The Purple Plain
(1954) [PG]

Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised...  More

The Wind Cannot Read
(1958) [G]

A romantic war-time drama set in India during World War II. Grounded pilot Flight Lt. Michael Quinn (Dirk Bogarde), falls for and marries Sabbi (Yoko Tani), a beautiful Japanese military language tutor suffering from an incurable brain disease...  More

Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalpyse
(1991) [M]

Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis.  More

Blackadder 4: Blackadder Goes Forth (2 disc set)
(1989) [PG]

The Western Front 1917: Captain Blackadder joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive. Now he's twenty yards from a lot of heavily armed people who want to kill him. Worse still, his brother officer is a man whose family...  More

Judgment At Nuremberg
(1961)

Stanley Kramer's powerful Judgement at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Oscars. American judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalising" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilisation and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting...  More

Apocalypse Now
(1979) [R]

Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Willard receives orders to seek out a renegade military outpost led by the mysterious Colonel Kurtz, and to "terminate his command with extreme prejudice". Willard's mission becomes an...  More

The Dressmaker
(1988) [M]

This dramatic story, based on the novel by Beryl Bainbridge and set in wartorn Liverpool, follows the lives of three women in the same household. A household that is soon disrupted by the arrival of an American suitor...  More

The Cruel Sea
(1953) [PG]

Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna star in a powerful and moving documentary-style account of life on board a British warship during World War 11. Directed by Charles Frend, it is the courageous story of the Battle of the Atlantic – a story of an ocean, a ship and...  More

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
(1943) [G]

In the Powell and Pressburger classic The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines. During the Boer War, Candy is sent to Berlin to...  More

The African Queen
(1951) [G]

Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn...  More

The Boat (Das Boot)
(1981) [M]

Widely considered to be director Wolfgang Petersen's best film and one of the finest German films ever made, DAS BOOT is stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the cramped conditions aboard a German submarine.  More

Papillon
(1973) [M]

They called him Papillon, meaning "butterfly." If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J....  More

Passage To Marseille
(1944) [PG]

Framed on a murder charge, French journalist Jean Mattrac (Humphrey Bogart) is imprisoned on the notorious Devil's Island. Escaping in a canoe with four other convicts, he is rescued by a French freighter on the eve of France's World War II surrender to the Nazi's, helping to suppress a plot to...  More

Docteur Petiot
(1990) [PG]

Based on a true story, Dr Petiot is a world war II M.D. in occupied Paris. He promises rich Jewish patients safe passage to Spain, but in fact he has far more sinister and murderous intentions. French with subtitles.  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

Silver City
(1984) [PG]

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of...  More

Empire Of The Sun (2 disc set)
(1987) [PG]

Nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of three BAFTA's, Steven Spielberg's tale of a youngster's harrowing and remarkable experiences in World War II-era China stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Ben Stiller and Leslie Phillips. Empire of...  More

The Diary Of Anne Frank
(1959) [G]

An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods, The Diary Of Anne Frank features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive...  More

Flying Leathernecks
(1951) [PG]

Marine Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is tough on his group of World War II aviators, tougher than his subordinate Captain Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan) thinks is necessary. A struggle of wills begins between the two men. However, Kirby proves that his method is more suited to the demands of war.  More

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye)
(1976) [PG]

The award-winning young director of this unusual wartime drama died shortly after beginning work on her next film. Voskhozhdeniye, which won the Grand Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is Larissa Shepitko's last complete work. As the film progresses, the inner lives and states of the...  More

Hanussen
(1988) [M]

Szabo continues his examination of the tragic history of Europe after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  More

Mephisto
(1981) [M]

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own...  More

Frontline (1981)
(1981) [PG]

David Bradbury's powerful and unforgettable Academy Award nominated masterpiece, Frontline, focuses on the horror and tragedy of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of Australian war correspondant Neil Davis.

Frontline forces us to remember the most horrific side of a war that...  More

Coming Home
(1978) [MA]

Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Hal Ashby's Coming Home earned eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars: Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Best Actor (Jon Voight) and Best Screenplay. Hailed by critics as dazzling, gripping and...  More

Ill Met By Moonlight
(1957) [G]

The final film from the creative team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring). The...  More

Above Us The Waves
(1955) [G]

The dramatic World War 2 story of Britain's heroic attempts to sink the monster German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord using midget submarines. In this adventure of unsurpassed courage, the crews of the Navy become human torpedoes  More

In Which We Serve
(1942) [G]

This is the story of a Royal Navy destroyer - based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's sailing career during the war - which is dive-bombed in the battle of Crete. As survivors cling to the life rafts, the story of the ship and its crew unfolds from the perspective of the Captain (Noel Coward), Petty...  More

The Way Ahead
(1944) [G]

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians finds training tough. Carol Reed's semi-documentary feature film was one of many flag-waving movies intended to bolster morale during World War II, but the compassion and realism of The Way Ahead (scripted by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov) ensures...  More

Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958) [PG]

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful, she joins the Resistance, where she stays until captured by the...  More

The Riddle Of The Sands
(1979) [G]

The year is 1901. Englishman Arthur Davies (Simon McCorkindale) is enjoying a single-handed sailing holiday through the islands off the North Sea Coast of Germany. A fateful encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his beautiful daughter (Jenny Agutter) arouses Davies' suspicions, and...  More