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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Based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, this film follows a volunteer of the American International Brigade who sacrifices his life for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Tasked with blowing up a strategic bridge, Robert Jordan runs into resistance from guerilla fighters. Their leader believes Jordan's mission will only endanger his group. Maria...
Widely considered a masterpiece, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explore the changing notions of modern warfare against the tradition of British military systems from the Boer War (1899–1902) to World War II. General Candy (Roger Livesey), who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-...
Aerial Gunner is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II propaganda film. Two men, Jon Davis and "Foxy" Pattis, put aside their animosities to fight against the Japanese during World War II. John Davis (Richard Arlen) enlists and "Foxy" Pattis (Chester Morris) is drafted into the United States Army Air Forces where Foxy becomes the instructor at an aerial gunnery school. He makes...
Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II film drama, following the defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese in 1942. Capt. Henry Lassiter (Lee Bowman), Sgt. Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces...
This war propaganda film by director Jean Renoir offered American audiences a simplistic story of French resistance during World War II. In a Nazi-occupied European nation that appears similar to France, Albert Lory (Charles Laughton) is a meek schoolmaster who is dominated by both his students and his elderly mother, Emma (Una O'Connor). Though Albert is initially wary of efforts to oppose...
Momotarô's Sea Eagles is an animated Japanese propaganda film produced in 1942. Endorsed by the Japanese Imperial Navy, the film tells the story of a naval unit consisting of the human, Momotarō, and several animal species representing the Far Eastern races fighting together for a common goal. Featuring the "Peach Boy" character of Japanese folklore, the film promotes the success of the attack...
Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy felvonásban, including the 1927 film Hotel Imperial. Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and...
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. According to the British Film Institute database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy", along with Two Thousand Women (1944) and Waterloo Road...
This 1942 romantic drama by Michael Curtiz won an Oscar for Best Picture. It is based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, and stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Casablanca is often cited as one of the best films of all time. An American expatriate who owns an upscale nightclub unexpectedly reunites with...
An American-funded propaganda film documenting life and work in Great Britain at the beginning of World War II. Its focus on women underscores the new roles they occupied during the war.
Thunder Rock is a 1942 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting, based on Robert Ardrey's 1939 play of the same title. As the 1940s approach, British reporter David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) tries to alert the public to the political unrest that he believes is leading to another war with Germany – but no one listens to him. So David gives up, retiring to a small town...
In this brilliant dark comedy, an acting troupe becomes entangled in espionage and the Polish resistance during World War II. Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Maria is having an affair with Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack), who suspects Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges) is a Nazi spy. With...
Went the Day Well? is a 1942 British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene titled "The Lieutenant Died Last," and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios and served as unofficial propaganda for the war effort. A small English village is so cut off that the arrival of a car is an event. When lorryloads of Royal Engineers led by Major...
Inspired by the destruction of the HMS Kelly during the Battle of Crete in May 1941, this British war propaganda film made with the assistance of the Ministry of Information in the midst of the Second World War highlights and encourages national unity during the struggle. The film tells the story of a British naval ship, the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the...
Filmed at the height of Nazi Germany's triumph in late 1940 and early 1941, Der große König was Germany's most ambitious film to date. Both Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler were fascinated by Frederick the Great (1712–1786), and invoked him in their propaganda as a proto-National Socialist hero. Amidst vividly realized battle scenes, the film depicts Frederick II and his rule from...
Across the Pacific is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps. When disgraced American military officer Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) boards a Japanese ship, he is apparently willing to turn his back on his...
This film, set during the Russian Revolution, is based on We the Living, a semi-autobiographical novel by Ayn Rand first published in 1936. Originally meant to be two films, Noi vivi and Addio Kira, this film is a two-part 1942 Italian romantic war film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini. The story follows Kira Argounova, a daring young Russian girl held back by her...
This Vichy-era film celebrates maternalism, traditional values, and a homogenous French identity. After Louise loses her husband and her newborn child during World War I, she dedicates her life to caring for other children and following her Catholic faith. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she...
Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel, Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is touched by World War II. Mrs. Miniver won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,...
A subversive film made during World War II, director Vittorio de Sica hides a message of resistance within a comedic drama about the Italian Wars of Unification. A woman looks back on her youth, when she and another girl fell for a Garibaldian soldier who sought refuge after being wounded in battle in a convent and all-girls boarding school. The Garibaldian soldier is quickly discovered by the...