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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During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.
Widely considered one of the best films ever made, Lawrence of Arabia explores questions of British identity and colonialism during and after World War I. The film is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The film, a British production with American distribution, depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Ottoman Empire's...
This critically acclaimed film, which won director Andrei Tarkovsky the Golden Lion at the 1962 Venice Film Festival, explores the loss of childhood and innocence in World War II. When Nazi invaders destroy his Russian village and kill his family, 12-year-old Ivan (Kolya Burlyayev) is placed in a German prison camp. Ivan escapes from the camp and crosses back over to Russia, and comes under...
One of the first films produced after the Berlin Wall divided the city in 1961, Escape from East Berlin mirrored real life stories of East Germans seeking freedom behind the Wall. After East Berlin chauffer Kurt Schroder (Don Murray) decides to escape to West Germany, he begins a plan to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Soon members of Kurt's family are in on the highly risky...
This Is Not a Test is a 1962 American low-budget science fiction film directed by Fredric Gadette. Produced at the height of the Cold War, the film was one of a number of productions of the late 1950s and early 1960s based upon the premise of the outbreak of nuclear war. The story follows a state trooper who is warned of an imminent nuclear attack while searching for a killer.
The historical drama, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the 1958 novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley. During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) takes command of the HMS Defiant and is ordered to rendezvous with the fleet in Corsica. With his son aboard as a new midshipman, Capt. Crawford takes an even hand with his crew. This does not sit well with his second-in-...
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic courtroom drama, set in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The film depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the 12 U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted before the U.S. military. The film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood (Tracy), before which four German judges and prosecutors...
Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel, this British-American epic war film tells the story of the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. With the Battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them in 1943, the Germans attempt to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis powers; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean,...
Based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells the story of a mother trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. During World War II, Italian widow Cesira (Sophia Loren) must leave Rome with her devout daughter when the city comes under attack by Allied forces. The pair flee to a small village, where they meet -- and both fall for -- the...
Based on the epic play by Bertolt Brecht, widely regarded as one of the best plays of the 20th century, this filmed stage production provides an allegorical tale of the price of war. Set during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), it follows a Swedish mother who slowly loses her children to the war she profits from as a sutler. The film, made by DEFA, the state-owned film studio of the German...
Chaos and uncertainty surrounded the Allied liberation of France from town to town. Residents of Nanteuil celebrate the news of their local surrender in August 1944, but a newly-arrived German officer seeks to re-occupy the town. Local French Resistance fighters appear useless to the renewed war.
In 1944, the mayor of a French Normandy village occupied by the German troops, Mr. Leproux, is caught between a rock and a hard place. A doctor by profession, he provides refuge for a wounded British pilot, for whom the Germans are searching. Meanwhile, the French Resistance is operating in the shadows as the Allied Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) approaches.
Saiorse? (Irish for ‘freedom’) was the 1961 successor to George Morrison’s highly successful 1959 film Mise Éire. This documentary presents the effects of the Irish War for Independence and the Irish Civil War (1919–1923) on society. Filmmaker George Morrison asks whether independence lead to freedom due to the divisiveness of...
An important milestone in Chinese cinema, The Red Detachment of Women conveys the importance of the Communist Party in defending the people against warlords during the Chinese Civil War (1927-1950). In the early 1930s in Hainan Island, Hong Changqing rescues Wu Qionghua from a vicious warlord. Changqing, a representative of the Communist Party, encourages Qionghua to join the Red...
Commissioned by the Italian government, this film celebrates the 100th year anniversary of the Italian unification, or the Risorgimento, by examining General Giuseppe Garibaldi's (1807–1882) military campaigns in Sicily and Naples. Director Roberto Rossellini combines epic production values and neorealism to champion group effort in the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. His...
In this visually arresting film filled with breathtaking battle sequences, director Yuliya Solntseva explores the apocalyptic effects of World War II on the Ukrainian people and countryside. Conflict, chaos, and destruction surround Ivan Orlyukov, a young soldier in the Red Army in 1941. His fierce commitment to pushing the Germans back finally leads him to walk victoriously through the...
This Cold War screwball comedy is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Billy Wilder. C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney) will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's (Howard St. John) rebellious teenage...
In post-war East Germany, Peter Gottfried (Christian De Bresson) is the son of minister Friedrich Gottfried (Michael Gwynn). The Communist regime has decreed that all children of "dissidents" will be denied entry to a prestigious music conservatory. Peter is anxious to be accepted, and in order to get in he prepares to answer the seven questions required by the conservatory, the seventh of...
In this Romeo-and-Juliet story for the Cold War age, a president of a fictional European country tries to maintain neutrality in an important United Nations vote by encouraging forbidden love. In Concordia, the daughter of the American ambassador and the son of the Soviet ambassador immediately fall in love to the dismay of their parents. The president uses their love as well as fake...
Part three of an anti-war trilogy based on the six-volume novel published from 1956 to 1958 by Junpei Gomikawa, A Soldier's Prayer follows Kaji and some comrades as they attempt to elude capture by Soviet forces and find the remnants of the Kwantung army in South Manchuria. Kaji, however, is increasingly sick of combat and decides to abandon any pretense of rejoining the army. Instead...