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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This film focuses on French citizens and German soldiers near the end of World War II in occupied France. In the spring of 1944, in the forest of La Woëvre, in Lorraine, a group of young maquisards, French guerrilla resistance fighters, welcomed four German deserters. Neither side is portrayed as hero or enemy, avoiding the tropes of war films.
Director František Vláčil creates a claustrophobic, haunting study of identity in post-World War II Czechoslovakia. After returning home from war, a Czech soldier is tasked with managing a large villa previously occupied by a Nazi German family. He falls in love with Adelheid, who now serves as maid in her family's home. Isolated, signified through their language barrier, the post-war politics...
Shangani Patrol depicts a decisive defeat for the British in the First Matabele War (1893-1894), which provided them with a heroic narrative to push their colonization goals in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). Major Allan Wilson (Brian O'Shaughnessy) leads a unit of 34 soldiers from the British South Africa Company across the Shangani River in pursuit of Ndebele King Lobengula (1845–1894...
Miss Nhung (Vietnamese: Chị Nhung) is a 1970 Vietnamese war film co-directed by directors Nguyễn Đức Hinh and Đặng Nhật Minh, based on a short story penned by writer Nguyễn Sáng. The film follows a young girl, who becomes entangled in the Vietnam War. Orphaned by war, little Nhung works as a maid for a rich family when Americans attack Saigon in 1968. She communicates with Vietnamese soldiers...
In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the government appropriated land to a foreign railway company, which gave rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The uprising became known as the Contestado War (1912-1916), which was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces. Those expropriated...
One of the most popular films in the Soviet Union and Russia, White Sun of the Desert portrays the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) in the style of a classic American western. Fyodor Sukhov (Anatoly Kuznetsov), a Red Army soldier on his way home, wanders in Central Asia and is caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander...
Renowned at the time for its unprecedented and spectacular flying sequences, this big-budget war film, directed by Guy Hamilton, drew multiple major acting names to star in its depiction of the Battle of Britain, the conflict that took place over the summer and autumn of 1940 when the British Royal Air Force defeated Germany’s Luftwaffe, ensuring the cancellation of Hitler’s plan to invade...
A masterpiece lost to shifting political winds, The Army of Shadows offers a bleak interpretation of the French Resistance during World War II. A group of men and women work in secret and constantly move to take down collaborators and the Gestapo, narrowly but not always escaping death and persecution. French audiences rejected the film in 1968 as pro-de Gaulle, but its re-release...
After the death of her husband in the Six Day War (June 5 – 10, 1967), an Israeli woman struggles to forge her new identity in the face of grief, bereavement and societal expectations. Tamar's friends and family believe she should behave as a proper widow, serving as a living memorial to her slain husband, but she wants to explore new possibilities and live independently. The film premiered...
Two years after the Six Day War (June 5–10, 1967), doctors at an Israeli hospital try to save the lives of an Arab terrorist and Israeli officer just brought in after a border clash. This documentary, while including this staged plotline, features also real-time photography and archival footage of newsreels of the time in an exploration of human rights and warfare.
This Oscar-winning film, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, focuses on the American General George S. Patton (1885-1945) during World War II. From campaigns in North Africa to Italy and Germany, Patton ruthlessly pursues the Germans in his quest to bring victory to the Allies. But his love of war and insistence on discipline, as well as his physically demanding maneuvers, cost him the command...
Considered the most expensive motion picture made in Yugoslavia, The Battle of Neretva recounts one of the county's most significant battles in World War II between the Axis powers and the Yugoslav Partisans. The attack leaves the partisans outnumbered and trapped near the River Neretva. A bridge offers them a way out. Upon its release, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for...
A biographical film of Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), hailed as El Libertador (The Liberator) of Spanish colonies in South America. The film focuses on Bolívar's military campaigns and unification of rebels across race, class, and birth in Gran Columbia between 1817 and 1823. His victories there secured the independence of modern-day Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador.
This television miniseries, produced by the BBC, follows the ambition and political opportunism of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), as well as his life with his wife Sarah (1660-1744).
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse,"...
Battle of the Japan Sea depicts the origins of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). When Japan's attack on Port Arthur in China fails, Russia sends aid. As one Japanese general conducts naval warfare, another negotiates with the Bolsheviks to defeat the Russians politically.
During World War II, Japanese naval officer Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda (Toshirô Mifune) is stranded on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. He soon discovers a loudmouthed American pilot (Lee Marvin) who has crashed his plane. Unable to communicate verbally, the two enemies initially taunt each other and refuse to cooperate. But when they begin to face starvation, dehydration and exhaustion,...
Widely praised for its action sequences, Where Eagles Dare follows an international commando unit of Allied soldiers stages a daring rescue during World War II. A U.S. general is being held captive in an imposing castle fort, high in the Bavarian Alps. The audacious plan calls for Lt. Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), Maj. Smith (Richard Burton) and other operatives to parachute down wearing Nazi...
Anzio is a 1968 Italian–American co-production about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II. It was adapted from the 1961 book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1908-1987), who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle. The film follows American soldiers as they land unopposed on Italian beaches, with the...
U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby (John Wayne) defend a firebase during the Vietnam War. War correspondent George Beckwith (Davis Janssen), who objects to both the war and the means by which it is executed, accompanies Kirby, who had invited him to experience the war for himself. Kirby's firebase is overrun and his troops fight bravely to...