A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic. find out more...

In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's ‘1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea find out more...

Originally released in 1988, the wait is over for the UK release of this anime classic, superb animated feature from the Studio Ghibli studio (Miyazaki's animation stable). What sets this film apart from the fantastical films made in the tradition of his peers, it its historical and emotional realism. The focus in Takahata's film is on the story of its two young protagonists, brother and sister Seita and Setsuko, as they flee the destruction of their home and family after the American firebombin find out more...

In the year 2707; Earth's natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and war rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations. But when a bombardment on enemy lines breaks an ancient seal, a long forgotten horror is unleashed: Necromutants, an army of the ‘not quite dead', who sweep all before them. Only a monk and a rag tag group of fighters stand in the way of the terror and what chance do they… hang on, why am I troubling you with plot outline, this is a slash and slash again act find out more...

Set in the paranoia of nuclear war, this chilling and BAFTA-award winning BBC2 drama caused outrage and anxiety amongst the viewing public due to its graphic and realistic storytelling of a possible nuclear strike. Set in Sheffield, the story follows Ruth and her fiancé who are looking forward to beginning a new life with a baby and a new flat when suddenly the unthinkable happens. After the attack the landscape is changed dramatically with the survivors scavenging through the devastation and co find out more...