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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This French and Arabic biographical documentary (with English subtitles), directed by Amin Rashidi, explores the life and work of Louisette Ighilahriz (b. 1936), an Algerian writer and a former member of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War (1954–62). The film narrates the story of Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman, who joined the FNL after her father was...
A documentary on the life of Edith Hahn (1914–2009), an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer.
Based on the life of pianist Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000), this internationally acclaimed, award-winning film presents a devastating portrait of a Jewish man from Warsaw surviving the Holocaust during World War II. It recreates key moments in the history of occupied Warsaw, including the German invasion of Poland in August 1939, the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in fall 1940, the Warsaw...
A group of Holocaust refugees arrive in war-torn Palestine, days before the declaration of the state of Israel. Some join the Palmach, the Jewish underground army, while others try to find peace amidst chaos.
Based on Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel of the same name, this remake tackles the moral ambiguity of American involvement in the First Indochina War (1945–54). CIA operative Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) works to erect a third force between the French colonialists and the communist Viet Minh, leading to the arming of a Vietnamese splinter group headed by a corrupt militia leader and...
This historical drama was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1927 non-fiction book, The Gangs of New York. The drama centers on the long-running Catholic–Protestant feud in New York, which erupts in 1863 into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting about low wages caused by an influx of freed slaves, as well as the threat of conscription into the American Civil War....
The Algerian War came within the framework of a very special era of decolonization, soon after the Second World War and the loss of Indochina, as well as of the Cold War tension which led the French army to see the hands of Communism behind the Algerians' fight. The atrocities of the Algerian War are well known. To denounce them was to tarnish the army and France. Pressures were exerted, even...
A young idealistic British man joins the French Foreign Legion to fight in the Algerian War. Their bonds, forged in brutal training, are tested when France declares Algeria independent. Different loyalties tear the group apart.
This made-for-television autobiography charts the rise and fall of Jean Moulin (1899–1943), a famed hero of the French Resistance during World War II. A rising leftist politician from Chartes, Moulin fell victim to anti-communism that ran rampant through the Vichy government. He returned representing General Charles De Gaulle to unite the Resistance movement, only to fall to betrayal, torture...
One family shows how some helped and some exploited Jews in occupied France during World War II. A grocer decides to shelter a young Jewish boy after his family is arrested, while his son-in-law moves into that family's apartment after reporting them. When cousins of the boy show up at the grocer's, he decides to take them to Switzerland.
Two young men come of age in occupied Paris during World War II. Jules wanders aimless in the city, while his brother Thomas wants to join the French Resistance. They both fall in love with Maria who is involved with the Spanish Resistance.
This documentary traces the lives of the "Forgotten Ten" during the Irish War of Independence. Following courts martial, the British forces executed ten IRA prisoners at the Mountjoy Prison between 1920 and 1921 during the Irish War of Independence and buried them within the prison precincts in unmarked graves. After eighty years of protest and activism, their bodies were exhumed and reburied...
"Bloody Sunday" was the deadliest conflict of the Troubles, which this film documents through the eyes of Ivan Cooper (1944–2019), played by James Nesbitt. Cooper was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a founding member of the SDLP. He helped to organized the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on January 30,1972. British troops opened fire, killing 14 and...
Captain Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer, has been given command of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, K-19, at the height of the Cold War in 1961. The vessel's executive officer Captain Polenin asserts that the flagship is not yet ready for deployment. But political pressure forces Vostrikov to sail his crew into the North Atlantic anyway, for a missile fire test that serves as a...
This allegorical film explores the disintegration of Yugoslavia through a family that represented its multiple ethnic and religious groups. When the Yugoslav wars break out, a Slovenian sergeant major of the Yugoslav People's Army moves to Belgrade with his family to assert his Yugoslav identity. Violence, ethnic hostility, and internal dynamics slowly break apart his family.
A powerful documentary about the children conceived through rape during various wars in the late 20th century. Interviews with children and their mothers in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and South Korea reveal shared cultural attitudes and personal experiences that continue to define their lives as children of war.
In this television series written and created by Anthony Horowitz, as World War II rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Later, the series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
In this nearly silent black comedy, director Elia Suleiman imagines the fantastical and absurd as a response to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is...
This episode of the television series, Modern Marvels, focuses on the race against time for the United States to develop a nuclear weapon to use in World War II. Encouraged by Leo Szilard and galvanized by German success in achieving nuclear fission, the United States embarks on a crash program to build a nuclear bomb. Aided by many Jewish scientists who had fled Nazi Germany the...
In this poignant love story occuring in the midst of conflict, an Israeli company commander carries on a passionate romantic relationship with his second-in-command officer while the two soldiers fight in the war against Lebanon. They are forced to keep the relationship secret, and go to great lengths in trying to keep it private. The film explores the expectations of masculinity in a combat...