Lupo Solitario's post got me on an upcoming WWII film kick. Here's what I found, (in alphabetical order). All information was found at Yahoo Movies;
http://movies.yahoo.com/
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003)
Premise: This documentary presents 90 minutes of interview footage (edited down from more than ten hours) with Traudl Junge (1920-2002), who from 1942 to 1945 was one of three personal secretaries of Adolph Hitler, whom she describes as a "pleasant boss and fatherly friend". Ms. Junge describes first-hand experiences of what life was like within the most inner circles of the Third Reich, including those chilling last days for Hitler, Goebbels and Eva Braun in the bunker, where she transcribed Hitler's last will and testament before he and the others committed suicide.
Flying Tigers (2003?)
Formed several months before Pearl Harbor, the American Volunteer Group, sponsored by the U.S. government, were a band of pilots (P-40's), and crew, who helped the Chinese fight the Japanese invasion in 1941. Just a few months later, Japan struck. Disbanding in 1942, the AVG became the 14th Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Glorious Bastards (2004)
The exact details of the plot aren't yet (9/7/01) know, but QT describes this as being a "guys-on-a-mission" World War II war movie, about U.S. soldiers taking on the Nazi's. Tarantino also told AICN that the group is made up of men who are about to be executed, but are offered a chance at reprieve.
The Great Raid (2003)
Forced to retreat from the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur promised to return. Set three years later, in January, 1945, this is the true story of Army ranger Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci (Bratt), who was chosen by MacArthur to lead an effort to liberate more than 500 American prisoners of war from the Japanese camp, Cabanatuan, part of the bloody and infamous Bataan Death March. The young colonel, eager to take on this mission first, however, had to undergo a vigorous guerrilla warfare training program, before leading his men, the 6th Ranger Battallion, on a hazardous rescue mission, thirty miles behind enemy lines, that they were not guaranteed to return from... (Csokas plays a starving prisoner of war; Fiennes plays the highest-ranking P.O.W.; Nielsen plays a nurse.)
The Long Green Shore (2004)
Set in mid-1945 after V-E Day, but before the fall of Japan, this is the story of an Australian battalion sent to New Guinea to force the beleaguered Japanese to retreat. What they find when they arrive is a land covered with the corpses of Americans and Japanese soldiers from previous battles and starving and pitiful Japanese soldiers who regardless continue to fight to the bloody end, forcing some of the Australian soldiers to ponder the meaning (or meaninglessness) of war... (sounding a bit like an Australian take on The Thin Red Line, complete with narration and meditative philosophical prose).
Night Witches(2002?)
Production had been scheduled to start in Russia in October, 2001, on a budget of $20 million. Post-production will be done in Canada, but it appears that it's been delayed (11/7/01), possibly to later this fall or sometime in early 2002? (11/30/01) The director's official site confirms the new production start date as early 2002. (4/5/02) Well, early 2002 is just about over, and Siddig hasn't updated his site about this since November, so there really is no word now about where this is.
Safe Conduct (2002)
This epic film tells the true story of French filmmakers living in Paris in WWII (1942-1943, specifically) during the German occupation, focusing on two separate people and those around them: Jean Devaivre (Gamblin), an assistant director with a family and Jean Aurenche (Podalydes), a womanizing and free-thinking screenwriter. As can be expected in a tale of wartime occupation, there is a rift between those who collaborate with the German production companies looking to mine French talent, and those who strive to find their own ways to rebel, and to survive. This film is also noteworthy in its massive 120+ character cast which includes many French cinema historical figures, for die-hard cineastes out there to identify.
Taking Sides (2003)
Set shortly after World War II in Berlin, this is the story of an American officer's (Keitel) prosecution of German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (Skarsgard) as part of the Allied Forces' de-Nazification trials. As the investigation progresses, the American, wanting to convict a man he sees as a Jew-killing Nazi is brought face-to-face into conflict with a man consumed entirely by his art, not politics.
To End All Wars (2003)
website:
http://www.toendallwars.com
This is the true story of four Allied POW's forced by their Japanese captors to build the infamous "Death Railway" through the jungles of Thailand. One of them, Ernest Gordon (McMenamin), forms a secret college in the camp's morgue as a refuge from their torment... (there's a much more detailed synopsis at the official site)
To the White Sea (2002?)
An American WWII tail gunner, Muldrow (Brad Pitt), stranded when he parachutes from his burning B-29 over Tokyo, must use the violent skills he learned as an Alaskan hunter to journey north through Japan to the island of Hokkaido, and from there, perhaps, home to Alaska...
Crapgame adds: To the White Sea is based on a novel by James Dickey, who served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War 2. Dickey also wrote the novel Deliverance, which inspired the film of the same name which starred Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds.
To The White Sea @ Amazon.com
Who Goes There? (2002?)
Set in WWII, this is the true story of a friendship that emerges when a U-boat accidentally lands its crew near a Welsh seaside village. A local boy (Bell) befriends a young German sailor, but their patriotic loyalties may be stronger...
[ 17. December 2002, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: Otto ]