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Eureka Stockade
(1949) [G]

Director Watt, after the brilliant The Overlanders in 1946, may have even outdone that here, with a spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and, more importantly, the events leading up to it. Rafferty is fantastic in the lead role as reluctant hero Lalor in the film which,...  More

The Blue Kite
(1993) [M]

Originally banned in its home country of China, where the director was under close government scrutiny for making the film "without permission", The Blue Kite is one of the most acclaimed and controversial films to come out of the new Chinese cinema, detailing the realities of daily life under...  More

To Live
(1994) [PG]

The story of a couple whose lives are thrown into turmoil by civil war. Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
(1993) [MA]

She was the daughter of a King, the sister of a King, the wife of a King...and the lover of an enemy. August 1572 - France is torn apart in bitter religious wars. Marguerite know as Margot, is proud and beautiful; the Catholic sister of King Charles IX, she is forced to marry the Protestant Henri...  More

Nixon
(1995) [M]

Anthony Hopkins electrifies the screen as Nixon in the acclaimed hit from controversial director Oliver Stone! Nominated for 4 Academy Awards; Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power - when his involvement in...  More

October 1917 (Ten Days That Shook the World)
(1927) [PG]

Borrowing its title from a book by American journalist John Reed (of Reds fame), Sergei Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World reenacts the crucial week-and-a-half in October, 1918, when the Russian Kerensky regime was toppled by the Bolsheviks. While Eisenstein takes certain liberties in...  More

The Crucible
(1996) [M]

A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy...  More

Ned Kelly
(1970) [PG]

True story of a frontier cowboy in Australia who is convicted as a horse thief. He insists he is innocent and takes to the hills to live as an outlaw. Rock superstar Mick Jagger makes his dynamic screen debut in this explosive frontier crime saga from Academy Award winner director Tony...  More

The Dismissal (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [PG]

The mini-series about the drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labour Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and...  More

The Mission
(1986) [PG]

Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to...  More