Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

They are elegant, arrogant and assured; they dine, shoot pheasants, gossip and flirt, and they observe the rigorous etiquette expected of them. However it's 1913 and they are the last of the Edwardians, their society is collapsing and their lives about to be devasted by the coming slaughter.