Best Selling 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 ...

"The Help" features three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of t...

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...

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...

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.

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...

How did one woman save 2500 children? A sprawling retelling of the courageous young woman and her small band of friends who, against all odds, helped scores of Jewish children escape the Nazi occupied Warsaw Ghetto. This often heartbreaking and triumphant tale of the human spirit is anchored by a...

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...

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...

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...

Anne Hathaway, Dame Maggie Smith and Julie Walters star in this period romantic drama and biographical portrait of the young Jane Austen, and the love affair Austen began as a 20-year-old with brilliant, roguish Irishman Tom Lefroy, that inspired her career as one of the world's great romantic write...

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...

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...

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...

Thirty-five years after the Maysles brothers’ famed documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens offers a wry, behind-the-scenes look at “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, two charming eccentrics who were relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and inhabi...

PIECE OF MY HEART is a powerful drama based on true stories. Unmarried mothers in 1960s New Zealand were treated harshly - sent to homes to have their babies, then made to give them up for adoption and return to their lives as if nothing had happened. This story follows what did happen to two of the...

SÉRAPHINE is the true story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 - self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. Director Marti...

The life story of Victorian England's most acclaimed writer, Charles Dickens, is beautifully reenacted in these thirteen intriguing episodes. Following his hardships and the poverty of his childhood, it traces his career in writing and his peak in popularity as a public performer on both sides of th...

Two men chasing dreams of glory! England's first athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the honour at stake is personal and their challenge one from within. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Cha...

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...

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...

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white&rsq...

The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post-Apartheid South Africa i...

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...

THE TRUE STORY OF GAY RIGHTS CRUSADER MARY GRIFFITHS. Mary Griffiths, a devout Christian and hard-line Presbyterian, became a gay rights crusader after her teenage son committed suicide, in part due to her own religious intolerance. Nominated for two 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as the ...

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...

Based on the legendary true story of the last great cavalry charge in history, The Lighthorsemen focuses on a four-man section of the Australian Light Horse Regiment during WWI, exploring their courage, companionship and heroism in the face of adversity. “The re-release of The Lighthorsemen...

A remarkable fact-based adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian Gulag in 1940. Seven courageous multi-national prisoners discover the true meaning of friendship as their epic journey takes them across thousands of miles of hostile terrain e...

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...

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 ...

The touching and tragic real-life story of brilliant, international concert cellist Jacqueline Du Pré (Emily Watson) as seen by her sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths) and brother Piers (Rupert Penry-Jones). From their early life together as musicians, flautist Hilary was the one in demand until...