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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Director Satyajit Ray offers a piercing commentary of India's ruling class during colonial rule under the British East India Company. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh (Oudh) refuses to engage with company officials intent on colonizing his kingdom, while two men of his court spend their days playing shatranj, an ancient form of chess. Their pursuit of art and pleasure contributed to the company's...
Based on the 1958 controversial memoir by Henri Alleg, La Question highlights the role of torture in the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962). The film recounts Alleg's detention and torture by French officials.
This film memorializes the wars of de-colonization in Vietnam and Algeria by offering a romantic view of a disgraced French military officer. Known as the "Crabe-Tambour" (Drummer-Crab), Lt. Willsdorff inspires his men with his tenacity and love of war. Years later, a group of French naval officers attempt to find their now-disgraced leader off the coast of Newfoundland. The film was based on...
This historical drama, directed by Ridely Scott, is set during the age of the Napoleonic Empire (1803–15). The Duellists is based on a story written by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad (1857–1927), which, according to the author, was itself based on a true story whose origins sprang from a ten-line paragraph in a small Southern France local newspaper. An officer in the French...
This documentary, directed by the Algerian writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar (1936–2015), tells the story of a woman who returns to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962). Lila is obsessed by memories of war that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other Algerian women, she reflects on the differences between her life and theirs. In...
A made-for-television drama of the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympics. Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group, took 11 Israeli athletes hostage. All surviving hostages were then killed by the group or the police during a failed rescue mission.
Canciones para después de una guerra (Songs for after a war) is a 1971 Spanish documentary film, which explores post-Civil War Spain through popular music to criticize Franco's rule. It was shot and produced in secret in 1971 and was not released until 1976, shortly after the death of Francisco Franco (1892-1975).
Loosely based on the life of Russian silent screen star Vera Kholodnaya (1893-1919), this film explores a woman's political awakening during the Russian Civil War. After the Bolsheviks take Moscow, a film crew moves to Odessa to continue work. Olga Voznesenskaya, the film's star, falls for the cameraman, a revolutionary who secretly filming White Army atrocities. After his death, Olga commits...
Two men who share a name face dangers in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. Robert Klein buys artwork from desperate Jews trying to flee, while the other Robert Klein, a Jew, works for the Resistance. French authorities crack down on the art dealer, who now faces the horrors of those he fleeced if he cannot find the other Mr. Klein.
In 1933, tensions between China and Japan led to the Defense of the Great Wall (January – May 1933). The film retells the story of seven Chinese patriots defending against 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 50 tanks for 5 days, at a strategic key point of the Great Wall.
Set in Latvia during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) and World War I, Coup de Grâce offers a devastating critique of the impact of war and masculinity on sexuality, femininity, and personal politics. After Erich, a German soldier, rejects her romantic advances, Sophie expresses her grief through promiscuity and aligning with the Bolsheviks. Erich's embrace of militarism, partly to...
Produced for the National Park Service in preparation for the bicentennial of the American Revolution, director John Huston dramatizes the founding of the United States through key events.
Produced during the US involvement in the Vietnam War, this documentary is a half-hour satire about the United States' involvement in the Spanish-American War (April-December 1898), and then the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). Using newsreels and ragtime, it reveals American attitudes towards non-white peoples and cultures to show the connection between imperialism and the Cold War.
Based on a true story during the English Civil War (1642-1651), this film explores the boundaries of religious, economic, and political freedoms previously liberated during the Protestant Reformation. Social reformer and writer Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) leads a religious sect of farmers using communal land to feed those displaced by the war. Along with a small band of followers known as...
Acclaimed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, in which Barry, a likeable young Irishman, changes into a conniving, manipulative rogue. The protagonist finds himself homeless after taking part in a fake duel. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). He deserts and is forced to join...
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this Algerian film, directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, shows how fighting against authoritarianism and fascism during World War II influenced the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). A young peasant migrates from his drought-stricken village, only to be drafted by the French Army to fight in World War II. When he returns home, he finds...
A fictionalized account of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in 1944, in which a German Waffen-SS company slaughtered 643 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, and destroyed the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Nazi-occupied France. A French surgeon escapes to his chateau in the rural countryside where he finds his family slaughtered. He avenges their deaths by operating as a one...
A small town in northern France launches its resistance against the Nazi occupation in the middle of World War II. Locals and recent Polish refugees unite against Nazi collaborators and occupiers and plan to destroy key infrastructure projects.
Two unlikely men lead a mission for the French Resistance in World War II. Clovis and Paulo, both hotheads and petty thieves, are tasked with stealing German plans to invade Britain.
Based on an eponymous short story by Rudyard Kipling published in 1888, this adventure film follows the exploits of Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) and Danny Dravot (Sean Connery), English military officers stationed in India in the 1880s. Tired of life as soldiers, the two travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...