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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The film was based on I Was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Pubic Law 271 of the Congress, a biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse. A classic Hollywood screwball comedy that highlights the gender-bending experience of World War II. The French Arymy officer Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) who must pass as a war...
Loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel of the same title, initially published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is a classic Hollywood film centered on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter, a romance complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Fishing boat captain Harry (Humphrey Bogart) avoids getting involved in...
The sons and grandchildren of Philip Kent make a life for themselves in America.
The Seekers is based on the historical novel, The Seekers, written by John Jakes, published in 1975, which is the third novel in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or The American Bicentennial Series. The story mixes fictional characters with...
The murder of a high-profile French colonel opens up old wounds from the Algerian War for Independence. An investigator tracks down old connections and materials from the war to solve the case.
At the beginning of World War I, Allied nations turned to British-born writer Gertrude Bell (1868-1826) to help organize the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Queen of the Desert, directed by Werner Herzog, offers a sweeping account of her life, her travels throughout the Middle East, and her work understanding the region's peoples and customs.
This epic war drama, directed by Werner Herzog, is based on the true story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, played by Christian Bale. Dengler is shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War (1955–75). He is tortured and eventually taken to a prison camp, and the film details his escape from the camp after...
An experiential documentary about the American war in Afghanistan. It focuses on a platoon of soldiers stationed near Korengal Valley, one of the most dangerous posts in the US military, and their day-to-day actions.
North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War (1861-1865), they are based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes. The saga tells the story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina (Patrick...
Based on the 1958 controversial memoir by Henri Alleg, La Question highlights the role of torture in the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962). The film recounts Alleg's detention and torture by French officials.
Stella is a 1983 French drama. Set during the Second World War, the film follows Yvon (Thierry Lhermitte) who joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella (Nicole Garcia), from deportation. When France is liberated on August 1944, Yvon's membership in the Gestapo begins to cause troubles. He decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.
Feast of the Uninvited is the story of small lives touched by war... When the great insurrections, revolutions, the wars, sweep over everyday people, their social fabric is torn to shreds, their futures become uncertain, their lives open-ended. And in their desperate predicament they find themselves doing what would have been unthinkable during the secure and predictable times of...
A dedicated Soviet cop (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arrives in Chicago, where he reluctantly teams up with a foul-mouthed American detective to search for the Russian drug dealer who killed both their partners. The drug plot connects the crack wave in late 1980s America to a global economy sustained by Cold War tensions. Red Heat was the first American film given permission to shoot in...
This Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, explores the final days of Hitler and his top officials during the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Trapped in a bunker as Allied troops move it, Hitler issues his final orders. Some stay with him toward the end, while others see a mad man falling apart.
Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little killed Joe Griffin's brother during the height of the Troubles, but the two have processed the event differently. A program helps the two meet for further reconciliation, but Griffin wants vengeance.
An Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of a John Steinbeck novella, Lifeboat captures the tension and drama of World War II through the survivors of a torpedoed vessel. American and British civilians who have survived the sinking of their ship by a German submarine struggle to reach land in a crowded lifeboat. When a German officer (Walter Slezak) is rescued from the water, the group allows...
Hailed as a cinematic watershed for director Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious weaves a taut World War II spy thriller with a dangerous love triangle. In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another,...
Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British comedy film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. The film relays a tragicomic tale of the disintegration of one family during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923). During the Irish War of Indipendence (1919–1921), a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life,...
Director Alfred Hitchcock tackles a case of mistaken identity and a murder mystery in this masterful exploration of Cold War America. This classic suspense film finds New York City ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) pursued by ruthless spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) after Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent. Hunted relentlessly by Vandamm's associates, the harried...
One of Hitchcock's less esteemed efforts, Torn Curtain finds movie stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in a Cold War thriller. American physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) shocks his friends and family by defecting to East Germany to work with the Soviets during the height of the Cold War. Even his fiancée (Julie Andrews) is surprised by the move, but when she follows him behind...
My Lan, a radio broadcaster of a program titled The Soldier's Heart asks a South Vietnamese army colonel to allow her to travel to the front lines of the Vietnam War to search for her lover. Their relationship began through correspondence. My Lan witnesses the harsh reality of soldier's lives and finds out her lover has been wounded in battle. The film praises the image of...