Colourful adaptation of Achmed Abdullah's timeless tale, directed by some of the top names of the time (including Michael Powell & Zoltan Korda). Young thief Abu (Sabu) aids Ahmad (John Justin), the deposed King of Bagdad, when his throne is usurped by the evil Jaffar (Conrad Veidt). Filming began in Britain but was transferred to the States because of the Second World War. ...

How did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times? & why did they carry on with the lie for so long? Drowning in debt & facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable
- he paddled out to sea in his red canoe & disappeared. After a massive search & rescue operation failed to find his body, he was assumed dead, lost in the bleak North Sea. But everything was far from what it seemed. Nearly six years later, after John miraculously returned from the dead with a strange tale of 'amnesia' & sporting a suspicious golden tan, the police & the Press were desperate to discover the truth behind his remarkable resurrection. Journalist David Leigh was despatched to Panama, where he tracked down John's wife, Anne Darwin, who had started a secretive new life with the insurance money claimed from her husband's 'death'. But what lay behind her decision to move to Central America, thousands of miles away from her family &...
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In a harsh, unforgiving world of slavery & glorified executions, one boy's humiliation leads him to embark on a perilous quest to the faraway lair of a mysterious god. It is a dark, brutal, nightmarish journey which few have ever survived. But to Jebel Rum, the risk is worth it? to retrieve his honour?to win the hand of the girl he loves?to wield unimaginable power?and to become?THE THIN EXECUTIONER ...

John Carpenter's ice-bound sci-fi horror is a special effects-laden update of the 1951 Howard Hawks classic ' The Thing From Another World'. A research team in the Antarctic discovers a spaceship buried beneath the ice, & becomes terrorised by the shape- ...

B-Movie heaven as a UFO crashes into earth & its pilot wreaks havoc. One of the earliest B-movies & one that helped distil the formula they followed from that point on, ' The Thing From Another World' is the tale of alien encounter at a remote arctic b ...

Roger Dykmans, a young university student, is living with his brother Hans, an international emmisary who's secretly working against the Nazis. As time goes by, Roger finds himself increasingly drawn to Magda, Hans' Jewish wife. But their secret world is turned upside down when Magda & her young daughter, Anna are arrested by the Nazis. The Gestapo make a deal with Roger: if he hands over information about Hans' operations, they'll set Magda & Anna free. Suddenly, Roger is faced with an impossible decision
- should he betray his brother to save the woman they both love?
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Peter Mandelson has been called many things during his three decades at the top of British politics: the Prince of Darkness, the Sultan of Spin, Labour's Machiavelli, the Rock of New Labour. He has also gained a reputation for being trenchantly observant, wry, & never afraid to say exactly what he thinks. It is these qualities that he brings to this searingly honest story of his life as The Third Man in the most compelling political drama of modern times. ...

Mitch Rapp has been set up. People will pay. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on what is designed to be his final mission: to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors. He doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, & therefore need to engineer a disaster for the present regime, Mitch thwarts their plans by refusing to die.. . The conspirators have made an awful miscalculation. They have enraged one of the most lethal & efficient killers the CIA has ever produced. Now they will pay. ...

' This isn't some kind of ' Dear John' letter. I'm coming back again'. But Amy Sinclair didn't come back.

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Essentially Nazi Germany was Adolf Hitler, & under his rule between 1933 & 1945 his chief aims were to acquire living space for the German people, & to create a mighty military machine to enable him to achieve his goal. The Third Reich Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month examination of the life of the Nazi regime up to its destruction in May 1945. The chronological approach allows the reader to see at a glance how Hitler & his government administered the 80, 000, 000 inhabitants of the Third Reich during the 1930s & 1940s, ultimately leading to the destruction of Europe's leading economy, towns & cities. ...