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.

Restrictions

Momotarō's Sea Eagles (1943)

• The film must be concerned with Hitler's rise, the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, or World War II itself.
• Feature-length live-action films are excluded.
• For documentaries, see: List of World War II documentary films.

Films made before the war

1930s

Year undetermined

Films made during the war

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Films made after the war

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

• Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
• List of Private Snafu shorts featuring Private Snafu character

Other cartoons of feature length

• Victory Through Air Power (1943)
• Castle in the Sky (1986)
• Graveyard of the Fireflies (1988)
• Rocks in My Pockets (2004) - partially set during World War II but also includes scenes set both before and after the war
• Valiant (2005)

Earlier war cartoons

• The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
• China in Flames (1925) – Soviet cartoon about the Chinese Civil War
• Dinky Doodle in the Army (192?) with Dinky Doodle
• Great Guns! (1927) with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• I'm in the Army Now (1936) with Popeye and Bluto

Other films of World War II

• List of World War II films – fictional features and miniseries
  • List of World War II TV series – fictional TV series
• List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
• List of Holocaust films – fictional and documentary
• List of German films 1933–1945
• List of films based on war books – includes World War II section

References

Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.

1. The combat scenes in What Price Porky are unusually extended.
2. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
3. ITN Source. This film is labelled War Cartoon № 4 and was released 23 October 1939. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
4. The IMDb currently (as of November 2010) credits Tischmeyer only as the animator.
5. The narrator makes a point of mentioning that fact.
6. The film is also known as Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
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11. Source: Wikipedia article on the film. Neither the IMDb nor the BCDB lists a director for this film.
    Lyford, presumably, is the Oscar-winning documentarian, Richard Lyford. Beebe was working at Disney at this time.
12. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
13. Source: Russian Animation in Letters and Figures in (in Russian and English).
14. 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 (1940); 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.
15. Source: The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia Archived 19 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
    The film's release date was 7 September 1942.
    The IMDb incorrectly gives the release data as 7 September 1943 (as of March 2010).
16. Source: BCDB. The IMDb does not provide a plot summary for this film.
17. The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
18. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
19. Available for public viewing at the NFB offices in Montreal and Toronto.
20. "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.
21. 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.
22. "Charles A. Ridley".
23. "Gen. Adolf Takes over, 1942/01/07". 1942.
24. "Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk (1941) - IMDb". IMDb.
25. "GERMANY CALLING [Main Title]".
26. "The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Video That Enraged Goebbels". 19 December 2014.
27. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. This film is currently (as of March 2010) not listed at the IMDb.
28. The cartoon was finished in 1943 but never shown publicly.
29. Goofy appears in many guises, including air raid warden. He even wears a zoot suit.
30. Source: National Film Board of Canada catalogue page. The IMDb does not list a director for this film.
31. Estado de sitio at Peliculasgratis.com (in Spanish)
32. In German, ein neuer Anfang means "a new beginning".
33. Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 Archived 16 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Salir.com (in Spanish)
34. Synopsis of Alsasua 1936 (1994) at Hoycinema.com (in Spanish)
35. "Golden Seahorse Productions". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
36. This film is included as a bonus on the DVD of the director's feature film Days of Glory.
37. Turkey Hitler shampoo advert withdrawn, BBC, 27 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.

External links

• wwii-movies.com List of World War II Movies
• Nimbus libéré at YouTube