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The keyword search in the collection of films allows users to look for titles by using one or a combination of two and more keywords for their search. They can search for films (movies, TV productions and documentaries) by the director or the year of release, but also look for titles that cover a specific region, country, time period or major war. In addition, a thematic keyword search is possible, which is based on a selection of broad terms defined by the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Gender and War since 1600 edited by Karen Hagemann (General Editor), Stefan Dudink, and Sonya Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). They represent some of its central themes and questions. For information on the various keywords and tags associated with this bibliography, filmography and webography, go to About the Search Options.

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Title Director Abstract Year of Publication Type of Source
Babette Goes to War Christian-Jaque

A naive young French woman becomes an unlikely weapon of war during World War II. British intelligence officers ask  Babette to spy on German officials. Their goal is to learn more information to block a German attack on England, but Babette might jeopardize their mission. 

 1959 Films, Feature Film
Back to 1942 Feng, Xiaogang

A famine in the Henan province reveals the moral and political failings of the Nationalist Government of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A once wealthy landlord slowly loses his family and status as they escape the famine, an American missionary loses his faith in God, and an American...

2012 Films, Feature Film
Back to Bosnia Vajraca, Sabina

In this cinema verite style documentary, filmmaker Sabina Vajraca traces her family's journey back home after the Bosnian War. Returning to the previously multi-ethnic city of Banja Luka, the Bosniak family confront the unapologetic Serbian family who claimed their home during the war. 

 2005 Films, Documentary
Back to Christopolis Pas, Klaus

Director Klaus Pas draws connections between the social problems of immigrants in Parisian suburbs and former child soldiers in the Second Liberian Civil War. These youths struggle to find their place in their world after the war. They experience widespread discrimination in their attempts to...

2008 Films, Documentary
Baler Meily, Mark

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 2008
Ballad of a Soldier Chukhray, Grigoriy

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime. [IMBd]

 1959 Feature Film
Band of Brothers Spielberg, Steven

Based on a book by historian Stephen Ambrose, this award-winning HBO miniseries follows an American military company throughout World War II. The men of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division travel from Camp Toccoa in Georgia to various...

2001 Films, Television
Band of Ninja Ôshima, Nagisa

In this experimental animated film, director Nagisa Oshima explores the unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period. A young son of a feudal lord avenges his father's assassination  by aligning with a renegade ninja.

 1967 Films, Feature Film
Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley

An adaptation of Thackeray's 19th century novel, Barry Lyndon explores amorality and passivity in the Thirty Years War. A young Irish man rises from modest means to the British aristocracy through marriage and war. Director Stanley Kubrick insists things happen to Barry Lyndon rather...

1975 Films
Bat*21 Markle, Peter

Based on a true story, this film recounts the events of a rescue operation of Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton during the Vietnam War. Hambleton, an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, evacuates from a gunned-down plane over the jungles of North Vietnam. He waits for rescue, delayed by weather...

1988 Films
Bataan Garnett, Tay

Based on the Battle of the Bataan during World War II, this film follows a group of black and white American soldiers intent on blocking the Japanese capture of the Philippines. The group faces enemy fire, disease, and hand-to-hand combat in their effort to destroy a strategic bridge.  

 1943 Films
Battle of Britain Hamilton, Guy

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle vs. the Nazi Germany Air Force for control of British air space to prevent a Nazi invasion of Britain.

 1969
Battle of the Bulge Annakin, Ken

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the...

1965 Films

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