Best 20 War Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1947

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. More about The Best Years of Our Lives / IMDB / YouTube

When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy. Learn about 13 Rue Madeleine / IMDB / YouTube

A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany. Get info on I See a Dark Stranger / IMDB / YouTube

On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman. Look into Golden Earrings / IMDB / YouTube

In 1940, a concentration camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war. Details on The Captive Heart / IMDB / YouTube

In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine. Explore The Damned / IMDB / YouTube

Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans and seduces the grieving woman, but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home. Learn about Desire Me / IMDB / YouTube

A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima. Explore The Beginning or the End / IMDB / YouTube

A WW2 documentary on the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bomber pilots in missions (Operation Strangle) from their base in Corsica to Northern Italy in 1944, destroying railroads, bridges, trains, vehicles and hard targets. Info on Thunderbolt / IMDB / YouTube

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives. Find out about Frieda / IMDB / YouTube

Van Johnson is a Navy pilot in WWII who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, Van Johnson recounts his life story and romance with girlfriend June Allyson. It's a wonderful wholesome movie that the whole family will enjoy. Written by Charles Nordhoff and James . Explore High Barbaree / IMDB / YouTube

A look at the trials of Nazi leaders. See more about Nuremberg Trials / IMDB / YouTube