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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Produced at the start of the Cold War and in the wake of the Hollywood Ten, this film tackles American communism in the labor movement and its manifestations. The leader of the local cell of communists in San Francisco blackmails Brad Collins, who was a former member of the Communist Party USA during the Great Depression. The film ends a black-and-white morality tale: All who were or are...
Hotel Imperial is a 1927 American silent war drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller, based on the 1917 Hungarian play of the same name by Lajos Bíró. The film is set in Austria-Hungary during World War I and starring Pola Negri as a hotel chambermaid. Officer Paul Almasy (Hall) is separated from his unit behind enemy lines and hides in the Hotel Imperial, where chambermaid Anna (Negri...
Two concurrent love stores set in Belgrade, one during World War II and the other during the Yugoslav Wars, reveal how the moral compromises of the past inform the present. As Jelena reconstructs her grandmother's World War II diaries documenting a love affair, she falls in love with Brogden, an injured Serbian soldier. The men carry on with war despite their hesitations and love for these...
A young couple confronts ethno-religious and nationalistic tensions in Serbia, foreshadowing the causes of the Kosovo War. A young Serbian woman falls in love with an Albanian posing as an Italian businessmen. He is secretly the hornet, an assassin of the Albanian mafia wanted by the Serbian authorities.
This second Vietnam War film by director Oliver Stone, which is based on the biography of Vietnam war veteran an antiwar activist Ron Kovic (born 1946), explores how an all-American boy becomes disillusioned with his nation and how a war-hungry nation injures its citizens, subjects that transcend the Vietnam War era and remain relevant today. Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), eagerly volunteers to...
This internationally acclaimed, Oscar-nominated documentary explores the immediate and long-term effects of nuclear warfare by looking at the U.S. military test at Bikini Atoll. In the summer of 1946, the U.S. military tested the nuclear bomb to assert its new world power and awareness of its responsibility. Testimonies from survivors, including Chief Kilon Bauno and former Navy pilot John...
This Oscar-winning war drama based on director Oliver Stone's memories of the Vietnam War portrays the conflict as chaotic, disorienting, and disillusioning. Chris Taylor drops out of college to enlist and quickly finds himself out of place in Vietnam. The enemy seems unclear to him, crystalized in a scene where arguments among members of his platoon lead them to burn a village of non-...
Director Oliver Stone's third Vietnam War film is based on the life of Le Ly Hayslip (born 1949) who also has a cameo appearance in it. Le Ly is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when communist insurgents show up in the village to first fight the forces of France and then the United States. The film follows her through a life of suffering and hardship during and after...
In this classic film loosely based on real events, prisoners of war in Nazi-occupied Poland plan their escape. In 1943, British and other Allied soldiers at the Stalag Luft III work collaboratively on digging tunnels under the camp, with each one offering their special talents. Although their escape is brief, symbolized with the iconic image of Steve McQueen's motorcylce ride, the film...
With rough parallels to incidents in the late 1950s, this Cold War thriller pits the United States and the Soviet Union in a hunt for sophisticated military technology in the Arctic. A US submarine is dispatched to the frozen wastes of the North Pole to recover a Soviet satellite crammed full of strategic snapshots of US bases. The Cold War atmosphere becomes even chillier as the sub, with a...
The Scarlet Coat is a 1955 American historical drama and swashbuckler, based upon the events in the American Revolution (1775–1783) in which Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) offered to surrender the fort at West Point to the British in exchange for money. Major John Bolton, a counter-intelligence officer, intercepts a letter from a British spy documenting Arnold's control of West Point....
In the midst of international tribunals on war crimes during the Bosnian War, an Austrian journalist questions whether the war and its crimes still continue. Nicole travels to a small Bosnian village to search for Edina, who disappeared after her return to Morovci to bury her father. During her investigation, she encounters hostile officials and traumatized people and documents the painstaking...
In this semi-autobiographical film based on his father's diaries and his mother's letters, director Elia Suleiman traces the evolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict through a focus on the everyday life of Israeli Arabs. From the creation of Israel to the near-present day, Suleiman weaves together fractured vignettes of a family adapting to political changes that transform their family bonds...
In this nearly silent black comedy, director Elia Suleiman imagines the fantastical and absurd as a response to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is...
In this historically accurate social history, a New England woman experiences the American Revolution as a series of civil wars that divided her local community and household. Mary Silliman sees the war as an intensely local matter while her husband, an attorney, views the war within the macro-politics of an anti-colonial struggle. The film's depiction of gender roles, women's public and...
In this Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film, an actor strikes a Faustian bargain as the Nazis take control of Germany in the mid-1930s. Hendrik Höfgen (modeled on German actor Gustaf Gründgens) opts to collaborate with the Nazis as his wife, family, and friends flee Germany. He consciously overlooks the increasing horrors of Nazi Germany and the moral compromises he has to make to be...
The women of a remote Latin American town are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.
Based on a 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015), Grave of the Fireflies is a devastating meditation on the human cost of war. This animated film produced by Studio Ghibli follows Seita (Tsutomu Tatsumi), a teenager charged with the care of his younger sister, Setsuko (Ayano Shiraishi), after an American firebombing during World War II...
This Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film explores senseless death and fruitless peace in the Bosnian War. Two injured soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serbian, are stranded in no man's land and are trapped by a landmine. A French soldier for the United Nations Protection Force and an English reporter bring international attention to situation, but a rescue mission fails when the soldiers...
This film explores familial tensions, daily life, and possibilities in a small town in Herzegovina between the fall of communism and the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia. Divko returns home after twenty years in exile and sets out to reclaim his family home. Family squabbles play out over news of conflict, with most characters in disbelief about the unfolding violence.