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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Produced at the start of the Cold War and in the wake of the Hollywood Ten, this film tackles American communism in the labor movement and its manifestations. The leader of the local cell of communists in San Francisco blackmails Brad Collins, who was a former member of the Communist Party USA during the Great Depression. The film ends a black-and-white morality tale: All who were or are...
In this Cold War B-movie, styled as a film noir, a disgruntled veteran becomes aware of the dangers of communism. Bill Jones joins the Communist Party USA after a real estate scam, but he soon realizes his mistake. After witnessing party leaders murder a member for disagreeing with them, Jones and his new girlfriend escape the clutches of the party.
Hailed as one of the best films of all time, The Third Man explores post-World War II Vienna in a stylish film-noir style. The film stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him dead. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the...
In this classic film of Italian neorealism, director Roberto Rossellini uses childhood to explore the morality of war. In the devastated remains of post-war Germany, 12-year-old Edmund (Edmund Moeschke) lives with his family and five other families in a battered apartment. His brother, a former Nazi, evades the police hiding there, while his sister walks the streets. As his father (Ernst...
The movie Rouges’ Regiment, directed by Robert Florey, was the first American feature film to take place during the First Indochina War (1946–1954). An American intelligence agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in French Indochina. He joins forces with a French Intelligence agent investigating supplies of...
Elizabeth of Ladymead is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film, charting the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their involvement in four wars - the Crimean War (1853–1856), Boer War (1899–1902), First World War and Second World War. In each vignette, a wife dreams of her husband's return from war, and reflects on changes while he has been away. This film thus explores...
Heart and Soul is a film adaptation of Edmondo de Amici's novel, Cuore. Initially published in 1886 and rising to immediate success, the book and film follow Enrico Bottini, a 10-year old primary school student in Turin with an upper class background who is surrounded by classmates of working class origins. The book is set in 1881-1882 and reflects on the Italian unification...
This British fantasy-romance film explores life and death during World War II. British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is on his way home to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he bails out of the plane into the ocean, he contacts June (Kim Hunter), an Allied radio operator with whom he shares what he believes to be his final moments on...
Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols, adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play of the same title. Following the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Mannons, a wealthy New England family, await the return of patriarch Ezra, general for the Union army, and son Orin, who served as Army officer. Lavinia Mannon discovers shocking family secrets while...
During the First World War in France, a young nurse in a military hospital--who is engaged to a soldier away at the front--begins a relationship with a high school student, too young to join the Army. However, she and her lover drift apart, and Marthe marries her fiancé Jacques. But the lovers will regret their separation. They begin an extra-marital affair, heedless of the consequences.
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels she encounters J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David...
Hailed as a cinematic watershed for director Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious weaves a taut World War II spy thriller with a dangerous love triangle. In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another,...
A tale of stolen identity and love during World War II. In 1940, Czech soldier Capt. Hasek (Michael Redgrave) is being pursued by the Nazi secret police. To conceal his true identity, he pretends to be a dead British soldier named Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell. But to keep the lie going, he must also write to Mitchell's wife, Celia (Rachel Kempson), as her dead husband from the POW camp where he's...
This groundbreaking film about the liberation of Italy in World War II unfolds through six separate stories across the country, showing various relationships between the American occupiers and the newly liberated Italians. Director Roberto Rossellini used a documentary style and professional and non-professional actors to explore everyday life of love, loss, childhood, and spirituality. Two of...
In this critically acclaimed film directed by William Wyler, widely regarded as one of the best American films in the 20th century, three World War II veterans experience difficulties adjusting to postwar life. Fred (Dana Andrews) is a war hero who, unable to compete with more highly skilled workers, has to return to his low-wage soda jerk job. Bank executive Al (Fredric March) gets into...
Before and after the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, a group of French rail workers commit everyday acts of resistance and eventually sabotage the German-controlled rail system. Director René Clément used non-professional actors and a documentary style to enhance the ordinary struggles of French citizens, whose real-life stories provided the film's narrative.
In a small town in southwest France during World War II, Edouard Martin leads a double life. His hobby of growing orchids, which the Germans admire, hides the fact that he is a leader of the Resistance.
A film about the resistance during World War II, Jericho highlights a Royal Air Force and French Resistance operation to free hostages held by German soldiers near Amiens. In February 1944, the Germans still occupy the town of Amiens in northern France. The tide of the war is rapidly turning but the town's inhabitants continue to live in fear. To dissuade the Resistance from blowing...
Special Mission is a 1946 French thriller film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Jany Holt, Pierre Renoir and Jean Davy. Chief Police Inspector Chabrier uncovers spies in Paris before the German occupation of France in World War II. Chabrier goes underground to continue his investigation and joins the French Resistance. With the arrival of liberation, Chabrier resumes his...
World War II in France: Commandant Gérard and his troop of Resistance fighters have discovered the ideal hiding-spot: a rest home in the Alps providing refuge for, among mentally ill patients, a young Jew and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans.