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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Alias María brings attention to child soldiers in Columbia's ongoing civil war. Maria must bring a commander's newborn child to safety while avoiding detection by government-backed paramilitary troops. On her journey, she discovers that she is pregnant, a result of her indoctrination into the guerilla army. The guerillas forbid female soldiers from having children but encourage their...
This French documentary tells the story of the millions of European women who fought against the misery and unspeakable horror in war-torn Europe during the Second World War. It explores their humiliations and imprisonment, their persecution and their deaths. These women worked at the home front in war industries and war welfare or became auxiliaries and soldiers, doctors and nurses. They...
Battle for Sevastopol is a biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The movie revolves principally around the events of the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol of 1941-42.
The YPJ (Women's Protection Units) is an all-female unit of Kurdish and Arab women who are fighting ISIS in Syria. Previously unheard of until 2012, the YPJ is comprised of volunteers from towns and villages that came under threat as the terror group extended its influence and started committing atrocities against the local population. These new recruits joined the group not only to protect...
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, in 2012 for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Based on a true story, this critically acclaimed film presents the story of Alan Turing's intelligence work for the British during World War II. At Bletchley Park, Turing works to decode the Enigma machine and thus German intelligence reports. His difficult personality as well as his closeted homosexuality distance him from his peers, but they rally behind him when he discovers a breakthrough...
This Austrain-German television film focusses on the Bamberg witch trials of 1630-31 during the Thirty Year's War (1616-1648). It reveales how religious fanaticism tore apart communities in the context of war. Plagued by draught, inept politicians, and ongoing religious wars, residents of Bamberg blame witchery. Every death puts money in the coffers of the Catholic Church. One doctor tries...
Unbroken tells the true story of Louis Zamperinin, who survived a plane crash only to be taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese during World War II. A former Olympic athlete and American military officer, Zamperinin experiences fear, exhaustion, and physical punishment as he moves from camp to camp. One Japanese officer torments him especially.
April, 1945: as the Allies make their final push in the European theater, a battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi...
This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day a young family man, Nazaret Manoogian, gets deported by the Turkish authorities together with all the other Armenian men from his native village. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives by chance and an act of kindness, but loses...
Phoenix explores the multiple layers of deceit during and after World War II. Nelly, a Holocaust survivor, returns to Germany with the intention of reuniting with her husband, but surgery to repair her wounds leaves her face unrecognizable. She keeps her identity a secret, as her husband wants to use her to claim his wife's inheritance. A friend warns Nelly that her husband had turned her over...
Based on the 1957 novella, L'Hôte (The Guest), by Albert Camus, David Oelhoefen directs this story the story of two men on opposite sides of the Algerian War (1954–62) who find common ground. Daru, an Algerian-born French teacher of Spanish descent, (Viggo Mortensen), escorts Mohamed (Reda Kateb), a peasant accused of the murder of his cousin, through the Atlas Mountains during a...
This French television film explores the myths and ideas of nationalism through the Indochina War. André Cariou and Robert Tual arrive in Saigon in November 1945 with the belief that they are there to expel Japanese troops. They discover that they are in Indochina to quell the independence movement. Robert, a former Resistance fighter during World War II, commits to fighting the Vietnamese,...
This serial and epic documentary uses re-enactments and animations to tell the story of World War I through the eyes of ordinary people. It explores the lives of housewives, journalists, workers, and volunteers across Europe and North America based on their diaries and correspondence.
Inspired by the memoirs of Maurice Genevoix, this television series explores the loss of innocence and bonds of brotherhood forged during World War I. Genevoix eagerly volunteers for the French Army when war breaks out, but such excitement dissipates as he experiences the quagmire of trench warfare. Felled by the machinery of modern warfare, Genevoix feels guilt for leaving his friends behind...
A made-for-television movie, Marie Curie chronicles the young French scientist's contributions to the homefront and professional medicine during World War I. In 1914 Curie set out to work in military hospitals. Amidst the backdrop of emergency care for wounded soldiers, Curie and her research partner Claudius Regaud pioneer the use of radiography for diagnosis and treatment in...
This controversial TV series explores the meaning and legacy of 1864, when Denmark lost the Second Schleswig War as well as its world power status. Two brothers follow in their father's footsteps and enlist in the Danish Army to fight Prussia for control over the Schleswig and Holstein duchies. In modern day, Claudia discovers her connection to that past through her caretaking relationship...
In the early years of the Troubles, a British paratrooper is left behind following a riot in a Belfast neighborhood. He must navigate a foreign land and approach enemy and ally knowing they may not be what they seem. The film draws subtle parallels between the ongoing wars in the Middle East since the 2000s.
This short documentary raises questions about women's changing roles in England during World War I. Women took on traditionally men's roles by becoming factory workers, police officers, and surgeons as well as by forming football (soccer) leagues. Although the public wondered whether these changes were temporary or permanent, women's war efforts pushed forward the campaign for women's suffrage...
A documentary about American women's involvement in war from Vietnam to the present as soldiers, nurses, journalists, spies, and diplomats. The participants stories range from breaking the glass ceiling to ongoing sexual harassment and from leading platoons in battle to working behind-the-scenes.