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 ...

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 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Rod Steiger plays a small-town Mississippi sheriff who is forced to collaborate on a murder investigation with Virgil Tibbs a black homicide detective from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) The pair at first find themselves totally at odds with each other but as the investigation proceeds each learns to respect the other&s talents The film won five Oscars including Best Picture & Best Actor for Steiger Actors Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger & Warren Oates Director Norman Jewison Certificate 12 years & over Year 1967 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town Actors Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Lee Grant Larry Gates James Patterson William Schallert Beah Richards Peter Whitney Kermit Murdock Larry D Mann Matt Clark Arthur Malet Fred Stewart & Quentin Dean Director Norman Jewison Certificate 12 years & over Year 1967 Screen 169 Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- Mono Additional Languages German; Spanish Subtitles Spanish; Greek; Hungarian; Portuguese Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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After leaving Scotland Yard in mysterious circumstances Superintendent Albert Tyburn (Trevor Eve) is sent to Kenya to set up a criminal investigations unit While investigating the disappearance of a local landowner&s wife Tyburn meets the enigmatic Emma Fitzgerald (Susannah Harker) He soon uncovers examples of murder blackmail drug dealing & slavery & comes to realise that the decadent local colonials are far from innocent ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This first-hand account uniquely re-captures the horrors of war & its impact on a family Major Toby Smith lost his life at the Battle of Overloon during the final Allied push for victory during WWII This film tells the harrowing story in Toby s own words; through the letters he lovingly wrote his wife & five children as he agonized over loyalty to them & the war against the Nazis during four years of service abroad ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Offbeat French drama from director François Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student & the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Claude writes about the household of a friend whose mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) he has a crush on & whose mundane lives amuse him As Germain offers Claude advice on how to improve the dramatic tension within his submissions the line between fiction & reality begins to blur A strange power game develops in which Claude & Germain manipulate the family on & off the page but how will they react when fact & fiction finally collide? Actors Fabrice Luchini Ernst Umhauer Emmanuelle Seigner Kristin Scott Thomas & Denis Menochet Director François Ozon Year 2012 Languages French Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Offbeat French drama from director François Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student & the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Claude writes about the household of a friend whose mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) he has a crush on & whose mundane lives amuse him As Germain offers Claude advice on how to improve the dramatic tension within his submissions the line between fiction & reality begins to blur A strange power game develops in which Claude & Germain manipulate the family on & off the page but how will they react when fact & fiction finally collide? Actors Fabrice Luchini Ernst Umhauer Emmanuelle Seigner Kristin Scott Thomas & Denis Menochet Director François Ozon Year 2012 Languages French Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx) ...

Explore crowded canopies towering treetops & the dense forest floor in First Explorers In the Jungle Meet tigers monkeys leopards & lots of other amazing creatures who live in the jungle Each scene has chunky push pull & slide mechanisms animals to spot & fun facts about jungle animals Beautifully illustrated by Jenny Wren this title has gentle learning & is a magical introduction to the natural world Also available Night Animals Sea Creatures Dinosaurs ...

A brilliantly colourful 100-piece jigsaw showing a busy jungle scene plus a 24-page picture puzzle book presented together in a sturdy box The jigsaw measures 59 x 40cm & both the jigsaw & book are packed with things to spot Can you spot a sloth wearing slippers crocodiles hiding in the water toucans with identical beaks & lots more? 24 pages full colour throughout Robson Kirsteen ...