Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- Birdsong (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Dir. Philip Martin
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Clemence Poesy, Matthew Goode
- The horrific experiences of an English soldier fighting in northern France are juxtaposed against his fond, but haunted memories of a forbidden love…
- Bomb Girls (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Ali Liebert…
- A first–rate Canadian drama centred on the lives of women on the home–front who were recruited to work in dangerous munitions factories…
- Emperor (2012)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune
- Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones play Generals Bonner Fellers and Douglas MacArthur respectively in this solid dramatisation of the aftermath of the…
- In the Fog (2012)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Vladislav Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin
- Intense, slow burning Russian drama exploring the moralities of war through the story of a man wrongly accused of collaboration with the German…
- Lincoln (2012)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn…
- Daniel Day–Lewis portrays the famed U.S. President between 1861 and 1865 as he dealt with personal demons and politics during the Civil War in…
- Private Peaceful (2012)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Jack O'Connell, George MacKay, Alexandra Roach…
- This sensitive, small scale contrast to Spielberg's WAR HORSE (also from a Michael Morgpurgo novel) centres on two brothers who are compelled to put…
- Restless (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Dir. Edward Hall
Feat. Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery…
- A fine small screen adaptation of William Boyd's espionage novel, about a young woman who learns that her mother was recruited as a spy during World…
- Suskind (2012)
- Dir. Rudolf van den Berg
Feat. Karl Markovics, Jeroen Spitzenberger
- A serious, respectful historical dramatisation of the deeds of Walter Sueskind, a Jewish industrialist in Amsterdam who used his leverage as an…
- Third Half, The (2012)
- Dir. Darko Mitrevski
Feat. Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev
- A Macedonian football club hires a German coach to galvanize the team as Nazis prepare to enter the country in this wartime occupation drama.
- Twice Born (2012)
- Dir. Sergio Castellitto
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Emile Hirsch
- The memory of a passionate love affair with an American photographer and its harrowing aftermath is rekindled when a woman returns to Sarajevo with…