Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > War: 84 Films to Rent
- Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
- TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
- Goodnight Sweetheart (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan, Michelle Holmes
- A suffering 90's husband finds a way to travel back in time to war time 40's London where he acquires a new lady friend and must juggle his modern…
- Absolute Hell (1991)
- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Judi Dench, Francesca Annis
- Classic BBC television production based on Rodney Ackland's book of the same name: a black, bleak comedy about about a sex–addicted , boozy…
- Soldier Soldier (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Jerome Flynn, Robson Green
- Accurate portrayal of military life in peace–time, that follows the daily lives of the King's Own Fusiliers regiment, through their personal…
- China Beach (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nan Woods
- TV series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War, following the unique perspectives of a range of characters including US Army doctors…
- War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner…
- Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
- Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennett…
- An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
- Tour of Duty (TV Series) (1987-1988)
- Feat. Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey
- A much–admired chronicle of U.S. soldiers grappling with combat, friendship, and ethics in Vietnam.
One of several popular Vietnam War…
- Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series) (1986)
- Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Paul McGann, Robert Fellows
- A four–part BBC historical drama depicting the life of Private Percy Toplis, who supposedly led a British army mutiny against training officers…
- ANZACS (TV Series) (1985)
- Dir. John Dixon, George Miller, Pino Amenta
Feat. Paul Hogan, Andrew Clarke, Jon Blake…
- An exemplary depiction of a group of ANZAC soldiers in WWI as they progress through the horrors of the war in Europe. Told mainly from the Australian…