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Monsieur Batignole
(2002) [M]

Summer 1942, Paris is under German occupation. A butcher, partly responsible for a Jewish family's deportation, hides Jewish children and helps them to safety. A heartwarming story of courage under fire. Edmond, a butcher whose future son-in-law is an active collaborator, inadvertently takes part...  More

Beyond Borders
(2003) [MA]

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to the son of a wealthy banker. But one night at a charity event she meets Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), a renegade doctor running dangerous relief efforts in war-torn...  More

Prisoner of Paradise
(2003) [G]

The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well-known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920’s and ‘30’s. Among his greatest accomplishments Gerron co-starred with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the film classic, The Blue Angel. Gerron also sang...  More

The Blockhouse
(1973) [PG]

A group of slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom,...  More

Pork Chop Hill
(1959)

Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) has been given the order: take Pork Chop Hill. If it's taken by the Chinese, US negotiators at the Panmunjom peace conference would lose face with their Communist adversaries – an unthinkable outcome. And so, Clemons leads his troops into combat, to fight for an...  More

The McKenzie Break
(1970) [PG]

Brian Keith leads an international cast in this poignant and powerful WWII drama. Keith stars as Captain Jack Connor, a fast-talking, hard-drinking, tough-as-nails Irishman assigned to investigate an impending escape by a group of German POWs led by the charismatic Kapitan Schleutter (Helmut...  More

Birthday Boy
(2004) [PG]

The Oscar Nominated Australian short animation about a small boy in the Korean War and the arrival of an unexpected package. The most awarded Australian short film ever, this film is set to ignite this year's Academy Awards and has already been acclaimed as a masterpiece. This DVD release is set...  More

The Weather Underground
(2002) [M]

In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage." Outraged...  More

A Very Long Engagement (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [MA]

From the director and star of "Amelie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story, "A Very Long Engagement," based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded...  More

Woyzeck
(1978) [M]

A poor soldier Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) is tormented in private by visions of the apocalypse, and tormented in public by the unbearable weight of social pressure. He descends into madness and murder. A morality play with more than a nod toward Becket and Brecht, this adaptation of Georg Buchner's...  More