20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A battle hardened combat squad in Vietnam kidnap, rape and then murder a young Vietnamese girl for "recreation". Only a young, liberal, raw recruit makes a stand for simple human justice. The realities of war! find out more...

CENTURION (2010)

Certification12 Our Rating

AD 117; a Roman legion marches north to avenge an attack on a Roman fort by the Picts, but they themselves are attacked, slaughtered and their general captured. A rag-tag collection of survivors are trapped behind enemy lines and, pursued by the blood-thirsty Picts, must make the perilous journey back to safety.
We`re in Apocalypto territory here in this home-grown relentless chase movie. find out more...

CHI-RAQ (2015)

Certification15 Our Rating

Lee returns to his previous polemic and fine filmmaking form with Chi-Raq, a musical-comedy satire about the cycle and effects of violence and gun crime on black communities in America. The story is all Lysistrata (Aristophanes); women withhold sex from men in the hopes of making them stop using violence against each other. It's far from politically correct, not nearly as find out more...

CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

'City of Life and Death', like the earlier 'City of War; the John Rabe Story', is an account of the Rape of Nanjing; the terrible crimes committed by the Japanese army during the sacking of the Chinese city and the desperate efforts to protect those, mainly Chinese, sheltering in the protected German zone. This version concentrates less on the atrocities and heroic whites and more on the growing sensitivity and terrible guilt of a Japanese sergeant.
An important and artfully made film. find out more...

COME AND SEE (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

Elem Klimov's powerful, mesmerising and dynamic award winning feature has been deservedly hailed as one of the greatest war films ever produced. find out more...

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

Knowing that his father had been some sort of WW2 war hero writer James Bradley set out to discover the truth about him and the fellow marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima for the now infamously 'fraudulent' photgraph. We follow this ironically socially heterogeneous group of men through the horrors of one of the most bloody battles of WW2, interspliced with the early return home of three of the 'heroes' to act as politically manipulated cheerleaders for further fundraising to continue the find out more...

FLANDRES (2007)

Certification18 Our Rating

Flanders tells the story of a group of young men, including local farmer Demster, from rural northern France, who go to fight, with brutal consequences, in a war in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Juxtaposing rural images of their home village against the savage and unrelenting landscape of battle, the film charts familiar Dumont territory offering a unique vision against the backdrop of an unconventional love story between Demester and his fragile, sometime girlfriend, Barbe. find out more...

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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 1 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

'From the people who brought you 'The Wire'; Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright was embedded with the US Marine Corps 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during 2003, the first year of the second Iraq War. This is his story. find out more...

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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

The tale of our semi-literate, foul mouthed grunts continues; find out more...

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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 3 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

The last episode in the first season. find out more...