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(s): Thompson, Philip
Release Date: 1973
Abstract:

This award-winning documentary explores the effects of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998) on a small community in Northern Ireland. Locals from Ardonyne such as a Catholic priest, social workers, and a leader of the Provisional IRA provide conflicting interpretations of the conflict.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617621/
Director(s): Tilman, Samuel
Release Date: 2010
Abstract:

Informed by scholarship and archival records, this television docu-series explores the history of the Congo from the 15th century to the present. From the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to colonialism and independence, the three-part series examines exploitation, violence, and nationalism through Congo's interactions with European and American powers. 

http://www.bam.org/film/2012/kongo
Director(s): Tofano, Gilberto
Release Date: 1969
Abstract:

After the death of her husband in the Six Day War (June 5 – 10, 1967), an Israeli woman struggles to forge her new identity in the face of grief,  bereavement and societal expectations. Tamar's friends and family believe she should behave as a proper widow, serving as a living memorial to her slain husband, but she wants to explore new possibilities and live independently. The film premiered...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141591/
Director(s): Tornatore, Giuseppe
Release Date: 2000
Abstract:

Set in a small Sicilian town during World War II, a beautiful young woman experiences the tragedies of war. An object of lust and jealousies, Malèna loses her social status as innuendo and misinterpretation build. She starts to date German soldiers and works at a brothel to make ends meet. A young boy tries to improve her life. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213847
Director(s): Trajkov, Ivo
Release Date: 2004
Abstract:

On his deathbed, a Macedonian politician remembers his childhood in post-World War II Yugoslavia. After wandering the countryside in the aftermath of the war, communist soldiers take Lem to a hard labor camp acting as an orphanage. There, he experiences the indoctrination of Soviet and communist ideology, a larger project that consolidated Tito's power and quelled ethnic, religious, and...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365285/
Director(s): Troell, Jan
Release Date: 1996
Abstract:

Based on a true story, this film traces the fall of Norway's Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as a national hero during World War II. Hamsun, a Nobel laureate and Norway's most famous author, embraces the occupying German forces because of his deep hatred for the British. He and his wife Marie support Nazism, yet disagree with its tactics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116480/.
Director(s): Anastasia Trofimova
Release Date: 2015
Major Wars:
Abstract:

The YPJ (Women's Protection Units) is an all-female unit of Kurdish and Arab women who are fighting ISIS in Syria. Previously unheard of until 2012, the YPJ is comprised of volunteers from towns and villages that came under threat as the terror group extended its influence and started committing atrocities against the local population. These new recruits joined the group not only to protect...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7222936/
Director(s): Trojan, Ondrej
Release Date: 2003
Abstract:

A young woman escapes persecution by fleeing to a remote mountain village in Czechoslovakia during World War II. After Germans discover Eliška's ties to the Resistance, she travels with a former patient to his home in Želary. They marry to avoid suspicion and fall in love. Tragedy slowly creeps into Želary when Russian soldiers arrive at war's end.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288330/
Director(s): Trueba, Fernando
Release Date: 1994
Abstract:

An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Belle Epoque portrays the brief period of tranquility between the dawn of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. A young army deserter finds himself in the company of a warm, happy, and beautiful family. He falls in love with the four daughters of his new friend. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103791/
Director(s): Trueba, Fernando
Release Date: 1998
Abstract:

During the Spanish Civil War, a movie troupe goes from Spain to Berlin for a joint production with UFA. Besides the jealousies and sexual escapades of any movie set, culture and politics add to the tensions: they use Jewish and Romani prisoners as extras to give an Andalucian look, the director is sleeping with his ingénue, Macarena, with no intention of leaving his wife, and Macarena...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158030/
Director(s): Truffaut, François
Release Date: 1980
Abstract:

Director François Truffaut provides an entertaining tale of everyday life in Paris during World War II. Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, the film follows the fortunes of a small theatre in the Montmartre area of Paris which puts up resistance to the Nazi authorities. The theater's director is a German Jew (Heinz Bennent) who has already fled from Nazi Germany, only to go...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080610/
Director(s): Tsui, Hark
Release Date: 2014
Abstract:

Renowned director Tsui Hark of Hong Kong presents an action-packed tale set during the Chinese Civil War (1927-1950) and immediately after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Zirong leads a small unit of the People's Liberation Army into northwestern China to control marauding bandits who have taken control after the Japanese army's departure. He stands against the feared Lord Hawk who...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3950078/
Director(s): Tyldum, Morten
Release Date: 2014
Abstract:

Based on a true story, this critically acclaimed film presents the story of Alan Turing's intelligence work for the British during World War II. At Bletchley Park, Turing works to decode the Enigma machine and thus German intelligence reports. His difficult personality as well as his closeted homosexuality distance him from his peers, but they rally behind him when he discovers a breakthrough...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970
Director(s): Ucicky, Gustav
Release Date: 1931
Abstract:

One of the more popular films of the Prussian film genre, which glorified Prussian history and militarism in the wake of Germany's devastating loss in World War I. This film celebrates King Frederick II (1712–1786), known as Frederick the Great, of Prussia who strengthened its military and political power in Europe through territorial acquisitions, diplomacy, and war. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020893/
Director(s): Ustinov, Peter
Release Date: 1961
Abstract:

In this Romeo-and-Juliet story for the Cold War age, a president of a fictional European country tries to maintain neutrality in an important United Nations vote by encouraging forbidden love. In Concordia, the daughter of the American ambassador and the son of the Soviet ambassador immediately fall in love to the dismay of their parents. The president uses their love as well as fake...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055383/
Director(s): Vajda, Ladislao
Release Date: 1937
Abstract:

The Wife of General Ling is a 1937 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda, adapted from a novel by Dorothy Hope and Peter Cheyney. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950), a British intelligence officer must uncover the identity of a notorious gun smuggler, who has been delivering British weapons to General Ling. His primary suspect is Mr. Wong, a respected businessman-...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122316/
Director(s): Vajraca, Sabina
Release Date: 2005
Abstract:

Back to Bosnia is a documentary film about a family who returns to Bosnia in 2000, to reclaim the property they were forced out of at gun point. While there, the family is confronted with the destruction of their city's multi-ethnic character and forced to examine the community they left behind. They witness an exhumation, visit the sites of war crimes, and seek out the remnants of a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz_CsMcfyE
Director(s): Valère, Jean
Release Date: 1959
Abstract:

In this minimalist film unfolding in real time, director Jean Valère explores humanity, fear, and hope in occupied France during World War II. Five members of the French Resistance, three men and two women, are sentenced to death after the assassination of a German officer. They wait for execution, scheduled in an hour's time. In a cell near the beach, they overhear Allied bombings and attempt...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053266/
Director(s): van den Bergh, Regardt
Release Date: 1984
Abstract:

Boetie Gaan Border Toe! is a 1984  film set during the "South African Border War", or the Namibian War of Independence (1966-1990), which was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The film, directed by Regardt van den Bergh,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242321/
Director(s): van den Bergh, Regardt
Release Date: 1985
Abstract:

Boetie op Manoeuvres,  directed by Regardt van den Bergh, is the sequel to the commercially successful 1984 South African  film Boetie Gaan Border Toe!The film is set again during the "South African Border War", or the Namibian War of Independence (1966-1990), which was fought between the South African Defence Force...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2030320/

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