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A League Of Their Own (Special Edition)
It's the year of 1943. All ranks of professional male beaseball players are being send to war, to mitigate that absence a group of women leave their houses and their domestic activities to become part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and keep baseball alive while the nation goes ...more
US Release: 04-20-2004
UK Release: -
The Terminal
An Eastern European visitor (Hanks) becomes a resident of a New York airport terminal when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport. He makes friends with the airport staff and falls in love with a flight attendant.Summary written by BGW Claw ...more
US Release: 2004-11-23
UK Release: -
Apollo 13 (10th Anniversary Full Screen Edition)
Less than a year after the world marveled at man's first moon walk -- and only three years after the deadly Apollo 1 fire -- the American public thought of the April 1970 Apollo 13 moon mission as just another "routine" space flight. But soon, four words from Spacecraft Commander ...more
US Release: 2005-03-29
UK Release: 2005-04-11
Toy Story - 10th Anniversary Edition
Experience a hilarious fantasy about the lives toys lead when they're left alone. Woody (Tom Hanks), an old-fashioned cowboy doll, is Andy's favorite. But when Andy gets Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) for his birthday, the flashy new space hero takes Andy's room by storm! Their rivalry leaves them lost with ...more
US Release: 2005-09-06
UK Release: TBA
The Polar Express
The Polar Express is an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those ...more
US Release: 2005-11-22
UK Release: 2005-11-14
Apollo 13 HD DVD
Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and America have already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" ...more
US Release: 2006-04-25
UK Release: TBA
The Da Vinci Code (Two-Disc Edition)
In The Da Vinci Code, noted symbologist Professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) and police cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Tautou) go on a heart-racing quest to unearth the biggest cover-up in human history.  Langdon is called to the Louvre Museum late one night where a curator has been murdered, leaving behind a mysterious ...more
US Release: 2006-11-14
UK Release: 2006-10-16
The Green Mile (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Miracles happen in unexpected places, even on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates. Tom Hanks leads a stellar cast (including Michael Clarke Duncan as Coffey) in this emotional, uplifting ...more
US Release: 2006-11-14
UK Release: 2006-10-30
Big - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
At a carnival, young Josh Baskin (Hanks) wishes he was big ? only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy, Josh lands a job at a toy company. But the more he experiences being an adult, the more Josh longs for ...more
US Release: 2007-05-08
UK Release: -
That Thing You Do! (Extended Edition)
Tom Hanks writes, directs and co-stars in this refreshing, big-hearted comedy that captures the overnight triumph of an American rock band during the glory days of rock and roll. ...more
US Release: 2007-05-08
UK Release: -
The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
"The War," a seven-episode series, produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns ...more
US Release: 2007-10-02
UK Release: -

Movies

The Polar Express
The Polar Express is an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those ...more
US Release: 2004-11-10
UK Release: -
The Da Vinci Code
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover ...more
US Release: 2006-05-19
UK Release: 2006-05-19
Starter for Ten
The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he also has a dark secret - a long-held, burning ambition to appear on University Challenge and now, finally, it seems ...more
US Release: 2007-02-23
UK Release: 2006-11-10
They Marched Into Sunlight
In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded.  On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: -
The Great Buck Howard
The film follows a failed magician and his assistant as they try to relaunch his career. ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
The Ant Bully
Poor 10-year-old Lucas Nickle (voiced by ZACH TYLER EISEN) can't get a break. Recently moved to a new city with his family, he hasn't made a single friend. He gets nothing but grief from his teenage sister Tiffany and not a whole lot of attention lately from his parents (voiced ...more
US Release: 2006-07-28
UK Release: 2006-08-04
Where the Wild Things Are
Based on the classic children's book “Where the Wild Things Are", this is the story of a boy named Max whose imagination transforms his room into wild forests and sweeping oceans. Max sails to a land of “wild things” fierce looking and sounding creatures which he masters with a single glance. ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
More of an extended MTV video than a film, Jonathan Demme’s latest rock experience features 100% Neil Young playing Hank William’s guitar and backed up by Emmylou Harris. ...more
US Release: 2006-02-10
UK Release: 2006-10-06
How Starbucks Saved My Life
Gill's memoir, a former J. Walter Thompson exec, found himself down and out when he was downsized out of a job. In his 60s and in a personal tailspin because of an affair that ended his marriage, Gill saw his luck change when he entered a Starbucks and walked out ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
Who Killed the Electric Car?
With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is ...more
US Release: 2006-06-28
UK Release: TBA
Charlie Wilson's War
Based on a book by George Crile, it's about a renegade congressman/CIA agent who secretly funnelled arms to Afghhanistan freedom fighters in the early '80s in their fight against Soviet troops. ...more
US Release: 2007-12-21
UK Release: 2008-01-11
Mamma Mia!
Story is about a bride-to-be who never met her father and was raised by a formerly rebellious single mother (Streep). The daughter invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding, and the ensuing conflict triggers the performance of 22 Abba hits including "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance on Me" and ...more
US Release: 2008-07-18
UK Release: 2008-07-11
Boone's Lick
The story follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
Angels & Demons
Sequel to The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's novel. The movie will again feature Tom Hanks as Harvard-based expert on religious symbols, who this time sleuths a mystery that involves a secret society and a conspiracy that leads to Vatican City and threatens the future of the Catholic Church. ...more
US Release: 2009-05-19
UK Release: 2008-12-12
City of Ember
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. ...more
US Release: 2008-10-10
UK Release: 2008-10-10

Charlie Wilson`s War
Texas Congressman Charles Wilson, nicknamed "Good Time Charlie," was caught in a hot tub tryst with two cocaine-sniffing showgirls in Las Vegas in the 1980s. He survived the scandal and ended up overseeing the largest and most successful covert CIA operation in history. Wilson`s campaign to fund resistance fighters in Afghanistan ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA

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