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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Set during the last years of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-1983), a period of nation-wide state terrorism, The Official Story offers a narrative of those years from the perspective of the civilians affected by the military junta's violence. This Argentine drama focuses on Alicia (Norma Aleandro), a high school history teacher who is leading a comfortable upper-middle class life with her...
Adapted from a 1982 novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch (1927-2010), this Oscar-winning film explores the consequences of the Dutch resistance during World War II on a young boy. One fateful night in 1945, the Dutch Steenwijk family sit down to dinner when shots are heard next door. Moments later, Nazi soldiers invade their home and hold young Anton's (Marc van Uchelen) father, mother, and...
A young boy witnesses the devastation wrought by the Malagasy Uprising, a nationalist rebellion against French colonial rule in Madagascar, lasting from March 1947 to February 1949. Solo sees his village destroyed by the French army and his family fractured by the conflict. The film is notable for portraying the effects of African independence movements on children, women, and the elderly. ...
Adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1897 play of the same title, this is the tragic story of wordsmith and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), a French aristocrat-turned-soldier during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659). Cyrano falls in love with his cousin Roxanne, but he supports her when she declares her love for Christian de Neuvillette, a handsome new cadet. Sent off to war with him,...
A blend of romance, adventure, and comedy, this film focuses on how women wield power over men in the days leading up to the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Viviane, a film actress, uses her charms against a high-ranking politician and an old friend to escape to Bordeaux, while graduate student Camille shows both bravery and desperation to win help with transporting nuclear...
This French and Arabic biographical documentary (with English subtitles), directed by Amin Rashidi, explores the life and work of Louisette Ighilahriz (b. 1936), an Algerian writer and a former member of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War (1954–62). The film narrates the story of Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman, who joined the FNL after her father was...
Director Satyajit Ray offers a piercing commentary of India's ruling class during colonial rule under the British East India Company. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh (Oudh) refuses to engage with company officials intent on colonizing his kingdom, while two men of his court spend their days playing shatranj, an ancient form of chess. Their pursuit of art and pleasure contributed to the company's...
Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators from the Battle of Guadalcanal to the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Marines have long had the nickname "leatherneck", hence the title. As the new commanding officer of a squadron of Marine pilots, Maj....
This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion, an armed and violent, anti-Christian, and anti-imperialist insurrection in China between 1899 and 1901. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Flora Robson) orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China, a group of ambassadors, their families and staff hole up in a...
The historical drama The Conspirator tells the story of Mary Surratt (1820–65), a wife, mother and boarding house owner in Washington D.C., who was the only female conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be executed by the United States federal government.
An adaptation of Graham Greene's 1958 novel, Our Man in Havana brings a deft touch to the Cold War spy game. British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in pre-revolutionary Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country club membership, which leaves him desperate for money. When Hawthorne (Noel Coward) proposes...
Hailed as one of the best films of all time, The Third Man explores post-World War II Vienna in a stylish film-noir style. The film stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him dead. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the...
This classic American comedy blends together military incompetence and Cold War politics. Hard-luck cabbie John Winger (Bill Murray) – directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend – enlists in the U.S. Army with his close friend, Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis). After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the...
Blanche et Marie is a chronicle of the German occupation and of the French resistance in World War II through the experiences of women. Blanche grows suspicious when her husband leaves home at night, while Marie enthusiastically asks her father about the resistance. Eventually, both women join the resistance.
Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution (1789–99) juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI (1754–93) with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which grew out of the peasants' march on the Bastille, the song that ultimately became the French national anthem. Filmed with a cast of thousands, the...
This war propaganda film by director Jean Renoir offered American audiences a simplistic story of French resistance during World War II. In a Nazi-occupied European nation that appears similar to France, Albert Lory (Charles Laughton) is a meek schoolmaster who is dominated by both his students and his elderly mother, Emma (Una O'Connor). Though Albert is initially wary of efforts to oppose...
Widely considered one of the best films of all time, director Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion explores the common bonds of humanity among World War I officers. The relationships between French prisoners of war and German officers highlights the shared culture among European aristocrats, while class lines separating aristocrats and common men dissipates under shared circumstances. The...
Family, friends, and strangers obsessively hold onto memories of the past within the changing French nation in the aftermath of the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962). In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - Alphonse - with his niece Françoise...
This influential French New Wave film uses a disintegrating love affair to explore memory in post-World War II Japan. The film revolves around a deep conversation between a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva). Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple – lovers turned friends – recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences....
Night and Fog is a 1955 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek established in occupied...