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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In this remake of the 1919 film by the same title, director Abel Gance's depiction of the Battle of Verdun (February – December 1916) and the sacrifices made for it served as a stern warning to his nation as World War II approached. Two romantic rivals put their differences aside as they experience one of World War I's most devastating battles...
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (1789–99) (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was...
J'accuse is a 1919 French silent film directed by Abel Gance. It juxtaposes a romantic drama with the background of the horrors of World War I, and it is sometimes described as a pacifist or anti-war film. Two romantic rivals put their differences aside as they experience one of World War I's most devastating battles. One conjures the dead to defend his French homeland. Work on the...
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a school known as a training ground for Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. His innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the...
A documentary on the life of Edith Hahn (1914–2009), an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer.
Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II film drama, following the defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese in 1942. Capt. Henry Lassiter (Lee Bowman), Sgt. Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces...
The Algerian War came within the framework of a very special era of decolonization, soon after the Second World War and the loss of Indochina, as well as of the Cold War tension which led the French army to see the hands of Communism behind the Algerians' fight. The atrocities of the Algerian War are well known. To denounce them was to tarnish the army and France. Pressures were exerted, even...
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 one notices.
An animated feature documents the experience of Jewish refugees in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II. Two young refugees and an orphan explore the city as various wars and politics reshape it.
Young Park Seol-Hee is eagerly planning her wedding to a young anti-Communist activist when the North Koreans invade. Her fiancé is forced to flee, leaving her behind with her family in their tiny, rural South Korean village. Rather than resist the North Korean regiment that comes to occupy the area, the townspeople (to Seol-Hee's dismay) decide to cooperate with them in order to ensure their...
Based on the 1981 hunger strike in North Ireland's Maze Prison, Some Mother's Son explores the roles of love, family, and faith in revolutionary politics. Mothers of two strikers, including Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands (1954-1981), prepare to support their loved ones' extreme actions to fight for their status as POWs.
The true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
This epic war drama portrays life in Istanbul during World War I and the accompanying dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, including the Armenian genocide (1915–17). Starring Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Le Bon, the film raises important questions about ethnic tensions and violence that erupted with the fall of the empire, resulting in thousands of deaths and irrevocably altered...
And Quiet Flows the Don is a three-part epic 1958 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first two parts of the film were released in October 1957 and the final third part in 1958. The film tells the story of Russia's involvement in the World War I (1914–1918), the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War (1917–...
In late 17th-century Russia, Czar Peter the Great (1672-1725) orders an attack on Turkey, which refuses to pay taxes to the Russian government. The Russian military is equipped with outdated technology, and they suffer their first defeat. After the defeat the czar orders the building of a fleet, and sends many educated men to study in Germany, France, and Holland. Russian victory over Turkey...
The film is a story about the youth of Peter the Great (1672-1725), about the formation of his character and about his immediate environment. The czar decisively renounces a number of patriarchal values and seeks to bring the country, which he loves and to which he is devoted with all youthful fervor, among the most enlightened. This is the first part of a two-part film, which was based on the...
In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization. The Battle of Adwa and Ethiopia's independence in the era of European colonization still inspires the nation's peoples today. This documentary interviews historians, elders, priests, poets, and singers to show how that battle shaped Ethiopian...
Director Haile Gerima connects the past to the present in his internationally-acclaimed, sci-fi exploration of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. After high-fashion photo shoot, a black American model wakes up on a southern plantation nearly two hundred years in the past. Her experiences as an enslaved woman show her search for liberation, community, and connecting to one's roots to cope with her...
Co-written by Frederico Fellini, The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo is an Italian Western set in Sicily during the turbulent 1860s, when unification meant not autonomy but a new conquest, this time by the forces of northern Italy. The desire to control of a small town draws together the terrorist campaign of bandit leader Raffa Raffa and a wily team of sharpshooters.
In a Kurdish refugee camp on the eve of the War in Iraq, a boy's ambitions and joys contrast sharply with the horrors around him. A young boy's adventures in scavenging is better than some work in clearing land mines, leaving some disfigured and others emboldened. Their camp remains impoverished and neglected, but they await word of an American invasion.