Study of womanhood and identity, featuring two of Ingmar Bergman's greatest leading ladies, Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson. Elizabeth (Ullmann) is a famous actress who is taken ill and left without speech. While convalescing on the coast, she is cared for by Nurse Alma (Andersson) and, silenced by the effect of her - possibly psychosomatic - illness, finds that her nurse does the talking for both of them. Gradually, the two women's personalities merge and the boundaries between their identities begin to blur.

Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. The screenplay is by William Goldman ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', 'All the President's Men').

Double bill of Swedish films from writer/director Jan Troell, following the journey of a 19th-century Swedish family as they move to America in search of a new life. In 'The Emigrants' (1971) Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann) live in a small village in southern Sweden with their family. As they struggle to make ends meet, with one of their children tragically starving to death, they decide they need a change and so travel to America where they plan to live better, healthier lives. 'The New Land' (1972) follows on, with Karl-Oskar and Kristina settled into their new home in Minnesota with their three children, Karl-Oskar's brother Robert (Eddie Axberg) and his friend Arvid (Pierre Lindstedt). As the family work hard, they find themselves having to contend with new challenges thrown their way including the impending Civil War, rapidly spreading diseases and Robert's urge to move to the sunnier climes of California.