The Road to Guantanamo
(2006) [MA]

Michael Winterbottom's The Road To Guantanamo is the story of four friends who set off from the Midlands in September 2001 for an innocent wedding and holiday in Pakistan. Two and a half years later, only three of them returned home. Through their epic journey we hear the story of their...  More

Shoah (Disc 1 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Herzog on Music (2 disc set)
(1995) [PG]

Two disc set of Herzog’s documentaries. Features the documentaries Gesualdo: Death For Five Voices and The Transformation Of The World Into Music

GESUALDO: DEATH FOR FIVE VOICES


Exploring the tumultuous and tragic life of the notorious Carlo Gesualdo, Werner Herzog’s...  More

The Bank Job (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]

Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, The Bank Job is a highly-charged heist thriller that tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England. A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry...  More

Milk
(2008) [M]

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows...  More

Invictus
(2009) [PG]

He was imprisoned 27 years for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do after he is elected president of South Africa? He rejects revenge, forgives his oppressors and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. Clint Eastwood (the National Board...  More

90 Degrees South: Captain Robert Scott
(1933) [E]

Captain Scott described photographer Herbert Ponting as 'an artist in love with his work' and, after the tragic outcome of the 1910 expedition which cost Scott and four of his companions their lives, Ponting resolved that the grandeur of the Antarctic and Scott's heroism should not be forgotten....  More

Bonnie And Clyde
(1967) [M]

Adrift in the depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns...  More

The Truce
(1997) [M]

This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. It deals with their experiences in readjusting to life and their fears about what they will find at home.  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

Control
(2007) [MA]

Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

In this time we see Curtis grow from David Bowie-infatuated teen to Sex Pistols-inspired punk, and eventually...  More

The Man Who Never Was
(1956) [PG]

British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body is to be procured, allowed to be found with secret papers on him by Spanish...  More

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
(2007)

Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff's transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a...  More

The Duchess
(2008) [M]

Based on the remarkable, true story of the beautiful, powerful and notoriously scandalous Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess unfolds the tale of a woman who became one of the world’s first celebrities, who was adored by all the people of England, save one: her husband, the Duke. Once she...  More

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
(2005) [G]

Legendary poet, singer/songwriter and alleged ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his L.A. home about his extraordinary life and times, interspersed with old footage from his private photo collection and lavish praise plus elaborately performed Cohen cover songs from a motley crew of...  More

Frost/Nixon
(2008) [M]

From Academy Award-winning director, Ron Howard The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13), comes the electrifying, untold story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in history.

When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with jet-setting television personality, David...  More

5 Fingers
(1952) [PG]

Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador tires of being a servant and forms a plan to promote himself to rich gentleman of leisure. His employer has many secret documents; he will photograph them, and with the...  More

Joy Division
(2007) [M]

A chronological account of the influential late 1970s Manchester based rock band. JOY DIVISION follows the unlikely rise of these working class lads up to Ian Curtis's suicide which tore the band apart until it was reborn as New Order. Included here is rare footage of the group as well as their...  More

Open Water
(2004) [M]

Based on true events, Open Water follows an American couple, Daniel and Susan, (Daniel Travis and Blanchard Ryan) on an island holiday. Accidentally left behind on a scuba diving expedition, what follows is the story of their ordeal: cold, alone and miles from land, the couple is adrift in...  More

South: Sir Earnest Shackleton
(1919) [E]

When the Endurance was trapped by pack ice, the crew drifted on ice floes for months before Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a miraculous 850-mile boat journey to safety. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and...  More

Kurosawa: A Documentary
(2001) [PG]

From Rashomon (1950) to Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa set new boundaries for world cinema. His extraordinary career spanned one of Japan's most dramatic centuries and produced a string of masterpieces unrivalled in motion picture history. In the first major documentary to be made since his death in...  More

Judy Garland Collection (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc set)
(1963) [E]

The Judy Garland Collection includes four fabulous DVD's, 1. Judy, Frank & Dean Once in a Lifetime 2. Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special 3. Judy Garland Live at the London Palladium with Liza Minnelli and 4. Judy Garland - The Concert years, each DVD celebrating the life and...  More

The Sound Barrier / Hobson's Choice
(1953) [PG]

Hobson's Choice: Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a tyrannical, drunken widowed bootmaker responsible for the wellbeing of his three unruly daughters. His rule is challenged by eldest daughter Maggie (Brenda de Banzie) who marries his star bootmaker and sets up a rival shop. But will...  More

Touching the Void
(2003) [M]

May, 1985 - Peru. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ambitious young mountaineers, set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their...  More

7 Up & 14 Up (aka Seven Up! & Seven Plus Seven )
(1970) [G]

Originally shown as part of the World In Action television series, 7 Up broke new ground in British documentary filmmaking when it aired in 1964. Seen as a snapshot of the nation's future, a group of 7-year-old children, all from different walk of life, were asked about their attitudes towards...  More

Walk the Line
(2005) [M]

Joaquin Phoenix powerfully portrays Johnny Cash, a young, passionate artist who rebelled against convention and always walked his own path regardless of the consequences. His troubled childhood, along with his outlaw persona and unbridled talent led him to walk the line between genius and self...  More

The Last Emperor
(1987) [M]

Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three became ruler of nearly half the world's population. He was the "Son of Heaven", "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" and the last emperor of China.

His reign was short and three years later a...  More

Padre Padrone
(1977) [M]

The first film to win both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this haunting tale of a peasant boy's brutal coming-of-age in rural Italy established the reputation of acclaimed fraternal filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

It tells the story of Gavino,...  More

Fellini's 8 1/2 (2 disc set)
(1962) [M]

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1963, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is a dazzling mix of past and present, fantasy and reality containing all the stylistic elements and thematic obsessions that have characterised Fellini's films throughout his distinguished career. Starring...  More

The Lost Honour Of Katarina Blum
(1975) [M]

Drama based on the true account of events, which happened in Germany in the 1970s. Katharina Blum is a young attractive German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a...  More