Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Tillman Story, The (2010)
- Dir. Amir Bar-Lev
- Complex portrait of NFL defensive lineman Pat Tillman, who attracted both admiration and controversy by abandoning a professional football career to…
War You Don't See, The (2010)
- Dir. John Pilger
- Famed journo–activist John Pilger traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting, from WWI through to Afghanistan and current…
Way Back, The (2010)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell…
- A small group of multi–national prisoners escape a Siberian Gulag and make their way across five countries on foot in this survivalist epic…
A Courageous Heart (The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler) (2009)
- Dir. John Kent Harrison
Feat. Anna Paquin, Marcia Gay Harden, Goran Visnjic…
- Moving account of the young Polish social worker who smuggled over 2,000 children out of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
- Brilliantly remastered footage (all in colour, often augmented with sound effects) and an exhaustive chronological of events make this…
Army of Crime, The (2009)
- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen
- Part of a recent wave of prestigious WWII resistence dramas, this one reconstructs events around a group of Paris–based resistance fighters,…
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
- Dir. Aleksandr Buravsky
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl
- A soaring, action–packed journey of heroism and sacrifice as one crusading journalist desperately fights to uncover the horrors buried within…
Battlefield Mysteries (2009)
- Dir. Paul Kilback
- Seemlessly mixing CGI animation with historical footage, this four part documentary series sheds light on some of history's most significant battles.…
Betrayal (2009)
- Dir. Hakon Gunderson
Feat. Lene Nystrøm, Götz Otto, Kåre Conradi
- Deceit and opportunism are the currencies traded in this passable wartime thriller, recommended for fans of MAX MANUS. Lene Nystrøm (of 90’s pop…
Brothers (2009)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire…
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire star in this remake of Susanne Bier's wrenching Danish drama, about two sibling's lives torn apart by war.