Films about the Post-Cold War Period
This collection provides information on selected movies, TV productions and documentaries on the themes of gender, military and war in the period covered by the Oxford Handbook.
The most important wars for this period include:
- Wars in former Yugoslavia (1991– 99)
- U.S. Wars in the Middle East (1990–91ff)
- Wars of Globalization
- UN Peacekeeping / New Humanitarianism
Two concurrent love stores set in Belgrade, one during World War II and the other during the Yugoslav Wars, reveal how the moral compromises of the past inform the present. As Jelena reconstructs her grandmother's World War II diaries documenting...
In this black comedy, a mental health physician takes unorthodox measures during the Yugoslav Wars. The Doctor decides to close his facility due to a lack of supplies. While trying to find his patients' relatives to take them in, an elderly...
An Italian professor returns to Sarajevo with her son fifteen years after fleeing the Bosnian War. She intends to tell her son about real mother and father, but she discovers a more horrible truth instead.
Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War, filmmakers armed over 150 Iraqis with cameras to film their everyday lives. Some subjects include the war, the difference between Hussein's rule and that of the Americans, the hope of...
The film takes place in Vukovar, a city on the border between Serbia and Croatia, in a country which used to be called SFR Yugoslavia, on the eve of the country's breakup. It is a typical love story, between a Croat woman and a Serb man, who...
A powerful documentary about the children conceived through rape during various wars in the late 20th century. Interviews with children and their mothers in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and South Korea reveal shared cultural attitudes...
Warchild explores the theme of dislocation and identity after the Bosnian War. Senada searches for her daughter who was removed from her custody during the war. She travels to Germany and discovers that her daughter now belongs to...
This documentary traces the 10-year evolution of Silu (nee Uma Bhujel) from guerilla warrior to democratically elected assembly in Nepal. Silu was one of 40% of women who joined the People's Liberation Army as guerilla warriors during the Nepali...
A documentary about American women's involvement in war from Vietnam to the present as soldiers, nurses, journalists, spies, and diplomats. The participants stories range from breaking the glass ceiling to ongoing sexual harassment and from...
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up...
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