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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Director Quentin Tarantino re-imagines World War II as a revenge-fantasy for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany. In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl)...
This critically acclaimed film, which won director Andrei Tarkovsky the Golden Lion at the 1962 Venice Film Festival, explores the loss of childhood and innocence in World War II. When Nazi invaders destroy his Russian village and kill his family, 12-year-old Ivan (Kolya Burlyayev) is placed in a German prison camp. Ivan escapes from the camp and crosses back over to Russia, and comes under...
Using cinematic realism, director Tomotaka Tasaka documents he day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers in a Japanese army unit during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). As the unit advances into mainland China, injured soldiers remain behind rather than slow others' down.
This television film traces multiple perspectives of the October Massacre during the Algerian War of Independence. It follows members of the National Liberation Front (FLN), French military officers, Parisian police, journalists, and school children to explore how a peaceful protest turned into a violent act of state repression and extralegal violence.
Based on real events, this television miniseries recounts the political and intellectual evolution of a young French man during World War II. Daniel Cordier, an ethnocentric nationalist, becomes disillusioned by Petain's surrender to Nazi Germany. He joins the Free French movement, working with de Gaulle and Jean Moulin, and leans into ideas of French universalism.
When Felicity meets Penny, a beautiful copper-colored mare, she knows with all her heart that she must free Penny from her cruel owner. Felicity desperately wishes for that same sureness of heart about the rumors of revolution swirling through Williamsburg. Felicity's father believes that the colonies should be free from England's rule, but her beloved grandfather and her best friend Elizabeth...
This documentary focuses on the experiences of French veterans of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). The memories of two dozen veterans provide anguished and honest accounts of a conflict that had yet to be called a war by their nation.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Roger Vercel, this film explores ideas of civilization and humanity during and after World War I. Even though World War I is over, French troops are still fighting on the Bulgarian border. There, a band of ferocious soldiers are led by Capt. Conan, a battle-hardened veteran who's both a nuisance to his superiors and a hero to his men. But when the rogue...
Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Delaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of 350,000 unknown dead soldiers after World War I. He encounters two women looking for their lost men: Irène, an aristocrat, and Alice, a country girl. The movie is a sensitive examination of the deep psychological scars left behind by the war, clear of sentiment yet with delicately nuanced...
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so. Based off the 1964 novel Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson, Coup de torchon transposes the themes of racism, classism, and sexism to a small town in French West Africa, then a federation of eight French colonial territories consisting of Mauritania...
Allonsanfàn is a 1974 Italian historical drama film written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The title of the film, which is also the name of a character, comes from the first words of the French Revolutionary anthem La Marseillaise. Set against the backdrop of the Italian Unification in early 19th-century Italy, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as an aging...
The Final Countdown is a 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered-aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. The captain is forced to decide whether to strike at the approaching Japanese fleet and change the entire course of the World War II. The film was produced with the full cooperation of...
Four French adolescents transition to adulthood and discover their sexualities at the end of Algerian War for Independence. Serge, an Algerian immigrant, seduces his classmate François and tries to do the same to Maïté, François's best friend and daughter of the local Communist Party leader. Henri, a Pied Noir, arrives and disrupts the peace. He and Maïté fall in love with each other despite...
This film asks large questions about resistance, oppression, and pan-Arabism within the context of the global War on Terror. A journalist travels to Beirut to uncover the forgotten history of the Zanj revolution in the 9th century Abbasid Caliphate. He meets a Palestinian refugee looking to understand her family's and nation's history. Their quests to find meaning in hidden histories contrast...
Actor Kenneth Griffith provides a dramatic monologue of the life of Michael Collins (1890-1922), a prominent leader during the Irish War for Independence (1919-1923). Although usually classed as a documentary, the film more closely resembles a dramatic monologue, with Griffith frequently delivering quotes by key figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Collins himself, "in...
In 1936, Sir Hallam Holland and his young wife Lady Agnes return from a diplomatic posting abroad and take up residence at 165 Eaton Place, formerly the home of the Bellamy family but vacant for several years. By chance, they ask Rose Buck, a long-time servant in the Bellamy household, to find them a suitable staff. In the end, Rose joins them as the housekeeper. The 1930s are a difficult time...
Ice Cold in Alex is a 1958 British war film set during the Western Desert campaign of World War II based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Christopher Landon. A group of British officers and nurses travel from Tobruk, Libya, to Alexandria, Egypt, as the German Afrika Korps advances. They meet a stranded man, who claims to be an Afrikaner, and he proves to be of immense...
Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel, this British-American epic war film tells the story of the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. With the Battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them in 1943, the Germans attempt to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis powers; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean,...
1969 deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America. Two rebellious youths, Ralph (Robert Downey Jr.) and Scott (Kiefer Sutherland), find themselves struggling with adulthood as the war rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father and Ralph deals with his...
The Passage is a 1979 British action-war film, based upon the 1976 novel Perilous Passage by Bruce Nicolaysen, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. During the Nazi occupation of France, a group of French Resistance leaders is desperate to smuggle professor John Bergson (James Mason) and his family safely out of the country. As their options dwindle, they decide to hire...