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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Pétain recounts the creation of Vichy France, its leaders complicity with Nazi Germany, and their persecution of Jews during World War II. A narrative focus on Marshall Phillipe Pétain (1856-1951), a celebrated veteran of World War I who becomes Chief of State, centers the film as it explores the effects of his government on ordinary people. Critics noted that the film offered a...
The Savior is a 1971 French film directed by Michel Mardore, adapted from his own novel. Set in occupied France in 1943, a young girl (Muriel Catala) falls in love with a wounded man (Horst Buchholz) who claims to be a British paratrooper sent to help the French Resistance. The supposed airman is soon revealed to be a cruel Nazi officer with the order to execute all Resistance...
Set during the Cretan War, part of the larger conflict between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, two young lovers try to escape the conflict and social norms. A wounded Janissary, forcibly conscripted at a young age by the Ottoman Empire, arrives at a nunnery. He falls in love with his caregiver, Sister Anthi. He soon discovers how Anthi escaped his fate by becoming a nun.
Based on a true story and adapted from 1980 book of the same title by William C. Anderson, this film recounts the events of a rescue operation of Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton during the Vietnam War. Hambleton (Gene Hackman) is shot down behind enemy lines. His only connection to the outside world is through radio transmission with Capt. Bartholomew "Bird-Dog" Clark (Danny Glover), a pilot who...
In this black comedy, a mental health physician takes unorthodox measures during the Yugoslav Wars. The Doctor decides to close his facility due to a lack of supplies. While trying to find his patients' relatives to take them in, an elderly couple decides to marry in the streets of war-torn Belgrade.
An acting troupe from Belgrade goes on tour in Serbian Krajina during the Bosnian War. The actors find themselves caught in the middle of Serbian and Croat forces, desperately trying to convince each side that their nationalist productions are art rather than politics.
Druki Martenstyne's son Jason died in September 1995. Druki's family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. But she's not alone. With more than 30 regional and ethnic conflicts taking place around the world, this program reports from Sri Lanka on the suffering of...
During the ongoing conflict in Colombia, a military commando unit experiences new forms of horror. Sent to investigate a non-communicative military base in the mountains, the unit finds no evidence of guerilla attacks. Instead, they find a bound, mysterious woman who has supernatural powers.
The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, is a member of Parliament, and his wife a member of the titled aristocracy. Belowstairs, Hudson, the Scottish butler directs and guides the other servants about their tasks and (sometimes) their proper place. Real-life events from 1903-1930...
A Message to Garcia is a 1936 American adventure spy film directed by George Marshall, inspired by the 1899 essay "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard, that was loosely based on an incident during the ramp up to the Spanish–American War in 1898. The essay and film frame frames the United States as the liberator of Cuba from colonizer Spain. The film follows Army Lt. Andrew Rowan...
Director Raya Martin offers an inventive exploration of the American occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War by recreating the visual quality and editing techniques of early cinema. A mother and her son flee Manila for the surrounding jungle to escape the Americans, fearful of the terror they could bring. Her son builds a rich yet primitive life there, including raising a...
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11 was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.
In 1828, two aristocrats and one peasant join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement to strengthen the campaign for Italian unification and independence. Their separate stories reveal the cost of revolution and sacrifice on their personal and political allegiances.
Battle of the Japan Sea depicts the origins of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). When Japan's attack on Port Arthur in China fails, Russia sends aid. As one Japanese general conducts naval warfare, another negotiates with the Bolsheviks to defeat the Russians politically.
In the days leading up the 1993 peace accords signed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, an extended family continue to live their lives in the Gaza Strip. A mother waits for her imprisoned son's return, a daughter dreams of future love, and a cousin plays the town fool.
During the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), the Japanese attack the Russian naval base Port Arthur and take the surrounding cliff known as Hill 203. The film depicts the lives and battles of the soldiers involved, emphasizing the fierceness and importance of this land victory in securing the port.
Red Angel contrasts man-made horrors with a woman's empathy and compassion during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Sakura Nishi (Ayako Wakao) is a nurse working at a remote Japanese hospital, treating wounded soldiers. As Sakura does what little she can to comfort men with wounds often too severe for the under-staffed hospital to handle, she begins to fall in love with one of...
This love story set at the dawn of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) reveals the limitations of modernity within Japan's hierarchical and patriarchal society. In 1905, small-town girl Okane married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty. Upon her husband’s sudden death, she withdraws to her small farming village where she stoically submits to public opprobrium and lives the silent...
Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film about the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, one of the largest battles of the American Civil War (1861–65). Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, the film was adapted from the 1974 historical novel, The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. The film details the struggle between Northern and Southern forces fighting at Gettysburg....
The drama film Copperhead is directed by Ron Maxwell and starsring Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, and Peter Fonda. The film is based on the 1893 novel, The Copperhead, by Harold Frederic. It tells the story of the farmer, Abner Beech, an antiwar Democrat in a rural community in upstate New York in 1862, who is a Northern...