101 dalmatians
Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get ahold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an animal communication system to help find all the puppies.
A few days in September
It is just ten days before 9/11. Irene, a French secret service operative, is on a mission to help Elliot, a rougue CIA agent who has disappeared with top secret intelligence about the immediate future of the world. When a Paris rendezvous goes wrong, Irene finds herself in a race against time to uncover the truth. Following closely behind is an eccentric assassin, intent on tracking down Elliot and the crucial piece of information he holds.
Active movement for under fives.Series one
Active movement for under fives.Series two
Back to basics
Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics: Live and Down Under is more than a simple presentation of song and dance the show, by all measures, is a Broadway-caliber production. Taking the helm as the show's creative director, Aguilera showcases the depth and breadth of her visual artistry, with a two-hour extravaganza that comes fully equipped with three major scenes buttressed by a state-of-the-art hydraulic system. Aguilera's versatile catalog of music allows for seamless transitions between each, as the show's fanciful costumes and monochrome video montages transport the viewer back to an era when simplicity and exuberance co-existed together amongst dazzling lights and even brighter colours.
Charlie and Lola.
Using 2D cell animation, paper cutout, fabric design, photomontage, and archive footage, all the distinctive style and exuberance of Lauren Child's award-winning picture books come to life.
Cherry Town
Motion picture version of Shostakovich's stage musical, a gentle satire on the lives and aspirations of young Soviets. Follows the on and off romances of three young couples as they battle bureaucracy, petty corruption, and complications to acquire apartments in Cherry Town, a new showcase estate in suburban Moscow.
Dragon tales.Adventures in dragon land
Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisors must act to safeguard to lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer Walter Raleigh captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies, and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world.
Enigma
Stepped in the atmosphere of wartime England, Enigma is a romantic thriller that delves into the mystery of codes and code breaking, love and betrayal set inside the top secret Station X at Britain's Blechley Park.
Evening
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, before she was married, going from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.
Family guy presents Blue harvest
The Griffin clan puts a spin on the greatest sci-fi saga ever told! With Peter playing the swashbuckling Han Solo, Lois as the sexy Princess Leia, Chris as an adolescent Luke Skywalker, Brian as well-spoken Chewbacca and Stewie finally embracing his dark side as Darth Vader. Filled with outrageous gags, spaced-outs droids and more intergalactic satire than you can shake a lightsaber at.
Green wing.
BAFTA award-winning comedy series Green Wing follows new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on -- dishevelled and under-deodorised having spent the night in her car. Along the way she meets an assortment of bizarre and demented characters...
Hannah Montana
There's a new kid in town, and he might just be more popular than Hannah Montana! Not only is Jake Ryan a total hottie, he's also a famous actor and the star of his own TV series. While Miley tries to keep her superstar identity, not to mention her secret crush on Jake under wraps at school, Hannah winds up guest starring on his show. As usual, her friends and family come to the rescue, but not before she makes her way through all sorts of adventures and learns not to judge people.
Helen of Troy
Even though we have no contemporary representations of her, this Bronze Age princess is still seen as a paradigm of absolute beauty and as a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Hittite Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for the enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? She exists in many forms: the historical figure of the Bronze Age Spartan Queen who ruled over one of the most fertile areas of the Mycenaean world the goddess subject of an eighth-century BC heroic cult which conflated Helen the person with a pre-Greek goddess the mythological and literary home-wrecker figure of the Iliad the icon and the first recorded sex-goddess, a symbol of the power of beauty and love. Focusing on Helen (the possibility of a flesh and blood Helen), acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes re-constructs the context of life in the Bronze Age Greece for this elusive pre-historic princess.
IDA
In the night garden.Hello Igglepiggle!
Get ready for dreamy bedtime, little ones... Another five episodes of the CBeebies pre-school series narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi. This landmark children's series from the team behind Teletubbies is specially created to appeal to young children. In The Night Garden... is a thoroughly modern interpretation of a nursery rhyme picture book, and takes children on an imaginative journey to meet a host of wonderfully silly characters, like Igglepiggle, living together within a happy and caring community. It is both funny and reassuring, with a capacity to relax and entertain.
Jeeves & Wooster.
This collection features the five premiere episodes of the series hailed as irreistible by critics and beloved by millions of fans worldwide.
Keeping up with the Steins
Adam Fiedler is a Hollywood agent who wants nothing more than to give his son Ben the lavish bar mitzvah he rightly deserves. Trouble is, Adam's archrival and former business partner Arnie Stein has already thrown a spectacular bar mitzvah for his own son. Now Adam feels intense pressure to keep up with the Steins. Adam's estranged father Irwin has been living on an Indian reservation with his younger girlfriend Sacred Feather. Ben wants to use his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather.
La Grande bouffe
Four world-weary middle-aged men decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls, and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher.
La vie en rose
Biography of French singer Edith Piaf (Cotillard). Neglected by her mother, Edith is brought up by her grandmother and then by her father, a travelling acrobat. The street singer is discovered and rises to fame, determined to work even when dying.
Lazy Lucy
Lazy Lucy: it's the story of a little girl, who, in order to do as little as possible, always ends up doing more! Her determination and her creative spirit make each one of her ideas a little masterpiece of unrestrained imagination.
Le nozze di Figaro
The marriage of Figaro and Susanna runs into difficulties from the count and is fraught with mistaken identities before they can celebrate their wedding night.
License to wed
Newly engaged couple, Ben Murphy and Sadie Jones can't wait to be married and live their life together. The problem is that Sadie's family church, St. Augustine's, is run by Reverend Frank, who won't bless them until they pass his patented, fool-proof marriage-prep course. The course consists of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy. Reverend Frank's rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie's relationship to the test.
Manderlay
A young girl traveling across 1930's America with her father, discovers a plantation that doesn't know that slavery has been abolished. Can this well-meaning girl and her lawyer father change the minds and hearts of the plantation owners?
Murder in suburbia.
The newest additions to the sisterhood of British sleuths are attractive, sharp, and extremely entertaining. Meticulous and stubborn Kate teams up with street-smart Emma as bickering detectives in an upscale suburb.
My left foot
The story of Christy Brown. Born with cerebral palsy, Brown learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb, his left foot.
Peaceful warrior
A talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams is changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find his destiny.
Pingu.Sledge academy
Resident evil
A top secret military research laboratory nicknamed 'The Hive' is compromised when a deadly virus is released into the ventilation system. A computer called the Red Queen, which controls The Hive, shuts down the base - preventing escape by the workers inside - and starts cleansing the interior. A group of soldiers are sent in to shut down the Red Queen but in the process they release the inhabitants, turned into zombies by the virus.
Resident evil : 2
Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own. She is aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her and she struggles to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and a terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has already killed millions.
Rise
Sadie Blake is a reporter who wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead, the victim of a brutal vampire ritual. Trying desperately to fight off her blood thirst, Sadie prowls the dark city streets, armed with a crossbow and ready to slay the twisted vampires that made her this way.
Romulus, my father
Romulus, my father tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and meglect from his mother. It is a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Shoot 'em up
When the man known only as Smith, a gorgeous streetwalker and a maniacal hitman get swept up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, it sets off an explosion of armed thugs, flying bullets and nonstop action.
Simon Schama's Power of art
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome opulent, parvenu Amsterdam paranoid, revolutionary Paris Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness the madhouses and brothels of Provence the carnage of civil war Spain 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.
Stephanie Daley
When 16 year old Stephanie Daley faces murder charges in connection with the death of her baby, pregnant forensic-psychologist Lydie Crane is tapped to unravel the truth. Stephanie claims to have been unaware of her condition, but as their sessions intensify, Stephanie's state of denial and Lydie's fears regarding her own pregnancy reveal a destiny that intertwines them both.
Stringer
Photojournalist Jake Stringer is gunned down while investigating a case of organ trafficking. He awakens with a scar on his chest on a flight home, arriving to find his world on the brink of a lethal epidemic. At the heart of the disaster, a deadly conspiracy. Stringer's search for answers leads him to secret research farms, government ministries -- and his own past. Writer/Director Steven Morrison has crafted a dark, stylish, and suspenseful psychological thriller with eerie echoes of today's headlines.
Strummer
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer before, during and after the Clash.
Superbad
Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more important than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing thier virginity with the girl of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their regret hookup. Their awkard friend Fogell gets a fake ID, with just the name McLovin, and agrees to get liquor to bring to Jules' a.k.a. Seths dream girl's graduation party. All seems to be going well until McLovin is suckerpunched in the liquor store by a robber. When the police come, they try to get a story out of the clerk, but she is too worried about her exam tomorrow, so they question McLovin.
The aristocats
A kind but eccentric Parisian millionairess wills her entire estate to her family - a family of adorable high-society cats. Edgar, the greedy, bumbling butler, catnaps the family and abandons them in the French countryside. Thomas O'Malley, a charming alley cat, saunters by and offers to escort them home.
The comic strip presents.The complete collection
The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of the 1980s, and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping crater that lesser comics are still falling into today. Their clever parodies of film, tv, music and pop culture are unequaled in creativity and execution. Now, for the first time all 39 rarely seen episodes of The Comic Strip Presents, totalling over 26 hours, are collected in this 9 DVD boxset, bursting with an array of extras.
The complete Ben 10.
Upon discovering a mysterious device, Ben Tennyson has the power to change into 10 different alien forms, each with unique and awesome powers. Although he now protects others and fights evil forces, he still finds time for mischief and fun!
The Fairies.The top of the garden
Emma, Jack and Lily are sure that fairies live in the bottom of their garden. Although they've never seen a fairy, they are always finding fairy dust and sometimes even tiny little notes left in the fairy ring. Enjoy the magic of the fairies and sing and dance to new and favourite songs in these five episodes featuring the top of the garden children plus fairy favourites Harmony and Rhapsody, Barnaby, Elf, Wizzy and the Tots, plus our new fairy friend, Twinkle the Tooth Fairy. Because as all children know, there are fairies in the bottom of my garden .
The first Eden
Presents a portrait of the Mediterranean Sea and the variety of plants and animals that call the region home. Illustrates the geographical richness of the region, the ecological diversity of the wildlife, how the region's ancient peoples looked to nature for their gods, the changes in the natural environment from the 14th entury B.B. to the 16th century A.D. and the problems of present day pollution.
The games
A satirical look at bureaucrats as they orchestrate the extravaganza that will be the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
The Kingdom
A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite. FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Fleury and his team discover that the Saudi authorities are suspicious and unwelcoming of the Americans into what they consider a local matter. The agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts. Luckily, the agents find a partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and helps unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A trio of gold prospectors come to grief through greed.
The tribal eye.The complete series
Featuring David Attenborough's original 1975 Tribal Art: The Complete Series and includes all seven programmes commissioned for the BBC. Through the series, Attenborough gives viewers a fascinating guide to the world's tribal art travelling to intriguing places and tribal communities.
The ugly duckling and me
Ratso is a city rat who fancies himself as something of an impresario. That he's talentless in the art of promoting performers doesn't cross his mind as he tries to pass off a stumpy worm trussed up in a straw as the longest worm in the world . Just as he's getting booed off the stage, he's accosted by Phyllis, one tough rat who has a serious but unspoken grievance with him. Narrowly escaping her and her sibling henchmen Frank and Stan, Ratso and his worm colleague Wesley accidentally find themselves on a train and transported into unknown territory - the countryside.
Thomas & friends.Together on the tracks
Thomas & friends return with six brand new adventures which feature everyone's favourite engines as they go about their work on the Island of Sodor.
Two hands
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl, who Ledger starts a romance on his trip.
Under siege
Killer-elite commandos out to hijack the USS Missouri's nuclear arsenal overpower the crew, except for the cook, who just happens to be an ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative.
Underdog
After an accident in the lab of the maniacal Dr. Barsinister, an ordinary beagle named Shoeshine finds he has some unimaginable powers, along with the ability to speak. Underdog vows to protect the citizens of Capitol City, and one beautiful spaniel named Polly Purebred.
Vacancy
David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. As luck would have it, they come across a motel. There is something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. The set appears to be filmed in the very same room David and Amy are occupying. They come to realize that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras filming their every move. David and Amy desperately search for a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels, all before they become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic.
Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite
Complete history of the Vietnam War, as chronicled by CBS News correspondents, from its genesis in the days after World War II to its conclusion with the fall of Saigon.
Walking with monsters
Journey back to prehistory to walk, race, swim and fly with mankind's distant ancestors - and see evolution unfold before your eyes! This popular series is available for the first time as condensed 90 minute versions.
Warlords
Four part history series revealing an epic untold story from the Second World War. While their nations fought countless battles in the field, the four great warlords of the twentieth century tried to out maneuver and out wit each other in a different sort of battle that would determine the fate of Europe and the world. At the heart of this private war was a series of psychological duels in which they lied, schemed, charmed, flattered, and deceived to attain the ultimate victory. These duels signaled a seismic shift in world power, from the age of European empires to the age of two ideologically opposed superpowers. Here is World War II seen through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Structured along the lines of a cinematic thriller, rapidly intercutting between the four titans, the book reveals a blow-by-blow account of their individual efforts to out think and out fight each other. At times chronicling events as they unfold day by day or even hour by hour, Warlords reveals unparalleled insights into parallel actions - from Roosevelt and Churchill's complex yet crucial friendship to Hitler and Stalin's collaboration, betrayal, and backbiting. By using the words of the warlords and those who observed them at the time, the authors unravel the psychology of four wartime leaders facing history's greatest conflict. Moving from the White House and Whitehall to the Wolf's Lair and the Kremlin, Warlords examines the strengths and weaknesses of men locked in a confrontation with consequences for the entire world.
Wet hot American summer
Camp Firewood, 1981. It's the last day of summer camp and everyone is busy. Camp director Beth (Janeane Garofalo) is trying to keep order while falling in love with astrophysicist Henry (David Hyde Pierce). Henry is trying to save the camp from being hit by a piece of SKYLAB hurtling toward Earth. Camp counselor Coop is in love with Katie, who is in love with lifeguard Andy. If that's not enough, there's a waterfall rescue, talking vegetable cans, the misfits, the cool kids... and more!
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