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It's a product of its Vietnam era just as surely as Robert Altman's M*A*S*H, and like that film Oh! What a Lovely War is ostensibly about a different war. Based on a celebrated anti-war stage piece produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the film chronicles the various madnesses of the First World War. Along with vignettes involving the members of the fictional Smith family, ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Starring: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roëves, Malcolm McFee
Directed By: Richard Attenborough

After a slow beginning, in which the complex tangle of relationships is initially confusing, this BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion, develops into an elegant romantic comedy. Austin combines a subtle dissection of the folly of class with a slow-burning, intensely passionate love story. Anne Elliot (Amanda Root) has loved Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds) ever since she ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood, Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw
Directed By: Roger Michell

A lush retelling of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Excalibur is a dark and engrossing tale. Director John Boorman (Deliverance) masterfully handles the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of England. Arthur pulls the famed sword from a stone and is destined to be crowned king. As the king ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey
Directed By: John Boorman

Robert Bolt's successful play, A Man for All Seasons, was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make the film as long as he stuck to a relatively small budget. The results took everyone by surprise, as the talky morality ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Orson Welles
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Corin Redgrave
Directed By: Etienne Périer

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Daniel Craig, Virginia McKenna, Joely Richardson, Clive Owen, Anton Lesser
Directed By: Tim Fywell, David Thacker, Diarmuid Lawrence, Graham Theakston, Stuart Orme

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Jody Latham, Anne-Marie Duff, James McAvoy, Samantha Siddall, Kelli Hollis
Directed By: Jonny Campbell, Mark Mylod, David Evans, Peter Lydon, Dearbhla Walsh

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Dougray Scott, Tim Roth, Rupert Everett, Olivia Williams, James Bolam
Directed By: Mike Barker

The date was April 17th 1945 and the battle for Berlin raged through northern Germany. But a British ambulance unit was diverted from the frontline to handle an unfolding medical crisis. The liberation of Belsen did not bring an end to the death toll. Instead, it was the start of a humanitarian catastrophe. 40,000 prisoners were trapped in a man-made camp of indescribable squalor; ...

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Jemma Redgrave, Tobias Menzies, Simon Day, Iain Glen, Corin Redgrave
Directed By: Justin Hardy

Manufacturer: MGM
Starring: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Karen Ericson
Directed By: Roger Corman