Documentary

• Iwo Jima In Colour | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £3.78   |  Saving you £11.21 (296.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD is the definitive and ultimate chronicle of this momentous battle containing two individual programmes on one DVD: Assault on Iwo Jima - Containing extensive colour combat footage and recollections from the front line. Hells Volcano - From the mass landing of 30 000 troops on to the final battle with Japanese defenders this programme covers every detail of this epic battle. See incredible footage most of which is on colour of the bloody assault hear survivors recall their stories and learn the true story behind one of the most famous photos of all time..

• Wisconsin Death Trip | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarrre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents - including children - commit a series of gruesome violent murders. Sightings of ghosts and reports of haunting and possession run rife. Shocking dreamlike and s

• Lennox and Dawkins-God Delusion Debate | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Bestselling author scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins puts his assertions to the test when he debates his Oxford University colleague John Lennox who is both a scientist and a Christian theologian. Remaining true to their goal of engaging secular culture on critical issues in a thoughtful respectful manner Fixed Point Foundation sponsored a debate on what is arguably the most critical question of our time: the existence of God. The debate featured Professor Richard Dawkins voted by Europes Prospect Magazine as one of the worlds most important intellectuals and regarded by many as the spokesman for the New Atheism. and Dr. John Lennox a popular Christian apologist and scientist travels widely speaking on the interface between science and religion. Like Dawkins he has dedicated his career to science but he has arrived at very different conclusions. Lennox possesses doctorates from Oxford Cambridge and the University of Wales. The debate centres on Dawkins views as expressed in his best-seller The God Delusion and their validity over and against the Christian faith.

• Dawkins on Darwin | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this fascinating 3 hour Channel Four series Richard Dawkins best selling author of The God Delusion addresses arguably the biggest question of all - 'How did the human species come into existence?' Dawkins on Darwin celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shows how evidence supporting the theory of evolution has been accumulated by scientists ever since Darwin's stunning discovery. In addition to explaining Darwin's ideas Dawkins also shows how the intellectual journey undertaken by Darwin led inevitably to an atheistic world view. For once nature could be explained by the theory of evolution it simply wasn't necessary to continue with the idea that God was responsible for all Creation. This series is essential viewing for fans of Richard Dawkins and anyone who wishes to understand Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

• Battlefield - Guadalcanal | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The attack on Pearl Harbour was supposed to obviate the need for the grinding attritional battle that was the hallmark for the bloody fighting of Guadalcanal. The capture of this strategically crucial island in the Solomans - during which more than 25 000 Japanese lost their lives was the key to the US victory in the Philippines and paved the way for the horrors of Hiroshima Nagasaki and ultimately the defeat of the Japanese Empire. This episode brand new to DVD is from the land mark television series 'Battlefield'. Featuring fascinating archive footage from all over the world the programme includes a review of the political and military situation before the battle portraits of leaders and commanders an explanation of weapons and tactics and the story of the battle itself. Vivid graphics place the battle into the context of the war as a whole.

• The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £17.79   |  Saving you £-6.80 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £10.99

  From the producers of the acclaimed Unmasking Jack the Ripper The Man who murdered Sherlock Holmes explores the world of Sherlock Holmes and discovers the truth behind his love-hate relationship for Conan Doyle's meal ticket detective creation... and asks the question in one dramatic episode: What was it that made him fight to kill off the man who had dominated his life for so long? With dramatic visualizations contributions from leading Holmesian experts figures from the world of literature and research and evidence from the medical community the Sherlock Holmes enigma is dissected and the truth begins to emerge. This DVD takes the viewer on a journey through the Edinburgh of the young Conan Doyle and the darker influences in his life and on into the streets of London and creation of the Holmes legend on the streets now walked by the infamous Jack the Ripper.

• Peter Ackroy's Thames | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £12.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (23.47%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It is one of the world’s most famous rivers and the reason that London exists. Author Peter Ackroyd introduces the River Thames “a symbol of eternity, in its unending cycle of movement and change.” To him, it is a ‘sacred river’ with fascinating history that tells the story of England itself and in this fascinating series he looks at the Thames in all its moods, meets the people who have grown up on its banks, and finds out how painters, poets, writers, and musicians have portrayed it down the centuries. His journey takes him from the source of the river, deep on the English countryside, to the mysterious place where it meets the open sea.

• Voice of Merrill | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £16.67   |  Saving you £-3.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A female blackmailer is found murdered at her apartment and the police have several suspects to investigate. All have something to hide. Hugh (Edward Underdown) an aspiring young writer was the dead girls lover but has now fallen in love with Alycia (Valerie Hobson). Alycia is a married woman however and her husband (James Robertson Justice) is a famous playwright and belligerent social snob. He decides to have his wifes lover narrate his new radio serial The Voice of Merrill but as the episodes are broadcast Inspector Thornton (Garry Marsh) realises that the storyline is helping him to discover the murderers identity

• Ross Kemp Afghanistan and Return to Afghanistan Box Set | Blu Ray | (20/09/2010) from £19.24   |  Saving you £10.75 (35.80%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Since 2007 Ross Kemp has been making some of the most powerful television about British soldiers' serving in Afghanistan on Britain's frontline. His documentaries are un-missable. Candid and brutally honest they are the first on UK television to show what our troops are going through to win peace in this war-torn land during the toughest years of the campaign so far. In the summer of 2007 Ross joins his father's old regiment 1 Royal Anglian and for the first time heads to Afghanistan. Ross is immediately embedded with frontline troops where for weeks at a time he lives a soldier's life as they fight a fanatical and determined enemy. Off the battlefield he tells the stories of those who risk their lives fighting the Taliban stories of soldiers who have lost friends in battle and the impact that a loss has on relatives back home. Ross returns to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008 to the recently captured town of Musa Qaleh. This small yet significant town is the centre of some of the fiercest fighting in the conflict. The worst battles take place in the densely vegetated and claustrophobic terrain of the green zone. He joins 5 Scots and 1 Royal Irish on four operations as they defend the town from Taliban attack. In the final programme Ross meets the unsung heroes of this conflict young soldiers' who have lost limbs to mine strikes who now face an uncertain future. In the winter of 2009 Ross travels to Kajaki a remote base in Helmand where he joins 45 Victor Company of the Royal Marines.

• Deadliest Catch - Series 4 | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (41.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Each year hundreds of fishermen arrive at Dutch Harbour for the beginning of the Alaskan red king crab season. They work 24-hour shifts for days on end in brutal conditions braving 12m waves 130kmph winds and sub-zero temperatures with 360kg crab pots slamming against the deck. Well-placed pots can mean a catch of king crab worth millions of dollars while unlucky hauls will only just cover the boat's operating expenses. The Deadliest Catch is back as the brave fisherman wage war on the Bering Sea once more. Join Early Dawn Cornelia Marie the North-western the Wizard the Time Bandit the North American and all the crews for what promises to be the hardest hitting series yet!

• Irish Railways - 1940s & 1950s | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Includes three narrow gauge lines the County Donegal The Londonderry & Lough Swilly and the ex-LMS Ballycastle line Great Northern and CIE steam & colour footage of the former LNWR owned Dundalk Newry & Greenore line.

• Titanic - A Legend Built In Belfast | DVD | (26/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This programme tells the definitive story of the building of the Titanic, and includes interviews with people who saw the great vessel being built and launched and those whose lives it has touched in different ways. It also revisits the slipway at the Harland & Wolff shipyard where, in 1911, 15,000 shipbuilders worked on the construction of the Titanic and its sister ship theOlympic.It features an interview with Belfast-born film director Bill MacQuitty whose 1950 film A Night to Remember, first told the epic story of the Titanic disaster. Clips from this film are also included in this absorbing documentary about the ill-fated Titanic and the city where it was built. The legacy of failure that haunted Belfast for the past century, following the Titanic disaster, has finally given way to a much more positive mentality, where the achievement of actually building such an engineering marvel is finally being recognised and celebrated, as this documentary confirms.

• Deadliest Catch Series 6 | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Over five years and more than 60 voyages the Emmy nominated series Deadliest Catch has captured the most gut wrenching and awe inspiring moments in maritime history. Crab fishing off the Alaska Coast is the ultimate test of human endurance. The icy Bering Sea is increasingly relentless with boat capsizing swells icebergs and freezing temperatures. Yet a handful of adventurers battle Arctic weather brutal waves and a ticking clock for a chance at big money in this modern day gold rush.

• Gluck - Orphee Et Eurydice (Gardiner) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £7.32   |  Saving you £2.93 (48.35%)   |  RRP £8.99

  When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck''s Alceste and Orph''e et Eurydice. Both operas were sung in their French versions and were mounted and designed by Robert Wilson and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. This was the first time Wilson and Gardiner had collaborated and their individual credentials combined to produce an exceptional result. American polymath Wilson was responsible for some of the most ambitious avant-garde performance projects of the 1970s and 80s.Since the mid-1980s he has increasingly brought his prodigious creativity to works fiom the standard dramatic and operatic repertoire transforming them into his own unmistakably minimalist yet grandiose visions. His styled classical interpretations of Alceste and Orph''e bear his trademarks of an uncluttered stage and the arresting use of colour and light. They are not so much timeless as in Robert Wilson''s words ''full of time''. With their minutely rehearsed gestures at once formal and poetic the singers have the grace and elegance of Balanchine or Martha Graham dancers. A key figure in the revival of Early Music John Eliot Gardiner has long been a champion of Gluck''s French operas and is a great Gluck conductor. He received enormous critical acclaim for his musical direction of both Orph''e and Alceste at the Chatelet as did his orchestras and chorus. He sought to rid the operas of any vestiges of remoteness or venerable respectability and to release the huge emotional charge that lies behind the beauty of Gluck''s classical sobriety. The stories are after all he says not only poignant and deeply moving they have an immediate and contemporary relevance: they portray two married couples striving to protect their union and their love plumbing the very depths of their emotional strength and summoning the courage to make huge personal sacrifices. ''If presented in a way that''s immediate and with tremendous intensity and truth of expression then all the dross and superficiality of the stage action falls away and you''re left with what''s actually a very visceral connection between two living people.'' Television''s top opera director Brian Large worked closely with Robert Wilson and John Eliot Gardiner to ensure that the translation of live performance to the small screen is of the highest artistic and techcal standard. John Eliot Gardiner chose to use Berlioz''s 1859 revision of Orphee which adapted the tenor role of Gluck''s 1774 score for the contralto voice of Pauline Viardot adjusting the register for a mezzo-soprano. Underlining his preference for this version he performed the opera with the nineteenth-century period instruments of his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. His regular chorus the Monteverdi Choir excelled vocally and dramatically in its elegant contribution to the drama. The Greek legend of Orpheus has captured the imaginations of many creative artists over the centuries. In this recording Magdalena Kozena brings to the role expressiveness exceptional virtuosity and a rare emotion. Madeline Bender as Eurydice is possessed of a touching grace and beauty while Patricia Petibon is deliciously mischievous as Amour. All three of these young singers are among the cream of a new generation of operatic talent.

• Martina Coles Ladykillers | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: Why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction. The first programme looks at Myra Hindley, who along with Ian Brady was responsible for a spate of child murders in the 1960s, and features interviews with Hindley s lawyer and prison chaplain. Crime writer Martina Cole examines the backgrounds, personalities and behaviour of the notorious female murderer, re-examining evidence and providing a portrait of the sociological backgrounds that may have moulded her. The case of Rose West, who is currently serving a life sentence without parole for 10 separate counts of murder, committed during the 1970s and 80s. Her husband and partner in the sexually motivated crimes committed suicide in prison in 1995. Herself a victim of abuse, Rose directed her appetites toward her own children as well as at least eight other girls, whose dismembered remains were found buried at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Profile of nurse Beverley Allitt, dubbed the Angel of Death, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for the murders of four children in her care at a hospital in Lincolnshire. Although she had repeatedly failed her exams, she was granted a six-month nursing position, during which she attacked 13 young patients before being arrested and eventually charged. Bristol-born Amelia Dyer qualified as a nurse and became a baby-farmer, looking after others babies. After deaths of children in her care she was charged with neglect and served six months in jail. Later she spent time in a mental asylum but carried on baby-farming. In 1896 she was hanged for the murder of Doris Marmon, a child in her care, but is suspected of having killed many more infants.

• Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age 4 DVD Gift Set | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  FRED DIBNAH S INDUSTRIAL AGE Fred Dibnah takes a nostalgic look at Britain s Industrial Heritage. In this series he recounts Britain s industrial history, bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth century up to the early twentieth century in his typically anecdotal and engaging manner. Episodes: Wind, Water & Steam, Mills & Factories, Iron & Steel, Mining, Railways, Mills & Factories FRED DIBNAH S MAGNIFICENT MONUMENTS Fred tours Britain searching out magnificent monuments, from ancient earthworks through to modern day structures. He looks at how and why things were built and what sort of tools and materials were used and how buildings were adapted and altered to meet changing needs. Episodes: Bridges and Tunnels and Pleasure Places

• Romeo And Juliet - G.C.S.E. | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £22.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A five disc set with everything you need to know to achieve exam success. Peter Andrews Head of English at the King Alfred School in London renowned for its creative approach to learning will take you through Romeo & Juliet for Key Stage 4. Featuring explanations of all the major themes revision guides teacher summaries and a complete stage production this DVD contains everything needed for that exam success.

• Elvis Presley - Elvis - The Story | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  ""Before Elvis there was nothing"" - John Lennon The story of the King of Rock 'n Roll is traced from his humble beginnings to his rise to superstardom: from his humble upbringing in Mississippi to buying his first guitar as an 11-year old; to his amazing last show in Indianapolis in the Summer of 1977; through to his tragic death in Graceland on the 16th August 1977 at the age of 42. Featuring performance footage taken from early gigs to his comeback performance in 1968 in

• Autopsy: Life And Death | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £10.68   |  Saving you £5.31 (49.72%)   |  RRP £15.99

  How do you imagine your own death? Will it be peaceful? Will it be quick? Will you be old? Our death is a mystery to us. We cast it as an outsider a thief robbing us of our breath in an instant without warning. But death is less mysterious than we imagine. Its origins are in our genes in the things that happen to us in what we do. In this series controversial anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens shows through live dissections of human bodies how the two courses of your death can be found in the way you are designed and the way you live your life. Four episodes focusing on circulation cancer poisoning and ageing are all demonstrated with human dissections as well as live and scientific models to reveal what disease really looks like and how it works.

• WWII in 3D (Blu-ray 3D | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Incredibly, during WWII both the Allies and the Nazi propaganda machine were using 3D technology to produce colour photographs, and even films, in stereoscopic 3D. These historical gems were locked away in secret archives until now, when today's 3D consumer technology allows us to view these incredible artefacts in our own homes, bringing images from history to life in a way few have ever seen before.3D content contained in this treasure trove of rare and dramatic material includes: reconnaissance photos shot by the Allies; a collection of revealing images shot by the Nazis that detail the rise and fall of the Third Reich from within; stunning photos secretly taken by a civilian in occupied France; and an amazing 3D motion picture filmed by the Nazis in 1943. These have not been adapted or artificially upgraded into 3D, they were actually shot using 3D technology.Whatever footage you may have seen before, nothing will prepare you for seeing history come alive in a totally new dimension!