Part 1- Currahee: Young lads in Georgia begin training for America's newest military faction - paratroopers and soon become an elite and known as Easy Company. A rivalry breaks out between Lt Sobel and Lt Winters. Part 2 - Day of Days: D-Day arrives, and the paratroopers come under heavy fire. They get lost, lose their weapons and their supplies and hook up with Winters to find their units. Winters loses his first man after a German attack. find out more...

Part 3 - Carentan: Easy Company is sent to take Carentan but Blithe and some others have trouble adjusting to combat. After 36 days in Normandy Easy heads back to England only to be told they will ship out again. Part 4 - Replacements: Some green paratroopers come to help out Easy Co as they prepare to drop on Holland. Originally met with little resistance, the group is crippled by a well-prepared German force. The Allies plan to end the war by Christmas. find out more...

Part 5 - Crossroads: Winters is promoted after a successful raid on a Dutch dike. He learns of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest and sends in an ill-equipped Easy Company. Part 6 - Bastogne: In the bitter weather of Belgium the boys of Easy try to hold the line alone. The medic befriends a Belgian nurse as the crew spends Christmas in the trench and is asked to surrender. find out more...

Part 7 - The Breaking Point: After succeeding at Bastogne Easy is sent to capture Foy. Fierce shelling ensues and the Co takes a few casualties under the incompentant leadership of Lt Dike. Part 8 - The Last Patrol: Easy is ordered to take care of POWs after arriving in Haguenau. Lt Jones, fresh from West Point, takes command and another life is lost, causing Winters to disregard a recommendation to send another troop the next day. find out more...

Part 9 - Why We Fight: FInally in Germany the crew takes it easy for the first time. Another troop finds an abandoned concentration camp still occupied by emaciated prisoners and news arrives that Hitler is dead. Part 10 - Points: Entering Berchtesgarten Easy Co takes control of 'Eagle's Nest', Hitler's hilltop fortress. Preparing to go to the Pacific the men try to compare points to see who gets to go home. When the Japanese surrender everyone gets to go home...to very different circumstances. find out more...

Set between 1962 and 1974 this traces the story of three buddies from adolescent surfing champs to post-Vietnam trauma. As the times change they find their youth is lost until one vital Wednesday in 1974 when there is a Big Swell and they hit the waves again, superb. find out more...

October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A find out more...

Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...

A nameless warrior presents himself before the emperor with news that he has vanquished all who stood against him. Wary but curious the Emperor listens with increasing disbelief to the soldier's story, but as the epic battles are recounted in flashback it becomes increasingly clear that this was not merely a simple act of service by a servant to his lord. Hero is a stunning piece of moviemaking before you even take the electrifying fight scenes into account, a sumptuous feast for the eyes that o find out more...

Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is a naval commander whose ship comes under heavy fire from a vastly superior enemy vessel while on patrol off the Brazilian coast during the Napoleonic wars. Only the luck of the gods and Jack's renowned cunning save him and the crew from certain doom, enabling their ship to slip away from battle before all is lost in the icy depths of the ocean. With his pride and his ship in a poor way Jack vows to turn the tables on his foe and so begins a tense game of cat and mo find out more...