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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On July 14, 1789, angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the king’s military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and violence followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this period in Western civilization with dramatic reenactments, illustrations...
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Brussels. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an army consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the German Legion, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau, under the command of the First Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), referred to by...
As an example of Hollywood's anti-communism in the early Cold War, this film combines the classic tropes of the defector and the damsel-in-distress to warn about the dangers of the Soviet Union. Assigned to repatriate Soviet nationals from Vienna after World War II, Col. Michael S. Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) and his aides, Maj. John McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Angela Lansbury...
Set during the early years of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998), an MI6 agent's quest for his kidnapped son leads him to uncover conspiracy and treason. An international arms dealer, an Irish gang, and a mysterious MI6 official plant evidence to frame Maj. John Tarrant (Michael Caine). With no support from his agency, Tarrant must unravel the mystery to find his son.
In this television series written and created by Anthony Horowitz, as World War II rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Later, the series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Based on a true story, four photojournalists document the end of apartheid in South Africa in the early 1990s. The film skirts ethical questions about the responsibilities of a journalist documenting tragedy in favor of highlighting the thrills and adrenalin rush to capture a picture.
This historical miniseries in four parts explores the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821). It covers Napoleon's military successes and failures, including the Battles of Austerlitz (1805) and Eylau (1807), the retreat from Russia (1812–13), and his final defeat in the battle of Waterloo (1815). It also delves into Napoleon's personal life: his marriage to and divorce from Josephine de...
This American-Japanese co-production directed by Frank Sinatra reinterprets the Pacific Theater in World War II through the prism of post-war cooperation between the two nations. After an air battle downs American and Japanese planes, survivors must learn to cooperate on a deserted island. Once the Americans establish radio contact, the peace ends with devastating effects.
This controversial film explores the meaning of independence through the lives of female soldiers during and after the Rhodesian Bush War/Zimbabwe War of Liberation (1964-1979). Two young women join the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army and rename themselves Flame and Liberty. Both become disillusioned through war traumas, post-colonial life, and the continuing struggle for liberation...
One of the first films produced after the Berlin Wall divided the city in 1961, Escape from East Berlin mirrored real life stories of East Germans seeking freedom behind the Wall. After East Berlin chauffer Kurt Schroder (Don Murray) decides to escape to West Germany, he begins a plan to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Soon members of Kurt's family are in on the highly risky...
This film is based on the 1992 nonfiction book La guerre sans nom (The War without a Name) by the French historian Patrick Rotman and its subsequent 2002 documentary adaptation by France3, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, who also produced this feature film. It tells the story of Lieutenant Terrien (Benoît Magimel), a naïve and inexperienced army officer who volunteers for active...
In Mauritania, a nation rife with ethno-cultural conflict, military dictatorships, and human rights abuses in the late 20th century, a father returns home from the front. He watches as his son plays an innocent game of war. This short film was produced in 1989 and released in 1991, the years in which the Mauritania–Senegal Border War occured.
A mythical parable of dictatorship, Guimba the Tyrant follows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief, Guimba, and his son, Jangine, in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
Based on the memoir by Martin McGartland (born 1970), a young Irish man spies on the Irish Republican Army for the British during the last few years of the Troubles. In 1988, McGartland agrees to work for the British police because of the compensation and his abhorrence for IRA violence. After the IRA discovers who he is, McGartland escapes to Canada.
An Irish infantry company operating under the United Nations attempts to keep the peace following the outbreak of the Congolese Civil War, which threatened to escalate the Cold War. Sent to the mineral rich state of Katanga, which had seceded from the new republic, the Irish soldiers discover that their job is not to protect citizens but to bring the state back under the central government's...
Visually styled as a post-war film noir, The Good German, based on a novel by Joseph Kanon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, explores corruption, immorality, and compromise in post-World War II Berlin. American war correspondent Jake Geismar arrives in Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference and reunite with his old flame, Lena. His attention soon turns to unraveling...
In this highly acclaimed film about the Second Chechen War, an elderly Russian woman transforms the barren landscape of war and the deadened spirit of those engaged in it. Aleksandra travels to a remote outpost in Chechnya to visit her grandson. Her engagement with Russian soldiers and Chechyan citizens make them question their assumptions about the war and their enemies through simple human...
In this visually arresting documentary, director Fernando E. Solanas weaves together the threads of globalization, neoliberalism, and political corruption to explain the decaying social, economic, and political fabric of Argentina in the late 20th century. After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, Argentina's democratically elected officials enacted policies they promoted as they...
A thematic precursor of Italian neorealism, this richly detailed portrait of the Italian unification in the nineteenth century explores love, loss, and changing social norms during wartime. In Austrian-occupied Lombardy, Franco Mairo, a young man from an aristocratic family, decides to marry Luisa (Alida Valli), a humble clerk's daughter, against his family's wishes. The family is wrecked when...
In this visually arresting film filled with breathtaking battle sequences, director Yuliya Solntseva explores the apocalyptic effects of World War II on the Ukrainian people and countryside. Conflict, chaos, and destruction surround Ivan Orlyukov, a young soldier in the Red Army in 1941. His fierce commitment to pushing the Germans back finally leads him to walk victoriously through the...