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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In the winter of 1945, immediately after the liberation, Jean Diego (Yves Montand), a member of the French underground during World War II, meets Raymond, one of his comrades in arms who was believed to have succumbed in battle. On the night of that meeting, Jean encounters a homeless man named "Destiny" (Jean Vilar), whose predictions about him finding the woman of his life will not be too...
One of the first post-World War II German films and the first Trümmerfilm, an aesthetic style for films made directly after World War II highlighting the material impacts of the war, The Murderers Are Among Us examines how ordinary citizens recover from war traumas. Susanne Wallner, a Holocaust survivor, arrives home to discover Dr. Hans Mertens, a military doctor who can no...
A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American war film based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was serialized in Liberty Magazine in October 1944. When a GI platoon lands on the beaches of Italy during World War II, the troops face uncertainty and danger with every step. Those who survive the initial landing,...
Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on an Italian Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to Rome being...
The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white American spy film in a semidocumentary style. The movie, shot mostly in New York City, was released shortly after the end of World War II. The House on 92nd Street was made with the full cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), whose director, J. Edgar Hoover, appears during the introductory montage. Also,...
They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed. The film is based on the 1942 book by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942...
In this celebration of Spanish nationalism, and an early example of Francoist Spain, a captain makes a last stand in a small village in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War (1898). Stationed in Baler on the island of Luzon, Captain Morenas takes precautionary measures to secure his forces in the town's church when he learns about a planned peasant uprising. He and his men defend...
Republican forces fight against Franco's army in the Sistema Iberico Mountains during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The film's production ws complete in July 1939 and the film was shown twice in Paris in January 1940, but Francoist Spain applied pressure to censor it. Only one copy of the film survived that war and World War II. It was one of the few films using real footage of the...
Based on the 1941 novel of the same title by Pearl S. Buck, China Sky focuses on American missionary doctors in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). An American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson (Randolph Scott) and Dr. Sara Durand (Ruth Warrick). Sara is secretly in love with Gray, but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise (Ellen Drew), arrives...
The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman. The story is a tribute to the American infantryman ("G.I. Joe") during World War II, told through the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), with dialogue and narration lifted from Pyle's columns. The film...
Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film, the third installment in an "unofficial trilogy" according to the British Film Institute, preceded by Millions Like Us (1943) and Two Thousand Women (1944). In London, soon after railway worker Jim Colte (John Mills) reports for...
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for World War II by the Japanese Naval Ministry. The film depicts most Japanese characters as anthropomorphic animals (monkeys, rabbits, bears, etc), with the exception of protagonist Momotarô, who represents a young boy in Japanese...
An Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of a John Steinbeck novella, Lifeboat captures the tension and drama of World War II through the survivors of a torpedoed vessel. American and British civilians who have survived the sinking of their ship by a German submarine struggle to reach land in a crowded lifeboat. When a German officer (Walter Slezak) is rescued from the water, the group allows...
Loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel of the same title, initially published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is a classic Hollywood film centered on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter, a romance complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Fishing boat captain Harry (Humphrey Bogart) avoids getting involved in...
Dragon Seed is a 1944 war drama film starring Katharine Hepburn. Based on a best-selling book by Pearl S. Buck, the film portrays a peaceful village in China that has been invaded by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945). The men elect to adopt a peaceful attitude towards their conquerors, and the women are understood to stoically acquiesce as well...
An epic film spanning from the Meiji Restoration (1868–1889) to the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), director Keisuke Kinoshita portrays the decline and rise of militarism in one family over three generations in Japan. The first generation's commitment to the samurai culture arises during the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government. This commitment declines in the second generation...
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941) who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in the village Petrishchevo. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Two Thousand Women is a 1944 British comedy-drama war film about a German internment camp in Occupied France which holds British women who have been resident in the country. Three RAF aircrewmen, whose bomber has been shot down, enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans. The film was released in the United States in 1951 in a severely cut-down version under the title...
Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 noir war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang, based on a story by Bertolt Brecht. The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), the Nazi Reich Protector of German-occupied Prague, number-two man in the Schutzstaffel (SS), and a chief mastermind of the Holocaust, who was known as "The Hangman of Prague."...
Due to a housing shortage in Washington, D.C., during World War II, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) agrees to rent part of her apartment to wealthy retiree Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) and soldier Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). Although Connie is engaged to the unexciting Charles Pendergast (Richard Gaines), she becomes fond of Joe. When Dingle notices their interests in each other, he attempts...