"Director: Molly Dineen"

• The Molly Dineen Collection Vol 1: Home From the Hill (2-DVD set) | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed documentary filmmakers recipient of Grierson BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards for her unique contribution to documentary filmmaking. This is the first of three double-disc volumes from the BFI which will bring together Dineen's full body of work from the candid film for Tony Blair's election campaign (Tony Blair 1997) to the BAFTA-award winning portrait of Britain's countryside (The Lie of the Land 2007). Volume 1: Home from the Hill opens with Dineen's astounding debut film Home from the Hill (1987) about Colonel Hilary Hook a retired soldier faced with leaving his Kenyan home and returning to Britain. In My African Farm (1988) Dineen returns to Kenya and to the home of Sylvia Richardson stalwart of the British colonial presence in the country. Heart of the Angel (1989) is a wry humorous examination of the trials of working at one of London's busiest underground stations. In the three-part In The Company of Men (1995) the charismatic Major Crispin Black and his men share their experience in the Prince of Wales Company of the Welsh Guards stationed in Northern Ireland.

• The Molly Dineen Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £15.89   |  Saving you £4.10 (25.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, and recipient of numerous awards including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary. This is the second of three volumes that brings all of her films to DVD for the first time.In the BAFTA award-winning, four-part series The Ark (1993), the management and staff of London Zoo fight for survival in the face of drastic cuts. But it is not only staff who face redundancy; tough decisions must be made about which animals to remove from the Zoo s lively and lovable collection. Tensions continue to build as rebel groups threaten an all-out coup. The four films which tell this fascinating and moving story are shot through with intimacy, wit and compassion: the hallmarks of Dineen's work.

• Molly Dineen Collection Volume 3: The Lie of the Land | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, and recipient of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary. This is the final installment of three volumes that bring all of her films to DVD. Geri (1999) follows 'Ginger Spice' Geri Halliwell, the most outrageous Spice Girl, who has dramatically left the band. Dineen joins her as she seeks solace with family and friends, dodges the paparazzi, and embarks on her new career. In the wake of New Labour's abolition of hereditary peers, The Lords' Tale (2002) sees Dineen observe the mirth, bitterness and quiet sadness along the paneled corridors of the House of Lords as 700 peers are forced to depart. In The Lie of the Land (2007) Dineen uncovers the unpleasant truths of life in the British countryside where agriculture is slowly dying under the forces of legislation, development and disease.