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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Both a short documentary and a call to action, The Thing That Happened explores the effects of the Ugandan Civil War on children. Hope North Secondary and Vocational School in northern Uganda serves as a school for refugee children. Filmmaker Andrew Walton highlights stark poverty and inequality as well as the hope of the school's teachers and students for a brighter, alternative...
Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Indochine, Régis Wargnier offers an interpretation of French colonialism in Indochina through the lens of a French plantation owner, Éliane Devries, played by Catherine Deneuve, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camille, played by Linh Dan Pham. In 1930, marked by growing anticolonial unrest, Éliane Devries, a single woman born to French...
In this melodramatic tragedy, director Régis Wargnier explores the emotional costs of war on a French woman. Shortly after Jeanne marries Louis, he leaves for war. She channels her sadness and anger into a series of affairs that span from World War II to the Algerian War of Independence.
Based on the novel by Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September charts the decline of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy during the Irish War for Independence (1919-23). Set at County Cork estate in the fall of 1920, an aristocratic couple hosts their young niece Louisa and other houseguests including a now landless family. Louisa flirts with a visiting British soldier and a wanted Irish killer,...
This film about the politics and battles of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) shows how an emperor’s decision affects ordinary people. Emperoro Meiji's (1852–1912) militarism and determination to make Japan a world power cinematically results in stunning battle sequences. The cost of his goal comes at the expense of the lives of the men of rural peasantry.
U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby (John Wayne) defend a firebase during the Vietnam War. War correspondent George Beckwith (Davis Janssen), who objects to both the war and the means by which it is executed, accompanies Kirby, who had invited him to experience the war for himself. Kirby's firebase is overrun and his troops fight bravely to...
In 1836, the Mexican army, led by General Santa Anna, is invading Texas. Hoping to create a diversion for Santa Anna's forces, General Sam Houston (Richard Boone) orders Colonel William B. Travis (Laurence Harvey), joined by Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and Davy Crockett (John Wayne), to lead a small, heroic band of American and Texican fighters in a resistance battle at the Alamo...
In 1775, Henry Felder, a Swiss-German colonist, lives with his family in the back-country of the British colony of South Carolina. He and his community are suffering under British injustice. After many years of struggling with corrupt British rulers, Felder is urged by the new patriot governor to write Articles of Separation from the English king. Felder's Indian fighting comrade, Bill Jenkins...
Emperor investigates a critically important decision regarding the post-World War II world. In the aftermath of the Japanese surrender, U.S. Army General Bonner Fellers must decide whether to try Emperor Hirohito for war crimes or forge another path toward cooperative nation-building. His investigation takes him through the city of Tokyo to talk with high-ranking government officials. Memories...
This epic adventure movie is telling the story of the H.M.S. Surprise, a British frigate, under the command of Captain Jack Aubrey. In April 1805, his and the Surprise's orders are to track and capture or destroy a French privateer named Acheron. The Acheron is currently in the Atlantic off South America heading toward the Pacific in order to extend Napoleon's reach of the wars. This task will...
The Americans presents a measured analysis of late Cold War international politics through its focus on marriage, family, and personal relationships. In the 1980s, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are Soviet spies living as Americans in suburban Washington, D.C. After twenty years, she remains deeply committed to the Soviet Union while his loyalty frays under the moral weight of his...
Widely regarded as one of the best World War II film released after the conflict, Battleground explores the horror and the humanity of war during the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944 – January 1945). A company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army faces hunger, exhaustion, and confusion. The winter conditions of thick fog, frigid cold, and...
The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman. The story is a tribute to the American infantryman ("G.I. Joe") during World War II, told through the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), with dialogue and narration lifted from Pyle's columns. The film...
Seven Beauties is a 1975 Italian production, written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler. Written by Wertmüller, the film is about an ordinary Italian man from Naples who deserts the Italian Royal Army during World War II. He is then captured by the Germans and is sent to a concentration camp, where he is willing to do...
A small group of deserters from the English Civil War stumble upon another man-made nightmare. Cutler, a necromancer and alchemist, convinces the three deserters to help him find buried treasure in an overgrown field and feeds them hallucinogenic mushrooms. Their new task is worse than their last.
Based on journalist Evan Wright's award winning book, this HBO miniseries explores U.S. invasion of Iraq from the perspective of the U.S. Marines Corps 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. By following the battalion in their three-week trek from northern Kuwait to Baghdad, Generation Kill conveys the speed and confusion of the invasion. Often undersupplied and ordered to keep moving, the Marines...
In this HBO-BBC-VRT miniseries, an English aristocrat awakens to the modern world shaped by feminism and World War I. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage flounders almost as soon as it begins. He falls in love with another woman, but he remains honorable for some considerable time to Sylvia who has several...
This critically acclaimed film, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister, was the first major anti-war film from post-World War II West Germany. In the waning days of World War II, as American forces overtake Germany, seven teenage boys are pulled from their small town's school as emergency conscripts to repel the advancing Americans. Given almost no...
Elizabeth of Ladymead is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film, charting the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their involvement in four wars - the Crimean War (1853–1856), Boer War (1899–1902), First World War and Second World War. In each vignette, a wife dreams of her husband's return from war, and reflects on changes while he has been away. This film thus explores...
More than fifty years after its release, Beach Red stands as an influential anti-war film. Actor-director Cornel Wilde conveyed the violence and the humanity of Americans and Japanese as they battle over a Pacific island controlled by the Japanese. Wilde dedicated the first thirty minutes to filming the Marine invasion, a cinematic choice director Stephen Spielberg echoed in ...