Documentary

• The Osbournes - The First Series | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-16.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The first series of The Osbournes is a hilarious fly-on-the-wall documentary concerning the day-to-day domestic misadventures of Ozzy Osbourne (former frontman of Black Sabbath), his relatively sensible wife Sharon and their kids Jack and Kelly. Having made his millions and been to rock & roll hell and back, Ozzy seems content nowadays to put his feet up in the sofa of the kitchen of his palatial Beverly Hills abode. However, a host of problems--including poorly toilet-trained domestic pets, noisy neighbours, his continuing obligations as an ageing metal superstar, his inability to operate the state-of-the-art telly and his ever-quarrelsome kids flapping fractiously about the place--forbid him a moment of peace. This real-life sitcom fodder has led many to describe the Osbourne family as "dysfunctional"--however, despite the generous helpings of expletives with which the series is garnished, like The Simpsons, they're actually a loving and stable family unit underneath it all. The series isn't perfect--the stylised MTV treatment is occasionally obtrusive and more Ozzy and less of the career-hungry teen brats would be welcome. Still, it's a gloriously refreshing change from the usual bland evasiveness of celebrity profiles. On the DVD: The Osbournes boasts a welter of wittily packaged special features. These include a commentary track ("Aww, look at Kelly, being nice! Can't we have that Kelly back?"), an "Ozzy translator" (English subtitles) for the benefit of those bamboozled by his Brummy accent and "Ozzy's Ten Commandments" delivered impromptu by the great man, tidied up into biblical-speak in the subtitles ("Thou shall cling tight to the moneybelt of thy father"). Although Sharon declares that she's "worried about the oranges" on the DVD, she needn't be. Given that this is a transfer from video, it looks clean and pristine, necessarily so in that it enhances the colourful, almost cartoon air of the series. Sound wise, there are no problems either, despite the competing setbacks of thick accents, background music, "voices off" and barking. Everything is picked up, from offhand grunted remarks to ear-splitting tantrums. --David Stubbs

• Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £13.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fred Dibnah: Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

• The Ascent Of Money | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Niall Ferguson goes on an epic tour of world finance and demonstrates that behind every great historical phenomenon - empires and republics wars and revolutions - there lies a financial secret.

• Being A.P. | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £2.05   |  Saving you £17.94 (875.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Being A.P. is the incredible inside story of a sporting legend. As A.P. McCoy nears the end of his career, the characteristics that have driven him to dominate the most dangerous of sports remain as strong as ever. Fearless and willing to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals, this film reveals the exhaustive training routine, injuries, doubt, triumphs, failures, and AP's soul-searching to find a way to leave the stage. With unprecedented access to A.P. and those closest to him, Being AP celebrates an incredible man who became the greatest jump jockey the world has ever seen.

• Meru | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. It's a deadly route that has seen more failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 Years than any other ascent in the Himalayas. When Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted the 21,000ft climb they suffered set back after set back including dwindling supplies, 10 feet snow storms and sub-zero temperatures. Beaten back even when inches from the summit, heartbroken and totally defeated, Anker, Chin and Ozturk face up to some extraordinary challenges that makes Meru a unique story of friendship, sacrifice, hope and obsession. In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. It's a deadly route that has seen more failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 Years than any other ascent in the Himalayas. When Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted the 21,000ft climb they suffered set back after set back including dwindling supplies, 10 feet snow storms and sub-zero temperatures. Beaten back even when inches from the summit, heartbroken and totally defeated, Anker, Chin and Ozturk face up to some extraordinary challenges that makes Meru a unique story of friendship, sacrifice, hope and obsession.

• Walking with…..Levison Wood | DVD | (28/10/2024) from £14.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jojo Siwa: My World | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jojo recounts all of the events in her life that brought her to a huge performance at the Mall America and becoming a Nickelodeon star.

• Theatreland | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £7.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (100.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Theatreland is the first ever observational documentary to look behind the scenes at one of London's premiere West End theatres. This programme follows the Theatre Royal Haymarket's busy daily life from the front of house team dealing with the public to the production teams backstage working to get a new production up and running along with all the dramas disasters and tantrums that can erupt behind the velvet curtain. Filming coincides with the arrival of new artistic director Sean Mathias and will include his first production Waiting for Godot - one of the most eagerly-awaited theatrical events of 2009 featuring three legends of stage and screen - Sir Ian McKellen Simon Callow and Patrick Stewart. Alongside this tale we will also be with Sean every step of the way as he begins to get to grips with his next exciting new production for TRH - the first-ever theatric adaptation of Truman Capote''s iconic tale of a girl in New York City - Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel.

• The Sepecat Jaguar | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two full decades after its first flight in 1968, the Anglo-French Jaguar enjoyed it's finest hour when the allies went to war in the Gulf. This onetime supersonic trainer proved its worth time and time again as one of the world's most potent strike aircraft, recording more than 1,000 sorties , many at terrain-hugging height, over Kuwait and Iraq as the conflict unfolded.This documentary tells the story of the Jaguar's history, from its genesis, to the conflicts in Bosnia, including interviews with the men that flew them... the Jaguar Pilots.

• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese (2019) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £14.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1975, in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicentennial and ongoing socio-political turmoil, BOB DYLAN and a band of troubadoursincluding luminaries such as JOAN BAEZ, ALLEN GINSBERG, and JONI MITCHELLembarked on a now-legendary tour known as The Rolling Thunder Revue, a freewheeling variety show that was part traveling counterculture carnival, part spiritual pilgrimage. Director MARTIN SCORSESE (The Irishman) blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief, with a magician's sleight of hand, into a zeitgeist-defining cultural record that is as much a concert documentary as it is a slippery, chimerical investigation into memory, time, truth, and illusion. At the centre of it all is the magnetic Dylan, a sphinx-like philosopher-poet singing, with electrifying conviction, to the soul of an anxious nation. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital transfer, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interviews with Scorsese, editor David Tedeschi, and writer Larry Ratso Sloman Restored footage of never-before-seen Rolling Thunder Revue performances of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You and Romance in Durango, and of a never-before-seen cut of Tangled Up in Blue Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by novelist Dana Spiotta and writing from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour by author Sam Shepard and poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman

• Please Turn Over | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A titillating British farce partly inspired by Peyton Place Please Turn Over was based on the long-running West End play Book of the Month by Basil Thomas. The orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenage daughter (Julia Lockwood Heidi) of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves and their neighbours in a surprising new light. As the girl's fame escalates her friends and family enter the realm of notoriety which turns out not to be so bad after all. From the Carry-On writer-director team of Norman Hudis and Gerald Thomas Leslie Phillips stands out amongst an estimable British cast including Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey and Lionel Jeffries as the wonderfully named Dr. Henry Manners.

• How the Earth Was Made Season 1 (3-Disc Box Set) | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spectacular on-location footage, evidence from geologists in the field and dramatic graphics combine in this stunning 10-part series from HISTORY to show how immensely powerful forces of geology have formed our planet. From the Great Lakes to Loch Ness, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE travels the globe to reveal the physical processes that have shaped some of the most well-known locations and geological phenomena in the world. With rocks as their clues and volcanoes, ice sheets and colliding continents as their suspects, scientists launch a forensic investigation that will help viewers visualise how the earth has evolved and formed over billions of years.

• Francesco's Shakespeare | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nowhere fired Shakespeare's Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting.Francesco takes us on a journey from North to South, visiting the spectacular locations that shaped the Bard's genius. This series celebrates Shakespeare as a popular entertainer. The emphasis will be on accessibility and our greatest playwright under the blue skies of Italy, with a feel of Shakespeare meets holiday adventure as Francesco travels between Venice, Verona, Padua, Milan, Mantua, Florence, Rome, Napoli, Sicily and Capri.

• Solar System | DVD | (11/11/2024) from £10.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• V-Force | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available for the first time on DVD, A fascinating insight into the V-Force development, includes Interviews with test and RAF pilots. Rare and exclusive film of test flights, operational scrambles, nuclear testing and in-flight refuelling, film of airshow appearances and an exclusive interview with John Reeve who flew the famous Black Buck mission to bomb Port Stanley in the Falklands conflict which saw the resurrection of the Vulcan Bomber

• Mapping Murder Box Set | DVD | (04/12/2010) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (52.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This fascinating documentary series shows how criminals reveal who they are and where they live by the locations they choose for their crimes. It is presented by Liverpool University's Professor David Canter who invented this technique of 'geographical profiling' in 1986. He explores the parallels between a criminal's psychological journey and the actual paths they follow. Are they travelling far in a quest to rid themselves of their inner demons? Are they creating a protective web in which to trap their victims? Or do they set out on marauding trips in an attempt to achieve a quick gain?

• Shine A Light | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A career-spanning documentary on the Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.

• 50 Years Of BBC News | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £5.11   |  Saving you £4.88 (95.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of BBC News on television this is a fascinating series of programmes that look back on the past five decades. Each programme is a 30-minute segment covering a decade beginning with the 1950s. Providing insight into how BBC News is reported each segment is narrated by one of the following key news figures: Charles Wheeler Michael Buerk Kate Adie John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen. Also includes three extra programmes from 1953 1963 and 2004 about h

• Zoo Quest in Colour: Starring David Attenborough | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £14.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (3.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast ten years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white. Until now! Thanks to a recent remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before in stunning HD colour and with it the fascinating behind the scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus of how this pioneering television series was made.

• James May's Man Lab Series Two | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James May is back with James May’s Man Lab – a further exploration of manly things that men should be doing – and aren’t. Things like… map reading if you’re ever on the run from Dartmoor Prison; how to remember the names of everyone you meet at a party; how to make your own toilet paper; how not to be scared of ghosts; a method for blasting your pet’s ashes into space; creating a Swiss Army Bicycle; how to take – or not to take – a penalty kick that could make or break history; and so much more. And not forgetting The Man Lab Christmas Special! Cutting your Christmas Tree with explosives; making the perfect Man Lab Christmas Lunch with Man Lab Christmas Crackers, real snow and more surprises for your guests.James May’s Man Lab Series Two. Because you can’t have just One Special Features: Christmas Special Bonus Footage Not Seen on TV James May Biography Subtitles Picture Gallery