This Black History Month, explore a varied selection of films and take a look at the work of some exceptionally talented Black British actors, from Naomie Harris to Idris Elba and beyond.

Ex-don, Michael Corleone, tries to legitimise his family's interests while at the same time keeping his daughter out of the family's seamier dealings. His descent accelerates as the Vatican becomes involved and events from the past conspire to keep him involved in a world he is trying to forget.

A teen suffers the pain of adolescence as she longs for Mr Right while fending off the advances of the class clown.

Shirley is a Liverpudlian housewife stuck in a loveless marriage. One day she finds herself talking to the wall, and decides to make some changes in her life. Flying off to the Greek island of Mykonos on her own, she is gently romanced by middle-aged waiter Costas.

In 1960s London, an aimless, amoral young man exploits the women with whom he becomes intimately involved, until something happens to make him reconsider his existence.

A cynical TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same day over and over again when he goes on location to the small town of Punxsutawney to film a report about their annual Groundhog Day. His predicament drives him to distraction, until he sees a way of turning the situation to his advantage.

Wayne and Garth battle an evil TV producer in this big-screen adaptation of the `Saturday Night Live' skit.

Wayne and Garth decide to stage a rock festival. After losing his late-night cable show, Wayne has a dream in which Jim Morrison tells him to put on a massive music festival - Waynestock. Before this can be achieved, the budding promoters must overcome several hurdles and sort out their turbulent love lives.

A pair of idiotic friends set off on a madcap journey to return a briefcase to its owner. However, they are blissfully unaware that the case contains a large amount of ransom money for the owner's kidnapped husband. Their trip is soon fraught with disaster, especially when the kidnappers begin to pursue them across the country with the aim of grabbing the cash.

The entire town is watching with bated breath as one of their own is up for an Oscar. They get more than they bargain for when he outs his high-school English teacher, who then has to prove to everyone, especially his fiancée, that he's straight. The press turn up and one reporter in particular is making life very difficult.

A social worker who specialises in missing children is recruited to rescue a mystical Tibetan child from evil forces.

A normally well-behaved teenager goes wild while his parents are out of town. In charge at his parents' smart house, the 17-year-old sees the chance to make a fast buck when the prostitute, on the run from a scary pimp, appears at his door. He takes her in, and, following his school's entrepreneurial teachings, lets her turn the house into a brothel.

Danny Noonan, a teen down on his luck, works as a caddy at the snob-infested Bushwood Country Club to raise money for his college education. In an attempt to gain votes for a college scholarship reserved for caddies, Noonan volunteers to caddy for a prominent and influential club member. Meanwhile, Danny struggles to prepare for the high pressure Caddy Day golf tournament while absorbing New Age advice from wealthy golf guru Ty Webb.

After his release from prison, Jake reunites with his brother, Elwood - collectively known as the `Blues Brothers'. Jake's first task is to save the orphanage the brothers grew up in from closing, by raising 5000 dollars to pay back taxes. The two are convinced they can earn the money by getting their old band back together. However, after playing several gigs and making a few enemies, including the police, the brothers face daunting odds to deliver the money on time.

The entire town is watching with bated breath as one of their own is up for an Oscar. They get more than they bargain for when he outs his high-school English teacher, who then has to prove to everyone, especially his fiancée, that he's straight. The press turn up and one reporter in particular is making life very difficult.

Billy is the son of hotel chain magnate Brian Madison and expects to inherit the family fortune, but he's shocked when his father stipulates he won't unless he passes 12th grade in just 24 weeks. It will be tough, since he never passed 1st grade. Determined to prove his father wrong, Billy enrols at school.

The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.

Bart, a black railroad worker is appointed sheriff of a town marked for destruction by Hedley Lamarr, a scheming politician. As Lamarr tries to drive out the town's residents, Bart decides to stand in his way.

A thirtysomething slacker attempts to inject some stability into his life by adopting an impressionable five-year-old.

Billy is the son of hotel chain magnate Brian Madison and expects to inherit the family fortune, but he's shocked when his father stipulates he won't unless he passes 12th grade in just 24 weeks. It will be tough, since he never passed 1st grade. Determined to prove his father wrong, Billy enrols at school.

A teen suffers the pain of adolescence as she longs for Mr Right while fending off the advances of the class clown.

In 1960s London, an aimless, amoral young man exploits the women with whom he becomes intimately involved, until something happens to make him reconsider his existence.

Shirley is a Liverpudlian housewife stuck in a loveless marriage. One day she finds herself talking to the wall, and decides to make some changes in her life. Flying off to the Greek island of Mykonos on her own, she is gently romanced by middle-aged waiter Costas.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

An alcoholic millionaire is threatened with losing his inheritance if he does not marry the girl of his parents' choosing. Despite his dislike for his prospective bride, he bows to the inevitable only to meet a light-fingered waitress who steals his heart. John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role as Arthur's loyal but outspoken valet.

Wayne and Garth battle an evil TV producer in this big-screen adaptation of the `Saturday Night Live' skit.

Wayne and Garth decide to stage a rock festival. After losing his late-night cable show, Wayne has a dream in which Jim Morrison tells him to put on a massive music festival - Waynestock. Before this can be achieved, the budding promoters must overcome several hurdles and sort out their turbulent love lives.

A pair of idiotic friends set off on a madcap journey to return a briefcase to its owner. However, they are blissfully unaware that the case contains a large amount of ransom money for the owner's kidnapped husband. Their trip is soon fraught with disaster, especially when the kidnappers begin to pursue them across the country with the aim of grabbing the cash.

A cynical TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same day over and over again when he goes on location to the small town of Punxsutawney to film a report about their annual Groundhog Day. His predicament drives him to distraction, until he sees a way of turning the situation to his advantage.

A CIA agent comes up against a duplicitous American government during his quest to nab a Colombian drug lord.

A bookish library clerk working for a CIA front is hunted after he stumbles across a covert intelligence operation. Returning from lunch, he finds the entire office massacred. Using his codename Condor, he contacts the CIA, but when an agent tries to kill him, he kidnaps a stranger off the street to ensure his survival and attempts to turn the tables on those who want him dead.

The violent story of a Mafia family fighting to establish supremacy in the American business world following World War II, where an assassination attempt leaves Vito Corleone too ill to run the family business.

Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and family in 1910s Little Italy, while Michael Corleone's 1950s business expansion and lust for power leads to paranoia and the destruction of his family.

Ex-don, Michael Corleone, tries to legitimise his family's interests while at the same time keeping his daughter out of the family's seamier dealings. His descent accelerates as the Vatican becomes involved and events from the past conspire to keep him involved in a world he is trying to forget.

A violent and uncompromising police officer hunts for a psychopath who holds the city of San Francisco to ransom. Although the officer's unorthodox methods do not endear him to his superiors, the mayor reluctantly agrees that Harry Callahan seems to be the right cop for the job.

An international hit man and quick change artist is hired by a secret organisation to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.

Eleven years after their horrific experiences at reform school, Tommy Marcano and John Reilly have become two-bit American gangsters, Lorenzo Carcaterra is a reporter and Michael Sullivan an assistant DA. The four are reunited when they chance across one of the abusive guards and take the chance for revenge.

Flashbacks are interwoven into this story of two of Freud's patients, who recall their treatments 65 years later.

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice, takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation.

Soviet and American forces give chase when the captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine sets a course for the Maine coast.

A conflicted Navy pilot and veteran of the Second World War questions the role he is forced to play when he is called back into service for the Korean War.

A whimsical but engaging western about a drifter who saves a woman from a gang of marauders. The cowboy is astonished to learn that the woman is a nun, especially when he witnesses her heavy drinking and cigar-smoking ways. The unlikely pair embarks on a voyage of discovery as they become embroiled in the Mexican War.

Sweeping epic about three sons raised on a Montana ranch by their father, a colonel who has turned his back on the army after the Indian Wars. Though the destinies of the boys are very different, two forces impact on each of their lives: the Great War in Europe and the love of a young woman. Covering several decades, the action ranges from majestic Montana to the battlefields of Europe and adventure on the high seas.

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, `the box' make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

When ex-German international and camp commandant Van Steiner suggests a match between the POWs and the Germans, it swiftly escalates into a propaganda exercise.

A Secret Service agent-turned-bodyguard finds danger and romance while protecting an entertainer from a stalker.

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fuelled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace; his actress wife, Mia; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge; master fixer Winston Wolfe and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny".

A CIA agent comes up against a duplicitous American government during his quest to nab a Colombian drug lord.

It's the hottest day of the year and when Italian-American Sal refuses to make changes to his pizza parlour in the predominantly black community, tension and tempers mount.

When a DJ's sardonic exhortation to a late-night caller to wipe out a bar full of yuppies is taken literally, his world falls apart. Years later, on the point of suicide, he is saved by a similar casualty, a former medievalist whose wife was a victim of the bar bloodbath, and offered a chance for redemption by the man's quest for the Holy Grail.

A sports agent who makes the mistake of saying what he believes, finds himself sacked and abandoned by all his clients apart from small time footballer Rod Tidwell. Maguire's personal life starts to fall apart as he's torn between love and money in Cameron Crowe's metaphor on Americans' need for success and money.

A Secret Service agent-turned-bodyguard finds danger and romance while protecting an entertainer from a stalker.

Shirley is a Liverpudlian housewife stuck in a loveless marriage. One day she finds herself talking to the wall, and decides to make some changes in her life. Flying off to the Greek island of Mykonos on her own, she is gently romanced by middle-aged waiter Costas.

An alcoholic millionaire is threatened with losing his inheritance if he does not marry the girl of his parents' choosing. Despite his dislike for his prospective bride, he bows to the inevitable only to meet a light-fingered waitress who steals his heart. John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role as Arthur's loyal but outspoken valet.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

In 1960s London, an aimless, amoral young man exploits the women with whom he becomes intimately involved, until something happens to make him reconsider his existence.

A teen suffers the pain of adolescence as she longs for Mr Right while fending off the advances of the class clown.

The entire town is watching with bated breath as one of their own is up for an Oscar. They get more than they bargain for when he outs his high-school English teacher, who then has to prove to everyone, especially his fiancée, that he's straight. The press turn up and one reporter in particular is making life very difficult.

The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.

Wayne and Garth battle an evil TV producer in this big-screen adaptation of the `Saturday Night Live' skit.

Wayne and Garth decide to stage a rock festival. After losing his late-night cable show, Wayne has a dream in which Jim Morrison tells him to put on a massive music festival - Waynestock. Before this can be achieved, the budding promoters must overcome several hurdles and sort out their turbulent love lives.

A cynical TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same day over and over again when he goes on location to the small town of Punxsutawney to film a report about their annual Groundhog Day. His predicament drives him to distraction, until he sees a way of turning the situation to his advantage.

A thirtysomething slacker attempts to inject some stability into his life by adopting an impressionable five-year-old.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

A social worker who specialises in missing children is recruited to rescue a mystical Tibetan child from evil forces.

Danny Noonan, a teen down on his luck, works as a caddy at the snob-infested Bushwood Country Club to raise money for his college education. In an attempt to gain votes for a college scholarship reserved for caddies, Noonan volunteers to caddy for a prominent and influential club member. Meanwhile, Danny struggles to prepare for the high pressure Caddy Day golf tournament while absorbing New Age advice from wealthy golf guru Ty Webb.

The entire town is watching with bated breath as one of their own is up for an Oscar. They get more than they bargain for when he outs his high-school English teacher, who then has to prove to everyone, especially his fiancée, that he's straight. The press turn up and one reporter in particular is making life very difficult.

Billy is the son of hotel chain magnate Brian Madison and expects to inherit the family fortune, but he's shocked when his father stipulates he won't unless he passes 12th grade in just 24 weeks. It will be tough, since he never passed 1st grade. Determined to prove his father wrong, Billy enrols at school.

Scary chiller about a coastal community plagued by a killer shark. With the summer tourist season at hand, the mayor is keen to keep the first attack hushed up. However, when an expert claims that the attacks are the work of a giant great white shark, there is only one solution - to kill the monster fish before it can feed again.

Another great white shark arrives to terrorise the holiday resort of Amity Island. Having recovered from the grisly events of four years ago, the island is once again packed with tourists. Families are sailing in the bay and swimming off the beach, but when two divers and a water-skier go missing, the local police chief fears that he is about to relive his greatest nightmare.

Second sequel to Steven Spielberg's 1970s blockbuster transports the action from Amity Island to a new undersea kingdom attraction in a Florida theme park. The capture of a baby great white shark is big news and brings crowds to the park - until its mother arrives on the scene.

On his return from the Crusades, Robin of Locksley learns that his father has been murdered by the tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham and embarks on a campaign of guerrilla warfare to protect King Richard's throne. Fight scenes are lively and inventive, and a set piece fought under the forest canopy pulls out all the stops.

A mysterious stranger rides into a small frontier town in the American southwest, provoked into a gunfight in which he kills three men, and then begged by the townsfolk to become sheriff. The residents are terrified of the gunslinger but live in greater fear of a gang which intends to wipe out the whole town.

Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema, plus other highlights showing on Sky.

Wrongly accused of assassinating top gang leader Cyrus at a rally, Coney Islanders The Warriors have to fight their way home over the course of one long, violent night.

Martial arts romp about a TV chef who becomes embroiled in a drug lord's search for an incriminating video. The kung-fu fighting cook steps in to save an investigative journalist on the run from a gang of murderous drug dealers, resulting in a potentially fatal mix-up involving her incriminating tape of the gangsters and a children's video.

A Hong Kong detective is contracted to recover a stolen nuclear warhead. Hired by both the CIA and Russian intelligence, the kung-fu cop is harassed, assaulted and framed for murder as he delves into the murky world of international arms dealing.

Violence has been outlawed in the politically correct regime of 2032, and the only weapons in existence are consigned to a museum, but when an escaped psychopath heads straight for the museum, the authorities decide the only effective recourse they have is to thaw out a violent, cryogenically frozen cop.

Scary chiller about a coastal community plagued by a killer shark. With the summer tourist season at hand, the mayor is keen to keep the first attack hushed up. However, when an expert claims that the attacks are the work of a giant great white shark, there is only one solution - to kill the monster fish before it can feed again.

Another great white shark arrives to terrorise the holiday resort of Amity Island. Having recovered from the grisly events of four years ago, the island is once again packed with tourists. Families are sailing in the bay and swimming off the beach, but when two divers and a water-skier go missing, the local police chief fears that he is about to relive his greatest nightmare.

Second sequel to Steven Spielberg's 1970s blockbuster transports the action from Amity Island to a new undersea kingdom attraction in a Florida theme park. The capture of a baby great white shark is big news and brings crowds to the park - until its mother arrives on the scene.

Epic tale in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend, Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair's-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.

Adventure sequel. Intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones, on the trail of fortune and glory in Old Shanghai, is ricocheted into a dangerous adventure in India. With his faithful companion Short Round and nightclub singer Willie Scott, Indie goes in search of the magical Sankara stone, and uncovers an ancient evil which threatens all who come into contact with it.

The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.

A man's neutrality during the American Civil War is tested by his daughter's marriage and his son's capture by Union forces.

Hondo Lane offers to keep an abandoned mother-son duo safe during an Apache attack. Along the way, he forms a strong bond with them. What challenges await them? Will they manage to survive?

Big-budget tale of the battle for survival in a world where dry land has disappeared with the melting of the polar ice caps. One man, who has become amphibious, tries to protect survivors on an artificial atoll made from scrap metal by taking on a gang of marauding pirates. He is also intent on discovering if there is any truth in the myth that there is still some land left above water.

Eleven-year-old Danny is given a magic ticket by a strange projectionist and is transported into the cinema screen. Thanks to his advance knowledge of the plot, he is able to help his silver-screen hero out of an awkward situation and becomes his partner. There's trouble in store for the unlikely duo when the villain tries to seize the magic ticket.

A kung fu expert is assigned to penetrate an island fortress to destroy an opium and white slavery empire.

Epic tale in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend, Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair's-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.

Adventure sequel. Intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones, on the trail of fortune and glory in Old Shanghai, is ricocheted into a dangerous adventure in India. With his faithful companion Short Round and nightclub singer Willie Scott, Indie goes in search of the magical Sankara stone, and uncovers an ancient evil which threatens all who come into contact with it.

The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.

A kung fu expert is assigned to penetrate an island fortress to destroy an opium and white slavery empire.

Eleven-year-old Danny is given a magic ticket by a strange projectionist and is transported into the cinema screen. Thanks to his advance knowledge of the plot, he is able to help his silver-screen hero out of an awkward situation and becomes his partner. There's trouble in store for the unlikely duo when the villain tries to seize the magic ticket.

The violent story of a Mafia family fighting to establish supremacy in the American business world following World War II, where an assassination attempt leaves Vito Corleone too ill to run the family business.

Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and family in 1910s Little Italy, while Michael Corleone's 1950s business expansion and lust for power leads to paranoia and the destruction of his family.

Ex-don, Michael Corleone, tries to legitimise his family's interests while at the same time keeping his daughter out of the family's seamier dealings. His descent accelerates as the Vatican becomes involved and events from the past conspire to keep him involved in a world he is trying to forget.

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Soviet and American forces give chase when the captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine sets a course for the Maine coast.

A bookish library clerk working for a CIA front is hunted after he stumbles across a covert intelligence operation. Returning from lunch, he finds the entire office massacred. Using his codename Condor, he contacts the CIA, but when an agent tries to kill him, he kidnaps a stranger off the street to ensure his survival and attempts to turn the tables on those who want him dead.

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

A bookish library clerk working for a CIA front is hunted after he stumbles across a covert intelligence operation. Returning from lunch, he finds the entire office massacred. Using his codename Condor, he contacts the CIA, but when an agent tries to kill him, he kidnaps a stranger off the street to ensure his survival and attempts to turn the tables on those who want him dead.

Soviet and American forces give chase when the captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine sets a course for the Maine coast.

A violent and uncompromising police officer hunts for a psychopath who holds the city of San Francisco to ransom. Although the officer's unorthodox methods do not endear him to his superiors, the mayor reluctantly agrees that Harry Callahan seems to be the right cop for the job.

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace; his actress wife, Mia; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge; master fixer Winston Wolfe and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny".

Eleven years after their horrific experiences at reform school, Tommy Marcano and John Reilly have become two-bit American gangsters, Lorenzo Carcaterra is a reporter and Michael Sullivan an assistant DA. The four are reunited when they chance across one of the abusive guards and take the chance for revenge.

For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. However, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behaviour escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema, plus other highlights showing on Sky.

A conflicted Navy pilot and veteran of the Second World War questions the role he is forced to play when he is called back into service for the Korean War.

A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice, takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation.

A violent and uncompromising police officer hunts for a psychopath who holds the city of San Francisco to ransom. Although the officer's unorthodox methods do not endear him to his superiors, the mayor reluctantly agrees that Harry Callahan seems to be the right cop for the job.

Jeff Taylor and his wife Amy are moving to California, and decide to ride across the country. After the car breaks down in the desert, Amy accepts a ride from passing trucker Red to get help. After hours she hasn't returned, and Jeff makes his own way to the nearby diner she was heading for. Nobody there has seen her - not even the trucker who picked her up.

A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice, takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation.

Weather scientists Jo and Bill put marital problems aside to track a slew of devastating tornadoes raging through Oklahoma and stay one step ahead of their better-equipped but arrogant rivals. They have to get to the tornado first to be able to test a radical new device, by inserting it directly into the heart of the storm.

On his return from the Crusades, Robin of Locksley learns that his father has been murdered by the tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham and embarks on a campaign of guerrilla warfare to protect King Richard's throne. Fight scenes are lively and inventive, and a set piece fought under the forest canopy pulls out all the stops.

The violent story of a Mafia family fighting to establish supremacy in the American business world following World War II, where an assassination attempt leaves Vito Corleone too ill to run the family business.

Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and family in 1910s Little Italy, while Michael Corleone's 1950s business expansion and lust for power leads to paranoia and the destruction of his family.