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This is only for the bonus disc and contains Survivors: The Spectre of Threads, Craig Ian Mann & Robert Nevitt's feature-length documentary on the production of Threads and its effect on the people of Sheffield, England, and Immediate and Real, an interview with Julie McDowall, author of Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared For Nuclear War.

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Disc 2 contains the film Threads, both audio commentaries (director Mick Jackson with Kier-La Janisse and David Gregory; actress Karen Meagher with television historian Simon Farquhar), the interview featurettes Auditioning for the Apocalypse, Shooting the Annihilation, Destruction Designer and the Stephen Thrower interview, and the U.S. trailer. First broadcast on BBC2 on September 23, 1984, Threads — written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson — depicts the effects of a thermonuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield. Shown on American cable four months later, its graphic portrayal of detonation, societal collapse and nuclear winter was indelibly seared into the homes of tens of millions of viewers in both countries.

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Disc 1 contains the film Threads in 4K UHD, both audio commentaries (director Mick Jackson with Kier-La Janisse and David Gregory; actress Karen Meagher with television historian Simon Farquhar), and the U.S. trailer. First broadcast on BBC2 on September 23, 1984, Threads — written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson — depicts the effects of a thermonuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield. Shown on American cable four months later, its graphic portrayal of detonation, societal collapse and nuclear winter was indelibly seared into the homes of tens of millions of viewers in both countries.

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Disc 12 contains the film 7 Man Army, an audio commentary with David West, the featurettes “Armed and Dangerous: Actor Lu Feng Reflects on His Time as an Actor at Shaw Brothers Studios” and “Right-Hand Man: Hsieh Hsing, Action Director of 7 Man Army, Looks Back at a Shaw Brothers Masterpiece”, and a Celestial trailer. In 1933, 20,000 Japanese troops and 50 tanks attacked Pa Tou Lou Tzu, a strategic point on the Great Wall defended by only seven men, who held out against the entire army for five days before falling. Chang Cheh recreated the battle with Ti Lung, David Chiang, Alexander Fu Sheng, and Chen Kuan-tai as a tribute to those unsung heroes.

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Disc 9 contains the film All Men Are Brothers, an audio commentary with James Mudge, the original theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. The long-awaited sequel to the martial arts hit The Water Margin, adapted from one of China's most enduring 14th-century novels. Also known as Seven Soldiers of Kung Fu and 108 Heroes, the action-packed epic features a cast of kung fu favorites and no fewer than four action choreographers.

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Disc 8 contains the film The Angry Guest, an audio commentary with James Mudge, and a Celestial trailer. A vengeful Japanese gangster has the heroes' mother murdered and one of their girlfriends kidnapped, bringing terror to Tokyo and horror to Hong Kong in this sequel to Duel of Fists — which features director Chang Cheh himself in a rare on-screen appearance as a triad boss, plus Yasuaki Kurata, the future co-star of Jet Li's Fist of Legend.

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Disc 4 contains the film The Anonymous Heroes, an audio commentary with James Mudge, the original theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. Director Chang Cheh and stars Ti Lung and David Chiang were known as the “iron triangle” for their many hits together — though action choreographer Lau Kar-leung's contributions arguably made it an iron rectangle. This post-Chinese Revolution adventure, about rebels battling warlords, showcases the quartet's skills on both sides of the camera and was a 1971 top-ten hit.

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Disc 10 contains the film The Blood Brothers, an audio commentary with James Mudge, the original theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. Set in the waning years of the Ching Dynasty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic and blood-soaked tale of betrayal and revenge dramatizes one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history, and marked its director and stars' true ascension to superstardom. Ti Lung won a Golden Horse Award for his role as a jealous provincial governor who murders his friend to steal the man's wife.

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Disc 5 contains the film The Deadly Duo, an audio commentary with James Mudge, the original theatrical trailer, a German theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. The Sung Dynasty faces the Chin invaders in this crowd-pleasing kung fu epic from the iron triangle at their stride. When a handsome prince is captured and guarded by a martial arts master, two powerful patriots must fight overwhelming odds to free him — from the first minute to a final, desperate battle with an unforgettable conclusion, this duo is as dynamic as it is deadly.

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Disc 7 contains the film The Duel, an audio commentary with James Mudge, a US trailer, and a Celestial trailer. Before Bruce Lee's superstardom, Hong Kong cinema's greatest heroes were the majestic Ti Lung and the charismatic David Chiang. A year after Chang Cheh's Vengeance! made them stars, they returned in this mano-a-mano classic: Ti Lung as an adopted son struggling with familial fears, Chiang as a streetwise knight-errant called “Rambler” — two men who distrust each other until they survive a trial by fire and fists.

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Disc 6 contains the film Duel of Fists, an audio commentary with Ian Jane, the featurette “An Alluring Aesthetic” with Andrew Heskings, and a Celestial trailer. Another triumph for the iron triangle — and for action choreographer Liu Chia-liang. David Chiang plays a Chinese boxer who travels to Bangkok searching for his lost brother, who may or may not be the Thai boxer played by Ti Lung. The kung fu/Thai boxing combination was one of 1971's megahits, second only to Bruce Lee's The Big Boss.

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Disc 1 contains the film Have Sword, Will Travel, an audio commentary with David West, the original theatrical trailer, and a Celestial trailer. Chang Cheh teams David Chiang and Ti Lung for the second time in this classic heroic bloodshed epic, its title inspired by the Hollywood TV hit Have Gun — Will Travel. Ti Lung guards an armored transport carrying silver to the capital, stalked along the way by a mysterious knight (David Chiang) who appears to be a robber — but whose intentions prove far more mysterious.

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Disc 2 contains the film The Heroic Ones, the on-camera discussion “Sanguine and Guile” with filmmaker and academic Gilbert Po on the bloody brilliance of director Chang Cheh, and a Celestial trailer. Chang Cheh's quintessential historical epic with his 'iron triangle' stars David Chiang and Ti Lung is set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty, where it is literally brother against brother as the two display their martial arts prowess against insiders and outsiders in a duel to the death for the fate of China.

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Disc 11 contains the film The Savage 5, an audio commentary with James Mudge, veteran Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks, and a Celestial trailer. The heroes are savage because the villains are brutal, cruel and vicious: a gang that at first only wants the village locksmith to open a stolen safe soon escalates into tormenting the village. In the tradition of The Seven Samurai, Chang Cheh and action choreographers Liu Chia-liang and Tang Chia stage each struggle with gritty depravity and desperate power, making for an especially realistic, grueling exercise in white-knuckle suspense.

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Disc 3 contains the film Vengeance!, an audio commentary by David West, the featurette “Retribution Shaw-Style” with Luke White on the politics and plasma-spillage of Vengeance, and the original theatrical trailer. David Chiang plays a psychotic man bent on avenging the death of his older brother (Ti Lung) in a tale of retribution and paying the ultimate price, with equally psychotic action choreographed by Tang Chia and Yuen Cheung-yan. Chang Cheh won Best Director and Chiang's haunting performance earned him the Best Actor Award at the 1970 Asian Film Festival.

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Two Palestinian cousins scrape by in the underbelly of Athens, dreaming of making it to Germany. But as their hardship grows, so does their desperation, testing the limits of what they will do for freedom.

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After a notorious gang ambushes her father's puppet samurai show, Tornado vows to seek vengeance and forge her own destiny by stealing the gang's ill-gotten gold.

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Disc contains the film Tornado, the audio commentary with writer/director John Maclean and director of photography Robbie Ryan, the new video interview with John Maclean, and the Making of Tornado Super 8mm film. After a notorious gang ambushes her father's puppet samurai show, Tornado vows to seek vengeance and forge her own destiny by stealing the gang's ill-gotten gold.

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In this suspenseful tale of romance and betrayal in modern-day Berlin, Christian Petzold boldly reimagines the ancient myth of Undine.

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When her sister vanishes without a trace, Yurino follows the only clue left behind — a cryptic website tied to an abandoned apartment and a rumored destination for those seeking to end their lives — to a remote mountain village that appears on no map and does not want to be found. The village shelters a community of despairing outsiders and locals who claim to “save” them under a twisted doctrine: suicide is forbidden, but death is not, and those who arrive hoping to die are hunted and sacrificed instead. Reunited at last, Yurino and her sister must confront the truth behind the village’s crusade and fight their way through its escalating nightmare of sadistic killers and inhuman rituals.

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Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes plunges into the Los Angeles porn scene of the 1970s and 1980s — the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingpin Eddie Nash that culminated in the Wonderland murders. Narrated by Mike Sager, whose Rolling Stone investigation inspired Boogie Nights and Wonderland, the documentary pairs rare film clips and never-before-aired crime-scene footage with candid testimony from the people who knew Holmes best, including his wives and mistress, adult-industry figures Larry Flynt and Ron Jeremy, and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson — an essential portrait of the rise and fall of one of porn's most legendary figures.

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Ellen, a young American happily married to wealthy English businessman Jason, frantically tells her husband that she is being followed. Before he can find out why, the stranger shows up at their door and shoots Jason dead. From there the tension ramps up to a surprise climax that keeps viewers guessing until the final minutes, with Patricia Owens as the woman haunted by her past and Dan Duryea adding another sniveling villain to his rogues' gallery.

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Disc 2 contains the film The War Game plus the set's bonus materials: an introduction by filmmaker Alex Cox, a commentary by film critic Kim Newman and filmmaker Sean Hogan, interviews and video essays, the trailer, and Peter Watkins' short films The Diary of an Unknown Soldier and The Forgotten Faces. In 1965, Peter Watkins recruited 350 amateur actors, drew on direct quotes from civil defense manuals, and used newsreel-like recreations to craft a BBC documentary drama depicting a nuclear attack on Great Britain. The network condemned the finished film as "too horrifying" and refused to broadcast it; it went on to receive a special award at the 1966 Venice Film Festival and win the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though the BBC did not air it until three decades later.

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Peter Watkins' stark depiction of what a nuclear attack on England would look like caused a sensation when it was banned as too graphic and horrifying. It helped ignite the public debate over nuclear weapons and went on to theatrical success on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite winning an Oscar, two BAFTA awards and a Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival, The War Game went unseen on British television for more than 20 years.

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Two young police officers are marked for death after they seize a small cache of cash and guns from members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

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A struggling novelist strikes a bargain with a demonic spirit that promises to make his writing career take off.

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The wealthy residents of Nice, on the French Riviera, have a terrifying new problem: people are being assassinated seemingly at random. While a television show films in a public square, a shocking mystery begins unfolding before the stern Inspector Carella. As panic spreads and national attention grows, a sniper with a high-powered rifle keeps killing apparently unconnected victims in broad daylight. Ignoring interference from his superiors, Carella drives his team harder, even as some of the city's most powerful citizens flatly refuse to cooperate. The victims must share some connection — but what is it? A blend of the giallo and the French policier adapted from Ed McBain's novel Ten Plus One, with a score by Ennio Morricone.

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For thousands of years an ancient monolith, the Longstone, has stood in a field in West Cornwall, quietly watching history unfold. Beginning on the Winter Solstice of 2020, as the pandemic quieted the world and the threat of climate change grew impossible to ignore, documentarian Christopher Morris filmed the stone over the course of a full year. The result is a meditative record of the passing seasons and the changing natural world — and a call to act before man-made changes alter the planet forever.

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Baz Luhrmann's directorial debut: a maverick ballroom dancer puts his career on the line by performing an unconventional routine, and sets out to succeed with a new partner.

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Disc 2 contains 20th Century Women (2016), with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills and special features. In 1979 Santa Barbara, Dorothea Fields, a determined single mother in her mid-50s, is raising her teenage son Jamie at a moment of cultural change and rebellion. Feeling she cannot guide him into manhood alone, she enlists two younger women — Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist boarding in their home, and Julie, a savvy, provocative teenage neighbor — to help with his upbringing, in a love letter to the people who raise us and the times that form us.

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Disc 2 contains 20th Century Women (2016), presented in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills. In 1979 Santa Barbara, Dorothea Fields, a determined single mother in her mid-50s, is raising her teenage son Jamie at a moment of cultural change and rebellion. Feeling she cannot guide him into manhood alone, she enlists two younger women — Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist boarding in their home, and Julie, a savvy, provocative teenage neighbor — to help with his upbringing, in a love letter to the people who raise us and the times that form us.

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On their way to Baghdad, Sinbad and Princess Parisa unexpectedly stop on the island of Colossa, where they find themselves battling evil magicians, man-eating Cyclopes, fire-breathing dragons and sword-wielding skeletons, in this adventure adapted from the classic tales of the '1001 Arabian Nights.'

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On their way to Baghdad, Sinbad and Princess Parisa unexpectedly stop on the island of Colossa, where they find themselves battling evil magicians, man-eating Cyclopes, fire-breathing dragons and sword-wielding skeletons, in this adventure adapted from the classic tales of the '1001 Arabian Nights.'

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In late-18th-century England, MP William Wilberforce, backed by his close friend William Pitt and inspired by his growing affection for Barbara Spooner, takes up the long fight to abolish Britain's slave trade after his first abolition legislation is soundly defeated in 1791.

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Bea and Ben look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something turns their fiery attraction ice cold — until a destination wedding in Australia unexpectedly throws them together again, and they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

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Honor student Yuu Yuutani has eyes only for Atori Mizutori, the school's Madonna, so she gives up the honor roll and reinvents herself as a bad girl to catch Atori's attention — but this very good girl isn't very good at being bad.

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Disc 1 contains Beginners (2010), with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills and special features. Graphic artist Oliver Fields is still coming to terms with his widowed father Hal, who came out as gay at 75 shortly before being stricken by cancer. Months after Hal's death, Oliver meets the enigmatic Anna at a party; the two are immediately drawn to each other, but each carries personal issues that could stand in the way of their happiness.

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Disc 1 contains Beginners (2010), presented in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills. Graphic artist Oliver Fields is still coming to terms with his widowed father Hal, who came out as gay at 75 shortly before being stricken by cancer. Months after Hal's death, Oliver meets the enigmatic Anna at a party; the two are immediately drawn to each other, but each carries personal issues that could stand in the way of their happiness.

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After a nuclear event knocks out the world's power systems overnight, a group of survivors — including veteran Atticus and former special forces operative Ella Daniels — navigate chaos, militias and moral ambiguity in a world where society and hope have suddenly vanished.

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A former boxing champion on the skids finds an opportunity for redemption by training a young fighter everyone else judges beyond hope, in Shuji Terayama's gritty Toei drama — a boxing movie infused with the director's characteristic carnivalesque atmosphere and passion for sports.

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Disc 3 contains C'mon C'mon (2021), with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills and special features. Radio journalist Johnny and his nine-year-old nephew Jesse are unexpectedly thrown together when Johnny's sister must care for her mentally ill husband, and the two forge a tenuous but transformational bond as Jesse joins Johnny on the road — a delicate, deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future.

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Disc 3 contains C'mon C'mon (2021), presented in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, with an audio commentary by director Mike Mills. After turning to his own past in Beginners and 20th Century Women, Mike Mills looks ahead in this compassionate, cathartic story about listening to and learning from the next generation. Shot in luminous black and white by Robbie Ryan, it follows radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix), who volunteers to care for his sensitive nine-year-old nephew Jesse (Woody Norman) while Jesse's mother Viv (Gaby Hoffmann), Johnny's sister, deals with a personal crisis; as Johnny's work takes them from Los Angeles to New York to New Orleans, the two forge a bond that proves surprisingly transformative.

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After children's author Meredith Laye takes her own life, the child-devouring witch from her books appears to come to life, and her children, Edward and Virginia, must defend their home while uncovering the dark link between her fiction and their family.

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A scorching story of toxic love in a toxic world, Nagisa Oshima's second feature marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in Japanese cinema. In the dog-eat-dog crucible of postwar Tokyo, teenage lovers Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano) and Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) drift into a life of crime, entrapping lecherous middle-aged men in order to extort their money — but how long can the wayward youths outrun their fate? Bursting with vivid color, the film howls with rage at a society in which everything — love, sex, and youthful idealism — has been corrupted.

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A scorching story of toxic love in a toxic world, Nagisa Oshima's second feature marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in Japanese cinema. In the dog-eat-dog crucible of postwar Tokyo, teenage lovers Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano) and Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) drift into a life of crime, entrapping lecherous middle-aged men in order to extort their money — but how long can the wayward youths outrun their fate? Bursting with vivid color, the film howls with rage at a society in which everything — love, sex, and youthful idealism — has been corrupted.

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Six thieves each receive a letter promising $50,000; using a ghost town as their training ground, they develop their tactics for robbing a small town's banks.

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An ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman's son tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous territory.

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Giovanni (Jean Sorel) is shot in an underground parking garage by a mysterious bearded man, and as his life flashes before his eyes, flashbacks reveal the life that led to this moment: his flirtatious wife Lucia (Ewa Aulin) and the fissures her behaviour creates, complications with the family business, her relationship with a travelling hippie, and her beautiful mother-in-law (Lucia Bosé). With delirious editing that continually returns to the site of his murder, the film explores masculinity, eroticism and the uncanny — one of the undiscovered greats of the giallo genre, newly restored and released officially for the first time since VHS.

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A young man travels west to visit his uncle, only to discover that his fanciful imaginings of him were all false — his uncle runs a saloon for outlaws.

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Joel Schumacher's 1993 thriller Falling Down is a darkly comic, razor-sharp portrait of modern urban frustration, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. On a sweltering Los Angeles morning, a man known only as "D-Fens" (Douglas) abandons his car in a gridlocked traffic jam and sets off across the city on foot. He only wants to go home, but a series of everyday irritations escalates into explosive confrontations, leaving violence in his wake. Veteran cop Prendergast (Duvall), on his quiet final day before retirement, pieces the events together and hunts the dangerous man. As the two men's paths converge, the film asks whether D-Fens is a victim of an oppressive society or a man showing his true colors. Darkly funny and eerily prescient, it remains one of the most unforgettable portraits of rage in modern American cinema, now restored in 4K.