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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Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this Algerian film, directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, shows how fighting against authoritarianism and fascism during World War II influenced the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). A young peasant migrates from his drought-stricken village, only to be drafted by the French Army to fight in World War II. When he returns home, he finds...
From his jail cell in Cádiz, Francisco de Miranda recounts his rise to power and push for Venezuelan independence to an inquiring journalist. Influenced by revolutionary thought, especially in the new United States, Miranda led the Venezuela independence movement until he betrayed it.
This film recounts the life of Jose Tomás Boves, whose rebellion against Simón Bolívar led to the fall of the 2nd Republic of Venezuela. Although Spanish by birth, Boves led a group of slaves, mulattoes, Indians and mestizos who remained outside Bolívar's vision of a free Venezuela.
Two unlikely men lead a mission for the French Resistance in World War II. Clovis and Paulo, both hotheads and petty thieves, are tasked with stealing German plans to invade Britain.
Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 noir war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang, based on a story by Bertolt Brecht. The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), the Nazi Reich Protector of German-occupied Prague, number-two man in the Schutzstaffel (SS), and a chief mastermind of the Holocaust, who was known as "The Hangman of Prague."...
The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When her father leaves to fight in the Boer War (1899–1902), Sara Crewe (Shirley Temple) attends an elite boarding school in London. News of her father's death leaves her...
Based on a 1979 spy novel of the same title by John le Carré, and sequel to the 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by the same author that was also adapted into a film, Smiley's People is a six-part BBC television series. The series follows British spy George Smiley, who investigates the mysterious death of one of his...
Based on the 1984 novel of the same title by John Hale, The Whistle Blower is a British spy thriller film. Robert Jones (Nigel Havers), a Russian linguist working for a British intelligence agency, is found dead, apparently having committed suicide. However, his father, Frank (Michael Caine), fails to believe Robert took his own life so decides to investigate the death...
Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film...
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels she encounters J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David...
Two Thousand Women is a 1944 British comedy-drama war film about a German internment camp in Occupied France which holds British women who have been resident in the country. Three RAF aircrewmen, whose bomber has been shot down, enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans. The film was released in the United States in 1951 in a severely cut-down version under the title...
In 1944, the mayor of a French Normandy village occupied by the German troops, Mr. Leproux, is caught between a rock and a hard place. A doctor by profession, he provides refuge for a wounded British pilot, for whom the Germans are searching. Meanwhile, the French Resistance is operating in the shadows as the Allied Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) approaches.
Rather than a love story set amidst war, this is war depicted through love. A rumination of wartime Vietnam in 1972, where bombing is a seemingly accepted part of daily life, yet daily life is abruptly rendered inconsequential once hit.
A psychiatrist and professor who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers has developed a new method for treating war traumas. Using this method, this psychiatrist attempts to unlock the memories of horror that drove Antonin Verset, a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran, to the edge of insanity.
A short documentary containing newsreel footage of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Jean-Paul Le Chanois focus on the inhumanity, death and destruction of war, rather than the politics of war. Although Buñuel made the film in association with the French Communist Party, the film lacks a lot of the overt biases common to political documentaries of this era. This...
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943, the plot and characters of Boulle's novel and the screenplay are almost entirely fictional. At a Japanese POW camp during World War II, a British officer...
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film, set in Russia circa World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain...
Widely considered one of the best films ever made, Lawrence of Arabia explores questions of British identity and colonialism during and after World War I. The film is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The film, a British production with American distribution, depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Ottoman Empire's...
A forbidden love story set in Germany before World War II. A young assistant falls for his employer's wife, but war, promises, and time keep them apart.
This film by Spike Lee follows the adventures of four African American soldiers who get caught on the wrong side of the line in a disastrous American offensive against Axis powers in Italy. After rescuing an Italian boy from a collapsing building, the soldiers reach a village and befriend its residents. But they are soon faced with traitorous partisans and army informants and must marshal all...