Best Selling War & Military DVDs

N.Z.S.A.S: First Among Equals is a stunning 4 part documentary series on the inner-workings of the most elite fighting force NZ has.  The timing is perfect to release this DVD for father's day  Especially given the huge recent media coverage of Willy Apiata's recent distinction in Afghanis...

Throughout its thousand year history the Tower Of London has been at times a fortress, a palace, a prison, a treasury and an armoury. It has welcomed Kings, Queens and Princes as both residents and prisoners and has been at times a family home and a place of torture and execution. These three progra...

Until now… the only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Culled from over 3000hours of rare, colour film footage found in a twoyear worldwide search and converted to HD with meticulous technique, WWII Lost Films: WWII in HD provides a picture of the Second World War ...

With the use of amazing, unseen, global archival footage from pre-war Germany to the end of the war in Africa and the atomic bomb. Included in the series is documentary footage by Hollywood directors William Wyler, George Stevens and John Ford, including some of Ford's Oscar-winning coverage of t...

A compelling new look into Roman history… Filled with dramatic re-enactments and action-packed battle scenes, ROME: RISE AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE chronicles the story of one of history’s greatest empires from its first major battle to its remarkable military feats and through its eventu...

Award winning film director Janus Metz arrives in Afghanistan with a group of young soldiers on their first tour of duty. Stationed on the Helmand frontline in Camp Armadillo the platoon fights increasingly fierce battles with an enemy that is nearby but rarely seen. Metz captures life on the frontl...

This exciting new series takes a fresh approach to the great battles of WW2, examining them through the decisions, dilemmas and disasters of the generals on both sides of conflict. We explore their moves and countermoves as they attempt to outwit and outfight each other. The battles featured are...

Following on from the Emmy® Award-winning WWII Lost Films, WWII Lost Films - The Air War is the next landmark documentary to present visually restored, never-beforeseen archival footage in stunning HD colour. This 2 hour HISTORY™ special travels with 4 US WWII veterans through the history ...

The epic World War II series from the Soviet perspective. The Unknown War is a landmark television documentary series about the Soviet struggle against — and ultimate victory over — the Nazi war machine. Hosted and narrated by Academy Award®–winner Burt Lancaster, this sprawling series features r...

GREATEST TANK BATTLES SEASON 2 is an action-packed 10-part series that brings to life the most gripping and monumental tank battles ever fought. Filmed on battlefields across the world, and using stunning, ultra-realistic CGI animation and eyewitness accounts, this original series puts you in the he...

With shells crashing around his bunker and planes droning overhead, Adolf Hitler faced the reality of defeat and took his life. But then his body disappeared mysteriously and decades later we learn that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin concealed his body. NGT uses forensic science and insight from interv...

This stunning High Definition documentary details the military strategies and radical warfare techniques that allowed a twenty-two-year-old king to defeat a superior military force and, in one decisive victory, topple the mighty Persian Empire. Known as the Battle of Gaugamela, it is viewed as on...

The elite Navy SEALS fighting force. As special forces combat teams, the role of the US Navy SEALS has evolved to see them employed in arenas of direct action, special reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, hostage rescue, counterterrorism and other missions. The Complete History of the Navy SEA...

Ride with brave army truckers as they drive the most dangerous roads in the world to deliver vital fuel and medical supplies to the frontline troops in Afganistan. Every convoy faces a variety of deadly threats including landmines, rocket attacks and suicide bombers, plus natural hazards such as...

Alone and hunted. One man’s story of hiding in plain view in the middle of Hitler’s killing regime... You are alone. You are being hunted. Armed with only your wits and artistic skills, you must stay one step ahead of the world’s most horrendous killing machine. Could you do it-...

In August 2000 the pride of the Russian navy and its 118 crew lay at the bottom of the Barents Sea. the Unthinkable had happened. The Kursk, the world’s most technologically advanced nuclear submarine and pride of the Russian Fleet had sunk. After two years of investigation, this documentary u...

Eight Barbarian tribes. A Millennium of terror… In these eight acclaimed programs from HISTORY™, Barbarians explores the origins of the Vikings, the Goths, the Mongols, the Huns, the Vandals, the Saxons, the Franks and the Lombards. Shot on location, Emmy® Award-winning documenta...

For the first time in 25 years the Australian SAS lift their veil of secrecy to reveal what it takes to pass the toughest military selection course in the world. Using the toughest military selection course in the world they are looking for the right type of solider. This is a search for warriors. ...

A wonderful insight into the activities of American Entertainers during World War II. Featuring superb film of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Frances Langford, Dinah Shore, Abbott and Costello, The Andrews Sisters and Marlene Dietrich as well as fascinating interviews with Bob...

An exclusive documentary about New Zealand’s newest hero Corporal Willie Apiata, VC. On Monday 2nd July 2007 Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that NZSAS Corporal Apiata was to receive the Commonwealth highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. From this moment, Willie Apiata was thrus...

During World War II there were nearly 2500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions only six of these POWs were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed the horror stories...

Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling Ken Burns's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers a heroic and tr...

One platoon, one valley, one year. Winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and heralded as one of the best war films ever made, Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan's hostile Korengal Valley - considered one of the most dangerous postings of the war. *Excepti...

From May 2007 to July 2008, Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade was stationed in the remote Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan – considered one of the most dangerous postings of the war. The soldiers of Second Platoon built and manned a remote and strategic outpost that they named ‘Rest...

Heart-stopping series on the Pacific war. The Pacific: Hell on Earth tells the story of some of WWII’s most ferocious attacks, bloodiest battles and ultimate victories. From Guadalcanal and Saipan to Guam and Iwo Jima, young American soldiers took on the seemingly invincible yet increasingl...

The idea of a New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first raised by the then New Zealand Prime Minister, William Massey, following the interment of the British Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920. In 2002 the Ministry for Culture and Heritage was given the task to estab...

There’s never been a WW2 documentary quite like this one. Utilising home movie footage, and state-of-the-art colourising technology, the viewer is taken on a entirely different history of the great war. You’ll see viewpoints from all sides, and learn about aspects of the war that have ra...

HISTORY’S™ PRESTIGE WWI COLLECTION. HISTORY™ is proud to present the definitive collection of 13 individual documentaries on the world-changing events of the Great War. From the first dogfighters and the Red Baron, to the battle of The Somme, John J. Pershing, The Iron General a...

Extreme Machines is dedicated to finding out how machines work. Explore the extreme machines transporting equipment and cargo no other vessel can manage. From the floating fortress John C Stennis that carries in excess of 5000 crew members to the latest US Navy hovercrafts which allowed unparall...

Filmed on battlefields across the world, this new original series puts viewers in the heat of battle, witnessing historic armored combats through the eyes of the men who manned the tanks and fought to the finish. Using ultra-realistic CGI animation, Greatest Tank Battles brings the full fury of mech...