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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This critically acclaimed film, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister, was the first major anti-war film from post-World War II West Germany. In the waning days of World War II, as American forces overtake Germany, seven teenage boys are pulled from their small town's school as emergency conscripts to repel the advancing Americans. Given almost no...
This West German film uses the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February1943) in World War II to convey an anti-war and anti-Nazi message. A young and idealistic lieutenant of the German army is sent to the eastern front. Wisse begins to question the war and his commitment to Nazi ideology as he witnesses the costs of battle on his soldiers and the citizens of Stalingrad.
On the Beach tapped into Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation and World War III. After the northern hemisphere is left uninhabitable from radiation, Americans find refuge in Australia. Survivors soon hear Morse code coming from the western U.S. Their trip home reveals a nuclear wasteland, one that will hit their new home in a matter of weeks.
This acclaimed Italian film mixes the comedy of an odd couple and the horrors of war, offering an ironic account of life in the trenches on the Italian front of World War I and the vicissitudes of a group of comrades fighting there in 1916. Two young men lacking in idealism and heroism become fast friends, united by the desire to avoid any danger in order to emerge unscathed from the war. When...
Part one of an anti-war trilogy based on the six-volume novel published from 1956 to 1958 by Junpei Gomikawa, No Greater Love sends an idealistic Japanese pacifist to a Manchurian iron mine during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). The film opens with Kaji marrying his sweetheart Michiko despite his misgivings about the future. To gain exemption from military service, he moves...
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa examines the role of women and shifting ideas of gender during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). Refugio "La Cucaracha", a sexually liberated, hard drinking soldier, and Isabel, a devout Catholic and wife, experience personal transformations through their experiences as guerreras, or female warriors, in the war. This lavish production with two...
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a group of international travelers tries to get out of Budapest, but are thwarted at every turn by the Soviets. With the airport closed, they decide to flee by bus, but are stopped at the Austrian border by Major Surov (Yul Brynner). He delays them indefinitely, very much interested in British Baroness Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr), and little knowing...
Director Alfred Hitchcock tackles a case of mistaken identity and a murder mystery in this masterful exploration of Cold War America. This classic suspense film finds New York City ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) pursued by ruthless spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) after Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent. Hunted relentlessly by Vandamm's associates, the harried...
An adaptation of Graham Greene's 1958 novel, Our Man in Havana brings a deft touch to the Cold War spy game. British expatriate Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) runs a vacuum cleaner store in pre-revolutionary Havana, Cuba. He has promised his vain daughter, Milly (Jo Morrow), a horse and a country club membership, which leaves him desperate for money. When Hawthorne (Noel Coward) proposes...
This film, based on a novel by Taha Hussein, is set in the upper Egyptian countryside and follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor. Amna witnesses her sister's death and decides to seek revenge by poisoning the man who seduced her sister and caused her honor killing at the hands of their uncle. As time goes by, she finds she cannot...
The Mouse That Roared is a 1959 British satirical comedy film on "Ban The Bomb," slogan of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the late 1950s, based on Leonard Wibberley's novel The Mouse That Roared (1955). When the tiny nation of Grand Fenwick's only export, a special wine, begins to be produced in California, their entire economy collapses. Things look dire until...
Mise Éire (Irish for "I [am] Ireland") is a 1959 documentary film by George Morrison, which dealt with key figures and events in Irish history from the 1896 through 1918, using contemporary newsreel footage and still photos. It features the momentous events surrounding Easter Week 1916, footage of Dublin during the Rising, and of the main protagonists, including Tom Clarke,...
Part two of an anti-war trilogy based on the six-volume novel published from 1956 to 1958 by Junpei Gomikawa, Road to Eternity follows Kaji, having lost his exemption from military service by protecting Chinese prisoners from unjust punishment, has now been conscripted into the Japanese Kwantung Army. Under suspicion of leftist sympathies, Kaji is assigned the toughest duties in his...
Ice Cold in Alex is a 1958 British war film set during the Western Desert campaign of World War II based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Christopher Landon. A group of British officers and nurses travel from Tobruk, Libya, to Alexandria, Egypt, as the German Afrika Korps advances. They meet a stranded man, who claims to be an Afrikaner, and he proves to be of immense...
This swashbuckling adventure portrays a fictionalized account of the escape of Charles II in 1651 during English Civil War (1642–1651). The escape is arranged by a foppish royalist nobleman, the Earl of Dawlish, who leads a double life as a roundhead-baiting highwayman, or a robber who targets travellers, called The Moonraker. The Moonraker had reportedly helped more than thirty royalists to...
This film is the story of young Czech Václav Malý (Jaroslav Mares) who, having survived a concentration camp during the Holocaust and the deaths of his father and sister, joins the French Foreign Legion to fight in the war in French Indochina. He is assigned to the same unit as the former SS guard Wolf (Hannjo Hasse) who had murdered Václav's relatives and escaped from the Allies. When Václav...
An innocent and enigmatic young American economist (Audie Murphy) and an embittered and cynical English journalist (Michael Redgrave) are both involved with a young Vietnamese woman (Giorgia Moll). Although the original novel was a critique of foreign intervention and American exceptionalism, Mankiewicz’s film focused on the love triangle between the three main characters and turned the story...
Loosely based on the life of Mathilde Carré, a Resistance fighter and double agent in occupied France, La Chatte reveals how women responded to the shifting politics and rebelled against the atrocities of World War II. After the death of her husband, Cora takes up his role in the Resistance. When captured by Nazis, she refuses to divulge information that would jeopardize her cause....
After a decade's absence in filmmaking, two-time Oscar-winning director Frank Borzage returned with China Doll. Set in the China Burma India theatre during World War II, Pilot Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) flies missions from China in support of troops in the Pacific Theater, but is depressed by his situation and takes to excessive drinking. After one late-night binge, he finds that a...
Based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein eponymous musical, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific, this film offers a sweeping international love story during World War II. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy stationed on a South Pacific island falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile...