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The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 4 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 7: It is now 1918, and the Great War has shaken out the last vestiges of Victorian England. In the Forsyte family, nearly all the older generation are dead, and among the younger members a new love burns, rekindling bitter old feuds. Oblivious to the enduring resentment harboured by...  More

The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 5 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 9: The Great War has left Europe tottering on an economic tightrope, and Soames, now on the board of a large insurance company, is nervous about its foreign investments. Fleur's flirtation with the despairing Michael Desert ends and she finds herself expecting Michael's child, much to...  More

The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 6 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 11: Britain's first Labour government falls and Michael Mont id returned to parliament as a conservative MP devoted to a radical new school of political thought. The libel suit against Fleur culminates in a dramatic courtroom climax, the result of which sends Fleur and Soames on a trip...  More

The Remains Of The Day
(1993) [G]

Following the success of HOWARD'S END, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson reunited with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team and teamed with a stellar support cast that included James Fox, Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant for this extraordinary, moving story of blind devotion and repressed...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 1&2 of 6, (2-tape set)
(1972) [PG]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 3 & 4 of 6, (2 tape set)
(1972) [PG]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

War And Peace - Vol. 5 & 6 of 6, (2 tape set)
(1972) [M]

Tolstoy's masterpiece - a great historical panorama set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars - is a towering epic of love and hate, power and passion, war and peace. It is also the story of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys - who will become inexorably interwoven as...  More

The Getting Of Wisdom (2 Disc Set)
(1977) [PG]

Told with a delicate blend of satire and nostalgia, this award-winning coming-of-age tale introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambothan (Susannah Fowle). Chronicling her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne...  More

The Royal Hunt
(1990) [PG]

In 18th century Russia, Catherine is now the reigning Empress in a country which does not accept primogeniture (rule by the oldest born) but requires that the oldest born be male. It has taken quite a lot of almost supernatural scheming to remain on the throne which, by an accident of fate, is...  More

Fortunes Of War (2 Tape Set)
(1987) [M]

Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty, gays, lesbians] that cross and re-cross their...  More