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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Director(s): Murphy, Pat
Release Date: 1981
Abstract:

In this groundbreaking feminist film, a young woman returns home to Belfast at the onset of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998). Maeve represents a critical voice that disrupts a romanticized, patriarchal nationalism held by her ex-boyfriend and internalized by her sister.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277122/
Director(s): Murphy, Beth
Release Date: 2012
Abstract:

A modern day Oskar Schindler story that focuses on Kirk Johnson, a young American fighting to save thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. to help rebuild Iraq. After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad and Fallujah, Kirk returns home only to discover that many of his former Iraqi colleagues are being killed, kidnapped or forced into exile by radical...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2088933/
Director(s): Mustafic, Dino
Release Date: 2003
Abstract:

Inspired by real life events, Remake connects the experiences of the Bosnian War and World War II through a father and son. Tarik wins acclaim in Paris for his screenplay about his father's war experience in a concentration camp and friendship with a Serbian. When the Bosnian war breaks out, Tarik's experience there mirrors his father's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334226/
Director(s): Narvaja, Miguel Hugo Vaca
Release Date: 2009
Abstract:

This documentary explores the history of Venezuela from its independence to modern day times. It frames Venezuela's struggle within the larger context of Latin America striving to win autonomy and emancipation from colonial and interventionist forces, including the United States.  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1567300/
Director(s): Nattiv, Guy
Release Date: 2008
Abstract:

A chance encounter in Berlin during the 2006 FIFA World Cup sparks an affair between an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman. As they develop a relationship, the two strangers are divided by the Lebanon War. Strangers was largely improvised by the actors and directors, and the war caused a temporary break from filming that further inspired the plot. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064215/
Director(s): Ndahayo, Gilbert
Release Date: 2008
Abstract:

This documentary presents the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide from Tutsis who survived. On April 10, 1994, Hutus invaded the small village of Astrida and executed 200 Tutsis behind a convent. Director Gilbert Ndahayo, who was 13 at the time and away from home, discovered the open mass grave where his family laid.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337452/
Director(s): Ndahayo, Gilbert
Release Date: 2009
Abstract:

In this cinema verité documentary that explores loss and trauma, filmmaker Gilbert Ndahayo confronts those who murdered his family and slaughtered 200 Tutsis in his village during the Rwandan Genocide. Nearly ten years after this event, the exhuming of a mass grave allows Ndahayo and other survivors to bury their loved ones with dignity. Public hearings also let them confront those who killed...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679658/
Director(s): Nesher, Avi
Release Date: 1978
Abstract:

The Bandהלהקה, (also known as The Troupe) is an Israeli comedic musical, first shown in April 1978, about an army singing group in 1968 during the War of Attrition (1967-1970). Three new members are hazed at first, one of them falls in love, and the choir's leader, in preparation for a television appearance, rehearses the troupe so much they revolt. The movie was...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079430/
Director(s): Nguyen, Hong Sen
Release Date: 1979
Abstract:

Shot entirely within the geography of a small rice field in the Mekong Delta, the film explores the experiences of a young family during the Vietnam War. Isolated from the conflict, the young family nevertheless is pulled into the war through the Viet Cong and American pilots.  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078730/
Director(s): Nichols, Dudley
Release Date: 1947
Abstract:

Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols, adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play of the same title. Following the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Mannons, a wealthy New England family, await the return of patriarch Ezra, general for the Union army, and son Orin, who served as Army officer. Lavinia Mannon discovers shocking family secrets while...

Director(s): Nichols, Mike
Release Date: 2007
Abstract:

Director Mike Nichols' last film explores the Cold War origins of the U.S. War in Afghanistan. In the early 1980s Congressman Charlie Wilson of Texas pushes funding for a covert CIA operation to support the Afghan mujahideen. His passion for defeating the Soviets turns cold when his colleagues seem uninterested in postwar nation-building. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/
Director(s): Noãn, Vĩnh
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

Set during the bloody land reform campaign in North Vietnam under Communist-dominated Viet Minh, the film follows Vinh, a Captain in the Viet Minh army fervently fighting for the independence of Vietnam in the Resistance War against the French colonialists. After the revolution is successful, he becomes the victim of the violent communist regime.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11230600/
Director(s): Nolan, Christopher
Release Date: 2017
Abstract:

This tense drama weaves together three narratives critical to the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in the early days of World War II. After the German military controlled the sea, land, and air off of northern France, over 300,000 British await ships to carry them home. A small band of soldiers board numerous ships soon destroyed by the Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force pilots try to protect...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/
Director(s): Nordlund, Solveig
Release Date: 1998
Abstract:

Based on a book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154350/
Director(s): Novkovic, Oleg
Release Date: 1993
Abstract:

A young man and his group of friends are transformed by the Yugoslav Wars. After returning from combat, Pedja feels lost among his friends and hometown of Belgrade. He finally connects with a young woman who also experienced the terror of war. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180780/
Director(s): Noyce, Phillip
Release Date: 2002
Abstract:

Based on Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel of the same name, this remake tackles the moral ambiguity of American involvement in the First Indochina War (1945–54). CIA operative Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) works to erect a third force between the French colonialists and the communist Viet Minh, leading to the arming of a Vietnamese splinter group headed by a corrupt militia leader and...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258068/
Director(s): Nyby, Christian
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction horror film. When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

Cal

Director(s): O'Connor, Pat
Release Date: 1984
Abstract:

Based on the 1983 novella of the same title written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film. The plot follows Cal (John Lynch), a young soldier in the Irish Republican Army, and Marcella (Helen Mirren), a Catholic war widow, who fall in love during the Irish Troubles (1968-1998). Feeling remorse for his role in the murder of her Protestant...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087019/
Director(s): O'Connor, Gavin
Release Date: 2004
Abstract:

This Cold War sports drama tells the story of Coach Herb Brooks (1937–2003), who led the U.S. Hockey team to Olympic Gold in 1980 after defeating the Soviet Union. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349825/
Director(s): Odoul, Damien
Release Date: 2015
Abstract:

Loosely based on the memoir by Gabriel Chevallier, this film follows a young French man on the Western Front during World War I. Through his letters to his girlfriend, Gabriel reveals the horrors of war and his struggle to find his humanity. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4741354/

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