Items Matching Tag 'War'

The Front Line (Blu-ray Details)
Experience breath-taking action sequences and heart-wrenching performances in this critically acclaimed Korean box-office smash-hit. In the final decisive battles of The Korean War, the battle-worn armies of North and South Korea face a brutal deadlock on the rugged Aerok Hills. Fears of treachery and collusion with enemy forces trigger an investigation into the men of the South Korean...

Time To Remember (DVD Details)
The TV series Time To Remember was a benchmark in documentary-making. Originally produced in the 1960s, it touched on all aspects of life in the first half of the Twentieth Century using British Pathé's unique blend of political, social, and cultural history. This revised BBC version re-interprets the material thematically in 12 episodes, while retaining the enduring charm of the original series...

Hiroshima Mon Amour (DVD Details)
Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking first feature, Hiroshima Mon Amour, was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering, which Resnais’...

Night and Fog (DVD Details)
Ten years following the Holocaust, Alain Resnais documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz while reflecting on the rise of Nazi ideology and the harrowing lives of the camp prisoners using haunting wartime footage. Night and Fog was one of the first films made about the Holocaust and remains one of the most important commentaries about this topic. François Truffaut had high praise for Night and...

The Round Up (DVD Details)
A gripping story ignored until relatively recently, THE ROUND UP also features a prestigious cast including Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code) Gad Elmaleh (Comme ton Pére) and Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds). Based on meticulous research and told through the story of several Jewish families who find themselves taken unawares by the ferocious turn of events, the film portrays the few weeks in...

Went The Day Well (Special Edition) (DVD Details)
Based on the story by Grahame Greene, Went The Day Well? Is a classic piece of propagandist entertainment, a warning to British citizens to remain ever alert for the arrival of the enemy. Alberto Cavalcanti's film tells the story of a quiet English village which has been infiltrated by German Soldiers masquerading as British Troops, leaving the plucky villages to uncover the plot and fight back.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (Blu-ray Details)
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Spectacularly produced, and the winner of seven Academy Awards' (1957) including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Alec Guinness), The Bridge On The River Kwai...

The Thin Red Line (Blu-ray Details)
A powerful front-line cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick), The Thin Red Line is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece.

Tigerland (Blu-ray Details)
Just released from the base stockade, recruit Roland Bozz (Colin Farrell) joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. Bozz's independence and outright defiance draws fire from his own men as well as commanding officers. But when the platoon is sent to Tigerland, a hellish training ground that is the last stop before Vietnam, Bozz's leadership and loyalty bring his men...

Platoon (Blu-ray Details)
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director, this harrowingly realistic war film (based on director Oliver Stone's firsthand experience) arrives on Blu-ray for the first time in this 25th Anniversary Edition - loaded with explosive extras that take you to the front lines of moviemaking. Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen, Platoon is a powerful, riveting...

Max Schmeling: Fist of The Reich (DVD Details)
Tough, brutal and utterly compelling, The Fist of the Reich tells the story of one man’s fight for survival against the might of the Third Reich. A world champion boxer during the 1930s, Max Schmeling became a symbol of German strength and superiority. But due to his outspoken views he soon lost favour with those in power and was forced to throw off his gloves and don a Nazi uniform. Now he would...

Nazi Hunters (DVD Details)
A 13 part TV series on Yesterday depicting the relentless hunt of war criminals who, after committing some of the most atrocious crimes in history, have avoided retribution ... until now. Determined to lay justice on these perpetrators, the Nazi Hunters from Churchill to the SAS do anything and everything in their power, even if it means going against everything they believe in, to right the...

The Siege (Book Details)
Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, THE SIEGE draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter. It is a story about war and the wounds it inflicts on people's lives. It is...

71 - Into The Fire (DVD Details)
Experience a masterpiece of World Cinema with incredible hyper-realistic full-scale battle sequences to rival 'The Pacific' and 'Saving Private Ryan'. On August 11th, 1950, 71 boy soldiers of the South Korean army singlehandedly held back the elite North Korean 766 Commando Brigade for a full 11 hours. Most were still in their school uniforms and had only fired a single bullet in training!...

Paradox Soldiers (DVD Details)
Whilst enjoying a World War 2 reenactment weekend, a group of young men stumble upon a time vortex; transporting themselves back to the war-torn Russian front. Trying to avoid capture by Nazi troops becomes mission one, but in doing so the disparate bunch become caught up in one of the conflict's most pivotal battles... and thus risk changing the course of history forever.

Red and White (DVD Details)
In 1947, the war was over for the rest of the world. In Indonesia it was just beginning. Set against the historically authentic backdrop of Indonesia’s fight for Independence, Red and White is the story of a fictional band of revolutionary cadets facing a massive Dutch onslaught. When their classmates are massacred, the four survivors overcome deep differences in religion, class and personality...

The Lost Patrol (DVD Details)
John Ford’s epic story of boiling passions amongst the burning sands, in which twelve battered, fighting men battle it out to the death. Set during the First World War, a small British Army group is set out on a mission to the Mesopotamian desert but disaster strikes when their commanding officer is shot by an Arab sniper. Unaware of their intended destination, their Sergeant (Victor McLagen)...

The Pacific: Hell on Earth (The History Channel) (DVD Details)
The devastating truth of the war in the Pacific Individual stories of heroism and courage are explored in the exact spots where the Pacific theatre of war took place, as young soldiers took on the seemingly invincible and increasingly desperate Japanese army in a series of bitter and hard-fought battles. From Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan to Guam, Leyte, Okinawa and Iwo Jima,...

This Is War (DVD Details)
In July 2002, First Lieutenant Mike Scotti volunteered to extend his service with the American Marine Corps; six months later, he was propelled to the front line of one of the most notorious and complex military campaigns of our time; Operation Iraqi Freedom. Marching through the deserts of a crumbling regime, Scotti records the soldiers’ progress to Baghdad on his personal mini DV-camera....

The Burmese Harp: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
A rhapsodic celebration of song, a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality, and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; even amongst the riches of 1950s' Japanese cinema, The Burmese Harp, directed by Kon Ichikawa (Alone Across the Pacific, Tokyo Olympiad), stands as one of the finest achievements of its era. At the close of World War II, a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to...

D-Day (Book Details)
Publishers synopsis: The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both...

Katyn (Blu-ray Details)
Katyn is the story of Polish army officers murdered by the Russia secret police in the Katyn Forest during the Second World War and the families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers to return. It is a film about the continuing struggle over history and memory, and an uncompromising exploration of the Russian cover up of the massacre that...

Winter in Wartime (Blu-ray Details)
January 1945. Nazi occupied Holland lies under a blanket of snow. A young man, Michiel, defiant in his hatred for the Nazis, inadvertently receives a map detailing the hiding place of a crashed RAF pilot and sets off to prove his worth. He finds the pilot, Jack, badly injured, but the situation becomes more desperate when a dead Nazi trooper is found and the hunt for the killer commences....

Shadow Makers (DVD Details)
Based on the true events surrounding the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built, Shadow Makers is the story of brilliant scientist Robert Oppenheimer who supervised the work on the now infamous "Manhattan Project". Directed by Oscar-nominated Roland Joffe, the film focuses on the link between the progress of science at all costs, deep moral...

The Marine 2 (DVD Details)
A relaxing five-star holiday turns into an all out battleground for Marine recon sniper Joe Linwood when a group of local rebels seize control of the hotel taking the billionaire owner, and a group of guests, including Joe's wife, hostage. With the victims in danger of being brutally murdered, Joe takes matters into his own hands in order to save his wife from certain death.

Johnny Got His Gun: Special Edition (DVD Details)
On the last day of the First World War a young solider (Joe) is involved in an explosion. He wakes up in hospital a shell of the man he used to be. Now without his arms and legs, the use of his eyes, ears or mouth yet remaining conscious and still able to reason he struggles to decipher between reality and nightmares. Trapped inside his own mind when he finally learns how to communicate he asks...

The Army of Crime (DVD Details)
In German-occupied Paris, poet and factory worker Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian, Rage, Casino Royale) leads a group of young Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians and Armenians determined to fight to free the country they love, France, their refuge from the fascist dictatorships overtaking home countries. Undercover, risking their lives, they become heroes. These foreign...

The Hurt Locker (DVD Details)
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death....

1941 (Steven Spielberg) (DVD Details)
An utterly wild comedy epic directed by Steven Spielberg and nominated for three Academy Awards®. Lavish effects sequences highlight this hilarious, all star extravaganza set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese Invasion threw the city into a state of Pandemonium. Screwball characters run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic servicemen, zealous...

Terminator Salvation: Director's Cut (Blu-ray Details)
In the aftermath of Judgement Day and the takeover by the machines, John Connor (Christian Bale, The Dark Knight), the destined leader of the human resistance, must counterattack Skynet's devastating plan to terminate mankind. As Connor rallies his underground street fighters for a last, desperate battle, he realises that to save the future he must rescue his own father, Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin,...