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): Huston, John
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

The African Queen is a 1951 British–American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. In this classic Hollywood film, a British missionary and an American boat captain travel the Ulanga River to escape the onset of World War I. After the Germans destroy her mission, Sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) leaves a remote village in German East Africa,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/
Director(s): Kinoshita, Keisuke
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

A young boy comes of age during and after World War II, revealing how some Japanese questioned militarism and the war given their losses and devastation. When a family of Tokyo war evacuees arrives to the countryside, they are met with hostility by most villagers. The father, an English professor who had to quit lecturing due to his liberal views, opposes his son Ichirō's wish to enlist at a...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044029/
Director(s): Ke, Zhang
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

At a Guomindang prison camp in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), two Chinese communist women face constant interrogation by the authorities to find their leader. When the Japanese invade the camp, they are a key part in helping other prisoners fight off the Nationalists.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6418542/
Director(s): Wise, Robert
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

Unlike other Cold War science-fiction films of the early 1950s that that engaged in fearmongering, The Day the Earth Stood Still offered a message of peace. When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) has come on behalf of alien life who have been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth...

Director(s): Douglas, Gordon
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

During the 1950s, FBI agent and Slovenian-American Matt Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy) poses as a Communist to infiltrate the U.S. Communist Party. Unable to tell his friends and family about the undercover mission, Matt is deemed a traitor to his country and condemned by everyone close to him. Although Matt often doubts his dangerous task, he remains undercover to bring the Communists to justice and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043665/
Director(s): Morse, Terry
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

An example of Cold War B-movies, Unknown World concerns a scientific expedition seeking livable space deep beneath the Earth's surface in the event a nuclear war makes living above ground impossible. Dr. Jeremiah builds the "cyclotram" to burrow into the earth's surface. With the bunker's atmosphere making anyone within it sterile, they begin the dangerous journey back to the surface...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044167/
Director(s): Nyby, Christian
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction horror film. When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Release Date: 1951
Abstract:

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N is a 1951 British-American naval war film in Technicolor from Warner Brothers, directed by Raoul Walsh. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the United States), A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colors, published between 1937 and 1967. Forester is credited...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043379/
Director(s): Gordon, Michael
Release Date: 1950
Abstract:

Adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1897 play of the same title, this is the tragic story of wordsmith and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), a French aristocrat-turned-soldier during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659). Cyrano falls in love with his cousin Roxanne, but he supports her when she declares her love for Christian de Neuvillette, a handsome new cadet. Sent off to war with him,...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042367/
Director(s): Seaton, George
Release Date: 1950
Abstract:

The Big Lift is a 1950 drama film shot in black-and-white on location in the city of Berlin that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the Berlin Blockade in 1948, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants. As British and American forces break a Russian blockade of the divided German city, a pair of American soldiers fall in love with local women against a backdrop of...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042249/
Director(s): Baker, Roy
Release Date: 1950
Abstract:

The British government asks entomologist Frances Gray (Margaret Lockwood) to go behind the Iron Curtain and examine insects that might be used for germ warfare. Grudgingly accepting the job, Frances goes undercover as a tour director and meets American reporter Bill Casey (Dane Clark) in the process. Unfortunately, the chief of police quickly sees through Frances' cover. When her contact is...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042553/
Director(s): Hawks, Howard
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

The film was based on I Was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Pubic Law 271 of the Congress, a biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse. A classic Hollywood screwball comedy that highlights the gender-bending experience of World War II. The French Arymy officer Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) who must pass as a war...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041498/
Director(s): King, Henry
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Twelve O'Clock High shows the danger of air warfare during World War II. In 1942, an American Air Force unit stationed in England is plagued with morale problems until no-nonsense Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) assumes command. His tough leadership is initially resented by not only his pilots but his second-in-command (Hugh Marlowe), a West Point graduate and son of a...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/
Director(s): Wellman, William
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Widely regarded as one of the best World War II film released after the conflict, Battleground explores the horror and the humanity of war during the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944 – January 1945). A company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army faces hunger, exhaustion, and confusion. The winter conditions of thick fog, frigid cold, and...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041163/
Director(s): Dwan, Allan
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne as Sergeant Stryker. The film  follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945)  during which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. Sands of Iwo Jima was one of the...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041841/
Director(s): Melville, Jean-Pierre
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Le Silence de la mer (English: The Silence of the Sea) is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville. Based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely under the pen name "Vercors"), this film explores how silence operated as a form of resistance in occupied France during World War II. The story, which takes place in 1941, concerns the relationship of...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039822/
Director(s): Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

This film noir reveals the decadence and decay of France following its liberation in World War II. Robert, a resistance fighter, falls in love with Manon, a suspected Nazi collaborator, in the final days of occupied France. Her amoral character and desire for the good life corrupt him, leading him to a life of crime and murder. Their flight from Paris leads to more tragedy, pitted against the...

Director(s): Risi, Dino
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

Before he became one of the renowned directors of Italian comedy, Dino Risi took on the origins of the First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849), particularly the Five Days in Milan, the insurrection that prompted the war. This short film, produced during the Italian centennial, shows how different social classes, including intellectuals, peasants, children, and women, fought against the...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186786/
Director(s): Ling, Zifeng
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

In this propaganda film based on real-life events, eight young women join the Volunteer Army to the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuoto during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). In 1938, they created a rear-guard campaign that allowed the Chinese army to escape from battle. Rather than surrender to the Japanese, the women enter the river and drown. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348493/
Director(s): Sidney, George
Release Date: 1949
Abstract:

As an example of Hollywood's anti-communism in the early Cold War, this film combines the classic tropes of the defector and the damsel-in-distress to warn about the dangers of the Soviet Union.  Assigned to repatriate Soviet nationals from Vienna after World War II, Col. Michael S. Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) and his aides, Maj. John McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Angela Lansbury...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041788/

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