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In 12 Strong, a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth), is sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince a Northern Alliance General to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the team accustomed to state-of-the-art..
When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right. Visionary director Michael Bay delivers a "Rock Solid Action Drama" you won't soon forget in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Follow the elite ex-military operators who fought back against overwhelming odds to save American lives in this "Visceral, Powerful, Pulse-Pounding" portayal of true heroism...
Celebrate the landmark 100th movie of Jackie Chan's outstanding career in film and re-live the violent and heartbreaking events of The Xinhai Revolution: a bloody uprising that brought the despotic Qing Dynasty crashing to its knees, ending nearly 3,000 years of feudal oppression. Action legend, Jackie Chan, commands the screen as Huang Xing: the fearless resistance leader and military genius, who opposed a 20,000-strong Imperial Army d..
Sam Mendes directs and writes this war drama which follows two young soldiers during WWI as they are sent on a dangerous mission that, if successfully carried out, could save the lives of 1,600 British men. Private Schofield (George MacKay) and Private Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) have been tasked with delivering a message across the enemy line which will save the battalion from a deadly ambush into which they are currently being lured...
1st September 1939 will forever be remembered for the epic Battle of Westerplatte that announced the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Over one week, fewer than 200 Polish soldiers fought against heavy German bombardment. In the fight against the forces of tyranny they came to symbolize the power of resistance...
Battle of the Bulge is an epic film set during the last great battle of World War II. Christmas 1944, and the Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of infantry soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors. Cappa and his men must find the strength to stand against their enemy in the epic fight that would become known as "The ..
The Great Escape: In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. One of the most ingen..
Inspired by the true story of 'James Bond' author Sir Ian Fleming's formation of one of most important elite units in the history of the British Armed Forces, Age Of Heroes is a spectacular World War II action-thriller. Like its sister special ops unit, the SAS, 30 Commando was a new breed of taskforce created to carry out some of the most dangerous missions in the war. Starring Sean Bean (Lord Of The Rings, Black Death) and Danny Dyer ..
Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing for war. The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. As the centr..
From the director of Forrest Gump and Cast Away comes "a gripping, classy historical thriller" (Star). When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Academy Award nominee Brad Pitt) learns his wife (Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard) may be secretly working with the enemy, he has only 72 hours to prove her innocence and save his family before he must do the unthinkable. "Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are sensational" in this exciting race a..
From 20th Century Fox we present, for the first time on DVD in the UK, the wonderful 1950 film, American Guerrilla In the Philippines. This is a long-awaited opportunity to view the movie which was directed by the giant of cinema, Fritz Lang, and shot in Technicolor on location in the Philippines. Based on Ira Woldert's true accent, the movie casts Tyrone Power as an American Navy officer stranded after the wreck of Bataan. Along with h..
American war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) lands with the Allied forces at Anzio, comandeers a jeep, and drives all the way to Rome and back without encountering the enemy. When he reports this to the commanding officer, he learns that the Allies intend to build a beach stronghold before pressing on to Rome. However, this delay gives the German forces time to build their strength, and soon the Allies finds themselves trapped..
A never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece in a way which the director believes “looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better than it has ever sounded”.Apocalypse Now was nominated for 8 Academy Awards® (including Best Picture) and won 2 Academy Award® for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 2 BAFTAs for Best Direction and Best Supporting Actor and the Palme d’Or i..
Dirk Bogarde stars as Tim Mason, the officer of a British bomber squadron in World War Two. A large-scale operation over Germany has been planned, and Tim is shocked to discover that he is not part of the team for the mission. Higher authorities think he is no longer at his best. A member of his crew is injured just before take-off, so Tim takes his place as a gunner. Those left behind are furious at him for disobeying orders, but he mu..
Dirk Bogarde stars as Tim Mason, the officer of a British bomber squadron in World War Two. A large-scale operation over Germany has been planned, and Tim is shocked to discover that he is not part of the team for the mission. Higher authorities think he is no longer at his best. A member of his crew is injured just before take-off, so Tim takes his place as a gunner. Those left behind are furious at him for disobeying orders, but he mu..
As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, with the Nazis repelling the Allied invasion of Germany, an American tank unit gets trapped behind enemy lines. With only hours to go before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the incredibly risky decision to rescue an orphanage and the innocent nuns and children inside...
Mel Gibson commands an elite military team dispatched during WWII, to locate and rescue the survivors of a shot-down plane, stranded on a South Pacific island occupied by the Japanese.One of the castaways, a defecting Japanese official, holds the secret to ending the war, and must be saved at all costs...
A soaring, action-packed journey of heroism and sacrifice as one crusading journalist desperately fights to uncover the horrors buried within the infamous Nazi siege of Leningrad in the savage winter of 1941. In the height of World War II, journalist Kate Davis becomes trapped within the devastated city of Leningrad. Separated from her lover, American writer Philip Parker, Kate is rescued by Nina Tsvetkova, a member of the Leningrad mil..
BASED ON SHOCKING TRUE EVENTS.The Nazi agenda knew no borders. As the war spread into Europe, Hitler’s control became ever more clear. In November of 1942 hundreds of Jewish citizens in Norway were taken from their homes. Men, women and children forced on to a ship… a ship headed for Oslo, with the final destination set to be where the industrialisation of human suffering became a horrifying reality - Auschwitz.Follow one family's s..
Military action feature starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. A top secret US tracking device goes missing when the F-111 fighter jet transporting it is shot out of the sky. The KGB, led by the infamous Andrei (Van Damme), have the upper hand in their race with the CIA to retrieve it, until the Americans level the playing field by enlisting the help of martial arts expert Ken Tani (Shô Kosugi), code-named the Black Eagle...
Out of StockCasablanca: 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 one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport o..
The complete series of the wartime drama, starring Anthony Andrews as young officer Brian Ash, who joins the UXB unit during the Blitz, the military organisation responsible for defusing unexploded German bombs. Following Brian through training and as he gains more experience as an officer, the series also follows his growing love for his girlfriend Susan (Judy Geeson), in a world wracked by war. Includes all 13 episodes: 'Dead Man's Sh..
Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. Pre..
Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) - trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's str..
Russian war drama based on events which took place during the war with Afghanistan in the 1980s. Journalist Charlie Palmer (Barry Kushner) and medic Victor Davis (Victor Verzhbitski) arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure. During their visit, the prisoners seize control of the camp and begin to enact a series of terrible and bloo..
Collection of British war dramas. In 'Warn That Man' (1943) the Nazi secret service plots to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from a country house by placing one of their men to pose as the home's owner. In 'The Hasty Heart' (1949) a group of soldiers are recuperating from their injuries too severe to travel back home to enjoy the victory celebrations with their friends and comrades. Under the care of Sister Margaret Park..
Flags Of Our Fathers: On the frontline, there's no time for fear. For 70,000 marines who fought with bombs blasting and guns blazing, the bloody battle for Iwo Jima was more than the turning point of World War II; it was the defining moment in their lives. In the epic that The New Yok times calls "a sweeping spectacle," Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood taps into the single greatest emotional truth of warfare: soldiers may f..
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. Two great armies will clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance. The bloodiest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a powerful production "about the strategies, calculat..
A new restoration of the classic war film and part of the Vintage Classics range.In 1940, the Royal Navy is frantically recruiting for WWII so pulls Lieutenant Commander Fraser out of retirement to captain the HMS Ballantrae, herself recently re-commissioned and lent by the Americans to a seriously under-resourced British Navy. Despite an inauspicious start and multiple repairs, Fraser crafts the ship and its crew into an efficient f..
The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, Glory stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who unites the troops; and Denzel Washington, in an Oscar-winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), is the runaway slave who embodies the i..
This classic movie directed by John Guillerman has been beautifully restored as part of the Vintage Classics Collection. It is based on the true story of one of the best intelligence operations of World War II. An actor, trained by Major Harvey (John Mills), is seconded to impersonate General Montgomery on a tour of North Africa. The plan is to divert the Germans' attentions away from the real "Monty" and his plans for D-Day. Starring t..
The Ukranian director Sergei Loznitsa started off in documentaries, (3 of which New Wave will release shortly). In the Fog, his second feature, won the critics' prize in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Set in German-occupied Belarus in 1942, the interplay of people and events slowly bind the characters into a trap: Sushenya has apparently collaborated with the Germans and is taken off into the woods by two partisans. Through flashbacks t..
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS: Five no-good soldiers are captured by the French Resistance and told their only chance of redemption is to steal the Nazi's prized weapon and return it to the Allies. Features interviews with Quentin Tarantino.CROSS OF IRON: A German corporal becomes disenchanted with Hitler's war machine as he is forced to order his troops to retreat along the Russian front.EAGLES OVER LONDON: An elite squad of German spies inf..
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's final film together after an epic partnership that produced such classics as A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping German commander-in-chief Kreipe (Marius Goring). The operation, if successful, will be an in..
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merriman is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to re-supply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy Seal flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman, famous for her defiance of the Taliban, escape the country. W..
Assigned to protect a seemingly safe U.S. embassy in the Middle East, elite Marine Corporal Evan Albright (Charlie Weber) thought he wasn't going to see much action. But when a hostile, extreme militant group launches a surprise attack aimed at killing an embassy informant, Albright's team is caught off guard. Out-gunned and outnumbered, Albright's routine assignment escalates into an all-out war. With national security at stake, an int..
Emmanuel Finkiel writes and directs this French drama starring Mélanie Thierry. Based on the novel by Marguerite Duras, and set during the Second World War, the film follows Marguerite (Thierry) as she searches for her husband Robert Antelme (Emmanuel Bourdieu), a fighter in the French Resistance who has been captured and sent to a Nazi concentration camp...
A classic tale of bravery and courage during WWII, Odette tells the true story of female war hero Odette Hallowes. After volunteering her services to the Special Operations Executive, Odette is dispatched into Nazi occupied France and thrown into an intense world of espionage. Whilst on a deadly mission working for the French Resistance, her cover is blown and Odette is captured and interrogated by ruthless Gestapo officers. But, even a..
For the twelve young pilots of RAF Hornet Squadron, September 1939 brings the moment they have been waiting for; Britain has entered the War, and they prepare to leave for France with the prospect of flying beautiful aircraft in perfect formation, ready for any adversary. Eventually, they will be called upon to engage an enemy that is better trained, better armed and more experienced than they are. But life is still for living, and as t..
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director, this harrowingly realistic war film (based on director Oliver Stone's firsthand experience) arrives on Blu-ray for the first time in this 25th Anniversary Edition - loaded with explosive extras that take you to the front lines of moviemaking. Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen, Platoon is a powerful, riveting and starkly brutal tale of an American sol..
Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare) is a British intelligence officer who leads a daring attack on the German shore defences at Tobruk in this explosive WWII drama. Infiltrating a German POW convoy, Captain Foster (Burton) learns that the commandos he hoped to link up with have been almost completely wiped out, and the prisoners belong to a British medical unit. Aided by MacKenzie (John Colicos), one of the surviving commandos, he vows t..
Resistance is the critically-acclaimed World War II story based on the acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers. It's 1944 and the D-Day landings have failed. As occupying Nazi forces extend their reach across Britain, the men from an isolated Welsh valley join the rising army of resistance. Left behind in the valley, their wives witness the arrival of a German patrol unit, its mission a mystery. But when a severe winter forces the two groups int..
Gripping World War 2 thriller set in the searing heat of the North Africa campaigning with an outstanding British cast including Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. North Africa 1943, on the eve of El Alamein, and a small unit from the Long Range Desert Group led by Captain Tim Cotton (Michael Craig) are given an arduous mission. Their task is to drive 400 miles behind enemy lines and blow up one of the Germans largest..
Dave (Stephen Boyd) and Jim (Tony Wright) are British soldiers who escape from an Italian POW camp. They are smuggled into Marseilles, where Dave falls in love with orphan waif Lisa. The men then meet Dr Martout, who is to organise their escape from France. However, Dave and Jim object to Martout's vicious methods, and find themselves forced to outwit both him and the Nazis...
Stanley Kramer’s star-studded, Oscar-winning adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter’s novel about passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933 forms a potent allegory of a world drifting inexorably towards war. With its incredible cast – including Vivien Leigh (in her last screen role), Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, George Segal, Oskar Werner and Jose Ferrer – Ship of Fools is a powerful drama and a compelling viewi..
Wartime drama starring Dermot Walsh, Anton Rodgers, Maurice Kaufmann and Patrick McAlinney. When Major Roy Bell (Walsh) and his company are trapped by the advancing German army, Bell decides to embark on a dangerous mission to attempt to blow up a bridge which is of strategic importance to the enemy. However, the only resource available to him is a group of hapless army failures, drunks, thieves and deserters, but now they must rise to ..
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 learn of its location and a trap is set, pitching British intelligence against a powerful military opponent. Powell & Pressburger's penultimate film is notable for its amazing sea battles and was made with the co-oper..
"The Real Glory of War," Samuel Fuller said, "is surviving." A decorated combatant with the tamed U.S. First Infantry in World War II. Fuller survived. His 1980 film version of his war experiences did not... Until now. Working with 70,000 feet of vault materials and Fuller's shooting script critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel heads a reconstruction that transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic masterwork. Lee Marvin, in a ..
Based on the beloved best-selling book comes the story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush and Oscar Nominee Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetze..
A Nazi Strike Force plots to assassinate Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Robert Duvall) masterminds the plot which, if successful, would change the outcome of the war. He enlists the help of Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) and Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland). Disguised as Polish airmen, German paratroopers land in England. Radl's plans appear to be going smoothly until an unforeseeable ..
Academy Award®-Winners Gregory Peck (1963, Best Actor, To Kill A Mockingbird ), David Niven (1959, Best Actor, Separate Tables), and Anthony Quinn (1953, Best Supporting Actor, Viva Zapata!; 1957, Lust For Life) star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous, but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi occupied fortress and disable two long- range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued..
From the celebrated team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger comes this artistic masterpiece. Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays a British officer, Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines.Special Features 'A Profile Of The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp', This Exclusive 25 Minute Documentary Includes Interviews With Cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Pow..
Directed by the legendary British film director Michael Powell and produiced by Alexander Korda 'The Lion has Wings' was sponsored by the Ministry of Information and released only two months after the outbreak of World War II. The film was one of the first propaganda films of the conflict. Opening with scenes of everyday life in Britain in 1937 'The Lion has Wings' combines documentary footage with scripted scenes starring in cineam gre..
The Longest Day is a vivid re-creation of the June 6, 1944 allied invasion of France, which marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination in Europe. Featuring a stellar international cast, and told from the perspectives of both sides, this fascinating look at one of history's biggest battles ranks as one of Hollywood's truly Great War films...
The One That Got Away is the remarkable true story of the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain who managed to escape and successfully return to his homeland. Hardy Kruger - one of Germany's leading actors and himself a prisoner of war who escaped from the Americans on three occasions - stars as the charismatic Lieutenant Franz von Werra; a strong supporting cast includes Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon and Terence Alexander. ..
Eureka Entertainment to release THE PAINTED BIRD on Blu-ray as a part of the Montage Pictures range from 16 November 2020. The Blu-ray will include the feature-length documentary 11 COLOURS OF THE BIRD, a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible 11-year process it took director Václav Marhoul to create the film version of Jerzy Kosiński’s controversial novel. Featuring a staggering central performance from the young Petr Kotlár alongs..
Out of StockDirected by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of..
Fictional recreation of the WWII Battle of Arnhem featuring performances from soldiers who fought in the actual battle. The Battle of Arnhem occurred in September 1944, when British and American forces led by Field Marshall Montgomery attempted to cross the Rhine and establish a presence in Holland. The ensuing fighting was frantic and chaotic and gave rise to the popular movie 'A Bridge Too Far'. This earlier effort, filmed little more..
Louisiana, 1971. When new recruit Jim Paxton (Matthew Davis) arrives at Fort Polk for basic training he soon makes friends with the rebellious Roland Bozz (Colin Farrell), a soldier who is doing everything he can to get himself thrown out of the army. Bozz has plans to escape to Mexico, but Paxton refuses to go with him, arguing that if he doesn't go to Vietnam, then somebody else will have to go in his place. However, when Bozz makes a..
Vietnam, 1968: Desperate to deal with the Vietcong’s resistance in endless networks of tunnels, the United States Army creates a specialised unit trained in underground warfare. Armed with only handguns, flash lights and knives, this elite band of men are known as Tunnel Rats. Following an ambush on his platoon, Sergeant Vic Hollowborn sends his men underground to flush out the enemy. But as they blindly crawl through these darkened pas..
Based on the novel by War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo, Waiting for Anya tells the powerful and authentic true story of a young shepherd-boy who risks everything to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain from German-occupied France. Filmed in the town of Lecsun, France in which the true to life story also originated, the film boasts an all-stellar cast including; Stranger Things star, Noah Schnapp, Academy Award Winner Anjelica Husto..
Forever granted a place in cinematic history by winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture in 1927 and the only silent film to do so, William Wellman’s silent epic Wings is more than an Oscar winner, but an epic story of friendship with the type of thrilling action only practical effects can imagine…Hometown best friends Jack (Charles “Buddy” Rogers) and David (Richard Arlen) compete for the affection of a gorgeous dame (Joby..
