The Best World War II Spy Movies Based on Fact

The Man Who Never Was

    A deception scheme involving a dead body codenamed MINCEMEAT conducted in 1943 to draw the enemy’s attention away from Sicily.

Operation Crossbow

    A star-studded version of the Allied investigation of Nazi secret weapons.

I Was Monty’s Double

    A hapless Pay Corps officer is persuaded to participate in Operation COPPERHEAD, a deception plan intended to suggest General Montgomery would be leading an invasion of France from the Mediterranean in 1944.

Operation Amsterdam

    A tense MI6 operation undertaken during the Nazi invasion of Holland to prevent stocks of Dutch diamonds falling into enemy hands.

The Heroes of Telemark

    Kirk Douglas leads a Norwegian resistance attempt to sabotage the Nazi atomic research project at Vermork by destroying stocks of heavy water.

Five Fingers

    James Mason plays the role of Elyesa Bazna, a valet who sold secrets from the British ambassador’s safe to the Nazis in Ankara. 

Carve Her Name With Pride

    A harrowing, semi-fictionalised account of Violette Szabo’s SOE mission to Nazi-occupied France, and her capture, starring Virginia McKenna.

Triple Cross

    Christopher Plummer plays Eddie Chapman, an MI5 double agent who duped the Abwehr into sending him to England as a German spy.