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Original Film Title: The Battlefield Beyond the Records
Director’s Name: Euhyun Jahng
Writer’s Name: Euhyun Jahng
Producer: Euhyun Jahng
Country of Origin: South Korea, United States
Country of Filming: South Korea
Language: English
Runtime: 12 minutes 3 seconds
Film Description:
The Battlefield Beyond the Records is a documentary that traces how the roles of women have evolved amid the changing tides of time. For a long time, the history of warfare has been recorded primarily around the names of kings, generals, and warriors. Yet, outside the bounds of those records, there have always been women who sustained their communities in the ways demanded by each era.
In ancient Greek and Roman societies, rather than stepping directly onto the battlefield, women were tasked with bearing healthy descendants, maintaining the household, and preserving the order of the community. Spartan women trained their bodies to raise strong warriors, while Roman women carried vital responsibilities within the home, religion, and society.
As time passed, the nature of warfare underwent a massive transformation. The battlefield—once centered on spears, shields, and physical strength—has now evolved into modern warfare powered by information, technology, AI, and networks. As the methods of war shifted, the capabilities required within the military changed as well, and the roles of women have expanded beyond the supportive positions of the past into much broader domains.
Through the insights of historians and the voices of active-duty female soldiers, The Battlefield Beyond the Records bridges the past and the present to examine how the roles of women have transformed. It is a work that looks not only at the history of war left in the records, but also at the time spent by the women who existed beyond them, alongside the battlefields of today.