Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > War: 243 Films to Rent on DVD
- Come See the Paradise (1990)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Dennis Quaid
- 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…
- Jeweller's Shop, The (1989)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Olivia Hussey, Ben Cross
- Charming, low–key adaptation of a play by Pope John Paul the Second. Burt Lancaster in his last film role plays a jeweller in 1930's Poland…
- Welcome Home (1989)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…
- Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
- Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
- Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill…
- Eastwood stars as a rugged drill sergeant assigned to a platoon of raw recruits in order to whip them into shape.
Lesser Eastwood effort is also…
- Eleni (1985)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt
- John Malkovich plays a U.S. reporter in Greece trying to find the long–lost truth about his mother's political execution.
- Mussolini and I (1985)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon…
- The last days of Il Duce as embodied by Bob Hoskins in this strong Italian miniseries.
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans…
- 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…
- Birdy (1984)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage
- Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage star in this complex yet compelling tale of a disturbed war veteran's descent into believing he is a bird. A bold and…
- Killing Fields, The (1984)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich…
- Devastating and award–winning account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.