Documentary

• Successful Sugarcraft | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £12.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (24.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sugar Flowers: Floral decorations made from sugar are something very special and their beauty enhances any cake. Follow Elaine MacGregor's easy step-by-step guide to creating simple blossoms posies and bouquets from Lilies Orchids and Roses. Sugar Models: Sugar Models can bring to life any cake with their humorous beautiful and creative concepts. From simple models such as Elephants Penguins and Teddy Bears to more ambitious subjects like Iceberg Cakes and Pastillage Vases. Wedding Cakes: Wedding Cakes are the ultimate expression of the sugarcraft and yet they don't have to be difficult to decorate. By using simple techniques Elaine MacGregor creates five stylish cakes.

• The Steam Era - Steaming Back To Marylebone | DVD | (16/05/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Narrator David Coleman gives a vivid account of the history of one of London's most famous stations and its associated Great Central Railway and Hotel. The station first built in 1899 when it had only four platforms was in its halcyon days graced by some of the most famous names of steam such as The Flying Scotsman and The Mallard shown here in the full grandeur. The moving moment is recorded when the last commercial Black Five steams out of the station and rare film footage documents its historic progress north en-route to Nottingham. Marylebone's links with the Golden Age of Steam still linger even today and since 1985 steam specials have been run. We join the Sir Nigel Gresley on its majestic way down the line to Stratford-upon-Avon thus re-creating a bygone era in an unforgettable way.

• Welsh Journeys With Jamie Owen | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £7.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (185.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Six fascinating journeys across one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. Following up from the hugely successful Magic Islands and Magic Harbours series broadcaster Jamie Owen steps ashore for a series of journeys across the length and breadth of Wales. From canoeing down the picturesque River Wye to climbing Wales' highest peak Jamie encounters some real challenges and meets a host of intriguing people whilst never forgetting to stop and admire the stunni

• KURONEKO (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shindo's stylish black-and-white ghost story forms a companion piece to his earlier film Onibaba. Once again we have a woman and her daughter-in-law preying on a lone samurai. But the mood here is a little gentler and more poignant than we are accustomed to. The two women are victims of a brutal gang of samurai: they are raped and killed and fire is set to their hut. But when their cat licks the blood from their corpses, they are transformed into shape-shifting demons that favour the form of black cats. Waylaying benighted warriors, they wreak their revenge. A champion samurai is sent against them, but he finds the monsters he's hired to destroy are his own wife and mother. Shindo skilfully builds an atmosphere of eerie menace--draperies waving in the wind, Hikaru Hiyashi's score mimicking the desolate caterwauls that precede each killing. Shindo, faithful as ever to his left-wing principles, includes a strong measure of barbed social comment in his portrayal of the arrogant samurai class. --Philip Kemp

• Golden Times Of British Railways | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Three short films from the British Transport Film archive: 'Train Time' looks at how Britain's predominantly steam railway network of the 50's was controlled while 'Elizabethan Express' pays tribute to the new Elizabethan age which dawned in 1953 and follows the train's journey from London to Edinburgh in six hours and 'Golden Arrow' is a colour film which completes the trilogy promoting the delights of Pullman Travel behind new streamlined express locomotives and aboard the refitted 'Maid Of Kent'.

• Modern Art - A Complete Guide | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An unprecedented film by academy award winner Herbert Kline detailing the revolution in art instigated by Cezanne that became Modern Art. Features rare and unique footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and explaining their work with narration and illuminating commentary by Orson Welles. Visits the great collections at The Louvre The Guggenheim and The Museum Of Modern Art. Illustrates the growth and dynamism of Modern Art and each sylistic developement: Impressio

• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way, Live in Japan | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The Red Hot Chili Peppers had gone through more than most other rock bands experience in their entire career during the first eight years of their existence before 1991 when they suddenly conquered the world with their smash album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. An ever-changing cast lavish drug consumption even the death of a band member couldn't stop the Chili Peppers from pushing on. In July 2004 the Yokohama crowd witnesses a sworn-in brotherhood: singer Anthony Kiedis backed by a threepiece groove collective that prove to be true kings of rhythm. Whatever this triple star is up to it's always full-on rock 'n' roll in your face! Even the intro originally intended as a laidback warm-up provokes acute nodding seizures among the audience before subsequent funk bombs like Can't Stop and Around The World finish them off. The live versions of Californication and Give It Away are literally bursting with energy. Only hell can be hotter! Tracklist: 1. Cant Stop 2. Around The World 3. By The Way 4. Fortune Faded 5. Throw Away Your Television 6. Universally Speaking 7. Get On Top 8. Dont Forget Me 9. Californication 10. Parallel Universe 11. Under The Bridge 12. Give It Away

• Sailor | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In 1976 BBC camera crews were invited on board Britain's best loved warship the aircraft carrier Ark Royal to record what was intended to be her last voyage and the programme became by far the best series ever made about the Royal Navy. This 3 disc DVD box set includes all the episodes from the series as well as the BBC follow-up programme 'Sailor: 8 Years On' which revealed the sad fate of the now decrepit ship in dock and went in search of the crew members to discover how their l

• Ancient Rome | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The dramatic rise and fall of history's most powerful empire! The latest archaeological research and stunning visual effects combine to reveal the secrets of Rome the greatest city of antiquity.

• Berlin Airlift, Operation Vittles | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This unique documentary packed full of historical archive footage and expert analysis documents one of the first major international crises of the cold war - The Berlin Airlift - that began on June 26 1948 when the Soviets sealed off the western portion of Berlin controlled by American British and French forces. In response the western allies took to the skies and began flying in provisions for West Berlin's 2.2 million residents. In one of the greatest humanitarian actions of all time American and British aircraft supplied the inhabitants of Berlin with food fuel and other supplies during the unprecedented Berlin Airlift which came to be known as 'Operation Vittles'. At midnight on May 12 1949 the Soviets who had repeatedly claimed the airlift could never possibly work had to admit to a humiliating defeat and reopened land and water routes into Berlin ending the 322-day blockade of the city. Seventeen American and eight British aircraft crashed during the operation. A total of 70 British and American personnel lost their lives during the airlift and related operations however the airlift demonstrated to the Germans that the Western democracies would defend their freedoms. In turn the soldiers of Great Britain and the United States began to see Germans as allies in the struggle against the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The genesis of the Western Alliance can be dated to the Berlin airlift. One lasting legacy of the Airlift are the three airports in the former western zones of the city which served as the primary gateways to Berlin for another sixty years.

• The Memphis Belle - A Story Of A Flying Fortress | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Acknowledged as one of the finest documentaries ever put out by the War Department during World War Two this is the story of the final two missions of the Memphis Belle the American B-17 bomber as it led a squadron of bombers on daring daylight attacks on Wilhelmshaven and Lorient. Made by the Photographic Section of the US Eighth Air Force under the supervision of William Wyler (later to become a decorated Hollywood director) this is a thrilling film recording some of the most

• Remember The Stirling | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eighteen feet longer than the Lancaster the Short Stirling was the first and largest of the RAF's wartime four-engine bombers. Although well over 2 000 Sterlings were built not one remains today! Throughout Europe the search is on for a wreck that might conceivably be restored. Unitl then Remeber The Sterling is the only way to really experience this important British Bomber! This DVD features rare and exclusive wartime footage as well as interviews with Surviving Stirling aircrew members!

• Campaign In The Balkans | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Although the crucial Russian campaign in the Balkans states is perhaps one of the war's lesser known stories it is a saga packed with drama. In August 1943 the Romanians - no doubt prompted by merciless Allied bombing - overthrew their leader Antonescu and changed sides. Thereafter events moved swiftly - the Russians soon captured the vital Ploesti oilfields a huge loss to the German war effort and within days the Soviets had taken Bucharest itself. A nervous Bulgaria sued for

• Journey: Live In Manilla | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Journey's spectacular Live In Manila captures the band's 2009 concert in the Philippines - the triumphant homecoming of the band's current lead vocalist Arnel Pineda. Tracklist Disc 1 1. The Journey/Majestic 2. Never Walk Away 3. Only The Young 4. Ask The Lonely 5. Stone In Love 6. Keep On Runnin' 7. After All These Years 8. Change For The Better 9. Wheel In The Sky 10. Lights 11. Still They Ride 12. Open Arms 13. Mother Father 14. Wildest Dream 15. When You Love A Woman 16. Separate Ways 17. What I Needed Disc 2 1. Edge Of The Blade 2. Where Did I Lose Your Love 3. Escape 4. Faithfully 5. Don't Stop Believin' 6. Any Way You Want It 7. Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' 8. Turn Down The World Tonight 9. Be Good To Yourself

• Alan Yentob: The Trouble with Tolstoy | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Yentob presents this two-part BBC documentary tracing the life and work of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and examining his artistic and political influence on his mother country. The episodes are 'At War With Himself' and 'In Search of Happiness'.

• World War II - German Armour 1939-45 | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £10.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.18%)   |  RRP £10.99

  This is the story of the German Panzer forces of World War II when these awesome fighting machines came of age. Featuring newsreel footage shot by the German PK (Propaganda Kompanie) and archive film from Allied war sources this is the definitive guide to the German tank and armoured vehicles of the war. From the brutally effective Blitzkrieg tactics to the German disaster at the Battle of Kursk the greatest tank battle in history this DVD covers the highs and lows of German armour in the field of battle. From the early war panzers: the Mark I and II machines which formed the bulk of the Panzerwaffe in the early years of the war. These machines were already considered unfit for service in 1939 but nonetheless had to be pressed into action in Poland France Norway Greece Africa and Russia. Featuring rare footage and incisive commentary this unique film illustrates the follies of war. Also featured is the versatile PanzerIII and how the German medium tanks were forced into action to plug the gaps torn in the Wehrmacht ranks by the T-34.The medium tanks were quickly eclipsed by the superior numbers of tanks fielded by the Red Army but nonetheless had to be kept in service in all theatres until the end of the war. The Tiger was the legendary heavy tank developed by the Panzerwaffein response to the Soviet T-34 and KV1 tanks. This fearsome machine was the equal of any other tank on the battlefield but there were simply never enough to turn the tide which was already flowing against Hitlers Germany.

• Extreme Dreams - Series 1 | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Travel presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle gives four groups each consisting of five members of the public the chance to realise their dreams and conquer some of the world's most extreme environments. Embarking on a voyage of personal discovery each candidate will be tested mentally physically and emotionally on their journey of a lifetime. The challenges the would-be explorers have to face are a gruelling hike to the lost Inca city of Choquequirao in Peru; an exhausting trek through the thickest rainforest during rainy season to the Kaieteur Falls in Guyana; a punishing climb to the peak of the highest mountain in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and an arduous voyage across the Arctic to Temple Mountain one of the highest peaks in the region. The groups have to rise above altitude sickness the risk of hypothermia heat stroke unusual cuisine deadly creatures and sheer exhaustion constantly being forced to work as a team to conquer the inhospitable environments. In these unrelenting circumstances will their extreme dreams turn into their worst nightmares?

• Elgar: Enigma Variations | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £17.09   |  Saving you £2.90 (16.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  BBC Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Bernstein, direction

• Rulers of the Ancient World - Tyrants, Conquerors, Heroes | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-3.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  They are some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders the world has ever known. Cutting-edge technology, dramatic reenactments and expert commentary deliver their stories in vivid detail. We examine some of the most brutal and feared rulers of the ancient world from Attila the Hun to Hannibal and Genghis Khan. We take a close look at the remarkable life and times of Alexander the Great, the King of Macedonia who led a grand army over 20,000 miles to bring all of Asia under his control. Then we travel back to unravel the mysteries surrounding one of the Bible's greatest heroes - King David. Plus, an in-depth look at the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and an exploration of some of history's most decisive battles.

• Beyond Burlesque | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form Burlesque and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen. It's satire. It's parody. It's a populist blend of art and entertainment that gives new meaning to the word transgression. Above all it's a lot of fun and it will blow your mind. Beyond Burlesque features performances by Rose Wood Julie Atlas Muz Mat Fraser Dirty Martini Bunny Love Bambi the Mermaid World Famous *Bob* and Tigger! These eight female and male artists use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos.