Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Documentary > War: 141 Films to Rent
- Final Account (2020)
- Dir. Luke Holland
- German documentary providing portraits of the last living generation of people to have participated in Hitler's Third Reich.
A valuable project…
- Love it Was Not (2020)
- Dir. Maya Sarfaty
- Superb documentary about the incredible story of an SS officer and a Jewish prisoner who fall in love and have an affair at Auschwitz.
A talented…
- For Sama (2019)
- Dir. Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts
- Groundbreaking document of Syrian War, produced, directed and narrated by a journalist and political rebel under the pseudonym Waad Al–Kateab.…
- Soldiers Without Guns (2019)
- Dir. Will Watson
- A quite remarkable tale of a team of coalition soldiers who, in 1997, landed into the heat of a 10–year civil war on the Pacific Island of…
- 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…
- City of Ghosts (2017)
- Dir. Matthew Heineman
- The director of CARTEL LAND lands on Syrian soil for another risk–taking venture that documents the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered…
- Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)
- Dir. Brian Oakes
- A moving look at the life and work of American journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped and publicly executed by ISIS, directed by his childhood…
- Land of the Enlightened, The (2016)
- Dir. Pieter-Jan de Pue
- A creative documentary hybrid, which stages facts and fantasy side by side to reveal an intimate and poetic portrait of Afghanistan. Reminiscent of…
- National Bird: Drone Wars (2016)
- Dir. Sonia Kennebeck
- A chilling expose of America's modern warfare program in which the ethics and possibilities of a deadly new technology are being determined, with…
- 25 April (2015)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
- An animated take on the tragic 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of WW1 told through the perspective of six New Zealanders who were involved. The voice cast…