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Rental > Drama > War: 388 Films to Rent on DVD
Hotel Rwanda (2004)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Terry George
Feat. Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo…
- A deeply affecting expose of the Rwandan conflict of the early 1990s that matches its political conscience with vivid staging and terrific…
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
- Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Tom Selleck, James Remar, Timothy Bottoms…
- Historical war dramatization of the three months leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower…
Innocent Voices (Voces inocentes) (2004)
- Dir. Luis Mandoki
Feat. Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela
- The tumultuous upheaval of civil war is witnessed through the eyes of a terrified 12–year–old boy, whose approaching teenage years spell…
Island at War (TV Mini-Series) (2004)
- Dir. Peter Lydon
Feat. James Wilby, Saskia Reeves, Philip Glenister…
- Above par made–for–television drama, set during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II, with the struggle of three…
Life is a Miracle (Zivot je cudo) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak
- Another feverish, frenetic and heartfelt vision from Balkan dir. Emir Kusturica (UNDERGOUND), attempting here to fathom and unknot the bloody Bosnian…
Sun, The (2004)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Robert Dawson, Issey Ogata
- A lucid, painstaking portrait of Emperor Hirohito, whose authority over Japanese troops during WWII is contrasted against intimate scenes of…
Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou dakryzei) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
- The first part of an intended trilogy of films dealing with 20th century Greece, this monumental epic depicts the travails of a Greek refugee family…
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
- The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
Very Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac…
- Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
- Dir. Hardy Martins
- Based on the novel by Josef Martin Bauer, this film recounts the harrowing true story of Clemens Forell, the German POW who escaped a Siberian labour…