The Ten Commandments (2 disc set)
(1956) [G]

For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few motion pictures can claim to equal the splendor of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his epic The Ten Commandments. Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of...  More

JFK : Director's Cut (2 disc set)
(1991) [M]

Part fact and part opinion. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is highly suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI to explain JFK's assassination. When he takes it upon himself to investigate, he unearths a deadly conspiracy that may go deeper than he could have ever imagined.  More

The Official Story
(1985) [M]

An intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina. Buenos Aires schoolteacher Aleandro (Norma Aleandro, in a rivetting performance) lives in middle-class comfort with her husband and their adopted daughter. But she starts on a moral and political reawakening when she suspects her...  More

Judgment At Nuremberg
(1961)

Stanley Kramer's powerful Judgement at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Oscars. American judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalising" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilisation and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting...  More

Henry V
(1944) [G]

Based on one the most popular historical plays by Shakespeare and made in order to boost moral of British troops during WW2, this movie is about English king Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415., this movie is about English king Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415.  More

Impromptu
(1991) [M]

Better known in her own day than even Charles Dickens, George Sand (Judy Davis) was the most celebrated writer of the early nineteenth century and possibly its most notorious Bohemian. Fredric Chopin (Hugh Grant) was one of the greatest musicians of his age who gained a legendary reputation...  More

Scott Of The Antarctic
(1948) [G]

John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won by Norway.  More

Strike
(1925) [PG]

The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant....  More

The End Of St. Petersburg
(1927) [PG]

Filmed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, End of St. Petersburg was the second feature-length effort of director V. I. Pudovkin. Utilizing many of the montage techniques popularized by his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein, Pudovkin details the fall of St....  More

Newsfront
(1978) [PG]

An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media. The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own. Newsfront is the story of...  More

Cleopatra (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1963) [M]

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison star in this sweeping tale of power and betrayal - the legendary story of the Queen of the Nile and her conquest of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. Here is the truly unforgettable portrayal of the beguiling beauty who seduced two of Rome's...  More

Sebastiane
(1976) [R]

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, Sebastianus becomes the target of lust for a homosexual centurion, but he rejects the man's advances.  More

Damn The Defiant!
(1962) [PG]

During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Crawford takes command of the HMS Defiant and is ordered to rendezvous with the fleet in Corsica. With his son aboard as a new midshipman, Capt. Crawford takes an even hand with his crew. This does not sit well with his second-in-command Lt. Scott-Paget, a...  More

Gettysburg
(1993) [PG]

Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. Two great armies will clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible"...  More

Henry V (Branagh)
(1989) [PG]

Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Kenneth Branagh's award–winning production of Shakespeare's Henry V, a classic story of conflict, courage, honour and heroism. Branagh is electrifying in the title role, a king whose inspired leadership and full-blooded courage rouses his bewildered and...  More

Peter Brook's Marat Sade (aka "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade")
(1967) [M]

The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become...  More

Demetrius And The Gladiators
(1954) [PG]

This enormously successful sequel to “The Robe” continues the story of Demetrius (Victor Mature), the Greek slave who, after the death of his master, is sentenced to train as a gladiator in the Roman arena. There, his newfound Christian faith is put to the test when he has to contend not only...  More

Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970) [G]

This classic Pearl Harbor epic, one of the most spectacular action films ever made, meticulously recreates the stunning attack on American forces by the Japanese. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards®, Tora! Tora! Tora! (The Japanese signal to attack) features a joint U.S. and Japanese production...  More

El Cid
(1961) [G]

Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren star in one of the most successful and spectacular epics ever made. Set in Spain in the 11th Century, the drama focuses on an uneasy truce between the Christians and the Moors. One of the most powerful Moorish Emirs, Mountamin, honours a brave knight Rodrgo Diaz...  More

55 Days In Peking
(1963) [G]

A story of love and passion, set in 1900 Peking. A Dowager Empress is inciting fanatics to take over the city and attack the international diplomatic quarter. Dmitri Tiomkin was nominated for an Academy Award for his song 'So Little Time'.  More

From Here To Eternity
(1953) [PG]

In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own...  More

Gandhi
(1982) [M]

Epic and unforgettable, Gandhi swept the 1983 Oscars, winning eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Screenplay and Best Director for Richard Attenborough. The awe-inspiring story of Mahatma Gandhi, the diminutive lawyer who stood up to the British in India and...  More

Braveheart (2-Disc set)
(1995) [MA]

Rousing Hollywood epic about Scottish rebels fighting English oppression. Packed with idyllic scenery and brutally realistic battles. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) sets out to avenge the deaths of his Scottish relatives by raising an army and taking on the might of the English  More

Heaven's Gate
(1980) [M]

"Richly textured and visually compelling" (The Hollywood Reporter), this lavish, epic western retells the true story of Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War - a brutal conflict during which wealthy cattlemen, backed by the U.S. government, hired mercenaries to murder 125 immigrant settlers. From...  More

The Battleship Potemkin
(1925) [PG]

After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed...  More

Storm Over Asia
(1928) [PG]

Originally Potomak Chingis-khan (The Heir to Genghis Khan), Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia is set in Central Asia in 1920. Valeri Inkijinov plays a young Mongolian trapper ostracized from his village after he is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European trader....  More

The Birth Of A Nation
(1915) [M]

D.W. Griffith's spectacular silent masterpiece is available for the first time on DVD. The most successful silent film ever, The Birth of a Nation remains America's most controversial cinematic landmark.  More

Ivan The Terrible: Part 2 (New digital restoration) (2 disc set)
(1946) [PG]

The second part of Sergei Eisenstein's baroque chronicle of the legendary Russian czar was originally planned as a three-part epic. But Eisenstein had battles with Russian censors over the second part of his trilogy, ostensibly because of a negative depiction of Ivan's secret police force (Stalin...  More

A Man For All Seasons
(1966) [G]

The dazzling international cast featured in director Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons helps bring to life one of the most thrilling dramas of intrigue and courage ever filmed. Adapted from Robert Bolt's play, Robert Shaw plays the lusty King Henry VIII who wants to divorce his wife in order...  More

The Alamo
(1960) [PG]

John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this epic chronicle of one of America's defining moments. This magnificent movie tells the gripping story of those brave Texans at the San Antonio Mission, known as the Alamo, who sacrifice their lives to halt the Mexican army of General Santa Anna. The...  More