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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Major Geoffrey Vickers is a dashing young officer with the 27th Lancers in India. He's engaged to the beautiful Elsa Campbell but unknown to him, she has fallen in love with his brother Perry Vickers and he with her. When he is sent out on patrol, Surat Khan attacks the fort killing everyone there, soldier and civilian alike, including many women and children. Vickers and the men of the 27th...
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936), under the same direction. Espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Director Fernando de Fuentes overturns myths and heroes of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) in this landmark film that ushered in Mexican cinema's "Golden Age." Six peasants leave their homes in San Padro to join the army of Pancho Villa (1878–1923). One by one they succomb to senseless deaths and question their revolutionary spirit and loyalty to their leader.
Triumph of the Will is a 1935 Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with...
A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel of the same title. The story is set in France and England and spans several years before and during the French Revolution (1789–1799). It deals with the evils that precipitated the Revolution and with an innocent family and their friends caught up in the horrors of the Terror, a period of massacres ...
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend for the French Air Force. The dilemma is resolved during the climactic aerial dogfight, in which one of the romantic...
The Informer explores guilt and personal morals during the Irish War for Independence (1919–1921). Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) is a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend (Margot Grahame). So when British authorities advertise a reward for information...
During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives and the enemy becomes human. This greatly worries the Irish leader, because his prisoners may have to be killed in reprisal if the British execute two IRA soldiers as they threaten. The film is based on Frank O'Connor's 1931...
Alessandro Blasetti's masterpiece 1860 reveals Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand into Sicily from the perspective of a shepherd-turned-soldier and his wife. The campaign was a turning point in Italian unification. The film influenced post-1945 Italian neorealism with its use of location shooting, amateur actors, and focus on everyday people. Blasetti's nationalistic vision...
This popular propaganda film of the Soviet Realist era celebrates Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). It is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev. Chapaev, an illiterate son of peasants, proves to be a brilliant strategist...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama war film directed by Frank Capra, based on the 1930 novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Zaring Stone. The film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950) who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a...
In a remote Russian village during World War I, factory workers struggle to organize against the owners. When World War I comes, they unite as soldiers of the Tsar on the Eastern Front, while local girl Anka forges a relationship with a German prisoner of war against a backdrop of widespread xenophobia.
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film portrays the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), who became monarch at the age of six in 1632 and grew to be a powerful and influential leader. As well as coping with the demands of being a war-leader during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Queen Christina is expected to marry...
This German World War I movie, directed by Victor Sewell, offers a highly fictionised version of the death of the British War Secretary, Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) on abroad the cruiser HMS Hampshire, on his way to Russia. A successful U-boat ace, Helmut Liers, lives in the fictional north German town of Meerskirchen with his mother, who has already lost two sons in...
In France in 1914, student Gilbert Demachy enlists when the hostilities begin. His youthful illusions are quickly dashed against the hard realities of war, and it's at the side of his comrade Sulphart that he will live through the offensives, the breaks in hostilities, and the crucible of combat. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Raymond Dorgelès.
One of the more popular films of the Prussian film genre, which glorified Prussian history and militarism in the wake of Germany's devastating loss in World War I. This film celebrates King Frederick II (1712–1786), known as Frederick the Great, of Prussia who strengthened its military and political power in Europe through territorial acquisitions, diplomacy, and war.
Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Soviet silent film and capping Alexander Dovzhenko's trilogy about the relationship between the Ukraine and the Soviet Union, Earth tackles the politics of collectivization and class in the Ukrainian countryside. A group of villagers disagree about collectivization, resulting in the murder of the film's hero by a kulak who wants to retain his lands...
Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British comedy film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. The film relays a tragicomic tale of the disintegration of one family during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923). During the Irish War of Indipendence (1919–1921), a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life,...
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American anti-war film based on the German novel, Im Westen Nichts Neues (1929), by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). Directed by Lewis Milestone, the film won two Oscars for Best Director and Outstanding Production. It tells the story of a German high school class that follows the call of their teacher to volunteer to serve in the war...
Westfront 1918 is a German film from 1930, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and based on the novel, Vier von der Infanterie (Four from the Infantry) by Ernst Johannsen. It is set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I and focuses on the impact of the war on a group of infantrymen. The film bears resemblance to its close contemporary,...