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): Reynolds, Kevin
Release Date: 2012
Abstract:

The story of the feud that nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy were close friends until near the end of the Civil War, when they return to their homes -- Hatfield in West Virginia and McCoy in Kentucky -- to increasing tensions and misunderstandings that quickly lead to all-out warfare between the clans (partially caused by a stolen...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985443/
Director(s): Reynolds, Kevin
Release Date: 1988
Abstract:

This cult classic explores both sides of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). A Soviet tank unit led by Commander Daskal (George Dzundza) destroys a village in Afghanistan in 1981. Taj (Steven Bauer), a member of the village, vows revenge and pursues him, along with the mujahideen. Meanwhile, the radical Daskal turns violent against his unit when he murders the tank crewman (Erick Avari) for his...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/
Director(s): Kevin Reynolds
Release Date: 2002
Abstract:

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adaptation of the Alexander Dumas (1802–70) tale by the same name completed in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, and the islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events between 1815 and 1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France (1773–1850). It begins just before the Hundred Days period (...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/
Director(s): Rezende, Sergio
Release Date: 1997
Abstract:

A historical glimpse at class oppression in northern Brazil in the 1890s as seen through the eyes of a poor farming family in the outcast, poverty-stricken, and neglected lower strata of Brazilian society. During the War of Canudos (1895-1898) in the province of Bahia, a family joins a growing community led by spiritual leader Antonio Conselheiro (1830-1897) after losing their crop to drought...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130748/.
Director(s): Richardson, Tony
Release Date: 1968
Abstract:

Director Tony Richardson used one of the biggest blunders in British military history to offer commentary on the ongoing Vietnam War. This film chronicles the events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia, the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062790/
Director(s): Riefenstahl, Leni
Release Date: 1935
Major Wars:
Abstract:

Triumph of the Will is a 1935 Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/
Director(s): Riklis, Eran
Release Date: 2013
Abstract:

During the First Lebanon War, an Israeli pilot and a young Palestinian refugee find common ground. Fahed helps Yoni escape if the pilot will help him return to his family's ancestral village to plant his father's prized olive tree. Their journey across Lebanon into Israel reveals the power of humanity to transcend war and conflict. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2131698
Director(s): Riklis, Eran
Release Date: 2008
Abstract:

A grove of lemon trees becomes a metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the Israeli Defense Minister moves to a house bordering the West Bank, his security team views his neighbor's lemon trees as a potential threat. Salma, a Palestinian widow living alone, brings her neighbor to court to protect her livelihood as well as her family's history. The Minister's wife becomes her...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172963/
Director(s): Riklis, Eran
Release Date: 1992
Abstract:

Set during the First Lebanon War in 1982, Palestinian fighters take a young Israeli soldier hostage. The 1982 FIFA World Cup happens to be broadcasting during the invasion, and their mutual love for football, particularly the Italian national football team, helps break down the barriers of nationalism between the two. A kind of alliance is forged between the two men. Their relationship heads...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101959/
Director(s): Risi, Dino
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Before he became one of the renowned directors of Italian comedy, Dino Risi took on the origins of the First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849), particularly the Five Days in Milan, the insurrection that prompted the war. This short film, produced during the Italian centennial, shows how different social classes, including intellectuals, peasants, children, and women, fought against the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186786/
Director(s): Rísquez, Diego
Release Date: 2000
Abstract:

Similar to contemporary scholarship, this film reassesses the role of Manuela Sáenz (1797–1856) in the Gran Columbia campaign during the Latin American War of Independence. Her story is told via old letters written to Simón Bolívar that she reads to author Herman Melville during his trip to Peru in 1841. More than the liberator's lover, Sáenz reveals her decisive roles in military campaigns as...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295423/
Director(s): Ritt, Martin
Release Date: 1960
Abstract:

Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American international co-production film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It featured an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles and was Ritt's only war movie, set during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053561/
Director(s): Ritt, Martin
Release Date: 1965
Abstract:

In this award-winning Cold War thriller based on a 1963 novel of the same title by John le Carré, a British spy goes to great lengths to uncover intelligence. At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) is nearly ready to retire, but first he has to take on one last dangerous assignment. Going deep undercover, he poses as a drunken, disgraced former MI5 agent in...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/
Director(s): Roach, Jay
Release Date: 2015
Abstract:

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. The film follows Trumbo to prison, to...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203606/
Director(s): Robert, Jean-Denis
Release Date: 1996
Abstract:

Based on the novel Le Boucher des Hurlus by Jean Amila, this film reveals the bitterness, tension, and disunity within France during and after World War I. An orphaned child seeks revenge for the dissolution of his family after a military general kills his father as example to potential deserters. His fellow orphans, who also experienced similar fates, join him in the hunt for the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117697/.
Director(s): Robin, Marie-Monique
Release Date: 2003
Abstract:

Through interviews with military and intelligence officials, extant footage, and film clips, this documentary uncovers the French military's decisive role in the development of counter-insurgency techniques during the Cold War. After fighting guerillas in Indochina and Algeria, the French military exported their lessons to Latin America's Dirty Wars and America's Vietnam War that led to...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382016/
Director(s): Robinson, Todd
Release Date: 2013
Abstract:

Phantom offers a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Soviet submarine K-129 in 1968. A retiring captain and his new executive officer embark on a new mission, but a group of rogue KGB officers take control of the sub. They plan to alter the sub's acoustic signature to mimic any ship and launch nuclear missiles to spark war between the United States and China. The captain and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922685/
Director(s): Robson, Mark
Release Date: 1966
Abstract:

The war drama Lost Command, directed by Mark Robinson and based on the best-selling 1960 novel Les Centurions by Jean Lartéguy, explores France's loss of political control and military defeat in Indochina and Algeria through the eyes of a group of paratroopers. After suffering a humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954, Lt. Col. Pierre-Noel Raspeguy, played...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060637/
Director(s): Robson, Mark
Release Date: 1954
Major Wars:
Abstract:

Based on a 1953 novel by Pulitzer-Prize winner James Michener, this film explores the ambiguity of war through an American naval pilot during the Korean War (1950–1953). Naval Reservist pilot Lt. Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan during the war. Although suffering from battle fatigue and longing to return to civilian life with his wife,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046806/
Director(s): Robson, Mark
Release Date: 1963
Abstract:

The Prize is a 1963 American spy film, based on a 1962 novel of the same title by Irving Wallace. A group of Nobel laureates descend on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057426/

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