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.
Displaying 61 - 80 of 1160
This six-part British drama television series, written by one of British television’s most exciting and original writers, was broadcasted on BBC One in 2014. The series portrays the lives of medics and the patients at a field hospital in France during World War I. In the tented hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses, and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and...
Set in Holland during World War II, this film uses childhood to reveal the experiences of the Holocaust and fascism. Two young boys explore their surroundings and meet a young girl with a secret. One boy tells his father, leading to an official search for his friends who face arrest.
A short instructional video that explains the basics of international humanitarian law. It focuses on war crimes such as attacking civilians, prisoners, and the wounded.
In this absurdist black comedy, a filmmaking duo encounters tragedy and corruption as they attempt to make a movie about the Iraqi-led genocide of Kurds (the Al-Anfal campaign) during the Iran-Iraq War.
An identity swap reveals the similarities of women's lives across the Israel/Palestine divide. An Israeli performance artist and Palestinian suicide bomber accidently trade identities at a border checkpoint. This dark comedy explores how they cope with the resulting everyday absurdity when no one notices.
Renowned director Tsui Hark of Hong Kong presents an action-packed tale set during the Chinese Civil War (1927-1950) and immediately after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Zirong leads a small unit of the People's Liberation Army into northwestern China to control marauding bandits who have taken control after the Japanese army's departure. He stands against the feared Lord Hawk who...
An award-winning short documentary film from the anonymous Abounddara Collective, Of God and Dogs reveals the internal conflicts of soldiers in the Syrian Civil War to challenge dominate narratives about it. A soldier in opposition to the al-Assad regime narrates how he interrogated and then executed an innocent man. Wracked with guilt and seeking redemption, he promises to avenge the...
Field of Lost Shoes is a 2014 American war drama film directed by Sean McNamara and written by Dave Kennedy and Thomas Farrell. The film stars Nolan Gould, Lauren Holly, Jason Isaacs, Tom Skerritt, Keith David and David Arquette. It is based on the true story of a group of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute who participated in the Battle of New Market against Union forces...
Based on Peter Rees’ 2008 Book, The Other ANZACS, the series Anzac Girls is an Australian six-part television drama program first screened on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 2014. It tells the true story of nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I. The women served through the Gallipoli campaign in Alexandria, Gallipoli, at...
During the First Lebanon War, an Israeli pilot and a young Palestinian refugee find common ground. Fahed helps Yoni escape if the pilot will help him return to his family's ancestral village to plant his father's prized olive tree. Their journey across Lebanon into Israel reveals the power of humanity to transcend war and conflict.
A man returns to Palestine after living in America. Archival footage of his childhood offers a contrast to his current journey.
Two adolescents form a connection despite the conflicts in Israel/Palestine. Tal, recent French immigrant, struggles with comprehending the violence engulfing Jerusalem. After a bombing, she tosses a bottle into the sea filled with questions for an unknown Palestinian. Naïm, who lives in Gaza, answers her.
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon...
When director Philippe Aractingi is forced to leave his native Lebanon for the third time, the realization dawns on him: his ancestors have been fleeing wars for five generations. Exploring his roots, Aractingi goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. Experimenting with a radical new film-making style, he interlaces directed scenes and...
A small group of deserters from the English Civil War stumble upon another man-made nightmare. Cutler, a necromancer and alchemist, convinces the three deserters to help him find buried treasure in an overgrown field and feeds them hallucinogenic mushrooms. Their new task is worse than their last.
Bookended by a foiled attempt on Bolívar's life in Bogota in 1828, this film charts the story of the revolutionary leader's impassioned fight for independence from Spain and creation of a united South American nation, the great stories of love and loss in his life, the political intrigue and drama following his ascension to power and his mysterious death. Simón Bolívar fought over 100 battles...
This documentary reveals a largely forgotten past by recounting the Great Fire of Smyrna, which destroyed the ancient Greek city in 1922 during the Greco-Turkish War. Shortly after World War I, the Greek government set up a military state in Smyrna, a transnational port city located in Turkey and home to Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Muslims, and America. Turkey retaliated by burning the city....
A documentary detailing the consequences of the Algerian War for two groups: the harkis, native Algerians who served on the side of France for diverse reasons, and the pieds noirs, colonists of European descent. Neither were welcome in independent Algeria, and they faced a choice grimly phrased as "the suitcase or the coffin." The film includes numerous interviews performed in France, Algeria...
This documentary explores why some joined the French Resistance during World War II. Interviewees reveal an unwillingness to submit to Germany and Vichy France. Their memories reveal the origins, evolution, and lasting impact of the Resistance.
Based on interviews, this documentary explores the role of National Council of the Resistance (NCR) in creating the French welfare state during and after World War II. Entitled “Happy Days,” the NCR envisioned a vast program of pensions, social security, and union rights to unite the occupied nation around a similar vision of democratic socialism during war. The documentary also explores the...