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): Wilder, Billy
Release Date: 1953
Abstract:

Stalag 17 is a 1953 American drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp. The film was directed and produced by Billy Wilder, who also adapted the screenplay with Edwin Blum from the Broadway play of the same name by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, which was based on their experiences as prisoners in Stalag ...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/
Director(s): Wilder, Billy
Release Date: 1961
Abstract:

This Cold War screwball comedy is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Billy Wilder. C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney) will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's (Howard St. John) rebellious teenage...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/
Director(s): Wilder, Billy
Release Date: 1943
Abstract:

Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy felvonásban, including the 1927 film Hotel Imperial. Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035884/
Director(s): Wilson, Hugh
Release Date: 1999
Abstract:

Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. The film focuses on a naive 35-year old man, Adam Webber, who spent his entire life living in a fallout shelter built by his father, an eccentric scientist, during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Thirty-five years later, when Adam leaves the shelter, his old-fashioned attitudes and manners dating to the late 1950s and early...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/
Director(s): Franz Peter Wirth
Release Date: 1978
Abstract:

A four-part television series on commander and politician Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634) emphasizing his efforts to bring about German peace during the Thirty Years' War as a central theme. The screenplay is based on the 1971 biography of the same name by historian Golo Mann.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094292/
Director(s): Wisbar, Frank
Release Date: 1962
Abstract:

This German-Italian-Spanish production viewed the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) through an anti-war lens. A commander of the French Foreign Legion takes his battle-scarred men to search for an Algerian nationalist leader. Though successful in their mission, their escape plan falls apart. The unit treks through hostile territory only to discover that their sacrifice was for naught....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056221/
Director(s): Wisbar, Frank
Release Date: 1959
Abstract:

This West German film uses the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February1943) in World War II to convey an anti-war and anti-Nazi message. A young and idealistic lieutenant of the German army is sent to the eastern front. Wisse begins to question the war and his commitment to Nazi ideology as he witnesses the costs of battle on his soldiers and the citizens of Stalingrad.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051749/
Director(s): Wise, Robert
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

Unlike other Cold War science-fiction films of the early 1950s that that engaged in fearmongering, The Day the Earth Stood Still offered a message of peace. When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) has come on behalf of alien life who have been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth...

Director(s): Lisa Quijano Wolfinger
Release Date: 2016
Abstract:

This television series, set in the early years of the Civil War, follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the war - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4597870
Director(s): Wood, Sam
Release Date: 1943
Abstract:

Based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, this film follows a volunteer of the American International Brigade who sacrifices his life for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Tasked with blowing up a strategic bridge, Robert Jordan runs into resistance from guerilla fighters. Their leader believes Jordan's mission will only endanger his group. Maria...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035896/
Director(s): Worth, David
Release Date: 1986
Abstract:

This drama concerns a Vietnam vet who suffers at the hands of the people around him when he returns from the war. Frank Morgan (John Savage) is villified by the townsfolk because he exposed an American massacre of a Vietnamese village. When an offer comes up to pilot a plane carrying weapons to a Latin American nation in the throes of a civil war, Frank takes on the job. Coming with him is the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088345/
Director(s): Wright, Joe
Release Date: 2007
Abstract:

When 13-year-old Briony Tallis spies her older sister and neighbor Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate, her subsequent misinterpretation of their relationship sets into motion a series of misunderstandings that will have tragic and lasting repercussions for the whole family. Based on acclaimed British author, Ian McKellan’s eponymous masterpiece, this film by director...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
Director(s): Wyler, William
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

The patriarch of a peace-loving Quaker family, Jess Birdwell (Gary Cooper), begins to question his pacifist values when the American Civil War (1861–1865) moves toward his close-knit Indiana community. Meanwhile, Jess's daughter, Mattie, is in love with a soldier, and her brother, Josh (Anthony Perkins), contemplates picking up arms to defend his home lest he be considered a coward. As...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049233/
Director(s): Wyler, William
Release Date: 1946
Abstract:

In this critically acclaimed film directed by William Wyler, widely regarded as one of the best American films in the 20th century, three World War II veterans experience difficulties adjusting to postwar life. Fred (Dana Andrews) is a war hero who, unable to compete with more highly skilled workers, has to return to his low-wage soda jerk job. Bank executive Al (Fredric March) gets into...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/
Director(s): Wyler, William
Release Date: 1942
Abstract:

Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama  directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel, Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is touched by World War II. Mrs. Miniver won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035093/
Director(s): Xiaoning, Feng
Release Date: 2001
Abstract:

Director Feng Xiaoning fashions a tale of international understanding in this World War II drama. Towards the end of the war, a female Soviet officer, a Chinese peasant, and a Japanese school girl walk their way out of a forest despite their mutual distrust of one another.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303260/
Director(s): Xudong, Ren
Release Date: 1965
Abstract:

One of the last movies produced and distributed before the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Tunnel War celebrates communal resistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). After suffering casualties and defeats by Chinese soldiers, a group of Japanese villagers use underground tunnels to survive. The Chinese villagers soon use them to launch a successful...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1110246/
Director(s): Yanes, Agustín Díaz
Release Date: 2006
Abstract:

In this epic swashbuckler drama based on the popular novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte, the adventures of a captain of the Spanish Army reveal the slow decline of the Spanish Empire. Set during the Eighty Years' War, with particular emphasis on the Dutch Revolt, Captain Alatriste performs heroically in battle but revolts against orders to assassinate the Prince of Wales. Stories of romance,...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395119/
Director(s): Yimou, Zhang
Release Date: 1987
Abstract:

Based on the 1986 novel Red Sorghum Clan by Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and winner of the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, this debut film from director Zhang Yimou celebrates peasant life during the Chinese Civil War (1927-1950) and before the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). On her way to marry a wealthy, old distillery owner, bandits attack Jiu'er's wedding party in a sorghum field....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093206/
Director(s): Ying, Ye
Release Date: 1995
Abstract:

A critical and popular success, Red Cherry presents an account of the devastating effects of World War II on children. Two Chinese orphans studying in Moscow at the International School find their new lives shattered when the Germans invade. Chuchu endures psychological and physical violence as a servant girl for Nazi officers, while Luo tries to survive in Moscow and channel his...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114243/

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