Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 2 Discs (1966): The most famous real-life couple of the '60s star in the roles of the most famous stage couple of the '60s.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent married Martha and George in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's groundbreaking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton, also Oscar-nominated, matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Sandy Dennis score as the naïve young married couple invited over for drinks only to find themselves dead center in the older couple's destructive path. The movie won a total five Academy Awards, and remains, after 40 years, as shocking and electrifying as ever.

The Comedians (1967): A poor nation can mean riches... for the corrupt. In an absorbing screenplay based on his novel, master of intrigue Graham Greene (The Third Man, The Quiet American) sets passions both romantic and political against the backdrop of Haiti during the brutal rule of Papa Doc Duvalier. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor lead a who's-who cast of stars who portray diplomats, imposters, adulterers, hangers-on, the indolent and even a pair of pacifist vegetarians - all caught up in the reign of terror. From the discovery of a dead body in the bottom of a pool to a harrowing showdown with Papa Doc's ruthless secret police, The Comedians tells a story as disturbing and redeeming as mankind's conflicted heart.

The Sandpiper (1965): Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free spirit, living in rustic Bohemian splendour in an oceanfront Big Sur home. Minister Edward Hewitt (Richard Burton), a school headmaster, lives a life as constrained as his clerical collar. Now his world is changing. Blessed with a devoted wife (Eva Marie Saint), he must come to terms with his love for another woman.

Love was in the air. So was music in the form of 1965's Oscar-winning Best Song The Shadow of Your Smile. And fans were at theatres, eager to witness on screen the charismatic chemistry that made Taylor and Burton the decade's most scrutinized off-screen couple. Academy Award-winner* Vincente Minnelli (Gigi, An American in Paris) directs this bittersweet tale that was one of its year's top box-office hits.

The V.I.P.s (1963): First-class stars book passage for romantic melodrama mixed with wry comic flourishes in The VIPs. Frances (Elizabeth Taylor) is running from her neglectful tycoon husband (Richard Burton) into the arms of suave Marc (Louis Jourdan). Filmmaker Max (Orson Welles) is dodging the taxman. Harried entrepreneur Les (Rod Taylor) is blind to the romantic devotion of his secretary (Maggie Smith). And a dotty dutchess (Margaret Rutherford won an Oscar, Golden Globe and National Board of Review Awards for her delightful performance) is determined to save her ancestral manor.