Documentary

• Western Approaches | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £13.46   |  Saving you £-3.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The merchant seamen who helped bring in vital supplies to a Britain under siege during World War Two performed one of the most daring and dangerous tasks of the war. The battle of the Atlantic was merciless and the Merchant Navy lost more men than any of the British armed forces. In 1944 the Crown Film Unit set out to document the bravery of the merchant seamen and expose the harsh dangers faced by making 'Western Approaches'.

• Jamie Oliver - The Naked Chef | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Unless you've had your head in a plate of pie and mash for the last few years you'll know that The Naked Chef is the UK's youngest culinary talent, Jamie Oliver, and that the "naked" refers to his style of cooking--fresh, simple, stripped back to basics--not his dress sense. The tone is set for the series from the very first episode with roast leg of lamb flavoured with garlic, rosemary, and pancetta and baked fresh fruits (figs, peaches, cherries) with mascarpone and vanilla sugar. It's all ever so slightly and deliciously left of a very classic centre. His basic recipe for homemade pasta is so undauntingly straightforward, it almost certainly did for pasta-makers what Delia did for coriander when she first used it. If his young nieces can handle ravioli with broad bean, mint and fresh ricotta or his mouth-watering variation with potato, watercress and orgonzola, then we all can. Equally simple but inspiring are his fish dishes: baked salmon fillets with French beans, roasted cherry tomatoes, olives, anchovies and a basil aioli; whole steamed sea bass slashed and stuffed with fresh herbs, red peppers and onions; or his Asian-inspired herb-infused broth over steamed king prawns, scallops and clams with sliced ginger root, garlic and chilies. It remains to be seen whether Jamie Oliver turns out to be the Delia Smith for the lad and ladette generation, but British supermarkets seem infinitely better since he's had his way with purple basil, fennel and baby new potatoes on national television. --Tricia Tuttle

• British Railway Journeys: West | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £4.74   |  Saving you £8.25 (174.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On this magnificent train journey there is plenty to see, with mighty mountains, shimmering lochs and miles of majestic coastline. We start our journey in Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow and a visit to the Museum of transport where all the major Scottish railway companies are represented. From Glasgow our journey takes us north into the Highlands and we go through a number of small stations before we reach Crainlarich where the line divides, one going to Oban and the other to Fort William and Mallaig. We continue our journey through the glens and across desolate Rannoch Moor to Ronnoch Station. From here the line climbs to its summit at 1350ft before it starts its descent to Spean Bridge and finally Fort William. At Fort William we have a stop and visit the town, the diesel and electric loco depot and Inverlochy Castle. Leaving Fort William we head to Mallaig via Corpach on the Caledonian Canal and Glenfinnan with its monument to Bonnie Prince Charlie and spectacular arched railway viaduct. The line now runs down past peat moors to the Atlantic and the terminus at Mallaig. From here we return to Fort William to explore the line to Oban, the gateway to the islands.

• A Film Unfinished: Nazi Propaganda and the Warsaw Ghetto | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Film Unfinished was originally meant to have been a propaganda documentary filmed by the Nazi's in the Warsaw Ghetto, showing rich Jews exploiting their poorer neighbours and offering some justification for the Final Solution. But in 1998 evidence appeared that much of the film was staged. Yael Heronski has reconstructed the footage, which is accompanied by the testimonies of six survivors who survived the Ghetto. The result is a fascinating example of how history can be manipulated beyond recognition and a powerful reminder of the scale of the Nazi propaganda machine.

• Liverpool FC Season Review 2011-12 | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Watch all the goals and action from Liverpool's thrilling season - including sensational goals, a memorable FA Cup run and every minute of the nail-biting League Cup final triumph - with interviews with all the key players.Highlights from a season that saw Steven Gerrard's hat-trick complete a double over Everton; Luis Surez cap a virtuoso performance at Norwich with an astonishing 55-yard lob; Glen Johnson grab a spectacular winner at Stamford Bridge and Sebastin Coates strike with a superb scissor kick. It also follows the thrilling FA Cup run; from Dirk Kuyt's late winner that sunk Manchester United, a 6-1 thrashing of Brighton, the gutsy semi-final comeback against Everton to the heartbreaking, 'if-only' last ten minutes at Wembley.Featuring a special bonus disc with every minute of the pulsating League Cup Final triumph, as well as the highlights of the road to Wembley - in which the Reds completed famous victories at Stoke City, Chelsea and Manchester City.

• Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Astonishing never-seen-before footage.It was called unsinkable and its power to fascinate remains unequalled. How was the ship wounded so quickly by an iceberg forcing 1,500 souls beneath the waves of the North Atlantic? To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in April 2012, History partners with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and RMS Titanic, Inc. for the most extensive exploration and imaging ever undertaken of the wreck site in Titanic At 100: Mystery Solved. For the first time, the entire ship and debris field is made visible in stunning clarity. CGI illustrates what happened structurally to the ship - minute-by-minute - after the collision. Never-before-seen views dramatically underscore this tragic event in history.

• Pin | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• NASAS Greatest Missions 6DVD | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Giant leaps for mankind Join the heroic men and women of NASA as we look back at over 50 years of adventure achievement tragedy and triumph. From the first spacewalk to Neil Armstrong's epoch-making first steps on the Moon; from the development of the International Space Station to the Hollywood heroism of the Apollo 13 mission; these are the real stories behind mankind's most astounding technological achievements.

• The Mimic | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £6.39   |  Saving you £13.60 (212.83%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Mimic is centred around Martin Hurdle (Terry Mynott - 'Very Important People'), a seemingly unremarkable maintenance man who in fact conceals an exceptional talent... an uncanny ability to mimic voices. Labouring without prospect at a large pharmaceutical company, Martin's options appear bleak. His one true friend in life is a girl called Jean (Jo Hartley - 'This Is England') who, despite having the best intentions for Martin, is also his live-in landlord. The only other 'friend' Martin can really boast of is Neil (Neil Maskell - 'Utopia'), a newsagent petrified by the news. Now, in a huge revelation by a former lover, Martin is about to discover that he could be the father of an eighteen-year-old son called Steven (Jacob Anderson - 'Adulthood'). With their first meeting on the horizon, is this the news that will finally prompt Martin to escape his prolonged adolescence? And if it is, just how will he use his voices to cope with this life-changing development?

• Secrets of the Royal Gardens | DVD | (19/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dark Days | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £7.90   |  Saving you £8.35 (125.75%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For two years Marc Singer lived with the people who make their home in the tunnels beneath Penn Station in New York, creating Dark Days, an unflinching portrait of a part of society that is literally and figuratively beneath our notice. "You'd be surprised what the human mind and body can adjust to," says Tito, one of the tunnel dwellers. Along with his neighbours he is homeless, but the tunnels offer them a degree of safety that doesn't exist on the streets above. In this strange place they manage to achieve a remarkable degree of domesticity, building shelters, keeping pets and cooking meals. Singer has an eye for telling images, such as Dee dragging a sofa along the train tracks like Sisyphus rolling his stone in Hell. With its grainy black-and-white photography and haunting soundtrack, this is a surprisingly beautiful film, but it is never sentimental, nor does it try to impose false nobility on its subjects. Dark Days shows a world that we never knew existed, and in this simplicity lies its power. --Simon Leake

• Blackpool And The Illuminations | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A look at the seaside resort of Blackpool featuring the Pleasure Beach the Model Village the Zoo the Sea-Life Centre and the tower. At night enjoy the spectacle of the Blackpool Illuminations. The Blackpool Illuminations are the greatest free show on Earth. You have the privilage of a grandstand view of the switch-on. Join in on an armchair journey through the breathtaking spactacle of this wonderland of colour and light. This DVD takes you through all the places you've probably been to on your holiday to this dynamic resort. Experience the thrills and spills of the Pleasure Beach or sample the quietness of the Model Village and the Zoo. Visit the sharks close up in the Sea-Life Centre or take an exhilarating trip to the top of the Tower and much much more....

• Bowie in the '70s | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £9.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It wasnt until the release of 1983's Let's Dance that David Bowie achieved the type of enormous global success he had sorely deserved for so very long. Ironically for most of his fans by that juncture he had already produced the best music he was ever going to make. So while there were still delights to come as Bowie toured the world playing to more people over one tour than he had in his entire career to that point his legacy was assured by records he released during the previous decade and each concert he now performed would be dominated with songs from that golden era. This 2 DVD set is a documentary review concentrating on David Bowie in the 1970's the decade in which he not only made his name but in which he dominated the music scene like no other musical icon before or since. Running at over 2 and a half hours this programme looks at his pre-fame era his early albums his glam period when the world sat up and took notice and his perpetual reinventions throughout the decade when it seemed this bizarre creature would adopt a brand new persona every few weeks.

• The Fairly Odd Parents Vol.1 | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Timmy Turner's life is always exciting when his fairy Godparents Cosmo and Wanda grant his extraordinairy wishes and create magical mayhem.

• Mr Death - The Rise And Fall Of Fred A Leuchter | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Shot through with mordant humour but dominated by the grimly ironic spectacle of a man hoisting himself by his own petard Errol Morris' weaves together a tale of ignorance self-deception and vanity as he scrutinizes the bizarre career of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. an execution specialist whose self belief and ostentatious testimony in which he sought to deny the holocaust would ultimately destroy his career.

• Deep Blues | DVD | (25/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• British Transport Films Collection | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit which became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain. This 18-disc box set features all 9 volumes of the BFI's celebrated British Transport Films Collection and illustrates the wide range of subjects the BTF covered. Included here are travel classics such as Terminus Blue Pullman and John Betjemen Goes By Train. Each film has been remastered from the finest quality materials available.

• British Pathé News - A Year To Remember 1954 | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This was the year in which colonial power took a battering. France suffered at the hands of the Viet Minh in Indochina and faced riots in Algeria, Britain battled the Mau Mau in Kenya, and five senators were shot by Puerto Rican nationalists in the United States. Meanwhile, Colonel Nasser, soon to plunge Britain into the Suez Crisis, became prime minister of Egypt. In other news, Senator Joe McCarthy's career came to a sordid end this year. In Britain, the economy improved, rationing finally...

• Zombies: A Living History | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This HISTORY special explores the real story of zombies beginning at the dawn of civilisation and continuing right through to today.

• El Bulli | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Michelin three-star chef Ferran Adri is widely considered the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world. Each year his legendary restaurant El Bulli closes for half a year - time for Adri and his team to retire to his Barcelona cooking laboratory to create the new menu for the coming season. Anything goes - except copying oneself.