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): Dyke, W. S. Van
Release Date: 1938
Abstract:

The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers high society, with the help of Orleans and her brothers-in-law. Her foolishness is at its height when she meets a...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030418/?
Director(s): Van Patten, Tim
Release Date: 2010
Abstract:

This epic miniseries follows the lives of three U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Through their experiences, viewers have a greater sense of the war's scale and contingency. It chronologically features battles in Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima, and it follows the men home to explore their conflicted emotions after the war's end. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/
Director(s): Vancini, Florestano
Release Date: 1972
Abstract:

This controversial film reinterprets the Expedition of the Thousand, a key event in the Italian Risorgimento that brought Sicily into the Kingdom of Sardinia. After Garibaldi's conquest, villagers of Bronte revolt in early August 1860 after promised land reforms fail to materialize. General Nino Bixio (Mariano Rigillo) leads a brutal response to restore order, resulting in the destruction of...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149966/
Director(s): Vasilev, Sergei
Release Date: 1934
Abstract:

This popular propaganda film of the Soviet Realist era celebrates Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). It is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev. Chapaev, an illiterate son of peasants, proves to be a brilliant strategist...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024966/
Director(s): Vasilyev, Sergey
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

Produced during the Cold War, this Soviet-Bulgarian co-production celebrates the relationship between the two countries through its portrayal of the Battle of Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1978). The Battle of Shipka Pass consisted of four battles that were fought between the Russian Empire, aided by Bulgarian volunteers known as opalchentsi, and the Ottoman Empire for control...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047021/
Director(s): Vaughn, Matthew
Release Date: 2011
Abstract:

The famed comic book series The X-Men finds its origin story in the global politics of the Cold War. In 1944, in Poland, the boy Erik Lehnsherr unleashes his magnetic power when his mother is sent to a concentration camp. The evil Dr. Sebastian Shaw brings Erik to his office and kills his mother, increasing his abilities through anger. In New York, the wealthy Charles Xavier meets the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/
Director(s): Vautier, René
Release Date: 1963
Abstract:

In 1962, the French film director René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organized an audiovisual formation center to encourage a “dialogue in images” between the two factions involved in the Algerian War (1954–62). A film was edited from that experience, but the French police partially destroyed it. The images that were saved represent an unprecedented historical document: They...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856256/
Director(s): Vautier, René
Release Date: 1972
Abstract:

Based on interviews with veterans of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), this film explores how war reshapes identity. A group of young pacifists from Brittany is taken to a camp destined to deserters. They end up by accepting the increasing violence with which they are trained, and become true killing machines. In April, 1961, they are moved to the Aurès mountains in Algeria where...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163537/
Director(s): Vecchiali, Paul
Release Date: 1983
Abstract:

Nearly twenty years after the end of World War II, a woman returns home to reclaim her past and rehabilitate her husband's image. Françoise Canavaggia and her husband fled their home in Toulon after the war because of his alliance with Pétain. His family denounced him and claimed his and Françoise's villa as their own. Memories of the past flood her present.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198451/
Director(s): Velimirovic, Zdravko
Release Date: 1985
Abstract:

Vreme leoparda is a 1985 Yugoslav-Mozambican co-production and the first Mozambican feature film. Set in Mozambique in 1971, during the last years of Portuguese colonial occupation, the film is a fictional account of the anti-colonial Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974) told from the perspective of two childhood friends, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist, who...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090280/
Director(s): Venault, Philippe
Release Date: 2011
Abstract:

In 1949, three 20-year-old childhood friends left their native village of Charente-Maritime for Indochina. As they discover love, they find themselves caught up in the turmoil of the Indochina war.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884951/
Director(s): Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Release Date: 1997
Abstract:

The two-part television series Le Rouge et le noir is based on the historical novel by Henri Beyle Stendhal (1783–1842), published in 1830. The two films, directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, chronicle the attempts of Julian Sorel, a young man who grows up in a small French village, to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTCmHuXOqEc
Director(s): Verhoeven, Paul
Release Date: 2006
Abstract:

Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied troops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/
Director(s): Verhoeven, Paul
Release Date: 1977
Abstract:

Soldier of Orange is a 1977 Dutch romance-thriller film, set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The story is based on the 1971 autobiographical book Soldaat van Oranje by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema. A Dutch aristocrat and his university friends join the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Others have a different...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076734/
Director(s): Vidor, King
Release Date: 1940
Abstract:

Northwest Passage is a 1940 Technicolor film, based on a novel by Kenneth Roberts titled Northwest Passage (1937). A young artist and his friend accidently join Roger's Ranger during the Seven Years War (1756–1763). Led by Maj. Robert Rogers, they travel through the Quebec wilderness with the mission to destroy the French-allied Abenaki tribe. The film shows the Rangers...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032851/
Director(s): Vidor, King
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

War and Peace was a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), published first serially and then in its entirety in 1869. It describes Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812 from the Russian perspective. This American movie, directed by King Vidor, is an adoption of the novel, which chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049934/
Director(s): Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Release Date: 1972
Abstract:

Winter Soldier is a 1972 documentary film chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place in 1971. The film documents the accounts of American soldiers who returned from the War in Vietnam, and participated in this war crimes hearing. For three days, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204058/
Director(s): Villaronga, Agustí
Release Date: 2010
Abstract:

Based on the acclaimed novel by Emili Teixidor, secrets from the past destroy childhood innocence in post-civil war Spain. After Andreu's father is accused of murder, he and his mother move in with extended family. In his exploration of the countryside, Andreu discovers dark secrets about his family. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454523/
Director(s): Villiers, François
Release Date: 1959
Abstract:

In 1943, a group of French high school students decided to take action against the occupying Nazi troops. Showing imagination and courage, they succeed in blowing up a Nazi garrison and in rescuing hostages. However, the murder of a German soldier triggers retaliation by the Nazi police apparatus. The young resistance fighters are arrested and two of them are executed.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053414/
Director(s): Vilsmaier, Joseph
Release Date: 1993
Abstract:

This film, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, follows the progress of a German platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and  being placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the lieutenant of the platoon convinces  his men to desert, and they are faced with the task of escaping a city completely surrounded by a hostile Soviet...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

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