Films by Director

This site allows users to access the collection of films organized by release date. The collection includes selected movies, TV productions and documentaries on the theme of gender, military and war in the periods covered by 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). Including films released between the 1920s and the present, the focus is on the wars of the twentieth century, because most movies relevant for the theme of gender, military and war focus on a conflict of this period. The filmography includes productions in English, French and German or films with English subtitles.


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Director(s): Fayziev, Dzhanik
Release Date: 2005
Abstract:

Based on a popular novel series by Boris Akunin, the Turetskiy gambit (The Turkish Gambit) follows Erast Fandorin on his adventures in the Russian-Turkish War (1877–1878). Recently released from a Turkish prison, Fandorin crosses Bulgaria to warn his compatriots in the Russian Army of an impending attack and a potential spy in their midst. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374298/
Director(s): Feng, Xiaogang
Release Date: 2007
Abstract:

Assembly explores honor, sacrifice, and identity through Gu Zidi, a captain of the 9th Company of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) near the end of the Chinese Civil War. During the decisive Huaihai Campaign, Gu and his men defend a coal mine with orders to stay until called to retreat. He is the lone survivor, forgotten by the PLA and deemed a traitor. To regain his honor, he serves...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881200/
Director(s): Feng, Xiaogang
Release Date: 2012
Abstract:

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 journalist writes an expose that forces the government to address the problem.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2113822/
Director(s): Feng, Xiao
Release Date: 2018
Abstract:

This Chinese action war drama film directed by Xiao Feng about the massive Japanese bombing of the Chinese city Chongqing, capital of General Chiang Kai-shek's provisional government, from February 1938 to August 1943, tells the story of five  Chinese local volunteers who  with help from American allies, learn how to fly fighter planes to defend their city. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4743226/
Director(s): Ferguson, Charles H.
Release Date: 2007
Abstract:

A critical examination of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq based on interviews with former Bush II administration officials, ambassadors, journalists, soldiers, civilians, and analysts. Interviewees highlight U.S. policy decisions such as the de-Ba’athification of government, the disbandment of the Iraqi army, and the inadequate number of U.S. military on the ground that further...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/
Director(s): Ferraz, Vicente
Release Date: 2013
Abstract:

The first film to dramatize Brazil's involvement in World War II, A Estrada 47 explores frailty and courage through a group of soldiers tasked with clearing landmines in northern Italy during the winter of 1944. After one explodes, survivors regroup and encounter their former enemies, an Italian and German who deserted. Fearing they will be labeled as such, the group decide to carry...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1841490/
Director(s): Ferraz, Buza
Release Date: 1997
Abstract:

The small town of Parnamirim in Brazil changes rapidly when the U.S. establishes a military base there during World War II. American GIs bring with them dollars, music, and Hollywood movies, reshaping locals' economic, social, and cultural lives.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137546/.
Director(s): Ferroukhi, Ismaël
Release Date: 2011
Abstract:

A fictionalized account of Algerian involvement in the French Resistance during World War II, Free Men follows Younes as he transitions from Paris' underground black market to the underground network helping Jews escape persecution. To avoid imprisonment after his arrest, Younes agrees to spy on fellow Muslims at the Grand Mosque. He becomes a double agent when he builds friendships...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699185/
Director(s): Field, Connie
Release Date: 1980
Abstract:

Three African-American women and two white women discuss their defense industry employment, advocacy of labor rights, and societal expectations of them during and after World War II. Interviews are interspersed with newsreels, war department films, and Hollywood movies that promoted women's participation in the war effort and, particularly after the war, reinforced gender norms. The inclusion...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081053/
Director(s): Finn, Jim
Release Date: 2012
Abstract:

In this documentary, Franz Hinkelammert, a German-born liberation theologian, economist, and philosopher who specializes in Latin America, critiques the new world order based on neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, authoritarianism, and nationalism that arose in the last third of the 20th century. He proposes non-violent solutions to address the resulting economic, cultural, and political...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2308933/
Director(s): Fleischer, Richard
Release Date: 1970
Abstract:

Tora! Tora! Tora! presents the American and Japanese perspectives on the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, which precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. Negotiations between the U.S. and Japan over trade embargoes break down, prompting Japanese military officers to plan a pre-emptive strike. American military officials intercept...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/
Director(s): Fleming, Victor
Release Date: 1927
Abstract:

The Rough Riders (1927) is a silent film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt's military unit in Cuba, otherwise known as the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders were a special regiment that fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898. The film shows how a motley and diverse group of volunteers set aside their differences and form lasting...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018346/
Director(s): Fleming, Victor
Release Date: 1939
Abstract:

The Oscar-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, Victor Flemming focuses on an elite white southern woman's life before, during, and after the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara, favorite daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, pursues love, lust, and wealth as the men in her life leave her or fall to war. The film presents an overly romanticized...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/
Director(s): Florey, Robert
Release Date: 1948
Abstract:

The movie Rouges’ Regiment, directed by Robert Florey, was the first American feature film to take place during the First Indochina War (1946–1954). An American intelligence agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in French Indochina. He joins forces with a French Intelligence agent investigating supplies of...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040744/
Director(s): Folman, Ari
Release Date: 2008
Abstract:

An internationally acclaimed animated documentary, filmmaker Ari Folman works to uncover his lost memories as an Israeli solider in the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman interviews fellow soldiers, old friends, and journalists to reconstruct his war experiences. His exploration reveals long suppressed guilt in his role in a massacre of a Palestinian refugee camp. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/
Director(s): Ford, John
Release Date: 1940
Abstract:

The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. The hard-living, international crew of a British merchant ship become unnerved as they cross the Atlantic during the first year of World War II. Suspicions mount when the ship takes on explosives, but loss of crew members during stormy seas, German attacks, and impressment force the crew to come together and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032728/
Director(s): Ford, John
Release Date: 1945
Abstract:

They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed. The film is based on the 1942 book by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038160/
Director(s): Ford, John
Release Date: 1935
Abstract:

The Informer explores guilt and personal morals during the Irish War for Independence (1919–1921). Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) is a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend (Margot Grahame). So when British authorities advertise a reward for information...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026529/
Director(s): Ford, John
Release Date: 1939
Abstract:

This film, based on the 1936 novel Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmond, focuses on Gilbert and Lana Martin, a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Native American drive them, along with other settlers in the valley, into a nearby fort, where they watch helplessly as the natives lay waste to their farms and cabins. A...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031252/
Director(s): Foster, Lilibet
Release Date: 2001
Abstract:

This documentary examines rape, sexual violence, and sexual slavery in the Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) and argues that such atrocities be deemed international war crimes. Survivors recount their experiences of being kidnapped, gang raped, and trained as rebel wives and fighters, often when they were sill children. Although all armies and militias perpetrated these crimes, an interview...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6303436/

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