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• Richard The Lionheart - Historical drama starring Steven Waddington. | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £5.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Steven Waddington as Richard the Lionheart ( ˜The Last of the Mohicans, The Imitation Game'.) Richard The Lionheart, King of England was one of the greatest warriors of his age. After a declaration from the Pope to the recapture of the Holy land, Richard takes on the biggest challenge of his life by agreeing to lead a coalition army to win back these sacred lands and take back the city of Jerusalem in the name of God. All of the eyes of the Christian world were upon him, the task is immense, and his adversary Saladin is himself a great leader who controls a huge army vastly outnumbering the Crusaders. This epic struggle between these two great warrior leaders would shape the future of the world forever. Almost a thousand years ago, Richard the Lionheart King of England arrived in the Holy Land to fight in the Crusades, the first religious wars the world had ever seen. He had made a promise to God and his knights that he would not rest until he had taken back Jerusalem from the Saracens . Richard's impact was immediate leading from the front and always in the thick of fighting, he beat Saladin in a series of key battles. But during the next few months, Richard's luck changed: his army was bogged down by bad weather and disease and his leadership of the Crusade was repeatedly challenged by rivals. But when Richard discovered the Saracens were besieging the Christian city of Jaffa, although heavily out-numbered he launched a heroic rescue attempt and, with it, a final grasp at redemption.

• The British | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £8.39   |  Saving you £16.60 (66.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An epic adventure through the ages. Gripping drama reconstruction, the latest CGI, stunning cinematography, amazing time-lapse and aerial footage offer a fresh take on how Britain took shape. The British is an ambitious and gripping series about the history of the British Isles from Stonehenge to World War Two, the Roman occupation to the discovery of penicillin. At its heart is an intriguing question. Today, much of the planet's population lives in a British-shaped world. How did this clutch of islands off the coast of Europe come to dominate the globe? These are extraordinary tales of human endeavour, struggles against huge odds and triumphs of the human spirit, inspiring invention and innovation, grit and heroism.

• Heroes and Villains | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lavish all-action dramatic spectacles based on the lives of six men who shaped the world around them either by sheer force of will genius courage or even greed. Powerful magnetic personalities who have earned their place in the world's imagination all prepared to die for what they believed in - whether it was God or gold the pursuit of power and glory or a magnificent ideal. From Spartacus the gladiator who brought Rome to its knees to the audacious military genius Napoleon this series combines absorbing drama with CGI to ask what were the motives the strengths and even the weaknesses that drove these men to achieve what no one else had dared. The amazing stories of Hernan Cortez Attila the Hun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Richard the Lionheart are also included.