Angels One Five
(1952) [G]

A well-made study of life on an RAF front line fighter station during the Battle of Britain in 1940.  More

Mr. Klein
(1976) [M]

Set in Paris, 1942. Catholic antique dealer Klein is making large profits from Jews fleeing the country who are forced to sell their works of art. Somehow his identity becomes confused with that of a Jew of the same name. Although acutely aware of the danger, Klein is compelled to assume the...  More

The Battle Of Algiers
(1965) [M]

Gillo Pontecorvo's passionate and devastating study of terrorism, “The Battle of Algiers” was garlanded with honours upon its release in 1966, banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest and served as the prototype for the mainstream political cinema of the next two decades from...  More

In Love And War
(1996) [M]

Caught in the crossfire of a world at war, love was the last thing on their minds. But for a beautiful nurse and a heroic young soldier in search of adventure, romance blossomed and changed their lives forever. Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell star in Academy Award winner Richard Attenborough's...  More

Paradise Road
(1997) [M]

In a time of war, an extraordinary group of women turned a song of hope into a symphony of triumph. From the director of "Driving Miss Daisy" comes a true story of courage, triumph, friendship and strength. This compelling drama reveals the heroic actions of a group of women held prisoner by the...  More

Appointment In London
(1952) [PG]

Dirk Bogarde stars in this compelling wartime Lancaster based drama as a young Wing Commander close to the breaking point with 87 stories under his belt. He is determined to make 90 in spite of his superiors pressing him to take a break and a spell on the ground. A series of misfortunes that...  More

Went The Day Well?
(1942) [PG]

Snug little Bromley End seemed safe from World War II, and the villagers welcomed the lorry loads of Royal Engineers rolling onto their quiet green acres. They didn't know they were disguised German parachutists installing radar apparatus to disrupt England's entire network. Nor did they suspect...  More

The Gift Horse
(1952) [PG]

This is the story of one of the old moth-balled American fourstack destroyers, left-overs from WW I, which were turned over to the British in the early, desperate days of WW II, as part of the "Lend-Lease" program before America was in the war. The crew is saddled with an over-age "gift horse",...  More

And The Ship Sails On (2 disc set)
(1983) [PG]

In July 1914 a luxury liner leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but on the third day the captain has to save a a large number of Serbian refugees from...  More

The Boys From Brazil
(1978) [M]

Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), alive and living in South America gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a mysterious project. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), begins to unravel the conspiracy and discovers that Mengele has cloned 94 young Hitlers. Suddenly the terrifying extent of...  More

Khartoum
(1966) [G]

Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier face off in this epic, stirring drama of two men and two empires. With stunning desert battles staged by the creator of the Ben-Hur chariot race, Khartoum is a magnificently staged action spectacle with outstanding portrayals and breathtaking cinematography....  More

Underground (1995)
(1995) [M]

The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they...  More

Operation Crossbow
(1965) [PG]

This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in...  More

The Pride And The Passion
(1957) [PG]

Napolean's forces are sweeping across Europe and Spain is on the brink of falling to the mighty invasion. Standing alone against the onslaught is one brave fighter and his ragtag band of guerillas. Seizing a gigantic cannon, Spanish fighter Miguel (Frank Sinatra) plans to attack Napolean's army...  More

Sink The Bismarck
(1960) [G]

The story of one of World War II's most famous sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi-documentary style movie. In the Spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship - the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for...  More

October 1917 (Ten Days That Shook the World)
(1927) [PG]

Borrowing its title from a book by American journalist John Reed (of Reds fame), Sergei Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World reenacts the crucial week-and-a-half in October, 1918, when the Russian Kerensky regime was toppled by the Bolsheviks. While Eisenstein takes certain liberties in...  More

The Hunters
(1958) [PG]

With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is an mesmerizing film based on the best-selling novel by veteran fighter pilot James Salter. Set during the height of the Korean War, the story centers on Major Cleve Saville (Robert Mitchum), a master of the newly...  More

The Devil's Brigade
(1968) [PG]

Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick takes on the daunting task of melding a renegade group of American and Canadian recruits into a crack team of commando warriors. Frederick's superiors doubt the rookies until Frederick volunteers them for a perilous attack on a Nazi stronghold in the mountains. His...  More

The Art Of War
(2000) [MA]

He is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defence for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. Acclaimed action star Wesley Snipes (Blade, US Marshals) is Neil Shaw, an American agent who must uncover an international plot to bring down the United...  More

Titus (2 disc set)
(1999) [R]

War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to...  More

Aces High
(1976) [M]

A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear. Aces High contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Under Jack Gold's sensitive direction, this...  More

Battleground
(1949) [G]

Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy star in this remarkable war film, nominated for six Oscars, about courageous American G.I.s caught up in the battle at Bastogne.  More

The Deer Hunter
(1978) [R]

The Deer Hunter remains an astonishing, powerful and vivid epic about three men, steelworkers from Pennsylvania, whose lives are changed irrevocably by the Vietnam War. When Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced...  More

The Heroes Of Telemark
(1965) [G]

Physics Professor Dr Pederson (Kirk Douglas) and underground leader Straud (Richard Harris) must convince British Intelligence that the Nazis are planning to build the A-bomb. The Norse Hydro Plant at Telemark is central to enemy strategy and the Allies decide to send in a task force to destroy...  More

Battle Cry
(1954) [G]

When a group of eager young men enlist in the Marines in 1942, they don't expect to spend all their time kicking their heels engaged in training assignments and carrying out non-combatant roles. Frustrated, the only benefit appears to be having extra time to devote to their wartime romances,...  More

Miss Sadie Thompson
(1953) [M]

Rita Hayworth turns it on...! At a lonely military outpost on American Samoa, sticky heat alternates with torrential rain. A ship quarantine strands here Sadie Thompson, a "breezy dame" who sets the Marines afire... and self-righteous Mr. Davidson, powerful head of the Mission Board, who suspects...  More

Legends Of The Fall
(1994) [M]

An epic adventure of brotherhood and betrayal, "Legends of the Fall" is a powerful story about a close-knit family which is forever changed when the youngest of three brothers brings home his dazzling bride-to-be, inadvertently sparking passions and creating a rivalry.  More

Carry On Sergeant
(1959) [G]

Drill Instructor Sergeant Grimshawe is retiring. Before he does, he is determined to lead the Star Squad of recruits. But with soldiers consisting of a hypochondriac, a girl-mad private and a rock 'n' roll singer, things aren't really as simple as one would expect. With the day drawing near,...  More

A Man Escaped
(1956) [G]

Based on a true story, 'A Man Escaped' is set in a Nazi prison in France in 1943. Fontaine is a Resistance fighter sentenced to death, and the film reconstructs his escape plan. Director Bresson won the Best Director award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. French dialogue  More

An Indecent Obsession
(1985) [M]

August 14, 1945 – the day of the Japanese surrendered. But, for the tortured men in Ward X, the end of World War II made no difference. Their troubled minds and battered spirits are held together by one woman: their friend, their keeper – the beautiful and responsive Sister Honour Langtry....  More