Thanks to a two-disc collector's edition, which boasts 40 extra minutes of gritty battle, Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One can finally be seen as the late great director intended. Based on Fuller's personal recollections, the 1980 D-Day epic follows a seasoned sergeant (Lee Marvin), who is still haunted by WWI - where he didn't get word of the peace treaty until a few unfortunate hours after the fact. Now, he's leading an inexperienced infantry through the bloodiest showdowns in North Africa and Europe. Along the way, he and his men help when a refugee gives birth in an abandoned tank, someone's ball gets blown off and a joy-killing soldier (Mark Hamill) begs the question: what's the difference between "killing" and "murdering?"

Special features include several never-been-seen-before documentaries such as The Real Glory: Reconstructing the Big One, a behind-the-scenes look at how the psychologically damaged war vet earned his status as one of the most celebrated outsider artists in American cinema.

Also out on DVD this week is Roman Polanski's first English film Repulsion, a psychological horror starring Catherine Deneuve as a sexually repressed murderous virgin. » Sarah Rowland