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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Using archival footage and oral history interviews, this documentary reveals the hidden history of women pilots during World War II. The high stakes of war convinced military officials in Britain, Germany, the former Soviet Union, and the United States to recruit women pilots, but the women faced intense ridicule for doing a "man's job." These women recount their personal stories for how they...
Aerial Gunner is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II propaganda film. Two men, Jon Davis and "Foxy" Pattis, put aside their animosities to fight against the Japanese during World War II. John Davis (Richard Arlen) enlists and "Foxy" Pattis (Chester Morris) is drafted into the United States Army Air Forces where Foxy becomes the instructor at an aerial gunnery school. He makes...
A vitally important nationa-building project filmed before the Cultural Revolution, this model opera retells the history of the Communist Part in China from 1921 to 1949, from the beginnings of the May Fourth Movement, to the Civil War against the Nationalist Party, to the victory of the Communists and the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The film helped to cement the cult of...
A love triangle unfolds between the liberation of Paris in August 1944 and Victory Day in May 1945. In celebration of their liberation, nurse Christiane Merci and resistance fighter Michel Fournier share a night of passion. Christiane conceives a child from their affair, and Fournier continues to fight against German occupation. His friend Jacques provides her with support.
This biographical drama reveals the last ten years of the life of General Manuel Belgrano, one of the leaders during Argentine Wars for Independence. After rising to prominence after the May Revolution, Belgrano led a series of military campaigns and served in the First Assembly. His commitment to independence cost him his personal life and wealth.
This French cult classic satirically debates the legacies of Resistance fighters and collaborators during World War II. A widowed woman unwillingly hosts German soldiers in her home. The German commander insists that the woman sing for Hitler during a special event, which leads her family and her tenants to plot the assassination of the German leader.
Designed to inspire patriotism before World War II, this film explores the real-life story of two French women's contributions during the Great War. Louise de Bettignies (1880–1918) and Léonie Vanhout carry vital intelligence to the British troops behind Dutch lines. Once captured and convicted, the two experience different fates.
This Oscar-nominated documentary from director Laura Poitras explores the politics and everyday life of occupied Iraq. Its focus on Dr. Riyadh al-Adhadh, a Sunni who runs for office during the 2005 elections while tending to patients, reveals the constant carnage of warfare, opposition to occupation, and hopes for a homegrown democracy.
Based on the life of pianist Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000), this internationally acclaimed, award-winning film presents a devastating portrait of a Jewish man from Warsaw surviving the Holocaust during World War II. It recreates key moments in the history of occupied Warsaw, including the German invasion of Poland in August 1939, the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in fall 1940, the Warsaw...
A family mystery unravels in remembering the events of 1939. Anne Keyes, the adopted daughter of a member of British Parliament, discovers her family's involvement in appeasement. Those connected to her die mysteriously, and she is soon captured. Her family claims she disappeared, but a great nephew wants to uncover the truth.
Gillo Pontecorvo directed this classic, highly influential, and controversial film, that focuses on the early years of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). The film tells the story of revolutionary fighter Ali La Pointe during the years between 1954 and 1957, when guerrilla fighters of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FNL) regrouped and expanded into the Casbah, the citadel of...
Based on the memoirs of Amos Oz, this film explores the last years of British-mandated Palestine and the creation of Israel from the perspective of a child. His family begins to fall apart after the Arab-Israeli War when his father enlists and his mother falls into a deep depression.
This British-propaganda film from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger presents the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II as an imminent threat to the United States. In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth (Eric Portman) attempts to cross the border...
This British fantasy-romance film explores life and death during World War II. British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is on his way home to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he bails out of the plane into the ocean, he contacts June (Kim Hunter), an Allied radio operator with whom he shares what he believes to be his final moments on...
Widely considered a masterpiece, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explore the changing notions of modern warfare against the tradition of British military systems from the Boer War (1899–1902) to World War II. General Candy (Roger Livesey), who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-...
The Forty-First is a 1927 Soviet silent film based on the eponymous novel by Boris Lavrenyov. The film is set during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and tells the story of a tragic romance between a female sniper of the Red Army and an officer of the White Army. In 1919, Maria, a sniper for the Red Army, misses her 41st target, Lt. Vadim Govorukha-Otrok of the White Army. Vadim is...
A powerful documentary about the children conceived through rape during various wars in the late 20th century. Interviews with children and their mothers in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and South Korea reveal shared cultural attitudes and personal experiences that continue to define their lives as children of war.
Based on the 1906 eponymous novel by Maxim Gorky, Mother explores a working-class woman's political awakening during the Russian Revolution of 1905. Pelageya (Vera Baranovskaya) can't understand why her son (Nikolai Batajov) is organizing a workers' strike, while her boorish husband (Aleksandr Chistyakov) is trying to suppress it. When the latter is killed, Pelageya unwittingly gives...
The End of St. Petersburg is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917, The End of St Petersburg was to be one of Pudovkin's most famous films and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors. The End of St. Petersburg is a political film, explaining why and...
Storm over Asia is a 1928 Soviet propaganda film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair (Valery Inkijinoff), shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is...