The Americanization of Emily
(1964) [G]

During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become...  More

Sands of Iwo Jima
(1949) [G]

John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose...  More

Shout at the Devil
(1976) [M]

During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.  More

Saving Private Ryan
(1998) [MA]

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy, two brothers lay dead in the wake of the onslaught. Meanwhile, in New Guinea, a third brother has been killed fighting the Japanese. After the Army General Staff learns that a fourth brother is missing in the French countryside, a rescue mission is...  More

The Great Escape (Special 2 disc edition)
(1963) [PG]

Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The...  More

The Year of Living Dangerously
(1982) [M]

Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Guy soon is the hottest reporter on the story with the help of his photographer,...  More

The Lighthorsemen
(1987) [PG]

A true epic of triumph, courage and adventure THE LIGHTHORSEMEN focuses on a four-man section of the Australian Light Horse Regiment and climaxes with the last great cavalry charge in history. 1917: The British campaign in Palestine is stalemated - the Turco-German army holds a formidable line...  More

Richard III (1995)
(1995) [M]

William Shakespeare's classic play is brought into the present with the setting as Great Britain in the 1930s. Civil war has erupted with the House of Lancaster on one side, claiming the right to the British throne and hoping to bring freedom to the country. Opposing is the House of York,...  More

Atonement
(2007) [MA]

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.  More

North and South: The Trilogy (Disc 1)
(1985)

This Emmy Award winning powerful adaptation of John Jakes' best-seller tells the story of the turbulent events and emotions that ignited the Civil War. In the tradition of "Gone With The Wind", this glorious epic focuses on the lives of two families who are geographically and ideologically placed...  More

Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier)
(1963) [M]

Godard, who once said, " All you need for a movie is fun and a girl," is one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th Century, and introduced many techniques that have improvised dialogue. Asked by a fellow filmmaker if he would at least admit that a film should have a beginning, middle and...  More

Slaughterhouse-Five
(1972) [M]

Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) has a problem with time and keeps jumping between three key scenes in his life. The "present" is a glowing suburban bliss; the "past" is being a prisoner of World War II and experiencing the firebombing of Dresden from the wrong side; the "future" is on the planet...  More

Come and See (Idi i smotri)
(1985) [M]

Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in...  More

The Kingdom
(2007) [MA]

Jamie Foxx stars as FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who has just received the assignment of his career: assemble an elite team to hunt down and capture the Islamic terrorist mastermind responsible for a deadly suicide attack on Americans working in Saudi Arabia. There’s a catch: The Feds have...  More

Force 10 from Navarone
(1978) [M]

In the darkest days of World War II, Hitlers armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Harrison Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he will need the help of the most skilled and lethal...  More

Black Book
(2006) [MA]

Set during the end of WWII, Black Book is the story of Rachel Stein (van Houten) who is separated from her family and forced into hiding. Trying to flee to Allied territory, she is briefly reunited with her family, until they are murdered by the Nazis. Suspecting they have been double crossed,...  More

Innocent Voices
(2005) [M]

1980s El Salvador: Government forces are recruiting 12 year olds. Chava has just one year of innocence left before he too will be conscripted to fight against the peasant rebels. Armed only with the love of his mother and a small radio that broadcasts a forbidden anthem of peace, and faced with...  More

The Bridge at Remagen
(1969) [PG]

In 1945, the Allies are making their final advance into German territory, and only one strategic bridge on the Rhine River remains in Nazi hands. Both sides have much to gain: the Germans, the lives of 50,000 soldiers stationed on the wrong side of the bridge; and the Allies, a quicker end to the...  More

Ivan's Childhood
(1974) [M]

The first full-length feature film by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Ivan's Childhood caused a popular sensation in cinema world. The film was highly praised by the great 20th-century French writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It got various comments from prominent international cultural...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 5 (The Cruellest Day / The Spectator)
(2004) [R]

The Cruellest Day: On March 20 1994, RAI TV news reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin were killed in ambush in Mogadishu, Somalia. Their investigative reporting had brought them too close to a truth they were not supposed to uncover. The Cruellest Day is a powerful drama which...  More

The Last King of Scotland
(2006) [MA]

As Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Forest Whitaker gives "one of the great performances of modern movie history" (The Wall Street Journal), one that the Associated Press calls "nothing short of Oscar-worthy." This is Amin's incredible story as seen through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy),...  More

Is Paris Burning?
(1966) [PG]

Star-heavy WWII epic set in the closing days of the Nazis' rule of Paris. The allied advance is almost upon the capital of France. The French Resistance struggles to take back its city fighting tooth and nail to avoid the Nazis' clear intention of torching the city upon exit. Realistically...  More

The Tiger and The Snow
(2005) [M]

In 1997’s LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, Roberto Benigni found international success by accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making a moving comedy set during the Holocaust. Nearly a decade later, he similarly uses Dante’s INFERNO as a template to mold a romantic comedy around the early days of...  More

Five Graves to Cairo
(1943) [PG]

June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border: Corporal John Bramble. Finding refuge at a remote desert hotel-soon to be the German HQ-To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new...  More

Flags of Our Fathers (2 disc set)
(2006) [MA]

On the front line, there's no time for fear. For 70,000 marines the battle for Iwo Jima was more than the turning point of Wrold War II; it was the defining moment in their lives. In the epic that The New York Times calls "a sweeping spectacle", Academy Award Winning director Clint Eastwood taps...  More

Darling Lili
(1970) [M]

Musical set in World War II starring Julie Andrews as Lili Smith, a famous femme fatale music-hall singer with a dark secret: she is also working as a German spy. Things are further complicated for Lili when she is ordered to seduce the dashing Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and finds...  More

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

Blood Diamond
(2006) [MA]

Edward Zwick directs this tale of a prized diamond, the hands through which it passes and the inhumanity that results from man's greed. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a former Zimbabwean mercenary now living in Sierra Leone during the '91-'00 civil war. Archer hears that an imprisoned Mende...  More

The Wind That Shakes The Barley
(2006) [M]

Ireland, 1920. As a wave of Republican nationalism sweeps the nation, workers across the country unite to form volunteer armies to combat the notorious 'Black and Tan' paramilitary squads sent over from Britain to quell the rebel uprising. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his native...  More

Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969) [G]

The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, presented as the "new attraction" at the Brighton Amusement Pier, complete with syrupy cheer-up songs, shooting galleries, free prizes and a scoreboard toting up the dead The Story focuses mainly on the members of one family (last...  More