Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(2005) [M]

The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany dared even think! A student in wartime Munich, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans are members of the White Rose resistance to Hitler’s Third Reich. Spied distributing anti-Nazi propaganda at their university, the Scholls are...  More

Live and Become
(2005) [M]

A lush, moving, epic drama spanning two continents and two decades, Romanian-born, Paris-based director Radu Mihaileanu's incredibly moving and highly relevant Live and Become follows the life of an Ethiopian boy who is passed off as an African Jew to escape his ravaged country. As the years pass...  More

Letters From Iwo Jima
(2006) [MA]

From Academy Award winning director Clint Eastwood comes the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defence other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of...  More

Kokoda
(2006) [M]

The moment in history depicted in this film is the invasion by the Japanese into New Guinea in World War 2. A situation that directly threatened Australia as most of the Allied forces were consumed with fighting their own battles many thousands of miles away. For Australia it was a matter of...  More

Black Moon
(1975) [M]

Louis Malle doesn't bother telling us when fact ends and fancy begins in Black Moon -- which of course is part of the film's curious charm. Lily (Cathryn Harrison granddaughter of Rex) drives down a lonesome road, finding herself in a alternate world full of non sequiturs and bizarre characters....  More

Voices of Iraq
(2004) [MA]

150 digital video cameras were distributed among the people of Iraq to create this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed documentary. The producers of Voices of Iraq distributed over 150 digital video cameras across the entire country to enable everyday people - mothers, children, teachers,...  More

Lord of War
(2005) [MA]

In Lord of War, Nicolas Cage plays Yuri Orlov, a young Ukranian immigrant who seizes his slice of the American Dream by selling an Uzi. This triggers Yuri’s brilliant arms dealing career and over the next 25 years, he sells guns around the world "to every army but the Salvation Army." Yuri’s...  More

Morituri (aka: The Saboteur, Code Name Morituri)
(1965) [PG]

Set during World War II, this captivating drama stars Marlon Brando as a German war deserter blackmailed into conducting an apparent suicide mission for the British. Forced to pose as an SS officer, Robert Crain (Brando) must seize a German freighter booby-trapped to explode upon capture....  More

Rosenstrasse
(2003) [M]

In Berlin in 1943, on a street called Rosenstrasse, Jewish men were rounded up for deportation to concentration camps and certain death. Their Aryan wives fought to save their lives. Based on a true story, this little known and powerful struggle of their ultimate success is both moving and...  More

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition)
(1980) [M]

The extended version of director Sam Fuller's epic war film The Big Red One. Working with 70,000 feet of vault materials and Fuller's shooting script, critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel headed a reconstruction that adds over 40 minutes and transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic...  More

The Wild Geese
(1978) [M]

Their home is the battlefield. Their calling is war. Their only loyalty is to each other. They are The Wild Geese, fifty crack mercenary paratroopers commanded by fearless veteran Colonel Faulker (Richard Burton). Their mission: to land in a remote and hostile corner of Afrca, free the one man...  More

The War Lover
(1962) [PG]

Steve McQueen fights his own private battle as a volatile "war lover" in this gripping story based on a novel by John Hersey. Stationed in England during World War II, Buzz Rickson (McQueen) is the bravest Air Force pilot in his squadron - and the most reckless. His maniacal quest for thrills...  More

The Lost Command
(1966) [PG]

Academy Award® winner Anthony Quinn gives one of his best performances as Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Raspeguy, a hardheaded officer determined to become a hero at any cost in this dramatic war saga. After Lt. Col. Raspeguy leads his defeated and humiliated French army out of Indochina, he learns...  More

Hellcats of the Navy
(1957) [G]

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former First Lady Nancy Davis – in their only screen appearance together - headline the cast in this taut WWII submarine thriller that chronicles the true story of a daring mission into hostile enemy waters. Based on a novel by Vice-Admiral Charles A....  More

The Cowra Breakout (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [M]

In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.  More

Secret Mission
(1942) [PG]

A behind-the-lines adventure with four British Intelligence Officers parachuting into occupied France. The mission that follows takes them into the heart of the Nazi headquarters in France.  More

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
(1974) [PG]

Peter Sellers plays multiple characters in this romp set in World War II. Madame Grenier is the head of a famous Parisian brothel. After most of her French clients go off to war (characters played by Sellers), she tells her girls that they are to be equally attentive to the arriving German...  More

Operation Amsterdam
(1959) [G]

During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to help the Dutch underground keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Gestapo, knowing that one of their number may be a traitor.  More

The Day Will Dawn
(1952) [G]

Horse race tipster and journalist Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Norway his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they don't believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed...  More

Morning Departure
(1950) [G]

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?  More

We Dive at Dawn
(1943) [G]

When all leave is cancelled for the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger, the men know they are in for an important mission. Their target, the German warship Brandenburg, located in the Baltic and surrounded by mines and escorting destroyers. Picking up three German airman who have been shot...  More

Soundtrack to War
(2005) [M]

Soundtrack to War showcases spontaneous music performances by a striking cast of battle weary soldiers. Performances made without rehearsal, under the blaring Iraqi sun, with a destroyed city, the distraction of gunfire and bursting mortar shells forming a frightening backdrop. American culture...  More

Too Late the Hero
(1970) [M]

Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specialising in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission to knock out the enemy’s key transmitter. The allied soldiers...  More

Never So Few
(1959) [PG]

Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young co-star. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa, one of the...  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

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

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

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 Killing Fields
(1984) [M]

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help...  More

13 Rue Madeleine
(1946) [PG]

A group of Allied agents working undercover in occupied Paris struggle to infiltrate German files in order to discover the location of a rocket launching site before the D-Day invasion. However, in their midst a traitor lurks. James Cagney stars in this spy thriller from director Henry Hathaway....  More