Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mariska Hargitay, James Hong, John Koyama

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Joan Plowright
Directed By: Ivan Passer

Begin a journey of epic proportions with Michael Wood as he travels from Macedonia in Northern Greece to India, retelling one of the world's greatest stories. Divided into four parts, "The Speaking Tree" examines Alexander's childhood, "Son of God" traces the invasion of Persia and Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire, "The Road to Samarkand", follows Alexander's move to Afghanistan, and "To ...

Manufacturer: Pbs (Direct)
Starring: Michael Wood
Directed By: David Wallace

Hailed as a documentary masterpiece without parallel, Ken Burns' filmed chronicle of America's most terrible and destructive conflict will hold you in thrall as it portrays the strategies and action of the war's famous battles, and tells the stories of illustrious generals and ordinary field soldiers, politicians and rogues, heroes and a beleaguered President. Winner of two Emmy Awards, the ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: David McCullough

Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Albrecht Brauning, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lord Harding, Tsuyako Kii

The Survivors of the Shoah (Hebrew for Holocaust) Foundation grew out of Steven Spielberg's research for his film Schindler's List. He interviewed many survivors of the Holocaust and found that, despite their similar experiences, each had a unique story to tell. In order to preserve these memories for future generations so that the horrors of Nazi Europe might never be forgotten, Spielberg ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Steven Spielberg, Henry Rosmarin, Hellmuth Szprycer
Directed By: Allan Holzman

With ANNE BAXTER, THOMAS MITCHELL, SELENA ROYLE, WARD BOND, BOBBY DRISCOLL. Directed by LLOYD BACON. This heart-wrenching drama was made at the height of World War II, when American mothers and fathers were sending their sons off to battle. In too many cases, these young men never were to return. It opens with a simple declaration: "This is a true story." What follows is the account of five young ...

Manufacturer: Unknown
Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Ward Bond, Selena Royle, Thomas Mitchell, Anne Baxter
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon

If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible--tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Konrad Adenauer, Giovanni Agnelli, Harold Agnew, Muhammad Ali
Directed By: Tessa Coombs

Abel Gance's 1927 masterpiece is absolutely indispensable for silent-film buffs or anyone interested in classic world cinema. From the future emperor's first strategic victory, a schoolyard snowball fight, to the climactic invasion of Italy, Napoleon truly rules! This is no static, antiquated relic. Among Gance's innovations was to free the camera (for one battle scene, he had it mounted on ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Annabella, Antonin Artaud, Pierre Batcheff, Henri Baudin, Alexandre Bernard

Manufacturer: Goldhil Home Media
Starring: Cuban Missle Crisis