Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Some things are worth fighting for Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) distinguished himself in the French & Indian Wars but now lives in peace with his seven children on his sprawling South Carolina plantation The horrors of conflict come back to haunt him however when his headstrong eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) defies his orders to join the American army Unwilling to get involved himself Benjamin reluctantly joins the fight when second eldest son Thomas (Gregory Smith) is killed in cold blood by sadistic British officer Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs) Determined to protect the rest of his family & sister-in-law Charlotte (Joely Richardson) from harm Benjamin takes up arms alongside his patriotic son Gabriel leading a brave militia into battle against the overwhelming British army Actors Mel Gibson Heath Ledger Joely Richardson Jason Isaacs Chris Cooper Directors Roland Emmerich Writers Robert Rodat Producers Dean Devlin Mark R Gordon Gary Levinsohn Language English Subtitles English Dubbed Polish French Czech Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son ...

Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family & her city & create a life of meaning & consequence When a new job & a love affair lead her to Moscow she doesn't think twice about abandoning America
- only to discover years later that America has abandoned her Now as her son Julian travels back to Moscow
- entrusted to stitch together a murky transcontinental oil deal
- he must dig into Florence's past to discover who his mother really was & what she became He must also persuade his own son Lenny to abandon his risky quest for prosperity in the cut-throat Russian marketplace As he traces a thread from Depression-era America through the collective housing & work camps of Stalin's USSR to the glittering oil-rich world of New Russia Julian finally begins to understand the role he has played
- as a father & as a son Epic in sweep & intimate in detail The Patriots is both a compelling portrait of the entangled relationship between America & Russia & a beautifully crafted story of three generations of one family caught between the forces of history & the consequences of past choices



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Jim & his family have halted by Dundray & the education people have been round mouthing the law In school the Traveller kids suffer at the hands of teachers & other pupils alike called 'tinker-stinkers' 'dirty gyps' & worse Then the punches start The only friendly face is Kit a settled girl who takes Jim under her wing & teaches him to read in the great cathedral chamber of the cave below the town With Kit & the reading Jim seems to have found a way to exist in Dundray but everyday prejudice & a shocking act of violence see his life uprooted once again ...

' There came the splash of water & the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub After that there was a silence broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap ' Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms
- as something like two great waddling shillings But this she thought was what it really meant to have paying guests this odd unintimate proximity this rather peeled-back moment where the only thing between herself & a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen & a thin scullery door An image sprang into her head that round flesh crimsoning in the heat' It is 1922 & London is tense Ex-servicemen are disillusioned the out-of-work & the hungry are demanding change & in South London in a genteel Camberwell villa a large silent house now bereft of brothers husband & even servants life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs Wray & her spinster daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers For with the arrival of Lilian & Leonard Barber a modern young couple of the 'clerk class' the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways & as passions mount & frustration gathers no one can foresee just how far-reaching & how devastating the disturbances will be This is vintage Sarah Waters beautifully described with excruciating tension real tenderness believable characters & surprises It is above all a wonderful compelling story
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A US Army colonel & a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they&re used by terrorists Actors George Clooney Nicole Kidman Marcel Iures Aleksandr Baluev Rene Medvesek Directors Mimi Leder Writers Andrew Cockburn Leslie Cockburn Michael Schiffer Producers Andrew Cockburn Branko Lustig John Wells Laurie Mac Donald Language English Russian Serbo-Croatian Subtitles German English Dutch Swedish Norwegian Danish Finnish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

The charming multi-generational novel by Jojo Moyes internationally bestselling author of Me Before You After You & the new bestseller Still Me 'A charming & enchanting read'
- Company Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others Nicknamed the Last Deb she was spoiled beautiful & out of control & within two years of her marriage the rumours had begun again Thirty-five years on Suzanna Peacock finds refuge from her mother's shameful legacy in her shop the Peacock Emporium Within its magical walls she discovers not just friendship & an escape from her troubled marriage but the first real passion of her life But the spectre of her mother still haunts Suzanna setting in place a series of dramatic events Only by confronting the past will she finally be able to face the future
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OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling The OS Explorer range of OL maps now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways

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OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling The OS Explorer range of OL maps now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways

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Christmas has come to the world of Peanuts & the beguiling gang are celebrating (and commiserating) in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations The millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans & those who fondly remember our best-loved beagle & his friends will cherish this latest title in the Peanuts Guide to Life series ...