Documentary

• Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments Gift Pack | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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. We get to see some of Fred's favourite castles, cathedrals, palaces, tunnels and bridges and discover the skills that were required to design, build and decorate these buildings. From Hadrian's Wall to St Paul's Cathedral and the Thames Barrier to the Pepsi Max Big One Rollercoaster, Fred reveals just what makes a monument into one of Britain's best.

• My Ghost Story | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lots of people have a ghost story, but how many have actually caught theirs on video? My Ghost Story features true and astonishing stories of the paranormal told by the people who lived through them - and captured their haunting on tape. From moving furniture to dark apparitions to violent poltergeists, these harrowing eyewitness accounts of the unexplainable are transformed into more than just tales. With terrifying visual evidence, viewers will have no choice but to believe their eyes.

• The Railway Register ' Britain's Heritage Railways' - Box Two | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-18.99 (-237.70%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The end of working steam on Britain's railways heralded the start of one of the most fascinating resurgences of the last century namely the railway restoration and preservation movement. Volunteer enthusiasts have brought back from oblivion both the famous names of mainline express locomotives and the lesser known work horses of branch and industrial siding. Great and small have been lovingly restored to full working order and have found lives on a myriad of Britain's preserved railways. Others are long term operating lines that never closed and are faithfully continuing to operate for the pleasure of all! This box set of three DVDs divided into geographical areas examines a selection of the well and not-so-well known lines and provides the viewer with a cross section of fascinating motive power and wonderful locations. Lines featured: South East England South Western England Wales & The Borders.

• Jump London | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Forget tubes trains and automobiles packed pavements the congestion charge and crushed platforms. What if you could jump across London in one fell swoop? Leaping between buildings jumping over rooftops rushing through the capital as if no one - not even bricks and mortar - could get in your way. Sebastien Foucan the co-founder of Free Running (also known as Le Parkour) and his team attempt to do just that and conquer one of the world's best-known capital cities. Like fictional superheroes Batman and Spider-Man the team performs death-defying stomach-churning stunts as they literally leap from rooftop to rooftop. In this totally unique event the team of French Free Runners has been given unprecedented access to some of London's most famous landmarks including The Royal Albert Hall Tate Modern and Somerset House.

• Discover England - Dartmoor: Spring And Summer | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-0.94 (-4.30%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Writer Brian Carter's love and respect for the moor shines through in this beautiful evocative and richly informative film. The cinematography both arial and ground based brings to bear the sheer beauty the sense of timelessness the freedom solitude challenge inspiration and magic of Dartmoor. The bare weathered Tors and rolling hills begin to warm and glow in the fresh spring sunshine whilst in the lower valleys the flowers are blooming in a riot of colour amongst standin

• Foreign Legion | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £13.31   |  Saving you £-7.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Foreign Legion is the best known and certainly the most romanticised army in the world. In reality it is also one of the most secretive and most feared - a ruthless military machine which never surrenders no matter what the odds. With unparalleled access to life within the Foreign legion this film follows one young recruit from Kircaldy in Fife 22 year old former Royal Marine Dean Heggie as he arrives in Paris and tackles one of the toughest training programmes in the world....

• Rare And Unseen - Ian Dury | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The fifth title of this exclusive and all new DVD collection for fans we take an inside look at the British rock-n-roll singer lyricist bandleader and actor: Ian Dury - the man who rose to fame during the late 1970s during the punk and New Wave era of rock music. Best known as the founder and lead singer of his band Ian Dury and the Blockheads he released a host of seminal songs - most notably Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll What A Waste and the UK chart-topping single Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. This brand new DVD release is a collection of rare footage featuring original film and videos of the singer newsreels and photographs from private collections

• Conquest of Everest - Revisited 1953 - 2003 | DVD | (04/03/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What drove the men who risked and lost their lives to conquer the world's highest mountain for Britain? Fifty years on Penny Mallory whose ancestor George Leigh Mallory lost his life tells the story of this extra-ordinary adventure undertaken with primitive equipment in often terrifying weather conditions against an unstable brooding and often lethal adversary - Mount Everest. Did Mallory in fact reach the summit 29 years before Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay? Mallory's frozen body was found in 1999. Using authentic footage of the ascent we revisit this unique adventure 50 years on alongside the men who pitted their wits and lives for the privilege of being the first to say that they had stood on the roof of the world. Which of us could have climbed persevered and ultimately stood beside them beneath the Union Jack on that glorious sun-drenched May morning in 1953? Featuring biographies of the expedition's members and a chronology of those other brave men and women who have lost their lives on subsequent dashes for the summer.

• Stephen Fry - In America | Blu Ray | (17/11/2008) from £18.88   |  Saving you £22.11 (117.11%)   |  RRP £40.99

  I could have been American; after all I was nearly born there. So I wanted to find out what it is that makes the United States of America so unique so diverse so very American... - Stephen Fry Britain's comic genius Stephen Fry travels around each of America's states in his black London cab in order to discover in his own inimitable style what makes the country unique and to get under the skin of American life. His journey across the vast country takes him to a whiskey distillery in Kentucky lava fields in Hawaii an Amish community in Wisconsin and a brothel in Nevada as well as hunting in New York State sailing on an America's Cup boat in Rhode Island basket weaving with Navajo Indians and meeting environmental activists in Oregon. Stephen is shown the country by its proud citizens as he drives across the continent uncovering the idiosyncrasies that makes each state individual and the similarities that make America distinct.

• Beeching's Legacy - The Reshaping of Britain's Railways | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the story of how around 150 Pre-Grouping railways of Britain evolved from their 'Golden Age' in the heady Edwardian era to become the less popular nationalised British Railways. It fell to Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Railways Board (1961-1965) to wield his axe in order to achieve the Government's ambition of turning the railways back into profit. Before BeechingTo start our journey, we follow the path of Britain's railways from the pre-Grouping of the Edwardian era when steam was king, through to Beeching's appointment as Chairman of the British Railways Board in 1961. Beeching's AxePicking up the story in 1961, the second part of this series follows the chain of events after Beeching was appointed as the first Chairman of the British Railways Board. His task was to draw up a plan to eliminate the network's losses and to reorganise the railways for the future. The Beeching RailwayIn March 1963 Beeching's proposals - popularly known as the 'Beeching Axe' - were, unsurprisingly, accepted in full by the Minister of Transport Ernest Marples, despite some opposition from within the Conservative party. Beeching's LegacyThe final part of our story concludes with the often-painful experience of travelling on today's railways. With a myriad of operators taking rail travel into a future with a seemingly never-ending growth in traffic, it proves that Britain's railway network has a vital part to play in the transport industry of the future.

• Amy Winehouse - A Last Goodbye | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  A Last Goodbye is an intimate look into the life and times of Amy Winehouse. This in depth programme chronicles her rise to pop superstardom and also offers a sensitive portrayal of a transformative star and the inner demons that inspired her work and eventually caused her untimely death. Her battle with addiction and her courtship with self destruction were well documented through the press. Even her troubled relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil was played out in front of British media. But despite this backdrop Amy Winehouse will be remembered for her unique song writing style fusing R & B, soul and jazz influences sang through a powerful deep contralto vocal. The 'Back to Black' album symbolised her huge success at this time which led to an astonishing 5 Grammy Awards, 'the most wins by a female artist in a single night'. This insightful programme is a definitive testimonial to an incredible music icon covering the start of her career up until her death. Amy Winehouse (14/09/1983 to 23/07/2011).

• Metallica - Blitzkrieg Overdrive | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This documentary film traces the complete history of Metallica from their earliest incarnation as one of the big 4 of Thrash-Metal through the tragic death of Cliff Burton in the mid-1980s to the mega-stardom they enjoy today. And with the aid of interviews with band members friends colleagues and associates and using archive footage and location material rare photographs commentary from the finest metal journalists and a host of other features gets to the heart of what made this extraordinary group the primal force they have become.

• King Arthur and Medieval Britain | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The very name of King Arthur evokes a whole world of chivalry and romance, of gleaming castles, gallant knights and beautiful ladies. With the attributes of a god and the failings of a man, Arthur is the perfect hero for all people at all times. His story contains all the ingredients of classic adventure: bravery, love, betrayal and tragedy and, through all, a vein of magic that has fired the imagination and lifted the heart for centuries.Here, History takes an in-depth look at the romantic images of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table that have epitomised the notion of chivalry. We try to separate the truth from the legends and join Arthur and his Knights in the famous quest for the Holy Grail - Christ's cup from the Last Supper.Take a journey back through hundreds of years and decide for yourself what truth lies behind the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.

• Gardens Of Cornwall | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Think of Cornwall and you imagine wild seas barren moors...and some of the most romantic gardens in the world. Garden writer and broadcaster Nigel Colborn introduces the Royal Horticultural Society's official tour of some of Cornwall's horticultural gems. In this hour long journey we visit a variety of gardens both large and small from the romantic sub-tropical lushness of Trebah and the Mediterranean exuberance of Tresco to the dramatic charms of Headland. Warmed by the gentle ef

• Miracle on 34th Street/Jingle All the Way Double Pack | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Miracle On 34th Street:In this new holiday miracle based on the famous 1947 film classic a little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.Starring Richard Attenborough Elizabeth Perkins Dylan McDermott and Mara Wilson as Susan. This uplifting and joyous film will make believers out of the entire family.Jingle All The Way:Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this hilarious holiday comedy as a father desperate to buy that must-have Christmas toy during a frantic last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve.Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) has promised his young son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas unaware it's the season's hottest-selling toy. And so begins a frenzied quest that pits Howard against a stressed-out mailman (Sinbad) a sleazy Santa impersonator (James Belushi) and every other harassed parent in town!

• British Railways Collection | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £17.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (42.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The British Railways box set is a nostalgic look back at some of Britain’s best loved lines from a bygone era. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century the British Isles was a thriving network of local branch lines and byways. This box set includes the following 6 programmes;Disc 1 – Waterloo SunsetDisc 2 – Rails in the Isle of WightDisc 3 – Vintage SouthernDisc 4 – Bewdley to BlaenauDisc 5 – British Narrow Gauge MiscellanyDisc 6 – Steam in the Midlands

• World War Ii -The Campaign In Poland 1939 | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is the powerful film record of the lightning campaign against Poland as documented by the Kriegsberichter. Originally released to cinemas in 1940 as Der Felazug Am Polen this is the ultimate primary source from the German wartime perspective. The booklet incorporates the whole of the results of extensive post war interviews carried out by the US department of the Army. The result is a vivid military history of the Polish campaign of September 1939 through footage taken on the front line...

• Mark Williams On The Rails | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (-14.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Relive two centuries of Britain's unique railway history from the very beginnings to the trains of the future. In March 1804 a momentous event took place an event that would change the world forever - the world's first steam locomotive pulled a ten-ton load of iron for nine and a half miles along metal tracks. The 'iron horse' was born and in the following 200 years railways would change the face of the world. On The Rails tells their story from the very beginnings to the trains of the future. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK Mark Williams - successful actor and dedicated train enthusiast - gets to grips with the country's unique railway heritage tracking down some of the finest locomotives ever produced including the magnificent Duchess of Sutherland. From the earliest designs of Richard Trevithick and the Stephenson's to the advent of Class 31s the development of the London Underground and the evolution of railway coaches Mark reveals how our railways have been shaped over two centuries.

• Imperial War Museum Collection, The - The Royal Air Force Ar War | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  During the Second World War the Royal Air Force Production Unit filmed the RAF in action in every theatre of operations. Cameramen risked their lives alongside pilots and aircrew to bring back some of the most vivid and memorable combat footage of the war. From 1943 onwards this film was used to produce regular newsreels that were shown on RAF bases around the world. This unique collection features the complete set of these newsreels mastered from superior 35mm prints. Many of the newsreels featured have never been released to the public before.

• Chronicle of a Summer (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first time on DVD or Blu-ray in the UK for this hugely influential and ground-breaking documentary film from leading French documentarist Jean Rouch. Shot in Paris during 1960 Chronicle of a Summer is a fascinating result of collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin. Through a series of interviews with real-life individuals the filmmakers produce a compelling film that questions the level of reality and truth in documentary filmmaking as well as being a fascinating insight into 1960's Parisian society. With its use of handheld cameras and observational techniques Chronicle of a Summer was a seminal influence of the cinema-verite movement of the 1960s and on many filmmakers since. Special Features: Un été + 50 (2011): documentary with new interviews from participants and co-director Edgar Morin as well as outtakes from Chronicle of a Summer Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays and notes on the film