Waterloo Bridge
(1940) [PG]

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the...  More

Sunshine (1999)
(1999) [MA]

Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century and continuing to the present day, Sunshine is an emotive drama tracing three generations of a wealthy Hungarian Jewish family. Ralph Fiennes plays three challenging roles in this beautifully filmed study of the rise and fall of a prosperous...  More

Rules Of Engagement
(2000) [MA]

Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson deliver electrifying performances in this drama about what happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him. Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes...  More

The End Of The Affair
(1999) [MA]

When brooding novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) meets Mrs Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) in 1939 war-torn London, their attraction is instant and the two begin a passionate, illicit affair. Their love seems as powerful as the bombs exploding around them, until the day Sarah suddenly and...  More

The Bridge On The River Kwai (2 disc set)
(1957) [PG]

When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure based on Pierre Boulle's novel. Spectacularly produced, this winner of seven 1957 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director...  More

Three Kings
(1999) [MA]

In a war without heroes they are kings Absurdly comic, highly kinetic, at times shockingly emotional, Three Kings begins when the Gulf War is over. Amid the partying and confusion, four American soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze), determined to take home more than...  More

Gentleman's Agreement
(1947) [G]

Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura...  More

How I Won The War
(1967) [PG]

Lieutenant Goodbody (Michael Crawford) has absolutely no idea how to lead his British regiment in the North African battlefield of WWII. But what he lacks in experience, he makes up for in enthusiasm. And when he’s ordered to build a cricket playing field 100 miles behind enemy lines, he’s...  More

Tea With Mussolini
(1999) [PG]

Florence, 1934. A diverse group of cultured ladies meet for tea each afternoon: Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith), widow of the British Ambassador to Italy, Arabella (Judi Dench), an artist and singer, Georgie (Lily Tomlin), the exuberant American Archaeologist, and the brash and uninhibited Elsa...  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

Objective Burma!
(1945) [PG]

Mission accomplished! Errol Flynn, who brought boyish bravado to The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodge City, Gentlemen Jim and other screen yarns, turns in a mature, acclaimed performance as the leader of a paratrooper patrol stranded in Burma. It's "one of the few features of which I am proud."...  More

Exodus
(1960) [PG]

Adapted from Leon Uris’ international bestseller by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger's Exodus is an exciting, panoramic and deeply moving masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large...  More

The Thin Red Line
(1998) [M]

A powerful frontline cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director...  More

A Canterbury Tale
(1944) [G]

A British wartime classic. Four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards Canterbury - and discover what they couldn't find in peacetime. Hailed as one of Powell and Pressburger's most suggestive and profound studies of English-ness.  More

Paths Of Glory
(1957) [PG]

Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas, in one of his greatest performances): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal...  More

The Blue Max
(1966) [PG]

There was no quiet on the Western Front for the heroes and cowards who flew to their rendezvous with Hell! The "Blue Max", a coveted medal for achievement in flying, is ruthlessly sought by a German pilot who climbs out of the trenches and into the air force. He is met with prejudice by the other...  More

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
(1964) [PG]

A crazed General, Jack D Ripper, obsessed by the fear that the Communists are controlling the fluoridation of the U.S. water supply, unleashes his wing of H-bombers against Russia. The President of the United States, his Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon and even the sinister Dr. Strangelove,...  More

Saving Private Ryan (2 disc set)
(1998) [MA]

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy, two brothers lay dead in the wake of the onslaught. Meanwhile, in New Guinea, a third brother has been killed fighting the Japanese. After the Army General Staff learns that a fourth brother is missing in the French countryside, a rescue mission is...  More

Welcome To Sarajevo
(1997) [MA]

Starring Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump, The People Vs. Larry Flynt) and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny), this Cannes Film Festival favourite reveals the shocking account of life in one of the most dangerous places on earth, war-torn Sarajevo. Follow a group of international...  More

Lucie Aubrac
(1997) [M]

A war-time drama based in France. Raymond Samuel is captured after attending a meeting of the Resistance. His lover Lucie attempts to get him freed before he is executed. French dialogue with subtitles.  More

The Dirty Dozen
(1967) [M]

They are convicts, psychos, lunkheads, losers -- and champs at the box office and in movie lore. Decades after it burst onto the scene, The Dirty Dozen remains a milestone among ensemble action flicks. Lee Marvin portrays a tough-as-nails major volunteered in the Army way to command a squad of...  More

PT 109
(1963) [G]

All-action story of torpedoboat PT 109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, in a desperate fight against the Japanese Imperial Navy in the Solomon Islands during WWII.  More

Run Silent, Run Deep
(1958) [PG]

Two great Hollywood stars clash in this intense and exciting World War II drama, as embittered submarine Commander Clark Gable seeks revenge on the Japanese cruiser that once sunk him off Tokyo Bay, while Executive Officer Burt Lancaster risks death and mutiny to keep the sub on its assigned...  More

633 Squadron
(1964) [M]

Excitement, adventure, derring-do and courage in the war-torn skies over northern Europe are "the right stuff" for this pulse-pounding World War II air drama! Cliff Robertson plays a combat-weary pilot whose RAF squadron is ordered on an apparent suicide mission to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel...  More

Malta Story
(1953) [G]

In Malta Story, Alec Guinness stars as Peter Ross who lands in Malta and is attached to the local regiment. On studying aerial photographs he discovers that Italy is preparing to invade Malta. It is of vital importance that the island remains under the control of the Allies, and Peter is the man...  More

Murphy's War
(1971) [PG]

Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of his crew that has been decimated by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He lands on a forgotten island and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat that has floated up by means of any method imaginable to him, and...  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

Bolero - The Dance Of Life (Les uns et les autres)
(1981) [PG]

This movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1960s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several,...  More

The Battle Of The River Plate
(1956) [G]

The Battle of the River Plate is a war film from the incomparable team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Ten days before before the outbreak of WW2, the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic....  More

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
(1940) [PG]

The wind blows one way but the windmill turns another. To a group of fifth Columnists, it's a signal. It also signals to an intrepid American reporter that he's stumbled across the biggest story in prewar Europe. Foreign Correspondent is prime Alfred Hitchcock, a showcase of the director's best...  More