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.


Displaying 961 - 980 of 1160

Director(s): Bresson, Robert
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

Based on the memoirs of André Devigny (1916–1999), this film focuses on a French Resistance fighter imprisoned at Montluc, a Nazi internment camp in Lyon during World War II. Awaiting a certain death sentence for espionage, facing malnourishment and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small portion of...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/
Director(s): Ichikawa, Kon
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

The Burmese Harp is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. Based on a children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama, it tells the story of Japanese soldiers who fought in the Burma Campaign during World War II. When a Japanese platoon surrenders to British forces in Burma in 1943, the platoon's harp player, Mizushima (Shôji Yasui), is selected from the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049012/
Director(s): Claude Autant-Lara
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

La Traversée de Paris ("The trip across Paris") is a 1956 French comedy-drama directed by Claude Autant-Lara, starring Jean Gabin, Bourvil and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles: "Four Bags Full" (USA), "Pig Across Paris" (UK), "The Trip Across Paris" (International English title). In Paris in 1942, two men transport four suitcases of contraband pork across German-...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049877/
Director(s): Noãn, Vĩnh
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

Set during the bloody land reform campaign in North Vietnam under Communist-dominated Viet Minh, the film follows Vinh, a Captain in the Viet Minh army fervently fighting for the independence of Vietnam in the Resistance War against the French colonialists. After the revolution is successful, he becomes the victim of the violent communist regime.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11230600/
Director(s): Milland, Ray
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

Lisbon is a 1956 American film noir crime film adapted from a short story by Martin Rackin. For Capt. Robert John Evans (Ray Milland), smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros (Claude Rains) for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American from behind the Iron Curtain. The job seems challenging enough, but...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049446/
Director(s): Vidor, King
Release Date: 1956
Abstract:

War and Peace was a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), published first serially and then in its entirety in 1869. It describes Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812 from the Russian perspective. This American movie, directed by King Vidor, is an adoption of the novel, which chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049934/
Director(s): Wajda, Andrzej
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

A seminal work in Polish New Wave cinema, director Andrzej Wajda fashions a devastating anti-war film about the lost generation of World War II. A Generation is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the German occupation of Poland. The young protagonist, Stach is living in squalor on the outskirts of the city and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048500/
Director(s): Butler, David
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

Released a year after Battle of Dien Bien Phu (March – May 1954), this film pays homage to a group of soldiers who died in the climatic battle of the First Indochina War (1946–1954). Veterans and new enlistees encounter guerilla warfare, dwindling supplies, and torrential weather conditions.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048235
Director(s): Vasilyev, Sergey
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

Produced during the Cold War, this Soviet-Bulgarian co-production celebrates the relationship between the two countries through its portrayal of the Battle of Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1978). The Battle of Shipka Pass consisted of four battles that were fought between the Russian Empire, aided by Bulgarian volunteers known as opalchentsi, and the Ottoman Empire for control...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047021/
Director(s): Mann, Anthony
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

This Cold War propaganda film was designed to win public and Congressional support for the new U.S. Strategic Air Command, a key point in the Nuclear Triad. Recalled World War II veteran and baseball star Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland learns to fly new bombers. Spectacular aerial photography and James Stewart's performance as the lieutenant are the film's highlights. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048667/
Director(s): Anderson, Michael
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic war film. It recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked three important dams in Nazi Germany with the newly invented "bouncing bombs," which skidded across the water, avoiding obstacles, and detonated on command. This was an important component in the Allied strategy of attacking German industrial...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/
Director(s): Resnais, Alain
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

Night and Fog is a 1955 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek established in occupied...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/
Director(s): Sturges, John
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

The Scarlet Coat is a 1955 American historical drama and swashbuckler, based upon the events in the American Revolution (1775–1783) in which Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) offered to surrender the fort at West Point to the British in exchange for money. Major John Bolton, a counter-intelligence officer, intercepts a letter from a British spy documenting Arnold's control of West Point....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048588/
Director(s): Dmytryk, Edward
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

Soldier of Fortune is a 1955 adventure film, based on a novel by Ernest Gann published in October 1954. Jane Hoyt (Susan Hayward) comes to Hong Kong to find her husband, Louis (Gene Barry), a photojournalist who has been missing for three months. Learning he is being held captive by the Chinese government, she seeks the help of smuggler Hank Lee (Clark Gable), who has a shady...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048640/
Director(s): Sacha Guitry
Release Date: 1955
Abstract:

This film, directed by Sacha Guitry, explores Napoléon Bonaparte's (1769–1821) life, loves, and exceptional destiny as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under the emperor. The film is an epic historical tale that depicts major events in the life of Napoleon.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048413/
Director(s): Benedek, Laslo
Release Date: 1954
Abstract:

Set in British India in 1857, at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny,  the first Indian War of Independence. A British officer, Captain Jeffrey Claybourne, is cashiered from his regiment over a charge of disobeying orders, but he finds that his duty to his men is far from over. He loves his Colonel's daughter and redeems himself in fighting the Indians.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046767/
Director(s): Robson, Mark
Release Date: 1954
Major Wars:
Abstract:

Based on a 1953 novel by Pulitzer-Prize winner James Michener, this film explores the ambiguity of war through an American naval pilot during the Korean War (1950–1953). Naval Reservist pilot Lt. Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan during the war. Although suffering from battle fatigue and longing to return to civilian life with his wife,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046806/
Director(s): Dmytryk, Edward
Release Date: 1954
Abstract:

Based on Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel of the same name, The Caine Mutiny is set in the Pacific theatre of World War II, the film depicts the events on board a fictitious U.S. Navy destroyer-minesweeper and the subsequent court-martial of its executive officer for mutiny. A dilapidated vessel, the Caine, gets a new ensign, Willis Keith (Robert Francis), and a new...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/
Director(s): Castle, William
Release Date: 1954
Abstract:

Charge of the Lancers is a 1954 American adventure film directed by William Castle and starring Paulette Goddard and Jean-Pierre Aumont. During the Crimean War (1853–1856), Allied troops guard a new weapon, a super cannon, that can destroy the Russian naval base of Sebastopol. A traitor in their midst leads to the kidnapping of the British commander, which prompts French and British...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046847/
Director(s): Visconti, Luchino
Release Date: 1954
Abstract:

Senso is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film, an adaptation of Camillo Boito's Italian novella Senso, written around 1882, by the Italian director Luchino Visconti. Senso is set in Italy around 1866, the year the Third Italian War of Independence would see the Veneto and most of Friuli-Venezia Giulia united to Italy after the Seven Weeks' War between Austria on...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047469/

Pages