Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- War Story (2014)
- Dir. Mark Jackson
Feat. Catherine Keener, Hafsia Herzi, Ben Kingsley…
- A war photographer who recently endured a brutal detainment in Libya holes up in Sicily to come to terms with her ordeal.
- Water Diviner, The (2014)
- Dir. Russell Crowe
Feat. Jai Courtney, Olga Kurylenko, Russell Crowe…
- An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
- A Hero's Choice (A Farewell to Fools) (2013)
- Dir. Bogdan Dreyer
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Laura Morante
- A heaving production of Titus Popovici's famous novella 'The Death of Ipu' out of Romania, this WWII morality tale stars Gerard Depardieu as a madman…
- A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013)
- Dir. Erik Poppe
Feat. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy…
- Juliette Binoche stars as a war–zone photojournalist whose dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family.
- Bluestone 42 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Oliver Chris, Kelly Adams, Matthew Lewis
- Excellent British dramedy combines realism with levity in its chronicle of a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan.
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- Book Thief, The (2013)
- Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Sophie Nelisse, Heike Makatsch, Geoffrey Rush…
- Earnest wartime drama about a foster child who begins stealing books and sharing them with a Jewish refugee hiding in her basement in Nazi Germany.
- Canopy (2013)
- Dir. Aaron Wilson
Feat. Khan Chittenden
- An Australian pilot shot down over wartime Singapore forms an uneasy alliance with a Chinese resistance fighter in this immersive survival story.
- Railway Man, The (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada…
- Tormented by his experience as a prisoner of war, a former British Army officer confronts one of his torturers in civilian times this haunting…
- Wind Rises, The (2013)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Feat. Hideaki Anno
- Hayao Miyazaki's glorious swansong is the poignant story of aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his dreams of designing the perfect flying machine…
- Wipers Times, The (2013)
- Dir. Andy De Emmony
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin
- The horrors of trench warfare are matched with alleviating gallows humour in this strangely moving tale of a satirical newspaper published on the…