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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Léon Morin, Priest is a 1961 French drama film directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter. She decides to hide the girl on a nearby farm and have her baptized as a cover. The...
This 1960 film, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, follows a Frenchman named Bruno Forestier, played by Michel Subor, who lives in Geneva during the Algerian War (1954–62) to escape enlistment. Forestier is nevertheless ordered by his superiors in French intelligence to assassinate an agent of the National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN) to prove he is not a double agent, but he instead dreams of...
This docudrama focuses on the role of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr. (1882–1959) and his efforts in fighting against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) and the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II. The film depicts the crucial five-week period in October–November 1942 after Admiral Halsey (James Cagney) took command of the beleaguered American forces...
Herta von Stauffen, wife of a captain in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, goes to Brittany, France, to spend Christmas with her husband. Since he is away on duty, Herta must lodge with a widow, who is secretly part of the French resistance. Bit by bit, Herta becomes smitten with the son of the widow, a French paratrooper, who has just been sent from...
In this sequel to the beloved Chatte (1958), Cora Mennessier (also known as "Chatte") is not dead. Condemned to be shot for being a traitor to the French Resistance, she has survived her execution by "Le Capitaine". Unfortunately, she is immediately captured by the German forces, imprisoned and brainwashed. Her "mission" is now to...
Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American international co-production film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It featured an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles and was Ritt's only war movie, set during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet...
The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist-historian Theodore H. White. Maj. Baldwin (James Stewart) is an American officer stationed in China during World War II charged with stopping the advance of the Japanese army and protecting civilians. One of his tasks is destroying infrastructure to stop the progress of enemy troops. Baldwin is...
In 1836, the Mexican army, led by General Santa Anna, is invading Texas. Hoping to create a diversion for Santa Anna's forces, General Sam Houston (Richard Boone) orders Colonel William B. Travis (Laurence Harvey), joined by Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and Davy Crockett (John Wayne), to lead a small, heroic band of American and Texican fighters in a resistance battle at the Alamo...
The River Fuefuki is a 1960 Japanese historical drama film, based on a novel by Shichirō Fukazawa. The film is set in the Sengoku period (1467–1615) in Japan, spanning in time from the birth of Takeda Shingen in 1521 to the fall of the Takeda clan in 1582. It follows five generations of a farming family, who live in a house on the banks of the Fuefuki river, and whose fate is...
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov (Volodya Ivashov) is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield, destroying two German tanks. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely...
Based on the 1951 eponymous novel by Shōhei Ōoka, this film is a widely regarded meditation on survival among stranded Japanese soldiers in the Philippines in late World War II. This Japanese film follows a soldier, Tamura (Eiji Funakoshi), who, along with hordes of other men, has been stranded in the jungles of the Philippines. As Japan's Imperial Army faces dire conditions -- the men have...
Five Gates to Hell tells the story of a group of a Red Cross doctor and several nurses, who are taken captive by guerillas in a fortress in the jungles of Vietnam. Forced to remain as sex slaves by a local warlord and the head of his guerilla army, the nurses eventually stage a revolt and escape into the wild.
Marie-Octobre is a 1959 French film based on the 1948 eponymous novel by Jacques Robert, released also as Secret Meeting. This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Marie-Octobre arranges a meeting of former undercover Resistance fighters with the intent to find out who betrayed their leader, who was killed...
In this minimalist film unfolding in real time, director Jean Valère explores humanity, fear, and hope in occupied France during World War II. Five members of the French Resistance, three men and two women, are sentenced to death after the assassination of a German officer. They wait for execution, scheduled in an hour's time. In a cell near the beach, they overhear Allied bombings and attempt...
This influential French New Wave film uses a disintegrating love affair to explore memory in post-World War II Japan. The film revolves around a deep conversation between a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) and a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva). Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple – lovers turned friends – recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences....
In 1943, a group of French high school students decided to take action against the occupying Nazi troops. Showing imagination and courage, they succeed in blowing up a Nazi garrison and in rescuing hostages. However, the murder of a German soldier triggers retaliation by the Nazi police apparatus. The young resistance fighters are arrested and two of them are executed.
A naive young French refugee woman becomes an unlikely weapon of war during World War II. Babette is sent by British Intelligence back into France to seduce a German General and thwart the Nazis plans to invade England. The goal is to learn more information to block the attack, but Babette might jeopardize their mission.
During the Irish War of Independence (1919–1923), an Irish-American medical student finds himself caught between the Irish Republican Army and the "Black and Tans," ex-British soldiers recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary to suppress the rebels. In 1921, Kerry O'Shea (Don Murray) learns that his esteemed professor, Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), is also a leader in Ireland's rebel army....
This film is a biographical movie of John Paul Jones (1747–1792), a naval hero of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Jones was born and raised in Scotland, became a sailor, and served as commander of several merchantmen. After having killed one of his mutinous crew members with a sword, he fled to the Colony of Virginia and around 1775 joined the newly founded Continental Navy in...
A comedy produced by West Germany and France. After the battle of Sedan in September 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) a pair of soldiers, one French and one German, become separated from their respective units. Taking shelter in a farmhouse, the two begin to bond despite their rivalry over a woman. When they hear the call for war, each one accidently wears the other's uniform....