Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Jarhead (2005)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
- An arresting and grimly ironic vision of the 1991 Gulf War, based on the memoir of ex–marine Anthony Swofford, and depicting the experiences of…
Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2005)
- Dir. Christian Carion
Feat. Ian Richardson, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl
- Fact–based WWI drama centred around how, on Christmas Eve, 1914, opposing French, German and British soldiers called a temporary ceasefire amid…
Kokoda (2005)
- Dir. Alister Grierson
Feat. Jack Finsterer, Simon Stone, Travis McMahon…
- Visceral, against–the–odds WWII flick revisits the legendary story of inexperienced Aussie battlers taking on the mighty Japanese army in…
La Maison de Nina (2005)
- Dir. Richard Dembo
Feat. Agnes Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz
- Quietly accomplished French drama focused on the relationships within the fragile structures of the 'houses of hope': houses run by surrogate mothers…
Last Drop, The (2005)
- Dir. Colin Teague
Feat. Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Sean Pertwee…
- Competent, if not exactly scintillating, suspenser in which a group of allied soldiers are airdropped into Europe to steal gold and other treasures…
Lord Of War (2005)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan…
- A thoughtful though heavy–handed thriller about an intelligently amoral Ukrainian–American (Cage), who dedicates himself to the world…
Nomad - The Warrior (2005)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer
Feat. Kuno Becker, Mark Dacascos, Jason Scott Lee
- Historical war epic set in Kazakhstan centred around the life of the prophesied warrior destined to unite the Kazakh peoples.
With its awkwardly…
Oil Factor, The (2005)
- Dir. Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman
- Another addition to the panoply of anti–Iraq War documentaries, this attempts to draw the links between the Western World's over–reliance…
Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Sometimes in April (2005)
- Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Debra Winger, Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero
- A worthy HBO dramatisation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which around one million ethnic 'Tutsis' were slaughtered by ethnic 'Hutu' military and…