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 Atomic Cafe is a 1982 American Cold War documentary film, created from a broad range of archival material from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. government-produced films (including military training films), advertisements, television and radio programs. This propaganda was designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb...
Two young boys imagine a different world on the streets of Belfast in 1970 during the Troubles. Mickybo and JonJo, a Protestant and a Catholic, share a love of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The two pretend to be outlaws escaping the law, or their personal troubles of growing up in a war zone.
By mid-century, modern technology and Western thought had swept religion to the margins of public life. Since, millions have turned back to God -- and taken political action based on their religious beliefs. God Fights Back: Religious Fundamentalism Flourishes in the East and West is part 24 of the film series, People's Century: 1900-...
Based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein eponymous musical, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific, this film offers a sweeping international love story during World War II. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy stationed on a South Pacific island falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile...
Based on J. P. Gallagher's book The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican initially published in 1967, The Scarlet and the Black tells the story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898-1963), an Irish Catholic priest who saved thousands of Jews and escaped Allied POWs in German-occupied Rome. SS functionary Herbert Kappler (1907-1978), head of the German security police and SS security...
Two men who share a name face dangers in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. Robert Klein buys artwork from desperate Jews trying to flee, while the other Robert Klein, a Jew, works for the Resistance. French authorities crack down on the art dealer, who now faces the horrors of those he fleeced if he cannot find the other Mr. Klein.
This televised miniseries explores the emergence of Irish nationalism during World War I. Friendships and relationships disintegrate as war disrupts society. In 1916 Irish rebels lead an insurrection, known as Easter Rising, the most successful rebellion since the late 18th century. The fallout crushes the rebels but ignites the larger battle for independence.
This innovative documentary recounts the siege of Leningrad through rarely seen archival footage mixed with a reconstructed soundtrack. It meticulously reconstructs the chronology of 28-month siege, which lasted from Sept. 1941 to Jan. 1944, placing the viewer in the midst of war.
City of Life and Death brutally depicts the massacre and torture of the Chinese people of Nanjing by the Japanese at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Men, women, and children attempt to escape, and some make it to the safety zone overseen by western businessmen and missionaries. Yet the Japanese ruthlessly round them up, subjecting women and children to rape and executing...
In this brilliant dark comedy, an acting troupe becomes entangled in espionage and the Polish resistance during World War II. Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Maria is having an affair with Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack), who suspects Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges) is a Nazi spy. With...
This TV movie deals with the last years of the Algerian war. The director highlights within the same family the different points of view of the pieds noirs on the course of events. But all come together on the attachment to their country that is Algeria, which they want French for some and independent for others. All this under the background of love between a blackfoot student and a young...
This chilling Cold War film, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, reveals the dangers of nuclear warfare, militarism, and technology. During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when and if to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system malfunction, the President of the...
The Outsider is a 1980 film thriller set largely in Belfast during The Irish Troubles (1968-1998). The film is based on the book The Heritage of Michael Flaherty by Colin Leinster, and details the fictional experience of an idealistic Irish-American who travels to Ireland and joins the IRA in the 1970s. Initially inspired by his Irish brothers, Flaherty awakens to violence,...
This documentary presents the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Existing footage and interviews emphasize the lack of security, the botched rescue mission, and the preparation of the terrorists. It features the only known interview with Jamal Al-Gashey, the only surviving terrorist.
This swashbuckling adventure portrays a fictionalized account of the escape of Charles II in 1651 during English Civil War (1642–1651). The escape is arranged by a foppish royalist nobleman, the Earl of Dawlish, who leads a double life as a roundhead-baiting highwayman, or a robber who targets travellers, called The Moonraker. The Moonraker had reportedly helped more than thirty royalists to...
This documentary reveals the conflicting aims of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era by exploring the life of German SS Officer Klaus Barbie. Barbie's war crimes in World War II earned him the name "the Butcher of Lyon," yet he was one of several high-ranking officers who received protection from the U.S. and other western powers after the war. Barbie fled to Bolivia, where he advised anti...
The Last King of Scotland presents the life of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (1925–2003) through the eyes of his (fictitious) personal physician. Nicholas Garrigan, a young Scottish doctor, arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to work at a clinic run by missionaries. After Garrigan treats Amin after an accident, he become close with the dictator and works to modernize the nation's...
This Cold War thriller, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, presents a Soviet plot to detonate the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. A Soviet spy (Pierce Brosnan), recently relocated to England, smuggles in the components of a nuclear bomb, defying the fourth protocol of nuclear de-proliferation agreements. A British intelligence...
Based on Pat Barker's 1991 novel, Regeneration, this film follows the stories of a number of officers in the British Army during World War I who are brought together in Craiglockhart War Hospital to be treated for various physical and mental war traumas. It features the story of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets. Sassoon sends an...
Bomb Girls profiles four women who work in a Canadian munitions factory building bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the European front during World War II. The series highlights how the war thrust these women into new worlds, changing their lives profoundly and irrevocably as they are liberated from domestic and social restrictions.