Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? (2013)
- Dir. Sebastian Junger
- Sebastian Junger offers a moving tribute to his late co–director on RESTREPO, Tim Hetherington, with added reflection on the state of…
Wind Rises, The (2013)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Feat. Hideaki Anno
- Hayao Miyazaki's glorious swansong is the poignant story of aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his dreams of designing the perfect flying machine…
Wipers Times, The (2013)
- Dir. Andy De Emmony
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin
- The horrors of trench warfare are matched with alleviating gallows humour in this strangely moving tale of a satirical newspaper published on the…
1612 (2012)
- Dir. Vladimir Khotinenko
Feat. Pyotr Kislov
- Bloated Russian 'historical' epic renders the 17th century civil war that ravaged the divided country as a Peter Jackson–esque battle fantasy.…
Birdsong (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Dir. Philip Martin
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Clemence Poesy, Matthew Goode
- The horrific experiences of an English soldier fighting in northern France are juxtaposed against his fond, but haunted memories of a forbidden love…
Bomb Girls (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Ali Liebert…
- A first–rate Canadian drama centred on the lives of women on the home–front who were recruited to work in dangerous munitions factories…
Emperor (2012)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune
- Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones play Generals Bonner Fellers and Douglas MacArthur respectively in this solid dramatisation of the aftermath of the…
Gallipoli From Above (2012)
- An Australian–centred 'corrective' history of the Gallipoli landing, which focuses on the scale and achievement of the ANZAC's deployment of…
In the Fog (2012)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Vladislav Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin
- Intense, slow burning Russian drama exploring the moralities of war through the story of a man wrongly accused of collaboration with the German…
Into the White (2012)
- Dir. Petter Naess
Feat. Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint, David Kross…
- Gentle anti–war drama with downed German and English pilots taking refuge in the same cabin in snow–bound Norway. Based on a true story.