"Director: David Attenborough"

• David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (28/04/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the Natural History Museum in a compelling tale of discovery and adventure in which photorealistic CGI and cutting-edge science combine to bring the museum's long-extinct inhabitants back to life.

• Life In The Undergrowth | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £13.57   |  Saving you £11.42 (84.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Attenborough reveals a secret universe - it is teeming with life and is all around us yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small and it is a world of sex drugs and violence. Here David shows us not just bugs beetles and creepy-crawlies but scorpions and centipedes mites and mantids spiders and dragonflies. And not just life in the undergrowth but the dramatic battles between predator and prey that are happening in the corner of your living room and in your la

• The Great Epics | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £38.99   |  Saving you £-16.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day (1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942) and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984). On the DVD: Too often the best extras come attached to films that don't really warrant them. Not so here, where a truly great film has been given the attention it deserves. The first disc presents the film in the original extra-wide CinemaScope ratio of 2.55:1, in an anamorphically enhanced transfer which does maximum justice to the film's superb cinematography. The sound has been transferred from the original six-track magnetic elements into 5.1 Dolby Digital and far surpasses what many would expect from a 1950s' feature. The main bonus on the first disc is an isolated presentation of Malcolm Arnold's great Oscar-winning music score, in addition to which there is a trivia game, and maps and historical information linked to appropriate clips. The second disc contains a new, specially produced 53-minute "making of" documentary featuring many of those involved in the production of the movie. This gives a rich insight into the physical problems of making such a complex epic on location in Ceylon. Also included are the original trailer and two short promotional films from the time of release, one of which is narrated by star William Holden. Finally there is an "appreciation" by director John Milius, an extensive archive of movie posters and artwork, and a booklet that reproduces the text of the film's original 1957 brochure. --Gary S Dalkin

• David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £12.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (38.49%)   |  RRP £17.99

  David Attenborough introduces you to his favourite extinct creatures as they come alive on one magical night in London's Natural History Museum. In this ground-breaking new film David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the Natural History Museum in a compelling tale of discovery and adventure in which photorealistic CGI and cutting-edge science combine to bring the museum's long-extinct inhabitants back to life in stunning 3D. As the front doors of this great museum are locked and night falls David Attenborough stays behind to meet some of the fascinating extinct creatures he's always wanted to meet. Piecing together clues as to how they looked and behaved dinosaurs ice age beasts monstrous apes and giant reptiles all come alive in front of his eyes. This spectacular film for all the family marks a unique collaboration of the museum's experts with the BAFTA winning team behind Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough and Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough. The result is a truly magical night you will never forget. Special Features: Making of Documentary