War

• Red Psalm | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £11.54   |  Saving you £1.45 (12.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, Red Psalm is also one of the great Hungarian film director Miklos Jancs’s best-known films. Recounting the story of a peasant uprising in Hungary in the 1890s, the film examines the nature of revolt, and the issues of oppression, morality and violence. Shot using just 28 long takes, Red Psalm is an extraordinary film, a virtuoso exercise of form and content and a formidable work of art from a filmmaker at the peak of his powers.

• The Devil's Brigade | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £16.78   |  Saving you £-3.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  During WWII a collection of Canadian soldiers and American misfits are brought together and promised that upon successful completion of a special mission their sentences will be struck off military records. The mission: a semi-suicidal charge to scale a well-fortified enemy emplacement on a steep hill...

• City of Life & Death | Blu Ray | (27/09/2010) from £21.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nanjing China 1937. Japanese forces invade this once-capital of the Republic of China on December 9th. Throughout the following six weeks soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians - with mass executions; crowds mown down by firing squads and victims digging their own graves. Few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of what has become known as the 'Rape of Nanking'. Director Lu Chuan tells the horrifying story through several figures including a conscience-stricken Japanese soldier and John Rabe a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians' lives.

• The Lion Has Wings | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Documentary-style war feature from Alexander Korda. The story compares wartime Germany, under the domination of a fanatical madman, with the dignified calm of rural England and follows Wing Commander Richardson (Ralph Richardson) as he engages in battles in the skies while his wife (Merle Oberon) waits patiently for his return.

• John Q. | Blu Ray | (13/04/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

• Fires on the Plain (Dual Format DVD/Bluray) | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive. The final few Japanese survivors, having almost been wiped out, have crossed the threshold into a realm where there are no friends, no enemies and no God. Special Features: Dual format DVD & BLURAY 1 hour extensive making of New audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto First 1000 copies come with LIMITED EDITION slipcase

• Before The Devil Knows You're Dead | Blu Ray | (26/05/2008) from £5.79   |  Saving you £19.20 (331.61%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewellery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that threatens to tear the family apart once and for all.

• The Emperor's New Clothes | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory. On the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena the residence in exile for the past six years of the great Napoleaon Bonaparte that exile is about to end. A secret network of loyal Bonapartists is poised to return the Emperor to Paris while a double will play his part on the island. When the Emperor arrives in Paris the double on St. Helena will reveal himself as an imposter and Napoleon will reclaim his throne. Disguised as able-bodied seaman Eugene Lenormand Napoleon sets off for Paris while his doppelganger the real Eugene Lenormand wakes up in his Emperor's bed. But things don't work out as planned. Napoleon's ship changes course and he misses a crucial link in his network of supporters. Arriving eventually in Paris alone and friendless he meets a widowed melon seller and the two forge an unlikely but life changing relationship while Napoleon waits impatiently for his moment. When his return to glory is thwarted by an unexpected turn of events on St. Helena Napoleon has to find another way to confirm his true identity while finally letting go of imperial dreams.

• Malory Towers: Series 2 | DVD | (23/05/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Get ready for more adventures along the Cornish coast including tough new teachers, a competitive school play, and a plot to close the school forever!

• The Perfect Storm | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  George Clooney & Mark Wahlberg star in this spectacular tale of a fishing boat caught at sea during the worse storm ever recorded.

• Elite Squad | Blu Ray | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The biggest film in South American cinema history, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within sees revered Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and his second in command Andre Matias facing battles both on the streets and within the corrupt political system of Rio.

• The Bridge On The River Kwai | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (15.01%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day (1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942) and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984). On the DVD: Too often the best extras come attached to films that don't really warrant them. Not so here, where a truly great film has been given the attention it deserves. The first disc presents the film in the original extra-wide CinemaScope ratio of 2.55:1, in an anamorphically enhanced transfer which does maximum justice to the film's superb cinematography. The sound has been transferred from the original six-track magnetic elements into 5.1 Dolby Digital and far surpasses what many would expect from a 1950s' feature. The main bonus on the first disc is an isolated presentation of Malcolm Arnold's great Oscar-winning music score, in addition to which there is a trivia game, and maps and historical information linked to appropriate clips. The second disc contains a new, specially produced 53-minute "making of" documentary featuring many of those involved in the production of the movie. This gives a rich insight into the physical problems of making such a complex epic on location in Ceylon. Also included are the original trailer and two short promotional films from the time of release, one of which is narrated by star William Holden. Finally there is an "appreciation" by director John Milius, an extensive archive of movie posters and artwork, and a booklet that reproduces the text of the film's original 1957 brochure. --Gary S Dalkin

• Taza, Son Of Cochise (Universal) | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £9.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (9.18%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1872 the long and bloody war fought between United States Cavalry troops and Apache Indians came to an end with the signing of a peace treaty between General Howard and the mighty Chief Cochise. Three years later Cochise lay dead, having bestowed the responsibility of his tribe to his first born son Taza (Rock Hudson). To maintain peace, Taza agrees to cooperate with the US Calvary but in gaining an ally he makes a powerful enemy - the legendary Geronimo.

• Roaring Currents | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Disgraced Admiral Yi is reinstated to lead a crippled Korean naval force against an impending Japanese invasion by sea. Having already suffered devastating losses Yi only has twelve ships to command against over three hundred Japanese vessels. Facing insurmountable odds Yi embarks with his men on a suicidal mission to stall the Japanese in their pursuit of Korean shores accepting their fate of almost certain death.

• Redacted | Blu Ray | (20/07/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.99 (128.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

• Rise Of The Footsoldier | Blu Ray | (29/09/2008) from £10.18   |  Saving you £14.81 (145.48%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Follow the rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals.

• Numb3rs - The Complete First Season | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £11.98   |  Saving you £25.00 (250.25%)   |  RRP £34.99

  "Everything is numbers," states Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) in the pilot of Numb3rs, a satisfying (and educational!) crime drama. Executive-produced by brothers/film directors Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Top Gun), it's like CSI with algorithms and probabilities instead of blood spatter and DNA swabs, which separates it from the slew of gruesome forensics-centered cop shows currently on the air. In this case, it's a brains-vs.-brawn matchup: a brilliant math professor (Krumholtz) consulting on crimes for an FBI agent (Rob Morrow) who happens to be his older brother. While Don, Morrow's character, busts the baddies with his team of agents, Charlie's scribbling formulas on chalkboards and statistically deducting a rapist's next target by comparing his pattern to a sprinkler system. (Yes, it sounds geekier than it is). As the show progresses, Charlie--not yet desensitised to people's fates relying on his findings--takes it harder and harder when his hypotheses don't always result in justice. It sounds very cerebral, but the cops and robbers concept plus brother-to-brother dynamics make it all go down easy. There's an unpretentious way the premise is executed, which ends up making math--get this--fun. --Ellen A. Kim

• Babylon | Blu Ray | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Babylon is set in South London at the start of the '80s a time when reggae music was at its peak and racism was rife and follows Blue the lead rapper for Ital Lion Sound in the run-up to a Sound System competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka. Over the course of the film Blue clashes with his friends family police and the violent racists who endeavour to make life hard for him; all of which in turn set up for the film's violent climax.

• Black Hawk Down 4K UHD SteelBook | Blu Ray | (19/06/2023) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Hannibal) and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Armagedon) comes a gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie and the complex reality of war. Black Hawk Down stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor), Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Eric Bana (Chopper), William Fichtner (The Perfect Storm), Ewen Bremner (Snatch) and Sam Shepard (All The Pretty Horses). In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives.Three Audio Commentaries featuring Director Ridley Scott, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Author Mark Bowden, Screenwriter Ken Nolan and Task Force Ranger VeteransThe Essence of Combat: Making Black Hawk Down DocumentaryThe History Channel® Presents: The True Story of Black Hawk DownPBS Presents: Frontline: Ambush in Mogadishu8 Deleted & Alternate Scenes with Optional CommentaryDesigning Mogadishu FeaturetteProduction Design ArchiveRidleygrams with CommentaryTarget Building Insertion with CommentaryQ&A Forums: BAFTA, Motion Picture Editors Guild & American CinemathequeJerry Bruckheimers Black Hawk Down Photo AlbumTitle Design Explorations with CommentaryMusic Video performed by Denez Prigent & Lisa GerrardPhoto GalleriesTheatrical Poster ConceptsTrailer & TV Spots

• 9th Company 2 Disc Collectors Edition | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  They stood together while their country fell apart Post-communist Russia's highest grossing film to date 9TH COMPANY is a stirring and extremely timely modern day war movie on a par with Hollywood blockbusters 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Platoon'. Based on real life events 9th Company recounts a year in the shared loves of a group of young Soviet soldiers recruited to serve in Afghanistan for the final year of the Soviet conflict. It is the poignant story of the unit's dedication to both their country and each other during their final valiant defence of the Height 3234... a futile battle that ravaged the forgotten company who fought on unaware the war had ended