Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A young boy (Connor Paolo Gossip Girl) is about to learn how cruel the world can become Martin was a normal teenager before the country collapsed in an empty pit of disaster & a vampire epidemic swept across the nations abandoned towns & cities Its up to Mister (Nick Damici Mulberry Street World Trade Center) a death dealing rogue vampire hunter to get Martin to safety Armed with a trunk full of wooden stakes & a desperate will to stay alive Mister & Martin make their way through locked down towns recruiting fellow travellers along the way Among them are a devout nun & a pregnant teen Jim Mickle creates a dark & terrifying world although this time it is fully stocked with the most vicious vampires in recent film history Stake Land is a gritty post-apocalyptic road movie with teeth! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play While on an FBI stakeout detective Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) falls hard for Maria (Madeleine Stowe) the woman he&s supposed to be watching Soon he&s inside her home enjoying a torrid love affair while his young partner Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) waits across the street looking through his binoculars & fuming But the woman&s ex-boyfriend (Aidan Quinn) a crazed escaped convict who is the real object of the stakeout is on his way back to see her & poses a very dangerous threat to the new couple Director John Badham&s entertaining blend of action & humor highlights the comic timing & chemistry between Dreyfuss & Estevez who deliver first-rate performances Actors Emilio Estevez Richard Dreyfuss Madeleine Stowe Aidan Quinn Dan Lauria Forest Whitaker Ian Tracey & Earl Billings Director John Badham Certificate 15 years & over Year 1987 Languages English ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 52 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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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 During World War II a group of GI&s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17 For the most part they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them William Holden was awarded an Oscar for his performance as a cynical sharp-tongued soldier who spends his time scheming up rackets & trading with the Germans for special privileges Actors William Holden Otto Preminger Don Taylor Neville Brand Peter Graves & Robert Strauss Director Billy Wilder Certificate PGYear 1953 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish
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Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin & his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator Marxist leader & Russian tsar Based on groundbreaking research Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear & betrayal privilege & debauchery family life & murderous cruelty of this secret world Written with extraordinary narrative verve this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing Showing how Stalin's triumphs & crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism & his gifted but flawed character this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated & human as he was brutal & chilling ...

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators
- her father Josef Stalin Born in the early years of the Soviet Union Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation & purges that haunted Russia but she did not escape tragedy
- the loss of everyone she loved including her mother two brothers aunts & uncles & a lover twice her age deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death Svetlana could no longer keep quiet & in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States
- leaving her two children behind But although she was never a part of her father's regime she could not escape his legacy Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently married disastrously shunned other Russian exiles & ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green Wisconsin With access to KGB CIA & Soviet government archives as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy Epic in scope it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story in the process opening a closed brutal world that continues to fascinate us


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Compassionate & compelling this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore A biography on an epic scale with a combination of tragedy & history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent Superbly well told' Sunday Times Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva?A little girl her father's only daughter his "little sparrow"; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother who shot herself soon after An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed & her first love exiled A woman who tore through relationships with men joined & abandoned various religions & became the most famous defector to the United States The victim of an inescapable truth " You are Stalin's daughter You can't live your own life You can't live any life You exist only in reference to a name" ...

Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award ' One of the great biographies of 2015' The Times Fully updated edition including recently released information A Guardian Book of the Year The Times Best Biography of the Year Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year Daily Mail Biography of Year Spectator Book of the Year BBC History Book of the Year 'A remarkable & definitive portrait ' Frederick Forsyth' Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess Stalin's Englishman shrewd thorough revelatory' William Boyd' In the sad & funny Stalin's Englishman Lownie manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude' Craig Brown Guy Burgess was the most important complex & fascinating of ' The Cambridge Spies'
- Maclean Philby Blunt
- all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union An engaging & charming companion to many an unappealing utterly ruthless manipulator to others Burgess rose through academia the BBC the Foreign Office MI5 & MI6 gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers In this first full biography Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration & betrayal of the British Intelligence Service Even when he was under suspicion the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally many of whom have never spoken about him before & the discovery of hitherto secret files Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing chilling colourful tragi-comic wonder

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In January 1928 Stalin the ruler of the largest country in the world boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life He was about to begin uprooting & collectivization of agriculture & industry across the entire Soviet Union Millions would die & many more would suffer Where did such great monstrous power come from? The first of three volumes the product of a decade of intrepid research this landmark book offers the most convincing explanation yet of Stalin's power ...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant compelling propulsively written magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore Evening Standard' The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age The War & Peace of history a book you fear you will never finish but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Well before 1929 Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity whatever it took What it took & what Stalin managed to force through transformed the country & its ruler in profound & enduring ways Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system this is a story of a political system shaping a personality Building & running a dictatorship with power of life or death over hundreds of millions in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement made Stalin the person he became Wholesale collectivization of agriculture some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation & death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism By 1934 when the situation had stabilized & socialism had been built in the countryside too the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms But Stalin never forgot & never forgave with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military But the Soviet Union was effectively alone with no allies & enemies perceived everywhere The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany But that bargain did not work out as envisioned The lives of Stalin & Hitler & the fates of their respective countries drew ever closer to collision Stalin Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 is like its predecessor Stalin Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk It is also like its predecessor a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events & the intimate details of decision-making ...