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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Love and Death is a 1975 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates. Pacifist Russian scholar Boris Grushenko has the hots for the beautiful Sonja, but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars (1803-...
They Fought for Their Country is a 1975 Soviet war film based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov, first published in 1959. In July 1942, exhausted Russian troops vow to prevent the advancing German army from taking Stalingrad. The film portrays the beauty of human companionship and the natural landscape to contrast the brutalities of war.
Seven Beauties is a 1975 Italian production, written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler. Written by Wertmüller, the film is about an ordinary Italian man from Naples who deserts the Italian Royal Army during World War II. He is then captured by the Germans and is sent to a concentration camp, where he is willing to do...
A young French man eager to participate in World War II reveals how easily the French capitulated to the Germans. Denied permission to join the Resistance because of his young age, Lucien turns to the Carlingue, the French auxiliaries of the Gestapo. He uses his newfound power to insinuate himself into a young Jewish girl's life. He opts to protect her rather than follow through with his...
Cousin Angelica was a controversial film about the memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) from the Republican perspective. When his mother dies, aging bachelor Luis (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) travels to Segovia, Spain, in order to bury her alongside her family. While there, he stays in the very house where he spent the duration of the war, which inevitably brings back a flood of...
Based on the memoir Les Guichets du Louvre by Roger Boussinot, published in 1960, Black Thursday offers a fictionalized account of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when French police arrested over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants of Paris and held them under inhumane conditions for deportation to Auschwitz. The film follows a young student named Paul, who, upon learning that the...
Allonsanfàn is a 1974 Italian historical drama film written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The title of the film, which is also the name of a character, comes from the first words of the French Revolutionary anthem La Marseillaise. Set against the backdrop of the Italian Unification in early 19th-century Italy, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as an aging...
Set during the early years of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998), an MI6 agent's quest for his kidnapped son leads him to uncover conspiracy and treason. An international arms dealer, an Irish gang, and a mysterious MI6 official plant evidence to frame Maj. John Tarrant (Michael Caine). With no support from his agency, Tarrant must unravel the mystery to find his son.
A made-for-television play, Missiles of October gave American audiences its first dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 during the Cold War. It focused on the Kennedy administration's discussions, disagreements, and final consensus to blockade Cuba, which housed the beginning of a Soviet missile installation system. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's...
This documentary film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as its own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeavors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected...
Praised as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, a child struggles to find her place in the world after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). With her mother and father distant after the Republican loss, Ana discovers an imaginary world based around her fascination with the 1931 film Frankenstein. The film is notable for portraying the disintegration of Spain, mirrored through Ana'...
Controversial during its production and release, R.A.S. pulls from first-hand accounts to document the horrors of the Algerian War (1954-1962) through the perspective of three reluctant French conscripts. After experiencing a psychologically and physically taxing re-training, the conscripts confront the horrors of this war. The French used rape, torture, and summary execution to quell...
Actor Kenneth Griffith provides a dramatic monologue of the life of Michael Collins (1890-1922), a prominent leader during the Irish War for Independence (1919-1923). Although usually classed as a documentary, the film more closely resembles a dramatic monologue, with Griffith frequently delivering quotes by key figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Collins himself, "in...
This award-winning documentary explores the effects of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998) on a small community in Northern Ireland. Locals from Ardonyne such as a Catholic priest, social workers, and a leader of the Provisional IRA provide conflicting interpretations of the conflict.
This 5-hour television series, originally aired on Yorkshire Television, is a dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849). Partially based on Elizabeth Gaskell's book The Life of Charlotte Brontë, this series portrays the childhood and coming-of-age of the Brontë sisters and the lives of their family.
Fleeing a North Vietnamese attack, two men return to their hometown of Hue to warn their family and loved ones shortly before the Tet Offensive in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The film's message of loss, despair, and grief reveals the larger impact of how war shaped a generation and a family. Cinemascope footage of the actual bombing and evacuation of Hue is mixed with fictional scenes filmed...
In late World War II, German operations in the Balkans depend on refueling posts in Sarajevo. Walter, leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, can stop them, but his identity remains a secret to all involved. The Germans plant a fake Walter to ensure success, only to be defeated by the people of Sarajevo. Such a message was necessary to promote a harmonious, multi-ethnic national identity in...
Young Winston is a 1972 British biographical adventure drama war film covering the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1974-1965), based in particular on his 1930 book, My Early Life. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father. The second half covers his service as a cavalry officer in India and the ...
Based on interviews with veterans of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), this film explores how war reshapes identity. A group of young pacifists from Brittany is taken to a camp destined to deserters. They end up by accepting the increasing violence with which they are trained, and become true killing machines. In April, 1961, they are moved to the Aurès mountains in Algeria where...
From the first attacks of November 1954 to Algerian independence in 1962, this landmark documentary disrupts familiar narratives of the Algerian conflict by presenting it through eyewitness testimony previously unavailable to the public and closely analyzed archival evidence. Interviews with Pieds Noirs (European settlers), Fellaghas (Algerian peasants), professional soldiers, conscripts,...