Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Politics: 563 Films to Rent on DVD
War / Dance (War Dance) (2007)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Life–affirming Oscar–nominated doco investigates the lives of a group of war–torn Ugandan child refugees on their path towards…
War on Democracy, The (2007)
- Dir. John Pilger, Chris Martin
- John Pilger continues his crusade against U.S foreign policy with this informative, persuasively polemical documentary about the manipulation and…
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
- Dir. Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan
- This startling, blow–by–blow account of a notorious Japanese abduction reveals a staggering conspiracy at the heart of a…
All The King's Men (2006)
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins…
- A heavyweight, if not entirely functional adaptation Robert Penn Warren's political novel about a failed idealist turned corrupt, powermongering…
Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The (TV Series) (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Feat. Jane Horrocks, Steven Mackintosh, Jodhi May…
- Excellent UK drama focused on supermarket manager Ros Pritchard (Horrocks) who decides to sort out Britain's political climate by running for Prime…
Blame it on Fidel! (La Faute à Fidel!) (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Julie Gavras
Feat. Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi
- A warm, wise and wryly observed evocation of a child's accelerated maturation in the midst of early 1970s social and political upheaval, Nina…
Blood Diamond (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou…
- Robust action film with a political conscience, Leonardo DiCaprio gamely sustains a South African accent and an amoral toughness as a…
Bobby (2006)
- Dir. Emilio Estevez
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins…
- In the sprawling, overlapping traditional of Robert Altman, dir. Emilio Estevez time capsules the hours leading up to Robert F. Kennedy's…
Caiman, The (Il Camino) (2006)
- Dir. Nanni Moretti
Feat. Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca…
- Unflinching Italian film–within–a–film concerning a producer attempting to make a film about former Italian prime minister Silvio…
Catch a Fire (2006)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Tim Robbins, Derek Luke
- Sturdy, serious–minded political thriller from the steady hand of dir. Phillip Noyce, couched in the turbulence of South Africa’s Apartheid…