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 woman's reawakening leads to a battle for personal liberation during the Lebanese Civil War. Noha's meeting with an ex-lover, conflict with family, and witness to a brutal event prompts her to change her mind about marriage. Her decision causes explosive waves throughout her personal life. The film explores the disruptions to gender roles shaped by family, romance, and society and reveals a...
This musical drama film about the Cold War in the late 1980s brings together Russian ballerino Mikhail Baryshnikov and African-American dancer Gregory Hines. When his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, ballet dancer Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) is recognized as a defector and brought into custody. Returned to Leningrad and reunited with his former love, aging prima...
Stop Train 349 (German: Verspätung in Marienborn, French: Le train de Berlin est arrêté, Italian: Un treno è fermo a Berlino), is a 1963 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Rolf Hädrich. Based on a true story, an East German's escape sparks an international crisis during the Cold War. The refugee slips aboard an American military duty train...
An American journalist in Shanghai unravels a murder mystery during World War II. Paul Soames travels to China to meet his old friend, only to find him dead. Solving his murder ensnares military officials, ambassadors, businessmen, and other elites in his investigation.
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq in 2007 struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. [IMBD]
Renowned at the time for its unprecedented and spectacular flying sequences, this big-budget war film, directed by Guy Hamilton, drew multiple major acting names to star in its depiction of the Battle of Britain, the conflict that took place over the summer and autumn of 1940 when the British Royal Air Force defeated Germany’s Luftwaffe, ensuring the cancellation of Hitler’s plan to invade...
A man returns to Palestine after living in America. Archival footage of his childhood offers a contrast to his current journey.
A tortured romance set during the American Civil War. A white southern woman is torn between her family's Confederate loyalties and her husband's commitment to the Union. She dons a rebel uniform and soldier's appearance to support her family. She meet a new lover while at war.
Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film was ...
A Chinese government commissioned film marking the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution of 1949. Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek, and other high ranking officials meet to negotiate a political peace to the civil war. When that fails, communist-led militia easily take over government forces.
Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the...
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 between Laurent and a childhood friend, a poor Algerian Muslim, forged in the Paris Massacre of...
The documentary centers on Kenzo Okuzaki (1921-2005), a 62-year-old veteran of Japan's campaign in New Guinea in the Second World War, and follows him around as he protests against Emperor Hirohito and searches out for those responsible for the unexplained deaths of two soldiers in his old unit.
Filmed at the height of Nazi Germany's triumph in late 1940 and early 1941, Der große König was Germany's most ambitious film to date. Both Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler were fascinated by Frederick the Great (1712–1786), and invoked him in their propaganda as a proto-National Socialist hero. Amidst vividly realized battle scenes, the film depicts Frederick II and his rule from...
Directed by Robert Harmon, this historical film dramatizes General George Washington's (1732–99) perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton in 1776. His Continental Army was on the brink of utter defeat. Low on men, cannons and supplies, Washington decided to risk everything on one last desperately daring attack on the town of Trenton in New...
A man's ego supersedes his roles as father, husband, and breadwinner in the chaos of the modern day civil war in Chad. A former champion swimmer holds a respectable job as pool attendant when management replaces him with his son. He sends his son to war to satisfy government demands for civilian contributions and to win his job back. His reckless decision has tragic consequences.
Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals, including Nassara, now a modest baker. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father. Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know.
Richard Widmark portrays the captain of a newly launched U.S. Destroyer who is obsessed with hunting down a particular Soviet submarine regardless of the great risks involved. His salty character clashes with a quick-witted journalist (Sydney Poiter) who is on board to cover the trip for a magazine. In spite of the dangers, he pushes his men forward to discover the origins of an unmarked...
This film marks an influential contribution to the post-World War II myth established around Rommel's figure, one that highlights his military brilliance, opposition to some Nazi policies, and victim of Hitler. The film bridges a string of defeats at the end of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's (1891–1944) military career, from El Alamein to his death-by-suicide mission. In between, Rommel...
The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white American spy film in a semidocumentary style. The movie, shot mostly in New York City, was released shortly after the end of World War II. The House on 92nd Street was made with the full cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), whose director, J. Edgar Hoover, appears during the introductory montage. Also,...