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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A made-for-television drama of the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympics. Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group, took 11 Israeli athletes hostage. All surviving hostages were then killed by the group or the police during a failed rescue mission.
In German-occupied France during World War II, the Carlingue (the French Gestapo) recruited low level criminals to spy on those suspected of supporting the Resistance. One must choose to work for the Carlingue or see his loved one, a Jewish girl, killed.
Invasion, U.S.A. is set in the Cold War and portrays the fictional invasion of the United States by an unnamed communist enemy, likely referring to the Soviet Union. It is typical of the Red Scare film genre, common throughout the 1950s. The film follows five people are sitting in a New York bar with a mysterious Mr. Ohman, a brooding and mysterious TV repoter, when they hear the news...
Underground centers on a group of slaves planning a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation in the years before the American Civil War. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
"Bloody Sunday" was the deadliest conflict of the Troubles, which this film documents through the eyes of Ivan Cooper (1944–2019), played by James Nesbitt. 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 Association march in Derry on January 30,1972. British troops opened fire, killing 14 and...
Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent drama film by D. W. Griffith, based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon, and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution. When the plague kills their parents, Henriette (Lillian Gish) and her blind adopted sister, Louise (Dorothy Gish), go to Paris in...
In 1973, Kenneth Griffith, the renowned documentary maker, gathered together a group of veterans of the Irish Rising. Almost half a century after the terrible events they lived through, this highly diverse group – branded terrorists by the British in their youth and now highly respected citizens – gave either own vivid account of what it was like to live through those turbulent times....
Director D.W. Griffith's sweeping account of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), based on Robert W. Chambers' 1905 novel The Reckoning. In Massachussetts in the mid-1770s, British renegade officer Capt. Walter Butler (Lionel Barrymore) struggles to enlist the aid of Indians against the tide of colonists rebelling for independence. Meanwhile, impoverished farmer Nathan Holden (...
A fascinating documentary on the early military education of George Washington from the French and Indian War to the American Revolutionary War. Early failures reveal how Washington learned military strategies and became one of the foremost generals in the American colonies. Such success led to his inauguration as president of the new United States of America.
The documentary on Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) follows him through his military victories in Italy and his crowning as Emperor in 1804. Napoleon experienced major military and political victories which gave him control over Europe on the height of his power in 1810 and later dramatic military defeat between 1812 and 1815. He spent the rest of his life writing his memoirs on St. Helena....
An account of the lives and deaths of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI focusing primarily on Marie. It is an account of their lives from birth to death and the circumstances leading to the downfall of the French monarchy. It is done with actors and many painted images of the King and Queen. It tells of the great incompetence of the monarchy both from the King and the Queen and the public rage...
A group of French, Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians, and Armenians - the Manoukian Group - briefly set off a wave of armed resistance in occupied Paris in the spring of 1943. German officials and French collaborators arrested them and sentenced them to death. The backlash led them to paint the Manoukian Group as terrorists.
An Algerian immigrant living on the outskirts of Paris strives to achieve his goals in the last year of the Algerian War of Independence. After saving his money and living in a shantytown, he sets off to find a decent place to live for his family's impending arrival. He is swept up on the October 1961 massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the police.
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, in 2012 for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
This film, directed by Sacha Guitry, explores Napoléon Bonaparte's (1769–1821) life, loves, and exceptional destiny as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under the emperor. The film is an epic historical tale that depicts major events in the life of Napoleon.
An American journalist investigates political intrigue during the Lebanon Civil War. Don Stevens thought he landed an interview with a top leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization only to discover he had been duped. Finding out why leads him to uncover a deadly plot.
This film mixes archival film, survivor testimonies, and dramatization to tell the story of the Rape of Nanking, one of the worst atrocities of the Second Sino-Japanese War and modern warfare. As Japanese soldiers kills and rape the civilians of Nanking, a group of western businessmen, missionaries, educators, and ex-patriots set up a refugee network to help the Chinese escape.
It is wedding day. Along with their families, the bride and the groom are stranded within a bomb shelter, while the Second Lebanon war is raging outside, in the Israeli city of Haifa. In addition to the usual pressures involved, with wedding preparations, additional stress is caused by being jammed in the shelter. The pressure, the crowdedness, the perspiration and the sultriness are mixed...
An American journalist's investigation to uncover the truth behind a friend's murder during the Iraq War leads her to uncover a complex web of political and military intrigue. Anna's relationship with her American and Iraqi sources lead her to discover the emergence of the Iraqi insurgency and U.S. efforts to stop it.
During the 1948 war in Palestine and just one day after a massacre which shocked the world, an old man encounters a young man and a boy running for their lives. The three Palestinians share the common interest of leaving their homeland for a safer place. Unknown what lies ahead, their journey is sidetracked from the start by the enemy who show up this beautiful Spring day. They flee, fearing...