A truly epic epic and winner of 7 Academy Awards. Lawrence serves British colonial interests during the First World War by uniting the Arabs against the fast collapsing Ottoman Empire. Stupendous cinemascope drama with a cast of thousands and some of cinema's most famous shots; Sheik Ali's emergence from the desert haze and the storming of Aquaba for example. This is the director's cut, a more coherent version than the original cinema release. find out more...

Respectable account of Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. Stiff upper lips and Vaughan William's score take us back to the days when Englishmen were heroes and women still did the cooking. find out more...