First Born
(1989) [PG]

Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into society. But Gor can't help...  More

Twin Peaks (Pilot)
(1990) [M]

The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding...  More

The Invaders: Vol 2 of 3 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

David Vincent, an architect returning home after a hard day, parks his car in an old ghost town in order to rest for a while before continuing on home. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, something wakes him: a strange object, nonhuman, that is landing in front of his eyes. From this moment he...  More

35 Up
(1991) [G]

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.  More

Edward And Mrs Simpson (2 tape set)
(1991) [PG]

7x50min episodes (2 tapes). While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furore in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his...  More

Callan
(1970) [M]

Edward Woodward in his award-winning role as Callan. Callan is a cold blooded secret service agent - a professional killer with his own standards of ethics, but he is also a susceptible human being. He sees every side of love and death in his work - espionage and counter-espionage, love and hate,...  More

The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (1981)
(1981) [G]

When the Earth is destroyed a Vogon Demolition Fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent joins his friend Ford Prefect (who turns out to be a researcher for an electronic reference guide called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) for a galactic voyage on which they meet Zaphod...  More

The Hobbit (1977)
(1977) [G]

A homebody demi-human in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novel.  More

The Return Of The King (1980)
(1980) [G]

This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas...  More

The Case Of The Mukkinese Battlehorn
(1956) [G]

This film is an adaptation of an episode from the long-running BBC radio program "The Goon Show", which featured Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This hilarious outing is filled with keen-edged, outrageous British comedy that features the reunion of many veterans of the Goon Show...  More

Hotel Du Lac
(1986) [PG]

Romantic novelist Edith Hope is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva, where her friends have advised her to retreat following an unfortunate incident. There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey and her daughter Jennifer, and an attractive middle-aged man, Mr Neville....  More

Sticky Moments (Best Of)
(1990) [PG]

Six contestants, previously chosen by Julian from the crowd waiting outside, were brought on stage by "the lovely Hugh" (who also kept score and did not, for example, read them off a card that seemed a bit too far away). They would each chat to Julian about the things they wrote on the form they...  More

Ben Elton Live: The Very Best Of
(1994) [M]

The best from comedian Ben Elton: On February 24th 1991, Ben Elton will have been performing as a stand-up comedian for ten years. This concert, recorded live at the London Astoria, celebrates a decade of humour recalling his most classic routines.  More

Christabel
(1988) [PG]

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends...  More

A Voyage Round My Father
(1982) [PG]

John Mortimer's autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father, about his relationship with lawyer father Clifford Mortimer (Sir Laurence Olivier). Alan Bates co-stars as the younger Mortimer, who must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself. His father, a successful...  More

Smiley's People (2 disc set)
(1982) [M]

The bespectacled spy master is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus' – and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably,...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 1: The 1930s
(1993) [G]

Part-one in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 2: The 1940s
(1993) [G]

Part-two in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 3: The 1950s
(1993) [G]

Part-three in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 4: The 1960s
(1993) [G]

Part-four in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

Stalin
(1992) [PG]

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. A brilliant made-for-television production with a superb cast. Won 3 Golden Globes.  More

The Best Intentions
(1992) [PG]

Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille...  More

The Far Pavilions
(1984) [PG]

HBO's first mini-series, set in 19th century British colonial India, involves war battles, love, treachery and intrigue as well as love and honor involving a romance between a British calvary officer and an Indian princess who has been promised in an arranged marriage to a despotic ruler.  More

Julius Caesar
(1979) [G]

Shakespeare's greatest Roman tragedy breaks all conventional rules of drama, creating neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Director Herbert Wise, who also directed the great BBC dramas I Claudius and Elizabeth R, brilliantly convey s a world of personal and political conflict while allowing...  More

The Infinity Series: Volume 1 of 2 (2 tape set)
(1999) [G]

Part 1 of 4: 'The Solar System'. Moving pictures and photographs from NASA and leading observatories, plus exciting animation, create this fascinating and striking video. Made by the same creative team that produced the official Apollo Mission Films for NASA.

Part 2 of 4: 'Deep Space,...  More

The Infinity Series: Volume 2 of 2 (2 tape set)
(1999) [G]

Part 3 of 4: 'The Light Beyond Light & Life'. The Stygian depths of space - no shining stars, no titanic illuminations of galaxies - seemingly empty volumes which contain at least 90% of all the material in the universe - in interstellar and intergalactic space the human fantasy of invisibility...  More

A Year In Provence (2 Tape Set)
(1992) [PG]

Peter Mayle’s best seller, recounting the first year he and his wife spent in Provence, is brought wonderfully to life in this BBC adaptation starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. Having decided to leave the rat race behind them, the Mayles head of to the South of France. However, everything...  More

Lipstick On Your Collar (2-Tape Set)
(1993) [M]

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock 'n' roll music and the intrigue of romantic entanglements. Written by Dennis Potter.  More

Pollyanna
(1973) [G]

This is a made-for-television dramatization of Eleanor H. Potter's timeless classic.  More

Bananas In Pyjamas: Birthday Special
(1992) [G]

The bananas, B1 and B2 and the teddies Amy, Lulu and Morgan have lots of fun together - and they get up to lots of mischief as well! Follow their adventures through these delightful stories.  More