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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An Oscar and Peabody winning documentary on the role of torture in U.S. military prisons since 9/11. Interviews with former military and Bush officials, guards, and prisoners reveal the history of torture as an intelligence gathering technique from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan as a strategic American military response to the War on Terror. A case study of an Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who...
This internationally acclaimed film presents the true story of a conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor for his service during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Desmond Doss volunteers for the U.S. Army with aspirations of being a medic. He objects to killing and refuses to hold or fire a weapon for religious reasons, which elicits hostility and a court martial at basic...
The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Violette Szabo (1921–1945) who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France. The film starts with Szabo's life in London early in the war and her marriage to French Army officer, Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city. Following Etienne's death in the North African front...
The historical drama, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the 1958 novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley. During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) takes command of the HMS Defiant and is ordered to rendezvous with the fleet in Corsica. With his son aboard as a new midshipman, Capt. Crawford takes an even hand with his crew. This does not sit well with his second-in-...
This television miniseries, produced by the BBC, follows the ambition and political opportunism of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), as well as his life with his wife Sarah (1660-1744).
Independent Nell Prescott gets involved in intrigue and heroism during the American Revolution and meets Benjamin Franklin along the way.
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. According to the British Film Institute database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy", along with Two Thousand Women (1944) and Waterloo Road...
Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film, the third installment in an "unofficial trilogy" according to the British Film Institute, preceded by Millions Like Us (1943) and Two Thousand Women (1944). In London, soon after railway worker Jim Colte (John Mills) reports for...
A high-ranking military official questions his loyalties during the English Civil War (1642–1651). When King Charles I (1600–1649) is captured by Roundhead forces, led by the Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries) and his right-hand man Captain Sylvester (Oliver Reed), it is up to a band of locals loyal to the King led by a Robin Hood–type character named the Scarlet Blade to try to rescue him. They...
A small town in northern France launches its resistance against the Nazi occupation in the middle of World War II. Locals and recent Polish refugees unite against Nazi collaborators and occupiers and plan to destroy key infrastructure projects.
In 1944, Georges (Thierry Frémont), a small thug who served in the German police, began to fear the arrival of the French resistance fighters. His girlfriend intervenes with an officer of the French miltiary intelligence to save Georges from prison. Georges becomes a police informant for the French, denouncing the torturers, the militiamen, the collaborators he met and to take part in the...
A group of Holocaust refugees arrive in war-torn Palestine, days before the declaration of the state of Israel. Some join the Palmach, the Jewish underground army, while others try to find peace amidst chaos.
A young, aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in the big city. In pursuit of this and to the chagrin of his brother and parents, he makes his way to Nairobi: the city of opportunity. [IMBD]
Based on a true story, this film shows how Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat, saved the lives of thousands Jewish refugees during World War II. After serving in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Sugihara takes a post in Lithuania. His professionalism dictates he follows the alliance between Japan and Germany, but he increasingly questions his orders when faced with the moral...
This 1960 film, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, follows a Frenchman named Bruno Forestier, played by Michel Subor, who lives in Geneva during the Algerian War (1954–62) to escape enlistment. Forestier is nevertheless ordered by his superiors in French intelligence to assassinate an agent of the National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN) to prove he is not a double agent, but he instead dreams of...
This Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film explores the moral disintegration of society after the Yugoslav Wars. A man considers assassinating a warlord for money to pay for his child's life-saving surgery.
This film explores the struggles of a woman during and after the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963-1974), fought between Portugal and its colony for over 500 years. Diminga, wife to a wounded guerilla commander, travels to the front lines with food and supplies for her husband. The death, despair and destruction she witnesses continues to define her life after the war.
Adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1897 play of the same title, this is the tragic story of wordsmith and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), a French aristocrat-turned-soldier during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659). Cyrano falls in love with his cousin Roxanne, but he supports her when she declares her love for Christian de Neuvillette, a handsome new cadet. Sent off to war with him,...
A documentary that explores the myths and realities of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II, when the Germans and Russians fought for two-and-a-half years. It led to the death of one million people. Archival footage intersperses with survivor interviews, revealing the starkness and devastation of their experiences during and after the siege.
This documentary explores why some joined the French Resistance during World War II. Interviewees reveal an unwillingness to submit to Germany and Vichy France. Their memories reveal the origins, evolution, and lasting impact of the Resistance.