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No Man's Land
(2001)

Danis Tanovic's darkly comic satire No Man's Land is the critically acclaimed winner of numerous awards, including both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Best Screenplay award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The Bosnian conflict, 1993. Two enemy soldiers,...  More

To End All Wars
(2001) [MA]

Based on a true story of Captain Ernest Gordon, a young Scottish soldier taken prisoner by the Japanese at the height of World War II. To End All Wars is a war drama which explores man's deepest struggle for freedom in the face of inhumanity and despair. When Gordon's regiment, the elite Argyll...  More

Charlotte Gray
(2001) [M]

Nazi-occupied France in 1942. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett), a young Scottish woman recruited as a secret agent, joins the French resistance. Her real aim: to rescue her Royal Air Force lover. She soon discovers that, in a world where secrecy is all around her, she can only trust herself. Based...  More

Windtalkers
(2002) [MA]

WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). "Ox" Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is...  More

We Were Soldiers
(2002) [MA]

Sunday 14 November, 1965 at 10.48am. Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and his regiment of 400 men touch down at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, a place in Vietnam known as "The Valley of Death". They find themselves surrounded by over 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and the ensuing...  More

Apocalypse Now Redux
(1979) [R]

Some 49 minutes longer, with the addition of a number of fabled extra scenes, Francis Coppola's hugely ambitious Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now is now presented under the title Apocalypse Now Redux. Martin Sheen's mission (to terminate Marlon Brando's renegade Colonel Kurtz "with extreme...  More

In Shifting Sands
(2007) [PG]

Ritter does not narrate the documentary but his interview footage appears extensively. "In Shifting Sands" was made before the 2003 Iraq invasion, but it illustrates and fills in the background of how the war came about, even if this was not it's intention. Another thing highlighted is how the UN...  More

A Bridge Too Far (2 Disc Set)
(1977) [M]

The true story of the Bridge at Arnhem is one of the great heroic catastrophies of the war. In an over ambitious bid to end the war quickly by invading Germany, the Allies lost more men than the entire Normandy landings. This film features one of the greatest all-star casts ever and director...  More

Casablanca (Special Anniversary Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1942) [PG]

Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no...  More

Bon Voyage
(2003) [M]

At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds....  More