The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969) [M]

Maggie Smith won a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award in 1969 for her tour de force performance in this fine screen adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Miss Jean Brodie is an eccentric and outspoken schoolteacher at an exclusive Edinburgh school for girls in the 1930's. She regards her...  More

Sailor Beware (UK-1956)
(1956) [G]

A much-loved British classic, from the stage play and bringing across its great and talented mouthy star, Peggy Mount, as the loud-voiced matriarch Emma, terrorising her ferret-loving husband Henry (a brilliant performance from Cyril Smith), her sister-in-law Edie (the wonderful Esma Cannon), and...  More

The Whistle Blower
(1987) [PG]

Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is an ordinary law abiding businessman. He served his country during the war, and he is very proud of his son Bob (Nigel Havers), a Russian linguist and translator. Frank's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. "Accidental Death"...  More

Whiskey Galore
(1949) [PG]

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered...  More

Tunes Of Glory
(1960) [PG]

A powerful drama unfolds when genteel, Oxford educated Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives to take command at the barrcks where bluff hard drinking Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) has been Acting Colonel. Under Jock's command, the officers and men have enjoyed a certain laxity that...  More

Eureka Stockade
(1949) [G]

Director Watt, after the brilliant The Overlanders in 1946, may have even outdone that here, with a spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and, more importantly, the events leading up to it. Rafferty is fantastic in the lead role as reluctant hero Lalor in the film which,...  More

The Captive Heart
(1946) [PG]

An Ealing production which revolves around life among British officers in a German POW camp, and their families at home during those years of uncertainty and doubt.  More

Bitter Springs
(1950) [G]

Bitter Springs was the third Ealing release to be made in Australia, directed this time by Ralph Smart who had been Harry Watt's associate producer on The Overlanders. Bitter Springs is the less successful of the trio, and concerns turn-of-the century pioneers who trek 600 miles to reach land...  More

Upstairs Downstairs :Series 1 (Disc 1 of 4)
(1971) [PG]

As the first major costume drama series written specially for British TV award-winning Upstairs Downstairs was an outstanding success. It became one of the best-loved and most acclaimed dramas of all time and now the 8 colour episodes from the 1st series are yours to enjoy in this sumptuous...  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