the WW II experience

Here is a list of movies that would give you the world war II overall knowledge and experience.

the pacific assault >
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Australia (2008)
Windtalkers (2002)

US perspective >
Band of Brothers (2001 TV miniseries)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Allied Forces>
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Great Escape (1963)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Enigma (2001)

the german perspective >
Valkyrie (2008)

Japanese angle >
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Russian angle >
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
U-571 (2000)

Jewish angle>
Defiance (2008)
The Pianist (2002)
Schindler's List (1993)

Chinese angle >
Empire of the sun (1987)

fictional >
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)