Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 1942 Belarus is in the hands of Nazis & the local militia Sushenya is taken from his house in the middle of the night by Burov & his sidekick Voitik two partisan fighters hiding out in the hills & forest Sushenya is the only one of four captured rail workers who has been allowed to live by the occupying Germans after seemingly sabotaging the rail tracks With the village & even his wife turned against him as a collaborator Sushenya accepts what must happen next until the Germans suddenly appear & he is
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- given a second chance leaving space for doubt both on his betrayal & on the legitimacy of punishment by death The three & later two
- men walk in the wood exhausted fleeing death from the Nazis while discussing & living the moral dilemmas of treason heroism guilt & revenge Shot in sumptuous long takes & vibrant colour In the Fog ultimately questions the corruption of man's very humanity in the context of war Actors Vladimir Svirski Vlad Abashin Sergei Kolesov Directors Sergei Loznitsa Format PALLanguage Russian Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1


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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 Michael Wood travels by bus boat & train from Europe to India retracing the journey taken by the army of Alexander the Great Along the way he visits the Khyber Pass the Indus River & the Makran Desert investigating the myths which still surround one of the planet&s greatest historical figures ...

A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse & a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot Michela Wrong's vision of Congo Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive ironic & revelatory Mr Kurtz the colonial white master brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness' was first published Michela Wrong revisits the Congo during the turbulent era of Mobutu Sese Seko From the heart of Africa comes grotesque confusion pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with track-suited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through vintage wines rather than leave them to the new regime Congo the African country richest in natural resources has institutionalised kleptomania Everyone is on the take Someone has even swiped one of the uranium rods from the country's only nuclear reactor Having presided over unprecedented looting of the country's wealth Mobutu like Kurtz retreated deep within the jungle to his palace of marble floors & gold taps A hundred years on & nothing has changed ...

n a lush green forest a sloth sleeps Can you see him? CLANG! Machines come to tear down the trees but the sloth still sleeps will he wake up? Turn the pages of this ingenious & stylish pop-up book which tells the story of one lazy sloth who hangs on in there as the forest is destroyed & then reborn 8 pages Strady Sophie ...

Charles Todd a successful artist who paints horses arrives at his cousin Donald's house & stumbles on a grisly scene police cars everywhere his cousin arrested for murder & Donald's wife brutally slain 320 pages Francis Dick ...

Berlin 1933 William E Dodd a mild-mannered academic from Chicago has to his own & everyone else's surprise become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history Dodd & his family notably his vivacious daughter Martha observe at first-hand the many changes
- some subtle some disturbing & some horrifically violent
- that signal Hitler's consolidation of power Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent US State Department while Martha is drawn to the Nazis & their vision of a ' New Germany' & has a succession of affairs with senior party players including first chief of the Gestapo Rudolf Diels But as the year darkens Dodd & his daughter find their lives transformed & any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the ' Night of the Long Knives' in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times & with brilliant portraits of Hitler Goebbels Goering & Himmler amongst others Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold resulting in an unforgettable addictively readable work of narrative history

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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 Documentary about five young British freestyle footballers who journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero Diego Maradona With no money for food accommodation or travel the boys hustle & busk their way from London to Buenos Aires using only their football skills & their charm often being forced to go hungry & to sleep rough The voyage of adventure & self-discovery that takes these boys far from their homes will change their lives forever But will they eventually get to meet their idol? ...

In the winter of 1820 the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe a whale of mammoth size & will & an almost human sense of vengeance The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick But that told only half the story In the Heart of the Sea reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits & forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive Braving storms starvation panic & despair the men will call into question their deepest beliefs from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade as their captain searches for direction on the open sea & his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down Actors Chris Hemsworth Cillian Murphy Tom Holland Ben Whishaw Directors Ron Howard Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 2 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Oscar winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) directs the action adventure In the Heart of the Sea based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book about the dramatic true journey of the Essex In the winter of 1820 the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe a whale of mammoth size & will & an almost human sense of vengeance The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick But that told only half the story In the Heart of the Sea reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits & forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive Braving storms starvation panic & despair the men will call into question their deepest beliefs from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade as their captain searches for direction on the open sea & his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Oscar winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) directs the action adventure In the Heart of the Sea based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book about the dramatic true journey of the Essex In the winter of 1820 the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe a whale of mammoth size & will & an almost human sense of vengeance The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick But that told only half the story In the Heart of the Sea reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits & forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive Braving storms starvation panic & despair the men will call into question their deepest beliefs from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade as their captain searches for direction on the open sea & his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down In the winter of 1820 the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe a whale of mammoth size & will & an almost human sense of vengeance The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville&s Moby-Dick But that told only half the story " In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter&s harrowing aftermath as the ship&s surviving crew is pushed to their limits & forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive Braving storms starvation panic & despair the men will call into question their deepest beliefs from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade as their captain searches for direction on the open sea & his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down --This text refers to the Blu-ray edition ...