The Charge Of The Light Brigade
(1968) [M]

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854, climaxing with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery,...  More

Caligula (R rated version)
(1979) [R]

The most expensive adult movie ever made, Caligula tells the tale of the mad Roman emperor's rise and fall. Depicting his descent into madness and depravity with graphic sex and violence, and with an all-star cast, Caligula is a true cult classic. Lavish sets, some truly over the top acting...  More

Elizabeth
(1998) [MA]

England, 1554. Under the rule of Queen Mary I, a zealous Catholic, England has been reduced to a country racked by financial and religious instability. Now close to death, Mary (Kathy Burke) steps up her policy of protestant repression. Even Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett), her younger sister...  More

The Shooting Party
(1985) [PG]

Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir...  More

Galileo
(1975) [PG]

Fiddler On the Roof's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy. including Sir John Gielgud (Arthur Becket), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal) and Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben), ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in precise,...  More

Romeo and Juliet (1954) / Romeo and Juliet Ballet (1966) (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

Disc 1: 1954 film version with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall. In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry....  More

Romeo and Juliet (The BBC Shakespeare Collection)
(1978) [PG]

A marvellously staged adaptation of Shakespeare's classic story of tender but tragically doomed love. The rich and colourful production successfully combines the resonance and immediacy of theatre with the flexibility and realism of film. The star cast perform with great energy and artistry, and...  More

Becket
(1964) [PG]

Peter O'Toole delivers an electrifying performance as the mischievous Henry II, who surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted valet Thomas Becket (Richard Burton in a career defining role) as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop Of Canterbury, Becket shocks the...  More