Subgenre Sampler
War: 951 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
Dirty Wars (2013)
- Dir. Rick Rowley
- Chilling docu–drama follows journalist Jeremy Scahill and the trail of secrets and lies he uncovers while investigation America's covert wars.
Generation War (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Feat. Volker Bruch, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte…
- Hugely popular in Germany this mini–series examines the second World War from the German perspective. Told through the eyes of five friends as…
Kill Team, The (2013)
- Dir. Dan Krauss
- Difficult but important expose of 21–year–old soldier Adam Winfield's attempts to alert his military superiors to heinous war crimes…
Last Resort (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Autumn Reeser…
- Tense military drama set on board a U.S. submarine which refuses to carry out an order to fire launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan. 13…
Lone Survivor (2013)
- Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch…
- Mark Wahlberg portrays Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the eponymous lone survivor of a covert mission against al–Qaeda gone wrong, in this powerful…
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…
Tangerines (2013)
- Dir. Zaza Urushadze
Feat. Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo NĂ¼ganen
- Immeasurably moving drama set durng the war in Georgia in which an Estonian man stays behind to harvest tangerines and care for a wounded fighter.
Unknown Known, The (2013)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- Controversial former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in…