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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Based on real events, this television miniseries recounts the political and intellectual evolution of a young French man during World War II. Daniel Cordier, an ethnocentric nationalist, becomes disillusioned by Petain's surrender to Nazi Germany. He joins the Free French movement, working with de Gaulle and Jean Moulin, and leans into ideas of French universalism.
Based on a true story, Good Vibrations shows how music can bridge political and religious divides in war-torn Belfast during the Troubles. In the late 1970s, Teri Hooley opens a record store and quickly finds himself in punk rock music. His ventures in record production and live music help his customers and citizens of Belfast find common ground.
Rahima is an orphan of the Kosovo war. She works in a restaurant and must raise her young brother Nedim by herself. However, he is a careless student and a troublemaker, getting into various illicit schemes. During a confrontation, he breaks the mobile phone of one of his classmates, who is the son of an influential figure in politics. Rahima finds herself constrained to raise the money to pay...
Three years filming in ten different countries have been required to make War Against Women the most ambitious documentary ever filmed about the use of rape as a weapon of war. A quieted and ignored topic up to date, which makes victims impossible to be fixed and let criminals unpunished.
Two brothers reunite in Lyon after World War II. Russian Jewish immigrants Michel and his wife Léna flee a concentration camp and apply for French citizenship. His brother mysteriously shows up, causing tensions between brothers and husband and wife when Léna falls in love with Jean.
A forbidden love story set in Germany before World War II. A young assistant falls for his employer's wife, but war, promises, and time keep them apart.
Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, lit. "Our Mothers, Our Fathers") is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts. The series tells the story of five young German friends on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II: as Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front, a war nurse, an aspiring singer, and a Jewish tailor. The narrative spans...
Filmed in IMAX-3D technology, Stalingrad focuses on one of World War II's most famous battles and one of the bloodiest and largest in the history of warfare. Amidst these horrors, Russian and German soldiers find romantic and familial love with women trapped by the conflict. [IMBD]
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
This film asks large questions about resistance, oppression, and pan-Arabism within the context of the global War on Terror. A journalist travels to Beirut to uncover the forgotten history of the Zanj revolution in the 9th century Abbasid Caliphate. He meets a Palestinian refugee looking to understand her family's and nation's history. Their quests to find meaning in hidden histories contrast...
This independent, low-budget film explores the bonds of friendship among a diverse crew during World War II. A young South African pilot joins the Royal Air Force, working alongside other subjects of the United Kingdom. When their plane goes down in Germany, they work together to avoid capture and return home.
Veteran and first-time director Tom Petch explores fear and disillusionment during the Afghan War. A three-day tour for a group of British soldiers turns into an open-ended conflict after an Allied strike prompts fierce attrack by the Taliban. The men slowly lose morale and discipline and question their presence in the war.
The first film to dramatize Brazil's involvement in World War II, A Estrada 47 explores frailty and courage through a group of soldiers tasked with clearing landmines in northern Italy during the winter of 1944. After one explodes, survivors regroup and encounter their former enemies, an Italian and German who deserted. Fearing they will be labeled as such, the group decide to carry...
In this epic story based on the acclaimed novel by Erico Verissimo, two families are transformed over a 150-year period in Brazil. The Terra Cambará and Amaral families rise from the lower ranks of colonial Brazil to become economically and political powerful players in their state of Rio Grande do Sul. Revolutions, political crises, and marriage shape the evolution of both families.
Phantom offers a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Soviet submarine K-129 in 1968. A retiring captain and his new executive officer embark on a new mission, but a group of rogue KGB officers take control of the sub. They plan to alter the sub's acoustic signature to mimic any ship and launch nuclear missiles to spark war between the United States and China. The captain and...
In this documentary, historian Anna Reid discusses the first few months of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. Interviews, photographs, and new documentary evidence based on the files of the NKVD (Soviet secret police) present a horrifying picture of despair, starvation, and cannibalism but also the strength and survival of the people of Leningrad.
The Americans presents a measured analysis of late Cold War international politics through its focus on marriage, family, and personal relationships. In the 1980s, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are Soviet spies living as Americans in suburban Washington, D.C. After twenty years, she remains deeply committed to the Soviet Union while his loyalty frays under the moral weight of his...
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. [IMBd]
The drama film Copperhead is directed by Ron Maxwell and starsring Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, and Peter Fonda. The film is based on the 1893 novel, The Copperhead, by Harold Frederic. It tells the story of the farmer, Abner Beech, an antiwar Democrat in a rural community in upstate New York in 1862, who is a Northern...
This biopic of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the First Republic of the Philippines, reveals the long struggle for independence. Aguinaldo's efforts to coordinate colonial resistance against the Spanish lead his peers to elect him president of the provisional government during the Spanish-American War. Yet their hard-won independence falls once they come under control of the United...