Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- City of Life and Death (2009)
- Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi
- This first serious depiction of the atrocities wrought on Chinese refugees and soldiers during the occupation of Nanking is a harrowing, expertly…
- City of War (John Rabe) (2009)
- Dir. Florian Gallenberger
Feat. Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Bruhl, Steve Buscemi…
- Riveting dramatisation of an unlikely true story in which a Nazi industrialist conspires to save the lives of 200,000 Chinese during the infamous…
- Into the Storm (2009)
- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Janet McTeer, James D'Arcy…
- Enthralling sequel to HBO's acclaimed THE GATHERING STORM focuses on Winston Churchill's challenging term as Prime Minister during the war, followed…
- Land Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock…
- Four Women's Land Army recruits experience the highs and lows of wartime service in this stirring BBC drama which pays tribute to the lives of…
- Man Who Will Come, The (L'uomo che verrà ) (2009)
- Dir. Giorgio Diritti
Feat. Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher, Greta Zuccheri Montanari
- Moving Italian war drama told through the eyes of an eight–year–old mute, who witnesses the brutal struggle between Italian partisans and…
- Memories of Anne Frank (2009)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
- Moving Italian–made biopic on the relationship between Anne Frank and (the surviving) Hanneli Goslar, whose close childhood friendship and…
- Messenger, The (2009)
- Dir. Oren Moverman
Feat. Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone…
- Ben Foster plays a troubled Iraq War veteran reassigned to the military's Casualty Notification Office in this affecting study of war on the home…
- Occupation (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham, Warren Brown…
- Insightful, character–driven alternative to HBO's GENERATION KILL, this follows the lives of three British soliders during and after the 2003…
- Paris 1919 (Un traité pour la paix) (2009)
- Dir. Paul Cowan
Feat. David Lowe, Paul Bandey, Yan Brian
- History–drenched docudrama merging archival footage with live action, examining the tricky negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty…
- Simon Schama's Rough Crossings (2009)
- Docu–drama presented by revered historian Simon Schama (A HISTORY OF BRITAIN) which charts the astonishing story of thousands of…