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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Based on Jon Michelet's 1977 novel by the same name, Orion's Belt offers a biting critique of the Norwegian policy of allowing a Soviet presence on Svalbard during the Cold War. The film follows three Svalbard-based shabby seamen, played by Helge Jordal, Sverre Anker Ousdal and Hans Ola Sørlie, who discover a Soviet bearing station. They are subsequently targets of Soviet liquidation...
Produced over a span of ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
Based on a book by historian Stephen Ambrose, this award-winning HBO miniseries follows an American military company throughout World War II. The men of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division travel from Camp Toccoa in Georgia to various battles in Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge and D-Day. Interviews with Easy Comapny...
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film that portrays the Normandy (D-Day) landings and its immediate aftermath. Directed by Steven Spielberg it stars Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore, won five Oscars and went on to become an iconic American war film. The film follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and his squad as they search for a paratrooper,...
In this internationally acclaimed and Oscar-winning film, director Steven Spielberg documents the awakening of businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) to the Holocaust during World War II. A German and Nazi Party member, Schindler arrives in Kraków to profit from the war. At the same time, SS officer Amon Göth (1908-1946) oversees the construction of the Płaszów concentration camp outside the...
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several...
Director Steven Spielberg explores the loss of childhood innocence in this semi-autobiographical tale, based on the 1984 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard, set during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II. Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison...
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured by the Mende tribesmen on board and managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free. Based on the true story of the events in 1839 aboard the La Amistad, a...
In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can...
Based on a true story, British journalist George Hogg transitions from documenting the Sino-Japanese War to actively resisting it. After photographing and writing about the Rape of Nanjing, Hogg escapes execution with the help of a Chinese communist and Australian nurse. They take him to an orphanage and task him with caring for the 60 children. When Chinese nationalists want to conscript the...
In this Cold War B-movie, styled as a film noir, a disgruntled veteran becomes aware of the dangers of communism. Bill Jones joins the Communist Party USA after a real estate scam, but he soon realizes his mistake. After witnessing party leaders murder a member for disagreeing with them, Jones and his new girlfriend escape the clutches of the party.
One of the first post-World War II German films and the first Trümmerfilm, an aesthetic style for films made directly after World War II highlighting the material impacts of the war, The Murderers Are Among Us examines how ordinary citizens recover from war traumas. Susanne Wallner, a Holocaust survivor, arrives home to discover Dr. Hans Mertens, a military doctor who can no...
In Nazi-occupied Luxembourg during World War II, a group of men take refuge in underground mines rather than fight their allies. François, the privileged son of a collaborator, leaves university in anger over its teachings of Nazism. He joins other men living underground to avoid conscription. Once there, he experiences personal wars within himself and with other men, making his re-entry to...
Ohm Krüger is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff, part of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. Supported by the Reich Minister of Propagana at the time, Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), Ohm Krüger depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger (1825–1904) and his eventual defeat by the British during...
This Vichy-era film celebrates maternalism, traditional values, and a homogenous French identity. After Louise loses her husband and her newborn child during World War I, she dedicates her life to caring for other children and following her Catholic faith. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she...
Based on the accounts of former U.S Marine Captain Brian Steidle, this documentary exposes the War in Darfur and the lack of international response to it. By working for the African Union, Steidle gained access to parts of Darfur that were off limits to journalists and others in the international community. He returned to the United States to raise awareness of ethnic cleansing.
The Olympics often became a site of Cold War cultural tensions, pitting the United States against the Soviet Union. This film is based on real events and shows how the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the heavily-favored Soviets at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and then went on to win the gold medal. The film concludes with actual footage of the U.S. team members receiving their medals...
Due to a housing shortage in Washington, D.C., during World War II, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) agrees to rent part of her apartment to wealthy retiree Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) and soldier Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). Although Connie is engaged to the unexciting Charles Pendergast (Richard Gaines), she becomes fond of Joe. When Dingle notices their interests in each other, he attempts...
Loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling poem, this movie presents late 19th-century British colonialism in India in a positive light while noting sharp differences among its colonized subjects. Three British sergeants and their bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din travel to a remote outpost to investigate. They encounter the legendary Thuggees, a gang of Indians known for violence and barbarism. In...
Based on the 1944 children's novel of the same name by Esther Forbes, this Walt Disney production highlights the working-class origins of the American Revolution (1775–1783). Johnny Tremain, a silversmith apprentice in Boston, Massachusetts, severely injures his hand while repairing a silver teacup owned by a distant relative. Tremain then becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty to relay...