Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Zelary (2003)
- Dir. Ondrej Trojan
Feat. Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi
- A layered tale of war and romance set around the 1943 purge of the Czech resistance by the occupying Nazis, and a young nurse's flight to…
Amen. (2002)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Muhe
- An unusual WW2 drama concerning the true story of SS officer Kurt Gerstein (Tukur), who invented the chemical Zyklon–B not knowing it was to be…
Antwone Fisher (2002)
- Dir. Denzel Washington
Feat. Denzel Washington, Derek Luke
- From a uniquely autobiographical screenplay by the real Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington takes the helm and stars as a US Navy psychiatrist who…
Ararat (2002)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Arsinee Khanjian, Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer…
- A challenging dramatic meditation on the 'forgotten' genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey during WWI, moulded into an epic of history and…
Broken Silence (2002)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda, Pavel Chukhrai, Luis Puenzo
- Five 55–minute films concerning the Holocaust, and its role in the history of five respective countries.
'Some Who Lived' (dir. Puenzo)…
Charlotte Gray (2002)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon
- WWII France is the backdrop for a love–triangle in this well–made, though sappy war–romance, Cate Blanchett providing a compelling…
Children of Gallipoli (2002)
- Dir. Anna Cottrell
- Interesting documentary interviews the grandchildren of four combatants in the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign of WWI – involving Turkish and New…
Cuckoo, The (Kukushka) (2002)
- Dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Feat. Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov
- An earthy drama of non–communication set amid the frozen WW2 battleground of Lapland, where a pacifist Finnish soldier, a survivalist Russian…
Daughter from Danang (2002)
- Dir. Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
- A moving and troubling documentary about Heidi Bub, the daughter of an American serviceman and a poor Vietnamese woman, born in Danang and raised in…
Finest Hour (2002)
- Dir. Nick Read
- In–depth and atmospheric study of the ‘Battle of Britain’, the crucial air war of WWII fought over England in 1940.
Gripping…