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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Set in Beirut in 1983, torn by the prolonged civil war, twelve-year-old Lina is the sad and only child of an embattled couple, Fouad and his pregnant wife, Thérèse. Lina hovers on the outskirts of domestic strife as the family tries to cope with the financial disaster brought on by Fouad's gambling. Living upstairs is Lina's tyrannical aunt Yvonne and her maid, Siham, who is a few years older...
This Italian-made film reveals the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on one family. The Israeli army takes over a Palestinian house because of its strategic location. The father, proudly middle class and a pacifist, refuses to vacate and make his family refugees, so the soldiers imprison them in their own home. Tensions and disagreements within the family arise, revealing how the...
Head in the Clouds focuses on the lives of three young lovers torn between pursuing their passions and defending their homelands. Gilda, an American-French woman, and her lovers Guy, a student from England, and Spanish-born nursing student Mia live together in 1930s France before the Spanish Civil War disrupts their lives. Mia volunteers as a nurse in her homeland, while Guy fights in...
In German-occupied France during World War II, the Carlingue (the French Gestapo) recruited low level criminals to spy on those suspected of supporting the Resistance. One must choose to work for the Carlingue or see his loved one, a Jewish girl, killed.
In a Kurdish refugee camp on the eve of the War in Iraq, a boy's ambitions and joys contrast sharply with the horrors around him. A young boy's adventures in scavenging is better than some work in clearing land mines, leaving some disfigured and others emboldened. Their camp remains impoverished and neglected, but they await word of an American invasion.
Based on wartime diaries, this film focuses on the Finnish infantry regiment 61 during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union. It highlights both the minutia of war and major battles, like the ones at the Karelian Isthmus and Syväri.
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a school known as a training ground for Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. His innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the...
Two young boys imagine a different world on the streets of Belfast in 1970 during the Troubles. Mickybo and JonJo, a Protestant and a Catholic, share a love of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The two pretend to be outlaws escaping the law, or their personal troubles of growing up in a war zone.
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
A make-shift family develops in this allegorical tale of postwar Bosnia. After returning home from prison, Lazar finds a Bosnian Serb mother and her autistic daughter living in his former apartment. Rather than turning them out, Lazar seeks redemption for his sins.
Part 1 of a trilogy which was uncompleted due to the director's death. The Weeping Meadow follows events in Greek history from 1919 to the aftermath of the Second World War. A band of refugees from Odessa returning to Greece after the Russian Revolution adopts an orphan girl, who becomes the focus of the story as her childhood and adolescence are affected by the aftermath of World War...
Der Wunschbaum (The Wishing Tree) is a three-part television film in the style of a family saga based on a novel by Sandra Paretti. It spans the years 1899 to 1925 and centers on the life of Camilla Hofmann, the daughter of chemist and detergent manufacturer Dr. Fritz Hofmann, before, during and after the First World War in Germany.
Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the...
Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War, filmmakers armed over 150 Iraqis with cameras to film their everyday lives. Some subjects include the war, the difference between Hussein's rule and that of the Americans, the hope of democracy, and long-standing ethno-cultural tensions within Iraq.
In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes her. This misfortune gives birth to a son with very black skin. A few years later, in Senegal, Souleyman's father, a practicing Muslim, demands that his son find and marry Fatima, "his sister in Islam".
On his deathbed, a Macedonian politician remembers his childhood in post-World War II Yugoslavia. After wandering the countryside in the aftermath of the war, communist soldiers take Lem to a hard labor camp acting as an orphanage. There, he experiences the indoctrination of Soviet and communist ideology, a larger project that consolidated Tito's power and quelled ethnic, religious, and...
A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
In this visually arresting documentary, director Fernando E. Solanas weaves together the threads of globalization, neoliberalism, and political corruption to explain the decaying social, economic, and political fabric of Argentina in the late 20th century. After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, Argentina's democratically elected officials enacted policies they promoted as they...
An updated version of a classic Cold War film, The Manchurian Candidate reveals the dark connections between militarism, capitalism, and world power during the War on Terror. Raymond Shaw, a decorated hero of the Gulf War (1990-91), rises to political power thanks to his mother, a U.S. Senator. His former captain, Ben Marco, begins to doubt the story of how Shaw saved his platoon from...
This Cold War sports drama tells the story of Coach Herb Brooks (1937–2003), who led the U.S. Hockey team to Olympic Gold in 1980 after defeating the Soviet Union.