Subgenre Sampler
Rental > War: 30 Films to Rent
- 1917 (2019)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
- Immersive epic war film from director Sam Mendes (JARHEAD) which evokes the impression of a continuous take to follow two British soldiers on a…
- Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
- Dir. Kriv Stenders
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh…
- Australian war film set in a Vietnamese rubber plantation in 1966, where 108 inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting against…
- Donbass (2018)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
- A 13–part exploration of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian–supported Donetsk People's Republic throughout the…
- Overlord (2018)
- Dir. Julius Avery
Feat. Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier
- A small group of American soldiers discover secret Nazi experiments after they are dropped behind enemy lines the day before D–day. A gleefully…
- 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.
- Dunkirk (2017)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan…
- Christopher Nolan's grandiose staging of the famous evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in May 1940 is a departure from the fantasy pictures the…
- War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
- Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn
- The third and final installment in the excellent Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy, with director Matt Reeves returning to complete the story that…
- Allied (2016)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan…
- Old–fashioned wartime romance between an intelligence officer and a French resistance fighter in 1942, which develops into a satisfying…
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn…
- The true World War II story of a conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his bravery and regard for his…