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Certification15 Our Rating

Part 1- Currahee: Young lads in Georgia begin training for America's newest military faction - paratroopers and soon become an elite and known as Easy Company. A rivalry breaks out between Lt Sobel and Lt Winters. Part 2 - Day of Days: D-Day arrives, and the paratroopers come under heavy fire. They get lost, lose their weapons and their supplies and hook up with Winters to find their units. Winters loses his first man after a German attack. find out more...

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Part 3 - Carentan: Easy Company is sent to take Carentan but Blithe and some others have trouble adjusting to combat. After 36 days in Normandy Easy heads back to England only to be told they will ship out again. Part 4 - Replacements: Some green paratroopers come to help out Easy Co as they prepare to drop on Holland. Originally met with little resistance, the group is crippled by a well-prepared German force. The Allies plan to end the war by Christmas. find out more...

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Part 5 - Crossroads: Winters is promoted after a successful raid on a Dutch dike. He learns of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest and sends in an ill-equipped Easy Company. Part 6 - Bastogne: In the bitter weather of Belgium the boys of Easy try to hold the line alone. The medic befriends a Belgian nurse as the crew spends Christmas in the trench and is asked to surrender. find out more...

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Part 7 - The Breaking Point: After succeeding at Bastogne Easy is sent to capture Foy. Fierce shelling ensues and the Co takes a few casualties under the incompentant leadership of Lt Dike. Part 8 - The Last Patrol: Easy is ordered to take care of POWs after arriving in Haguenau. Lt Jones, fresh from West Point, takes command and another life is lost, causing Winters to disregard a recommendation to send another troop the next day. find out more...

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Part 9 - Why We Fight: FInally in Germany the crew takes it easy for the first time. Another troop finds an abandoned concentration camp still occupied by emaciated prisoners and news arrives that Hitler is dead. Part 10 - Points: Entering Berchtesgarten Easy Co takes control of 'Eagle's Nest', Hitler's hilltop fortress. Preparing to go to the Pacific the men try to compare points to see who gets to go home. When the Japanese surrender everyone gets to go home...to very different circumstances. find out more...
CATCH-22 (1970)

Certification15 Our Rating

Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...
PAPILLON (1973)

Certification18 Our Rating

The tale of two men banged up for years in the notorious French penal colony Devil's Island. Two escape bids by one of them results in years of solitary confinement but make him simply more determined to flee, even as old age approachs. The ultimate prison escape movie loosely based on a true story. find out more...

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Lots of stiff upper lip and Brit grit in this heroic true story of how Lancaster bombers, carrying Dr Barnes Wallis's Bouncing Bomb, destroyed the dams on the Rhur, damaging German industrial production and the Nazi war effort. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Adapted from a story by Stephen King, this is the best prison movie you'll ever see. A city banker's life is changed forever when he receives a double life sentence in the notorious Shawshank prison. Freeman is superb as the old-timer who befriends him. A powerfully uplifting tale with a twist. find out more...