War

  • My Brother's Wedding [1983]My Brother's Wedding | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £15.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

    A 2 disc presentation set of the original version and the new Director's Cut of Burnett's warm wry drama about a young man torn between obligations to his hard-working family aspirational brother and criminally-minded friends.

  • Cleaner [Blu-ray] [2007]Cleaner | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

    The "Cleaner" is a sinister crime thriller from veteran action director Renny Harlin with a lead performance from Samuel L. Jackson.

  • Jsa (Joint Security Area) [DVD]Jsa (Joint Security Area) | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

    From the award winning director of Oldboy comes a thrilling a tale of deceit misunderstanding and the ultimate futility of war. On the hyper-militarized border between North and South Korea shots ring out and a wounded South Korean soldier stumbles back across no-mans land leaving two North Korean soldiers dead. The South Korean Army praises him as a hero but was the soldier's actions far less courageous? Is only part of the tale being told? Tough brutal and fiercely intelligent this powerful film from one of the world's most critically acclaimed new directors stars leading actors Kang-ho Song (Shiri and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance) and He-kyun Shin (Save the Green planet and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance).

  • Tigerland [Blu-ray]Tigerland | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Director Joel Schumacher's acclaimed story of a group of young US infantry men in 1971, in training for Viet Nam, at a time when not even many of the soldiers themselves believed in what they were doing.

  • King Lear (Blu Ray) [2008] [Blu-ray]King Lear (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (26/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    The Royal Shakespeare Company bring their adaptation of this lavish tale the stage with a multi-talented cast.

  • Confidence (Bizalom) [DVD]Confidence (Bizalom) | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Szab�'s Oscar-nominated 1980 feature is a haunting and moving experience dealing with complex, yet very human questions of love, trust, loyalty, and betrayal under exceptional circumstances. Janos and Kata are thrown together during WW2 and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what th...

  • The Sand Pebbles [1966]The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £14.68   |  Saving you £-1.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    'The Sand Pebbles' tell many stories. It's the story of China a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of its people - and of the Americans who are caught in its bloody awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a crewman on the USS San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of all it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) a sailor who had given up trying to make peace with anything: including himself. Nominated for nine A

  • The Desert Rats [1953]The Desert Rats | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Richard Burton stars in this exciting film about the courageous men who held off notorious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941 and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk which is manned only by a small Australian battalion whom Captain MacRoberts (Burton) must whip into shape - fast! James Mason co-stars in a stunning portrayal as Rommel in this stirring action-packed story of the World War

  • The Classic War Collection - Bridge On The River Kwai/Das Boot/Guns Of Navarone/All Quiet On The Western Front/Sands Of Iwo JimaThe Classic War Collection - Bridge On The River Kwai/Das Boot/Guns Of Navarone/All Quiet On The Western Front/Sands Of Iwo Jima | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £23.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (46.40%)   |  RRP £34.99

    This Box Set Includes: Bridge On The River Kwai (Dir. David Lean) (1957): Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards. Das Boot (Dir. Wolfgang Peterson) (1981): Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96 one of the famed German U-Boats known as 'The Grey Wolves'. Prowling the North Atlantic they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy... Guns Of Navarone (Dir. J. Lee Thompson) (1961): Exciting war film based on a novel by Alistair Maclean which tells of the attempts of a British raiding team to sabotage two giant German guns on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Carl Foreman brought Allistar MacLean's best-selling novel to the screen winning nominations for seven Academy Awards in 1961. All Quiet On The Western Front (Dir. Delbert Mann) (1980): A devastating story of war and a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of German schoolboys idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism set off to fight in the ""glorious"" war. During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins. Then boarding a train for the front they see the wounded being rushed back to the hospitals and they begin to grasp the grim reality of war. On their first night in action they come under heavy attack. In the trenches they begin to fall. Their youth is stripped away by the violence and the boys become as sullen as veterans. Sands Of Iwo Jima (Dir. Allan Dwan) (1949): Blazing action and spectacle are on the menu as battle-toughened sergeant John M Stryker (John Wayne) prepares a group of soldiers for action in the Pacific. The men have got their biggest test ahead on Iwo Jima where they have to inch their way up Mt. Suribachi under constant Japanese fire.

  • La Grande Illusion 75th Anniversary (Studio Canal Collection) [Blu-ray]La Grande Illusion 75th Anniversary (Studio Canal Collection) | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    During WWI, three French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... One of the very first prison escape movies, La Grande Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.

  • Morituri [1965]Morituri | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    World War II espionage adventure and human lives have never before been combined so explosively... Forced to pose as a SS officer German war deserter Robert Crain (Brando) must seize a German freighter booby-trapped to explode upon capture. Complicating the situation is the fact that sixteen prisoners of war are also brought on board including a beautiful young concentration camp survivor (Janet Margolin)... A captivating espionage thriller fronted by outstanding perfor

  • A Touch Of Love [1969]A Touch Of Love | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    This British drama stars Sandy Dennis as Rosamund Stacey a graduate student who embarks on an affair with a television broadcaster George played by Ian McKellen. When she falls pregnant she decides to keep the baby and raise her child by herself much to the disapproval of her town.

  • Assembly [Blu-ray]Assembly | Blu Ray | (05/05/2008) from £8.85   |  Saving you £16.14 (182.37%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Based on a true story Assembly follows one man's journey in search of truth and honour. The Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War broke out in the winter of 1948 and became one of the bloodiest battles in Chinese history. Thousands from The People's Liberation Army and the KMT Army fought in a bloodbath in between Xuzhou and Bengbu. Captain Guzidi commanding the Ninth Company led the infantry unit which consisted of a mere 46 men on a sniping mission to defend the south bank of the Wen River. His orders were to fight until the retreat assembly call was charged. After long hours of defence ammunition was running out and the number of men standing in the Ninth Company was quickly decreasing. Everyone began to wonder if they had missed the retreat bugle call. But Guzidi insisted that the bugle had not sounded and that they were to continue to battle at all costs. It was not until later when he found that all the neighbouring troops had already left the field that he realised he might have made a mistake and contributed to his men's deaths. Guzidi woke up in the hospital and discovered that due to a military re-organisation he and the 46 men who sacrificed themselves during the deadly engagement had last their identities and ranks and were deemed missing. Determined to prove the existence of the 46 men and honour their glorious deaths Guzidi embarks on his journey to search for his troops...

  • The Bitch Of Buchenwald [DVD]The Bitch Of Buchenwald | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Described as 'the most famous of all Germans having committed atrocities during the war' by the Jewish Virtual Library Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lampshade made of human skin. This groundbreaking programme puts her career in the context of the Germany of the Nazi era with the SS to which she belonged in control. As the wife of a concentration camp commander she was to grow accustomed to a privileged existence. This elite lifestyle financed mainly through embezzlement together with her sadistic activities saw her brought before a court of the SS. Later the American Military Tribunal and finally the German High Court were to find her guilty of crimes against humanity. She was to be jailed for life released and then jailed again.

  • Ruby's DreamRuby's Dream | DVD | (20/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

    Joe Pesci's first starring role after making a name for himself in Raging Bull Ruby's Dream is a poignant and searing saga of one man's desperate struggle to achieve his dreams. Pesci plays Ruby Dennis a small time bowling alley/night club owner in a blue collar New Jersey neighbourhood who dreams of making it in the glitzy glamourous world of Las Vegas. Pesci brings a gritty realism to this dark exploration of the murky world of broken dreams and lost hope as he learns to accept what is truly important in his life. A must for Joe Pesci fans.

  • The Halls Of Montezuma [1951]The Halls Of Montezuma | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Once again returning to the genre to which he was perhaps best-suited director Lewis Milestone traces the fate of a Marine platoon in the Pacific theater during WWII. The film stars Richard Widmark as the no-nonsense Lt. Carl Anderson an officer charged with the responibility of leading his unit on a scouting mission to capture prisoners from an experimental rocket-launching facility and bring them back for interrogation. Among his platoon are veterans Pidgeon Lane (Jack Palance) D

  • Two Lovers [Blu-ray] [2009]Two Lovers | Blu Ray | (10/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

    Following a suicide attempt, a troubled young man moves back into his parents' Brooklyn apartment and two women enter his life - a beautiful but volatile neighbor trapped in a toxic affair and the lovely daughter of his father's new business partner.

  • Che - Part 2 - Guerilla [Blu-ray] [2008]Che - Part 2 - Guerilla | Blu Ray | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    The second part of Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh's epic two part war movie charting the life of Che Guevara, "Che: Part Two" sees Benicio Del Toro once again taking up the role of the iconic revolutionary.

  • Oh BoyOh Boy | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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  • AssemblyAssembly | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £7.14   |  Saving you £10.85 (151.96%)   |  RRP £17.99

    Based on a true story Assembly follows one man's journey in search of truth and honour. The Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War broke out in the winter of 1948 and became one of the bloodiest battles in Chinese history. Thousands from The People's Liberation Army and the KMT Army fought in a bloodbath in between Xuzhou and Bengbu. Captain Guzidi commanding the Ninth Company led the infantry unit which consisted of a mere 46 men on a sniping mission to defend the south bank of the Wen River. His orders were to fight until the retreat assembly call was charged. After long hours of defence ammunition was running out and the number of men standing in the Ninth Company was quickly decreasing. Everyone began to wonder if they had missed the retreat bugle call. But Guzidi insisted that the bugle had not sounded and that they were to continue to battle at all costs. It was not until later when he found that all the neighbouring troops had already left the field that he realised he might have made a mistake and contributed to his men's deaths. Guzidi woke up in the hospital and discovered that due to a military re-organisation he and the 46 men who sacrificed themselves during the deadly engagement had lost their identities and ranks and were deemed missing. Determined to prove the existence of the 46 men and honour their glorious deaths Guzidi embarks on his journey to search for his troops...

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