Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
Four Feathers, The (2002)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson
- The British Army copes with an uprising in Sudan in 1875, while one officer must redeem himself from a charge of cowardice – which earned him…
Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- Feat. Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
Gathering Storm, The (2002)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent…
- Critically acclaimed telemovie depicts the life of Winston Churchill during his 'wilderness years', the turbulent 1930s, centred by a mighty…
Gods and Generals (2002)
- Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall…
- Prequel to GETTYSBURG, this American Civil War drama follows the career of Confederate general 'Stonewall' Jackson.
Filled with the same epic…
House of Fools (Dom Durakov) (2002)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
- Based around the true story of a Chechen mental hospital which was abandoned by staff during the recent civil war, with patients left to fend for…
K19 - Widowmaker (2002)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
- Solid actioner revisits the long–censored account of a Russian super–submarine which had a disastrous reactor meltdown…
Live From Baghdad (2002)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard…
- Media drama set in war–time Iraq tracking a gutsy group of CNN journalists who are among the few to choose to remain in Baghdad to capture the…
Pianist, The (2002)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
- Boldly visualised, fact–based drama concerning the Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who evaded Poland’s Nazi authorities during WW2, living…
Prisoner of Paradise (2002)
- Dir. Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
- Justly acclaimed examination of an unusual chapter in the Holocaust, in which the Dutch–Jewish comic actor Kurt Gerron was forced to make a…
Quiet American, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Rade Serbedzija
- True to the spirit of Graham Greene’s novel, this cautionary tale of American interference in 50s French Vietnam is an involving,…