Like many of the men from Cold Mountain, North Carolina, Inman is caught up in the fervour to fight the Confederate cause. Ada is his love, a strong independent woman who promises to keep the candle lit until his victorious return. Increasingly dismayed by the slaughter inflicted by, and upon, both sides, Inman begins the long and hazardous journey back to his good woman, an odyssey populated by a steady stream of often bizarre, and occasionally murderous, unfortunates. "Cold Mountain" is based find out more...

The original big screen romantic epic that fired the hearts of generations to come. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and telling the tale of the love between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, it's the history of a selfish woman who doesn't want to admit her feelings about the man she loves, and finally loses. Won Best Picture at 1939 Academy Awards. find out more...

Shot in five sections "How The West Was Won" is a sprawling multi-star epic following the fortunes of one family from 1839 and New York to 1889 and Arizona. 'The Rivers' (dir Henry Hathaway); the Prescotts head west down the Ohio river. 'The Plains' (dir Henry Hathaway); Lily moves to St Louis and on to Caifornia. 'The Civil War' (dir John Ford); Linus and Zeb enlist on the Union side. 'The Railroad' (dir George Marshall); the settlers multiply and cavalry officer Zeb finds himself in a war with find out more...

From filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter-a s find out more...

The first half of an exhaustive and lush dramatisation of Napoleon Bonaparte, from ambitious Corsican soldier at the end of the 18th Century, to his imprisonment on the Island of St Helena by the British, less than twenty years later. If anything "Napoleon" is almost overly dramatic, but it's still an enthralling look at the great man, both publicly and privately, his military achievements, and the turning of a divided France into the most powerful nation in the Western world. find out more...

The second half of an exhaustive and lush dramatisation of Napoleon Bonaparte, from ambitious Corsican soldier at the end of the 18th Century, to his imprisonment on the Island of St Helena by the British, less than twenty years later. If anything "Napoleon" is almost overly dramatic, but it's still an enthralling look at the great man, both publicly and privately, his military achievements, and the turning of a divided France into the most powerful nation in the Western world. find out more...

An ambitious but competently-handled Civil War epic from versatile director Ang Lee . A fairly heavyweight historical drama, it focuses on the Bushwackers, a rebel southern militia group headed by Maguire, Ulrich and Rhys-Meyers, who're conducting a guerilla war, and black scout Jeffrey Wright, who's forced to fight for the pro-slavery cause. Worthy and well-crafted, but light entertainment it ain't. find out more...

Herve Joncour is a 19th Century French silkworm smuggler and, importantly, a happily married man. While in Japan negotiating for his illegal cargo Herve becomes entranced by the concubine of a local baron, an obsession that even the barrier of language and culture cannot dampen, but the onset of war and Herve's increasingly suspicious wife will tie the unrequited lovers' hands. Based on Alessondo Baricco's novel, ‘Silk' is a visually sumptuous examination of love's many facets. find out more...

Errol Flynn portrays the iconic/infamous General Custer in this hoof-and-thunder chronicle tracing his career from dandyish West Point plebe to Civil War hero to frontier legend immortalized by the Battle of Little Big Horn. Olivia de Havilland, sharing the marquee with Flynn for the eighth and final time, plays Custer's devoted wife Libby. Not so much a rewriting of history more a ‘whitewash', They Died With Their Boots is still rousing stuff find out more...

Impeccably casted BBC production of Tolstoy's classic, possibly one of the BBC's best productions. Set in the Russia of the Napoleonic Wars during the early 1800s, it follows the fortunes of two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, whose paths become inextricably intertwined. find out more...