How many World War 2 movies have been made?

Answer 1

No one could ever give a precise number, but a lot, literally millions.

Just about every army had official photographers taking photos of everything from training to combat. The work of the US photographers in currently housed in the National Archives. Many images captured from enemy nations are also in the Archives. British Photography is in the Imperial War Museum. Even the home movies of Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, are in the Archives. The Germans even took film and stills of their war crimes and mass murders.

Many private soldiers also carried cameras with them and recorded images of their friends, surroundings, and occasionally of combat.

In addition to still photography there were a great many motion pictures made. Hollywood pitched in to make Propaganda and training films. Stars in uniform (such as Ronald Reagan) were frequently assigned to work with the Motion Picture unit. There were combat photographers, both still and motion, who landed on the beaches and went into action with the troops around the globe. Color photography was new, and the US Navy scored a real coup by securing almost all the color film stock Kodak had available at the outset of the war, and the color films of the US fleet in action are very impressive. Fighter aircraft carried gun cameras, wired to run when the guns were fired, used to confirm pilot's claims of enemy aircraft destroyed. Photographic reconnaissance aircraft flew over enemy lines to take pictures of the defenses and to assess the results of bombing raids. There was one motion picture photographer who made it ashore in Normandy on D-Day, and he sent his exposed film out on a landing craft departing from the beach, but, it was dropped over the side and lost. Priceless, irreplacable footage. The heavy cameras used by motion picture photographers weighed seventy pounds, and the film magazines held only two minutes worth of film. They would have to try to find some covered spot to reload the camera, and could carry no weapon to defend themselves due to the weight of camera and film.

The US also had combat artists, who drew and painted images from the war. Many soldiers also created art on their own.

There are truly an amazing number of images available from the war.

Answer 2

Too many to count.