(11-09-2014 12:00 AM)BEARCATDALE Wrote:  Even though they technically aren't war films as they don't portray on the screen battles, do Triumph of the Will and Night and Fog count as they are about WWII?

"Triumph of the Will" portrays events that occurred exclusively over a span of a few days in September 1934, so I don't think it can qualify as a WWII movie. Of course, most people who watch the movie now will see the image of Hitler and the Swastika-flags and probably associate the film with WWII, but that's just not the same thing, IMHO.

I have seen excerpts of Triumph of the Will and found it to be very compelling. A lot of "modern", "educated", "progressive", upper- and middle-class-type people like to think that they are immune to political fanaticism and the worship of a "strong leader". However, such people were Precisely the demographic that put Hitler in power. Triumph of the Will illustrates that reality with unsettling clarity and dramatic force. The director of that film was a German woman, whose relationship with Hitler and the Nazi movement in general remains a topic of fierce debate in sone quarters.

I've never seen Night and Fog (1955) but I've heard of it. It's a short film (30-35 min.) about the death-camps in WWII, but I don't know anything else about it. Given the subject matter, I think it may or may not be a "WWII" movie, depending on how the film is set-up.