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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World for Ransom is a 1954 Cold War film noir. Mike Callahan (Dan Duryea) is an Irish émigré and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes on a case from a former lover, now a nightclub singer. She thinks her husband Julian March (Patric Knowles) is involved in criminal activities and asks him to help out. Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas (Gene...
Désirée is a 1954 American historical-biographical romance film directed by Henry Koster, based on the best-selling novel Désirée by Annemarie Selinko, first published in 1952. It stars Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) and Jean Simmons as Désirée Clary (1777–1860). The film depicts Désirée, a young French millinery clerk living in Marseilles in 1794, who ...
In this Oscar-winning film, director Fred Zinnemann portrays everyday life on a Hawaiian army base before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Far from a celebratory narrative, its characters have deep personality flaws and engage in alcoholism, adultery, violence, and prostitution. Their search for connection and meaning reveal the impersonal bureaucracy and injustice within the U.S. army. This path-...
Stalag 17 is a 1953 American drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp. The film was directed and produced by Billy Wilder, who also adapted the screenplay with Edwin Blum from the Broadway play of the same name by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, which was based on their experiences as prisoners in Stalag ...
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film, produced by Ealing Studios. The film portrays the conditions in which the Battle of the Atlantic was fought between the Royal Navy and Germany's U-boats, seen from the viewpoint of the British naval officers and seamen who served in convoy escorts. It is based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas...
Malta Story is a 1953 British war film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, which is set during the air defence of Malta during the Siege of Malta in the World War II. The film uses real and unique footage of the locations at which the battles were fought and includes a love story between a RAF reconnaissance pilot and a Maltese woman, as well as the anticipated execution of her brother...
This first Bollywood film shot in Technicolor focuses on the life of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi (1828-1858), an Indian queen of the Martha princely state of Jhansi in North India, who lead her people in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It follows her trajectory from a young confident girl chosen to be the wife of the much older King to her fearless pursuit of politics, diplomacy, and military...
Loosly based on a true story, this film explores Japanese holdouts from World War II living on the abandoned-and-forgotten Pacific island of Anatahan. A group of 12 sailors are stranded on the island for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned plantation and Keiko, an attractive young Japanese woman.The soldiers vie for the affection of Keiko that slowly...
Based on the 1949 novel Came the Dawn by Roger Bax, the Cold War film follows the disrupted love story between an American journalist and a Russian ballerina. Separated by the KGB on their attempt to leave the Soviet Union for the United States, the husband takes desperate measures to reunite with his wife.
Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 American film noir directed by Elia Kazan, based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the owner of a small Czech circus that's been in his family for generations. When the Communists take over, officials begin to dictate almost every aspect of how the tight-knit group can operate. Karel's wife, Zama (Gloria...
El Paso Stampede is a 1953 Western film directed by Harry Keller. Federal Marshal "Rocky" Lane (Allan Lane) saddles up Black Jack to go to the Mexican border to investigate cattle raiding during the Spanish–American War (1898). He gets a job with feed-merchant Nugget Clark, and discovers that Nugget's wizened little helper, Josh Bailey has been giving cattle shipment information to...
Based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German Embassy in Ankara (1943–44), this World War II film-noir reveals the duplicity of spy games. The book and film are based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna (1904–1970), a spy who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to ...
Invasion, U.S.A. is set in the Cold War and portrays the fictional invasion of the United States by an unnamed communist enemy, likely referring to the Soviet Union. It is typical of the Red Scare film genre, common throughout the 1950s. The film follows five people are sitting in a New York bar with a mysterious Mr. Ohman, a brooding and mysterious TV repoter, when they hear the news...
Fanfan la Tulipe is a 1952 French comedy adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque. It has also been categorized under swashbuckler films. The film is set in France during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). As the film begins, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) is a charming, attractive young man who is trying to escape a shotgun marriage. At this vulnerable point in his life, he is approached...
René Le Guen (Marcel Mouloudji) is a former French resistance fighter trained as a young man as a professional killer. After World War II, he has no qualms continuing to kill and is arrested for murder. Convicted and condemned to death, he is held in a prison cell with other murderers sentenced to death. The men to be guillotined are taken out at night, so they wait in fear and only sleep...
Co-written by Frederico Fellini, The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo is an Italian Western set in Sicily during the turbulent 1860s, when unification meant not autonomy but a new conquest, this time by the forces of northern Italy. The desire to control of a small town draws together the terrorist campaign of bandit leader Raffa Raffa and a wily team of sharpshooters.
Forbidden Games is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel Jeux Interdits. In 1940, five-year-old Paulette loses her parents and her dog to a Nazi air attack in the country while escaping Paris. The eleven-year-old peasant Michel Dolle sees the girl wandering with her dead dog in her hands and brings her to his home. She is...
This film marks an influential contribution to the post-World War II myth established around Rommel's figure, one that highlights his military brilliance, opposition to some Nazi policies, and victim of Hitler. The film bridges a string of defeats at the end of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's (1891–1944) military career, from El Alamein to his death-by-suicide mission. In between, Rommel...
Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators from the Battle of Guadalcanal to the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Marines have long had the nickname "leatherneck", hence the title. As the new commanding officer of a squadron of Marine pilots, Maj....
The Frogmen is a 1950 American black-and-white World War II drama film, based on operations by United States Navy Underwater Demolition Teams, popularly known as "frogmen", against the Japanese Army and naval forces. It was the first such film about scuba diving and became a popular cultural hit. The film follows a new commander of the demolition team, who must earn the respect of the...