War

• Gallipoli | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (-14.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An outstanding drama, Gallipoli resonates with sadness long after you have seen it. Set during World War I, this brutally honest antiwar movie was cowritten by director Peter Weir. Mark Lee and a sinfully handsome Mel Gibson are young, idealistic best friends who put aside their hopes and dreams when they join the war effort. This character study follows them as they enlist and are sent to Gallipoli to fight the Turks. The first half of the film is devoted to their lives and their strong friendship. The second half details the doomed war efforts of the Aussies, who are no match for the powerful and aggressive Turkish army. Because the script pulls us into their lives and forces us to care for these young men, we are devastated by their fate. --Rochelle O'Gorman.

• The Great Raid | Blu Ray | (21/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Now in high definition starring James Franco (127 Hours, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order, Traffic), Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Enemy at the Gates).Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalized, starved and tortured, the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945, an American battalion, with the help of Filipino guerrillas, planned a daring mission - some called it suicide - to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there. This film tells that story in glorious detail. The story is based on two books, The Great Raid: Rescuing The Doomed Ghosts Of Bataan And Corregidor by William B. Breuer and Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account Of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides. In addition, several men involved in the raid served as consultants on the project. The result is a thrilling, agonizing, and unforgettable war movie like they used to make in the 1940s and 1950s, a celebration of the human spirit.The Great Raid stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt. Colonel Mucci, an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead the dangerous mission. Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson and Marton Csokas as Captain Redding, who is always trying to escape. Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp.

• Too Late the Hero | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £15.43   |  Saving you £-9.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Three years after he made 'The Dirty Dozen', Robert Aldrich returned to the theme of war and not only produced and directed but wrote the story and screenplay for this action-packed adventure epic, featuring reluctant heros and a stunning climax!It is WWII, November 1942 and the U.S launches a major naval offensive in the South Pacific. To ensure battle plans remain secret, a Japanese radio installation must be destroyed and so American naval officer (Cliff Robertson) is ordered by his commander (Henry Fonda) to join a squad of British misfits on a suicide mission to take out the facility. Michael Caine is one of the misfits - a cynical soldier who'd just as likely shoot his commanding officer as obey him. However, when the ragtag band learn of secret Japanese plans, what began as a simple suicide mission becomes a war.

• The Holcroft Covenant | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.85   |  Saving you £1.14 (16.64%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Hidden deep beneath the burning city of Berlin in the final days of World War Two three German generals embarked on an audacious plan to correct the wrongs perpetrated by the Nazi party. A sacred pact was signed funds allocated and events put into motion that 40 years later would see the first sons of the three generals head a foundation The Holcroft Covenant now worth .5 billion. Such a vast sum of money is bound to attract some unwanted attention. Murder conspiracy and danger are at the heart of this compelling thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Robert Ludlum.

• Make It Happen | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £5.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (259.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "Make it Happen" is the uplifting story of how hard work and determination can make any dream come true.

• Belle De Jour | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £18.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (34.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Undoubtedly Luis Bunuel's most accessible film Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine the glacially beautiful sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Cl''menti) and ignites an obsession that will court peril.

• Cashmere Mafia | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Following in the Jimmy Choos of Sex and the City and Ally McBeal Cashmere Mafia is a modern tale of four ambitious professional women as they struggle to balance lives and careers in New York City. Starring Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels 1+2 Ally McBeal) Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings Trilogy) Frances O'Connor (AI) and Bonnie Somerville (TV's Wedding Wars) and Directed by Payton Reed (Down with Love Bring it On)

• The Dirty Dozen - The Fatal Mission | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Dirty Dozen are sent on a dangerous mission to intercept and eliminate a cadre of idealistic young Nazi officers being sent to the Middle East in preparation for the establishment of a Fourth Reich after the war's imminent end...

• Frozen Silence | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  How do you find a murderer amidst the chaos, death and destruction of the Second World War? On the Russian Front in the harsh winter of 1943, a series of bodies, hideously mutilated and carved with bizarre symbols and messages, are discovered. Arturo, a world-weary police inspector, now serving his country in the brutal regime of the military, makes it his personal mission to track down the killer, a cunning, vicious entity seemingly intent on making known a diabolical master plan, one that m...

• Seven Pounds | Blu Ray | (25/05/2009) from £10.44   |  Saving you £17.54 (235.44%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Seven Pounds" tells the emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers forever.

• Nine Men | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £10.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (48.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The North Africa campaign. When their lorry is destroyed by enemy aircraft nine soldiers are forced to make a stand in an abandoned desert hut against almost overwhelming Italian forces.

• Beyond The Front Line | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  War drama following a group of Swedish-speaking troops fighting in the Continuation War, a conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that took place during World War II. The film is based on the diaries of platoon leader Harry J�rv, played onscreen by Tobias Zilliacus, and endeavours to remain faithful to his memories of the war - to the extent that genuine photographs taken during the battles by J�rv are intercut with the live action recreations of the skirmishes which show the leader st...

• Gardens of Stone - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A major box office hit in its day despite being banned in three American states Scarlet Street is seen by many as one of Fritz Lang's finest films. Its film-noire setting sees Edward G. Robinson in one of his most emphatic performances as a middle-aged cashier Chris Cross who has a chance meeting with the wayward Kitty (Joan Bennett). Trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and desperate to be a painter Chris falls in love with Kitty. Kitty however is already under the spell of her conman boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea) and as Chris becomes obsessed with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty Johnny senses an opportunity to extort money from the love struck cashier.

• The Boys In Company C | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £17.77   |  Saving you £-4.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Recognised as the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket Boys of Company C is a high-end member of the cannon of classic battle-field movies and a frighteningly realistic critique of the pointlessness and corruption universally associated with the US/Vietnam war. Boys of Company C follows the lives of five nave young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.

• King Rat | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They made him the toughest among them..... The Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi in Singapore which houses Allied prisoners of war is a living hell. The great mass of prisoners that are living at sub-human subsistence level. US Army Corporal King has been living up to his surname through his control of the camp's black market and by scamming the officers and other POWs. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards.

• The Offence | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Offence

• 71 - Into the Fire | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £15.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (13.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  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! Their astonishing bravery under fire enabled allied forces to hold a strategic bridgehead at the Nakdong River and gain a tactical advantage that would help turn the tide of the entire war. Nothing less than the freedom of their nation was at stake. Their ingenuity tenacity and brotherhood helped them to achieve the impossible. This is their remarkable true story... Now discover one of the greatest events in modern military history and re-live the day when courage came of age.

• A Midnight Clear | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With an all-star cast led by Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Kevin Dillon and Peter Berg, A Midnight Clear is a classic war movie that has won critical acclaim and a cult following.As the end of World War II approaches a group of American soldiers are assigned to watch activity amidst the stark snow covered landscape of the French-German border and soon discover a battle weary enemy reluctant to fight. As Christmas approaches the two sides begin to communicate, establish some common ground and even sing carols together. They agree to fake a battle so the Germans can be captured without bloodshed or loss of honour. But things are never that simple in war.Based on the novel by William Wharton.

• Aces High | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This classic film on World War 1 based on R. C. Sheriff's 1929 London and Broadway stageplay Journey's End stars Malcolm Mc Dowell Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. Aces High his Jack Gold's adaptation on the big screen of the story of a naive young officer straight from school arriving on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. Moving the setting of the play from trenches to the Flying Corps in France during 1916 Jack Gold focuses on the young British airmen of 76 Squadron. Croft (Firth) a public school boy turned RFC officer arrives in France to take over as Second Lieutenant of a British detachment. He has deliberately manoeuvred his way into this particular position in order to be with Gresham (McDowell) an old boy from his school who has becoming something of a flying ace. But he isn't prepared for what he finds - Gresham is an alcoholic cynic whose brilliance in the air is at least partly due to drunken bravado. The other officers don't inspire a great deal of confidence either. Crawford (Ward) is a terrified coward who has faked illness in order to avoid combat and Sinclair (Plummer) is an avuncular veteran who tries to make the place as much like home as possible. Over the course of a few days Croft is introduced into various facts of life; sex drink horror and the hell of 20th Century warfare.