Subgenre Sampler
Rental > History: 10 Films to Rent
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon…
- Christopher Nolan's grand biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the American Physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic…
- Peterloo (2018)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley
- Elaborate historical drama directed by Mike Leigh (MR TURNER), portraying the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British army forces attacked a…
- They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
- Ground–breaking documentary that employs state–of–the–art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage to…
- Churchill (2017)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery
- Brian Cox delivers an impressive performance as iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the days before the D–Day landings in June 1944.
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Allwyn, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey…
- Charlie Hunman plays the Arthur of legend, unaware of his royal lineage until drawing the sword Excalibur from the stone. Director Guy Ritchie brings…
- Viceroy's House (2017)
- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon…
- Another handsome chronicle of Britain's imperial history, this one depicting events of 1947, when Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, was charged…
- Victoria and Abdul (Victoria & Abdul) (2017)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Eddie Izzard…
- The legendary Judi Dench returns to the role of Queen Victoria in this sumptuous story of the unlikely bond between the the aging queen and a young…
- Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Acclaimed Documentarian Werner Herzog approaches the internet as a curious outsider on an exotic vacation. Meeting the digital natives, getting…
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Dir. Steve McQueen
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti…
- Steve McQueen (HUNGER, SHAME) directs this powerful historical drama of a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery.
- Beyond the Edge (2013)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa
- Thrilling, definitive docu–drama on Sir Edmund Hillary's historic 1953 scaling of Everest with sherpa Tenzing Norgay.