Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Foreign Cinema > War: 20 films to Buy
- Round Up, The (La Rafle) (2010)
- A sensitive recreation of the tragic events and personal stories surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942, where some 13,000 French Jews were…
- DVD
$34.95 $24.95
- Un Village Francais (TV Series) (2009-2017)
- Confronting the difficult subject of French collaboration with the Germans during WW2, this series details the lives of the people of a fictional…
- DVD $29.95, $39.95, $49.95, $49.95
- Winter in Wartime (2008)
- Sensitively handled account of a thirteen year old boy who joins the Dutch resistance at the tail end of World War II.
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Kite Runner, The (2007)
- The ravages of Afghanistan and its effect on an American 'refugee' forms the basis of Khaled Hosseini's best–selling book, here given due…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Days of Glory (Indigènes) (2006)
- Epic Algerian WW2 drama focused on a determined group of Algerian soldiers fighting to defend France with little acknowledgement of their sacrifices…
- DVD
$19.95 $10
- Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004)
- The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
- DVD $19.95
- Mediterraneo (1991)
- Oscar–winning tale of eight Italian soldiers who find themselves stranded on a remote Greek isle during WW2. An affecting and surprising…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Olivier Olivier (1991)
- After disappearing from his country home six years earlier, a boy's mysterious return brings with it a mix of salvation and suspicion to his…
- Poster (G) $9.95
- Life and Nothing But (1990)
- Philippe Noiret plays a Missing–in–Action chief officer whose obsession to account for the anonymous casualties of WW1 draws him to a…
- Poster (F) $7.95
- Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)
- Nail biting, meticulous and realistic account of a German U–boat's prowlings through the North Atlantic. The most expensive German film to…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95