Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Russian war drama based on events which took place during the war with Afghanistan in the 1980s Journalist Charlie Palmer (Barry Kushner) & medic Victor Davis (Victor Verzhbitski) arrive at a POW camp near the Afghanistan Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure During their visit the prisoners seize control of the camp & begin to enact a series of terrible & bloody punishments on their captors Held as hostages Palmer & Davis are forced to witness acts of barbarity unlike any they have ever seen before ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Whether acting or directing Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) always manages to make it gritty & keep it real & it doesn&t get more real than this fact-driven thriller starring Eastwood as Frank Morris the cunning bank robber who masterminded the only successful escape from Alcatraz&s infamous maximum security prison In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary which housed Al Capone & " Birdman" Robert Stroud was only broken once
- by three men who were never heard from again Filmed on location at Alcatraz & directed by Clint&s frequent collaborator Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) this tough taut re-enactment of the true story has all the intense character study & sheer power that mark Eastwood&s finest work Actors Clint Eastwood Patrick Mc Goohan & Roberts Blossom Director Don Siegel Certificate 15 years & over Year 1979 Screen 1781 Languages English Additional Languages Italian; Spanish; German; French; Latin Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese Subtitles English; Japanese; Spanish; Italian; German; Swedish; Finnish; Norwegian; Danish; Dutch; English for the hearing impaired; French; Latin Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 52 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Superstar Clint Eastwood & director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary which housed Al Capone & & Birdman& Robert Stroud was only broken once
- by three men never heard of again Eastwood portrays Frank Morris the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed escape; Patrick Mc Goohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden Filmed on location in Alcatraz this gritty & realistic re-enactment of the true story has all the power one expects from an Eastwood Siegel movie
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scape from the Aliens in Outer Space is a card game of strategy & bluff set on a badly damaged deep space research ship On-board systems have failed plunging the ship into darkness But even worse A mysterious alien plague has crept aboard & is transforming the human crew into horrendous monsters! The remaining crewmen desperately try to save their lives by escaping from the derelict spaceship but in the darkness the aliens are lurkinghungry for human flesh The game is played on a hexagon-based map that represents the spaceship Each player is given a map sheet & a pencil Map sheets must be of the same zone & every zone has its specific name Starting from the first player & continuing clockwise every turn each player must make a movement To do so the player must write on their map sheet the coordinates of the sector to which they are moving Every time the players move to the gray (dangerous) sectors they have to draw a card; these cards make the players tell the others their position or lie about it depending on the card Every card is kept secret from other players The humans& objective is to save themselves using the escape hatches while the aliens& objective is to hunt down the humans Each player&s identity & position is kept secret; you will need to interpret the movements & behaviors of the other players to learn who & where they really are Suggested ages 13 Playing time 30-45 minutes Players 2-8 ...

' This is a story unlike any other' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy Ordinary Lives in North Korea Now a major documentary film Twenty-seven years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea Located about fifty-five miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a 'complete control district' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped No one except Shin This is his story A gripping terrifying biography with a searing sense of place Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden will unlock through Shin a dark & secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go ...

Seeking shelter from a storm your troubles have only multiplied can you get to grip with numbers & Escape from Hotel Infinity? Use your problem-solving skills & mathematical knowledge to help save the day! Finding the answers will enable you to advance through the story following the clues which are dotted along the way & learning more about maths with every step you take Following on from series one of Maths Quest this is one of four new adventures that will help you develop your maths skills whilst engaging in a gripping & thrilling adventure! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on real events The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930&s The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) & the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate & unexpected circumstances Together they rescue 60 orphaned children leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain through snow-covered mountains & an unforgiving desert Along the way they discover the true meaning of love responsibility & courage Making Of Stills Gallery Actors Yun-Fat Chow Jonathan Rhys Meyers Radha Mitchell Michelle Yeoh Guang Li Lin Ji Matt Walker Anastasia Kolpakova Ping Su Imai Hideaki Sciichiro Hashimoto Shinichi Takashima Xing Mang Ruixiang Zhu & Yuelong Fang Director Roger Spottiswoode Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English Duration 2 hours (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The man with the patch is back Call him Snake Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter & Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York
- with even more futuristic thrills & slam-bang action! Into the 96-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell) His job wade through LA&s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device Don&t miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd shoots hoops at the Coliseum dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park & mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends fiends & foes (Stacy Keach Steve Buscemi Peter Fonda George Corraface Cliff Robertson Pam Grier & more) Actors Kurt Russell Michelle Forbes Pam Grier Peter Fonda Peter Jason Stacy Keach Steve Buscemi Valeria Golino Cliff Robertson Jeff Imada Georges Corraface AJ Langer Bruce Campbell Robert Carradine Leland Orser & Breckin Meyer Director John Carpenter Certificate 15 years & over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages German Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; German ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx)

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Years ago unbeknownst to the public the US government built a walled city on an abandoned island in the Pacific Ocean The purpose of this city was to house an experimental testing facility for a multitude of monsters that had been captured over the years In 2012 disaster struck & the island was evacuated & is now overrun by a multitude of different terrifying creatures & beings But something extremely valuable was left behind & some very rich people want it & the only way to get what they want is by sending a mercenary unit into the most dangerous place in the world Monster Island ...

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this the action-packed New York Times bestseller from Chris Grabenstein coauthor of I Funny & other bestselling series with James Patterson! Kyle Keeley is a huge fan of all games
- board games word games & particularly video games His hero Luigi Lemoncello the most famous & creative gamemaker in the world is the genius behind the town's new library that is as much a home for tech & trickery as it is for stories Kyle wins a spot at a puzzle-packed lock-in on the library's opening night But when morning comes the doors stay locked Kyle & the other kids must solve every clue & figure out every secret riddle to find the hidden escape route!
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