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 1987 novel, Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell, Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American revisionist Western film, set during the American Civil War (1861–65). It follows a group of men who join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers—guerrilla units loyal to pro-Confederacy units of the state—and their attempt to disrupt and marginalize the...
A group of university students plot against the Japanese puppet government of Shanghai during the Second-Sino Japanese War. Their plot involves seducing and murdering a ruthless intelligence agent. The young woman tasked with the mission finds herself torn between her politics and her emerging love for her target.
In 1939, American Tom Martin (Ray Milland), who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash (Claudette Colbert), for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy...
The story of the courier of Austrian Empress Maria Theresia (1717-1780) during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The courier, Lieutenant Karl von Rotteck (Klausjürgen Wussow) and his loyal companion, officer Padua (Matthias Grimm), complete various missions on behalf of the empress, inclduding espionage assignments. On these adventures, they meet numerous well-known individuals of their times...
This 1995 version of Les Misérables, partially based on the 1862 French historical novel by Victor Hugo (1802–65), is adapted for World War II France. Henri meets a young Jewish couple and helps them try to cross over the Swiss border. He agrees to look after their child before all of them are separated. After years of war, torture, and devastation, the four are reunited in post-war...
The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After (1845) by Alexandre Dumas. Twenty years after their original adventures, the Three Musketeers band together again during the English Civil War (1642-51). Their adventures lead them to fight off a daughter's quest for revenge and rescue Charles I before his execution.
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama war film directed by Barry Levinson. Disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), starts to work for the Armed Forces Radio in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War. His irreverent humor, love of rock and roll, and reporting on censored news make the troops love him and his superiors unhappy. His friendship with a Vietnamese man...
A Protestant and a Catholic become business partners in mid-1980s Belfast during the Irish Troubles. They aim to win a government contract to sell wigs to soldiers suffering from stress-induced alopecia.
The Treaty is a television movie about the politics behind the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the Irish War for Independence (1919-1922) and created a free Irish state. Negotiations between the British and Irish leaders, which included Lloyd George (1863-1945) and Michael Collins (1890-1922), reveal how the details of the treaty prompted the Irish Civil War (1922-1923).
In Master Race, Germans talk candidly about the initial seduction of Nazism; Gypsies reminisce about life before Hitler; and Jews recall their persecution as Hitler's "Master Race" pursued its destiny – and descended to the greatest depths of barbarism in human history. What emerges is a powerful portrait of a nation – and ideology – gone awry. Master Race: Nazism overtakes German...
Two friends enlist in the Mexican army to fight during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). Their perspective shows the United States as an invading colonizer seeking to expand the institution of slavery through its annexation of Texas. Recreating the battles of Churubusco and Chapultepec in 1847, the film's overtly patriotic theme rendered it very popular at the Mexican box office.
Based on wartime diaries, this film focuses on the Finnish infantry regiment 61 during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union. It highlights both the minutia of war and major battles, like the ones at the Karelian Isthmus and Syväri.
This film reexamines the controversial war that resulted in the United States taking control of what was nearly half of Mexico's territory. Featuring lavish reenactments, and interviews with both Mexican and American historians to ensure accuracy from both nations' points of view, it conveys the story of President James K. Polk's desire to expand US territory to the Pacific Ocean. Hosted by...
In this propaganda film based on real-life events, eight young women join the Volunteer Army to the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuoto during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). In 1938, they created a rear-guard campaign that allowed the Chinese army to escape from battle. Rather than surrender to the Japanese, the women enter the river and drown.
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend for the French Air Force. The dilemma is resolved during the climactic aerial dogfight, in which one of the romantic...
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a group of international travelers tries to get out of Budapest, but are thwarted at every turn by the Soviets. With the airport closed, they decide to flee by bus, but are stopped at the Austrian border by Major Surov (Yul Brynner). He delays them indefinitely, very much interested in British Baroness Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr), and little knowing...
This Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film explores the psychological trauma of war in Andean women, particularly one young girl, in modern-day Peru. Fausta has a mythical disease called the milk of sorrow, passed down through her mother's breast milk, that afflicts the daughters of Peruvian women who were raped by military and paramilitary forces. Rape was a weapon of war against the...
The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 American film directed by Frank Lloyd, and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page. A young man from colonial Virginia fulfills his father's dream of moving West at the dawn of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). On his way west, Matt Howard meets Tom, who passes him off as a member of the landed gentry to the...
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). This drama tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien and Teddy. Damian initially believes independence is futile, while Teddy is a soldier for the Irish Republican Army. Damian eventually...
David Carr, a committed member of the Communist Party in his native Liverpool, England, travels to Spain in 1936 with the intention of joining the anti-fascist International Brigades in the country's civil war. Instead, he falls in with the POUM, a Marxist splinter group opposed to Stalin's oppressive totalitarianism. Despite falling in love with the politically passionate Blanca, Carr finds...