Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (Special Edition)(2 Disc)
Billy, once Garrett’s sidekick, suddenly finds himself on the run from his friend when the ageing outlaw turns lawman. The film’s climax is as tragic as it is inevitable….
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The Blue Max/A Yank In The RAF/D-Day The Sixth Of June (Box Set)(3 Disc)
Collection of three World War II actioners - includes THE BLUE MAX, YANK IN THE R.A.F. and D-DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE….
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Nightmare Years
Based on his bestseller; ?The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich?, THE NIGHTMARE YEARS is the true story of William Shirer, an American journalist in 1930s Germany….
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Westerns Collection - The Professionals/High Plains Drifter/Tall In The Saddle/Shenandoah (Box Set)(4 Disc)
Features the westerns THE PROFESSIONALS, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, TALL IN THE SADDLE, and SHENANDOAH….
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Modern War Collection - Platoon/Windtalkers/Behind Enemy Lines (Box Set)(3 Disc)
Features the war films PLATOON, WINDTALKERS, and BEHIND ENEMY LINES….
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Windtalkers (Definitive Edition)(2 Disc)
WINDTALKERS begins quietly with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It’s 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers. Then John Woo’s Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe…
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The Great Escape (Definitive Edition)(2 Disc)
Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges’s dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The German high command has filtered out all the most talented escape artists of the Allies’ and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. Of course, as soon as they arriv…
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The John Wayne Collection (12 Disc)
Twelve classic John Wayne Westerns: ‘RIDERS OF DESTINY’, ‘THE SAGEBRUSH TRAIL’, ‘WEST OF THE DIVIDE’, ‘THE MAN FROM UTAH’, ‘THE LUCKY TEXAN’, ‘THE DESERT TRAIL’, ‘RANDY RIDES ALONE’, ‘THE TRAIL BEYOND’, ‘PARADISE CANYON’, ‘NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES’, ‘LAWLESS RANGE’, ‘THE STAR PACKER’, ‘BLUE STEEL’, ‘THE DAWN RIDER’, ‘TEXAS TERROR’, ‘HELL TOWN’, ‘FRONTIER’, ‘MCLINTOCK’ and ‘THE ANGEL AND THE BADMAN’….
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The Guns Of Navarone (Ultimate Edition)(2 Disc)
War film based on a novel by Alistair Maclean, which tells of the attempts of a British raiding team to sabotage two giant German guns on a Turkish island in the Aegean Sea. One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot….
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War Collection - Anzio/Cockleshell Heroes/Hellcats Of The Navy (3 Disc)
Collection of three cracking war adventures. Features ANZIO, COCKLESHELL HEROES and HELLCATS OF THE NAVY….
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Susannah Of The Mounties
Shirley Temple plays the only survivor of an Indian massacre. When she is rescued by mounted police she is used to aid them in their relations with the Indians. She then meets a young Indian boy who sparks her romantic interests….
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The Rare Breed/Shenandoah (2 Disc)
Features the James Stewart westerns THE RARE BREED and SHENANDOAH. In THE RARE BREED, a widow and her daughter enlist the help of a Sam ‘Bulldog’ Burnett to realise the dream of her late husband: to introduce Hereford cattle into the American West. However, the road to Texas is riddled with dangers - including those who would like to get their hands on the rare breed. In SHENANDOAH, peace-loving Southern farmer tries to stay neutral during the American Civil War, but he is drawn into conflict wh…
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They Who Dare
A British WWII feature in which a group of soldiers take on a daring mission in the Aegean. Directed by ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’s Lewis Milestone, it stars Dirk Bogarde and Denholm Elliott as British soldiers sent on a grim mission on the island of Rhodes….
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Ice Cold In Alex
This classic World War II drama stars John Mills as an ambulance driver who escapes the siege of Tobruk in the company of a sergeant major, a nurse and a South African officer who has become separated from his unit. Suspicions arise about whether one of the group is a German spy who is undermining their attempt to reach safety. The film is most famous for its scene in which Captain Anson (Mills) finally gets to drink his ‘ice cold’ beer in Alexandria….
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The Dam Busters
Dr Barnes Wallis was possessed with a seemingly crazy idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb, designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy’s industrial nerve centre. He fought persistent scepticism and disbelief that such a feat was possible though even with the matchless skill of RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his squadron could such a mission succeed?…
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The Colditz Story
One German maximum security prison was more famous than any other during World War II - Colditz castle. Although Colditz was considered ‘escape proof’, its boundaries were challenged many times by Allied prisoners of war with fatal results. On 15 October 1942, a group of British servicemen made the most historic and perhaps the most courageous attempt of all……
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Aces High
From the director of THE MEDUSA TOUCH, this moving war drama tells of the futility of war, focussing here on the needless deaths of young pilots. It features stunning aerial photography….
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Ballad Of A Soldier
A lyrical interpretation of war, as seen through the eyes of a young soldier granted a temporary furlough to visit his mother. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay….
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Complete War Collection (12 Disc)
Features THE COLDITZ STORY, THE CRUEL SEA, THE DAM BUSTERS, I WAS MONTY’S DOUBLE, ICE COLD IN ALEX, WENT THE DAY WELL, THE WOODEN HORSE, THEY WHO DARE, CROSS OF IRON, THE WAY AHEAD, IN WHICH WE SERVE and THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE….
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Unforgiven
In Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Ea…
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