Subgenre Sampler
War: 947 Films to Buy & Rent
- Civil War (2024)
- Dir. Alex Garland
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson…
- The most expensive film made by upstart studio A24, this urgent and chillingly relevant dystopian thriller represents a solid return to form for…
- Operation Mincemeat (2021)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Colin Firth, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly MacDonald…
- Two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops in this well–appointed, old–school WWII drama based upon…
- De Gaulle (2020)
- Dir. Gabriel Le Bomin
Feat. Lambert Wilson, Tim Hudson, Isabelle Carré…
- Spectacularly mounted biographical drama depicting a crucial period in the life of French army officer Charles de Gaulle, a famous figure in modern…
- Final Account (2020)
- Dir. Luke Holland
- German documentary providing portraits of the last living generation of people to have participated in Hitler's Third Reich.
A valuable project…
- Love it Was Not (2020)
- Dir. Maya Sarfaty
- Superb documentary about the incredible story of an SS officer and a Jewish prisoner who fall in love and have an affair at Auschwitz.
A talented…
- Outpost, The (2020)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom…
- War movie depicting events during the War in Afghanistan in 2009, when the Taliban attacked a vulnerable US Army outpost called Combat Outpost…
- Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
- Dir. Andy Goddard
Feat. Eddie Izzard, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy…
- A tense British period thriller loosely based on the true story of the disappearance of a school teacher at an elite girls' boarding school shortly…
- 1917 (2019)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
- Immersive epic war film from director Sam Mendes (JARHEAD) which evokes the impression of a continuous take to follow two British soldiers on a…
- A Hidden Life (2019)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. August Diehl, Matthias Schoenaerts, Valerie Pachner…
- Historical drama of distinction from writer director Terrence Malick (THE THIN RED LINE), depicting the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian…
- Aftermath, The (2019)
- Dir. James Kent
Feat. Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Alexander Skarsgard
- Period melodrama of some distinction due to its strong cast, set in postwar Germany in 1945, where a British colonel and his wife move into a…