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Rental > Drama > War: 388 Films to Rent on DVD
City of Life and Death (2009)
- Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi
- This first serious depiction of the atrocities wrought on Chinese refugees and soldiers during the occupation of Nanking is a harrowing, expertly…
City of War (John Rabe) (2009)
- Dir. Florian Gallenberger
Feat. Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Bruhl, Steve Buscemi…
- Riveting dramatisation of an unlikely true story in which a Nazi industrialist conspires to save the lives of 200,000 Chinese during the infamous…
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- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Janet McTeer, James D'Arcy…
- Enthralling sequel to HBO's acclaimed THE GATHERING STORM focuses on Winston Churchill's challenging term as Prime Minister during the war, followed…
Land Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock…
- Four Women's Land Army recruits experience the highs and lows of wartime service in this stirring BBC drama which pays tribute to the lives of…
Man Who Will Come, The (L'uomo che verrà ) (2009)
- Dir. Giorgio Diritti
Feat. Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher, Greta Zuccheri Montanari
- Moving Italian war drama told through the eyes of an eight–year–old mute, who witnesses the brutal struggle between Italian partisans and…
Memories of Anne Frank (2009)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
- Moving Italian–made biopic on the relationship between Anne Frank and (the surviving) Hanneli Goslar, whose close childhood friendship and…
Messenger, The (2009)
- Dir. Oren Moverman
Feat. Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone…
- Ben Foster plays a troubled Iraq War veteran reassigned to the military's Casualty Notification Office in this affecting study of war on the home…
Occupation (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham, Warren Brown…
- Insightful, character–driven alternative to HBO's GENERATION KILL, this follows the lives of three British soliders during and after the 2003…
Paris 1919 (Un traité pour la paix) (2009)
- Dir. Paul Cowan
Feat. David Lowe, Paul Bandey, Yan Brian
- History–drenched docudrama merging archival footage with live action, examining the tricky negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty…
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings (2009)
- Docu–drama presented by revered historian Simon Schama (A HISTORY OF BRITAIN) which charts the astonishing story of thousands of…