True Story & Biopic 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 ...

You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room...

In an inspirational story of the bond between animals and humans, a boy named Sawyer discovers an injured dolphin, who is brought to a marine hospital and named Winter. Unfortunately, her injuries cost Winter her tail, without which she may not survive. But with Sawyer’s unwavering devotion, a marin...

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...

A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new generation to the ma...

There is no force more powerful than the will to live... 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his...

Inspired by the true story of two brothers who against all odds come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family redeem their pasts and at last give their hard-luck town what its been waiting for: Pride.

The Silent War... Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian feature film set underneath the trenches of World War One. This never-before-told Australian story takes place during 1916 and 1917 IN Belgium, when Queensland miner Captain Oliver Woodward (played by Brendan Cowell) - undertrained and never havi...

Bonded by blood and driven by greed, the electrifying true story of the Krays, Britain’s most notorious gang leaders of the 1960s, is a dark and sinister chapter in the history of crime. Ronald and Reggie Kray’s rise to infamy is a chilling story of power and revenge.

SOUL SURFER is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again through her sheer determination and unwavering faith. The film features an all-star cast including AnnaSophia Robb and Helen Hunt w...

Before you can fly, you have to be free… From internationally acclaimed Australian film director Bruce Beresford comes the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. From a gruelling apprenticeship as a classical dancer in communi...

Some Secrets Are Kept Forever… Vincent Ward's deeply personal and incredibly moving film unravels and re-imagines the story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman he documented in 1978 for his early film In Spring One Plants Alone. Then she was 80 and caring for her adult son, and Ward was 21, a young a...

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. Roman Polanski's remarkable, Oscar and Palme D'Or winning film The Pianist tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody). Managing to survive in the Krakow ghetto while the vast majority of the Jewish population have been transporte...

Inspired by true events, Kathy (Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of p...

Producer, narrator and best friend to Michael Jackson, David Gest has pieced together the most important facts about Jackson’s life based on unseen first-hand accounts he has recently recorded with an important group of people who knew the star well. In addition to celebrating his many achievements...

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...

Her story touched the hearts of millions Based on her best-selling autobiography, DESERT FLOWER follows the life of supermodel Waris Dirie. Raised a nomad in Somalia, Waris flees her clan when she is betrothed to an elder at 13. Finding herself an illegal immigrant in London, Waris finds work in a t...

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of ...

Karol II tells the story of Jean Paul II - one of the most recognised and loved Popes in history. It is an account of his life from the time he was elected Pope until he died in 2005. An incredibly human portrait of an extraordinary man - a story of leadership, love, commitment and courage that w...

Based on the true-life, award-winning book by Toby Wolff, two free spirits flee an abusive relationship to settle in the hopeful plains of the Pacific Northwest. Instead of the bright future he was promised, Tobias (DiCaprio) must endure the tyrannical and often brutal rule of his new stepfather Dwi...

In a remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school, an 80 year old Mau Mau Veteran.

Inspired by real-life events, I Am Slave is the extraordinary tale of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery. A powerful story of imprisonment, cruelty and despair, but also one of hope and humanity. Malia, a twelve-year-old girl, is abducted in the Nubar Mountains after being separat...

At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflective of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld and t...

12-year-old Chanda is a hardworking promising young student with a bright future, but her life changes dramatically when her baby sister unexpectedly dies. Heartbroken, Chanda's mother, Lillian, in turn becomes severely ill, leaving the young girl to take care of her two smaller siblings. When the c...

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...

It is 1986 when an Australian woman corners British social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) and explains how she was unwillingly put on a boat and sent to Australia at just 4 years of age. Margaret sets out to help the woman find out who she is but just a week later, she learns of another...

Producer, narrator and best friend to Michael Jackson, David Gest has pieced together the most important facts about Jackson’s life based on unseen first-hand accounts he has recently recorded with an important group of people who knew the star well. In addition to celebrating his many achievements...

BILLY is a personal story of New Zealand’s most loved entertainer, Billy T James. This feature length drama goes beyond the public facade to reveal the man behind the chuckle. Based on the biography “Billy T” written by Matt Elliott, award-winning producer Tony Holden brings a fresh vision and u...

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...

Director Taylor Hackford explores the rift that opens between Grace and Charlie Bontempo (the husband-and-wife owners of Nevadas first legal brothel), after ambitious entrepreneur Charlie attempts to expand his dominion by inviting South American heavyweight boxer Armando Bruza to train at the ranch...

These stories are about how a select band of secret agents and Jewish avengers tracked down and captured the twentieth century’s most evil men. Nazi Hunters tells the story of one of the greatest mass manhunts in history. Narrated by real-life Nazi hunters, each episode of this stunning drama ...

True story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.

The poem that rocked a generation. The obscenity trial that started a revolution. Oscar®-nominee James Franco (127 Hours) stars as the young Allen Ginsberg-poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg recounts the road t...

A true story of the mystery of music and the miracle of love. Shine is based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. We see the early, traumatic years of David, a child prodigy whose father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his ...

In 1912, the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sails from Southampton with 2207 passengers on board. They excitedly dine and dance and the sea is incredibly calm. Then a look-out spots an iceberg looming up directly ahead. The boat steers away, but the submerged part of the berg rips a 300-foot gash under the wa...

The film follows two friends, Joan Jett (KRISTEN STEWART) and Cherie Currie (DAKOTA FANNING), as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of roc...

East Timor, 1975: Five Journalists Are Missing. One Man Searches For The Truth. One Man Fights For Justice As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian-based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Ti...

True Confessions, an extraordinary tale of two brothers set on a collision course by a brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles. Desmond Spellacy, a rising star in the church hierarchy, has more of a talent for fund-raising than saving souls. When his brother Tom, a hardened L.A. cop, investigates the mur...

In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. When three storms combined into one over the ocean, a storm stronger than any in reco...

BAFTA nominee Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) stars in this ripsnorting and unapologetic portrait of mercurial British punk rock pioneer, Ian Dury (Ian Dury and The Blockheads). Funny, heartbreaking and very rock-and-roll, this directorial debut of The Road to Guantanamo co-director Mat ...