War

• Time Bomb | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jason Philby tragically lost his young son when the family SUV exploded. Now, fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of that fateful day. During a tour, an army scientist approaches Jason about an experimental virus that would create a squad of suicide bombers they could use against the enemy. Uncertain if he has already been infected by the virus, Jason must struggle to decipher which explosions are real and which are in his head.

• Pastor Hall (UK Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the quiet German village of Altdorf is taken over by an SS platoon which proceeds to enforce Hitler's ideals upon its inhabitants, a kindly pastor questions the agenda of 'The New Order' while members of his parish turn a blind eye to the insidious indoctrination. Before long, he is punished for his vocal opposition and is sent to Dachau, where, despite the abuse and brutality which he suffers, he refuses to give in to the madness and inhumanity of National Socialism. Adapted from Ernst Toller's 1939 play of the same name, and based on the true story of Protestant minister Martin Niemöller, Pastor Hall is the impressive third feature from the Boulting brothers (Brighton Rock). Starring Wilfrid Lawson (Pygmalion) as the iconic pastor, and Nova Pilbeam (Young and Innocent) as his formidable daughter, the film was one of the first anti-Nazi dramas ever made and had its original production delayed by British censors who were not yet ready to be openly critical of Hitler's regime. A bold and stirring tribute to the universal power of faith, courage and personal conviction, Pastor Hall has been newly restored from 4K scans of the nitrate duplicate negative by Powerhouse Films and is finally available on Blu-ray for the first time in the world. Product Features New restoration from a 4K scan of the nitrate duplicate negative by Powerhouse Films Original mono audio Matthew D Hockenos on Martin Niemöller (2022): the author of Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis discusses the life and legacy of the German pastor Richard Falcon on 'Pastor Hall' (2022): the ex-BBFC examiner discusses the film's history with the British Board of Film Censors Newsreel footage (1946): extract from Welt in Film featuring Niemöller speaking about post-war German guilt The Dawn Guard (1941): short film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Pastor Hall actors Percy Walsh and Bernard Miles as members of the Home Guard Minefield! (1944): documentary short film produced by Roy Boulting for the Army Film Unit New and improved subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Fiona Kelly, archival articles, new writing on the short films, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US All extras subject to change

• Last Days Of Patton | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the most heroic and inspirational leaders of World War Two General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) is seriously injured in a car accident just a few weeks after the end of the war and is not expected to survive. This is the story of the last few months of the General's life and the Army Medical Corps efforts to save him. As he lies immobile in a hospital bed surrounded by the pessimistic doctors and his worried wife he waits for death and reminisces about his happy younger days. This film also shows Patton's earlier career as a fledgling tank commander during the First World War.

• D-Day: Dog Company | DVD | (01/07/2019) from £4.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Against the backdrop of D-Day, a team of army rangers must scale the treacherous cliffs of Point du Hoc to destroy cannons seized by Nazis planning to fire on American soldiers. But when the boats taking the rangers to the cliffs are attacked, it sets off a chain reaction that leaves the Rangers battling German soldiers for days.

• Donnie Darko | Blu Ray | (19/07/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  October 1988 and small town USA is about to witness the end of the world. It's home to Donnie Darko a brilliant but troubled teenager plagued by terrifying visions of which he alone holds the key to the meaning. With his class mate and soul mate Gretchen and a mysterious ex teacher Grandma Death he must unravel the strange occurrences infecting his school his home and his life before a horrifying spectre known only as Frank can pull Donnie over the edge of his sanity.

• Somers Town | Blu Ray | (12/01/2009) from £7.96   |  Saving you £17.03 (213.94%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the director of "This Is England" comes this hilarious and heart-warming tale of friendship and growing up in London's Somers Town.

• The Intruder | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £14.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An excellent early feature from future Bond director Guy Hamilton, this tense drama boasts outstanding performances from Jack Hawkins, as a distinguished former officer, and Michael Medwin, as the wartime hero he endeavours to save from a life of crime. Featuring strong support from Dennis Price, and George Cole, The Intruder is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Wolf Merton, a London stockbroker with a fine war record as colonel of a tank regiment, returns to his Belgravia home to find that there is an intruder in the house a young armed thug called Ginger Edwards, who he remembers well as one of the most fearless and spirited troopers under his leadership. But why has Ginger taken up housebreaking? And will Merton be able to help him to return to a more honourable way of life? SPECIAL FEATURES: Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• 6 Film Box Set: Black Hawk Down/ Born On The 4Th Of July/ Casualties Of War/ Gardens Of Stone/ Jarhead/ Kingdom | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise:Black Hawk Down: Ridley Scott directs this fast moving action adventure about the disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which leads to a large and chaotic firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which destroys two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu.Born On The 4th Of July: Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran, Ron Kovic, in Oliver Stone's Academy Award winning masterpiece.Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralysed from the mid-chest down.Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.Casualties Of War: Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, Casualties of War is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam.Witness to a vile crime, Private Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). A powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat. With sweeping scope, action and raw power, master filmmaker Brian De Palma creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.Gardens Of Stone: It was a dangerous time to be young. An impossible time to be a hero...A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War, featuring outstanding performances by James Caan, James Earl Jones and Anjelica Huston and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.Jarhead: Every man fights his own war.Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this critically acclaimed, brilliantly unconventional war story from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal) from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he sports a sniper rifle through Middle East deserts that provide no cover from the heat or Iraqi soldiers. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully grasp.Kingdom: After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, takes the lives of many innocent American civilians, the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible. Hot shot Special Agent Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx) gets the task of a lifetime when he is picked to lead the elite group into conflict.

• Only The Brave | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £4.90   |  Saving you £3.09 (63.06%)   |  RRP £7.99

  October 1944 and a US Army regiment is surrounded by Nazis high in the Vosges Forest of France. They are labelled lost another casualty of war. The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team are ordered to reach them no matter the cost. Made up entirely of 2nd generation Japanese-American volunteers this brave band of brothers have already fought immense prejudice to be recognised as a fighting unit. Fiercely courageous they break through the German lines but at a tremendous price. The unit suffers over 800 casualties to save 211 soldiers of the 275 strong Lost Battalion in what is regarded today as one of the most significant battles of World War II. This is their true story. A story of true patriotism.

• Inglorious Bastards | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £10.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's World War II, the Ardenne mountains. During a bombing, five no-good soldiers headed to military prison for a variety of transgressions ranging from murder to desertion get a chance to escape when their convoy is attacked.They decide to make for Switzerland and freedom, now as fugitives on the run from both the Americans and the Germans, their only hope of escape in the barrel of a gun. After mistakenly killing a group of American agents disguised as a German patrol, the party is caught by the French resistance, who give them a last chance at redemption by forcing them to carry out an impossible mission, to sneak into the most heavily guarded Nazi fortress, steal their most precious weapon and return it to the Allies undetected.

• Anzio/Cockleshell Heroes/Night of the Generals | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £64.99   |  Saving you £-50.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anzio (1968): Robert Mitchum Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy star in the rivetting war drama Anzio a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio Italy in 1944 war correspondent Dick Ennis (Mitchum) and buddy Corporal Rabinoff (Falk) tell Anzio commander General Lesley (Kennedy) that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead. Four months and over 30 000 casualties later the Allied forces smash through the German lines and victoriously march to Rome. Directed by Edward Dmytryk Anzio is a powerful film and a symbol of heroic tenacity. Cockleshell Heroes (1955): 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 submarine despite a depth-charge attack. Facing fantastic hazards they paddled 70 miles through enemy waters to complete their mission. But only two survivors would return... Night Of The Generals (1967): Five years after their triumphant teaming in Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif reunited for this powerful World War II thriller about a Nazi General who becomes a serial killer. When a Polish prostitute is brutally murdered in Nazi-occupied Warsaw her killer is identified as a German General. The investigator Major Grau (Sharif) narrows the suspects to three Generals in the German high command: the heroic Tanz (O'Toole) the cynical Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence) and the weak Von Seidlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray). For years the crime remains unsolved until the killer strikes again bringing this mesmerising mystery to its unforgettable finish. Also starring Christopher Plummer Tom Courtney Philippe Noiret and Joanna Pettet The Night Of The Generals is an all-star thriller from a master of the form.

• Force 10 From Navarone | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Explosive high adventure! A mission more daring than silencing the ""Guns"". The survivors of The Guns Of Navarone (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1961) are given an even more dangerous mission - they must destroy a huge bridge deep in the Balkans. During their journey they join up with 'Force 10' a group of tough American commandoes led by the daring Lt. Colonel Barnsby (Harrison Ford). But on their arrival in Yugoslavia they are captured by the Germans and failure of

• The Red Baron | Blu Ray | (05/10/2009) from £18.13   |  Saving you £6.86 (37.84%)   |  RRP £24.99

  September 1916 - a young aristocrat Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweigh''fer - Valkyrie) is transferred to a German fighter division. Numerous kills his trademark bright red plane and the heroic conquests of his 'Flying Circus' squadron soon make him a German hero. Yet manipulated by the High Command propaganda machine and distracted by fame he remains blind to the true cost of conflict. Only when injured and shown the horrors of a field hospital by a German nurse (Lena Headley - Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles) does he begin to understand there is more to war than his beloved aerial duels. Reticent and disillusioned but unflinchingly loyal to his men the feared Baron knows he cannot stop flying. But even for this living legend each new mission could be his last. Packed with incredible aerial combat scenes this is the story of the greatest fighter pilot of all time.

• The Edge Of Love | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £7.85   |  Saving you £8.14 (103.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant and charismatic poet Dylan Thomas who loves them both. Released Nationwide on Friday 27th June.

• Melrose Place - The Second Season | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £28.41 (131.65%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete second season of Melrose Place. Episodes Comprise: 1. Much Ado About Everything 2. A Long Night's Journey 3. Revenge 4. Fire Power 5. Of Bikes and Men 6. Hot and Bothered 7. Flirting with Disaster 8. No Bed of Roses 9. Married to It 10. The Tangled Web 11. Collision Course 12. Cold Turkey 13. Duet for One 14. Strange Bedfellows 15. Under the Mistletoe 16. Reunion Blues 17. Michael's Game 18. Arousing Suspicions 19. The Young Men and the Sea 20. Parting Glances 21. Swept Away 22. With This Ball and Chain 23. Otherwise Engaged 24. Love Mancini Style 25. The Two Mrs. Mancinis 26. In Bed with the Enemy 27. Psycho-Therapy 28. The Bitch Is Back 29. Imperfect Strangers

• Tour of Duty - Season Three | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £44.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (12.36%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Bravo Company returns for more explosive action and more thrilling adventures in the third and final season of this much acclaimed Vietnam war series. The men face some tough challenges ahead when their platoon, now called Team Viking, is transferred to Camp Barnett to become part of a Special Operations unit. The final season delivers extreme combat action and intense personal drama focusing on real Vietnam War issues such as the catastrophic effects of chemical warfare, the massacre of Vietnamese civilians, the out-of -control problem of heroin addiction and the difficulties soldiers faced when returning home to a country so bitterly divided by the war.

• They Were Not Divided | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.07   |  Saving you £3.92 (43.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A huge hit at the box ofice when released in 1950. An action packed WW2 drama.

• Company K | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £3.42   |  Saving you £4.57 (133.63%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A gripping story of a unit of American Marines in World War I Company K is based on the classic novel by William March which detailed his own experiences and those of his close comrades in the war torn trenches of France during 1918.

• Secondhand Lions | Blu Ray | (07/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A coming-of-age tale following the comedic adventures of an introverted 14-year-old packed off to spend the summer with a pair of cranky, eccentric great-uncles.

• The Empress And The Warrior | Blu Ray | (23/03/2009) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the ancient King of a proud Chinese Kingdom is killed, the throne passes to his only daughter, Yan Feier. Will the Kingdom be lost forever, or can Feier fight her enemies and assume her rightful place at the head of the nation?