Truely Great Films

I tend to exclusively like obscure and practically unknown films. Tonight I have been watching a film about the Irish Civil War that took place in the 20s. The movie is called "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and it is amazingly well done. I would consider it better than most historical wartime movies but it has received little to no attention. It was produced in the UK in 2006 but less than 150 theaters there have shown it. Furthermore, it appears as if no theaters in the US ever showed the film. I cannot understand why such a great film has not received any public attention. Am I really that out of touch with my fellow peers when it comes to watching and judging movies? The movie Transformers was shown on more than 4,000 screens the week it debuted. Are we seriously more interested in some rediculous movie about fictional robots from outerspace than a film that depicts true accounts of our fellow man struggling for independence less than 90 years ago?

Here are two links that will give you a good idea of what the movie is about:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460989/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley_(film)