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 Oscar-winning film, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, focuses on the American General George S. Patton (1885-1945) during World War II. From campaigns in North Africa to Italy and Germany, Patton ruthlessly pursues the Germans in his quest to bring victory to the Allies. But his love of war and insistence on discipline, as well as his physically demanding maneuvers, cost him the command...
Inspired by the memoirs of Maurice Genevoix, this television series explores the loss of innocence and bonds of brotherhood forged during World War I. Genevoix eagerly volunteers for the French Army when war breaks out, but such excitement dissipates as he experiences the quagmire of trench warfare. Felled by the machinery of modern warfare, Genevoix feels guilt for leaving his friends behind...
A young man reconstructs his dreams after the tragedy of World War I. Louis Midavaine's hopes of becoming an artist and establishing life with the woman he loves fall to the horrors of war. While recovering from injury, he learns how to laquer from Chinese artisans. Upon returning home, he starts a small business with other wounded soldiers.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this highly acclaimed documentary explores the American homefront during World War II. Informed by historical scholarship, popular culture, and archival sources, including newsreels, letters, and photographs, it captures the transformative nature of war on the economy, migration patterns, and gender roles. Schechter especially highlights...
Based on a book by John le Carré published in 1989, this spy thriller explores shifting alliances in the late Cold War. After receiving an unsolicited manuscript documenting the weakness of Soviet nuclear capabilities, a British book publisher, portrayed by Sean Connery, agrees to work with MI5 and CIA. His passion for a Russian book editor, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer, threatens to derail...
Based on the 1979 book, The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, this film relays the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (1953-) and Andrew Daulton Lee (1952-), who sold US security secrets to the Soviet Union. After his father (Pat Hingle) finds him a job at the CIA, Boyce (Timothy Hutton) discovers the less...
Set in Latvia during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) and World War I, Coup de Grâce offers a devastating critique of the impact of war and masculinity on sexuality, femininity, and personal politics. After Erich, a German soldier, rejects her romantic advances, Sophie expresses her grief through promiscuity and aligning with the Bolsheviks. Erich's embrace of militarism, partly to...
This internationally acclaimed film, based on the 1959 novel of the same title by Nobel laureate Günter Grass, portrays the horrors of World War II through the eyes of a child. Oskar Matzerath refuses to grow past the age of three. He communicates with his family and outside world through piercing screams and his tin drum. He rejects the world of violence, betrayal, and complicity created by...
13-part documentary chronicles the 26-year-long effort of the 13 American colonies to achieve independence from Great Britain. The Revolution uses a blend of live-action re-enactments, illustrations, and documents from the period, animated battle maps, talking-head commentary by historians and military experts, and dramatic voice-overs to tell the complex and fascinating story of the...
Closer to a documentary than a drama, this film draws from director Pierre Schoendoerffer’s personal experiences as an army cameraman in this battle. The film follows an American reporter as he finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Điện Biên Phủ from March to May 1954 in Vietnam between the French army and the Việt Minh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the...
This French film, directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, offers a close examination of French and Laotian soldiers near the end of First Indochina War (1946–1954). A French platoon retreats to Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements for the Battle there, which started in March 1954 and lasted three months, but it faces a dangerous trek through the jungle. Tensions between the platoon's leader, an...
Pierre Schoendoerffer directs this riveting French courtroom drama, about dead Captain Marcel Caron (Jacques Perrin), whose memory is publicly damaged by a historian on television twenty years after his death. Captain Caron’s widow (Nicole Garcia), seeks to rehabilitate her husband's tarnished image after the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). She sues the historian to prove that her...
This film memorializes the wars of de-colonization in Vietnam and Algeria by offering a romantic view of a disgraced French military officer. Known as the "Crabe-Tambour" (Drummer-Crab), Lt. Willsdorff inspires his men with his tenacity and love of war. Years later, a group of French naval officers attempt to find their now-disgraced leader off the coast of Newfoundland. The film was based on...
Several different stories are told. The story of the Communist party attacks on German goals. The story of the collaboration of Pétain, of French gendarmerie and the prefecture. The story of the famous German writer Ernst Jünger in Paris. But for the French, most of all, the story of Guy Moquet, whose letter of good-bye written just before being executed with 26 other hostages now is a...
A Holocaust survivor struggles with his guilt and sanity fifteen years after World War II. Adam Stein, a former comedian, entertains his fellow patients, doctors, and nurses as a patient in an Israeli mental hospital, a strategy that also secured his survival during the Holocaust. He becomes a father figure to a feral young boy, but this relationship raises troublesome memories of his act as...
Beginning with the American Revolution, this program explores the U.S. law of 1807 that abolished the transatlantic slave trade. Meet the people who were involved in or influenced by this pivotal legislation: the slaves, plantation owners, slave ship captains, common seamen, government officials, Navy officers, and antislavery activists. [IMBD]
That Night in Varennes, directed by Ettore Scola, is a 1982 French-Italian drama, based on the 1982 novel La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français (That Night in Varennes or the Impossible is not French) by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a group of passengers in a stagecoach who find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution (...
This historical drama was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1927 non-fiction book, The Gangs of New York. The drama centers on the long-running Catholic–Protestant feud in New York, which erupts in 1863 into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting about low wages caused by an influx of freed slaves, as well as the threat of conscription into the American Civil War....
Based on real events in the Somali Civil War, a thwarted mission by the U.S. Joint Special Operations leads to deadly battle in the city of Mogadishu. Tasked with capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in October 1993, Army Rangers and Delta Force fight through a hostile city after guerillas shoot down two Black Hawk helicopters. Rescue operations prove difficult, leading to survivors to run...
A prime example of militarism in late Cold War America, Top Gun glamorizes the lives, service, and sacrifice of U.S. Naval Aviators. Lt. Pete Mitchell (a.k.a. Maverick) and his friend Lt. Nick Bradshaw (a.k.a. Goose) attend the Navy's prestigious TOPGUN program, but their reckless bravado clashes with protocol, a love affair and a tragic loss force Maverick to see that there is more...