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Cats (1998) One of the longest-running hits in the history of Broadway and the West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has been specially restaged for this video presentation, which captures all the music...

Bean (1997) Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can't because the chairman of the gallery's board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where h

Swiss Family Robinson (1960) A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge tree house) and

Dunkirk (1958) Two stories in one - an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to ge

Ryans Daughter (1970) World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar fo

When the Wind Blows (1986) With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria, but the problems just wont go away.

Great Expectations (1946) Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he

The End of the Affair (1955) In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.

Tiger Bay (1959) Gille Jenkins, a 12 year old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement with her single parent mother, witnesses the murder of an immigrant Polish woman living in an nearby apartment by her former boyfriend, Bronislaus Korchinski. The young merchant marine becomes distra

The Truth About Spring (1964) Tommy Tyler a lazy Caribbean sailor and his tom-boy daughter, Spring are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer to help with the search. ...

The Colditz Story (1955) Colditz castle was used by the Nazis to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times the guards outnumbered the prisoners and, because some political prisoners were also held there they were *very* strictly monitored. Bu

Henry Hobson runs a successful bootmaker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly ...

Gypsy Girl (1966) Seventeen year old Brydie White is emotionally stunted due to an accidental shooting death with which she was involved when she was an adolescent, the incident which she doesn't remember. Mrs. White, a widow, recluse and alcoholic, still treats her daughter like a child, although s

The Chalk Garden (1964) A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the job, Laurel vows to expose he

Scott of the Antarctic (1948) The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him.

The Circle (1957) When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.

Dulcima (1971) A farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on farm which is in a poor state of repair. A pretty young girl, Dulcima, takes pity on him and decides to help him by cleaning the place. She is happy to be earning money, and he is happy because she is there..

Tunes of Glory (1960) Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock's ow

Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1958) The true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the Normandy campaign.

Operation Disaster (1950) The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

In Which We Serve (1942) This is the story of a British Naval ship, HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is the experienced Captain E.V. Kinross who trains his men not only to be loyal to him

The Wrong Box (1966) A tontine is established for twenty boys in 1818 England - a tontine being a kind of insurance wager in which money is invested by each participant, to grow with interest, with the last survivor to get the substantial payout. We watch the group dwindle until only two elderly bro

Town on Trial (1957) When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fas

Johnny in the Clouds (1945) Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the sq

The Gentle Gunman 1952 I R A member Terry Sir John Mills modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London When his co conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt Sir Dirk Bogarde escapes back to Ireland Terry follows and the local group have to decide what to do

The Singer Not the Song 1961 During the 1950s, in a small isolated Mexican village, the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Gomez Leslie French, is an older man with a broken spirit During his tenure in the village of Quantano, he fought hard to keep his flock of parishioners, in spite of threats an

The Green Cockatoo 1937 A young girl is travelling to London to find work Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead mans brother She

Its Great to Be Young 1956 Mr Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band partly because of Dingles fondness of more modern music then the pupils have to come to his assistance, using their musical skills to help

Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death 1984 Sherlock Holmes has retired But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him anot

Oklahoma Crude 1973 Its oil boom time in Oklahoma, and Lena Doyle Faye Dunaway, a hard bitten, cyncial feminist has a fight on her hands The big oil companies dont like the fact that shes working a potentially profitable wildcat rig Reluctantly, Lena must accept the aid of her estranged father Cleon

Cats 1998 Andrew Lloyd Webbers CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West End stage in 1981 Memory, one of its many classic songs, became an instant worldwide hit Since then CATS has smashed records and conquered the world Using the latest technology, all the excitement,

We Dive at Dawn 1943 The crew of submarine H M S Sea Tiger have their leave and assorted family problems cut short when they are recalled for a special mission sink the new German battleship Brandenburg En route, they learn that their target has entered the heavily defended Baltic Rather than fail,