Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Drama > War: 41 films to Buy
- De Gaulle (2020)
- Spectacularly mounted biographical drama depicting a crucial period in the life of French army officer Charles de Gaulle, a famous figure in modern…
- DVD $29.95
- Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
- A tense British period thriller loosely based on the true story of the disappearance of a school teacher at an elite girls' boarding school shortly…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- 1917 (2019)
- Immersive epic war film from director Sam Mendes (JARHEAD) which evokes the impression of a continuous take to follow two British soldiers on a…
- DVD $19.95
- A Private War (2018)
- Rosamund Pike is a stand out in this powerful thriller based on the true story of the fearless and celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin. Having…
- DVD $29.95
- Foxtrot (2017)
- The impressive sophomore effort of director Samuel Maoz (LEBANON) is a perceptive and bold exploration of war and grief. An affluent couple living in…
- DVD $29.95
- Yellow Birds, The (2017)
- Iraq War movie featuring Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan as friends who are deployed to Iraq under a hot–headed sergeant. But after a tragedy…
- DVD $29.95
- King's Choice, The (2016)
- Vibrant war–time drama set during the three days in 1940 when German forces occupied Oslo and King Haakon VII and his family went into hiding.…
- DVD $29.95
- A Perfect Day (2015)
- Trenchant, satisfying black comedy about a group of aid workers struggling with the task of removing a corpse from a well at the end of the Yugoslav…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Heavy Water War, The (The Saboteurs) (2015)
- Thrilling Norwegian mini–series tells the story behind Hitler's plan for obtaining the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in…
- DVD $34.95
- Land of Mine (Under sandet) (2015)
- Multi award–winning historical drama following a unit of captured German soldiers who are put to work disabling Hitler's munitions by an…
- DVD $29.95
- When We Go To War (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Historical saga that tells the story of six young men and women whose plans for the future are thwarted as New Zealand enters World War I. Events…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
- Diplomacy (2014)
- A thematically rich and expertly staged historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of…
- DVD $29.95
- Water Diviner, The (2014)
- An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
- DVD $39.95
- Wind Rises, The (2013)
- Hayao Miyazaki's glorious swansong is the poignant story of aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his dreams of designing the perfect flying machine…
- DVD $34.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Wipers Times, The (2013)
- The horrors of trench warfare are matched with alleviating gallows humour in this strangely moving tale of a satirical newspaper published on the…
- DVD $24.95
- Third Half, The (2012)
- A Macedonian football club hires a German coach to galvanize the team as Nazis prepare to enter the country in this wartime occupation drama.
- DVD $29.95
- Twice Born (2012)
- The memory of a passionate love affair with an American photographer and its harrowing aftermath is rekindled when a woman returns to Sarajevo with…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
- Home By Christmas (2010)
- The director of WAR STORIES returns to the subject for this deeply personal yet affecting docu–drama focusing this time on a single story…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Round Up, The (La Rafle) (2010)
- A sensitive recreation of the tragic events and personal stories surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942, where some 13,000 French Jews were…
- DVD
$34.95 $24.95
- Messenger, The (2009)
- Ben Foster plays a troubled Iraq War veteran reassigned to the military's Casualty Notification Office in this affecting study of war on the home…
- DVD
$34.95 $19.95
- Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) (2008)
- This striking hybrid animation is an audacious attempt to recall, through anecdote, dream, and documentary, the 1982 Israeli–Lebanon war.…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Army Wives (TV Series) (2007)
- Ensemble drama series focused on a group of women, and one guy, who reside with their families on an Army Base and attempt to lead fulfilling lives…
- DVD $29.95
- Kite Runner, The (2007)
- The ravages of Afghanistan and its effect on an American 'refugee' forms the basis of Khaled Hosseini's best–selling book, here given due…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Lions for Lambs (2007)
- A contemporary 'hot potato' issue is tackled from political, academic, militaristic and journalistic viewpoints, drawing an ultimately powerful…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Days of Glory (Indigènes) (2006)
- Epic Algerian WW2 drama focused on a determined group of Algerian soldiers fighting to defend France with little acknowledgement of their sacrifices…
- DVD
$19.95 $10
- Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004)
- The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
- DVD $19.95
- Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
- DVD $24.95, $24.95, $24.95, $24.95
- Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- ITV drama starring John Thaw as a humble parish priest who returns home to his French village to join the resistance during WWII after a twenty year…
- DVD $39.95
- Olivier Olivier (1991)
- After disappearing from his country home six years earlier, a boy's mysterious return brings with it a mix of salvation and suspicion to his…
- Poster (G) $9.95
- One Against the Wind (1991)
- Judy Davis gives a typically gutsy performance in this drama set during the Nazi occupation of France and based on the true story of a British Red…
- DVD $24.95
- Come See the Paradise (1990)
- An epic romance about a hot–headed unionist whose love affair with a Japanese American is torn apart when the state interns 100,000 Japanese…
- DVD $24.95
- Life and Nothing But (1990)
- Philippe Noiret plays a Missing–in–Action chief officer whose obsession to account for the anonymous casualties of WW1 draws him to a…
- Poster (F) $7.95
- Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
- DVD $39.95
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
- The true story of Hungarian diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked his own life manufacturing protective passports for thousands of Jews in exile…
- DVD $24.95
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Killing Fields, The (1984)
- Devastating and award–winning account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
- Daniel Day–Lewis plays a Protestant whose friendship with a fellow Catholic solider is severely tested during the harsh realities of WWI in…
- DVD $24.95
- Breaker Morant (1979)
- An unjust court–martial in the Boer War provides much tension in one of the great Oz dramas.
- DVD
$14.95 $11.20
- QB VII (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
- A multiple Emmy–winning adaptation of the novel by Leon Uris (best known for "Exodus") detailing the gripping court battle between a…
- DVD $24.95
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70