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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This first Bollywood film shot in Technicolor focuses on the life of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi (1828-1858), an Indian queen of the Martha princely state of Jhansi in North India, who lead her people in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It follows her trajectory from a young confident girl chosen to be the wife of the much older King to her fearless pursuit of politics, diplomacy, and military...
Battle for Sevastopol is a biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The movie revolves principally around the events of the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol of 1941-42.
Loosely based on true events, a recently retired sea captain and veteran reinvigorates a collapsing defense after the German invasion of Norway during World War II. Thor Espedal immediately enlists only to find a disorganized army headquarters. After Norway's surrender, Espedal continues fighting with a small crew inspired by his duty to defend his nation.
This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. They recount their experiences in the concentration camp and visiting the camps, ghettos, and hometowns that shaped their lives more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and...
This acclaimed Italian film mixes the comedy of an odd couple and the horrors of war, offering an ironic account of life in the trenches on the Italian front of World War I and the vicissitudes of a group of comrades fighting there in 1916. Two young men lacking in idealism and heroism become fast friends, united by the desire to avoid any danger in order to emerge unscathed from the war. When...
In this epic story based on the acclaimed novel by Erico Verissimo, two families are transformed over a 150-year period in Brazil. The Terra Cambará and Amaral families rise from the lower ranks of colonial Brazil to become economically and political powerful players in their state of Rio Grande do Sul. Revolutions, political crises, and marriage shape the evolution of both families.
This docudrama focuses on the role of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr. (1882–1959) and his efforts in fighting against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) and the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II. The film depicts the crucial five-week period in October–November 1942 after Admiral Halsey (James Cagney) took command of the beleaguered American forces...
The international politics of war delay the rescue mission of a U.S. naval pilot during the Bosnian War. During a reconnaissance mission, Lt. Chris Burnett flies off course and identifies mass graves in the demilitarized zone. After his plane is shot down, Burnett tries to escape Bosnian Serbs while his commanding officer battles with NATO commanders who fear Burnett's rescue would jeopardize...
Land Girls is a BBC television period drama series, created by Roland Moore and commissioned to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. The series depicts the work and life of British women in the Women’s Land Army (WLA). The story focuses on a group of women of different ages and social backgrounds who were forced to join the WLA at the British home...
This documentary explores the history of the Irish Republic, beginning with independence in 1921 to the 1990s. Interviews with politicians, citizens, and scholars of Ireland and archival records and newsreels offer a contextualized and analytical perspective of divisive events like the Irish Civil War and the Troubles. The episodes do not, however, stick rigidly to their particular decade in ...
This Oscar-nominated documentary explores the role of Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security force, and its role in shaping Israel's history since the Six-Day War. Interviews with six former directors, archival footage, and animated sequences shed light on controversial topics like the occupation of Palestine, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and terrorism committed by...
Saiorse? (Irish for ‘freedom’) was the 1961 successor to George Morrison’s highly successful 1959 film Mise Éire. This documentary presents the effects of the Irish War for Independence and the Irish Civil War (1919–1923) on society. Filmmaker George Morrison asks whether independence lead to freedom due to the divisiveness of...
Mise Éire (Irish for "I [am] Ireland") is a 1959 documentary film by George Morrison, which dealt with key figures and events in Irish history from the 1896 through 1918, using contemporary newsreel footage and still photos. It features the momentous events surrounding Easter Week 1916, footage of Dublin during the Rising, and of the main protagonists, including Tom Clarke,...
An example of Cold War B-movies, Unknown World concerns a scientific expedition seeking livable space deep beneath the Earth's surface in the event a nuclear war makes living above ground impossible. Dr. Jeremiah builds the "cyclotram" to burrow into the earth's surface. With the bunker's atmosphere making anyone within it sterile, they begin the dangerous journey back to the surface...
One of the most popular films in the Soviet Union and Russia, White Sun of the Desert portrays the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) in the style of a classic American western. Fyodor Sukhov (Anatoly Kuznetsov), a Red Army soldier on his way home, wanders in Central Asia and is caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander...
In this first-person documentary, a reservist in the Israeli army offers a stinging critique of his nation's role in the Second Lebanon War. The camera allowed filmmaker Yariv Mozer to keep his distance yet equate what he saw with popular war movies and characters. Mozer captures disillusionment and distrust among his peers towards the military, war, and Israel.
This romanticized account of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the famed German fighter pilot, interrogates his role in World War I. Richthofen orders his men to save the lives of the enemy pilots in downed aircraft, and his romance with a nurse helps him to see the human cost of war.
Set between the years 1642 and 1660, during Oliver Cromwell's puritanical regicidal revolution, the fictional aristocratic manor lady Angelica Fanshawe follows her heart rather than political loyalty in the bloody conflict between royalists and Roundheads, and later among Crowell's triumphant, soon rivaling protestant followers. For love, she commits to several parties.
When the Wind Blows is a British animated disaster film based on a comic book of the same name by Raymond Briggs, initially published in 1982. The film accounts a rural English couple's attempt to survive a nearby nuclear attack and maintain a sense of normality in the subsequent fallout and nuclear winter. Their romanticized memories of World War II and their faith in government...
Conflict between indigenous communities and the Portuguese arise in 18th century Brazil. A cartographer charged with documenting the landscape discovers a different way of life when he encounters an indigenous woman within the interior. Their love affair stands in stark contrast to the ongoing battles between colonials and the Guaicuru Indians.