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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Fridericus is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer, which depicts the life and triumps of Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786). Known as Frederick the Great, under his rule, Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe. The film focuses in particular on the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), in which Prussia emerged victorious....
A Belfast mother, Bernie McPhelimy, searches for peace during the Irish Troubles. By 1972, Bernie struggles to make sense of the war, deaths, and confusion that surround her and her family. She begins to advocate for peace, criticizing both sides, but local people interpret her movement as antagonistic toward the goals of the Irish Republican Army.
Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him "Go, live, and become," as he leaves her to get on the bus. The film...
Loosely based on the life of Russian silent screen star Vera Kholodnaya (1893-1919), this film explores a woman's political awakening during the Russian Civil War. After the Bolsheviks take Moscow, a film crew moves to Odessa to continue work. Olga Voznesenskaya, the film's star, falls for the cameraman, a revolutionary who secretly filming White Army atrocities. After his death, Olga commits...
A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American war film based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was serialized in Liberty Magazine in October 1944. When a GI platoon lands on the beaches of Italy during World War II, the troops face uncertainty and danger with every step. Those who survive the initial landing,...
In this visually creative film noir, an American mercenary and a young woman must navigate shifting allegiances during the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950). On a train to Shanghai, O'Hara and Judy Perrie meet. He is arranging to smuggle arms to peasants and authorities in a province controlled by a warlord, while her goal is to stop his mission and protect her father's interests in that province...
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American anti-war film based on the German novel, Im Westen Nichts Neues (1929), by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). Directed by Lewis Milestone, the film won two Oscars for Best Director and Outstanding Production. It tells the story of a German high school class that follows the call of their teacher to volunteer to serve in the war...
Emblematic of heightened Cold War tensions during the 1980s, Red Dawn imagines World War III from the perspective of high school students in a small Colorado town. The film depicts a United States that has been invaded by the Soviet Union and its Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. However, the onset of World War III is in the background and not fully elaborated. The story follows a group of...
This miniseries dramatizes the famed volunteer regiment during the Spanish-American War. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt leads the First Voluntary Calvary (the Rough Riders), a representation of the racial, ethnic, class, and regional diversity in the United States with the exception of African Americans. War unites the men.
Lisbon is a 1956 American film noir crime film adapted from a short story by Martin Rackin. For Capt. Robert John Evans (Ray Milland), smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros (Claude Rains) for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American from behind the Iron Curtain. The job seems challenging enough, but...
In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North-West English coast,agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass-Observation project, a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident she blossoms...
This 5-hour television series, originally aired on Yorkshire Television, is a dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849). Partially based on Elizabeth Gaskell's book The Life of Charlotte Brontë, this series portrays the childhood and coming-of-age of the Brontë sisters and the lives of their family.
In February 1941, South African troops on the northern frontier of Kenya attempt to repulse an Italian invasion. The South African command deceives the enemy by purporting to have large numbers of troops in the area. To this end, a seven-man patrol is assigned to set up an Abyssinian communications center to broadcast false reports of troop movements. Young and inexperienced Lieutenant...
Shangani Patrol depicts a decisive defeat for the British in the First Matabele War (1893-1894), which provided them with a heroic narrative to push their colonization goals in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). Major Allan Wilson (Brian O'Shaughnessy) leads a unit of 34 soldiers from the British South Africa Company across the Shangani River in pursuit of Ndebele King Lobengula (1845–1894...
Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war film telling the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who journeys home to reunite with the woman he loves. This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war - both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for...
Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, this internationally acclaimed film explores love, loss, and memory during World War II. French-Canadian nurse Hana cares for a badly burned man, known as the English patient, in an abandoned Italian villa toward the end of the war. His memories of his previous life slowly come back, coinciding with the arrival of a former intelligence officer, also a...
Miss Nhung (Vietnamese: Chị Nhung) is a 1970 Vietnamese war film co-directed by directors Nguyễn Đức Hinh and Đặng Nhật Minh, based on a short story penned by writer Nguyễn Sáng. The film follows a young girl, who becomes entangled in the Vietnam War. Orphaned by war, little Nhung works as a maid for a rich family when Americans attack Saigon in 1968. She communicates with Vietnamese soldiers...
Based on the memoir Les Guichets du Louvre by Roger Boussinot, published in 1960, Black Thursday offers a fictionalized account of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when French police arrested over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants of Paris and held them under inhumane conditions for deportation to Auschwitz. The film follows a young student named Paul, who, upon learning that the...
Every Time We Say Goodbye is an American romantic drama film, which tells the story of an RAF pilot (Tom Hanks) in Jerusalem during World War II. He falls in love with a Sephardic Jewish woman while he is recuperating from a serious injury. Soon enough, they become locked in a powerful love affair that goes against the grain of heritage and tradition, causing friction in their...
This well-researched documentary dramatizes Charles de Gaulle's changing positions regarding the Algerian War. Recently elected as president of the new Fifth Republic of France in 1958, de Gaulle issues his support to nationals and partisans in French Algeria. Four years later, he shifts to supporting Algerian independence.