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DAVID HART'S WEBPAGE

 

Films Shown in the Course "Responses to War" 1989-1995

   

 

Introduction

This page is part of a collection of material on my course "Responses to War" which I taught for ten years 1989-1999.

Study Guides for each of these war films are here.

See the Seminar Guides for the following Honours Special Subject :o

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

A. RESPONSES TO WAR 1995 PROGRAM

First Semester

  1. Mann & Kubrick's Spartacus (1960)
  2. Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar (1953)
  3. Curtiz's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  4. Olivier's Henry V (1944)
  5. Branagh's Henry V (1989)
  6. Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (1943)
  7. Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954)
  8. Mizoguchi's Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
  9. Watkins' The Battle of Culloden (1969)
  10. Mann's Last of the Mohicans (1992)
  11. Hudson's Revolution (1986)
  12. Gance's Napoleon (1927)
  13. Bondarchuck's War and Peace (1968)
  14. Pontecorvo's Burn! (1970)
  15. Curtiz, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
  16. Wise's Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
  17. Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
  18. Zwick's Glory (1989)
  19. Ford's Fort Apache (1948)
  20. Hill's Geronimo (1993)
  21. Endfield`s Zulu (1964)
  22. Beresford's Breaker Morant (1979)
  23. Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930)
  24. Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Second Semester

  1. Weir's Gallipoli (1981)
  2. Jarman's War Requiem (1988)
  3. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937)
  4. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957)
  5. Losey's King & Country (1964)
  6. Malraux's L'Espoir (1939) 1hr 13 (subject to availability)
  7. Seiler's Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
  8. Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956)
  9. Imamura's Black Rain (1988)
  10. Masaki Kobayashi's Ningen no Joken or "The Human Condition" (1959-61)
  11. Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974
  12. Klimov's Come and See (1985)
  13. Nichol's Catch-22 (1970)
  14. Milestone's Pork Chop Hill (1959)
  15. Altman's MASH (1970)
  16. Siegel's The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  17. Archive Project, Atomic Café (1983)
  18. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  19. Schoendoerffer`s The 317th Platoon (1965)
  20. Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers (1967)
  21. Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979)
  22. Stone's Platoon (1986)
  23. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  24. Stone's Born of the Fourth of July (1989)
  25. Cameron Menzies's Things to Come (1936)
  26. Watkins' War Game (1967)
  27. Cameron's Aliens (1986/1992)
  28. Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933)

B. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WW2 FILM FESTIVAL (1995)

1. The War in Europe

  1. Ophuls' The Sorrow & the Pity (1970) 2 Parts, 2hrs each. Documentary about collaboration and resistance in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand.
  2. Ophuls' Hotel Terminus (1987) 2 Parts, 2hrs each. Documentary about Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon".
  3. Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) 4 Parts, 2hrs 30, 1hr 57, 2hrs 22, 2hrs 20. Documentary about the Auschwitz death camp.
  4. Bertolucci's The Conformist (1971) 1hr 55. Film about a man who works for the Italian fascist secret service and who is ordered to commit a murder.
  5. Rossellini's Rome: Open City (1945) 1hr 45. The 1st film in Rossellini's war trilogy set in Rome in 1943-44 about the liberation of the city.
  6. Rossellini's Paisan (1946) 1 hr 55. The second film in Rossellini's war trilogy is made up of 6 separate stories about the Allied invasion of Italy.
  7. Rossellini's Germany: Year Zero (1947) 1hr 18. The final film in Rossellini's war trilogy is about the struggles of a 12 year old boy in occupied Berlin.

2. The War in Asia

  1. Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain (1962) 1hr 45. The companion film to The Burmese Harp (1956). It is set in the Philippines at the close of the war when defeated Japanase soldiers resort to cannabalism in order to survive.
  2. Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition (1958-61) Part 1: "No Greater Love" 3hrs 15. The 1st part of the epic Japanese equvialent of "War and Peace." It shows, through the eyes of Kaji, the treatment of the Chinese in slave labour camps, the brutality of basic training in the Imperial Army, the war against the Russians in Manchuria, the chaos of defeat and the "return" of Kaji to his beloved.
  3. Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) 1hr 28. A film about the memory of war of 2 individuals, a French woman and a Japanese man. As they have a brief affair in Hiroshima after the war, they try to make sense of what happened to them and their societies.
  4. Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) 2hrs 32. Based upon the autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard. A young boy in Shanghai is captured by the Japanese when they invade China. The boy's response to events is a mixture of confusion and exhiliration.
  5. Alan Dwan, The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) 1hr 50. One of the mythic films of WW2 heroism - the way the marines want to be remembered. It stars John Wayne and the very flag which the marines erected at Iwo Jima. One of JW''s best films and one of the few in which he dies (any connection?).
  6. John Ford's They Were Expendable (1945) 2hrs 15. After making a documentary for the Navy ("Midway") and before making his cavalry trilogy (1948, 1949, 1950) Ford made a grim film about the last days of the American presence in the Philippines before the Japanese invasion. Some were left behind because they were expendable.
  7. Bryan Forbes' King Rat (1965) 2hrs 13. Based upon the autobiographical novel of James Clavell. In a Japanese POW camp an American uses his entrepreneurial skills to buy and sell his way to the position of "King Rat" in the camp. Shows the economy of a POW camp.
  8. David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 2hrs 41. A classic POW film which deals with the fanaticism of men on both sides to build the Burma railway.

C. HONOURS SPECIAL SUBJECT 1995: FILM AND THE HISTORY OF OCCUPATION, COLLABORATION AND RESISTANCE IN WW2

See the Seminar Guide for this Honours Special Subject on FILM AND THE HISTORY OF OCCUPATION, COLLABORATION AND RESISTANCE IN WW2

  1. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935)
  2. Ray Müller's The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl ()
  3. Clouzot's Le Corbeau (1943)
  4. Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974)
  5. Andrzej Wajda's A Generation (1954)
  6. Wajda's Kanal (1956); Wajda's Ashes & Diamonds (1958)
  7. Jon Blair, Schindler (1983)
  8. Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993)
  9. Steven's The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  10. Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum (1979)
  11. Agnieszka Holland's Europa, Europa (1991)

D. DOCUMENTARIES

  • Gwynne Dyer, War (London: Bodley Head, 1986) and accompanying documentary series: War (A National Film Board of Canada Production, 1983), in seven parts:
    • "The Road to Total War"
    • "Anybody's Son Will Do"
    • "The Profession of Arms"
    • "The Deadly Game of Nations"
    • "Keeping the Old Game Alive"
    • "Notes on Nuclear War"
    • "Goodbye War"
  • Kevin Rafferty et al., The Atomic Cafe (1982)
  • Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935)
  • Ray Müller's The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl ()
  • Jon Blair, Schindler (1983
  • Ophuls' The Sorrow & the Pity (1970) - Documentary about collaboration and resistance in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand.
  • Ophuls' Hotel Terminus (1987) - Documentary about Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon".
  • Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) - Documentary about the Auschwitz death camp.

E. OTHER FEATURE FILMS

  • Joffe, The Killing Fields (1984)
  • Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum (1979)
  • Derek Jarman, War Requiem (1988)
  • David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Mizoguchi's Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
  • Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974)
  • Andrzej Wajda's A Generation (1954)
  • Wajda's Kanal (1956)
  • Wajda's Ashes & Diamonds (1958)
  • Steven's The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  • Agnieszka Holland's Europa, Europa (1991)

F. FILM HANDOUTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

  • David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Roberto Rossellini's Rome: Open City (1945)
  • Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum (1979)
  • King Vidor's War and Peace (1956)
  • John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968)

G. 1989 FILM PROGRAM

  • 1. Gwynne Dyer, War (A National Film Board of Canada Production, 1983), in seven parts.
  • 2. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar (1953) 1hr 56
  • 3. Olivier's Henry V (1944) 2hrs 17mins
  • 4. Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1967)
  • 5. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) 1hr 26mins
  • 6. Losey's King & Country (1964) 1hr 26
  • 7. Milestones's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2 hrs 10 mins
  • 8. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937) 1hr 57mins
  • 9. Klimov's Come and See (1984) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 10. Altman's M*A*S*H* (1970) 1hr 56mins
  • 11. Nicols' Catch-22 (1970) 2hrs 1mins
  • 12. Joffe, The Killing Fields (1984), 2 hrs 22
  • 13. Documentaries on Vietnam soldiers
  • 14.Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) 1hr 42mins
  • 15. Watkins' The War Game (1967) 47mins
  • 16. Archive Project, Atomic Café (1983), 1 hr 20 mins

 

H. 1990 FILM PROGRAM

  • 1. Olivier's Henry V (1944) 2hrs 17mins
  • 2. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar (1953) 1hr 56
  • 3. Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1967)
  • 4. Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (SA Film Corporation 1980) 1 hr 43 mins
  • 5. Milestones's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2 hrs 10 mins
  • 6. Losey's King & Country (1964) 1hr 26
  • 7. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) 1hr 26mins
  • 8. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937) 1hr 57mins
  • 9. Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum (1979), 2 hrs 15 mins
  • 10. Klimov's Come and See (1984) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 11. Nicols' Catch-22 (1970) 2hrs 1mins
  • 12. Roberto Rossellini's Rome: Open City (1945) 1 hr 40 mins
  • 13. Masaki Kobayashi's Ningen no Joken or The Human Condition (1959-61)
  • 14. Altman's M*A*S*H* (1970) 1hr 56mins
  • 15. Archive Project, Atomic Café (1983), 1 hr 20 mins
  • 16. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) 1hr 42mins
  • 17. Watkins' The War Game (1967) 47mins
  • 18. John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 19. Stone's Platoon (1986) 2hrs
  • 20. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) 1 hr 56 mins

 

I. 1991 FILM PROGRAM

  • 1. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar (1953) 1hr 56
  • 2. Olivier's Henry V (1944) 2hrs 17mins
  • 3. Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (SA Film Corporation 1980) 1 hr 43 mins
  • 4. King Vidor's War and Peace (1956) 3hrs 27 mins
  • 5. Losey's King & Country (1964) 1hr 26
  • 6. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) 1hr 26mins
  • 7. Milestones's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2 hrs 10 mins
  • 8. Jarman's War Requiem (1988) 1hr 30mins
  • 9. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937) 1hr 57mins
  • 10. Weir's Gallipoli (1981) 1hr 50mins
  • 11. David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 3 hrs 38 mins
  • 12. Roberto Rossellini's Rome: Open City (1945) 1 hr 40 mins
  • 13. Klimov's Come and See (1984) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 14. Masaki Kobayashi's Ningen no Joken or The Human Condition (1959-61)
  • 15. Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum (1979), 2 hrs 15 mins
  • 16. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) 1hr 42mins
  • 17. Nicols' Catch-22 (1970) 2hrs 1mins
  • 18. Archive Project, Atomic Café (1983), 1 hr 20 mins
  • 19. Altman's M*A*S*H* (1970) 1hr 56mins
  • 20. Siegel's The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 1hr 20mins
  • 21. John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 22. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) 1 hr 56 mins
  • 23. Stone's Platoon (1986) 2hrs

 

J. 1992 FILM PROGRAM

  • 1. Milestones's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2 hrs 10 mins
  • 2. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937) 1 hr 57 mins
  • 3. Olivier's Henry V (1944) 2 hrs 17 mins
  • 4. Branagh's Henry V (1989) 2hrs 12mins
  • 5. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) 1 hr 26 mins
  • 6. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) 1 hr 42 mins
  • 7. Stone's Platoon (1986) 2hrs
  • 8. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) 1 hr 56 mins
  • 9. Klimov's Come and See (1984) 2 hrs 20 mins
  • 10. Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1967) Part One 2 hrs 25 mins

 

K. 1994 FILM PROGRAM

  • 1. Olivier's Henry V (1944) 2hrs 17mins
  • 2. Branagh's Henry V (1989) 2hrs 12mins
  • 3. Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2hrs 10mins
  • 4. Renoir's The Great Illusion (1937) 1hr 57mins
  • 5. Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) 1hr 26mins
  • 6. Cameron Menzies' Things to Come (1936) 92 or 113 mins
  • 7. Nicols' Catch-22 (1970) 2hrs 1mins
  • 8. Klimov's Come and See (1984) 2hrs 20min
  • 9. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) 1hr 42mins
  • 10. Stone's Platoon (1986) 2hrs
  • 11. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) 1hr 56mins
  • 12. Cameron's Aliens (1986/1992) 2hrs 34mins
  • 13. Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933) 1hr 8mins