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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In 1962, the French film director René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organized an audiovisual formation center to encourage a “dialogue in images” between the two factions involved in the Algerian War (1954–62). A film was edited from that experience, but the French police partially destroyed it. The images that were saved represent an unprecedented historical document: They...
After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young French photographer, is determined to forget this time of trouble and is determined to live a good life after the army discharges him. At first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry his love, Sylvie, but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in...
Family, friends, and strangers obsessively hold onto memories of the past within the changing French nation in the aftermath of the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962). In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - Alphonse - with his niece Françoise...
This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion, an armed and violent, anti-Christian, and anti-imperialist insurrection in China between 1899 and 1901. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Flora Robson) orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China, a group of ambassadors, their families and staff hole up in a...
In the early summer of 1944, a French woman and an American pilot form an unexpected relationship. On her way back to Paris, Thérèse (Simone Signoret), a mother of two whose husband is in a prison camp, meets Capt. Allan Morley (Stuart Whitman) after he parachutes from his damaged plane. Although hesitant, she agrees to help him find a way to leave Nazi-occupied France.
The Leopard is a 1963 epic historical drama film, an adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 novel of the same title. Directed by Luchino Visconti, who also co-wrote the screenplay, the Italian-French co-production stars an international cast including the American Burt Lancaster, the Frenchman Alain Delon, and the Italian Claudia Cardinale. As Garibaldi's troops begin the...
Director Youssef Chahine uses the history of the Third Crusade (1189–1192) to promote pan-Arab unity in the wake of de-colonization and wars with Israel in the early 1960s. Upon hearing of the slaughter of Muslims in in the Holy Lands, Saladin (1138–1193), sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, launches an attack to retake Jerusalem. English, French, and German rulers...
Legend of a Duel to the Death, alternatively known as A Legend or Was It?, is an exploration of the brutality of Japanese militarism. A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts during World War II. She and her family are ousted from...
The Dutch and the British fight for control over South Africa during the Boer War (1899–1902). Elite farmers hire the rider, who uses guerilla tactics to disrupt the British forces. The film also explores the origins of apartheid while obscuring the British perpetuation of it, as well as the struggle for freedom by black South Africans.
A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote. Col. Caldwell (Rock Hudson) is assigned to shape up a U.S. Air...
Widely regarded as the best film in the 007 franchise, From Russia with Love places James Bond into the thicket of Cold War international politics. This time, Bond is battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to lure Bond...
Stop Train 349 (German: Verspätung in Marienborn, French: Le train de Berlin est arrêté, Italian: Un treno è fermo a Berlino), is a 1963 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Rolf Hädrich. Based on a true story, an East German's escape sparks an international crisis during the Cold War. The refugee slips aboard an American military duty train...
Unpopular with audiences and critics alike when it was released in 1963, The Ugly American offered a warning to the Cold-War obsessed United States as it headed toward full-scale intervention in Vietnam. The film is set in a fictional nation called Sarkhan, an imaginary country in Southeast Asia that somewhat resembles Burma or Thailand, but which is meant to allude to Vietnam....
The Prize is a 1963 American spy film, based on a 1962 novel of the same title by Irving Wallace. A group of Nobel laureates descend on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild...
This film tells the complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy--the invasion and establishment of Allied Forces in France during Operation Overlord, beginning June 6th, 1944 and the largest seaborne invasion in history--through the eyes of its participants. It began with overnight parachute and glider landings, air attacks, naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious landing. The...
A masterpiece of political satire, The Manchurian Candidate explores fear, paranoia, and the culture of the Cold War and McCarthyism in early 1960s America. After suffering from recurring nightmares about an incident during the Korean War, U.S. Army Major Ben Marco suspects his platoon mate and celebrated hero Raymond Shaw might have been brainwashed. He was. Shaw's mother, an...
This German-Italian-Spanish production viewed the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) through an anti-war lens. A commander of the French Foreign Legion takes his battle-scarred men to search for an Algerian nationalist leader. Though successful in their mission, their escape plan falls apart. The unit treks through hostile territory only to discover that their sacrifice was for naught....
Catholicism and communism collide in this adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's novel about the Chinese Civil War (1927-1950). The Communist People's Party makes life difficult for mission priests Rev. O'Banion (William Holden) and Rev. Bovard (Clifton Webb) in 1940s China. The cook for their mission, young local Siu Lan (France Nuyen), is in love with O'Banion, but her innocence is lost when the...
This French New Wave drama reveals the political instability that engulfed France during the Algerian War of Independence. A son of an industrialist joins a right-wing, nationalist terrorist organization (loosely resembling the OAS) but is soon betrayed when he attempts to assassinate a communist politician. The failed assassination forces him and his wife to flee Paris to hide-out with his...
This documentary, censored for over ten years, explores the Paris Massacre of 1961 during the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962) through interviews, newsreel, and re-enactments. After implementing a curfew for all Algerians in the city, the National Liberation Front (FLN) organized a non-violent protest. In response, the police launched a full-scale attack on over 30,000 demonstrators,...