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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Based on the 1957 novella, L'Hôte (The Guest), by Albert Camus, David Oelhoefen directs this story the story of two men on opposite sides of the Algerian War (1954–62) who find common ground. Daru, an Algerian-born French teacher of Spanish descent, (Viggo Mortensen), escorts Mohamed (Reda Kateb), a peasant accused of the murder of his cousin, through the Atlas Mountains during a...
Japan's Longest Day is a dramatized version of the period between noon on August 14, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito (1901–1989) made the decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II and noon on August 15, 1945, when the emperor's recorded message announcing the surrender was broadcast to the Japanese people. The film was released in Japan on August 12, 1967, close to the...
Towards the end of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), a decorated yet rebellious young sergeant must repent for his numerous acts of insubordination. Kosugi leads a group of inexperienced soldiers to take the strategic Fort Graveyard. They struggle to keep their position once food and supplies run out and the Chinese surround them.
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa (March-July 1945) – a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
Based on a 1979 novel of the same name by Osvaldo Soriano, Funny Dirty Little War is a black comedy tackling Argentinian politics during the Dirty War (1976-1983), a period of nation-wide state terrorism by the military junta. The deputy mayor of a small town, Fuentes (Federico Luppi), is a stubborn man. When local Peronists, who are colluding to oust him from office, demand he fire...
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse,"...
This controversial documentary explores the divisions in Northern Ireland during the Irish Troubles (1968-1998). Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. Although director Marcel Ophüls favors the Catholics, he also reveals political...
In this experimental animated film, director Nagisa Oshima explores the unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) during the Sengoku period (1467–1615). A young son of a feudal lord avenges his father's assassination by aligning with a renegade ninja.
This family drama exposes the long-standing ethnic tensions that led to the Bosnian War. Halima, a Bosniak woman searches for her son's remains, but she must provide DNA to the U.N. Committee for Missing Persons. Her search leads to her estranged niece, whose affair with a Serb produced the child.
In this wildly popular French-British comedy, ordinary French citizens become entangled with the Resistance during World War II. In summer 1941, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The British crew parachutes out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet (André Bourvil), and...
At a time when war, chaos and death reign over every last inch of Venezuela, a soldier and a brave young woman manage to make a space for love, despite their apparently conflicting ideals. After several years of a harsh and bloody war, Braulio, a pro-Independence soldier is enlisted into the Spanish army. During the 1820 ceasefire Braulio arrives in Caracas, where he meets Lucía, a beautiful...
A meditation on the personal consequences of nationalism and war, a French veteran of World War I seeks forgiveness from a German family. Adrien visits Frantz's family and fiancée pretending to be an old friend from school. Anna discovers Adrien's secret, but she seeks him out in Paris. There, she gains the strength to recover from her loss and gain independence.
This femme-fatale spy thriller explored 1930 tensions in Europe by taking a look back at World War I. A young French doctor falls in love with a German spy while attending to the wounded in Greece. She then works on his behalf by pursuing a French intelligence officer for state secrets. An English-language version with exactly the same plot was filmed at the same time under the direction of ...
Westfront 1918 is a German film from 1930, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and based on the novel, Vier von der Infanterie (Four from the Infantry) by Ernst Johannsen. It is set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I and focuses on the impact of the war on a group of infantrymen. The film bears resemblance to its close contemporary,...
A made-for-television play, Missiles of October gave American audiences its first dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 during the Cold War. It focused on the Kennedy administration's discussions, disagreements, and final consensus to blockade Cuba, which housed the beginning of a Soviet missile installation system. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's...
A young boy's reminiscences reveal the long-standing tensions and little-known revolts leading to Indian Independence. Jhunku Roy finds himself torn between his belief in British justice and the growing revolutionary spirit in East Bengal in the early 1930s. After losing faith in his British mentor, Jhunku joins the revolt led by his school teacher to take the city of Chittagong, one of the...
This 1997 film explores the trans-Atlantic connections between Northern Ireland and the United States during the Troubles. As a favor to a friend, policeman Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford) lets visiting Irishman Rory Devaney (Brad Pitt) stay with him and his family in New York City. Rory's visit is quiet at first, but when Tom and his wife, Sheila (Margaret Colin), return home one day, they're...
Set in 1976 during apartheid, a white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
Based on the epic play by Bertolt Brecht, widely regarded as one of the best plays of the 20th century, this filmed stage production provides an allegorical tale of the price of war. Set during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), it follows a Swedish mother who slowly loses her children to the war she profits from as a sutler. The film, made by DEFA, the state-owned film studio of the German...
This documentary, censored for over ten years, explores the Paris Massacre of 1961 during the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962) through interviews, newsreel, and re-enactments. After implementing a curfew for all Algerians in the city, the National Liberation Front (FLN) organized a non-violent protest. In response, the police launched a full-scale attack on over 30,000 demonstrators,...