Gandhi
(1982) [M]

Epic and unforgettable, Gandhi swept the 1983 Oscars, winning eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Screenplay and Best Director for Richard Attenborough. The awe-inspiring story of Mahatma Gandhi, the diminutive lawyer who stood up to the British in India and...  More

Brief Encounter
(1945) [M]

Noel Coward's sensitive portrayal of what happens when two happily married strangers, played by Trevor Howard and Celia Johnston, meet and their acquaintance deepens into affection and eventually into love. It is a story of two people, thrown together by the chance meeting of the title, helpless...  More

I See A Dark Stranger
(1946) [M]

Bridie is an Irish girl who decides that she will return to Dublin to assist in the war against the British. On the train she meets a Nazi officer attempting to rescue an accomplice. He sees Bridie as an attractive decoy so he takes her to England with him. When Miller is killed, Bridie is told...  More

Green For Danger
(1946) [G]

In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have...  More

The Cockleshell Heroes
(1954) [G]

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...  More

Von Ryan's Express
(1965) [G]

As the Allies begin to push the Nazis back toward Germany, US combat pilot Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is more concerned with surviving than escaping, earning him the insulting nickname 'Von Ryan'. But in time, Ryan takes over from the commanding British officer (Trevor Howard) and...  More

Battle Of Britain (2 Disc Set)
(1969) [PG]

A magnificent war epic about the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered RAF fought off an invasion by the powerful German Luftwaffe. Packed with vivid and exciting action which used over 100 vintage aircraft in filming and boasting an all-star cast headed by Laurence Olivier....  More

Aces High
(1976) [M]

A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear. Aces High contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Under Jack Gold's sensitive direction, this...  More

The Charge Of The Light Brigade
(1968) [M]

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854, climaxing with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery,...  More

Operation Crossbow
(1965) [PG]

This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in...  More