Saints and Soldiers
(2003) [M]

Based on actual WWII events, the award-winning "Saints and Soldier" tells the dramatic story of a small band of Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save thousands of allied lives. Outgunned and ill-equipped, they must now battle a frigid wilderness and roving...  More

Attack
(1956) [PG]

When Lieutenant Joe Costa leans that his men died because the commander, Captain Cooney, was too much of a coward to join the fight, Costa issues a serious warning: Don't let it happen again! But Cooney's cowardice forces Costa into a fateful choice: continue to risk the lives of his men... or...  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

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 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

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

To the Shores of Tripoli
(1942) [PG]

Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to  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

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

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

The Dogs Of War
(1981) [M]

Christopher Walken is a brutal mercenary who must fight the ultimate battle - against his own conscience - in this powerful action thriller with a heart-thumping tempo. Based on the Frederick Forsyth novel, The Dogs of War is a spectacular adventure that brilliantly captures the glory and horror...  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

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

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

Dark Blue World
(2001) [M]

Having flown for the British Royal Air Force, Czech pilot Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) finds himself imprisoned in a post-WWII totalitarian Communist labour camp for "betraying" his country. Rewinding his story, award-winning director Jan Sverak (Kolya) takes us back to when Franta and his young...  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

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

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

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

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

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

Black Hawk Down
(2001) [MA]

Somalia, October 1993. Stationed outside the capital Mogadishu, a group of U.S. Special Forces are present as part of a United Nations peace keeping force. Food supplies and aid for the starving population are often seized by the army of ruling warlord Mohammad Farrah Aidid, who has proved...  More

Divided We Fall
(2001) [PG]

Divided We Fall is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple Josef and Marie Cizek, who offer refuge to David, a young...  More

A Time For Drunken Horses
(2000) [M]

For Kurdish children Ameneh, Ayoub and Madi, life is hard. Their mother is dead and their father is often away from home trying to earn the money to keep his family. During these long absences, the children work everyday in a nearby town wrapping glasses for export, or staggering under the heavy...  More

Behind Enemy Lines
(2001) [M]

Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson excel in this high-flying action thriller filled with explosive excitement at every turn. The war was supposed to be over, but the battle to survive has only just begun. When U.S Navy pilot Chris Burnett (Wilson) is shot down during a recon mission over Bosnia, he...  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

Enigma (2001)
(2001) [M]

Enigma is director Michael Apted's skillful adaptation of the best seller by Robert Harris. In March 1943 the code breakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret intelligence station, are facing their worst nightmare. Nazi U boats have unexpectedly changed the code by which they communicate...  More

Tigerland
(2000) [MA]

Just released from the base camp, brash, charismatic recruit Roland Bozz (an excellent Colin Farrell) joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. Bozz's independence and outright defiance draws fire from his own men as well as commanding officers who can't afford in the...  More

Enemy At The Gates
(2001) [MA]

In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the great Battle of the Stalingrad, one of the most vicious engagements of the Second World War. Enter into this horror a young Russian soldier, formerly a peasant boy with an extraordinary ability to sharpshoot a rifle from far...  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