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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Shot in 1972, and released 30 years later, this film tells the story of Michel Perrat who is neither a collaborationist – although his new mates hints at it – nor a Resistance fighter. He's like many French people. The story takes place in the Vercors, in the south of France where the Resistance was intense.
The nation's fathers harmonize their way through the founding of America in this musical adapted from a popular Broadway show. Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin (Howard da Silva) and John Adams (William Daniels) charge Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard) with the work of writing...
This controversial documentary explores the divisions in Northern Ireland during the Irish Troubles (1968-1998). Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. Although director Marcel Ophüls favors the Catholics, he also reveals political...
This controversial film reinterprets the Expedition of the Thousand, a key event in the Italian Risorgimento that brought Sicily into the Kingdom of Sardinia. After Garibaldi's conquest, villagers of Bronte revolt in early August 1860 after promised land reforms fail to materialize. General Nino Bixio (Mariano Rigillo) leads a brutal response to restore order, resulting in the destruction of...
Banned upon its release in Egypt, Chahine's The Sparrow views the pan-Arab defeat of the Six Day War (June 1967) through the prism of state corruption. On the even of war, a police officer and journalist in an Upper Egypt village investigate a recent murder and theft, connecting both of them back to high-ranking state officials. The film offers a broader commentary on the failures of...
Winter Soldier is a 1972 documentary film chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place in 1971. The film documents the accounts of American soldiers who returned from the War in Vietnam, and participated in this war crimes hearing. For three days, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about...
An multinational production concerning the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) that has risen to cult popularity. Fando is a young boy whose fascist-sympathizing mother turned his father into the authorities as a suspected communist. He struggles with his father's arrest, and in a shocking moment discovers a letter in which his mother admits to betraying his father. His mother...
Conflicts and debates about religion, morality, and philosophy infuse this film about the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), based upon the 1959 novel of the same title by J. B. Pick. Vogel, a teacher (Omar Sharif) fleeing a gang of mercenaries, stumbles upon an isolated valley in southern Germany untouched by war. Once the mercenaries find him, Vogel convinces their leader (Michael Caine) to leave...
The Savior is a 1971 French film directed by Michel Mardore, adapted from his own novel. Set in occupied France in 1943, a young girl (Muriel Catala) falls in love with a wounded man (Horst Buchholz) who claims to be a British paratrooper sent to help the French Resistance. The supposed airman is soon revealed to be a cruel Nazi officer with the order to execute all Resistance...
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa (March-July 1945) – a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
Set in 1939 immediately prior to the onset of World War II, an American couple, James Kingstreet and his wife make their home and manage a wildlife preserve located between Italian-governed Abyssinia and British Kenya as war approaches. Kingstreet (John Saxon) and his spouse (Tippi Hedren) will not accommodate either the English or Italians threatening their spread, antagonizing the commanding...
My Lan, a radio broadcaster of a program titled The Soldier's Heart asks a South Vietnamese army colonel to allow her to travel to the front lines of the Vietnam War to search for her lover. Their relationship began through correspondence. My Lan witnesses the harsh reality of soldier's lives and finds out her lover has been wounded in battle. The film praises the image of...
As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between Vichy France (1940-44) and a Diola tribe in the French West African colony. The men from the small Diola village are conscripted to fight for Vichy France, like many other forced colonial soldiers. When the French soldiers come back for fifty tons of rice, the women hide the rice crop harvest instead of handing it to the French...
The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, is a member of Parliament, and his wife a member of the titled aristocracy. Belowstairs, Hudson, the Scottish butler directs and guides the other servants about their tasks and (sometimes) their proper place. Real-life events from 1903-1930...
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 US-Yugoslav co-production. In the midst of World War II, an array of colorful American soldiers gets inside information from a drunk German officer about millions of dollars worth of gold hidden on enemy soil. Kelly (Clint Eastwood), a private with the platoon, devises a plan to sneak past the German officers to steal the loot for his crew. They recruit more...
Tora! Tora! Tora! presents the American and Japanese perspectives on the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, which precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. Negotiations between the U.S. and Japan over trade embargoes break down, prompting Japanese military officers to plan a pre-emptive strike. American military officials intercept...
The story of the courier of Austrian Empress Maria Theresia (1717-1780) during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The courier, Lieutenant Karl von Rotteck (Klausjürgen Wussow) and his loyal companion, officer Padua (Matthias Grimm), complete various missions on behalf of the empress, inclduding espionage assignments. On these adventures, they meet numerous well-known individuals of their times...
This epic war drama by Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk focuses on the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 and Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), played by Rod Steiger. After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find that Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British...
One of the earliest mainstream French films that addressed the Algerian War (1954-1962). A private has no desire to serve in Algeria, and tries to call in a favor to avoid being drafted.
A comedy of errors loosely based on a true story, Le Mur de l'Atlantique traces the adventures of Léon Duchemin, a restaurateur in Normandy during World War II. Captured during a bomb raid, Duchemin accidentally finds himself working for the Nazis and discovers their plans for V1 rockets, long-range missiles used during the war against Britain in 1944. He escapes to Britain with the...