It is 1941 and English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, inherits a ranch in the Australian outback, but when cattle barons plot to take her land, she is forced, reluctantly at first, to team up with a rough-hewn cattle driver. Together with a young aboriginal orphan the unlikely band must take 1500 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land only to face the Japanese forces on their arrival in Darwin. Australia is Baz Luhrmann's (‘Moulin Rouge', ‘Romeo and Juliet find out more...

Winner of four Oscars, this film is shot with the most beautifully scenic backgrounds and with great attention to costume detail. An Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon, crosses Europe from woman to job, but in the end returns to Britain seeking a wealthy marriage. find out more...

The story takes place during the Italian occupation of Greece during WW2. At first Captain Corelli and his troops are treated with contempt by the islanders but it soon becomes obvious that the two nationalities have much in common and a friendship forms between occupiers and occupied. Into this unlikely scenario is added the love that has blossomed between the Captain and beautiful young islander, Pelagia, but the idyll is soon to be shattered by the harsher realities of war. Captain Corelli's find out more...

British journalist George sneaks into Nanjing during the Japanese atrocities of 1938. Unfortunately, the Japanese catch him and just as they are about to send him to meet his maker fate intervenes in the form of local commie chief Chen, who rescues George and packs him off to an orphanage to assist red US nurse Radha. Fleeing from the nationalists' attempts to conscript orphaned boys into their army, they make a hair-raising three-month journey - the first 900km on foot - across the snow-bound L find out more...

The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika. 

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Howard Hughes' first movie, and what an epic money sucker it was too. Three friends, two English and one German, are conscripted into WWI as fighter pilots and must make the choice between their patriotic duty and their loyalty to one another. Some amazing aerial scenes and Jean Harlow's first starring role are amongst the highlights. find out more...

Foolhardy for the Japanese and, let's be honest, a bloody godsend for non-fascist Europe, there really can't be many people who don't know what 'Pearl Harbor' means in reference to WWII, but if you don't mind your history a bit dodgy, here's a three hour refresher course. A transparent attempt to recreate the success of 'Titanic', Pearl Harbour is a horrifically misjudged slab of epic cinema, lumbering, badly scripted and with acting to match, the only real survivors are the special effects and find out more...

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This is a bog standard period drama with some very nice and historically accurate but all too clean costuming. Set during the first world war and based on the biography of Vera Brittain, the story is one of tears, drama and determination. Hits all the right but all too regular notes, looks a lot like it was shot for TV...

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Based on David Low's cartoon character, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC, we back-track over his life, drawing us into sympathy with the prime virtues of honour and chivalry which have transformed him from dashing young spark of the 1890s into crusty old buffer of World War II. Roger Livesey gives us not just a great performance, but a man's whole life, losing his only love (Deborah Kerr) to the German officer (Walbrook) with whom he fought a duel in pre-WWI Berlin, then becoming the latter's find out more...