Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
I Accuse (J'Accuse) (1938)
- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou
- Dir. Gance’s own remake of his 1919 silent classic, in which a soldier traumatised by the slaughter of WWI attempts to prevent future…
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim…
- The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee…
- Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen
- Charming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure story, with young Shirley negotiating between the British army and Afghani rebels.
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn
- Rousing action on the North–western frontier with Errol Flynn leading the climactic charge into certain death with fellow British cavalry men.
Crusades, The (1935)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon
- Hollywood Heavyweight Cecil B. DeMille Directs this overblown spectacle that differs vastly from it's grisly historical origins.
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
- Set in India during the British Raj, this rousing literary adaptation follows a British regiment struggling to retain it's stronghold in the…
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray…
- Landmark film looks at WW1 from the enemy's point of view. It remains brilliant and quite moving after all these years. Academy Award winner for Best…
Hell's Angels (1930)
- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon…
- Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Napoleon (1927)
- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Albert Dieudonne
- Renowned silent epic treats the life of the French general and emperor as a melodramatic spectacle of the highest order, with a…