The Red Badge Of Courage
(1951) [G]

Directed by Academy Award winner John Huston, 'The Red Badge Of Courage' is the story of Henry Fleming and his initiation into manhood as a Union Army recruit during the American Civil War. With a sensitive performance from Audie Murphy, the film reveals the horrible - though somtimes ennobling -...  More

Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]

This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More

Napoleon
(1927) [G]

A massive epic biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant...  More

Ned Kelly (2003)
(2003) [M]

This film is based on "Our Sunshine" by Robert Drew, a novel based on the life of Australian bush ranger and icon, Ned Kelly. It tells of his life as a bush ranger in north-west Victoria, where he lived all his life. He, his brother Dan, and two other men, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, formed a gang....  More

11 09 01 September 11
(2002) [M]

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11, 2001. producer Alain Brigand invited 11 renowned international directors to look towards their own cultures, their own memories, their own stories and their own...  More

Gangs Of New York (2 disc set)
(2002) [MA]

This motion picture event from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese earned 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, along with 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Song! Leonardo...  More

The Attic - The Hiding Of Anne Frank
(1998) [M]

The story of Miep Gies who risked her life daily for eight residents of the Secret Annexe during World War II in Occupied Amsterdam.  More

Bloody Sunday
(2002) [MA]

On 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians taking part in an anti-internment civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland. The event was a major turning point in the history of the modern Irish troubles, driving many young men into the IRA and fuelling a 25-year cycle...  More

Black And White
(2002) [M]

True story that created headline news in 1959. A young aboriginal man Max Stuart, was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence presented, of nine year old Mary Hattam near Ceduna, on the south coast of Australia. International News Media Baron, Rupert Murdoch (played by Ben...  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

The Majestic
(2001) [PG]

Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) has just celebrated the opening of his first produced script when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee suddenly accuses him of being a Communist sympathizer and call him to testify. After an all night drive up the California coast, he crashes his car, develops...  More

Rabbit Proof Fence (2 disc set)
(2002) [PG]

It's the 1930's in outback Australia. Three young Aboriginal girls - sisters Molly (Everlyn Sampi) and Daisy (Tianna Sansbury) and their cousin Gracie (Laura Monagham) are snatched from their mothers' arms in Jigalong, Western Australia and sent to a remote settlement at Moore River. 1500 miles...  More

From Hell (2 disc set)
(2001) [MA]

While Jack The Ripper ruled the streets of London, terror reigned. His savagery implied insanity, but his diabolical precision argued that there was a method to his madness. Johnny Depp and Heather Graham star in this "engrossing, stylish thriller" (People). In 1888 London, the unfortunate poor...  More

The Odyssey
(1997) [M]

The ancient world’s most spectacular epic unfolds in this star studded, special-effects- filled adventure of breathtaking beauty and power in this adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Isabella Rossellini, Greta Scacchi and Armand Assante star.  More

Changi : The Complete Series
(2001) [MA]

Changi is a story of Australian mateship, of boys who became men in a climate of fear, who react to the terror around them in the way they know best. They laugh at it ... and survive. Written by John Doyle and starring Stephen Curry, Leon Ford, Anthony Hayes, Bill Kerr, Desmond Kelly, Geoff...  More

Pearl Harbour
(2001) [M]

Kate Beckinsale, looking beautiful and straight out of a 1940's glamour magazine, is Evelyn, the nurse who wins the hearts of both Rafe and Danny. Rafe meets her first during an examination to determine fitness for duty. He charms and clowns his way into a date, and the two fall quickly in love....  More

The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)
(1936) [PG]

Alfred Tennyson's epic poem of the heroic charge at Balaclava during the Crimea War (1853 - 1856), is brought to the screen in all its magnificence and glory. Errol Flynn and Olivia De Haviland head a a stellar cast in this fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the still unanswered...  More

Simba
(1955) [PG]

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.  More

Life Is Beautiful
(1997) [M]

Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II... and Guido must rely on those very...  More

Elizabeth
(1998) [MA]

England, 1554. Under the rule of Queen Mary I, a zealous Catholic, England has been reduced to a country racked by financial and religious instability. Now close to death, Mary (Kathy Burke) steps up her policy of protestant repression. Even Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett), her younger sister...  More

Andrei Rublev (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film Andrei Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th century Russian history, which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princess and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic sacle, it does not flinch from portraying...  More

The Day Of The Roses (2 disc set)
(1998) [M]

On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing part of the train and killing 83 passengers and injuring more than 200 others. This story follows the coronial inquiry into the crash with flash-backs...  More

Kundun
(1997) [PG]

In 1937, in a remote area of Tibet close to the Chinese border, a a two year old child is identified as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the compassionate Buddha. Two years later, the child is brought to Lhasa where he is schooled as a monk and as head of state amidst the color and pageantry...  More

The Bounty
(1984) [PG]

Robert Bolt's screen adaptation of Richard Hugh's book 'Captain Bligh and Mister Christian' (itself a widely acclaimed account of The Mutiny On The Bounty) is directed here by Roger Donald (No Way Out, Species, Dante's Peak). Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, and particularly the emminently...  More

Amistad
(1997) [M]

Steven Spielberg's debut film for DreamWorks Pictures, Amistad starred a distinguished cast led by Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou and Matthew McConaughey. Based on a true story, Amistad chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's...  More

The Man In The Iron Mask (1998)
(1998) [M]

All for one and one for all! For the honor of the crown and the destiny of a country, the world's most renowned Musketeers reunite for one last epic battle. It is a time of both splendor and despair. France's self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people die of...  More

Titanic
(1997) [M]

Nothing on earth can rival the epic spectacle and breathtaking grandeur of Titanic. Winner of eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this sweeping love story sailed into the hearts of moviegoers around the globe, ultimately emerging as the most popular motion picture of all-time. Leonardo...  More

Her Majesty Mrs Brown
(1997) [PG]

Queen Victoria, the world's most powerful woman. John Brown, a simple Scottish Highlander. Their extraordinary friendship transformed an empire. A sweeping epic, based on the true-life relationship between England's Queen Victoria and John Brown, a royal servant, Mrs Brown paints a revealing...  More

The Truce
(1997) [M]

This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. It deals with their experiences in readjusting to life and their fears about what they will find at home.  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