War

• Studio Classic: Classic War Movies | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Von Ryan's Express (1965): Colonel Joseph Ryan of the US Army Air Forces is shot down in Italy and taken to a prison camp populated by the Royal Army's 9th Fusiliers and run by sadistic commandant Battaglia. With the recent passing of their commanding colonel the 9th Fusiliers under Major Eric Fincham must now answer to the new senior officer of the prisoners Ryan. Also in the camp are several American prisoners who don't cotton to Major Fincham's stubborn passive resistance

• Inglourious Basterds Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (13/01/2025) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCEOne of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time harnesses the power of cinema itself to rewrite history in this electrifying WWII thriller. Narrowly escaping the massacre of her entire family by the SS, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) flees to Paris and forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Meanwhile, a guerilla band of Jewish-American soldiers known as The Basterds led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), are waging a bloody war of attrition behind enemy lines but Europe remains beneath Nazi bootheels. Believing themselves unstoppable, the leaders of the Third Reich assemble in Paris for the premiere of propaganda epic Nation's Pride. The location? Shosanna's cinema. With all the rotten eggs in one basket, The Basterds join forces with British Commando Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) and German film star/undercover allied agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) to infiltrate the premiere. Their plan? Blow up the basket Brim-filled with shocking violence, thrilling action and excruciating suspense, Inglourious Basterds was a box office smash around the world garnering eight Academy Award™ (2009) nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, with Christoph Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor for his star-making turn as the chilling SS Col. Hans Landa. Witness the war as it might have been in this stunning new edition, packed with explosive extras! 2 DISC LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS ¢ Limited edition ˜Operation Kino' packaging with new art by Dare Creative ¢ 60-page ˜Films & Filmmakers' collector's book with writing by film critics Dennis Cozzalio and Bill Ryan ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster¢ Replica Nation's Pride Premiere programme booklet ¢ La Louisianne beermat ¢ 3 postcard sized double-sided art cards ¢ Strudel recipe card ¢ Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative DISC 1 FEATURE¢ High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation ¢ Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Brand new audio commentary by film critic and author Tim Lucas DISC 2 EXTRAS¢ What Would Sally Do?, a new interview with editor Fred Raskin ¢ Blood Fiction, a new interview with special make-up effects supervisor Greg Nicotero ¢ Doomstruck, a new interview with actor Omar Doom ¢ Making it Right, a new visual essay by film critic Walter Chaw, author of A Walter Hill Film ¢ Film History on Fire, a new visual essay by film scholar Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics Pandora's Box ¢ Filmmaking in Occupied France, a new interview with film scholar Christine Leteux, author of Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control ¢ Extended and alternate scenes ¢ Nation's Pride¢ The Making of Nation's Pride, an archival featurette¢ Roundtable Discussion, an archival interview with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Elvis Mitchell¢ The Original Inglorious Bastards, archival featurette¢ A Conversation with Rod Taylor, archival featurette¢ Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitter, archival featurette¢ Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel, archival featurette ¢ Hi Sallys, archival featurette¢ Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell, archival featurette¢ Trailers

• The Dam Busters | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £10.36   |  Saving you £2.63 (25.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dr Barnes Wallis was possessed with a seemingly crazy idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy's industrial nerve centre. He fought persistent scepticism and disbelief that such a feat was possible though even with the matchless skill of RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his squadron could such a mission succeed?

• In Which We Serve | DVD | (26/09/2008) from £5.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (167.84%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Noel Coward's great British war film made at the height of World War II in 1942 tells the story of a naval destroyer and its crew as they fight for their lives in a life raft after their ship is sunk.

• The Devil's Arithmetic | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When Hannah Stern a 13 year-old girl neglectful to her Jewish heritage and ""tired of remembering "" goes to open the door to the prophet Elijha during the Seder she finds herself in 1940s Poland. After being sent to a Nazi concentration camp she must use her knowledge of the future to survive the past and learn something about the importance of remembering.

• The Terence Davies Collection | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £34.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (15.61%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Considered by many to be Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmaker Terence Davies' visually stunning intensely personal films have impressed audiences the world over and seen him acclaimed by critics as one of contemporary cinema's true poets. Packaged here together for the first time with a host of extra features are four of Davies' most evocative works: The Terence Davies Trilogy (1976-1983) Distant Voices Still Lives (1988) The Long Day Closes (1992) and Of Time and the City (2008).

• Courage of One | DVD | (17/05/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gomorrah | Blu Ray | (09/02/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (141.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on the bestselling expose of the Neapolitan mafia, by award-winning journalist Roberto Saviano, "Gomorrah" is an unforgettable and compelling story of power, money and blood.

• Das Boot -- Superbit | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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...

• Tokyo Sonata | Blu Ray | (22/06/2009) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-8.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his 'safe' company job his family's happy humdrum life is put at risk. Unwilling to accept the shame of unemployment the loyal salaryman decides not to tell anyone instead leaving home each morning in suit and tie with briefcase spending his days searching for work and lining up for soup with the homeless. Outstanding performances; serene elegant direction; and Kurosawa's trademark chills are evident as he ratchets up the unsettling atmosphere and the grim hopelessness of Sasaki's unemployment.

• Back to Bataan (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (67.06%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese in World War II, Col. Joseph Madden of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors.

• Escape to Victory - World Cup Edition | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.28   |  Saving you £7.71 (122.77%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This is no ordinary soccer match: this is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another ""proof"" of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape? Sylvester Stallone Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climatic match is a heart-in-the-throat hat-in-the-air exhibition of

• La Vie En Rose | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Marion Cotillard takes the lead in this long awaited biopic of the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose.

• Once | Blu Ray | (16/02/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (37.55%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

• East Is East | Blu Ray | (16/06/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In early 1970's England, a traditional Pakistani father (Om Puri) finds his family spinning in decidedly non-traditional directions.

• Tigerland | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  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.

• Rendition | Blu Ray | (24/03/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (317.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  With the disappearance of her husband, an Egyptian born terrorism suspect, Isabella travels to Washington DC to discover the truth.

• Pork Chop Hill | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (118.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lt. Joe Clemons has been given the order: take Pork Chop Hill. If it's taken by the Chinese US negotiators at the Panmunjom peace conference would lose face with their Communist adversaries - an unthinkable outcome. And so Clemons leads his troops into combat to fight for an objective that they know to be strategically pointless. But they also know that an order is an order. They must take Pork Chop Hill or die trying...

• I Was Monty's Double | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This classic movie directed by John Guillerman has been beautifully restored as part of the Vintage Classics Collection. It is based on the true story of one of the best intelligence operations of World War II. An actor, trained by Major Harvey (John Mills), is seconded to impersonate General Montgomery on a tour of North Africa. The plan is to divert the Germans' attentions away from the real Monty and his plans for D-Day. Starring the real life actor and lookalike M.E. Clifton James and a formidable supporting cast including Cecil Parker, Leslie Phillips, Bryan Forbes and John Le Mesurier, this is a gripping retelling of those fateful few weeks before the Normandy campaign. The Vintage Classics collection from Studiocanal celebrate the most iconic and beloved films in British cinematic history by giving these masterpieces of yesteryear stunning restorations fit for the 21st Century. Extras: New interview with author/historian Terry Crowdy John Mills Home Movie footage Monty's Double (1947) Behind the Scenes stills gallery

• Sir Francis Drake: The Complete Series (repackaged) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £28.92   |  Saving you £-8.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Terrence Morgan stars in the classic 1960's action adventure series - Sir Francis Drake. Drake is a freebooter adventurer expert swordsman and defender of the crown during Britain's war with Spain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I a war which he wages from the bridge of his ship The Golden Hind. Presented here is the entire series of 26 action-packed episodes of this classic action show. This thrilling adventure series will appeal to people who enjoyed Network's previous releases of The Adventures Of Robin Hood and archive television fans.... Episodes: 1. The Prisoner 2. The Lost Colony Of Virginia 3. Mary Queen Of The Scots 4. Doctor Dee 5. Bold Enterprise 6. The English Dragon 7. Boy Jack 8. The Garrison 9. Visit To Spain 10. The Flame Thrower 11. The Governor's Revenge 12. The Slaves Of Spain 13. The Doughty Plot 14. King Of America 15. The Irish Pirate 16. Beggars Of The Sea 17. Drake On Trial 18. The Bridge 19. Johnnie Factotum 20. Mission To Paris 21. The Reluctant Duchess 22. The Gypsies 23. Court Intrigue 24. Gentlemen Of Spain 25. The Fountain Of Youth 26. Escape