Subgenre Sampler
Television > War: 84 Films to Buy & Rent
- NZSAS: First Among Equals (TV Series) (2007)
- Eye–opening insider’s guide to the SAS offers a unique tour of duty in recruitment and training for the elite special forces, through to…
- War, The (TV Series) (2007)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- Seven–part documentary series, directed by respected filmmaker Ken Burns, addressing the horrors of WW2 from the perspective of American…
- Above and Beyond (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Jason Priestley, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Welsh…
- Commendable mini–series based on the true story of the Atlantic Ferry Operation in WW2 – a last–ditch aerial attack from Canada's…
- Battleplan (TV Series) (2006)
- A comprehensive history and analysis of military strategies, combat tactics, and the art of modern warfare.
Across eighteen episodes, historical…
- Bombshell (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. Jim Loach
Feat. Zoe Lucker
- Gritty television series set amidst the conflicts of a modern army troop starring Zoe Lucker from FOOTBALLER'S WIVES as an army sergeant in charge of…
- Housewife, 49 (2006)
- Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper…
- Emmy–nominated British TV movie set in WW2 England that follows a housewife finding new purpose in her life through volunteer work for the war…
- Escape to the Legion (2005)
- Feat. Bear Grylls
- Action man Bear Grylls (MAN VS WILD) tackles the grueling assault courses and brutal training regime of the French Foreign Legion in this rare…
- Gallipoli: The Frontline Experience (2005)
- Dir. Tolga Ornek
- Devastating documentary which revises traditional treatments of the notorious WW1 Gallipoli Campaign, to present the experience from the perspective…
- Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
- 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…