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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The true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
In Israeli-occupied Lebanon, a young girl defies her family's expectations, Palestinian politics, and gender norms. Lamia's family arranges a marriage with her cousin to provide her with a life free of occupation across the border. Her love for an Israeli soldier and unhappiness in her marriage leave her ostracized when she returns home but free to live her life.
1645 England: After years of civil war, King Charles I is overthrown and two heroes have emerged--Lord General Thomas Fairfax and his best friend and deputy, General Oliver Cromwell. Their friendship is threatened when Fairfax and his wife conspire to return the King to power, and Cromwell instead orders his execution, seizing control. His armies spread violence and fear throughout the country...
A remake of the 1952 film of the same name, a swashbuckler finds himself enlisting in the French army during the Seven Years War to avoid a shotgun marriage. Promised fortune, fame, and the hand of a princess by Adeline, an officer's daughter, Fanfan makes a name for himself as a soldier. Between battles, he and Adeline fall for each other.
Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war film telling the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who journeys home to reunite with the woman he loves. This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war - both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for...
Loosely based on an Evelyn Waugh novel, Bright Young Things explores the culture of affluence, jazz, and cultural transformations in interwar England. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount. He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several...
This TV movie deals with the last years of the Algerian war. The director highlights within the same family the different points of view of the pieds noirs on the course of events. But all come together on the attachment to their country that is Algeria, which they want French for some and independent for others. All this under the background of love between a blackfoot student and a young...
Through interviews with military and intelligence officials, extant footage, and film clips, this documentary uncovers the French military's decisive role in the development of counter-insurgency techniques during the Cold War. After fighting guerillas in Indochina and Algeria, the French military exported their lessons to Latin America's Dirty Wars and America's Vietnam War that led to...
The poet and radio personality Jean Sénac was a pied-noir (European colonist) who chose to stay in Algeria after its independence in 1962, strongly attached to the country he was born and raised in. Ten years later, he was under surveillance by the Algerian government. His poems attracted a wide public, and his radio show found great success with the youth. Two students became intimate with...
In 1950s France, Jacques, a schoolteacher, heads to the small town where he lived during the Occupation, to do a clown routine for the villagers, a yearly ritual. But Lucien, his 15 year old son, finds it utterly embarrassing. Jacques' best friend André explains the history of this ritual to Lucien. It has to do with Jacques' and André's engagement in Resistance activities, and a moment of...
A blend of romance, adventure, and comedy, this film focuses on how women wield power over men in the days leading up to the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Viviane, a film actress, uses her charms against a high-ranking politician and an old friend to escape to Bordeaux, while graduate student Camille shows both bravery and desperation to win help with transporting nuclear...
In this French romance drama directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a young French woman, Mathilde, is determined to find her fiancé, who has been missing and declared dead since disappearing during the Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916. Mathilde refuses to believe that he is gone and starts an investigation, which uncovers much more than she’d expected, including a heartless state-...
This historical television film, produced by the A&E Television Networks, focuses on Benedict Arnold (1740–1801), an American-born senior officer of the American Army, who commanded the American Legion in the later part of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). Arnold, who first fought together with George Washington (1732–1799) and then changed sides, was after the conflict remembered...
The Deserter, shot in the style of a silent comedy from the 1920's, takes place during the American Revolution in the late 1700's. A loyal British drummer accidentally drops his canteen into a stream while trying to fill it. A British officer sees him chasing his canteen and mistakes it for his trying to desert the British army by running away into the woods. The officer quickly...
Inspired by real life events, Remake connects the experiences of the Bosnian War and World War II through a father and son. Tarik wins acclaim in Paris for his screenplay about his father's war experience in a concentration camp and friendship with a Serbian. When the Bosnian war breaks out, Tarik's experience there mirrors his father's.
A young woman escapes persecution by fleeing to a remote mountain village in Czechoslovakia during World War II. After Germans discover Eliška's ties to the Resistance, she travels with a former patient to his home in Želary. They marry to avoid suspicion and fall in love. Tragedy slowly creeps into Želary when Russian soldiers arrive at war's end.
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...
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878–1923) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these, he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles....
A son takes great measures to protect his mother before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex's mother falls into a coma when she sees her son arrested during an anti-government protest. To protect her recovery, he pretends German unification never happened.
The film Monseur N., directed by Antoine de Caunes, explores the mysterious circumstances surrounding Napoleon’s death in 1821. It deals with the last days of Napoleon on St. Helena through the eyes of a British officer assigned to be his liason with the British government. The film hints that Napoléon retained a loyal entourage of officers at St. Helena who helped him plot his escape...