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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Based on the memoir by Solomon Perel (1925-), this film tells the story how a Jewish boy survives World War II. Displaced by Kristallnacht and the Invasion of Poland, Solomon winds up in a Russian orphanage after losing his family. When Germans invade, Solomon adopts the identity of a Balkan German and quickly becomes a favored mascot. An officer sends him to an elite Nazi school for Hitler...
In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes her. This misfortune gives birth to a son with very black skin. A few years later, in Senegal, Souleyman's father, a practicing Muslim, demands that his son find and marry Fatima, "his sister in Islam".
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta) is a 2004 Finnish documentary on the devastation and ruin brought on by the Second Cechen War (1999-2000), in particular the toll that the war had taken on the children of Chechnya and Russia. The documentary explores how war affected children from three environments, a military academy, a refugee camp, and a war-torn...
The story of John Riley of Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish Catholic immigrants in the United States who desert from the Protestant-leaning U.S. Army to the mainly Catholic Mexican side during the American-Mexican War. Riley and some of the men in his battalion, fleeing to the United States from the famine caused by potato crops in their homeland, are flogged for desertion after...
This acclaimed biopic covers the political career of John Adams, second President of the United States. From the 1770 Boston Massacre and the American Revolution to his post-presidency, Adams is presented as independent, ardent defender of liberty, and guided by rule of law. His relationship with his with Abigail is also presented.
Winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards, The King's Speech shows how a man becomes king in the years before World War II. Prince Albert seeks a speech therapist to help him overcome a lifelong stutter and build confidence in his monarchal duties. Such skills come in handy when he suddenly becomes King George VI and war looms ahead. Although its portrayal of the king and era is...
A love story between major events of the American Revolutionary War (1775+1783). A disguised British aristocrat and a wealthy landowner's daughter fall in love, but the war and major political events keep them apart. His war ventures earn him the trust of George Washington.
A boy and his father are forced to take refuge in the underground shelter upon realizing that Israel is under missile attack. As the son (11) awakes the next morning he is shocked to learn from his father that Israel has been severely injured in the attack the night before. Both father and son must now accustom themselves to the new reality of life in the shelter. Dealing with day to day...
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him. [...
This six-part documentary series from Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, covers the American Revolution from the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 through the ratification of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1789. In addition to narration and interviews with historians, the series includes re-enactments of military engagements and...
A childless couple harbor a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. A neighbor and noted sympathizer frequently visits with the wife, making it harder for the couple to keep their secret.
Men wounded in World War I find new life at a rehabilitation facility. One of them falls in love with a local school teacher. Their happiness is disrupted when called to go to war again.
A young idealistic British man joins the French Foreign Legion to fight in the Algerian War. Their bonds, forged in brutal training, are tested when France declares Algeria independent. Different loyalties tear the group apart.
Revolution is a 1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson. The film stars Al Pacino as the New York trapper Tom Dobb, who becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution (1775-1783) after his son Ned is drafted into the Revolutionary Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy (Donald Sutherland). Tom eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand...
An account of the 100-day Rwandan genocide, as experienced by a young Tutsi girl. Josette seeks refuge in the Catholic Church, only to find another form of horror there. The departure of UN peacekeepers further makes the area unstable and Josette less safe.
The nation's fathers harmonize their way through the founding of America in this musical adapted from a popular Broadway show. Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin (Howard da Silva) and John Adams (William Daniels) charge Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard) with the work of writing...
Malta Story is a 1953 British war film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, which is set during the air defence of Malta during the Siege of Malta in the World War II. The film uses real and unique footage of the locations at which the battles were fought and includes a love story between a RAF reconnaissance pilot and a Maltese woman, as well as the anticipated execution of her brother...
In 1780, the Inca leader José Gabriel Tupac Amaru (1738-1781) led workers, slaves and Indians into South America's first full-scale revolt against Spanish colonialism. This powerful, handsomely mounted biographical film depicts the failed rebellion which led to Tupac's grisly execution in Cusco's central plaza. Túpac Amaru became a symbol of liberation in Latin America, and the film ends with...
Across the Pacific is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps. When disgraced American military officer Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) boards a Japanese ship, he is apparently willing to turn his back on his...
Based on an eponymous short story by Rudyard Kipling published in 1888, this adventure film follows the exploits of Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) and Danny Dravot (Sean Connery), English military officers stationed in India in the 1880s. Tired of life as soldiers, the two travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...