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Follow Alice down the rabbit hole as she falls into a strange land and meets The White Rabbit (Michael Crawford), March Hare (Peter Sellers), The Mad Hatter (Robert Helpmann), The Cheshire Cat (Roy Kinnear), and other odd characters out of Lewis Carroll's story. This is a classic story, which begins on a July summer day with three sisters being taken along the riverbank to enjoy a quiet picnic. But, when Alice falls asleep the story begins... Beautiful scenery and engaging music by John Barry,...

This 1972 film adaptation of Jack London's classic story stars Charlton Heston and Raimund Harmstorf as government mail carriers working in the hostile environment of the Yukon during the 19th. Century Klondike gold rush. During this time demand for good sled dogs was high, this is the story of Buck, a domestic pet stolen from a California ranch and sold to work the Skagway to Dawson City route pulling mail and supplies and the effort to adapt to his harsh new life.

A cartel of unscrupulous business men devise a plan to substantially raise the value of gold on the world markets by attempting to arrange an accident which will shut down one of South Africa's biggest gold mines. Mine owner Hurry Hirschfeld (Ray Milland) is unaware that his son-in-law Manfred Steyner (Bradford Dillman) is at the root of the plot. Rod Slater (Roger Moore) newly promoted General Manager of the Sonderditch gold mine is persuaded to undertake drilling through to a new gold seam...

The Secret Weapon - 65 minutes - 1943. Sherlock Holmes must outsmart the Germans and get scientist Dr. Tobel out of Switzerland and back to England with his secret bombsight equipment. The wartime plot of this adventure finds Holmes and Watson once again doing battle with their villainous enemy, the evil Moriarity, who is working for the Nazis this time. Terror By Night - 57 minutes -1946. Sherlock Holmes has been hired to safeguard the valuable Star of Rhodesia diamond belonging to Lady...

Moonwalk One - Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, and the third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it just under a day later for the trip back to Earth. This unique film is an historical record of the events leading up to and including the mission. It charts the development of rocket propulsion and the Apollo program and gives...

The Terror - 80 minutes - Color. Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) is a lieutenant in the army of Napoleon who becomes lost whilst trying to rejoin his regiment. A beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) appears and shows him where to find fresh water, then mysteriously disappears. Captivated by her beauty his search for her leads him to the menacing castle of Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe (Boris Karloff) who reluctantly offers him food and shelter for the night. Extra Feature, The Veil - 25 minutes...

A soldier is murdered when his vehicle breaks down during manoeuvres in the English countryside. When the police inspect the body they are puzzled by the ferocity of the attack. But what kind of vicious beast could have inflicted such horrific wounds on its victim? In a nearby but isolated country house two elderly sisters are alarmed when they hear about the terrible killing. Are they just frightened the creature may strike again or is there a more sinister reason?

Horror Express -This horror classic of the 1970's begins in China during 1906 where Professor Saxton (Christopher Lee) discovers the frozen body of a creature he believes may be the missing link to the explanation of human evolution. He arranges to transport the creature back to England on the Trans-Siberian Railway but he is unaware that an evil force inhabits the frozen fossil. When inexplicable and gruesome deaths begin to occur on the train Professor Saxton and fellow scientist Dr. Wells...

This eerie paranormal documentary series looks at real life cases of hauntings around Europe and the U.S.A. This disc includes stories about encounters with King Arthur, a woman who claims to have been possessed by a ghostly spirit, a motorcyclist who has returned from the grave and the struggle between a priest and a psychologist over the a possession by a demon.

This eerie paranormal documentary series looks at real life cases of hauntings around Europe and the U.S.A. This disc includes stories a haunted castle in Ireland, an investigation of ghostly appearances at a pub and art school in England. Lastly, the hunters follow a trail of clues that leads to the identification of a troubled spirit of an eighteenth-century fisherman.

This eerie paranormal documentary series looks at real life cases of hauntings around Europe and the U.S.A. This disc includes a look at the ghosts of war, featuring sightings of resurrected Roman Legionnaires and investigations into reported encounters with civil war soldiers. This disc also features a more in depth look into modern tales of apparitions and stories of strange happenings surrounding a Victorian School building that burned down.

David Copperfield is Charles Dicken's story of a young man's journey to maturity. Starring Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, and Michael Redgrave. We find David as a young man brooding on a deserted beach while having a flashback of his life. He recalls his time in 19th century England as a young orphan who is brought to London and passed around from relative to relative. Eventually, he finds himself on the streets of London and must fend for himself. A wonderful classic not to be...

Catch Me A Spy is a comedy spy film starring Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard and Marlene Jobert. Fabienne (Marlene Jobert), a young French-born British schoolteacher marries and heads to Bucharest in the Eastern Bloc for her honeymoon. Her husband is arrested by secret police and soon turns out to have been detained by Soviet intelligence as a spy. Fabienne intends to head to Moscow to try and help him, but instead is drugged and sent on a plane back to England by a suspicious waiter. Will this...

Horror Express: This horror classic of the 1970's begins in China during 1906 where Professor Saxton (Lee) discovers the frozen body of a creature he believes may be the missing link to the explanation of human evolution Curse of the Crimson Altar: This is a British horror film starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff. Antiques dealer Robert Manning is searching for his brother, while experiencing strange dreams of ritual sacrifice.

On a remote island off the coast of Ireland a farmer goes missing and his wife contacts the local authorities. The constable finds the farmer dead in a cave without a single bone in his body and contacts the local physician, who is unable to determine what happened. When a group of scientists are brought in from the mainland it becomes clear that 'test animals' are killing their victims by injecting a bone-dissolving enzyme into their bodies. The creatures prove incredibly difficult to kill....

The awesome destructive power of war in the Twenty First Century. This astounding, highly acclaimed documentary, reveals as never before, the overwhelming power of twenty first century warfare and the technology employed. As the allied military machine rolled forward, to drive the invading Iraqi armies out of Kuwait they unleashed a storm of firepower never before witnessed in human history. Truly they unleashed an irresistible Desert Storm that swept all before it. This documentary is created...

On May 17th. 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out one of the most remarkable raids ever undertaken by any aircrew. On that night a squadron of Lancaster heavy bombers flew at low level across a blacked out Europe, towards the four great dams that delivered water and power to the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr. The aircrews had been trained for months to carry out this most daring and courageous of raids. Against a storm of anti-aircraft fire, they calmly flew their bombers in across...

A butterfly flutters its fragile wings in Texas and the seemingly imperceptible turbulence sets in motion a cascade of effects that culminates in a typhoon in Indonesia. It seems unreal. But the realisation of the butterfly effect as it has been called, is one of the astonishing results of the new science of Chaos. Traditionally science has been focused on seeking out and defining the predictable laws that govern all our lives. Chaos is about using the immense number crunching power of super...

Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought out far from the bombs and shells of any battlefront. A war that involved the brilliant skills of mathematicians and chess players. The war of the codebreakers. Twice in 50 years the ability to crack the enemy's most secret codes, and so learn the battle plans of enemy commanders in the field, proved to be the vital factor in achieving victory. Revealed here are the remarkable...

The Archive of World War Two is a series of original archive documentaries filmed under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian and enemy forces. From Italy to D-Day - 31 minutes - This is the story of the twelve months from July 1943 to June 1944 when the Allies closed in for the final assault on the fortress of Europe. From D-Day to Paris - 51 minutes - This is one of a series of information films made to show the free peoples...

The Archive of World War Two is a series of original archive documentaries filmed under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian and enemy forces. The two films presented here cover the the period from the liberation of Paris on August 26th.1944 to Victory in Europe and are part of a series of information films made to show the free peoples of Europe the Allies progress towards their liberation.

Ever since he has had a ditch or a river to cross man had been building bridges. In fact the oldest bridges go back to around 4000BC. And Roman engineers threw bridges across great rivers like the Danube and the Rhine as their armies marched across Europe. Today bridge building is at the very cutting edge of technology as engineers strive to use the lightest possible materials to build longer and longer spans across estuaries and island straits. Few engineers would have believed it possible to...

Ever since the Greeks abandoned the battlefield at Troy, leaving behind them an innocent looking model of a horse, deception and camouflage have been a powerful weapon in the armoury of war. This remarkable and immensely entertaining programme takes us on a journey through history, from the bits of hedgerow stuck into the helmet of the sniper on the Somme, to the curving patterns of camouflage paint on the allied tanks that smashed their way through Caen, and finally to the ultimate camouflage...

The quest for speed from the early aviators to dreams of aircraft of the future. This is the story of Air Speed records and the advances in technology which have contributed to the various aviation successes and failures. On the bitterly cold morning of December 17th. 1903, Orville Wright coaxed the Wright Flyer off the sands at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and launched the era of powered flight. He also launched a race that has gone on unceasingly ever since; the race for ever more speed....