Political DVDs

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 ...

Following the mysterious death of an acclaimed ghost writer, a replacement writer is sent to an isolated compound to pen the memoirs of a former prime minister, and unknowingly becomes embroiled in a high stakes, international conspiracy that has deadly consequences.

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 ...

"There is a way to be good again." Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is a tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's ...

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...

Directed by multi-award winning veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda, KatyÅ investigates the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Secret Police during World War II. Among those killed was Wajdas own father. The disappearance of over 15,000 officers in 1940 was a mystery at ...

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...

Matt Damon & director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for the electrifying thriller, Green Zone. In the film, Damon stars as Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on ...

Derek Vinyard wasn't born a racist, but he learnt quickly how to become one. Seeking retribution for his father's murder and burning for a way to vent his rage, Derek (Oscar nominee, Edward Norton) turned into the charismatic skinhead leader of a local white power movement. From theft and assault...

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...

Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances ...

Based on George Orwell's book of the same name, Animal Farm tells the story of animals staging a coup, taking over the land from their tyrannical master Farmer Jones and discovering the pitfalls of social order. Led by Snowball and Napoleon, the two most intelligent pigs on Manor Farm; the animals s...

Part Heaven... Part Hell... Pure Havana. When British ex-army officer Robert Dapes arrives in Cuba to advise the Batista government on fighting the revolutionaries, he realises that the cause is already lost, with well organised rebels constantly gaining ground against poorly trained government t...

How far will this contagion spread? The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz's 911 call deemed Kurtz's art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist w...

Everything is connected. Syriana is a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry. From the players’ back-room brokering deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film’s multiple storylines wea...

In the tradition of movie classics The Candidate, Advise and Consent and The Best Man, Clooney plays presidential candidate Governor Mike Morris whose ground-breaking ideas could change the political landscape. Idealistic campaign worker Stephen Meyers (Ryan Golsing - Drive) has sworn to give his al...

Based on the novel by Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected centres on former circus clown Adam Stein who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths. Stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holoca...

In 1975, the assistant to New York Times correspondent Steven Schanberg (Sam Waterston, Law & Order), Dith Pran, is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody ethnic cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million civilians. This is the story of Pran's heroism and the struggle...

When idealistic businessman Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is chosen to run for the Presidency, he is caught between the ruthless ambition of a stringpulling newspaper owner and the integrity of his devoted wife (Katharine Hepburn). But just as Matthews embraces his ultimate goal, he realizes that h...

Never underestimate the politics of friendship... In 1992 Labour leader Tony Blair goes to America and is impressed by the policies of President Clinton,which he uses to reshape his party. Two years later he is invited back for an audience with Clinton,who,rightly, predicts that he will be Britai...

The Shawshank Redemption: Few movies capture the triumph of the human spirit as memorably as Frank Darabont's film The Shawshank Redemption, from the same Stephen King story collection that gave us Stand By Me. Morgan Freeman plays Red, a lifer who knows how to cope with the hopelessness of Shawsha...

Can a war veteran survive when there is no war? Hardly so. And it is all the more difficult when there are two war heroes! Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev, have been chomping at the bit since Gorbachev launc...

From Academy Award nominees Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) and Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) comes another smart and “engaging story of British politics behind the scenes” (Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter). The Deal probes the rivalry between rea...

This exhilarating, seemlessly woven “documentary” of fictional footage tells the story of the 1980 Polish Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard through the eyes of an alcoholic TV journalist.

When you cross the line there's no going back… Inspired by the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA; writer-director Kari Skogland's fact-based thriller takes its title from Martin McGartland's best selling novel. Martin is a young ...

One of the greatest period dramas ever committed to film, this sweeping cinematic spectacle tells the story of Pu Yi, the last Chinese Emperor, from his elite origins in the Forbidden City to his forced abdication in 1912 and return to the throne under Japanese rule. Both the theatrical version (...

One day your luck runs out... An Arab, a Jew and the heart of the Middle East Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbour, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West ban...

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost ...

THE RISE AND RISE OF THE IRON LADY Margaret Thatcher is one of the world's most well known public figures. But how much do we really know about her as a person. This tells the story of the young Margaret Thatcher's 'winning' a seat in the early Fifties and re-constructing what might have gone on beh...

A fictional story inspired by true events, Redacted is a unique cinematic experience that will force viewers to radically reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world, the power of the mediated image and how presentation and composition influence our ideas and beliefs. ...

As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) cant sleep at night and he doesnt want to. Marco spends...

David Lurie (John Malkovich), twice divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, Melanie (Antoinette Engel) and does nothing to protect himself from the consequences, he is dismissed ...

The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. Played out live to a worldwide television audience in 1972 during the Munich Olympics, the kidnapping and subsequent massacre of 11 Israeli team members by an extre...

Primary Colors is the story of a Clintonesque candidate who is sincere in his devotion to the American people, but is plagued by scandal at every turn of his campaign for the presidency. It's an incredible look at power and corruption that crackles with humour and brilliant performances.

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award® winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows Mil...

This dramatic thriller is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Petievich. Special Agent, Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) suspects that the neo-Nazi Aryan Disciples have positioned one of their own in the White House, but his investigation is cut short by a blackmailer who knows of his af...

The Mad Story of a True Man... In the winter of 1974, a time of great political unrest, Samuel J. Bicke (Sean Penn) is a forty-four year old man who wants to believe in something anything. But at every turn, his faith in himself and the world around him is undermined. He is separated from his wif...

A married couple arrive in Asia and catch up with an old friend at an expatriates bar called The Koala Club. When a past romance is rekindled the stakes are raised, as political instability draws one of them into a world of trouble.

Set against the backdrop of the 7/7 terrorist attacks, London River follows Elizabeth as she travels to London in the immediate aftermath of the bombings after failing to hear from her daughter. During her search, she keeps crossing paths with Ousmane, a West African who has come from France to find...

On a remote island far removed from a raging civil war, Jan and Eva (Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann) retreat to their apolitical fortress: a small vegetable farm. But their serene existence is shattered when soldiers violently invade their home. Now caught in the crosshairs of a brutal and inhuman confl...