Films by Release Date
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 themes of gender, military and war in the periods covered by the Oxford Handbook for 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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A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.
This documentary reveals the conflicting aims of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era by exploring the life of German SS Officer Klaus Barbie. Barbie's war crimes in World War II earned him the name "the Butcher of Lyon," yet he was one of several high-ranking officers who received protection from the U.S. and other western powers after the war. Barbie fled to Bolivia, where he advised anti...
A documentary telefilm presenting the story of Sacha Guitry, a notable French playwright who took it as his mission to preserve French culture during the German occupation in World War II. The Resistance arrested Guitry during the Liberation of Paris in 1944 because of his conciliatory attitude toward the Germans, which he denied. In 1947, a judge determined that there was not enough evidence...
A modern musical set during World War I, a newlywed French farm girl finds herself off to war. After receiving a disturbing letter from her husband, Camille disguises herself as a man and joins troops on the Western Front to find him.
A critical examination of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq based on interviews with former Bush II administration officials, ambassadors, journalists, soldiers, civilians, and analysts. Interviewees highlight U.S. policy decisions such as the de-Ba’athification of government, the disbandment of the Iraqi army, and the inadequate number of U.S. military on the ground that further...
An Oscar and Peabody winning documentary on the role of torture in U.S. military prisons since 9/11. Interviews with former military and Bush officials, guards, and prisoners reveal the history of torture as an intelligence gathering technique from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan as a strategic American military response to the War on Terror. A case study of an Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who...
This film mixes archival film, survivor testimonies, and dramatization to tell the story of the Rape of Nanking, one of the worst atrocities of the Second Sino-Japanese War and modern warfare. As Japanese soldiers kills and rape the civilians of Nanking, a group of western businessmen, missionaries, educators, and ex-patriots set up a refugee network to help the Chinese escape.
A group of university students plot against the Japanese puppet government of Shanghai during the Second-Sino Japanese War. Their plot involves seducing and murdering a ruthless intelligence agent. The young woman tasked with the mission finds herself torn between her politics and her emerging love for her target.
Director Mike Nichols' last film explores the Cold War origins of the U.S. War in Afghanistan. In the early 1980s Congressman Charlie Wilson of Texas pushes funding for a covert CIA operation to support the Afghan mujahideen. His passion for defeating the Soviets turns cold when his colleagues seem uninterested in postwar nation-building.
Three Yale grads, class of 1954, join their respective countries' secret service. This series follows them for 40 years - through the outing of a British spy, the Hungarian revolution, the Bay of Pigs, the scent of moles, and the collapse of the USSR. Fictional characters - Yalies Jack McCauliffe, Leo Kritzky, and Yevgeny Tsipin and Jack's boss Harvey Torriti - rub shoulders with real figures...
This Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film explores the moral disintegration of society after the Yugoslav Wars. A man considers assassinating a warlord for money to pay for his child's life-saving surgery.
In this highly acclaimed film about the Second Chechen War, an elderly Russian woman transforms the barren landscape of war and the deadened spirit of those engaged in it. Aleksandra travels to a remote outpost in Chechnya to visit her grandson. Her engagement with Russian soldiers and Chechyan citizens make them question their assumptions about the war and their enemies through simple human...
A searing documentary on the origins of the War in Darfur and the international community's response to it. Interviews, film clips, and images document the Sudanese government's genocidal measures to suppress Darfur's rebels, and debates within the United Nations that left an insipid international response, and access to a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces.
A call-to-arms documentary, Darfur Now investigates some of the causes and consequences of mass genocide in western Sudan. It features activists on the ground, working through healthcare and education outreach programs or resistance movements, to help those living in Darfur. It also investigates international efforts such as lobbying government bodies and agencies and exerting...
Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara, and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer, who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amid the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with...
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...
Relying on the correspondence between the second U.S. president, John Adams (1735–1826), and his wife Abigail Adams (1744–1818), this biographic documentary, directed by Peter Jones, sheds light on the characters of two remarkable people, their relationship, and the tumultuous times through which they lived. The film provides an intimate look inside a marriage of companions, for whom life...
Beginning with the American Revolution, this program explores the U.S. law of 1807 that abolished the transatlantic slave trade. Meet the people who were involved in or influenced by this pivotal legislation: the slaves, plantation owners, slave ship captains, common seamen, government officials, Navy officers, and antislavery activists. [IMBD]
In this PBS documentary series, the directors aspired to honor the experiences of those who lived through the Second World War by providing the opportunity for them to bear witness to their own history. The producers partnered with the Veterans History Project in order to capture the stories of men and women who experienced the war firsthand. The film is therefore an attempt to describe,...
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...