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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That Hamilton Woman, also known as Lady Hamilton, is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the film tells the story of the rise and fall of Emma Hamilton (1765–1815), dance-hall girl and courtesan, who married Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. She later became mistress to Admiral Horatio...
In this absurdist black comedy, a filmmaking duo encounters tragedy and corruption as they attempt to make a movie about the Iraqi-led genocide of Kurds (the Al-Anfal campaign) during the Iran-Iraq War.
Based on one of the most popular Israeli novels by Yehoshua Kenaz, this film unravels the making of Israeli national identity through militarism as well as the ethnic, national, and class distinctions that still characterize Israeli society. Set in 1956, enforced conscription affects a diverse group of outcats with physical and mental disabilities. They represent a broad spectrum of immigrants...
Désirée is a 1954 American historical-biographical romance film directed by Henry Koster, based on the best-selling novel Désirée by Annemarie Selinko, first published in 1952. It stars Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) and Jean Simmons as Désirée Clary (1777–1860). The film depicts Désirée, a young French millinery clerk living in Marseilles in 1794, who ...
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic courtroom drama, set in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The film depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the 12 U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted before the U.S. military. The film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood (Tracy), before which four German judges and prosecutors...
On the Beach tapped into Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation and World War III. After the northern hemisphere is left uninhabitable from radiation, Americans find refuge in Australia. Survivors soon hear Morse code coming from the western U.S. Their trip home reveals a nuclear wasteland, one that will hit their new home in a matter of weeks.
The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 Napoleonic era war film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, which tells the story of a British Royal Navy artillery officer (Cary Grant), who has orders to retrieve a huge siege cannon from Spain and transport it by ship to British forces. But first, the leader of the Spanish guerrillas (Frank Sinatra) wants to transport the weapon 620 miles...
Based on the lives of Russian Admiral Alexander Kolchak and poet Anna Timiryova, Admiral weaves together love and war set during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Duty and marriage keep the two lovers separated, as each tries to survive the Bolshevik Revolution and fight for tsarist Russia. Timiryova's memories, which unfold during a mid-1960s production of Tolstoy's War and...
A remake of the 1952 film of the same name, a swashbuckler finds himself enlisting in the French army during the Seven Years War to avoid a shotgun marriage. Promised fortune, fame, and the hand of a princess by Adeline, an officer's daughter, Fanfan makes a name for himself as a soldier. Between battles, he and Adeline fall for each other.
In late World War II, German operations in the Balkans depend on refueling posts in Sarajevo. Walter, leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, can stop them, but his identity remains a secret to all involved. The Germans plant a fake Walter to ensure success, only to be defeated by the people of Sarajevo. Such a message was necessary to promote a harmonious, multi-ethnic national identity in...
Rather than amplifying Cold War fears and hysteria in the early 1960s, director Stanley Kubrick's black comedy masterpiece satirizes them. A rogue American general orders B-52s to drop an atomic bomb on the Soviet Union. Back in the Pentagon's War Room, military officials and the president work to stop nuclear annihilation by collaborating with the Soviets. Dr. Strangeglove, a wheelchair-bound...
Acclaimed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, in which Barry, a likeable young Irishman, changes into a conniving, manipulative rogue. The protagonist finds himself homeless after taking part in a fake duel. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). He deserts and is forced to join...
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Stanley Kubrick. An American soldier experiences the dehumanization of war from military training to the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. At Paris Island, new recruits encounter physical and emotional trauma as they become U.S. Marines. One escapes war through a journalism assignment, but he, too, becomes...
Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as the French Colonel Dax, commanding officer, 701st Infantry Regiment. Commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a...
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa (1878–1923) and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. However, each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand man, and Villa must face...
Kranti is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language historical drama film, taking place in nineteenth-century British India leading up to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The film tells the story of four men that lead the war against British Rule: Sanga (Dilip Kumar), Bharat (Manoj Kumar) known as Kranti, a prince (Shashi Kapoor) and a freedom fighter (Shatrughan Sinha). Sangha is a honest and...
Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War, filmmakers armed over 150 Iraqis with cameras to film their everyday lives. Some subjects include the war, the difference between Hussein's rule and that of the Americans, the hope of democracy, and long-standing ethno-cultural tensions within Iraq.
Trinity and Beyond documents American nuclear testing from 1945 to 1963, when the United States., United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Interviews with those involved recount these previously classified experiments, illustrated through restored archival footage.
Two brothers reunite in Lyon after World War II. Russian Jewish immigrants Michel and his wife Léna flee a concentration camp and apply for French citizenship. His brother mysteriously shows up, causing tensions between brothers and husband and wife when Léna falls in love with Jean.
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..