Documentary

• The Time Of Your Life - 1974 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'The Time Of Your Life' Series brings an exclusively commissioned documentary featuring the news events personalities and music of the year in question. Take a look back at what happened in the year you were born or simply look back through history enjoying the events that shaped a particular year. In each edition there is a special feature with bonus material covering the classic music movies and television from the period. In this episode we look back at 1974 - Nixon resigns as President two Birmingham pubs are bombed by the IRA Happy Days debuts on ABC Stephen King publishes Carrie and there is a host of superb films released : The Gofather Part II Chinatown and The Towering Inferno.

• The Story Of The Hurricane | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-4.84 (-48.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Its eight wing-mounted Colt-Brownings spitting flame The Hawker Hurricane swooped to depatch over two thirds of all enemy aircraft destroyed in teh Battle Of Britain. Courageous squadroncommander Douglas Bader 14 - kill hero 'Cober Kain' Ginger Lacey - the top Battle Of Britain ace with 18 victims - and many other RAF pilots owed their reputations and their lives to this toughest mount of all. The hurricane was outnumbered but never outclassed designed to hit the enemy hard absorb tremendous punishmentyet live to fight another day. Featuring colour footage of the last surviving aircraft alongside original combat film this is the definitive documentary of a fighter plane that truely changed the course of history...

• Buses Trolley Buses and Trams | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A definitive guide for anyone interested in road transport of yesteryear. Todays public transport is better than ever but modern buses and trams cant compete with Britains classic buses trams and trolleybuses for charm style and personality. In this DVD we take a trip down memory lane to see classic vehicles in action from Londons famous red Routemaster buses to Blackpools equally renowned old trams as well as buses trams and trolleybuses from Sheffield Darlington Southampton Wolverhampton Bradford Glasgow Lincoln and many more places from across the UK.

• British Steam 50s And 60s | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £4.50   |  Saving you £13.49 (299.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A transfer from two previously issued videos in the 'British Railway Heritage' series with a menu of the wide variety of locomotives and locations included. Featured are: steam workings at Clapham Junction; former GWR 'Kings' and Castles': the Great Central Line; Birmingham: Stanier Pacifics and other classes on the West Coast Main Line; Wellingborough Liverpool Street station plus other locations with LNER engines plus lots more...

• The Royal Air Force Collection - Typhoon At War | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (25.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Hawker Typhoon was an aircraft that had a troubled start. A number of problems including an unreliable engine unit exhaust gases escaping into the cockpit and an airframe with a tendency to collapse around the tail unit contributed to a number of fatalities among the test pilots. Thankfully there were those who could foresee the benefits of the aircraft. Despite the threat of cancellation the project was seen through to completion with the aircraft displaying its true value in

• Edward Said | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £7.18   |  Saving you £12.81 (64.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Internationally acclaimed for his writings on literature politics and culture and filmed a year before his death Edward Said speaks with unparalled intimacy about his work his illness his own life and education as well as his enduring preoccupations.

• Anglia at War: The Complete Collection | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-14.49 (-55.80%)   |  RRP £25.99

  An Anglia Television classic: the story of how ordinary people lived through an extraordinary time. Blackouts, bombing raids and rationing become part of life on the Home Front as the young men from the region fight in the most infamous battles of the Second World War

• Imax -- Hail Columbia! | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Board the mighty shuttle Columbia for its maiden voyage. Experience one of humankind's crowning achievements: the inaugural voyage of the world's first space shuttle. Hail Columbia! goes behind the scenes with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen as they prepare for their historic launch. Feel the thunderous liftoff and our heroes' awe as Columbia achieves orbit for the first time. Join the celebration as the shuttle triumphantly touches down mission accomplished. Hail Columbia! was filmed in the IMAX format and exhibited in IMAX theaters worldwide. This video version is digitally mastered from original 70mm film elements with the sound components specially mixed and mastered to produce the highest quality Dolby Surround soundtrack.

• Saints And Soldiers | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  December 1944. The German army rampages trough the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food ravaged by the cold the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline... but as their perilous journey takes its toll loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance. A mesmerising hallucinatory journey through the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe based on real life events Saints And Soldiers tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes.

• Crime Spree | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £7.83   |  Saving you £-0.84 (-12.00%)   |  RRP £6.99

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• Imperial War Museum - Ferry Pilot | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-4.57 (-45.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made in 1941 by the Crown Film Unit 'Ferry Pilot' focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). By 1941 literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day between aircraft factories maintenance depots and RAF aerodromes. This vital task was carried out by the men and women of the ATA a civilian air force operating from their own pools and stations all over Britain. The film features coverage of the ATA's own fleet of Ansons as well as some

• The Look | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ‘There are many reasons why I wanted to make The Look but they can all be subsumed under two words: Charlotte Rampling.’ Angelina Maccarone, director of The Look. In this intellectual travelogue ‘La Lgende’ Charlotte Rampling muses with friends and colleagues on celebrity, age, desire and love. Rampling debates and cogitates with creative as diverse as photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller and writer Paul Auster as she travels from Paris to New York. She converses in cafs and houseboats, and delves into the very essence of life, death and The Look.Selected for the Cannes Classic stream at the 2011 Festival de Cannes, The Look is a beautifully shot documentary film full of contemplation and intrigue. Special Features: Trailer Image Gallery

• Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (DVD) | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £7.33   |  Saving you £12.66 (63.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist, stand-up comic, poet, and a lifelong sufferer of cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist, who found that his S&M experiences helped him manage the pain of his illness.Kirby Dick's internationally acclaimed, award-winning 1997 film follows Bob and his wife, Sheree Rose, through the last years of Flanagan's life. It is a deeply moving, often hilarious profile of a unique artist, giving an insight into Flanagan's warmth, courage and sense of humour.This new BFI DVD edition presents the complete, fully uncensored version of a truly astonishing film that was previously cut by the BBFC for its 2002 DVD release.

• Queen Elizabeth II THE DIAMOND JUBILEE COLLECTION 4 DVD GIFT SET | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Collection of four documentaries that focus on the British monarchy.The Changing Face of the Queen examines the way the image and outlook of the Queen has altered over her 60 years as monarch.Royally Astounding: 30 Defining Days of the Monarchy examines 30 key days from the Queen's long reign.Extreme Royal Collections takes a look at some of the most fanatical collectors of royal memorabilia in the world. The Royal Wedding in Colour: HRH Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten contains pioneering colour footage of the 1947 wedding of the Queen and Prince Philip.

• Richter - The Enigma | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This exemplary 154-minute documentary about the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter includes some wonderful archive footage and a lot of worthwhile discussion of one of the more remarkable of 20th-century concert careers. Richter was an extraordinary combination of poet, mystic and superb technician, as fine in the more spiritually ruminative moments of Johann Sebastian Bach as he was in the more spectacular display pieces of Franz Liszt. He was also in an interesting place at an interesting time--able to interpret the works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich when they were freshly minted, and able to play alongside other great virtuosi like Oistrakh and Rostopovich (there is some wonderful footage here of the three of them performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto under Karajan). Richter was as fine as a soloist with great orchestras as he was as accompanist--we see him with Fischer-Dieskau in Hugo Wolf's quirky song "Der Feierreiter"--but his true love was the recital; much of his long career was taken up with an endless pilgrimage around the civic centres of Soviet Russia, spreading the word of great music. --Roz Kaveney

• The First Emperor Of China | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It was one man who founded the great nation of China. His name was Qin Shihuang the First Emperor. He not only gave China its name but is responsible for founding the longest enduring nation state in the world. The First Emperor of China chronicles the period of Qin Shihuang's rule from the grandiose inner circle in the Royal Palace to the fierce battles with the feudal kings this historical drama re-creates the glory and the terror and includes the first documentary footage of Qin's life-sized terra cotta army constructed almost 2200 years ago for his tomb. A unique program that illustrates the nature of ancient Chinese civilisation and its extraordinary achievements.

• London's East End 1900s - 1930s | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £15.51   |  Saving you £-2.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The East End in 1900 a world of cobbled streets and thick fog. Thousands of Londoners live in cramped, sooty tenements. Their homes are lit by gas and infested with lice.Amidst this dire poverty is a close-knit community defined by resilience, kindness and humour. Children play in the streets and the men crowd to the Dock gates for work. From the match factories of Bow to the hop fields of Kent, see how London's East End lived in the years before the Second World War.

• Ancient Aliens Season 1 | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £28.33   |  Saving you £-3.34 (-13.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods provides the inspiration for this History Channel series, which takes UFOs and extraterrestrials deadly seriously. Over five episodes, it explores phenomena throughout the ages that defy explanation. The first, "Evidence," looks at Indian aeronautical texts, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian carving that anticipates the airplane. Legendary Times publisher and consulting producer Giorgio A. Tsoukalos feels that items like the figurine "have nothing in common with anything similar in nature." That's a matter of opinion, though other authors, engineers, and investigators tend to agree, which isn't a problem in and of itself, except there are few dissenting voices. In "The Visitors," "The Mission," and "Closer Encounters," the show travels to Peru, Mali, Iraq, and other locations to discuss elongated skulls, cattle mutilation, and primitive stargazing (the theory that King Tut might have been part-alien seems pretty far-fetched). Further references to the Knights Templar and the Ark of the Covenant, which some believe lies beneath an island in Nova Scotia, bring Spielberg blockbusters, like Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, to mind. The series concludes with "The Return," a look at sightings and attempts to communicate with aliens by NASA and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Like von Däniken's controversial bestseller, Ancient Aliens presents intriguing data but calls for a healthy degree of skepticism, since there's more speculation on offer than verifiable fact (the boisterous Swiss scribe also appears in the program). The academic speakers make valid points, but a few experts seem less credible. It's easier, for instance, to trust an MIT or UCLA scholar over a radio host or crop circle researcher. This three-disc set concludes with a bonus episode, "Chariots, Gods and Beyond," which surveys the links between theology and ancient astronaut theory. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Crazy Love: Study Resource | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £15.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (16.00%)   |  RRP £18.99

  It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts it's falling in love with God.The Crazy Love Study Resource helps you and your small group to dive deeper into God's love. A compa...

• Absolute Zero: An Inconvenient Reality | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stunned scientist David Koch discovers evidence that is was a shift in the Earth's polarity that triggered the last ice age... in just 24 hours.