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Rental > Drama > War: 388 Films to Rent on DVD
To End All Wars (2001)
- Dir. David L Cunningham
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciaran McMenamin
- Underrated drama based around the infamous building of the bridge over the River Kwai by allied POWs during WW2, 'encouraged' by their Japanese…
Uprising (2001)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer…
- An above–par telemovie that depicts the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII by the Nazis.
Treading similiar territory to SCHINDLER'S…
Zookeeper, The (2001)
- Dir. Ralph Ziman
Feat. Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen…
- A quiet, little–seen drama set in a wartorn Communist country in Eastern Europe, with a zookeeper (Neill) struggling to care for the animals…
Bonhoeffer - Agent of Grace (2000)
- Dir. Eric Till
Feat. Ulrich Tukur, Johanna Klante
- The historical enigma of Dietrich Bonhoeffer – a religious adviser to the Nazi Party – is examined into this informative, though thoroughly minor…
Grey Zone, The (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel…
- Earnest examination of one of the 'greyest' moral zones of the Holocaust – the role of the Jewish Sonderkommandos in concentration camps, who…
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
- Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody…
- Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…
Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell, Dominic Monaghan
- ITV drama starring John Thaw as a humble parish priest who returns home to his French village to join the resistance during WWII after a twenty year…
Nuremberg (2000)
- Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox…
- This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
Sunshine (2000)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Kara Unger
- Expansive and immaculately crafted epic of the last 100 years of Hungarian history, with Ralph Fiennes playing three roles – Grandfather,…
Beautiful People (1999)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Jasmin Dizdar
Feat. Rosalind Ayres, Julian Firth, Bobby Williams…
- Set in London 1993 when the Balkan Wars were in full flight, this lively, panoramic drama reaches its ambitions in witnessing turbulence of the…