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.
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Action & Adventure - Period, Costume, Historical Film Listing
Edmond T Gréville, Carol Reed, 1935-42
£11.99
Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 2
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealin...
Richard Lester, 1975
£12.99
Royal Flash
Malcolm McDowell stars as ne'er-do-well Harry Flashman in this outrageous period comedy adapted f...
Fritz Lang, 1924
£13.99
Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)
Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...
Fritz Lang, 1955
£12.99
Moonfleet
Fritz Lang's 18th century smuggling tale sees John Mohune (Jon Whiteley - Hunted, The Kidnappers)...
George Sidney, 1952
£12.99
Scaramouche
Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh and Mel Ferrer star in this tremendous Technicolor s...
Quentin Tarantino, 2012
£17.99
Django Unchained
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning western stars ...
Carol Reed, 1951
£10.99
Outcast of the Islands
Based on a Joseph Conrad story, Outcast of the Islands stars Trevor Howard (in magnificent form) ...
Quentin Tarantino, 2012
£13.99
Django Unchained
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning western stars ...
David Lean, 1962
£13.99
Lawrence of Arabia (Director's Cut) (50th Anniversary Edition)
One of the most sumptuous of the postwar cycle of H...
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton, 1950
£12.99
King Solomon's Mines
Stewart Granger takes the role of stalwart hero Allan Quartermain in this 1950 adaptation of H. R...
David Lean, 1962
£5.99
Lawrence of Arabia
One of the most sumptuous of the postwar cycle of Hollywood epics, David Lean's 7 Oscar-winning r...
Fritz Lang, 1924
£16.99
Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)
Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...
Various (TV), 1978
£9.99
Warrior Queen
A spectacular six-part series that brings to life the valiant yet doomed attempt by Boudicca, the...
Ralph Thomas, 1958
£5.99
A Tale of Two Cities (Special Edition)
Based on the stormy Dickens novel, this is one of the last great British literary...
Luc Besson, 2010
£8.99
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
Adapted from the comic book series of Jacques Tardi and directed by Luc Besson, T...
Akira Kurosawa, 1962
£22.99
Kurosawa Samurai Collection
The films of Akira Kurosawa, one of the cinema’s greatest auteurs, have had a pro...
Takashi Miike, 2010
£6.99
13 Assassins
Mercilessly entertaining, 13 Assassins is Takashi Miike's larger-than-life samurai adventure set ...
Henry Levin, 1965
£11.99
Genghis Khan
Omar Sharif plays the Mongolian chieftain Genghis Khan in this spectacular re-telling of the warl...
