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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This internationally acclaimed French television series focuses on the lives of undercover spies in the global War on Terror. Guillaume Debailly (a.k.a. "Malotru") comes home to Paris after six years of living in Damascus working for France's Directorate-General for External Security. As he adjusts to normal family life, his past life haunts him.
This film highlights the resourcefulness of seven amazing women who represent the first wave of mothers, daughters and sisters returning home from the frontless wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. Portraying the courage of women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives, this powerful film describes the horrific traumas they have faced, the inadequate care they often...
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa examines the role of women and shifting ideas of gender during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). Refugio "La Cucaracha", a sexually liberated, hard drinking soldier, and Isabel, a devout Catholic and wife, experience personal transformations through their experiences as guerreras, or female warriors, in the war. This lavish production with two...
Produced shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, this film offers a damning critique of the Bolshevik Revolution. CHEKA, the Bolshevik secret police, round up and execute opponets, political dissidents, and ordinary people to impose absolute powe during the Red Terror. Srubov, a young man from an intelligentsia family, philosophically talks of the historical necessity of extermination in...
A British lady and French aristocrat spar over their political differences while surviving the French Revolution. Grace Elliot maintains her loyalty to monarchy and stands in defiance of citizen search committees while her former lover Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, modulates his support of his cousin, the King, based on the revolution's trajectory. Such moral conviction and moral compromise reveal...
In this celebration of Spanish nationalism, and an early example of Francoist Spain, a captain makes a last stand in a small village in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War (1898). Stationed in Baler on the island of Luzon, Captain Morenas takes precautionary measures to secure his forces in the town's church when he learns about a planned peasant uprising. He and his men defend...
This World War II comedy imagines how the French Resistance and German intelligence officers cohabitated in Parisian hotels. The Royal Palace Hotel and its staff begrudgingly host the Abwehr, the German counter-intelligence service. The staff gather information for the Resistance, while the German officers seek to find the identity of Resistance leader "D'Artagnan" who coordinates the...
On the Eve of the "War of Independence," the Palestine-Israel War of 1947-49, a girl loses her way and ends up at a small strategic outpost by the Dead Sea. Populated by youths who just finished their army service in the Palmach, an elite fighting force of underground army of the Yishuv, they find the sudden presence of a lovely female in their midst intriguing.
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This musical drama tackles the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa. Black school children, led by the charasmatic Sarafina, protest the decision to teach lessons in Afrikaans as well as the arrest of a favorite teacher. Their protest soon escalates into a broader uprising against apartheid, with students engaging in acts of violence and murder as the state brutally suppresses their activism...
In post-war East Germany, Peter Gottfried (Christian De Bresson) is the son of minister Friedrich Gottfried (Michael Gwynn). The Communist regime has decreed that all children of "dissidents" will be denied entry to a prestigious music conservatory. Peter is anxious to be accepted, and in order to get in he prepares to answer the seven questions required by the conservatory, the seventh of...
Christ Stopped at Eboli is a 1979 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi, adapted from the 1945 memoir of the same name by Carlo Levi (1902-1975). It stars Gian Maria Volonté as Levi, a political dissident under Fascism who was exiled in the rural Basilicata region in Southern Italy from 1935 to 1936. The film covers his years in exile and isolation. Noticing that local doctors are not...
This documentary tries to rehabilitate the historical legacy of Rezső Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who saved over 1500 Jews during World War II but who was later declared a Nazi collaborator and killed. Interviews with Kasztner's family member and those he saved stand against the perspectives who see him as a traitor. Interviews with his assassin Ze'ev Eckstein cast more doubt over Kasztner's...
Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight (1829-1922), an American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi. Knight was, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate army deserters and former slaves who led , enslaved and other former soldiers in an armed insurrection against the Confederacy,...
Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on an Italian Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to Rome being...
This groundbreaking film about the liberation of Italy in World War II unfolds through six separate stories across the country, showing various relationships between the American occupiers and the newly liberated Italians. Director Roberto Rossellini used a documentary style and professional and non-professional actors to explore everyday life of love, loss, childhood, and spirituality. Two of...
In this classic film of Italian neorealism, director Roberto Rossellini uses childhood to explore the morality of war. In the devastated remains of post-war Germany, 12-year-old Edmund (Edmund Moeschke) lives with his family and five other families in a battered apartment. His brother, a former Nazi, evades the police hiding there, while his sister walks the streets. As his father (Ernst...
Commissioned by the Italian government, this film celebrates the 100th year anniversary of the Italian unification, or the Risorgimento, by examining General Giuseppe Garibaldi's (1807–1882) military campaigns in Sicily and Naples. Director Roberto Rossellini combines epic production values and neorealism to champion group effort in the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. His...
Nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category, this French production tackles the political conflicts that led to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Its focus on the consolidation of power by the Nationalists and the international support for the Republicans reveals how 1930s Spain was a precursor to World War II. Archival footage interspersed with footage of contemporary...
This documentary traces the life of Madeleine Riffaud, a French poet and journalist who participated in and documented resistance during war. After gaining notoriety for her bold actions in World War II, she turned her attention to the Vietnamese and Algerians fighting for their independence. Her work drew a link between the fight against fascism and colonialism.
Based on the novel Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. He and his friends spend most of their time plotting ways to terrorize and/or blow up the British...