War

• Hart's War | Blu Ray | (14/05/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured by the Germans and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.

• Elegy | Blu Ray | (16/03/2009) from £4.00   |  Saving you £20.99 (524.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  My Life Without Me director Isabel Coixet draws excellent performances from a great cast in this moving drama. Ben Kingsley stars as a professor who finds his life in upheaval after he begins a romance with a young beauty (Penelope Cruz). This adaptation of Philip Roth's The Dying Animal also stars Dennis Hopper Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard.

• The Thin Red Line - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A powerful front-line cast - including Sean Penn Nick Nolte Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick) The Thin Red Line is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece.

• Bad Boy Bubby | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Bad Boy Bubby with its hard hitting content of deprivation mental illness and incest shocked its audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the 1990s. Nicholas Hope gives an astonishing performance as Bubby a demented man-child kept locked for his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother who uses him for sex. When Bubby who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do escapes into the outside world he soon discovers young women crime rock'n'roll and pizza. Will this naive 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?

• The Rookie | Blu Ray | (10/03/2008) from £11.08   |  Saving you £12.91 (116.52%)   |  RRP £23.99

  A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

• The Cruel Sea | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £13.46   |  Saving you £0.53 (3.94%)   |  RRP £13.99

  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

• Sweet Land | DVD | (19/04/2013) from £12.38   |  Saving you £-4.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Featuring supporting performances by veteran actors Ned Beatty Paul Sand and Lois Smith Sweet Land is an award-winning celebration of land love and the American immigrant experience. When his grandmother Inge dies a man is faced with a heart-wrenching decision - sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920 or cling to the legacy of the land. Sweet Land travels back to the beautiful farmland of 1920''s Minnesota as Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) arrives to marry a young Norwegian farmer Olaf (Tim Guinee). Her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers arouse suspicion in the small town and they are forbidden to marry. With the support of Olaf''s friend Frandsen (Alan Cumming) and his family Inge begins to learn the English language and the American way of life. Inge and Olaf''s relationship slowly develops and they fall in love living together openly despite the scorn of their neighbours and the disapproval of the local minister. It is only when Olaf takes a stand as Frandsen''s farm is threatened with foreclosure that the community unites around the young couple finally accepting Inge as one of their own. Based on Will Weaver''s short story A Gravestone Made of Wheat Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical story of immigrant America.

• War of Resistance | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he’s drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley, they embark on a nonstop, action packed hunt through underground tunnels, Gestapo highjacks and daring rescues. War of Resistance is an explosive WWII thriller, that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the nail-biting finale.

• 14 - 18: The Noise And The Fury | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The captivating story of The Great War (WW1) and how it helped rewrite modern human history. Told almost entirely through original archive footage that has been painstakingly colourised and restored. A unique first person narrative sewn together from genuine testimonies of frontline soldiers and corroborated by renowned scholars.

• Rhineland 1945 DVD | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £6.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (1.30%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Set in March, 1945 during the battle known as The last great killing ground in the west. Rhineland tells the story of a young replacement thrown into an under-strength mine platoon. A burned-out lieutenant and a bitter sergeant are his only guides as he struggles to come to terms with the brutality of war during the final bloody months of World War II.

• World War II - Soldiers of Valour (3 Disc Boxset) - Everyman's War, The Downfall of Berlin & Broken Sun | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £8.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (123.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everyman's War: The true story of Don Smith's heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry. The Downfall of Berlin: A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. Broken Sun

• My Way Home | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the final days of WWII a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops then released then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier.

• Kidulthood | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £8.45   |  Saving you £11.54 (136.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's just another day at school for teenagers Trife, Jay and Moony: beatings, sex and drugs.

• WW2: Beyond Enemy Lines | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the close of World War II. Unwilling to surrender, rogue German forces shoot down a returning British squadron leaving Sydney Baker (Chris Walters) wounded and lost with the enemy closing in. He's saved by American soldier William Summers (Jackson Berlin) and the duo must face their fears, both internal and external, to defeat the enemy and make it back to friendly territory alive.

• Barefoot Gen / Barefoot Gen 2 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drawn from writer Keiji Nakazawa's true life experiences in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima 'Barefoot Gen' tells the story of one family's struggle to survive against overwhelming odds. Barefoot Gen: Gen Nakaoka is on his way to school when the atomic bomb detonates. He makes his way back to his home through hellish scenes of ruined buildings corpses and hideously mutilated survivors. Although his family is still alive Gen and his pregnant mother are unab

• Johnny Got His Gun | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the 1950s Senator Joe McCarthy blacklisted many American citizens for alleged Communist ties. Anybody who spoke out against America or war was a traitor. One such man was Dalton Trumbo with 'Johnny Got His Gun' being the best example of an anti war statement. On the last day of the First World War a young solider (Joe) is involved in an explosion. He wakes up in hospital a shell of the man he used to be. Now without his arms and legs the use of his eyes ears or mouth yet remaining conscious and still able to reason he struggles to decipher between reality and nightmares. Trapped inside his own mind when he finally learns how to communicate he asks that he be used as a shocking demonstration of the horrors of war or be left to die. Johnny got his Gun inspired Metallica's Grammy Awarding winning song 'One' making the film famous to a new generation of MTV viewers and young audiences around the world.

• Flying Tigers | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A motion picture tribute to the intrepid Flying Tigers , those youthful and courageous American pilots for hire, who harassed the Japanese Air Force over the Burma Road prior to their sneak attack on Pearl Harbour. John Wayne stars as the squadron leader and John Carroll as the cocky pilot who vie for the affection of the pretty nurse. The American Volunteer Group, or Flying Tigers, fight bravely for China's freedom despite the fact that they are greatly outnumbered. Squadron leader Jim Gordon (John Wayne) gets a new recruit when Woody Jason (John Carroll) joins the group. Woody signs up only because he needs money to pay for a breach-of-promise suit. His egotism and mercenary motives gain him the ill-will of fellow fliers. He further antagonises them by stealing Jim's girl, Brooke (Anna Lee), a Red Cross worker.

• Recon: 1944 The Enemy Within | Blu Ray | (18/01/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of an Italian mountainside in the closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their evil sergeants cold-blooded murder of a young woman and with only an old Italian man of uncertain loyalties as their guide.

• Psychoville | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  I Know What You Did. A chilling message that draws five seemingly disparate characters into a dark tale of blackmail and desire. A blind recluse with an unusual hobby a love-struck telekinetic dwarf an embittered hook-handed clown a murder-obsessed man-child and a deranged but caring midwife all receive the same ominous message sending their already bizarre lives into turmoil. All are affected in different ways by the letters and as more chilling messages are received the five are forced to confront their past and the secret that binds them together. From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen this cliff-hanging comedy thriller weaves a tale of intrigue mystery and suspense.

• Go Tell The Spartans | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Academy Award-winner Burt Lancaster delivers one of the finest performances of his career as a hard-boiled major in command of a grubby Vietnam outpost in this classic film of wartime confrontation. The war was still a ""conflict"" and American soldiers were merely ""advisors "" yet the ambushes the betrayals and the brutality were all very real. While the riveting action concentrates on a single obscure incident this excellent understated and sharply intelligent film illuminates the vast landscape of an era.