War

• The War Collection Volume 2 | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the blood-stained beaches of Dunkirk to the terror of young aircraft pilots in the depths of war, through to a case of mistaken identity in the German POW camps. From a quiet English village on alert of the arrival of the enemy to the life of an RAF fighter station during the Battle of Britain. Featuring outstanding performances from acting greats such as John Mills and Malcom McDowell, these five classic war films are tales of survival, resolve and bravery. DUNKIRK Dunkirk follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo, where the British Army attempted to rescue fellow soldiers and Allied troops from Nazi-occupied France. Starring John Mills. ACES HIGH New air force recruit Peter Firth takes an instant dislike to his embittered squadron leader, Malcolm McDowell. But as the young pilot experiences the tensions and stresses of warfare, his dislike turns to admiration. WENT THE DAY WELL? A rare foray into darker material by Ealing Studios, Alberto Cavalcanti's film tells the story of a quiet English village, infiltrated by German soldiers masquerading as British troops, leaving the plucky villagers to uncover the plot and fight back. THE CAPTIVE HEART WW2 drama based on a true story about a Czech Captain (Michael Redgrave) who to conceal his identity, pretends to be a dead British officer. After being thrown into a German POW camp the other inmates begin to doubt his story and he must do all he can to convince them he's not a spy. ANGELS ONE FIVE The Battle of Britain as seen through the eyes of the operations room of a Kent fighter station during the summer of 1940. A young, inexperienced pilot has trouble settling into squadron life.

• The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.26

  Contains: A Generation (a.k.a Pokolenie): Set against the German occupation of Poland during World War Two this is the story of a group of youths and their coming of age. Canal (a.k.a Kanal): Set during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 this is the story of a company of men who are forced to say goodbye to their families and retreat to the sewers in a bid to flee the advancing deadly battle. Ashes And Diamonds (a.k.a Popiol i Diament): On the last day of World War Two a young Resistance fighter is ordered to kill a Communist leader. However his conscience is telling him not to obey knowing the consequences could be deadly he must decide whether to follow his orders for the last time.

• Stalag Luft | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Upper class twit Wing Commander Forrester (Stephen Fry) is imprisoned in Stalagluft a German WW2 POW camp. He devises a plan with Cosgrove (Nicholas Lyndhurst) for a mass escape and digging begins on five tunnels Tom Dick Harry Julian and Gladys. Assuming the name ‘Big F’ Forrester believes his plan will succeed because his German captors are old and incompetent. Realising the vulnerability of his position Camp Kommandant (Geoffrey Palmer) requests that his officers are allowed to join the escape. Once the Germans have escaped through the tunnel the allies get cold feet and decide to remain in the POW camp and run it themselves. The only problem being that there are now no Germans so Forrester assumes the role of Camp Kommandant and enlists the help of some German speaking POW’s but will they convince the visiting SS guards with hilarious consequences.

• Invincible (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/07/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Invincible was the first dramatic work by Werner Herzog in a decade. He assembled a typically eclectic cast including Tim Roth (Meantime), Udo Kier (Exposé) and two-time World's Strongest Man Jouko Ahola and blended the lives of three equally eclectic real-life figures Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart, Austrian clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen, and German chief of police Count Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff in order to interweave fact and fiction in his typically idiosyncratic way. This Indicator Blu-ray edition presents the film in a new restoration from a 4K scan with both its English and German soundtracks. Special Features New 2K restoration from a 4K scan Original English and German soundtracks, available in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo Audio commentary with director Werner Herzog, in German with optional, newly translated English subtitles (2002) New interview with director of photography Peter Zeitlinger (2021) UK theatrical trailer German theatrical trailer US theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Newly translated English subtitles for the German soundtrack Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jason Wood, archival articles and interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies Extras subject to change

• Deewaar | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vijay and Ravi two souls two brothers who once shared the joys and sorrows together had to be separated by a WALL built on truth and justice. Ravi had in his the veins toughness of his father tender love of his mother and undying affection of his brother. But the Wall of duty would not allow a re-union. Vijay had experienced the bitterness of life. He carried the stigma of his father's indiscretion committed out of love for his wife and children and under duress of blackmail. This stigma could not be washed as it was tatooed on his hand to be borne till death. Vijay could not forget his life on the streets and the nights of starvation and poverty. The abuses slung at his mother remained imprinted in his heart. Torture and torments turned him into a rebel. On the other side was Ravi a believer in the rules of road conscious of duties to society and law. This was the Wall a Wall of dogmas separating the brothers each one's opposed to the other's. The only link of affection between the brother's was their Mother. But when she learnt the palace Vijay had built stood on crime and sin she was full of remorse. All the wealth of Vijay could not lesson her grief. She went with Ravi on the other side of the Wall deserting Vijay on his side full of misery and loneliness. A day dawned and this wall crumbled down leaving a void as big as an ocean which could not be gulfed by all the tenderness love and affection.

• 21 | Blu Ray | (08/09/2008) from £6.50   |  Saving you £18.49 (284.46%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "21" is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions.

• Odette | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A classic tale of bravery and courage during WWII, Odette tells the true story of female war hero Odette Hallowes. After volunteering her services to the Special Operations Executive, Odette is dispatched into Nazi occupied France and thrown into an intense world of espionage. Whilst on a deadly mission working for the French Resistance, her cover is blown and Odette is captured and interrogated by ruthless Gestapo officers. But, even after being brutally tortured and sentenced to death in a concentration camp, Odette still refuses to reveal any information concerning her original mission and her fellow spies. Extras: Those British Faces: Anna Neagle, New interview with Sebastian Faulks, Afternoon Plus with Mavis Nicholson - Interview with Odette Sansom (1980), Captain Peter Churchill And Odette Sanson Get Married In London (1947

• Frost/Nixon | Blu Ray | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make.

• Strictly Ballroom | Blu Ray | (23/06/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) is a talented ballroom dancing champion who longs to dance his own steps. this results in being dumped by his partner and chastened by all those around him except two people. One is Fran the ugly duckling of the school who persuades him to let her dance with him and eventually steals his heart. The other is his father a quiet man dominated by his bejewelled wife. Scott knows in his heart he must follow his dreams but some are determined to see him fail. The film climaxes at the Australian Championship in a superbly choreographed and heart-warming finale.

• Red Angel | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast), Red Angel takes an unflinching look at the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a dedicated and selfless young military nurse. When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan's war with China, she and her colleagues find themselves fighting a losing battle tending to the war-wounded and emotionally shellshocked soldiers while assisting head surgeon Dr Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Okabe who, impotent to stall the mounting piles of cadavers, has retreated into his own private hell of morphine addiction. Adapted from the novel by Yorichika Arima, Masumura's harrowing portrait of women and war is considered the finest of his collaborations with Ayako Wakao (A Wife Confesses, Irezumi) and features startling monochrome scope cinematography by Setsuo Kobayashi (Fires on the Plain, An Actor's Revenge). Special Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio Optional English subtitles Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns Not All Angels Have Wings, a new visual essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum Original Trailer Image Gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Irene González-López

• Tunes Of Glory | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A gripping military drama starring Alec Guinness as Major Jock Sinclair. During World War 2 Sinclair was promoted to Acting CO of his Highland Regiment but now it has returned to Scotland a new CO (John Mills) is to be appointed; leading Jock to pit his wits against the new CO and the other officers in the Mess.

• Return From The River Kwai | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £5.89   |  Saving you £-2.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  True story of British and Australian POW's held by the Japanese in Thailand. Near the end of the war the fittest of the POW's were moved by rail and ship to Japan and during the sea journey the convoy comes under attack from an American submarine at the same time as the Allied POW's were making a daring attempt to take over the ship.

• Last Year In Marienbad | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £21.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Considered by many to be Renais' magnum opus L'Ann''e Derni''re '' Marienbad is a work of fantasy and experiment in line with the French New Wave films of the 50's and 60's. Renais and co-writer Alain Robbe-Grillet seem less concerned with the conventional use of character and more interested in the intellectual preoccupations of man. The film consists of a series of memories from a man holidaying at an enchanting European hotel. When a woman seems not to recognize him he reveals that they had spent some time together the year before and that now he has come for her. However the presence of another man in the hotel complicates matters...

• The Wind Will Carry Us | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Palme d'Or winning-director Abbas Kiarostami's acclaimed film documents the arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals - with whom they form an ambivalent relationship - to be archaeologists or telecom engineers the visitors' behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman appear strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery. Haunting and visually stunning The Wind Will Carry Us is an absorbing abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition and modernity that stands among Kiarostami's best works.

• Man From London | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four years in the making the new film from the acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker B''la Tarr is an adaptation of a novel by thriller writer Georges Simenon. Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) leads a simple life as a railway signalman barely registering the world around him. His life takes a sudden turn when he becomes a witness to a murder and he is forced to confront issues of morality sin punishment and the line between innocence and complicity. Exploring themes of desire greed and man's indestructible longing for freedom this hypnotic film bears the distinctive trademarks of Tarr's universe - fluid and stunning monochrome photography pared-down dialogue and performances (with a striking appearance by Tilda Swinton) and a hauntingly beautiful score by long-time Tarr collaborator Mih''ly V''-g.

• Jarhead: Law of Return | DVD | (11/01/2021) from £4.51   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Don Michael Paul writes and directs this action drama. When U.S. Senator Jackson (Robert Patrick)'s son Major Ronan Jackson (Devon Sawa), a fighter pilot for the Israeli Defense Force, is shot down by Hezbollah soldiers, a small band of elite fighters are sent to retrieve Ronan at all costs.

• Any Given Sunday | Blu Ray | (02/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oliver Stone's tale of a fading American football coach (played by Al Pacino) and his conflicts with the businesswoman (played by Cameron Diaz) who buys the club.

• Waiting for Anya | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the novel by War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo, Waiting for Anya tells the powerful and authentic true story of a young shepherd-boy who risks everything to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain from German-occupied France. Filmed in the town of Lecsun, France in which the true to life story also originated, the film boasts an all-stellar cast including; Stranger Things star, Noah Schnapp, Academy Award Winner Anjelica Huston (Ever After, The Addams Family), Jean Reno (Leon, The Big Blue, Ronin), Frederick Schmidt (Mission: Impossible Fallout), Thomas Kretschmann (The Pianist, Central Intelligence) and Nicholas Rowe (Riviera, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).

• Born on the Fourth of July | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £8.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Freaks Vs the Reich | DVD | (26/02/2024) from £12.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A