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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After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively,...
This historical drama, directed by Ridely Scott, is set during the age of the Napoleonic Empire (1803–15). The Duellists is based on a story written by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad (1857–1927), which, according to the author, was itself based on a true story whose origins sprang from a ten-line paragraph in a small Southern France local newspaper. An officer in the French...
The Big Lift is a 1950 drama film shot in black-and-white on location in the city of Berlin that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the Berlin Blockade in 1948, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants. As British and American forces break a Russian blockade of the divided German city, a pair of American soldiers fall in love with local women against a backdrop of...
This introductory film for the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center relates the spirit of the American Revolution through a fictional character. John Fry, a planter-politician, abandons his loyalty to the British crown through his relationships with notable Virginians such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Its focus on elites, though, obscures the revolutionary spirit of the enslaved...
Filmed in the style of neorealism, Saaraba critically examines corruption and disillusionment in post-colonial Senegal. Tamsir returns to Senegal after 17 years in Europe. His uncle gives him a patronage job in Dakar, virtually without duties. He visits his family's village to see his parents, and there he meets the beautiful Lissa. Tamsir espouses traditional ways, as does Lissa, but...
Based on a true story, in 1898 Cuba, U.S. troops who have survived the Spanish-American War are now dying by the hundreds from yellow fever, known as "yellow jack." Major Walter Reed (1851–1902), an Army physician, struggles to find the cause of the infection and to overcome governmental interference. As the virus hits the military and civilian population in Havana, Cuba, Reed turned to the...
The fictional cowboy Hopalong Cassidy rounds up horses for Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War in 1898. Outlaws threaten to derail his mission.
As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between Vichy France (1940-44) and a Diola tribe in the French West African colony. The men from the small Diola village are conscripted to fight for Vichy France, like many other forced colonial soldiers. When the French soldiers come back for fifty tons of rice, the women hide the rice crop harvest instead of handing it to the French...
Camp de Thiaroye depicts the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on December 1, 1944, otherwise known as the Thiaroye massacre. West African conscripts were protesting poor conditions and revocation of pay at the Thiaroye camp. The film is a criticism and indictment of the French colonial system. It was banned in France for a decade and censored...
The film centers on Diouana, a young Senegalese woman, who moves from Dakar in the Senegal to Antibes at the Cote d' Azur to work for a rich French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to continue her former nanny job and anticipates a cosmopoilitan lifestyle. But from her arrival in Antibes, Diouana experiences harsh treatment from the couple, who force her to work as a servant. She becomes...
Momotarô's Sea Eagles is an animated Japanese propaganda film produced in 1942. Endorsed by the Japanese Imperial Navy, the film tells the story of a naval unit consisting of the human, Momotarō, and several animal species representing the Far Eastern races fighting together for a common goal. Featuring the "Peach Boy" character of Japanese folklore, the film promotes the success of the attack...
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for World War II by the Japanese Naval Ministry. The film depicts most Japanese characters as anthropomorphic animals (monkeys, rabbits, bears, etc), with the exception of protagonist Momotarô, who represents a young boy in Japanese...
This film explores the impact of censorship and repression during the Spanish Civil War. An American reporter and local censor fight to lift restrictions on the press that suppress the impact of the war on civilians as well as Basque resistance. When Germans bomb the city of Guernica on behalf of Franco, exposing war crimes becomes a vital weapon in the war against fascism.
By examining the life of Pierre Brossolette, this film explores the dense networks of resistance in France during World War II. Through his contacts as a journalist and politician, Brossolette worked within the Resistance and Free France to combat Nazi occupation.
This German World War I movie, directed by Victor Sewell, offers a highly fictionised version of the death of the British War Secretary, Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) on abroad the cruiser HMS Hampshire, on his way to Russia. A successful U-boat ace, Helmut Liers, lives in the fictional north German town of Meerskirchen with his mother, who has already lost two sons in...
Two years after the Six Day War (June 5–10, 1967), doctors at an Israeli hospital try to save the lives of an Arab terrorist and Israeli officer just brought in after a border clash. This documentary, while including this staged plotline, features also real-time photography and archival footage of newsreels of the time in an exploration of human rights and warfare.
A 2010 British-New Zealand action-thriller film directed by Ian Sharp set in 1903 New Zealand. Arjan van Diemen is a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War, and a master tracker. After the end of the war, he immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he...
In the Name of the Father is based on the true story of the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, whose wrongful convictions reveal the extent of corruption in the early years of the Irish Troubles. The British Army arrest Gerry Conlon, a young Irish petty thief, as well as his father and other relatives after a London bombing kills five people. After languishing in prison for...
Childhood Days serves as a metaphor for Japan's transformation after World War II from a militaristic nation wedded to the past to a technological powerhouse shaping the future. A small bookish young boy flees Tokyo to live with family members in the countryside. He outwits the class bully, his strong, tough, and hard-working cousin, to become a new leader.
By Dawn's Early Light is an HBO original movie, which aired in 1990. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau. The film depicts the events of a fictional World War III at the end of the Cold War. Soviet agents launch a nuclear strike on their own country and China, prompting the two nations and the United States to launch nuclear war. The...