The Von Trapp Family: A Life of Music - DVD [Standard]

Staged at London's 3 Mills Studios and broadcast for Christmas week on ITV, this acclaimed take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein staple was headlined by Kara Tointon as the effervescent novitiate-cum-nanny Maria and Julian Ovenden as the rigid Captain Von Trapp, who'd ultimately be as charmed as his children by their charge. Alexander Armstrong, Katherine Kelley, Maria Friedman, Mel Giedroyc also star. 155 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

The war ended long ago but one soldier never stood down. Lance Corporal Charles William Morris was lost to war in 1943. Decades later, he awakens in the present day confused, scarred, and still bound by duty. When he is discovered in a crumbling old house by his granddaughter Mary and a curious urban explorer named Ewan, the soldier believes his mission is not yet over.

In the late '80s, British stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins) was reflecting on how he, as a young man (Johnny Flynn), helped engineer the pre-World War II escape of 669 Jewish Czech and Slovak children from Prague to England before the borders shut... and was rueful that he couldn't have done more. He'd receive moving affirmation of his heroism in this compelling true-life opus; Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, Marthe Keller also star. 110 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.