History+Lending+Library

=History Lending Library=

The IST History Department has a wide selection of feature films and documentaries freely available for borrowing. If you see one in this list you'd like, just pop into S04 and ask Mr. Tarr!


Or lent out to who / when?** || Owned By || So far borrowed by || . || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || || THE TRENCH tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===**Title (with link to Amazon)**=== || **Recommended Year Group** || **Type** || ===RJT Rating=== || **Comments / Reviews** || **Available for Lending?
 * ===[|Braveheart]=== || Yr7 - Medieval Realms || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || A stupendous historical saga, //Braveheart// won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]=== || Yr7 - Crime || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Kevin Costner and featuring the most annoying song of all time. || Available || IST || Charlie (Yr7) ||
 * ===[|Becket]=== || Yr7 - Religion || Feature Film || ? || Starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole (1964) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|A Knight's Tale]=== || Yr7 - Medieval Realms || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Heath Ledger (2001) || Available || IST || Enrique (Yr7) ||
 * ===[|Kingdom of Heaven]=== || Yr8 - Castles / Crusades || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Orlando Bloom (2005) || **David (Yr10)** || RJT || Gracious (yr9), Cara (yr11) ||
 * ===[|Luther]=== || Yr8 - Reformation || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Staring Joseph Fiennes (2006) || Available || IST || Ella (Yr8: 15th Jan) ||
 * ===[|The Six Wives of Henry VIII]=== || Yr8 - Tudors || Documentary || ? || Channel 4 series narrated by David Starkey (2003) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Henry VIII]=== || Yr8 - Tudors || Feature Film || ? || Starring Ray Winstone (2004) || Available || RJT || Dean ||
 * ===[|A Man for All Seasons]=== || Yr8 - Tudors || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Won 6 Oscars in 1966. The story of Thomas More, then man who stood up to Henry VIII. || Available || RJT || Ella (yr8), 22nd Jan ||
 * ===Witchfinder General=== || Yr8 - Witches ||  ||   ||   || **Ben (yr11)** ||   ||   ||
 * ===Lady Jane=== || Yr8 - Tudors || Feature Film ||  || The story of Lady Jane Grey, starring Helena Bonham-Carter in the starring role. || Dean (Yr8) || IST ||   ||
 * ===[|Gunpowder, Treason and Plot]=== || Yr8 - Stuarts || Feature Film || ? || Starring Robert Carlyle (2004) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Cromwell]=== || Yr8 - Civil War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Robert Harris / Alec Guinness (1970) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Charles II]=== || Yr8 - Stuarts || Feature Film ||  || Three-part series originally shown on BBC1. || Available || IST ||   ||
 * ===[|Danton]=== || Yr9 - French Revolution || Feature Film || ? || French with subtitles; stars Gerald Depardieu (obviously) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Let them Eat Cake!]=== || Yr9 - French Revolution || Comedy Series || ? || Starring French and Saunders. 6 half-hour episodes originally shown on BBC1 || **Gracious (Yr9), Jan 19th** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Napoleon]=== || Yr9 - French Revolution || Feature Film || ? || French with subtitles; stars Gerald Depardieu (obviously) || **Hennie (yr11)** || IST || Cameron (yr9) ||
 * ===[|Seven Wonders of the Industrial World]=== || Yr9 - Industrial Revolution || Documentary Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || One-hour drama documentaries about key inventions / constructions - great BBC series. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Men of Iron]=== || Yr9 - Industrial Revolution || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Three-part series originally shown on BBC1 - focuses on Brunel / Stephenson || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|North and South]=== || Yr9 - Industrial Revolution || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || 3-part period drama originally shown on BBC1. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|The Madness of King George]=== || Yr9 - Politics || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || True story of the "Mad King of England", George III (1994) || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Jack the Ripper]=== || Yr9 - Jack the Ripper || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Michael Caine - produced for the 100th anniversary (1988) || Available || RJT || Bridie ||
 * ===[|The Jack the Ripper Conspiracies]=== || Yr9 - Jack the Ripper || Documentary || ? || Investigation into the evidence and suspects || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|The Man Who Would be King]**=== || Yr9 - Empire || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Great movie starring Michael Caine and Sean Connery (1970) || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|The British Empire in Colour]**=== || Yr9 - Empire || TV Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || 3-part BBC series focusing on India, Middle East in early 20thC || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|Amistad]**=== || Yr9 - Slave Trade || Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Directed by Steven Spielberg. True story of a rebellion on a slave ship. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|Roots]**=== || Yr9 - Slave Trade || TV Drama Series || ? || Classic 1970s series following several generations of black Americans || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===**[|500 Years Later]**=== || Yr9 - Slave Trade || Documentary || ? || Focuses on the long-term impact of the Slave Trade || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|When We Were Kings]=== || Yr9 - Civil Rights || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Wonderful film following the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Cry Freedom]=== || Yr9 - Civil Rights || Feature Film || ? || The Story of Stephen Biko, civil rights campaigner in South Africa || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Death in Gaza]=== || Yr9 - Middle East || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Powerful documentary about the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2006) || **Grace (Yr10), 20th Jan** ||  ||   ||
 * ===[|Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]=== || General || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Excellent film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. || Sabine (Yr11) || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|Electric Edwardians]**=== || GCSE/IB - General || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Fascinating insight into early 20thC - from recently discovered film || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|The Trench]===
 * ===**[|World War One in Colour]**=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Documentary || ? || Narrated by Kenneth Branagh || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===**[|All the King's Men]**=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || ? || True story of the disappearance of an entire regiment during WW1. || Available || IST || Cameron (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|Aces High]=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || ? || Gripping war film about the "Red Baron" fighter pilot. || Available || IST || Lucas Yr11 ||
 * ===[|My Boy Jack]=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || ? || Starring Daniel Radcliffe. True story of Rudyard Kipling's attempts to find out the fate of his soldier son. || **Fred (yr11), 21st Jan** || IST || Josh Yr11 ||
 * ===[|War Game]=== || GCSE - WW1 || Feature Film || ? || Cartoon film all about the Christmas Truce of 1914. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)]=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || ? || Classic anti-war film based on the novel by Erich Remarque. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===**[|All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)]**=== || GCSE/IB - WW1 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Classic anti-war film based on the novel by Erich Remarque. || **Laura (yr10)** || IST || Sabine Yr11 ||
 * ===[|The Last Emperor]=== || GCSE / IB - Origins of WW2 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Oscar-winning film starring Peter O'Toole - the true story of the Emperor of Manchuria || **Stephen (yr13), 20th Jan** || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler]=== || GCSE - Weimar Germany || Feature Film || ? || Directed by Fritz Lang (1922) (Silent). Fritz Lang uses this complex tale of power and evil as a thinly veiled metaphor for the political state of 1920's Germany. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|"M"]=== || GCSE - Weimar Germany || Feature Film || ? || Thriller directed by Fritz Lang (1931). Fritz Lang's first sound movie, the serial-killer film //M//, has often been voted the best German film of all time. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Hitler: The Rise of Evil]=== || GCSE - Weimar / Nazi Germany || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Great film about the rise of Hitler. Stars Robert Carlyle (2003) || Available || RJT || Pablo (yr10) ||
 * ===[|The Third Reich in Colour]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || A very good insight into life in Nazi Germany || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Sophie Scholl]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Great film starring Julie Jensch as the leader of the White Rose, an opposition movement to Hitler. Based on the real activities of the 'White Rose' resistance group, recovered interrogation papers and witness interviews. || Available || IST ||  ||

[|Swing Kids]
|| GCSE - Nazi Germany || Feature Film || || Swing Kinds provides an insightful portrayal to some of the brave few who were willing to stand up against the terror of Nazi Germany. || **Grace (Yr10), 15th Jan** || IST ||  ||
 * ===Edelweiss Pirates=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Feature Film ||  ||   || **Alexa (yr10)** ||   || Nick (yr11) ||
 * ===[|Hitler: A Career]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary || ? || Documentary || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary || ? || Documentary about Hitler's greatest film propagandist || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary || ? || About the Holocaust || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Night and Fog]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || The first, and still one of the most powerful, documentaries about the Holocaust || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|The Nazis: A Warning from History]=== || GCSE - Nazi Germany || Documentary Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || 6-part documentary series from the BBC. Highly recommended. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|The Battleship Potemkin]=== || IB - Tsar Nicholas II || Feature Film || ? || Classic film by Eisenstein about the 1905 Revolution. For a long time, it was regarded by the luminaries of the world film industry as the greatest film ever made, more latterly surpassed by Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|October: 10 Days that Shook the World]=== || IB - Russian Revolution || Feature Film || ? || Classic 1925 Film by Sergei Eisenstein (silent) || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|Nicholas And Alexandra]=== || IB - Russian Revolution || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || //Nicholas and Alexandra// is the compelling story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia, and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman). || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===**[|The Russian Revolution in Colour]**=== || IB - Russian Revolution || Documentary Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Excellent 2-part series (2005) || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===**[|Rasputin]**=== || IB - Russian Revolution || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Alan Rickman and Ian McKellen (1996). This is probably the finest account of the life of Rasputin made to date. The 'mad monk' is brought eerily to life by the consumate acting skills of Alan Rickman. || Available || RJT || George (yr13) ||
 * ===**[|Animal Farm]**=== || IB - Rise of Stalin || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || A rare example of mainstream animation being used to tell a highly political story, //Animal Farm// retains its value as a vivid adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Stalin: From Revolution to Superpower]=== || IB - Stalin || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || 4-part series || **Jacob (yr13)** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Communism: Great Belief of the 20th Century]=== || IB - Communism || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || 4-part series; interesting comparison of different communist regimes || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Land and Freedom]=== || IGCSE/IB - Spanish Civil War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Ken Loach's acclaimed 1936-set film about the Spanish Civil War stars Ian Hart as a disillusioned Liverpudlian who decides to follow his principles and join the fight against fascism in Spain. || **Lewis (yr10), Hennie (yr11)** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Angels with Dirty Faces]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Gangster Film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. One of Mr. Tarr's favourites... || Available || RJT || James (yr13) ||
 * ===[|The Roaring Twenties]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Gangster Film starring James Cagney || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|The Public Enemy]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-3-0._V5268000_.gif]] || The first great Gangster Film - starring James Cagney || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|White Heat]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Gangster Film starring James Cagney. Perhaps the best gangster film ever made, and one of Mr. Tarr's favourites... || **Josh (yr11), 21st Jan** || RJT || Ben (yr11) ||
 * ===[|Road to Perdition]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Paul Newman, Tom Hanks and Jude Law. This gangster movie is director Sam Mendes' impressive follow-up to //American Beauty.// || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Bonnie and Clyde]=== || IGCSE/IB - 1930s || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Gangster Film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, a great depiction of life during the Depression in 1930s America. || **Ariane (yr12)** || RJT || Lewis (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|The World at War: Complete Series Box Set]=== || IGCSE/IB - WW2 || Documentary Series || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Matter of Life and Death]===

|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Films || || A double bill of classic comedy films from the 1940s. Two of Mr. Tarr's favourites... //Blimp// became notorious as the film Churchill tried to have banned; //Life and Death// mixes monochrome and colour, incorporates time-lapse images, and even toys with background "time freezes" 50 years before //The Matrix!// || Blimp = Lucas Life/Death - Melissa (both Yr13) || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|The Sorrow and the Pity]=== || GCSE/IB - WW2 || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || One of the greatest documentaries ever made, delving into the Nazi occupation of France. Director Marcel Ophuls interviewed dozens of French, British, and German citizens, including soldiers, former Nazis, members of the resistance and collaborators. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Casablanca]===

|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || || Classic Oscar-winning Hollywood film with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Play it again, Sam! || Available || RJT ||  ||

[|Stalingrad]
|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || || It's tempting to call the harrowing //Stalingrad// a World War II version of //All Quiet on the Western Front//, since both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. || **Paige (Yr10)** || RJT || Nacho (yr13) ||
 * ===[|Saving Private Ryan]===

|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || || Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks. Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama //Saving Private Ryan// has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of //Gladiator// ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series //Band of Brothers//, has been made in its shadow. || **Alice (Yr11), 22nd Jan** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Mrs. Miniver]===

|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || ? || Winner of seven Oscars, a moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Come and See]===

|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || ? || Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. || Available || RJT || George (Yr13) ||

[|Europa Europa]
|| GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || || Agnieszka Holland's EUROPA EUROPA is the fascinating fact-based story of Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider), a German Jew who survived the Holocaust by concealing his identity, literally within enemy ranks. || Available || RJT || Lewis (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|The Pianist]=== || GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. || **Gaby (yr11)** || IST || Tina (Yr12) ||
 * ===[|Downfall]=== || GCSE/IB - Nazi Germany, WW2 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Brilliant film charting the final days of World War II in Nazi Germany, DOWNFALL shows what went on in the bunker where Hitler (Bruno Ganz), his secretary (Alexandra Maria Lara), and a few close colleagues waited for their inevitable demise. || Available || RJT || Laura (Yr10), C. Cuthbert, Mick(Yr10);Pablo (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|Marathon Man]=== || GCSE/IB - Nazi Germany / WW2 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Laurence Olivier as a Nazi-on-the-run and Dustin Hoffman. This starts off as a slow simple everyday scene in New York which after a chain of events builds into a plot involving ex-Nazi war criminals, diamond-smuggling, anti-Semitic feeling, and a fast-paced chase leading to its inevitable bloody climax! || **Jack** || RJT || Nacho (yr13) ||
 * ===[|Brief Encounter]=== || GCSE/IB - WW2 || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste but passionate affair. || Mr. Fearneough || RJT ||  ||

[|The Third Man]
|| GCSE/IB - Post War Europe || Feature Film || || THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles). When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a questionable car accident, he decides to remain in the city to investigate his friend's demise. || Available || RJT || David (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|The Aviator]===

|| GCSE/IB - General || Feature Film || || Starring Leonardo di Caprio; the true story of the fascinating maverick Howard Hughes. Directed by Martin Scorsese. || **Seb (Yr12), Jan 19** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Goodnight, and Good Luck]===

|| GCSE/IB - Cold War || Feature Film || ? || With GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, George Clooney delivers a riveting account of a crucial chapter in 20th Century American history and, in the process, firmly establishes himself as a major force behind the camera as well. || Available || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|Thirteen Days]===

|| GCSE/IB - Cold War || Feature Film || ? || Starring Kevin Costner. Centring around the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, this is an excellent movie that gives many of us too young to remember an insight into the terrifying events that all so nearly led to WWIII and mutually assured nuclear destruction by the superpowers, of the world as we know it. || Available || IST || Jack (Yr10) || James (Yr13) ||
 * ===[|The Fog of War]=== || GCSE/IB - Cold War || Documentary || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Fantastic film by and about Robert McNamara, the "power behind the throne" during the Kennedy / Johnson presidencies || Nick(Yr11) || IST || David (Yr10) ||
 * ===[|Dr Strangelove]=== || GCSE/IB - Cold War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Directed by Stanley Kubrick. A legendary black comedy capturing the fear of nuclear holocaust || David(yr10) || RJT || Ben (yr11)Nacho (yr13)
 * ===[|Apocalypse Now]=== || GCSE/IB - Vietnam War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-4-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, Coppola quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. || Available || IST || Ben (Yr11) ||
 * ===[|The Deer Hunter]=== || GCSE/IB - Vietnam War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Starring Robert de Niro. Great film about the psychological effects of war. Made before Apocalypse Now, and eight or nine years before Platoon and Full Metal Jacket it was the first major film to deal with the Vietnam war. || Available || IST ||  ||
 * ===[|The Lives of Others]=== || GCSE/IB - Cold War || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Brilliant film about the Stasi (Secret Police) in East Germany. Highly recommended. The story of //The Lives Of Others// unfolds mostly through the eyes of a secret service agent who's been given the task of spying on an artistic couple who've attracted the attention of the Minister of Culture. Little by little, he's drawn into their lives even as we're drawn into his; and as he loses his faith in the government, he must decide whether or not to try to hide the transgressions of those he's watching. || **Mr. Gregg** || RJT ||  ||
 * ===[|The Last King of Scotland]=== || Misc. || Feature Film || [[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/ratings/stars-5-0._V5268000_.gif]] || Fanstsic film startring Forest Whittaker as Idia Amin. || Available || RJT || Oli (Yr10) ||