7 September 1943 (as of March 2010).
^ Source: BCDB . The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
^ a b The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
^ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb .
^ a b c d e Available for public viewing at the NFB offices in Montreal and Toronto.
^ "Kill or Be Killed [...] was considered by some critics to be one of the best of all wartime films. It was a fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding in a tree."Horrocks, Roger . Len Lye: a biography , pp. 198–199.
^ Donald Duck's income tax for the calendar year 1941, on a gross income of $2501.00, is $13.00, which he remits by cheque.
^ a b c d "Charles A. Ridley" .^ "Gen. Adolf Takes over, 1942/01/07" . 1942.^ "Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk (1941) - IMDb" . IMDb ^ "GERMANY CALLING [Main Title]" .^ "The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Video That Enraged Goebbels" . 19 December 2014.^ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb .
^ The cartoon was finished in 1943 but never shown publicly.
^ Goofy appears in many guises, including air raid warden . He even wears a zoot suit .
^ Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not list a director for this film.
^ Estado de sitio (in Spanish) ^ In German, ein neuer Anfang means "a new beginning".
^ Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 Archived 16 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Salir.com (in Spanish) ^ Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 (1994) at Hoycinema.com (in Spanish) ^ "Golden Seahorse Productions" . Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012 .^ This film is included as a bonus on the DVD of the director's feature film Days of Glory
^ Turkey Hitler shampoo advert withdrawn , BBC, 27 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
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