Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno) (2006)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez…
- A stunning, sinister netherworld fantasy that parallels an equally compelling story of uprising against a fascist military unit in WWII Spain, this…
Rape of Europa, The (2006)
- Dir. Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham
- Documentary about the huge amount of European art that was tragically stolen and damaged by Nazi Germany, and the effort by the Allies to return and…
Rescue Dawn (2006)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
- In dramatizing the unforgettable true story of Dieter Dengler – heroic subject matter of doco LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY – Werner Herzog…
Situation, The (2006)
- Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. Damian Lewis, Connie Nielsen, Mido Hadama
- A noted fictional dramatisation of the Iraq conflict and its many complex participants and victims, this film interweaves a love triangle with…
Tiger and the Snow, The (2006)
- Dir. Roberto Benigni
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi…
- Italian jester Roberto Benigni unites comedy and tragedy within the throws of the Iraq war, playing a poet who follows his true love (real life…
Unknown Soldier, The (2006)
- Dir. Michael Verhoeven
- A sobering documentary exploration of the reaction to a museum exhibit in Munich detailing the war crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany's…
War of the World: The New History of the 20th Century (2006)
- Eye–opening historical documentary, presented by acclaimed historian Professor Niall Ferguson, challenging how we view and assess the arch of…
War Years, The - 1939-1945 (2006)
- Five part documentary series made with unique and previously unseen archive film and photographs, tells the story of World War ll in the European…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
9th Company (2005)
- Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
Feat. Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov , Konstantin Kryukov
- A muscular, at times brutal, war film set during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan follows a regiment from training to ill–fated combat with…