Documentary

• Mind Meld - Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Space, the final frontier...A journey that boldly takes viewers where no man has gone before--deep into the minds and hearts of STAR TREK co-stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Mr. Nimoy's home was the host to this enlightening conversation between the two actor/directors about the beloved series and their involvement as part of the Starship Enterprise. Topics covered includes gossip on the original crew, remembering past colleagues, the fans, behind the scenes stories, and the legacies both men hope to leave behind. The depths of the friendship between these two legendary stars is clearly on display in this touching and insightful conversation.

• Ross Kemp in Search of Pirates | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.93   |  Saving you £8.06 (101.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ross Kemp journeys across three continents to the world's worst piracy hotspots in search of the men responsible for bringing a reign of terror to the high seas. The world's waters are vital to global trade. Ninety percent of the world's trade is moved by sea more than 10 million cargo containers are moving across the world's oceans at any one time yet it is the least policed environment on the planet. It is in this vacuum that today's pirates flourish seizing vessels to order holding hostages for massive ransom fees and using extreme violence. Today's pirates are armed to the teeth with knives heavy machine guns rocket propelled grenades and sophisticated radio systems meaning that pirates are the key players in a multi-million dollar business increasingly seen as one of the biggest yet least publicised threats to global security! Over the three fascinating episodes Ross joins the crew of the Royal Navy HMS Northumberland and meets Somali pirates showing what the worlds mariners face each and every day as well as explaining the causes of and dispelling the myths surrounding one of modern day's greatest political and criminal problems.

• David Starkey's Monarchy - Series 1-3 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £9.76 (32.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  David Starkey is one of the UK’s most outstanding academics and a leading constitutional and monarchy expert. In this special collectors’ edition box set we see the eminent historian and presenter bring to life powerful individuals with colourful characters using his unique and engaging gift as a communicator. David Starkey’s Monarchy -The Complete First Series An in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant in terms of expression of the individual the Mother of Parliaments the Magna Carta the laws of England and the land of England. Episodes include: A Nation State Engla Land Conquest Dynasty A United Kingdom Death of a Dynasty David Starkey’s Monarchy - The Complete Second Series A gripping biographical narrative of England’s royal rulers (stories of power lust treason and murder). Episodes include: The Crown Imperial King and Emperor The Shadow of the King The Stuart Succession Cromwell The King Killer David Starkey’s Monarchy - The Complete Third Series This is a captivating look into the complicated and turbulent history of England’s royal families. Episodes include: Return of the King The Glorious Revolution Rule Britannia Empire Survival

• Sunday Night at the London Palladium - Volume Two | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £12.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (54.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Making its debut on ITV's opening weekend in 1955 Sunday Night at the London Palladium swiftly established itself as one of the weekly televisual highlights for the British viewing public. Gaining average viewing figures of 14 million and Top Ten placings almost every week it is undoubtedly one of the main shows that helped establish commercial television in the UK. This was a weekly television event that appealed to all classes denominations and age groups - an unquestionable success which still provides a high benchmark that today's variety shows can only aspire to. This DVD set contains some of the best of what remains in the archives and includes Bruce Forsyth Jimmy Tarbuck. Cliff Richard and the Shadows The Searchers Frankie Howerd The Hollies Arthur Haynes Des O Connor Cleo Laine The Johnny Dankworth Seven and many more.

• Amazing Africa | Blu Ray | (25/11/2013) from £9.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (105.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wildlife documentary showing the African continent and the animals which inhabit its environment.

• Polish Cinema Classics Volume II | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £40.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A second volume of our acclaimed series. Second Run DVD proudly presents three celebrated works of Polish Cinema, now fully restored and released for the first time ever in the UK. Andrzej Wajda PROMISED LAND (Ziemia obiecana, 1974): Voted the best film in the history of Polish cinema in the monthly Polish magazine FILM, Wajda's Oscar-nominated epic Promised Land is a wry, incisive, shocking and elegantly realised Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty, exploitation and bet...

• Gasland | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's happening all across America - rural landowners waking up to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. The reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground - a hydraulic drilling process called fracking- and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

• I Am Ali | Blu Ray | (28/11/2014) from £5.95   |  Saving you £19.04 (320.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An intimate and heart-warming look at the man behind the legend – as we’ve never seen Ali before. ‘I Am Ali’ is told through exclusive unprecedented access to Ali’s personal archive of ‘audio journals’ combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends including his daughters son ex-wife and brother plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson George Foreman and Gene Kilroy. Experience Ali’s extraordinary story as a Fighter Lover Brother Father - told from the inside for the very fi rst time. Bonus Features: Fighter - The Legendary Boxer Brother - The Civil Rights Supporter Lover - The People’s Champion Father - The Family Man The Music - Telling The Story Includes additional interviews and insights from Ali’s children Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champions George Foreman and Ken Norton Former NBA All Star player Karl Malone and close friends Sir Tom Jones and Kris Kristofferson.

• Swimming With Monsters | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £8.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (17.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Steve Backshall ventures into some of nature's most inhospitable and remote regions. Adventurer and wildlife expert Steve Backshall has spent his entire life getting up close to incredible animals. Now he wants to find answers to his own questions about four of the most 'monstrous' animals on our planet by entering their underwater world and getting closer to them than ever before. Follow Steve as he ventures into some of nature's most inhospitable and remote regions to reveal the behaviour and personalities of four 'monsters' whose wild sub-aquatic life has rarely if ever been disturbed by humans. His nerve-wracking journey is fraught with tension as he attempts to challenge the myths and misconceptions surrounding these exceptional creatures and bring their true natures to light. Follow Steve as he joins forces with behavioural specialists top scientists and extreme divers in order to develop ingenious protocols for diving with fascinating but deadly animals. Together they will hunt down these notorious beasts in order for Steve to do the unthinkable - swim with them.

• Weir's Way - The Essential Collection | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Writer, broadcaster, climber and pioneering campaigner for the protection of the Scottish environment, Tom Weir presented his classic Scottish Television series Weir's Way from 1976 to 1987, meeting the people, exploring the landscape and uncovering the history of this extraordinary nation. Compiled here for the first time, are 52 episodes and a disc of rarely seen extras. Weir's Way: The Essential Collection is the perfect companion for everyone who shares Tom's passion for the beaut.

• Ypres-The Immortal Salient Part 1 | DVD | (21/04/2011) from £11.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (25.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This film is presented by historian and film-maker Ed Skelding who takes us on a chronological journey through the first two years of fighting in the salient. He is joined by renowned military historian and author Nigel Cave who will join Ed at some key locations where decisive actions took place. Nigel is well known for his contributions to the Battleground Europe series of guide books published by Pen & Sword. This film will feature locations associated with the first two battles of Ypres, including Hooge Chateau, Langemark and Gheluvelt where the first encounters between the opposing armies took place. The story of the 1914 Christmas truce will be explained by Nigel and the nearby locations where the artist Bruce Bairnsfather drew the cartoons that were to establish the character of Old Bill. Nigel is also interviewed at the notorious location of Hill 60, where he reads from his Battleground Europe book, and explains why this was such a dreaded place, even for the Salient. The second part of this film then switches to the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. This became notorious for the first real gas attack of the war and was to change the attitude of the British soldiers towards the Germans. Gone forever was any notion of chivalry. Nigel is interviewed at Vancouver Corner - where an impressive memorial to the Canadians who died defending the line despite suffering many casualties from the gas – now stands. He also takes us to the nearby Totemuhle or Death Windmill to explain where the gas attack came from and the resulting lost opportunity for the Germans. This film will also tell the story of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the doctors who did so much often in the most desperate circumstances. Nigel is interviewed at Essex Farm, forever to be associated and immortalized by the poem of the Canadian Colonel John McCrae – In Flanders Fields.

• Pictures Of The Old World | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dušan Hanák's renowned film (voted 'the best Slovak film of all time' by critics in 2000) is a poetic visual essay on the forgotten peoples of remote villages in the Tatra Mountains. Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček (1913-2004) whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous intransient images Hanák creates his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work crafting a polyphony of human stories. The film documents the lives of nine old people - the textures of faces of hands and of landscape predominate alongside an obstinate vitality and desire for life. At odds with the Communist propaganda of the time its depiction of poverty punctuated with alcoholism religion and the hardships of the subjects' lives resulted in the film being withdrawn from release. Condemned for its 'aesthetics of ugliness' the film remained banned for many years. However Hanák's film is not a political polemical or even social film. It goes far deeper to more fundamental levels of human experience - its power and beauty lies in its unique portrait of a people who seem to have been forgotten by the modern world. Released for the first time ever in the UK the DVD is presented fom a new HD digital tansfer with restored picture and sound - plus new HD restorations of two of Dušan Hanák's acclaimed short films Mass (Omša 1967) and Old Shatterhand Came to Us (Prišiel k nám Old Shatterhand 1966). Special Features: New HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound. New HD restoations of Dušan Hanák short films Mass (1966) and Old Shatterhand Came to Us (1866). Booklet featuring a new essay by author and critic Jonathan Owen. New and improved English subtitle translation.

• Nazi Concentration Camps | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £13.13   |  Saving you £-3.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It is impossible for any piece of film or eye-witness account to truly capture the horrors barbarity and inhumanity suffered by those ill-fated people caught in the murderous concentration camps of the Third Reich. The footage within this DVD however is some of the rawest and most graphic wartime film ever taken of the atrocities carried out in the numerous camps and does give a small glimpse of the appalling living conditions unspeakable deaths and brutal treatment of millions of innocent people.

• The Battle of Towton 1461 | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It was snowing on Palm Sunday, 1461. The Wars of the Roses had been rumbling on for years - and now, on Towton Fields near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, they were going to settle it - the hard way. On one side the Lancastrians, on the other the Yorkists. But it wasn't county against county, it was more north against south. Cousin against cousin. Yorkshire soil would see a Kingship change hands, altering the course of English history - and up to 28,000 soldiers would die in slaughter from dawn to dusk. Terry Deary - the hugely successful author of history books for children - traces the remarkable story of the Battle of Towton, hearing from historians, enthusiasts and experts. They'll show us the skeletal remains of soldiers who died in the battle - and the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds demonstrate the kind of weapons they'd have used. And there's spectacular helicopter footage of the battlefield where, even today, objects from that March day in 1461 are still being discovered. It's a fascinating journey back five hundred and fifty years. To the Yorkshire fields where Englishmen killed Englishmen, in the biggest, bloodiest battle the country's ever seen - The Butcher's Yard of Towton. Based on the BBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Documentary A History of the World: Towton 1461 in association with Towton Battlefield Society

• Live At Saitama Super Arena | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £13.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Live At Saitama Super Arena contiene il concerto dal vivo registratro a Tokyo il 10 ottobre 2010.

• Most Haunted - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Most Haunted team set out again to bring an honest impartial account of paranormal activity with all the investigations from series 5 of LIVINGtv's award-winning show.

• Blue Water White Death | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This full-length documentary from Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb follows a team of divers as they attempt to seek out Great White Sharks in their natural habitat a journey that takes them all over the oceans of the world.

• History's Mysteries - The Loch Ness Monster | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £10.74   |  Saving you £7.24 (93.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For 60 years a newspaper photo of a prehistoric creature served as evidence of a ""monster"" lurking in Scotland's Loch Ness. Yet even after the photo was revealed to be a hoax the legend of ""Nessie"" would not go away so strong is the worldwide faith in its existence! This captivating program introduces the fascinating characters who have contributed to the lore of the Lock Ness Monster men like British naval officer Russell Flint who collided with a huge animal in the middle of th

• Bomber Boys - Ewan McGregor - As Seen on BBC1 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (275.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ewan McGregor and his brother Colin explore the heroism and extraordinary collective spirit of Bomber Command through to the pilots who risked their lives in the dangerous aerial sorties of World War II.

• Becoming Cousteau | Blu Ray | (28/02/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BECOMING COUSTEAU examines the epic life of Jacques Yves Cousteau, the ocean explorer who spanned the globe with a misfit crew of divers and filmmakers, under the lifelong creed, Il faut aller voir -- We must go and see for ourselves. The Frenchman who first sounded the alarm to save the oceans was born with a dream to fly, but a car accident grounded his aviation career, and he found rehabilitation and inspiration through free-diving in the South of France. His desire to go deeper and further led him to inventions that would forever change the way we see and know the undersea world, co-inventing the aqualung and revolutionizing underwater cinematography. At the start, a burgeoning oil industry backed his explorations paving the way for ocean exploitation. Then, the television industry made him an international star. His trailblazing underwater cinematography and high sea adventures aboard the Calypso introduced generations around the world to the wonders of the seas, but when Cousteau started to see with his own eyes the destruction and degradation of the oceans, he sounded the alarm. But was it too late?