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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This British-propaganda film from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger presents the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II as an imminent threat to the United States. In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth (Eric Portman) attempts to cross the border...
Ohm Krüger is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff, part of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. Supported by the Reich Minister of Propagana at the time, Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), Ohm Krüger depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger (1825–1904) and his eventual defeat by the British during...
They Met in Bombay is a classic 1940s romantic comedy and heist film with strong leading roles for Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell, who portray rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China during World War II. Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) is a dashing international jewel thief with designs on a diamond held by the Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph). He...
That Hamilton Woman, also known as Lady Hamilton, is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the film tells the story of the rise and fall of Emma Hamilton (1765–1815), dance-hall girl and courtesan, who married Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. She later became mistress to Admiral Horatio...
A thematic precursor of Italian neorealism, this richly detailed portrait of the Italian unification in the nineteenth century explores love, loss, and changing social norms during wartime. In Austrian-occupied Lombardy, Franco Mairo, a young man from an aristocratic family, decides to marry Luisa (Alida Valli), a humble clerk's daughter, against his family's wishes. The family is wrecked when...
In 1939, American Tom Martin (Ray Milland), who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash (Claudette Colbert), for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy...
The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. The hard-living, international crew of a British merchant ship become unnerved as they cross the Atlantic during the first year of World War II. Suspicions mount when the ship takes on explosives, but loss of crew members during stormy seas, German attacks, and impressment force the crew to come together and...
Northwest Passage is a 1940 Technicolor film, based on a novel by Kenneth Roberts titled Northwest Passage (1937). A young artist and his friend accidently join Roger's Ranger during the Seven Years War (1756–1763). Led by Maj. Robert Rogers, they travel through the Quebec wilderness with the mission to destroy the French-allied Abenaki tribe. The film shows the Rangers...
An exploration of how war transforms a man's life and relationship with women in interwar France. In pre-1914 Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the First World War. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter. Their happiness is soon...
The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 American film directed by Frank Lloyd, and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page. A young man from colonial Virginia fulfills his father's dream of moving West at the dawn of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). On his way west, Matt Howard meets Tom, who passes him off as a member of the landed gentry to the...
At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts to his friends and relatives. Inge is still waiting for him. After the beginning of WW II, German radio starts broadcasting the "Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht" - a...
Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle, based on the 1934 biography The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the 1925 play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel. The film focuses on the conflict between Maximilian I (Brian Aherne), an Austrian archduke who is installed as the ruler of Mexico by the French Napoleon III (Claude...
Loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling poem, this movie presents late 19th-century British colonialism in India in a positive light while noting sharp differences among its colonized subjects. Three British sergeants and their bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din travel to a remote outpost to investigate. They encounter the legendary Thuggees, a gang of Indians known for violence and barbarism. In...
The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When her father leaves to fight in the Boer War (1899–1902), Sara Crewe (Shirley Temple) attends an elite boarding school in London. News of her father's death leaves her...
This film takes place in 1914, and analyzes the reactions of a French village "under the German boot" during the First Battle of the Marne, on September 1914. Two teenagers experience a love story like Romeo and Juliette. A German officer has been killed, and the occupiers demand five hostages in retaliation, all sentenced to execution if the guilty party does not come forward. Through an...
This film, based on the 1936 novel Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmond, focuses on Gilbert and Lana Martin, a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Native American drive them, along with other settlers in the valley, into a nearby fort, where they watch helplessly as the natives lay waste to their farms and cabins. A...
This short film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short, relays the story of the unselfish loyalty and devotion of Haym Salomon to General Washington and the fight for freedom in the American Revolution (1775-1783). Having immigrated to New York City from Poland, Salomon aided the Continental Army by brokering a number of large financial transactions that ensured the troops remained ...
This legendary story of Stanley and Livingstone marks the onset of British colonization of Africa. In the 1860s, American journalist Henry M. Stanley (Spencer Tracy) is sent by his editor to track down a missing British missionary named Dr. David Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), who is on an expedition in Zanzibar, Africa. Stanley's own exploration into the continent turns up Livingstone,...
The Oscar-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, Victor Flemming focuses on an elite white southern woman's life before, during, and after the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara, favorite daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, pursues love, lust, and wealth as the men in her life leave her or fall to war. The film presents an overly romanticized...
Two friends enlist in the Mexican army to fight during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). Their perspective shows the United States as an invading colonizer seeking to expand the institution of slavery through its annexation of Texas. Recreating the battles of Churubusco and Chapultepec in 1847, the film's overtly patriotic theme rendered it very popular at the Mexican box office.