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Guide | Film Listing
Action & Adventure - Period, Costume, Historical
For those who like their history served with a large helping of high-octane action and excitement this genre is packed with great stories set during fascinating periods of history. Often epic works, they draw on real historical events and characters, frequently taking inspiration from literature, they can educate as well as entertain.
1950,
Michael Gordon, DVD
£14.49
RRP: £14.99
A cinematic adaptation of Rostand's classic romantic play based on Savinien Cyran...
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1959,
William Wyler, DVD
£7.99
RRP: £19.99
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100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and, in its day, the biggest budget in movie history. Ch...
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2000,
Ridley Scott, DVD
£8.99
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Epic drama set in Roman times under the rule of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus, a Roman general...
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1951,
Carol Reed, DVD
£12.99
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Based on a Joseph Conrad story, Outcast of the Islands stars Trevor Howard (in magnificent form) ...
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1965,
Alexander Mackendrick, DVD
£14.59
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An acclaimed pirate adventure classic for the whole family, A High Wind in Jamaica is based on th...
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2010,
Takashi Miike, DVD
£8.00
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Mercilessly entertaining, 13 Assassins is Takashi Miike's larger-than-life samurai adventure set ...
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1965,
Wojciech Has, DVD
£8.99
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A remarkable, labyrinthine, mysterious film of magical texts and worlds within wo...
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1961,
Anthony Mann, DVD
£6.99
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Anthony Mann's epic stars Charlton Heston as the legendary 11th Century Spanish patriot El Cid, w...
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2002-05,
Takeshi Kitano, DVD
£24.99
RRP: £29.99
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Contains Takeshis' (2005), Zatoichi (2003) and Dolls (2002).
Takeshis': Cult J...
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1962,
Akira Kurosawa, DVD
£30.49
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The films of Akira Kurosawa, one of the cinema’s greatest auteurs, have had a pro...
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2010,
Luc Besson, DVD
£8.49
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Adapted from the comic book series of Jacques Tardi and directed by Luc Besson, T...
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1965,
Henry Levin, DVD
£11.99
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Omar Sharif plays the Mongolian chieftain Genghis Khan in this spectacular re-telling of the warl...
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1965,
Franklin J. Schaffner, DVD
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One of the finest historical adventure films ever made, The War Lord dramatises with uncommon int...
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1964,
John Gilling, DVD
£9.99
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An English Civil War adventure, The Scarlet Blade is a historical adventure from Hammer Film Prod...
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1958,
Ralph Thomas, DVD
£5.99
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Based on the stormy Dickens novel, this is one of the last great British literary...
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1952,
Raoul Walsh, DVD
£8.99
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A 1950s Hollywood pirate yarn, Blackbeard the Pirate stars Robert Newton as Blackbeard, terror of...
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2010,
Christopher Smith, DVD
£6.99
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Adventure drama set during the first outbreak of bubonic plague -the 'Black Death' - in England i...
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1947,
Richard Wallace, DVD
£8.99
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Classic Technicolor swashbuckler that sees the suave Sinbad the Sailor (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) emb...
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1965,
John Gilling, DVD
£9.99
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Oliver Reed continues his villainous streak in The Brigand of Kandahar, a Hammer ...
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1939,
Alfred Hitchcock, DVD
£5.99
RRP: £9.99
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Hitchcock's parting shot before leaving for Hollywood is the least known of his three Daphne du M...
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2010,
Kevin Macdonald, DVD
£14.99
RRP: £19.99
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A lavish historical action adventure based on the children's novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Ro...
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1.
Outcast of the Islands
£12.99
2.
13 Assassins
£8.00
3.
A Tale Of Two Cities (Special Edition)
£5.99
4.
The Man in Grey
£8.99
5.
The Three Musketeers (3D) (Blu-ray)
£19.99
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13 Assassins
£8.00
A Tale Of Two Cities (Special Edition)
£5.99
Outcast of the Islands
£12.99
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