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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
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

Bombers B-52, released in the United Kingdom as No Sleep Till Dawn, concerns the introduction of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber into the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) inventory during the Cold War era of the 1950s.  A soured relationship between a commanding officer and...

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
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
Bronenosets Potemkin / Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei M.

This international cinematic masterpiece portrays revolutionary events that preceded the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. In 1905 following the Sino-Russo War, sailors of the Potemkin protest poor conditions, stirring riots on board as well as in the port city of Odessa. Tsarist militia...

1925 Silent Film, Feature Film
Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato / Liberty 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 in early August 1860 after promised land reforms fail to materialize. General Nino...

1972 Feature Film
Bufor / Beaufort Cedar, Joseph

Oscar-nominated for Best Foriegn Language Film, Beaufort recounts the final months of Israeli occupation of Lebanon during 2000. Israeli soldiers guard the mountain fortress, which symbolized their 18-year presence in South Lebanon. Under attack, without any ground support, the soldiers...

2008 Feature Film
Bure Baruta / Cabaret Balkan Paskaljevic, Goran

In a series of interlocking stories, director Goran Paskaljević explores the connection between violence and masculinity within the context of the then ongoing wars in former Yugoslavia. On a harsh winter night in Belgrade before the signing of the Dayton Agreement, an ex-con working as a taxi...

1998 Feature Film
By Dawn's Early Light Sholder, Jack

By Dawn's Early Light is an HBO original movie, which aired in 1990. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau. The film depicts the events of a fictional World War III at the end of the Cold War. Soviet agents launch a nuclear strike on their...

1990 Television/Netflix/Amazon, Feature Film
Caché Haneke, Michael

In Caché, an internationally acclaimed psychological thriller and widely hailed as a masterpiece, director Michael Haneke explores postcolonial tensions and memory in modern day France. Georges Laurent, a celebrity journalist, receives surveillance footage of his home and family. Links...

2005 Feature Film
Cal O'Connor, Pat

Based on the 1983 novella of the same title written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film. The plot follows Cal (John Lynch), a young soldier in the Irish Republican Army, and Marcella (Helen Mirren), a Catholic war widow, who fall in love...

1984 Feature Film
Camp de Thiaroye Sembene, Ousmane

Camp de Thiaroye depicts the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on December 1, 1944, otherwise known as the Thiaroye massacre. West African conscripts were protesting poor conditions and revocation of pay at the Thiaroye camp. The film is a...

1988 Feature Film
Canciones para después de una Guerra Patino, Basilio Martín

Canciones para después de una guerra (Songs for after a war) is a 1971 Spanish documentary film, which explores post-Civil War Spain through popular music to criticize Franco's rule. It was shot and produced in secret in 1971 and was not released until 1976, shortly after the...

1976 Documentary
Cánh dong hoang / The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone Nguyen, Hong Sen

Shot entirely within the geography of a small rice field in the Mekong Delta, the film explores the experiences of a young family during the Vietnam War. Isolated from the conflict, the young family nevertheless is pulled into the war through the Viet Cong and American pilots.  

 1979 Feature Film

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