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• The World At War - Vol. 1 | DVD | (28/08/2000) from £5.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (90.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Elles | Blu Ray | (20/08/2012) from £10.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (99.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a journalist who, during her investigation into prostitution, encounters two young girls who use their bodies as a way to make easy money. Fascinated by them, she is drawn into their world, which stands in marked contrast to her own bourgeois life. Juliette Binoche gives a characteristically committed performance in Malgorzata Szunowska's frank drama, whose camera never shies away from the details of the girl's work, always capturing Anne's response to it.

• Joe Louis Walker - Live - On Broadway | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded live in concert Joe Louis Walker performs 'Rainy Nights' 'Mile-Hi Club' and 'Runnin' From The Devil'.

• Left Behind - World At War | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the latest action-packed installment of the faith-based franchise based on the hugely popular 'Left Behind' series of books! In the prophesied world of the Book of Revelation global icon and world leader Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie) has finally done the unimaginable - he has managed to unite the world in peace - and bring an end to the bloodshed that has ruled the world since the beginning of time. American President Gerald Fitzhugh (Lou Gossett Jr.) has shared th

• Hotel Du Nord | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ""Atmosphre? Atmosphre? Est-ce que j'ai une gueule d'atmosphre?"" Hotel du Nord is the second part of Marcel Carne's ""fatalistic romantic melodramas"" following Quai des Brumes and later completed by Le Jour se Leve. Renee (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) take a room at the shabby Parisian Hotel du Nord with the intention of seeing through a suicide pact. However Pierre shoots Annabella but cannot turn the gun on himself. Seedy pimp Monsieur

• Studio Classic: Classic Encounters | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £14.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (133.42%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Anastasia (Dir. Anatole Litvak 1956): The world will never know if the real Russian princess Anastasia met her death at the hands of red Russian rebels or if she lived on. Based on fact this story is set against the mystery surrounding this elusive puzzle. Ingrid Bergman portrays the destitute woman who remarkably resembles the true Princess Anastasia. She is chosen by two Russian courtiers to masquerade as the princess in order to gain ten million pounds. Meeting scepticism

• Gate 2 - LimitedSpecial Edition | Blu Ray | (07/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Francofonia | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

• A Man Called Adam | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Drama starring Sammy Davis Jr. as professional jazz trumpeter Adam Johnson whose self destructive habits spiral out of control following the death of his family in a car accident. Meanwhile he is also experiencing the racial prejudices latent in the music industry and these issues are brought to the fore when he meets respected older jazz musician Willie Ferguson (Louis Armstrong) and his beautiful civil rights activist grand-daughter Claudia (Cicely Tyson).

• Fiesta | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A compelling study of the seductive powers of fascism and violence directed by Pierre Boutron. The film looks at the deeply disturbing world of the Spanish Civil War and follows a young military cadet who is ordered to join the firing squad.

• Paris Blues | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-2.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A story of love and music. Two American jazz musicians are living in Paris but with the arrival of two American tourists they find their lives turned upside down.

• Robin Cook's Invasion | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It begins in Arizona when three college friends Beau Cassy a student teacher and Pitt a four-year medical student discover a meteorite - stinging hot to the flesh - in the parking lot of a Phoenix diner. Within hours of touching it Beau falls ill with strange flu-like symptoms that defy rational diagnosis. By the following morning he has not only recovered but feels euphoric. In fact he feels changed. But Beau isn't the only one who has undergone the transformation. The strange flu has spread rapidly affecting each victim with the same inexplicable exhilaration. The phenomenon inspires Beau to team with a billionaire entrepreneur to develop The Institute for a New Humankind. It's a chance for its newly-illuminated members to experience the world as they never have before - and change it. Cassy and Pitt suspicious of Beau's newfound cult are compelled to investigate. What they uncover is unfathomable but terrifyingly real: the virus is an alien intelligence systematically infecting the bodies and minds of everyone on Earth. Their attempt to solicit help from the Centre of Disease Control elicits only fear. For the CDC along with the police are already among the changed. Tracking the course of the meteorite assault over the Internet it's up to Cassy and Pitt to stop it. Their underground fight takes them to an isolated government germ warfare base where a secret portal to another world - and a life-or-death confrontation with Beau the leader of the new alien race - awaits them.

• The Secret Life Of Pets | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £5.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  4 X SHARPER THAN HD From the creators of the blockbuster Despicable Me franchise comes the animated feature-flm that fnally answers the question: what do your pets do when you're not home? When their owners leave for the day, pets from the building gossip with their friends, satisfy their sweet tooths, and throw outrageous parties. But when a pampered terrier and his unruly new roommate from the pound get lost in the urban jungle of New York City, they must put aside their diferences to survive the epic journey back home. DISC ONE: 4K ULTRA HD MOVIE FOR THE ULTIMATE MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE, THIS DISC FEATURES: 4X sharper picture than HD HDR (HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE) for brilliant brights and deepest darks IMMERSIVE AUDIO for a multi-dimensional sound experience DISC TWO: BLU-RAY™ MOVIE + BONUS FEATURES 3 MINI-MOVIES ALL ABOUT THE PETS THE MAKING OF THE MINI-MOVIES THE HUMANS THAT BROUGHT YOU PETS A LOVELY DAY LYRIC VIDEO AND MORE! ALSO INCLUDES DIGITAL HD WITH UV- WATCH ANYWHERE ON ALL YOUR DEVICES!

• Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - Vol. 3 | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Swingers: Louis journeys to Southern California to investigate the weird world of wife-swapping. Is he man enough for the group room? And what do you do when you want to touch someone's primary erogenous zone? South Africa: Louis visits the whites-only communities that want nothing to do with a multi-racial South Africa and discovers a world of fire-breathing Boers (Don't get cocky with me my friend!) and unrepentant German Nazis.

• Lady Chatterley (2 Disc) | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.14   |  Saving you £15.11 (309.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A woman of means begins an affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's estate, opening herself up physically and emotionally in ways she never imagined possible.

• Errance | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £5.11   |  Saving you £16.14 (419.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With this unsparing depiction of a couple in turmoil Odoul proves himself once more to be one of the leading French filmmakers of his generation. Set in three different places and times from 1968 to 1973 and casting model-turned-actress Laetitia Casta as the embatted wife of an alcoholic philanderer this chamber-piece has all the intensity the unsettling power of his previous films. Indeed this is at times a discomfitingly truthful study of two people whose love cannot stop them

• The Man In The Iron Mask | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of fraternal squabbling makes a more than satisfactory transition to celluloid with this 1976 made-for-television swashbuckler. Viewers familiar with the more recent Leonardo DiCaprio version may be stymied at first by the non-MTV pace and the rather unhip presence of Richard Chamberlain in the lead role(s). This well-lensed action film overcomes a somewhat poky first half to emerge as a terrific adventure, complete with plenty of derring-do, some sharply pointed dialogue, and a wonderful performance by the incomparably malevolent Patrick McGoohan. Rousing fun for burgeoning rapscallions of all ages. Director Mike Newell would later find success in a different genre with Four Weddings and a Funeral. Ian Holm, Louis Jordan, and Ralph Richardson round out the embarrassingly rich supporting cast. --Andrew Wright

• Jean Renoir - La Bete Humaine, La Grande Illusion, Le Crime De Monsieur Lange | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes the classic Renoir films La Bete Humaine La Grande Illusion and The Crime Of M. Lange. La Bete Humaine A mad train driver falls in love with a married woman. They plot to kill the wife's husband... La Grande Illusion One of the very first prison escape movies Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece of French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange Told in flashback this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...

• Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this 1920 silent version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Barrymore is dignified and virtuous as Dr Henry Jekyll, and transforms into Id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde with almost no make-up beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, relying almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield co-stars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance-hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature". --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• London | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £10.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (18.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Syd is a strung-out wealthy 20-year old guy whose life is about to go from meaningless to futile. After a massive drug spree he awakes to the news that he is about to lose his ""one true love"" forever... Syd's ex-girlfriend is moving from New York to Los Angeles. Syd has one more chance to win her back at her going-away party. Syd stocks up on cocaine and goes off to the party with Bateman a young English banker he's just met. Throughout the evening however - punctuated by regular drug breaks in the bathroom - we discover that Syd's relationship problems involve more than friction with his girlfriend. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?