Documentary

  • Vampire Secrets [DVD]Vampire Secrets | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (13.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Titles Comprise: Vampire Secrets: In this fascinating journey through time HISTORY uncovers the ancient folkloric origins of blood-craving creatures from beyond the grave. Bram Stoker: This fascinating programme introduces the man behind one of literature's most enduring creations. MonsterQuest: Movie Monsters Vampires in America: We investigate cases of people who thirst for blood. Can science separate the fact from the fiction surrounding these creatures of the night? Origins Of The Vampire: The fictional vampire is rooted in a grim reality the vampire legend grew out of actual incidents and horrifying encounters with death and the unknown. We investigate the vampire. History's Mysteries The Real Dracula: The exploits of the fictional vampires pale in comparison to the horrors committed by Vlad THE REAL DRACULA! We look at the truth behind the fiction. Cities of the Underworld: Dracula's Underground: We unearth the facts and myths of Bucharest's most famous figure Vlad the Impaler more commonly known as Dracula. Travelling underground to explore secret prisons caves and dungeons.

  • The Apollo Missions [DVD]The Apollo Missions | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (201.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

    The 21st July 1969 will live long in the memories of those lucky enough to witness the events being beamed live into their living room and remember the pride felt as man conquered the final frontier. This special 40th anniversary commemorative box set explores those inspiring events as Neil Armstrong stepped down from Eagle and into the pages of history with the immortal words that's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. Using archive footage this double-sided DVD covers the lunar missions from Apollo 11 to the safe return of Apollo 17 and includes the fateful mission of Apollo 13.

  • Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (Blu-ray + DVD + CD)Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (Blu-ray + DVD + CD) | Blu Ray | (28/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  • Royal Navy At War - A Sailors View: Britannia Goes To War [DVD]Royal Navy At War - A Sailors View: Britannia Goes To War | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Created by Royal Navy historian Roland R Smith. Approx 2h. Includes pre-WWII footage including the 1924 Spithead Review, the Home Fleet engaged in war games, the 1937 Coronation Review, with aerial views, and the Hood sailing with the Ark Royal and the Repulse. Comprehensive film reviews of the battleship fleet, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers, etc, etc. Early engagements feathers include the Battle of the River Plate, and there is footage of the loss of HMS Barham. The film also looks at how the Royal Navy changed in response to war, with coverage of the training of new recruits, and the development of new tactics

  • No Kidding [DVD]No Kidding | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Also known as Beware of Children No Kidding is yet another comic success from the Carry On stable. The premise involves a young couple David and Catherine Robinson (Leslie Phillips and a young Geraldine McEwan) who have to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline and so the summer begins. An amiable British farce that has a semblance of the St. Trinian's series No Kidding is surprisingly sophisticated fare that also scores a number of interesting points about greed privilege and class.

  • European Railway Journeys - The Sicilian Connection [DVD] [2009]European Railway Journeys - The Sicilian Connection | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    European Railway Journeys: The Sicilian Connection

  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey [DVD]The Story of Film: An Odyssey | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (-37.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

    This exhilarating documentary sees critically acclaimed director, film critic and curator Mark Cousins embark on an epic journey, in which he chronicles the birth and evolution of the great and popular art form- cinema.

  • Battlefield - Manchuria - The Forgotten Victory [2001]Battlefield - Manchuria - The Forgotten Victory | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (22.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Discussing the Soviet victory over the Japanese Kwangtung Army in the Manchurian mountains in World War Two. Features archive footage a political and military review and graphics.

  • Bear Grylls - Born Survivor: Bear EatsBear Grylls - Born Survivor: Bear Eats | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (28.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Cast your roast dinners pizzas and fish and chips aside and join British mountaineer and adventurer Bear Grylls on a journey into nature's kitchen. With no succulent leg of lamb fluffy roast potato or chocolate bars in sight Bear must put his prejudices aside and tuck into a whole array of tasty treats in order to survive the most hostile places on earth. Yes it's the juicy bits - this one-off special takes viewers through the prime cuts of Born Survivor. Cue the camel's stomach the elephant droppings the live frogs the goat's testicles the meat from a zebra carcass the water from steaming elephant dung and turtle's blood... all in the name of survival tasty!

  • Decade Of Steam - 1960'sDecade Of Steam - 1960's | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £6.39   |  Saving you £9.60 (60.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

    The 1960s were to see the end of steam locomotion on the public railway network in Great Britain. This the final part of a series of five 100% archive film programmes traces the last years of main line steam. The cruel blows of the Beeching 'axe' were to see many branch lines destroyed forever and the scrapping of their trains. Main line electrification and dieselization would make even the famous 'Duchesses' 'Kings' A4s' and 'Bulleid Pacifics' redundant. However a small gleam

  • Bukowski - Born Into This [2004]Bukowski - Born Into This | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Bukowski: Born Into This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) - international celebrity poet novelist and underground cult icon. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting conducting dozens of interviews with relatives girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono Sean Penn Harry Dean Stanton Barbet Schroeder and Taylor Hackford.

  • British Girls Play Nurses [DVD]British Girls Play Nurses | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  • Baraka / Chronos BoxsetBaraka / Chronos Boxset | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Baraka: A visually stunning film shot over 13 months in 24 countries Baraka is an overwhelming experience that spans the geographical cultural and social diversity of our changing planet. Set to an atmospheric soundtrack inspired by various rituals and nature itself; the film captures the very essence of man's relationship with the earth both harmonious and catastrophic. Baraka is a journey of rediscovery. It is the power the beauty and the rage of life itself. It is the world we live in. Chronos is the directorial debut of Ron Fricke director of Baraka and cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi. Originally shot in the largest film format Imax 1570 the film imparts a unique vision of our world - the first non-verbal non-fiction motion picture filmed in time-lapse photography. Presented as a visual symphony in seven movements Chronos embarks on an unprecedented cinematic journey across the worlds of natural beauty and manmade monuments as it explores the essence of time.

  • British Railways Volume 6 - Steam in the MidlandsBritish Railways Volume 6 - Steam in the Midlands | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Centred on Staffordshire and its adjoining counties locos seen include G2 0-8-0 tender engines and their LMS-built successors the 8F 2-8-0s Black 5s Horwich Moguls Fowler tanks Jinties Ivatt 2-6-0s BR Standards and several ex-GWR classes. This programme will bring back many happy memories to those who watched the trains go by in the 1950s and 1960s and will be a revelation of a lost age to those too young to recall those halcyon days.

  • Carrier WarfareCarrier Warfare | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £7.96   |  Saving you £2.03 (20.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

    It was in the late summer of 1943 that the American Navy launched its operation to drive the Japanese fleet from the central Pacific. The aircraft carrier was to play a crucial role in this success. This fascinating programme tells the dramatic story of the desperate struggle for the Pacific featuring rare archive footage of carriers in action and examines their function in this vital theatre of war.

  • K9 Complete Box Set [DVD]K9 Complete Box Set | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

    K9 The Complete Collection is TV's Most loved Robot dog K9 blasts back into action via a Space Time Manipulator and arrives in the late 21st Century in a London scarred by Alien Intrusion and Government rule through a Cybernetic Police Force.K9 is a cybernetic construct from the 50th Century and has the appearance of an earth dog both in shape and size. He arrives at the home of Professor Gryffen, a renowned cybernetics and temporal dynamics expert who is working on the Alien Space-Time-Manipulator (STM) which opens a portal to anywhere in space and time. K9 is following a group of rogue Aliens, Jixen Warriors who attack Gryffen and a couple of teenagers; Starkey a homeless rebel and Jorjie, a very capable intelligent young girl. To save them K9 sacrifices himself and explodes, soon followed by his regeneration thanks to a strange alien device implanted in his mainframe. The new look K9 can now hover and fly and has more capabilities than ever before. K9 loses his long term memory and begins a quest to not only protect humanity but to discover more about his time and Space travelling past. The year is 2059 and the Earth has suffered at the hands of natural disasters and the world governments have developed cybernetic technology and replaced human police and security forces with Cybernetic Civil Pacification Corps (The CCPC) who are controlled by the sinister Department .The Department have divisions run by Inspectors who control Public Order and Alien and Paranormal activity.Alongside Gryffens errand boy, Darius the teens are destined to become K9's companions in the battle against repression by the Department and the ongoing intrusion by Alien Life forms.The series features many new and bizarre Alien menaces from beyond Time and Space as well as some evil home grown human adversaries.

  • Comic Book Confidential [1990]Comic Book Confidential | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Hey gang! Check out this comic book movie!!! The only movie with your favourite artists and writers. See Marvel Master Stan Lee brings Spiderman's money worries to life! Hear underground artist Robert Crumb confess why he killed Fritz the Cat! Wonder at congressional hearings from the 1950s ""proving"" the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency! Comic Book Confidential is a funny smart eye popping history that finally gives comic books the respect they deserve.

  • Princess Diana - A Day in the Life [DVD]Princess Diana - A Day in the Life | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £6.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (51.59%)   |  RRP £9.99

    A public figure from the moment of her engagement, Diana remained the focus of worldwide media throughout her life.Even after her divorce, Diana maintained a high level of popularity. She devoted herself to her sons and to such charitable efforts as the battle against the use of land mines. Diana used her international celebrity status to help raise awareness about this and many other issues.There is unlikely to be such a phenomenon again as that of Diana, Princess of Wales, this extensively researched programme goes behind the scenes of one of the most remarkable people of the twentieth century.Exclusive footage showing the transformation of a shy teenager into one of the most admired woman in the world - Diana, Princess of Wales - including moving images of her last days.

  • A Forest Garden Year with Martin Crawford [DVD]A Forest Garden Year with Martin Crawford | DVD | (21/05/2009) from £10.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (31.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

    This easy-to-follow Keyboard DVD tutor will take you step by step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing tracks! Includes English audio with subtitles in Dutch, Greek, Italian and Polish.

    Clear pictures and demonstrations along with jargon free commentary to guide you through...

    • Correct posture and playing position
    • Finding your way around the keyboard
    • Reading basic music notation, learning note names and understanding rhythm
    • Playing with ...

    • Hell and Back Again [DVD]Hell and Back Again | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £15.91   |  Saving you £0.08 (0.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

      This year's double Sundance-winning documentary by photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old American Marine Nathan Harris.

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