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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At the end of the Second World War, Soviet and American troops met and rejoiced at the defeat of Nazi Germany. The mood on the river Elbe was one of camaraderie between Allies, and their optimism was shared by the liberated populations of Europe. Yet within a few years, this hard-fought peace will disintegrate into a cold war of competing ideologies. Part 12 of the film series, ...
A love triangle unfolds on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. Villagers quickly surrender to German and Italian forces. Captain Corelli, an Italian officer who plays the mandolin, falls in love with a local woman who is engaged to a fisherman. After Italy surrenders, German soldiers execute their former allies en masse. The fisherman rescues Corelli from slaughter to...
Flame and Citron follow two legendary figures in the Danish resistance movement during World War II to explore the moral ambiguity of war. Bent Hviid (Flammen) and Jørgen Schmith (Citron) move from killing Danish collaborators to Gestapo officers in and around Copenhagen. One becomes more violent and vengeful while the other wrestles with his actions and feelings of betrayal.
In 1922, the people of Ireland turned against each other in one of the bloodiest civil wars in history. In its wake, internecine feuding incited decades of terrorist atrocities. This program features interviews with participants in the Civil War, some in their 90s, whose passionate defense of the side they took remains as strong and vivid as ever. Contributions from surviving relatives of...
This miniseries, set between 1860 and 1861, follows a short period in the life of the famous and beloved Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882). The miniseries begins with Garibaldi's entry into Naples and depicts the battle between his volunteer army and the Neapolitan army. The miniseries ends with Garibaldi relinquishing his territorial gains in the south to the Piedmontese and...
Highly acclaimed and considered one of the best contemporary war films, The Thin Red Line is based on a 1962 novel by James Jones with the same title. The film, directed by Terrence Malick, explores the horrors of war as well as the beauty of nature during the Battle of Guadalcanal, a turning point for the Allies in the Pacific theater during World War II. U.S. Army Private Witt goes...
Au Revoir Les Enfants is an autobiographical story of childhood, friendship, and loss in Nazi-occupied France during World War II based on the childhood years of director, Louis Malle (1932-1995). In 1943, Julien (Gaspard Manesse) is a student at a French boarding school. When three new students arrive, including Jean Bonnett (Raphael Fejtö), Julien believes they are no different from...
A young French man eager to participate in World War II reveals how easily the French capitulated to the Germans. Denied permission to join the Resistance because of his young age, Lucien turns to the Carlingue, the French auxiliaries of the Gestapo. He uses his newfound power to insinuate himself into a young Jewish girl's life. He opts to protect her rather than follow through with his...
Republican forces fight against Franco's army in the Sistema Iberico Mountains during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The film's production ws complete in July 1939 and the film was shown twice in Paris in January 1940, but Francoist Spain applied pressure to censor it. Only one copy of the film survived that war and World War II. It was one of the few films using real footage of the...
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film portrays the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), who became monarch at the age of six in 1632 and grew to be a powerful and influential leader. As well as coping with the demands of being a war-leader during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Queen Christina is expected to marry...
This Oscar-nominated film weaves together three love stories to reveal the interconnectedness of modern Europe during the Macedonia conflict in the Yugoslav Wars. A young monk named Kiril becomes involved with Zamira, an Albanian girl accused of murder, while far away in London, Aleksander, a weary photojournalist, meets with his married lover, Anne. When Aleksander returns to his Macedonian...
Based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German Embassy in Ankara (1943–44), this World War II film-noir reveals the duplicity of spy games. The book and film are based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna (1904–1970), a spy who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to ...
An innocent and enigmatic young American economist (Audie Murphy) and an embittered and cynical English journalist (Michael Redgrave) are both involved with a young Vietnamese woman (Giorgia Moll). Although the original novel was a critique of foreign intervention and American exceptionalism, Mankiewicz’s film focused on the love triangle between the three main characters and turned the story...
Based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel, a love story serves to investigate the complicated politics and alliances during the Seven Years War on the North American continent. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a...
This adaptation of the classic novel by Howard Feast, published in 1961, takes place at the dawn of the American Revolution. Superstitious teenager Adam Cooper (Chad Lowe) struggles to gain the approval of his intellectual and devout Christian father, Moses (Tommy Lee Jones). When a lone rider warns the locals of approaching British troops, Adam surprises his father by joining the local...
The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist-historian Theodore H. White. Maj. Baldwin (James Stewart) is an American officer stationed in China during World War II charged with stopping the advance of the Japanese army and protecting civilians. One of his tasks is destroying infrastructure to stop the progress of enemy troops. Baldwin is...
This Cold War propaganda film was designed to win public and Congressional support for the new U.S. Strategic Air Command, a key point in the Nuclear Triad. Recalled World War II veteran and baseball star Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland learns to fly new bombers. Spectacular aerial photography and James Stewart's performance as the lieutenant are the film's highlights.
A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote. Col. Caldwell (Rock Hudson) is assigned to shape up a U.S. Air...
Night Crossing is a 1982 British-American drama film, based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on September 16, 1979, fled from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon, when emigration to Western countries was strictly prohibited by the East German government.
In this critically acclaimed drama, director Samuel Moaz offers an innovative take of the Lebanon War 2006 partly informed by his own experiences as an Israeli soldier. Set inside an armored tank, a small crew of soldiers enters a devastated but still hostile town in Lebanon. Confined in a tight space, their only view of the outside world is through the gun sight.