The Birth Of A Nation
(1915) [M]

D.W. Griffith's spectacular silent masterpiece is available for the first time on DVD. The most successful silent film ever, The Birth of a Nation remains America's most controversial cinematic landmark.  More

Gladiator (2 Disc Set)
(2000) [M]

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save...  More

Gladiator (Blu-Ray)
(2000) [M]

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save...  More

Zulu
(1964) [PG]

ZULU is one of the great movies, an epic adventure of courage in the face of incredible odds. Based on a true story it tells the amazing tale of 100 British soldiers who stood fast against an overwhelming force of 4,000 of the Zulu nation's mightiest warriors in the defence of Rorkes Drift in...  More

There Will Be Blood
(2007) [M]

The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil...  More

The Towering Inferno
(1974) [PG]

Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) is an architect who has just returned from a long vacation to find the work on his new skyscraper nearly completed. He goes to its Opening Party concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed. The party goes on, despite the building's wiring...  More

10,000 BC
(2008) [M]

The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure, a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10,000 BC, the eye-filling...  More

Ran (2 disc set)
(1985) [PG]

This is a Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until...  More

Twin Sisters
(2002) [M]

Nominated for an Academy Award or The Best Foreign Language Film and based on the internationally bestselling novel "The Twins" by Tessa de Loo, Twin Sisters is a powerfully moving and epic love story spanning sixty years.The film opens in Germany 1926,when 6-year old twin sisters are separated...  More

Troy (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history’s most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy - Achilles (Brad Pitt),...  More

Helen of Troy
(1956) [M]

Robert Wise directs this swords and sandals epic. Young Trojan Prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta hoping to negotiate a peace treaty to end the war between Troy and Greece. Washed ashore following a storm, Paris meets the beautiful Helen (Rossana Podesta) and unaware that she is the...  More

The Legend of Suriyothai
(2001) [MA]

Set in 16th century Thailand over the course of 57 years (1491-1548), this is an epic tale and political history of the Kingdom of Ayothaya, culminating in the story of Queen Phra Suriyothai (Bhirombhakdi), who rode into battle against the Burmese invasion to protect her husband at the Battle of...  More

Angels in America
(2003) [MA]

Based on Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America is a sweeping film, both epic and intimate, which explores the politics, morality and search for hope in the story of six interconnected characters and an Angel, in the complex and turbulent world of New York in the late 1980's.  More

The Godfather Part 3
(1990) [M]

In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican,...  More

Musa: The Warrior
(2001) [MA]

It is 1375 and tribal clans are at war. When the Korean peace envoys are betrayed, they escape and stumble across a Ming Princess (Zyang Zi-Yi - Star of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and the vengeful Yan army follows in hot pursuit. Musa is an epic re-telling of the Kurosawa masterpiece Seven...  More

The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic...  More

1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More

The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit...  More

Satyricon
(1969) [M]

"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More

The Alamo
(1960) [PG]

John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this epic chronicle of one of America's defining moments. This magnificent movie tells the gripping story of those brave Texans at the San Antonio Mission, known as the Alamo, who sacrifice their lives to halt the Mexican army of General Santa Anna. The...  More

The Adventures Of Marco Polo
(1938) [G]

Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow, but his evil aide Ahmed wants to get rid of Kublai Khan so he can be emperor, and to get rid of Marco Polo so he...  More

King Of Kings
(1961) [G]

"An intelligent, imaginative movie devoid of conventional Hollywood pieties." -Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide., Who is Jesus and why does he powerfully impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would...  More

The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) [G]

The Greatest Story Ever Told is director George Stevens' magnificent Biblical film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint. The story of Jesus of Nazareth (played by Max Von Sydow), from his humble birth to his crucifixion and ultimate resurrection. Lavishly...  More

Olympia (2 tape set)
(1938) [E]

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the President of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which were being staged by Goebbels as a giant propaganda exercise. Using 44 cameramen and a staff of hundreds Leni shot over 300,000 feet of film.  More

Ivan The Terrible: Part 2 (The Boyar's Plot)
(1946) [PG]

The second part of Sergei Eisenstein's baroque chronicle of the legendary Russian czar was originally planned as a three-part epic. But Eisenstein had battles with Russian censors over the second part of his trilogy, ostensibly because of a negative depiction of Ivan's secret police force (Stalin...  More

Broken Blossoms
(1919) [M]

A Chinese man visits London in the hope that he can bring the message of Buddha to others. He falls in love with the daughter of a prize fighter and cares for her when she is beaten. Their friendship is to prove fateful... Silent with the original 1919 orchestral score by Louis F. Gottschalk....  More

The Battleship Potemkin
(1925) [PG]

After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed...  More

Gone With The Wind
(1939) [PG]

David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is "the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking," Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said: "it looks better than it has in years." This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards...  More

Ben-Hur
(1959) [PG]

Having swept the board at the Academy awards, Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history, winning eleven Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive $15 million budget, this 1950's epic movie has always...  More

Lawrence Of Arabia (2 Disc Set)
(1962) [PG]

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The film recalls his life's adventures: as a young intelligence...  More