War DVDs

ASSEMBLY:based on an incredible true story, 'assembly' is the story of mans search for truth and honouron a blood soaked battleground.DAYS OF GLORY: gripping, spectacular and deeply moving, this is the story of four young Algerian soldiers enlisted to fight in world war two for a motherland they had never seen.SAINTS AND SOLDIERS: an explosive, riveting journey through a hellish, war ...

War has always provided a rich seam of inspiration for film-makers, but the advent of World War II lent a patriotic imperative to the genre and brought an even greater number of war movies to the screen on both sides of the Atlantic. From the battle for the skies to struggles on the home front and in the desert, films such as the Dam Busters and Ice Cold in Alex dramatised all aspects of the ...

Classic World War II action from legendary directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger. Nominated for two Academy Awards, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a dramatic and suspenseful story based on the actual methods by which the Dutch smuggled crashed British airmen back to England.Six such airmen parachute from their crippled plane into a wood and are discovered by children who ...

Three Great War Movies:The Longest Day:On June 6, 1944, the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships, comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen.Presented in its original black & white version, The Longest Day is a vivid, hour-by-hour re-creation of this ...

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Running On Empty.
Gettysburg.
Escape To Victory.
Memphis Belle.

Derek Jarman creates a visual evocation of the legendary original recording of Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece which blended the Latin Mass of the Dead with the poignant poetry of Wilfred Owen, Britain’s greatest chronicler of the Great War. Dramatised scenes featuring spell-binding performances from an extraordinary cast are interwoven with cinematic, poetic images and harrowing ...

The Battle Of The River Plate:The Battle Of The River Plate is a gripping drama set at sea. Ten days before the outbreak of World War II, a powerful German battleship sails around the South Atlantic destroying allied merchant ships. Finally, the allies learnof its location and a trap is set, pitching British intelligence against a powerful military opponent.In Which We ...

Intimate EnemiesAlgeria, 1959. Military operations are being stepped up. High in the mountains of Kabylia, Terrien (Benoit Magimel), an idealistic lieutenant takes over the command of a platoon at a French army outpost. Here he meets Dougnac (Albert Dupontel), a cynical sergeant. Their differences and the harsh realities in the field drive the two men to the breaking point. Lost in an ...

It is 1944 and the war in the Pacific is at its height. On a small deserted Pacific island a Japanese naval officer and U.S. naval pilot find themselves marooned. The two men are bitter wartime enemies but stranded and with no one else to help them, they have to decide whether to fight each other to the death or work together for survival. As adversaries, can their mutual hatred, suspicion and ...

Pacific Inferno is inspired by the true story of the recovery of million of silver pesos dumped in the Manila Bay by the Allied Forces during WW2.Abandoned to prevent its capture by the invading Japanese, Allied General MacArthur intends to return and salvage the treasure later. But aware of the operation, the Japanese quickly employ POW American divers, including Brown, to seek out ...

Before Apocalypto there was Kings Of The Sun. This classic historical adventure tells the saga of Mayan refugees in search of settlement. After a savage defeat in battle the leaders of an ancient Mayan tribe decide to flee across the Gulf Of Mexico to establish a community on the coast. But the land they've chose to call their home has already been claimed by a hostile tribe of Native Americans ..

A star studded World War II epic, In Which We Serve tells the story of the Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. Torrin and those that serve in her. In the battle of Crete she is dive-bombed but goes down fighting. Exhausted and wounded the survivors tell their own stories, at war and on the home front, as they await rescue or death...

The Dam Busters - Exciting and riveting WW2 classic following Dr.Barnes Wallis and his revolutionary idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb, designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy's industrial nerve centre.The Cruel Sea - Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna star in this powerful and moving account of life on board a British warship ...

A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1954 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany's industrial complex, and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination.Split into two distinct sections, the film deals with the fraught, but ultimately successful development of a new weapon by Dr. Barnes N. ...

Based on true events, Female Agents is a powerful, action packed World War II epic starring Sophie Marceau and Julie Depardieu. Set in spring 1944, a five-woman commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-Day Landings and eliminate Colonel Hendrich, Head of German counter-intelligence.Their dangerous mission to change the war ...

In July 1941 Jan, a young Silesian, manages to escape from the concentration camp at Auschwitz. In revenge for this one fugitive, the camp commandant Fritsch condemns ten prisoners to the starvation bunker. When one of them collapses under this sentence of death, the Franciscan priest, Maximilian Maria Kolbe, sacrifices his own life instead.From now on, Jan is not only fleeing the Gestapo,

Set in the 48 hours leading up to the catastrophic Battle of the Somme, this is the intense story of young men at war as seen through the eyes of 17-year old Billy Macfarlane (Paul Nicholls). As the boys wait for the attack, alternately excited and terrified, this group of naive soldiers is forced to confront the reality of the enemy as the suspense reaches breaking point. When Billy's platoon is

One of the most heroic and inspirational leaders of World War Two, General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) is seriously injured in a car accident just a few weeks after the end of the war and is not expected to survive. This is the story of the last few months of the General's life and the Army Medical Corps efforts to save him. As he lies immobile in a hospital bed, surrounded by the ...