Documentary

• The Treasures Of St Petersburg And The Hermitage | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (165.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD celebrates the art and architecture of St Petersburg in its 300th anniversary.Using the fantastic collections of what is probably the finest museum in the world The Hermitage. The DVD takes the viewer on a tour of the treasures of this 'Venice of the North'.

• Out Of Town - Vol. 4 | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £13.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For lovers of rural England countryman Jack Hargreaves embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. With the countryside once again back in the news the series demonstrates country life and the importance of rural economies trades and habitats. Age old skills such as apple grafting and sheep shearing are covered alongside familiar pursuits like point - to - point racing and angling.

• Duck Dynasty | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £27.51   |  Saving you £-7.52 (-37.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ask anyone in Louisiana and they'll tell you that the Bayou State's favourite first family doesn't live in the governor's mansion but in the backwoods. Meet the Robertsons, who run Duck Commander, a homegrown mom-and-pop turned sporting empire, selling top-of-the-line duck calls and decoys out of salvaged swamp wood. This is their rags-to-riches story. There's business-savvy Willie, brother Jase, their respective wives Korie and Missy, patriarch and Duck Commander founder Phil, and Uncle Si. See for yourself why Duck Dynasty has won millions of viewers and fans across America.

• British Diesel Trains: The East Midlands | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This programme stretches across the country from the Lickey Bank to the Midland Main Line and down to Bristol and Oxford. British Rail diesel stalwarts of the pre and post-privatisation eras at work on a wide variety of traffic. We see locomotive haulage of local and express passenger trains special excursions with preserved locomotives on the main lines. Special features at Longbridge Car Plant and on the demise of Speedlink. This fabulous programme part of a wonderful eight-volume series celebrates the might of diesel an often overlooked part of British rail heritage. Incredible action footage makes every title in this series a real treat.

• Burroughs: The Movie | Blu Ray | (11/07/2016) from £22.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (33.35%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Now viewers can enjoy the invigorating candidness of Burroughs: The Movie, a one-of-a-kind non-fiction portrait that was brought to life with the help of a remarkable crew of friends, including JIM JARMUSCH (Down By Law) and TOM DICILLO (Living in Oblivion), and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs's including Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, and Terry Southern. Bonus Features New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interviews with filmmakers Jim Jarmusch, Aaron Brookner, and Tom DiCillo, as well as William S. Burroughs's friends and fellow writers James Grauerholz and Stew Meyer Rare outtakes Footage from the 2014 New York Film Festival premiere of the film's restoration Thirty-minute experimental edit of the film from 1981 by inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton Jr. PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante and a collage poster by artist Alison Mosshart Click Images to Enlarge

• Polar Bears 3D: Ice Bear (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/12/2012) from £4.49   |  Saving you £16.76 (518.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Using stereoscopic 3D camera technology the complexities of polar bear survival is brought to life as never before with an immersive 3D experience and point-of-view shots that will take you right in to the polar bear’s sensory and physical world. Shot over 12 months in the Canadian Arctic and capturing rarely-seen behaviour Polar Bears 3D: Ice Bear is an enthralling and captivating look at their changing world.

• Tawai - A Voice From The Forest | Blu Ray | (30/04/2018) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Explorer Bruce Parry returns to our screens with his feature documentary directorial debut. Experience this immersive odyssey with Bruce as he travels the world living with indigenous peoples, delving deeper than ever on a journey into the heart of our collective human conscience. Tawai is the word the nomadic hunter gatherers of Borneo use to describe their inner feeling of connection to nature. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce learns from people living lives very different to our own. From the jungles of Malaysia to the tributaries of the Amazon, TAWAI is a quest for reconnection, providing a powerful voice from the heart of the forest itself. Features: Deleted scenes from Colombia. Bruce and his brother Duncan take part in an Ayahuasca healing ceremony in southern Colombia. Deleted scenes from the Congo. Bruce meets the Mbendjele tribe of northern Congo, learning the ways of how they hold balance within their society and how, they believe, human civilisation came to be. Feature Commentary with Bruce Parry.

• Look at Life 6: World Affairs | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £20.36   |  Saving you £29.63 (145.53%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – replacing the circuit’s newsreel Universal News which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts.

• From Mambo To Hip Hop | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From Mambo To Hip Hop - A Bronx Tale.

• I Was Monty's Double/Ice Cold In Alex/Went The Day Well | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: I Was Monty's Double: In World War II North Africa an actor is set the task of posing as Field Marshal Montgomery in an effort to confuse the Nazis. Based on a true story. Ice Cold In Alex: A tense engrossing adventure set in the 1942 Libyan war zone in the hot Western Desert. A British ambulance officer (John Mills) escapes the siege in Tobruk and tries desperately to get his passengers to safety in Alexandria where he dreams he will have the luxury of an 'ice cold' glass of beer. His passengers include a stranded hospital nurse a Sergeant-Major and a stray South African Officer trying to return to his unit. Despite saving the group from the Germans something is not quite right about the last passenger. As he begins to undermine the group's stamina using psychological tactics the British officer begins to suspect he might be a German spy... Went The Day Well?: On the Whitsun weekend of 1942 in the idyllic village of Bramley End German paratroopers disguised as sappers attempt to set up equipment to disrupt Britain's radar defences yet haven't counted on the indomitable spirit of the English villagers! Directed by the Italian director Alberto Cavalcanti and produced by Ealing Studios Went The Day Well? was a commercial feature based loosely upon Graham Greene's fictional short story 'The Lieutenant Died Last'.

• A Is For Autism | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £9.02   |  Saving you £-3.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'This short film is timeless. It offers astonishing insights into how someone with autism processes the world around them' - Cathy Mercer National Autism Society. Released for the first time on DVD this award winning film is a short glimpse into the condition of autism with words drawings music and animation all contributed by people with autism.

• Inside The Actors Studio - Johnny Depp | DVD | (03/01/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.26 (18.72%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this one of only a handful of interviews Johnny Depp has ever granted he lets the audience in on both his fascinating eccentricity and his deep uncompromising devotion to the craft of acting. He began as one of the most intriguing actors of his generation and has become one of the most respected artists of his time.

• Spacecraft - Apollo 11 - Men On The Moon | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Never before has there been such a comprehensive and thorough series devoted to the history of space exploration. Featuring actual video and film footage from NASA's archives the Spacecraft Films collection is a must-have for anyone interested in technology science and outer space. This release captures the miraculous moon landing on July 20 1969 which made the world believe that anything was possible.

• Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey | Blu Ray | (30/06/2014) from £10.78   |  Saving you £7.21 (40.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A documentary on Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the new singer for the rock & roll band, Journey.

• The Sorrow and the Pity | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hailed as one of the most moving and influential films of our time this Oscar nominated classic by director Marcel Ophus has continued to garner international acclaim since its release in 1969. A documentary covering the period of France's Vichy government which collaborated with Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944. Includes interviews from 1969 with a German officer and with collaborators and resistance fighters who comment on the nature details and reasons for their actions.

• Fred Dibnah - Age Of Steam | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £11.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (74.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A look at the age of steam with Britain's favourite steeplejack Fred Dibnah.

• Simple Postnatal Yoga | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Designed for postnatal women who have little or no experience of yoga. Features the sections: 'Centring' 'Lying Stretches And Toning Breaths' 'All Fours' 'Standing' 'Seated Stretches' and 'Relaxation'.

• The Battle Of Hastings | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £14.52   |  Saving you £-9.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The great battle fought near the English seaside town of Hastings on October 14th 1066 was perhaps the most significant in England's history. The victory of Duke William of Normandy over Harold II of England was to forever shape the destiny of a nation for the sun set on the battlefield of Senlac Hill and also the Anglo-Saxon way of life. Atmospheric reconstruction and re-enactment footage plus 3D computer mapping techniques combine to tell the dramatic story of a battle which remains one of the most famous in history.

• Victory at Sea: Collectors Edition - Remastered with Original Richard Rodgers Soundtrack | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £15.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (87.55%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the most important series in the history of television. A 26-episode World War II documentary from the American perspective Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952 the show was a huge success winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard Rodgers (South Pacific). Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy each 26-minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Sergei Eisenstein these action-suspense setpieces giving the programmes an urgent surprisingly modern feel. The emphasis throughout is at least as much on entertainment as information the factual content delivered in poetic narration the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are wide-ranging covering parts of the land war and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and Uboat 'Wolfpacks' to war in Alaska the South Atlantic the Far East the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan. The narration offers a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today.

• Cold War Air Power - Combat In The Air | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Back Reads: The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West lasted for over forty years, and saw the two most powerful air forces ever known poised at each others throats, ready to strike at a minutes notice. COLD WAR AIR POWER examines the aircraft, strategy and tactics of the Cold War Era. It takes you inside the Soviet Air Force, with a comprehensive overview of the Soviet Bomber and interceptors, as well as Soviet naval units and army aviation. It takes you behind the scenes with the Victors, Vulcans and Valiants of the V-Force Britains nuclear bomber fleet and also looks at the independent French airborne nuclear deterrent of the era. The US strategic bomber fleet, from the B-29 to the B2A Spirit, is profiled with superb historic footage and features many lesser know Cold War Warriors including the B-58 Hustler and the XB-70 Valkyrie. Many of the confrontation between the opposing forces took place over the North Sea, effectively putting Britain in the front line of NATO air defence. The classic RAF interceptors of the era the Lightning and the F-4 Phantom are both featured, along with many other examples of interceptors from other nations, and theres also a visit to the Red Flag in Nevada where fighter pilots have trained to meet the Soviet threat in ultra-realistic exercises for over twenty years.