War

• Frozen Silence | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  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 £6.75   |  Saving you £18.24 (270.22%)   |  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 £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  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 £3.99   |  Saving you £13.76 (617.04%)   |  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 £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  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.

• The Battle of Algiers | Blu Ray | (09/07/2012) from £18.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (17.28%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Director Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 movie The Battle of Algiers concerns the violent struggle in the late 1950s for Algerian independence from France, where the film was banned on its release for fear of creating civil disturbances. Certainly, the heady, insurrectionary mood of the film, enhanced by a relentlessly pulsating Ennio Morricone soundtrack, makes for an emotionally high temperature throughout. With the advent of the "war against terror" in recent years, the film's relevance has only intensified. Shot in a gripping, quasi-documentary style, The Battle of Algiers uses a cast of untrained actors coupled with a stern voiceover. Initially, the film focuses on the conversion of young hoodlum Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag) to FLN (the Algerian Liberation Front.) However, as a sequence of outrages and violent counter-terrorist measures ensue, it becomes clear that, as in Eisenstein's October, it is the Revolution itself that is the true star of the film. Pontecorvo balances cinematic tension with grimly acute political insight. He also manages an even-handedness in depicting the adversaries. He doesn't flinch from demonstrating the civilian consequences of the FLN's bombings, while Colonel Mathieu, the French office brought in to quell the nationalists, is played by Jean Martin as determined, shrewd and, in his own way, honourable man. However, the closing scenes of the movie--a welter of smoke, teeming street demonstrations and the pealing white noise of ululations--leaves the viewer both intellectually and emotionally convinced of the rightfulness of the liberation struggle. This is surely among a fistful of the finest movies ever made. --David Stubbs

• Harrison Ford Collection | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Witness: When a young Amish woman (McGillis) and her son (Haas) are caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent their unlikely savior proves to be the worldly and cynical Philadelphia detective John Book. Harrison Ford is sensational as Book the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community. The end result is an action-packed struggle of life and death interwoven with a sensitive undercurrent of caring and forbidden love. K-19: The Widowmaker Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star in a thrilling action-drama inspired by the true story of a Soviet submarine crew trying to save its vessel from a nuclear meltdown - and avert global war. Clear And Present Danger: When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment: investigate the murder of one of the President's friends a prominent US businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Unbeknownst to Ryan the CIA has already dispatched a deadly field operative (Willem Dafoe) to lead a paramilitary force against the Colombian drug lords. Caught in the crossfire Ryan takes matters into his own hands risking his career and life for the only cause he still believes in - the truth. Patriot Games: His days as an intelligence agent behind him former CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) has traveled to London on vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting his family outside of Buckingham Palace Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. Ryan helps to thwart the assailants and becomes a local hero but his courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorist whose brother he killed. Now he must return to action for the most vital assignment of his life: to save his family. Sabrina: Directed by Sydney Pollack Sabrina shimmers like a fairy tale come true. Ford plays Linus Larrabee a busy tycoon who has no room for love in his appointment book. But when a romance between his playboy brother (Kinnear) and Sabrina (Ormond) daughter of the family chauffeur threatens one of Linus' business deals the CEO clears his schedule for some ruthlessness. He courts Sabrina intending to drop her when the deal closes. Will the world's only living heart donor discover his heart? Regarding Henry: Ruthless lawyer Henry Turner is left an amnesiac after being shot when caught up in a store robbery. Trying to rebuild his life Henry must learn to walk again tie his shoelaces and become a better husband...

• A Matter of Life and Death (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (24/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hank Williams | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (3.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Singer Sneezy Waters portrays country singer Hank Williams in this film of an imaginary concert he never managed to give on the last night of his life.

• Night Of The Eagles | Blu Ray | (19/03/2021) from £15.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Revolutionary Road | Blu Ray | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on the celebrated novel by Richard Yates, director Sam Mendes' "Revolutionary Road" is the story of a young couple ("Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfilment in an age of conformity.

• The Ring Finger | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After 21 year-old Iris suffers an accident while working at a factory she moves to a nearby port town and stumbles into a new job as receptionist and personal secretary to an uptight scientist. His peculiar line of business involves preserving customers' mementos into specimens - a lock of hair for example or a piece of music. Iris quickly drifts into an increasingly fetishistic relationship with her boss while also pining for the enigmatic sailor who shares her hotel room during the hours she's at work. The Ring Finger is a visually stunning experience laden with eroticism and beauty and set against a haunting score (composed by Portishead's Beth Gibbons) but it is Kurylenko's performance that is unforgettable as the pained and longing Iris.

• Poor Cow | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband Tom (John Bindon) is put in jail. Joy finds brief happiness with Tom's criminal associate Dave (Terence Stamp) who proves kind and gentle when she moves in with him but this relationship ends when he is also jailed and Joy is left to raise her young son alone in squalid circumstances. Poor Cow is a poignant controversial slice of raw social realism and in true Loach style is an imaginative exploration of the thin line separating fiction and real-life.