"Actor: Dan Cruickshank"

• National Geographic: Dan Cruic | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £10.30   |  Saving you £-5.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  National Geographic: Dan Cruickshank's Great Railway Adventres (Steam Revolution / Brilliant Brunel / War Heroes)

• The Country House Revealed | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the Tudor ebullience of South Wraxall Manor to the rigour of Kinross in Scotland; the beauty of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston to the palatial Georgian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse; the Victorian exuberance of Clandeboye to the Edwardian ingenuity at Marsh Court, the properties exemplify the changing architecture and fortunes of the nation itself.All are still lived in as family homes. But their owners have agreed to go beyond a few carefully selected highlights, and open the entirety of their homes to Dan Cruickshank. Dan has the run of each estate, roaming the corridors, poking into attics and rummaging in cellars. No hat-box or trunk is unturned as Dan teases out each home's story - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them.Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is indissoluble from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is therefore expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them, and together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in this rich new telling of our island story.

• The Lost World Of Mitchell And Kenyon | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Footage discovered and restored by the British Film Institute. Between 1900-1913 filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed the country filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. Discovered some seventy years later the film boasts a world exclusive: the first ever film footage of Manchester United. Episode 1 - Life And Times: The first episode covers the history of the discovery of the films by Peter Worden and the restoration by the Bfi's National Film an

• Around the World in 80 Treasures | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (10.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A Grand Tour Of Man's Greatest Creation! Join Dan Cruickshank as he takes a global tour of the most breathtaking treasures man has ever created. Exciting and intrepid intimate and engaging this series explores some of the world's outstanding man-made spectacles. Traversing the globe Cruickshank visits every continent to reveal awe-inspiring temples towers castles ruins monuments and artefacts. From the exquisite castles of Japan to the Nasca line in Peru from Persepolis in Iran to the Palace of Versailles in France this is your chance to share in the expressive beauty of man's creative powers. Episodes Comprise: 1. Peru To Brazil 2. Mexico To America 3. Australia To Cambodia 4. Japan To Chine 5. India To Srilanka 6. Uzbekistan To Syria 7. Jordan To Ethiopia 8. Mali To Egypt 9. Turkey To Germany 10. Bosnia To France And Home

• The Lost World in Tibet | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A recently restored treasure-trove of colour films from the 1940s and 1950s provides the core of The Lost World Of Tibet which allows us to see what Tibet was like before its brutal occupation by China. As members of the aristocracy and the Tibetan government in exile recall the Tibetans...world revolved around a series of colourful religious festivals taking up 68 days of the year. In The Great Prayer Festival monks take over from the government for a few days and whilst ceremoniously whipping their subjects impose fines for such offences as singing in public or having a dirty house. The film includes a revealing interview with the Dalai Lama who reminisces about how much he missed his mother and his envy for his brother who got to play with all his toys. The Dalai Lama found himself studying from his rigorous final monastic exams - which included publicly debating with his elders - at the same time that the Chinese were preparing to take over the country. 'We were just so engrossed in our little pond' recalls one interviewee. 'We knew nothing what was happening in the world what could happen. And so we lost our country.

• Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (85.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What do the buildings we construct say about us as people? Dan Cruickshank travels across the world celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme buildings from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai Egypt and themes that range from beauty to power paradise and pleasure this series is a monumental journey that takes in some monumental structures gradually building an architectural knowledge so that through the series a story of world architecture is told.

• The Lost World Of Friese-Greene | DVD | (03/05/2006) from £9.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (108.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the mid-1920's pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene made a series of films during an intrepid drive from Lands End to John O'Groats in the early days of the motor car. Claude's remarkable films were shot in pioneering early colour using a process he'd invented himself at a time when the world was filmed in black and white. In this three part series presenter Dan Cruickshank traces the original route in a vintage car tracking relatives of people who appeared in the films. D

• Dan Cruickshanks - Adventures in Architecture | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What do the buildings we construct say about us as people? Dan Cruickshank travels across the world celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme buildings from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai Egypt and themes that range from beauty to power paradise and pleasure this series is a monumental journey that takes in some monumental structures gradually building an architectural knowledge so that through the series a story of world architecture is told.

• Bridges of London with Dan Cruickshank | DVD | (20/01/2014) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Between Richmond and the North Sea, thirty bridges cross the Thames. They carry people across a stretch of river 35 miles long, bringing together a population of nearly eight million. These extraordinary structures have been the making of London, Britain's capital, and according to Dan Cruickshank, Europe's greatest city. Dan's exploration of the mysteries of London's Bridges starts in the far east of London in the marshes of the Thames estuary, the story then moves upstream to Vauxhall, whe...