Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- War Witch (Rebelle) (2012)
- Dir. Kim Nguyen
Feat. Rachel Mwanza
- A remarkable magical realist portrayal of the tragedy of child soldiering in one of Africa’s many civil wars, with the phenomenal Rachel Mwanza as…
- Blood and Country (There Be Dragons) (2011)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott…
- Roland Joffe (THE KILLING FIELDS) directs this epic, if overambitious Spanish Civil War drama spread across three different storylines: two…
- Flowers of War, The (2011)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Paul Schneider
- Dir. Zhang Yimou tackles the Nanking massacre with equal parts grim realism and stylish melodrama – befitting of a lavish wartime epic, less so…
- In Darkness (2011)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Kinga Preis
- A stirring, endlessly suspenseful wartime resistance drama from dir. Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA, EUROPA), about the ordinary men and women surviving…
- My Best Enemy (2011)
- Dir. Wolfgang Murnberger
Feat. Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss
- A Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to survive, in this dark WWII drama.
- Personal War, A (The Kiwi Who Saved Britain) (2011)
- Three short dramatic accounts of war stories as a memorial to all those who have fought and lost their lives for New Zealand as soldiers.
THE KIWI…
- Remembrance (Die Verlorene Zeit) (2011)
- Dir. Anna Justice
- A powerful, decades long Holocaust tale of two lovers who endure the horrors of concentration camps, only to be separated by the chaos of the war.
- Resistance (2011)
- Dir. Amit Gupta
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha
- A restrained, understated war drama shot through the lens of an alternate history, where the Germans have gained the upper hand and begun to invade…
- War Horse (2011)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson…
- Steven Spielberg revives the magic of Old Hollywood with this rousing saga of a plucky farm stallion who goes on to inspire soldiers and citizens…
- Wunderkinder (2011)
- Dir. Markus Rosenmüller
Feat. Gedeon Burkhard, Natalia Avelon
- A history of Germany in broad strokes, this heartrending coming–of–age tale charts the upheaval of WWII through the eyes of three child…