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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This short documentary raises questions about women's changing roles in England during World War I. Women took on traditionally men's roles by becoming factory workers, police officers, and surgeons as well as by forming football (soccer) leagues. Although the public wondered whether these changes were temporary or permanent, women's war efforts pushed forward the campaign for women's suffrage...
Director Parminder Vir explores in this documentary the life situation of different generations of women in Algeria and their changing experiences during and after the Algerian War of Liberation (1954–62). The first generation of interviewed women identifies still as “Mudjahadines,” fighters, during the War of Independence from the French. They recall their own experiences, their hopes and...
Inspired by real life events, this six-part, limited television series uncovers the history of Black Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. Aminata, enslaved at age 11, becomes a central figure in preparing the Book of Negroes, a list of enslaved people the British promised freedom to and safe passage to Nova Scotia. The series portrays Aminata's history of enslavement (from...
The Leopard is a 1963 epic historical drama film, an adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 novel of the same title. Directed by Luchino Visconti, who also co-wrote the screenplay, the Italian-French co-production stars an international cast including the American Burt Lancaster, the Frenchman Alain Delon, and the Italian Claudia Cardinale. As Garibaldi's troops begin the...
Senso is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film, an adaptation of Camillo Boito's Italian novella Senso, written around 1882, by the Italian director Luchino Visconti. Senso is set in Italy around 1866, the year the Third Italian War of Independence would see the Veneto and most of Friuli-Venezia Giulia united to Italy after the Seven Weeks' War between Austria on...
Director František Vláčil creates a claustrophobic, haunting study of identity in post-World War II Czechoslovakia. After returning home from war, a Czech soldier is tasked with managing a large villa previously occupied by a Nazi German family. He falls in love with Adelheid, who now serves as maid in her family's home. Isolated, signified through their language barrier, the post-war politics...
Two childhood friends find themselves on opposite sides in occupied France during World War II. After the Vichy police and SS officers plan to round up foreign Jews in Nancy, police officer Édouard Vigne disobeys orders and makes plans to hide them. Fellow officer Lucas Barois commits to upholding Vichy law and order.
This internationally acclaimed and Oscar winning film explores corruption and the surveillance state of East Germany in the mid-1980s. Captain Gerd Wiesler of the secret service (Stasi) spies on a famous playwright and his girlfriend but becomes disillusioned when he learns the operation is to satisfy the personal desires of the Minister of Culture. Wiesler then works to hide the playwright's...
Loosly based on a true story, this film explores Japanese holdouts from World War II living on the abandoned-and-forgotten Pacific island of Anatahan. A group of 12 sailors are stranded on the island for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned plantation and Keiko, an attractive young Japanese woman.The soldiers vie for the affection of Keiko that slowly...
In a highly technical visual style, director Lars von Trier explores the themes of accountability, gullibility, and guilt in post-World War II Germany. A simplistic American takes a job as a conductor of the Zentropa railway. The train serves as an allegory for postwar nation-building and a reminder of Germany's recent past. Soon enough, he falls in love with a femme fatale, and...
Warchild explores the theme of dislocation and identity after the Bosnian War. Senada searches for her daughter who was removed from her custody during the war. She travels to Germany and discovers that her daughter now belongs to another family.
A seminal work in Polish New Wave cinema, director Andrzej Wajda fashions a devastating anti-war film about the lost generation of World War II. A Generation is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the German occupation of Poland. The young protagonist, Stach is living in squalor on the outskirts of the city and...
Director Andrzej Wajda offers a bleak interpretation of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. A group of 27 resistance fighters from the Home Army retreat into the sewers after their plan to take the Mokotów district of the city meets armed German opposition. Lost and separated in the sewers, they struggle to survive. Kanal mirrors the sense of hopelessness Polish resistance fighters...
The film, directed by Andrzej Wajda, portrays the conflict between the rival Jacobine revolutionary leaders Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) and Georges Danton (1759–94). The film is an adaptation of the 1929 play The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska, who wrote the play in 1928/29, after many years of studying the French Revolution (1789–99). In 1793, Danton, a champion-of-the-...
Widely considered to be the best Polish film of all time and a landmark in world cinema, director Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds explores the fractured national identity of war-torn Poland. The action of Ashes and Diamonds takes place in 1945, shortly after World War II. The main protagonist of the film, former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, is acting in the anti-...
This movie by director Andrzej Wajda tells the story of Poles who fight for the liberation of their divided and occupied homeland in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. It is based on the eponymous epic poem by Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855). As in the poem, the conflict between the Soplica and Horeszko families serves as a backdrop for discussion of issues of...
This documentary tells the story of General Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution, and the creation of the first black republic in the modern world. Born enslaved, Louverture wins his freedom only to risk it by supporting the most successful slave uprising in history. Although inspired by the French and American Revolutions, the creation of Haiti rocked the United States as well as the ...
The story is set in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Tasia, a beautiful lower class dancer with communist beliefs, falls for the noble Grand Duke Eugene. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia to be near him. Although a silent movie, it was released with synchronized music, sound effects, and with English intertitles...
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N is a 1951 British-American naval war film in Technicolor from Warner Brothers, directed by Raoul Walsh. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the United States), A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colors, published between 1937 and 1967. Forester is credited...
This documentary interweaves the development of the 2006 Public Theater production of "Mother Courage and Her Children" with the life of its playwright Bertolt Brecht. It emphasizes the play's anti-war theme for a modern day audience living during the War on Terror.