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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Director(s): Wajda, Andrzej
Release Date: 1958
Abstract:

Widely considered to be the best Polish film of all time and a landmark in world cinema, director Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds explores the fractured national identity of war-torn Poland. The action of Ashes and Diamonds takes place in 1945, shortly after World War II. The main protagonist of the film, former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, is acting in the anti-...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/
Director(s): Gilbert, Lewis
Release Date: 1958
Abstract:

The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Violette Szabo (1921–1945) who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France. The film starts with Szabo's life in London early in the war and her marriage to French Army officer, Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city. Following Etienne's death in the North African front...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051454/
Director(s): Dunne, Philip
Release Date: 1958
Abstract:

This film is based on the 1957 novel The Big War by Anton Myrer, who was a former Marine wounded during the Second Battle of Guam in 1944. The film follows three Marines who have shore leave in San Francisco before being shipped off to the Pacific front. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051770/
Director(s): Wajda, Andrzej
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

Director Andrzej Wajda offers a bleak interpretation of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. A group of 27 resistance fighters from the Home Army retreat into the sewers after their plan to take the Mokotów district of the city meets armed German opposition. Lost and separated in the sewers, they struggle to survive. Kanal mirrors the sense of hopelessness Polish resistance fighters...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050585/
Director(s): Lean, David
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943, the plot and characters of Boulle's novel and the screenplay are almost entirely fictional. At a Japanese POW camp during World War II, a British officer...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/
Director(s): Fuller, Samuel
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

The film China Gate, directed by Samuel Fuller, is set in 1954 during the French Indochina War. A Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries infiltrate enemy territory in order to destroy an arms depot. The film is unique in its portrayal of race relations and its anti-racist stance, as well as accomplishing this with a multiracial cast, unusual for the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050252/
Director(s): Anderson, Michael
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

This film, based on real historical events, follows the British frigate H.M.S. Amethyst, which, on a mission to resupply the British Embassy during the Chinese Civil War, was unexpectedly attacked by the Chinese People's Liberation Army on the north bank of the Yangtse river. With rescue attempts blocked by the Chinese communist army, for many weeks the situation remained in deadlock, until...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051209
Director(s): Gerasimov, Sergey
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

And Quiet Flows the Don is a three-part epic 1958 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first two parts of the film were released in October 1957 and the final third part in 1958. The film tells the story of Russia's involvement in the World War I (1914–1918), the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War (1917–...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051082/
Director(s): Stevenson, Robert
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

Based on the 1944 children's novel of the same name by Esther Forbes, this Walt Disney production highlights the working-class origins of the American Revolution (1775–1783). Johnny Tremain, a silversmith apprentice in Boston, Massachusetts, severely injures his hand while repairing a silver teacup owned by a distant relative. Tremain then becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty to relay...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050567/
Director(s): Douglas, Gordon
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

Bombers B-52, released in the United Kingdom as No Sleep Till Dawn, concerns the introduction of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber into the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) inventory during the Cold War era of the 1950s.  A soured relationship between a commanding officer and a master sergeant during the Korean War (1950–1953) threatens the successful introduction of the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050204/
Director(s): Watanabe, Kunio
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

This film about the politics and battles of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) shows how an emperor’s decision affects ordinary people. Emperoro Meiji's (1852–1912) militarism and determination to make Japan a world power cinematically results in stunning battle sequences. The cost of his goal comes at the expense of the lives of the men of rural peasantry.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197429/
Director(s): Seaton, George
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

This introductory film for the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center relates the spirit of the American Revolution through a fictional character. John Fry, a planter-politician, abandons his loyalty to the British crown through his relationships with notable Virginians such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Its focus on elites, though, obscures the revolutionary spirit of the enslaved...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049956/
Director(s): Kalatozov, Mikhail
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

The Cranes Are Flying is a 1957 Soviet film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of war, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany's surprise invasion in 1941, two fervent young lovers, Veronika and Boris, are parted when the Boris ...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/
Director(s): Kubrick, Stanley
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as the French Colonel Dax, commanding officer, 701st Infantry Regiment. Commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/
Director(s): Edward Dmytryk
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

Raintree County is a 1957 American Technicolor melodramatic film set during the American Civil War (1861–1865), directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was adapted from the 1948 novel of the same name by Ross Lockridge Jr.. When Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana, she falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050882/
Director(s): Kramer, Stanley
Release Date: 1957
Abstract:

The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 Napoleonic era war film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, which tells the story of a British Royal Navy artillery officer (Cary Grant), who has orders to retrieve a huge siege cannon from Spain and transport it by ship to British forces. But first, the leader of the Spanish guerrillas (Frank Sinatra) wants to transport the weapon 620 miles...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050858/
Director(s): Douglas, Gordon
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

Santiago, also known as The Gun Runner, is a 1956 film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring and co-produced by Alan Ladd set in 1898 Cuba against the background of the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). A hardened gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the US military, attempts to take a shipment to Cuba to assist with the rebellion against Spain. He is swept deeper...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049714/
Director(s): Wyler, William
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

The patriarch of a peace-loving Quaker family, Jess Birdwell (Gary Cooper), begins to question his pacifist values when the American Civil War (1861–1865) moves toward his close-knit Indiana community. Meanwhile, Jess's daughter, Mattie, is in love with a soldier, and her brother, Josh (Anthony Perkins), contemplates picking up arms to defend his home lest he be considered a coward. As...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049233/
Director(s): Aldrich, Robert
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

A cynical and grim account of war, this film is set in the latter stages of World War II and tells the story of a front-line combat unit led by a cowardly captain clearly out of his depth, as well as a tougher subordinate and an executive officer who both threaten to do away with him. Lt. Joe Costa (Jack Palance) is a part of the Fragile Fox Company, a U.S. National Guard unit sent to a...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048966
Director(s): Chukhray, Grigoriy
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

The Forty-First is a 1956 Soviet film based on the eponymous novel by Boris Lavrenyov. A remake of the 1927 movie under the same name, The Forty-Firstthe film is set during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and tells the story of a tragic romance between a female sniper of the Red Army and an officer of the White Army. In...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049783/

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