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Subgenre Sampler

 
Book Thief, TheBook 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.
CanopyCanopy (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 WarsDirty 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)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, TheKill 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)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 SurvivorLone 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, TheRailway 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…
TangerinesTangerines (2013) Recommended
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, TheUnknown 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…
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