War

• Das Boot - TV-Serie (Das Original) | DVD | (02/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A L'Aventure | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £7.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (101.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The third installment of Jean-Claude Brisseau's loose trilogy after 'Secret Things' ('Choses Secret''s')' and 'The Exterminating Angels'. 'A L'Aventure' once more explores the question of sex desire and lust. Sandrine is sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend. Through Greg a young psychologist she will meet Sophie who intrigues Sandrine with accounts of her sexual experimentation. Perplexed Sandrine will follow her onto dangerous paths of hypnosis where she will witness orgasmic ecstasy.

• The Train | Blu Ray | (26/09/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Almost Famous | Blu Ray | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Inspired by director Cameron Crowe's own experiences and set in the 1970s, the film follows a fifteen year old wannabe journalist who gets the opportunity to interview and go on the road with a hard living rock band.

• The Evacuees - Children Of War | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £5.30   |  Saving you £4.69 (88.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the late 1930s the tension between countries in Europe grew daily as German leader Adolf Hitler steadily strengthened his country's military forces. His aim was to enlarge German territory to give his people 'lebensraum' or living space. His actions set in motion a chain of events that would lead inexorably to war and affect the lives of everyone in Europe and many beyond. This film is about a group of people often overlooked whose lives were changed enormously by the events that were to follow. A group of vulnerable people who had no part to play in the ensuing conflict but many of whom still suffer the effects of what happened to them during World War Two. These are the children who were moved from the cities of Britain to the countryside for their own safety. These are the children who were labelled evacuees.

• Dauntless: The Battle of Midway | DVD | (21/10/2019) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  June 1942, and the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, the two-man crew of a U.S. Navy dive bomber is forced to ditch in the sea. Set adrift, the men look towards their comrades for rescue; namely, the ragtag crew of a PBY Catalina, who are sent to search for survivors. Amid the vast openness of the Pacific, with days passing and the chance of rescue fading, the men are forced to face their own mortality.

• Killer Of Sheep | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A masterpiece of African American filmmaking and one of the finest debuts in cinema history Killer Of Sheep was chosen for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress and named one of the 100 Essential Films by the National Society of Film Critics. In the Los Angeles community of Watts Stan a sensitive dreamer is growing detached and numb from the toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a teacup against his cheek slow dancing with his wife holding his daughter. Combining lyrical moments with neorealist style Burnett unfolds his story with compassion and humor.

• The Pathe Collection -The Battle Of Ypres | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £5.85   |  Saving you £14.14 (241.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Released in its entirety for the first time ever The Battle Of Ypres is the original 1925 British Instructional Films documentary re-enacting key scenes from the notorious Battle Of Ypres in the actual battle trenches. The lengthy campaign was largely a murderous stalemate that perfectly demonstrated the horror and futility of war. A massive 1.7 million soldiers died in the attempt to capture the Belgian town and its environs over the length of a four year campaign. The first second third and fourth battles of Ypres are all covered as are the key positions of Mesen Hill 60 and the Passchendaele Ridge - the scene of prolonged and terrible carnage over a mere 900 metres of land. A follow-up to the best-selling DVD The Battle Of The Somme (1916) as a representation of war The Battle Of Ypres was not without its controversy; it arguably distorted the grimmer realities of conflict - the trenchfoot the maiming and death - into a noble recount of the superiority of the Allies. But even in this light The Battle Of Ypres gives us a unique historical reading of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War. The original silent documentary has had an all new soundtrack created from digitally enhanced recordings of the period as well as the addition of evocative sound effects.

• Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium | Blu Ray | (08/12/2008) from £8.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (22.79%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman star in this story about the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world.

• All Quiet On The Western Front | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £8.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (22.58%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Taken from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front is a devastating portrait of a small group of German soldiers during World War I. In this 1979 made-for-TV version the star-studded cast is lead by Richard Thomas (The Waltons) as Paul Baumer, strongly supported by screen veterans Ernest Borgnine, Ian Holm and Patricia Neal. As both narrator and star, Thomas occasionally seems to reincarnate his familiar John-Boy persona, but does at least succeed in creating a character that has more levels than his television alter ego. After watching all of his high school buddies loose their lives, Paul returns home a changed man, conflicted in his feelings about the Army and war, and altered from an idealistic schoolboy into a fearful and humble veteran. Although Lewis Milestone's 1930 films remains the cinema's definitive version, director Delbert Mann (Desire Under the Elms, Marty) has done a workmanlike job bringing the novel to the screen. The scenery and costuming in this period piece are well done, and surely contributed to its winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for TV. Also exceptional are the cinematography and special effects that, while realistically gruesome, truly emphasise the horrors of war. --Zachary Lively, Amazon.com

• Behind Enemy Lines | Blu Ray | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.98

  A drama about a pilot and a naval flight officer (Owen Wilson and Gabriel Macht) shot down behind enemy lines in Bosnia, and the clandestine mission their commanding officer (Gene Hackman) sets up to rescue them.

• No Man's Land | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.53   |  Saving you £10.46 (109.76%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A brilliant take on the tragedy that beset his country, Danis Tanovic's directorial debut No Man's Land is a bleak comedy set during the war in Bosnia. The story begins as a group of Bosnian soldiers emerge from a fog to realise that they have strayed into a thin strip of land unclaimed by either side in the conflict. A bloody sequence of events ensues, which results in a disputed trench being occupied by weathered Bosnian veteran Branko Djuric and his opposite number, Rene Bitorajac's Serbian greenhorn. There's a standoff between them, complicated by Djuric's injured colleague lying atop a "bouncing mine". He's a human booby trap--move him and the everything within 50 yards will be blown sky-high. As the blue-hatted, ineffectual UN are called in, and with the world's media, led by the late Katrin Cartlidge as a rather snotty BBC reporter, swiftly arriving on the scene, this single trench becomes an almost Beckettian metaphor for the war. Tanovic is not especially concerned with taking sides in the Bosnian-Serb conflict. Whatever its causes, both sides are seen to be as bad, or more accurately as desperate, as each other. That it's hard, for outsiders in particular, to tell who's who much of the time only heightens the irony. There's anger at the media intrusiveness ("Does our misery pay well?" screams Djuric at the reporters), but what's really conveyed is a sense of the absurdity, futility and intractability of war, as summarised in the final image. From the grotesque mess of conflict, Tanovic has fashioned a perfectly judged and beautifully executed movie. On the DVD: No Man's Land is presented in widescreen with a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. There are no extras, other than an English language option for the hard of hearing. --David Stubbs

• Gung Ho | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.36   |  Saving you £-1.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Marine raiders in a new outfit train for invasion in this gripping World War II action film. The bloodthirsty misfits of the 'Gung Ho' squadron become fierce fighting machines....

• The Cruel Sea | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £14.39   |  Saving you £5.60 (38.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nicholas Monsarrat's novel is an unflinching, realistic and emotionally involving account of naval life during the Second World War in which the "heroes" are the men, the "heroines" the ships and the "villain" is not so much the German U-Boats lurking below as "the cruel sea" itself. This 1953 film has become a classic of British cinema largely because it is a straightforward, no-frills adaptation of the book and retain's much of the original's compelling yet almost understated dramatic focus. On convoy duty in the North Atlantic, the crew of HMS Compass Rose face as a matter of routine the threat of destruction from U-Boats as well as a constant struggle against the elements. The convoys themselves are Britain's only lifeline and their loss would lead to certain defeat, but in the early years of the war the ships sent to protect them can do almost nothing to prevent the U-Boat attacks. Jack Hawkins gives one of his finest performances as Captain Ericson, the commander who has to balance destroying the enemy against saving the lives of the men under his care. In one unforgettable scene--a crucial turning point for all the characters--he must decide whether to depth charge a suspected submarine despite the presence of British sailors in the water. As with the book, the individual officers and their lives are carefully delineated, helped by the strength of a cast of (then) young actors (notably Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliot). Ultimately what makes The Cruel Sea such an undeniable classic is that it has neither the flag-waving jingoism nor the war-is-hell melodrama so common to most war movies: instead it relates in an almost matter-of-fact way the bitterness of the conflict at sea fought by ordinary men placed in the most extraordinary of circumstances. --Mark Walker

• Judgment at Nuremberg (1-Disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This gripping, provocative and powerful film sheds a controversial light on the darkest era in modern history. Nominated for eleven Oscars® including Best Picture, Judgment at Nuremberg contains searing performances by an all-star cast that includes Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. American judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of 'legalising' Nazi atrocities. As graphic accounts of sterilisation and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career. Product Features Presented in High Definition Audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Jim Hemphill (2019) The Guardian Interview: Maximillian Schell (1971, 86 mins, audio only): the award-winning actor and director talks about his career in this interview recorded at the National Film Theatre in London Original theatrical trailer Image gallery

• The Wrestler | Blu Ray | (01/06/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (141.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An ageing wrestler (Mickey Rourke) is forced to retire from the ring and must fight his toughest battles yet - overcoming his demons, reconnecting with his estranged daughter and building new found relationships.

• The Pride And The Passion | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £21.24   |  Saving you £-8.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Napoleonic forces are sweeping across Europe and Spain is on the brink of falling to the mighty invasion. Standing alone against the onslaught is one brave fighter and his ragtag band of guerillas. Seizing a gigantic cannon Spanish fighter Miguel (Sinatra) plans to attack Napoleon's army by battering the walls of French-occupied Avila. But because he's untrained in complex weaponry he must rely on the expertise of Captain Trumbell (Grant) a British naval officer. Allies on the

• Cockleshell Heroes | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £7.02   |  Saving you £-1.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! In World War II Royal Marine Major Stringer (Jose Ferrer) and Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) chose volunteers for an unknown job. They trained the volunteers intensively in top secrecy for more than a year and then embarked with them on the most dangerous mission of the war - the canoe invasion of an enemy-held French port for the purpose of blowing up the giant battleships. The ten ""canoe commandoes"" were carried to their jump-off point by s

• The Thin Red Line (1998) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist TERRENCE MALICK disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones's 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema's finest actorsSEAN PENN (Dead Man Walking, Milk), NICK NOLTE (The Prince of Tides, Affliction), ELIAS KOTEAS (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and WOODY HARRELSON (Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt) among themThe Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema's greatest war films. Special Features Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio) Audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill Outtakes from the film Video interviews with several of the film's actors, including Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, and Sean Penn; composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones's daughter Kaylie Jones Video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal Original theatrical trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films

• The Water Horse - Legend Of The Deep | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £18.01 (258.02%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend that enchants and mystifies to this day.