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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Using cinematic realism, director Tomotaka Tasaka documents he day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers in a Japanese army unit during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). As the unit advances into mainland China, injured soldiers remain behind rather than slow others' down.
Based on a true story, in 1898 Cuba, U.S. troops who have survived the Spanish-American War are now dying by the hundreds from yellow fever, known as "yellow jack." Major Walter Reed (1851–1902), an Army physician, struggles to find the cause of the infection and to overcome governmental interference. As the virus hits the military and civilian population in Havana, Cuba, Reed turned to the...
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers high society, with the help of Orleans and her brothers-in-law. Her foolishness is at its height when she meets a...
Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution (1789–99) juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI (1754–93) with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which grew out of the peasants' march on the Bastille, the song that ultimately became the French national anthem. Filmed with a cast of thousands, the...
Blockade is a 1938 American drama film directed by William Dieterle, relaying a love story amidst political battles and armed conflict during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Marco (Henry Fonda), a Nationalist farmer, falls in love with Maria (Madeleine Carroll), an upper-class woman and mercenary spy's daughter. They work together to prevent a blockade of local food supply.
In this remake of the 1919 film by the same title, director Abel Gance's depiction of the Battle of Verdun (February – December 1916) and the sacrifices made for it served as a stern warning to his nation as World War II approached. Two romantic rivals put their differences aside as they experience one of World War I's most devastating battles...
The Drum (released in the U.S. as Drums) is a 1938 British Technicolor film based on the 1937 novel The Drum by A. E. W. Mason. On the frontier of India, British Capt. Carruthers (Roger Livesey) learns of an illegal arms transport, which leads to a peace treaty with Tokat leader Mohammed Khan. Khan's son, Prince Azim (Sabu), and their people welcome the British...
The fictional cowboy Hopalong Cassidy rounds up horses for Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War in 1898. Outlaws threaten to derail his mission.
Fridericus is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer, which depicts the life and triumps of Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786). Known as Frederick the Great, under his rule, Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe. The film focuses in particular on the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), in which Prussia emerged victorious....
A short documentary containing newsreel footage of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Jean-Paul Le Chanois focus on the inhumanity, death and destruction of war, rather than the politics of war. Although Buñuel made the film in association with the French Communist Party, the film lacks a lot of the overt biases common to political documentaries of this era. This...
A documentary about the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) funded and filmed by writers, actors, and directors who were part of the American Popular Front in the 1930s. The film was directed by Joris Ivens, written by John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, narrated by Orson Welles and re-recorded by Hemingway (with Jean Renoir doing the narration in the French release). With footage from battles and...
West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. It is based on the 1920 Porter Emerson Browne play The Bad Man. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950), rival American businessmen travel to a remote missionary outpost in a region controlled by General Fang. Their goal is to win control of oilfields...
The Wife of General Ling is a 1937 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda, adapted from a novel by Dorothy Hope and Peter Cheyney. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950), a British intelligence officer must uncover the identity of a notorious gun smuggler, who has been delivering British weapons to General Ling. His primary suspect is Mr. Wong, a respected businessman-...
Widely considered one of the best films of all time, director Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion explores the common bonds of humanity among World War I officers. The relationships between French prisoners of war and German officers highlights the shared culture among European aristocrats, while class lines separating aristocrats and common men dissipates under shared circumstances. The...
This film tells the story of a female Alsatian spy who worked for France during the First World War, based on Marthe Richard's memoirs, whose veracity is somewhat doubtful. Richard (1889–1982) was the sixth French woman to receive a pilot's license, ran in the same circles as Mata Hari in the interwar period, became close with the Gestapo and collaborators in the Second World War but also...
This femme-fatale spy thriller explored 1930 tensions in Europe by taking a look back at World War I. A young French doctor falls in love with a German spy while attending to the wounded in Greece. She then works on his behalf by pursuing a French intelligence officer for state secrets. An English-language version with exactly the same plot was filmed at the same time under the direction of ...
Designed to inspire patriotism before World War II, this film explores the real-life story of two French women's contributions during the Great War. Louise de Bettignies (1880–1918) and Léonie Vanhout carry vital intelligence to the British troops behind Dutch lines. Once captured and convicted, the two experience different fates.
A Message to Garcia is a 1936 American adventure spy film directed by George Marshall, inspired by the 1899 essay "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard, that was loosely based on an incident during the ramp up to the Spanish–American War in 1898. The essay and film frame frames the United States as the liberator of Cuba from colonizer Spain. The film follows Army Lt. Andrew Rowan...
In this visually creative film noir, an American mercenary and a young woman must navigate shifting allegiances during the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950). On a train to Shanghai, O'Hara and Judy Perrie meet. He is arranging to smuggle arms to peasants and authorities in a province controlled by a warlord, while her goal is to stop his mission and protect her father's interests in that province...
The White Angel is a film rendition of the life of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). In particular, this film shows how the pioneer nurse defied military orders during the Crimean War (1853–1856) to attend to the wounded.