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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
Blockade Dieterle, William

A love story amidst political battles and armed conflict during the Spanish Civil War. Marco, a Republican farmer, falls in love with Maria, an upper-class woman. They work together to prevent a blockade of the local food supply.

 1938 Film
Blokada / Blockade Loznitsia, Sergei

This innovative documentary recounts the siege of Leningrad through rarely seen archival footage mixed with a reconstructed soundtrack. It meticulously reconstructs the chronology of 28-month siege, which lasted from Sept. 1941 to Jan. 1944, placing the viewer in the midst of war. 

 2005 Documentary
Blood Diamond Zwick, Edward

As civil war rages through 1990s Sierra Leone, two men, a white South African mercenary and a black Mende fisherman, become joined in a common quest to recover a rare gem that has the power to transform their lives. With the help of an American journalist, the men embark on a hazardous trek...

2006 Feature Film
Bloody Sunday Greengrass, Paul

"Bloody Sunday" was the deadliest conflict of the Troubles, which this film documents through the perceptive of Ivan Cooper (1944–2019). Cooper was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a founding member of the SDLP. He helped to organized the Northern Ireland Civil Rights...

2002 Feature Film
Body Complete Sturm, Lukas

In the midst of international tribunals on war crimes during the Bosnian War, an Austrian journalist questions whether the war and its crimes still continue. Nicole travels to a small Bosnian village to search for Edina, who disappeared after her return to Morovci to bury her father. During her...

2012 Feature Film
Boer War Material Reel 2 1899-1900 Warwick Trading Company

Compilation of short films documenting Boer War events.

 1900 Film, Primary Source Collection
Boetie Gaan Border Toe! van den Bergh, Regardt

Boetie Gaan Border Toe! is a 1984  film set during the "South African Border War", or the Namibian War of Independence (1966-1990), which was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African...

1984 Feature Film
Bomb Girls Michael MacLennan

Bomb Girls profiles four women who work in a Canadian munitions factory building bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the European front during World War II. The series highlights how the war thrust these women into new worlds, changing their lives profoundly and irrevocably  as they...

2012 Television/Netflix/Amazon, Feature Film
Bombers B-52 Douglas, Gordon

A soured relationship between a commanding officer and a master sergeant during the Korean War threatens the successful introduction of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress for the U.S. Strategic Air Command. When technical problems arise and force the crew to abandon ship in Africa, the commanding...

1957 Feature Film
Bon Voyage Rappeneau, Jean-Paul

A blend of romance, adventure, and comedy, this film focuses on how women wield power over men in the days leading up to the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Viviane, a film actress, uses her charms against a high-ranking politician and an old friend to escape to Bordeaux, while...

2003 Feature Film
Boreg / Self Made Geffen, Shira

An identity swap reveals the similarities of women's lives across the Israel/Palestine divide. An Israeli performance artist and Palestinian suicide bomber accidently trade identities at a border checkpoint. This dark comedy explores how they cope with the resulting everyday absurdity when no...

2014 Feature Film
Born on the Fourth of July Stone, Oliver

This second Vietnam War film by director Oliver Stone, which is based on the biography of Vietnam war veteran an antiwar activist Ron Kovic (born 1946), explores how an all-American boy becomes disillusioned with his nation and how a war-hungry nation injures its citizens, subjects that...

1989 Feature Film
Boyhood Kinoshita, Keisuke

A young boy comes of age during and after World War II, revealing how some Japanese questioned militarism and the war given their loss and devastation. When a Tokyo family flees to the countryside, the young son stays behind to pursue his military schooling. Frightened by the air raids, he joins...

1951 Film, Feature Film
Brava Gente Brasileira / Brave New Land Murat, Lúcia

Conflict between indigenous communities and the Portuguese arise in 18th century Brazil. A cartographer charged with documenting the landscape discovers a different way of life when he encounters an indigenous woman within the interior. Their love affair stands in stark contrast to the ongoing...

2000 Feature Film
Breaker Morant Beresford, Bruce

Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film on the court martial of lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant (1864-1902), Peter Handcock (1868-1902) and George Witton (1874-1942)—one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history. In South Africa during the Second Boer...

1980 Feature Film
Bright Young Things Fry, Stephen

Loosely based on an Evelyn Waugh novel, Bright Young Things explores the culture of affluence, jazz, and cultural transformations in interwar England. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount. He's a novelist with a one...

2003 Feature Film
Bronte Vancini, Florestano

This controversial film reinterprets the Expedition of the Thousand, a key event in the Italian Risorgimento that brought Sicily into the Kingdom of Sardinia. After Garibaldi's conquest, villagers of Bronte revolt after promised land reforms fail to materialize. General Nino Bixio's leads brutal...

1972 Film, Feature Film

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