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 Tony Richardson used one of the biggest blunders in British military history to offer commentary on the ongoing Vietnam War. This film chronicles the events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia, the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the...
Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Roger Vailland, Strange Game is set in occupied Paris during World War II. A group of five member of the French underground resistance muse over their upcoming plan. Spouting political rhetoric, the characters reveal their motives and hopes for the movement against the Vichy government and the occupying Nazi army. A pleasure-seeking...
With rough parallels to incidents in the late 1950s, this Cold War thriller pits the United States and the Soviet Union in a hunt for sophisticated military technology in the Arctic. A US submarine is dispatched to the frozen wastes of the North Pole to recover a Soviet satellite crammed full of strategic snapshots of US bases. The Cold War atmosphere becomes even chillier as the sub, with a...
Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Shame (Skammen) is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the...
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa (1878–1923) and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. However, each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand man, and Villa must face...
Japan's Longest Day is a dramatized version of the period between noon on August 14, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito (1901–1989) made the decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II and noon on August 15, 1945, when the emperor's recorded message announcing the surrender was broadcast to the Japanese people. The film was released in Japan on August 12, 1967, close to the...
After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn) is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Sir Laurence Olivier) at the height of the Cold War, when Russia and China are locked in a tense conflict. Following the death of the pope (Sir John Gielgud), Lakota ends up on the global stage when he is chosen to be his successor. As...
In this film, which is based on the best-selling 1965 novel by E.M. Nathanson, a British army major selects 12 violent convicts and offers them their freedom if they will complete a nearly suicidal mission in Nazi-occupied France that will aid Allied operations for the upcoming invasion of Normandy.
This film is an adaptation of Peter Weiss' 1963 play titled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, usually shortened to Marat/Sade. Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, Marat/Sade is almost entirely a "play within a play". The main story takes place on...
More than fifty years after its release, Beach Red stands as an influential anti-war film. Actor-director Cornel Wilde conveyed the violence and the humanity of Americans and Japanese as they battle over a Pacific island controlled by the Japanese. Wilde dedicated the first thirty minutes to filming the Marine invasion, a cinematic choice director Stephen Spielberg echoed in ...
In this drama set during the Russian Civil War, Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, "In the Town of Berdichev" (В...
A young man and woman try to escape from the horrors of World War I. Antonin falls in love with Elisa, a young widow, after returning home from the front. He tries to injure himself to prevent returning to war, but he fails. Elisa travels to Paris to convince him to abandon the war and return home to her.
Newlywed bliss turns to tragedy during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). Lázara chooses to follow Juan, forced to enlist in the federal army. After he dies in battle against revolutionary forces, rebel soldiers seize Lázara. They train her to become a soldier (la soldadera). The film conveys the important roles and changing life circumstances of women during the war.
In this experimental animated film, director Nagisa Oshima explores the unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) during the Sengoku period (1467–1615). A young son of a feudal lord avenges his father's assassination by aligning with a renegade ninja.
This documentary series with four short episodes from 1967 recounts the history of the American revolution from late 18th century colonial America through the revolutionary war to the first years of the new nation. It also discusses the influence of France over American strategy and events leading to the close of the war. It is interesting especially for teaching in comparison to...
One of the best examples of Czech New Wave cinema and Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Closely Watched Trains is a coming-of-age story set in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. Young Miloš is a guard of a small rail station and is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of train conductor...
Gillo Pontecorvo directed this classic, highly influential, and controversial film, that focuses on the early years of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). The film tells the story of revolutionary fighter Ali La Pointe during the years between 1954 and 1957, when guerrilla fighters of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FNL) regrouped and expanded into the Casbah, the citadel of...
The war drama Lost Command, directed by Mark Robinson and based on the best-selling 1960 novel Les Centurions by Jean Lartéguy, explores France's loss of political control and military defeat in Indochina and Algeria through the eyes of a group of paratroopers. After suffering a humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954, Lt. Col. Pierre-Noel Raspeguy, played...
Khartoum is a 1966 British epic war film based on historical accounts of Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon's (1833–1885) defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Sudanese Mahdist army, during the Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885). In 1883, William Gladstone (Ralph Richardson), Britain's prime minister, enlists reputable Gen. Gordon (Charlton Heston) to smooth over the...
Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 epic black-and-white French-American co-production about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II. Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After...