Historical DVDs

Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel ...

Fully restored including a 30 minute retrospective documentary. This BAFTA and Emmy award-winning BBC series ranks as one of the greatest ever television adaptations. Returning to the original negatives the classic drama has now been painstakingly restored frame-by-frame. Colours are now rich and vi...

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party while he was still alive. Awash in in humanity, warmth, insight, and wit, this excellent film stars Robert Duvall, who once again pro...

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on. **Cover Artwork Not Final**

Love rules all… A dramatisation of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria’s rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. 1837. On the eve of her 18th birthday and succession to the English throne, Princess Victoria (Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada) is caught in a royal...

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love. Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Pres...

Freedom begins with an act of defiance! Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

A classic adaptation of one of Jane Austen’s most admired novels, Jane Austen’s romantic masterpiece comes to DVD in a thrilling new production from the BBC. At the age of nineteen, Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. But with neither...

Robin Hood: Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of mara...

Time Life’s best-selling release, the lavish adaptations of Jane Austen’s timeless classics - Emma, Northanger Abbey & Mansfield Park - will be repackaged for the first time in a special collector’s edition perfectly timed for Mothers’ Day. Included in this special ed...

The story of an American spy who arrives in Shanghai during the winter of 1941 to discover his friend has been killed. Driven to investigate the murder, he is drawn into an ever increasing web of mystery, conspiracy and deceit. Shanghai is set in China just before Pearl Harbor when most of the count...

Sometimes the Past Can Unlock the Future... Based on the best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key is a touching, gripping and beautifully told drama featuring Kristin Scott Thomas in a Cesar-nominated performance. Paris, 1942. The Starzynski family - Wladyslaw, Rywka, ten-year-old ...

The two-part saga Return to Cranford opens to a struggling Cranford, a traditional English village that in autumn 1844 is airing the conflicts that accompany progress. Miss Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench), after having closed her business in the last series, is happily babysitting the child of he...

Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashl...

Oliver Twist: Academy Award-winning writer James Goldman gives the immortal character of Dickens’ Oliver Twist a new dimension of realism in this outstanding adaptation. The story of an orphan boy in Victorian London who grows up through a hard life being befriended by both criminals and the rich on...

Inspired by the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this is the remarkable story of seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily, in 19th Century China, who had their feet bound at the same age and on the same day, which sealed their fates together. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, their descen...

This magnificent collection features contemporary adaptations of four Jane Austen novels - entertaining and modern costume dramas, whilst staying true to the plot. Pride and Prejudice Remastered (1995) plunges the viewer into a 19th century world of grand country estates and eligible bachelors. This...

In the tradition of "Game of Thrones"' Pagan Queen is a fascinating historical tale set in the 8th centry Bohemia. An epic true story of Libuse who created the city or Prague, with her Amazon army at her side. Gifted with supernatural powers, Libuse was a true visionary but these were also sceptical...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of Hawaii and based on an incredible True Story, this sweeping epic tells the story of Princess Kaiulani, heir to the Hawaiian throne, in a time of unrest and civil war. Still independent from America, but with increasing attempts to overthrow the royal family and s...

Adapted from the Tennesee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) long lost screenplay The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond tells the story of Fisher Willow (Bryce Dallas Howard). Fisher is a young and rebellious socialite who falls in love with her families employee Jimmy (Chris Evans) the son of an alcoholi...

A young Australian man arrives in a small New Zealand seaside town which is the spiritual home of local iwi. He's to meet family friends who know more about him than he knows about himself. He will also meet his daughter, and their relationship at first will be stormy. He will meet a taciturn Maori ...

Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. Set in the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian Motorcycle, Burt sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With...

Peter O’Toole delivers an electrifying performance as the mischievous Henry II, who surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted valet Thomas Becket (Richard Burton in a career defining role) as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop Of Canterbury, Becket shocks th...

Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan left in the care of her unwilling aunt, Mrs Reed, is sent to Lowood Asylum to quell her rebelliousness. Her early years are marked by severe discipline and the death of her best friend. At 18, Jane quits her position as teacher at Lowood to become governess to Adele ...

An adventure in obsession… Clint Eastwood stars in and directs the colourful tale of a flamboyant filmmaker's flair for danger and adventure while on location in Africa. Based on Peter Viertel's novel inspired by The African Queen.

With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, men friends start to become a part of the household. ...

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

Two beautiful ITV literary adaptations starring Jane Seymour. Four Feathers: In leaving his regiment Harry Feversham has dishonoured himself, his comrades and his fiancée, the beautiful Ethne Eustace. In order to retrieve his dignity, self-respect and the love of his life, Harry must first of all...

Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town and his partner, transplanted New york City cop, Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilate...

A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's 'high water mark', as seen through the eyes of German officer Hans von Witzland and his battalion. Digitally transferred from the original film, every scratch and imperfection removed, this film has been completely restored and rem...

Two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler‘s forces away from Normandy on the eve of D-Day, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain) stars alongside Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) and Bruce Greenwood (I'm Not There, Capote) in the latest acclaimed film from award-winning filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy). The year is 1845 and a wa...

Featuring Golden Globe Award winning actor Martin Sheen (The West Wing) as John F. Kennedy this monumental 7 hour mini series is a dedicated chronicle of a spectacular but brief political career - from the illustrious victory in November 1960 to a nation in mourning on 22nd of November 1963 - Kenned...

A stunning dramatization of Ernest Hemingway’s epic struggle between man and nature. Cuban fisherman Santiago’s encounter with a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream sparks a fight for survival as a band of marauding sharks move in for the kill. Action sequences achieve stunning reality as...

Based on Charlotte Bronte’s best-selling novel. A dramatic and exciting story of the life of a strong, passionate and principled young woman, Jane Eyre, who survives a wretched childhood to become a governess and falls madly in love with her troubled but compelling employer, Mr. Rochester.

When a young Englishwoman and her spinster chaperone travel to Italy, they become acquainted with a free-spirited and unconventional Englishman and his enigmatic and romantically unhappy son.

The Classic Russian Tale of Love and Revolution. Stunning adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s most celebrated novel, scripted by acclaimed dramatist Andrew Davies (Pride And Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Othello). The sweep and scale of the Russian Revolution acts as the backdrop for ...

Rewi returns to a small country town (Te Kaha). He is deeply troubled by something mysterious in his past. He cannot bring himself to form a relationship with the woman he loves, even though his feelings are reciprocated. The truth is that Rewi is not who he pretends to be. He had been involved in s...

In the 19th century town of Hope, beautiful Dorothea Brook has a problem. Her sister Rose is addicted to opium and her villainous boyfriend Fraser who supplies her with it. Dorothea hires Lawrence, a handsome young immigrant to marry Rose and extract her from this destructive relationship. Compli...

In the 1930s, Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill, Jurassic Park) and his nubile shocked a nation with their controversial paintings. For a reverend (Hugh Grant) and his wife, meeting them was the experience of a lifetime. Huge cast including Sam Neill, Hugh Grant and extensive nude appearances from superm...