The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another "proof" of Aryan superiority, but thanks to some fine football, unlikely goalkeeping and acting worthy of a red card the lads do us proud, before attempting to leg it over the fence and back to blighty. An entertainingly tongue in cheek wartime adventure rather surprisingly from the great John Houston. find out more...

The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff.
DISC 5: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SEX, EXTENDED FAMILIES, CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.

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Two sprinters whose friendly rivalry leads not to the Olympic track but to the World War I battlefront of Gallipoli, a name which even after all these years brings tears to Australians, a place where naive young men were lured to their deaths. A military balls-up of epic proportions, movingly portrayed. find out more...

Single mother Esma and her 12-year-old daughter Sara live in Grbavica, a Bosnian quarter of Sarajevo, in the aftermath of the Balkan war. Sara needs the cash for a school trip and Esma goes to work in a nightclub to earn the money, but what Sara can't understand is why she can't get the free trip offered to the children of war heroes. Esma's Secret is a tale of survival and the struggle for normality elevated to the status of a deeply moving and heart rending open letter to the people of Sarajev find out more...

Napoleonic soldiers may never have been the sharpest tools in the military box, but these two duelling nutters take the cake - after a minor incident they duel obsessively for 30 years. Based on Conrad's story this film was voted the Best Debut film at the 1977 Cannes festival. A kind of Napoleonic Western dealing with obsession and honour, with great costumes and visually stunning. find out more...

Olympian Louis “Louie” Zamperini, along with two other crewmen, survive in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash while on a bombing raid in WWII, but it is when they are caught by the Japanese and sent to prisoner of war camp that Louis’ endurance test really begins. A rather ‘worthy’ dramatisation of the man’s biopic. 

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