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 the memoirs of Gilbert Renault (aka Colonel Rémy), one of the most famous agents of the French Resistance during World War II. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre (Maurice Ronet), is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German...
Martin is a member of a comedy troupe who is captured by American soldiers when he is in costume as a German officer in this World War II comedy. He escapes and joins the Free French Army only to be captured by the Nazis while he is wearing a general's uniform. The British use him as an undercover agent to capture the Germans. Martin then is recruited in a plot to kill Hitler and is acclaimed...
A group of French Resistance fighters, denounced by the farmers of their area in June 1944, must flee into the western Alps. A doctor, who neither sides with nor opposes the French Resistance, is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis. A young lieutenant (Robert Hossein) saves the doctor from being executed by people who believe the doctor had turned their names over to the German ...
In this wildly popular French-British comedy, ordinary French citizens become entangled with the Resistance during World War II. In summer 1941, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The British crew parachutes out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet (André Bourvil), and...
A comedic fable about war, King of Hearts follows a Scottish soldier assigned to disarm a German bomb in a small French town at the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats, they booby trap the whole town to explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town — thoroughly confusing the lone...
Red Angel contrasts man-made horrors with a woman's empathy and compassion during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Sakura Nishi (Ayako Wakao) is a nurse working at a remote Japanese hospital, treating wounded soldiers. As Sakura does what little she can to comfort men with wounds often too severe for the under-staffed hospital to handle, she begins to fall in love with one of...
This eight-hour epic in four parts is based on the 1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand...
Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film was ...
One of Hitchcock's less esteemed efforts, Torn Curtain finds movie stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in a Cold War thriller. American physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) shocks his friends and family by defecting to East Germany to work with the Soviets during the height of the Cold War. Even his fiancée (Julie Andrews) is surprised by the move, but when she follows him behind...
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film based on the 1961 Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders. When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an...
The film centers on Diouana, a young Senegalese woman, who moves from Dakar in the Senegal to Antibes at the Cote d' Azur to work for a rich French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to continue her former nanny job and anticipates a cosmopoilitan lifestyle. But from her arrival in Antibes, Diouana experiences harsh treatment from the couple, who force her to work as a servant. She becomes...
Richard Widmark portrays the captain of a newly launched U.S. Destroyer who is obsessed with hunting down a particular Soviet submarine regardless of the great risks involved. His salty character clashes with a quick-witted journalist (Sydney Poiter) who is on board to cover the trip for a magazine. In spite of the dangers, he pushes his men forward to discover the origins of an unmarked...
This French film, directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, offers a close examination of French and Laotian soldiers near the end of First Indochina War (1946–1954). A French platoon retreats to Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements for the Battle there, which started in March 1954 and lasted three months, but it faces a dangerous trek through the jungle. Tensions between the platoon's leader, an...
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. This film shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film, set in Russia circa World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain...
The Train is an American French war film, based on the 1961 book, Le front de l'art, by Rose Valland, the art historian at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, who documented the works of art placed in storage there that had been looted by Nazi soldiers from museums and private art collections throughout France during World War II. With the Allies poised to retake Paris...
A former Gestapo collaborator, Capri/Bruno (Michel Piccoli), having undergone cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, finds himself, twenty-five years after the end of World War II, face to face with relatives of individuals he had, through his complicity, sentenced to death. He becomes friends with some of the relatives and acquaintances of his former victims.
Based on the 1923 novel by Jean Cocteau, a French aristocrat and commoner forge an unshakable bond in World War I. Princess of Bormes shepherds wounded soldiers from the front to her Parisian home for medical care. Thomas, assuming the identity of a renowned general's nephew, helps her pass through checkpoint. His work to help her drags him deeper behind enemy lines.
This love story set at the dawn of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) reveals the limitations of modernity within Japan's hierarchical and patriarchal society. In 1905, small-town girl Okane married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty. Upon her husband’s sudden death, she withdraws to her small farming village where she stoically submits to public opprobrium and lives the silent...
Towards the end of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), a decorated yet rebellious young sergeant must repent for his numerous acts of insubordination. Kosugi leads a group of inexperienced soldiers to take the strategic Fort Graveyard. They struggle to keep their position once food and supplies run out and the Chinese surround them.