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• His Dark Materials Season 1 & 2 Boxset | DVD | (28/12/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Season One Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy, His Dark Materials Season One follows Lyra, a brave young woman from another world. Lyra's quest to find her kidnapped friend leads her to uncover a sinister plot of a secret organisation, encounter extraordinary beings and protect dangerous secrets. Bonus Features: Introducing His Dark Materials The Daemons: His Dark Materials Building His Dark Materials Dressing His Dark Materials Adapting His Dark Materials Season Two Season Two of His Dark Materials begins as Lyra embarks on a journey in a strange and mysterious abandoned city. There she meets Will, a boy from our world who is also running from a troubled past. Lyra and Will learn their destinies are tied to reuniting Will with his father but find their path is constantly thwarted as a war begins to brew around them. Meanwhile, Mrs Coulter searches for Lyra, determined to bring her home. Bonus Features: Making His Dark Materials The Subtle Knife Lyra The Powerful Mrs Coulter

• Brat Pack Collection - Breakfast Club / About Last Night / St Elmo's Fire | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Breakfast Club (Dir. John Hughes 1985): Without doubt John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time if not the best. Without it we might not have witnessed the phenomenal rise of the 'Brat Pack'; the group of actors synonymous with the teen films of the '80s. They were five teenage students with nothing in common faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School library. At 7am they had nothing to say but

• Handsome Devil | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £6.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.

• Nora | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On June 10th 1904, James Joyce, one of this century's greatest modern writers, was a young man grasping for funds and desperate to make his mark as a writer.

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 4 | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The climax of the battle is covered in the fourth and final disc in the series, with programmes on the final attack and defeat of the Imperial Guard and the Pursuit by the Prussians in the immediate aftermath of the battle to Genappe. The final programme in the collection covers the last battle of the Napoleonic era fought at Wavre, the day after Waterloo and the Allied pursuit to Paris. This disc also contains programmes that detail the clothing and equipment of a Highlander and a soldier of the 95th Rifles.

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 3 | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This series of documentaries is a major project that will chart the entire 1815 Waterloo Campaign in detail from Napoleon s return to France through the various battles and engagements to the pursuit to Paris and Napoleon s final abdication. The whole suite will total over five hours of programmes. Each of the four disks will contain three separate programmes that concentrates on aspects of the campaign or phases of the great battle itself. Each programme is filmed on the ground where the particular phase of battle was fought making this a unique project that fuses tactics and ground in a readily understood way with re-enactment and lavish use of both maps and diagrams.Vignettes provided by living historians illustrate the life of the Napoleonic soldier, along with his weapons and tactics. The period from mid afternoon until early evening on that terrible Sunday was the time, as Wellington described it, of hard pounding. The three programmes on this disc cover the Massed French Cavalry Attacks led by Marshal Ney, the battle fought by the Kings German Legion and the 95th Rifles to hold La Haie Sainte and the adjacent sand pit. The Prussian march to Plancenoit and the bloody battle fought in and around the village is the subject of the third programme.

• Rat | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pete Postlethwaite is Hubert Flynn Dublin bread deliveryman who loves his pint of Guinness his bet on the horses and his wife Conchita in that order. So when he comes home from the pub one evening and changes into a rat Conchita is slow to forgive. Conchita (played to perfection by Imelda Staunton) at first resists her family's eccentric plans for Hubert but when an opportunistic ghost-writer knocks on the door and proposes to put their story in a book and then a film of the book and a book of the film and riches beyond her dreams... she is tempted. So setting the stage for a series of bizarre and comical adventures for Hubert the rat and his family. Rat is the tale of family values little furry folk and one man's struggle to regain his humanity... literally! Special effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

• While the City Sleeps (1956) | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets newspaper publisher Walter Kyne (Vincent Price) pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences. Fritz Lang's tense fast-paced Hollywood thriller features an all-star cast and cinematography by noir maestro Ernest Laszlo (Kiss Me Deadly).

• The Dark Ages:The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878AD | DVD | (17/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the year 878 AD Alfred, King of Wessex, faced the fourth and most serious attempt by the devious Viking chieftain Guthram to seize the last remaining Saxon kingdom. Thwarted in their conventional attempts in 871, 876 and 878 AD, the Vikings 'stole away' from their base in Gloucester and descended on Alfred's court while they were celebrating Twelfth Night on the borders of wintery Wessex at Chippenham. Alfred escaped but was driven into hiding in the Somerset Marshes, while the Vikings fanned across Wessex. All seemed to be over for Alfred and the Saxons!

• Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach | DVD | (20/10/2011) from £12.67   |  Saving you £3.32 (26.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1940 3rd Division, then commanded by a little known major, General Bernard Montgomery, were unceremoniously evacuated from Dunkirk but four long years later they were to return to France in the van of the D Day assault force; the greatest invasion of all time. Their task was to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach codenamed SWORD. With the assistance of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force they would blast their way through the concrete and steel defences that lined the beach. Once ashore their problems were only just beginning!

• The Germans in Normandy - 12th Hitlerjugend | DVD | (17/11/2011) from £10.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (58.19%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldiers of the Hitlerjugend. From D+1 through to attacking back into the Falaise Pocket, this unique division constantly thwarted Montgomery's plans and exacted a terrible price on the Allies for every mile gained. Formed from 'volunteers' (many weren't) from the Hitler Youth Movement in the aftermath of Stalingrad, this division of boys aged 17 on recruitment into the SS, came of age and were declared fully operational just before D Day. Coming from a highly militarised society they made exceptional and highly committed soldiers but with officers and non-commissioned officers from the Leibstandarte commanding them, they were inculcated with Nazi brutality and the standards of the Eastern Front from the outset.

• Teen Girl Triple: Freaky Friday / The Princess Diaries / Lizzie McGuire | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Freaky Friday (Dir. Jim Fall 2003): Mother and daughter Tess and Anna don't seem to be getting on at all well. Neither understands the other and they regularly come into conflict. In a strange coincidence they receive identical fortune cookies which seems to create a curious mystical situation. They wake up on Friday morning and find that they have swapped bodies. Clearly this causes some considerable disturbance as they must adapt to the change of events and gradually they learn more respect for each other. The Princess Diaries (Dir. Garry Marshall 2001): A modern-day Cinderella story about Mia Thermopolis a shy gawky teenager whose main aim in life is to survive each day at school with the minimum amount of attention and embarrassment. Her ideals of the quiet life are thwarted when her strict grandmother tells her she is the Princess and heir to the throne of Genovia. Having to take on this new responsibility she takes Princess lessons and become totally transformed only to find out that she's in the middle of a media storm jealous schoolmates and a plot to take over her newly founded country. The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Dir. Mark S. Waters 2003): Lizzie and friends Kate Gordo and Ethan take a trip to Rome in celebration of their graduation. The trip however does not turn out how they might expect when Lizzie is mistaken for Italy's biggest singing sensation. A whirlwind few days spent as a pop star leaves Lizzie with a major crush on a handsome Italian pop star and a serious decision to make about her future.

• The Germans in Normandy - 1st Leibstandarte: Adolf Hitler SS Panzer Division | DVD | (19/07/2012) from £13.71   |  Saving you £3.28 (23.92%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Possibly the most famous of Hitler s SS panzer divisions was the Leibstandarte; it bore his name and shared his fanaticism. The Leibstandarte had proved itself to be highly effective in battle and had fought in virtually all of Germany s campaigns since 1939 justifiably earning the label elite . However constantly called back to the front to stem the advance of the Red Army on the Eastern Front the division was much reduced in power through loss of manpower and a paucity of equipment. In the spring of 1944 the Leibstandarte was again refitting in Belgium a process that was still under way when the Allies stormed ashore in Normandy. The effectiveness of Allied deception measures however kept them fixed awaiting the landing of Patton s phantom army in the Pas de Calais area. Consequently it wasn t until the second half of June 44 that the Division began its nightmare march to Normandy harried all the way by fighter bombers. Arriving at the front elements of the division were thrown into the battle piecemeal to prop up the crumbling German Army as Montgomery launched blow after blow on them. The Leibstandarte s first battle was to choke off Operation Epsom fighting the Scots and the West Countrymen of the Wessex Division in the dense hedgerow country of the Odon Valley. But perhaps their greatest achievement was halting the Great British armoured advance Operation Goodwood; a battle that has been characterised as The death ride of the British armoured divisions . As the Allied breakout gained momentum on the US flank Hitler ordered the Mortain Counter Attack against the advice of his Generals and the Leibstandarte marched west to cut the vulnerable American advance. Under cover of mist the battle started well for the Germans and desperate fighting with isolated GIs resulted but as the weather cleared the fighter bombers lashed the panzers who were forced back. The exhausted German Army fought its way back towards Falaise and seeming destruction by the encircling Allies. Forcing their way through the Corridor of Death a much higher proportion of the Leibstandarte escaped and the Division lived to fight another day. Production notes: The elite Leibstandarte is the subject of considerable fascination and study. This film written and presented by established historians and battlefield tour guides will strip away layers of myth and take the viewers to the places where the SS fought the British Americans and Canadians in one of the most costly battles of the Second World War.

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 2 | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hougoumont & D'Erlon's Attack is the second part in the explosive four part series, The Waterloo Collection, which covers the entire Waterloo Campaign from Napoleon's return to France and ensuing battles to his final pursuit and eventual surrender to the British. Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of the opposing armies. While the guns of the Grand Battery thundered in the centre, French columns bore down on the Hougoumont chateau and farm complex, which protected Wellington's flank held by the Guards and their German allies. Thus began an epic 'battle within a battle' that sucked away valuable troops from Napoleon's main attack, causing Wellington to declare that 'the battle turned on the closing of the gates at Hougoumont'.

• The Dark Ages: The 1066 Hastings Campaign | DVD | (20/10/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is with out a doubt one of the most significant events in English history. In the aftermath of the battle, King Harold's Saxon England was brutally swept away by the Conqueror to be replaced by Norman Feudalism. With the decisive nature of the battle, it is often forgotten just how narrowly Duke William succeeded. This DVD identifies and examines those turning points in the 1066 Campaign and explains why Harold lost. Not only is Hastings covered in detail but also the first battle of the campaign against Harold Hardrarder's victorious Vikings at Fulford, Williams landing at Pevensy, along with Harold's march north to victory over the Vikings at Stamford Bridge.

• Special Forces: Bruneval Raid - Operation Biting | DVD | (21/06/2012) from £15.60   |  Saving you £1.39 (8.91%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In 1941 Dr RV Jones became convinced that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account forincreasing RAF bomber casualties. The hunt was on! Eventually an enemy Wrzburg system was located on the cliffs ofNorthern France at Bruneval and seizing it would be the solution to overcoming the enemy radar problem. A joint operationwas planned by HQ Combined Ops that would involve all three Services, including the newly raised and barely parachutequalified C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion, Commanded by Major John Frost.The planning went well but the rehearsals involving the Royal Navy were all disastrous. As the narrow window of moon andtide approached it was decided 'to bash on'. Nine of the twelve sticks of Paratroopers were dropped by 51 Squadron andthe Germans were caught napping on a winters night. However, they quickly responded and the Paras had a serious fighton their hands to keep the enemy at bay while the experts, who the Paras had orders to kill rather than let fall into enemyhands, dismantled. With the enemy closing in the job was done and the force started to withdraw but elements of Frostsplan were beginning to unravel. It seemed that they may be blocked but with the Paras converging on the beach theysecured their escape on the badly delayed Royal Navy landing craft.In Britain's darkest hour the success of the Bruneval raid was just what Churchill needed and the information gained saved the lives of many air crew.

• The Blackout | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Have you ever consumed so much alcohol and drugs that you forgot what you did last night? Hollywood superstar Matty (Matthew Modine) does it all the time. He's got everything - fame money gorgeous women fast cars and even faster friends. But when Matty's strung out there's nothing he wouldn't do for kicks... even commit murder! Assisting Matty on his modern descent into hell are nightclub owner Micky (Dennis Hopper) girlfriend Annie (Beatrice Dalle) and starring in her first feature film role Supermodel Claudia Schiffer as his lover Susan. Let maverick director Abel Ferrara plunge your senses into the compulsive world of excess.

• Rat | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The premise of Rat is simple enough: when hard-drinking Hubert Flynn comes home late and bedraggled for the umpteenth time, he wakes up transformed into the rat he truly is. Flynn's family is upset and surprised, but somehow they recognise the appropriateness of this turn of events--Flynn's wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) even takes a smug satisfaction in her husband's fate. When a writer arrives and offers to help Conchita write a bestselling book about this odd turn of events, she seizes on the opportunity to squeeze something positive from the man who's made her so miserable--and in the process, becomes a bit of a rat herself. Rat takes a little while to establish its comic tone, but once it settles into a kind of Irish magic realism, the deadpan reactions of the family becomes strikingly funny. For example, when Conchita takes the rat to visit Flynn's favourite tavern, one barfly blithely comments, "Still, all things considered, he's not looking so bad". Pete Postlethwaite plays Flynn in his brief time as a non-rat, and all the performances are excellent; particularly charming is Kerry Condon as Flynn's daughter, who desperately tries to preserve some sense of dignity for her altered dad. With its whimsical humour and sardonic streak, Rat is no doubt destined to become a cult favourite. Fans of Monty Python will appreciate the film's sly verbal wit. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Dr Rage | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £8.71   |  Saving you £7.28 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a cab driver accidentally injures a homeless man he trades jail time for participation in an experimental anger control program at the Straun foundation. Once there he finds himself at the mercy of the foundation's insane head doctor Timothy Straun -- the infamous ""Dr. Rage"".

• Dr Rage | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When a cab driver accidentally injures a homeless man he trades jail time for participation in an experimental anger control program at the Straun foundation. Once there he finds himself at the mercy of the foundation's insane head doctor Timothy Straun -- the infamous ""Dr. Rage"".