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South: Sir Earnest Shackleton
(1919) [E]

When the Endurance was trapped by pack ice, the crew drifted on ice floes for months before Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a miraculous 850-mile boat journey to safety. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and...  More

Troy (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history’s most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy - Achilles (Brad Pitt),...  More

Helen of Troy
(1956) [M]

Robert Wise directs this swords and sandals epic. Young Trojan Prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta hoping to negotiate a peace treaty to end the war between Troy and Greece. Washed ashore following a storm, Paris meets the beautiful Helen (Rossana Podesta) and unaware that she is the...  More

The Legend of Suriyothai
(2001) [MA]

Set in 16th century Thailand over the course of 57 years (1491-1548), this is an epic tale and political history of the Kingdom of Ayothaya, culminating in the story of Queen Phra Suriyothai (Bhirombhakdi), who rode into battle against the Burmese invasion to protect her husband at the Battle of...  More

Gone With The Wind-Special Edition: Part 1, The Restored Movie (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc disc Set)
(1939) [PG]

David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking, Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said. And in Maltin's view, it looks better than it has in years. This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive...  More

King Arthur (Director's Cut)
(2004) [M]

King Arthur (Clive Owen) is a half-British, half-Roman leader and warrior who commands a brave team of knights for the Roman Empire, protecting Hadrian's Wall from the Woads (ancient Britons) in the North. Arthur and his Sarmatian knights, who include Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) and Bors (Ray...  More

1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More

The Last Emperor
(1987) [M]

Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three became ruler of nearly half the world's population. He was the "Son of Heaven", "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" and the last emperor of China.

His reign was short and three years later a...  More

Satyricon
(1969) [M]

"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More

Triumph Of The Will
(1934) [PG]

The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War II this film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi Party.

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the President of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the...  More