Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- Exception, The (2016)
- Dir. David Leveaux
Feat. Lily James, Jai Courtney, Janet McTeer…
- Romantic war drama fictionalizing the last few days in the life of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II, played by Christopher Plummer. A German soldier tries to…
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn…
- The true World War II story of a conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his bravery and regard for his…
- King's Choice, The (2016)
- Dir. Erik Poppe
Feat. Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo
- 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.…
- My Mother and Other Strangers (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell
- Five–episode mini–series set during WWII in which a family and their neighbours in a Northern Irish village come to terms with the influx…
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
- Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Feat. Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman…
- Spiky war comedy with Tina Fey as a journalist assigned to Afghanistan at the height of the second Gulf War. Based on the acclaimed memoir "The…
- A Perfect Day (2015)
- Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko…
- 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…
- Eye in the Sky (2015)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi…
- Provocative drama that examines the perils of drone warfare with Helen Mirren as a military officer in command of a mission to capture terrorists in…
- Heavy Water War, The (The Saboteurs) (2015)
- Dir. Per-Olav Sørensen
Feat. Espen Klouman-Høiner, Soren Pilmark, Anna Friel…
- Thrilling Norwegian mini–series tells the story behind Hitler's plan for obtaining the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in…
- Land of Mine (Under sandet) (2015)
- Dir. Martin Zandvliet
Feat. Roland Møller, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- Multi award–winning historical drama following a unit of captured German soldiers who are put to work disabling Hitler's munitions by an…
- Son of Saul (2015)
- Dir. László Nemes
Feat. Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
- Masterful, but deeply disturbing glimpse into the horror of Auschwitz seen through the perspective of a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his…