Documentary

• Railway Roundabout 1961 | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £2.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (503.69%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the late 1950s and early 1960s the BBC broadcast a series of television programmes called Railway Roundabout featuring train lines which proved to be on the point of closure and locomotives that were about to disappear forever.Highlights of this fascinating DVD include a journey from Bath to Evercreech Junction; the last train from Bala to Ffestiniog; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Special and the Severn and Wye in the Forest of Dean. Welsh narrow gauge highlights are also featured

• Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A businessman rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns.

• River Cottage Forever | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £20.03 (403.83%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The rolling hills and rugged countryside of Dorset provide the perfect backdrop for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's experiment to leave the rat race behind to live off the fat of the land. Tucked away at the bottom of one of the county's valleys he finds his ideal home: River Cottage. In his first year Hugh had just the cottage and the garden but he soon found he needed more land so in his second year he did a deal with a neighbour to rent four acres. His smallholding now boasts a po

• Painted Paint | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arthouse 8: Painted Paint

• Armstrong | DVD | (15/07/2019) from £4.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by David Fairhead (SPITFIRE) ARMSTRONG is the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio, through his near death experiences in aerial combat in the Korean War, pushing the limits as an experimental test pilot through to those historic first steps on the Moon and the unwanted celebrity status that ensued. In his own words David said Telling this story is a documentary filmmaker's dream. When Neil made his small step onto the lunar surface, it marked his transformation from mere man to global celebrity something he spent the rest of his life trying to avoid. Through the testimony of colleagues, friends and family we outline his achievements and tell the seemingly familiar, yet little known tale of the First Man on the Moon. Made with the full support of his family, this dramatic, moving and insightful film includes previously unseen homemovie footage shot by Armstrong himself. Neil's own words provide the narration based on his rare interviews, writings and speeches, which are delivered by renowned actor and aviation enthusiast Harrison Ford. Featuring exclusive interviews with his family, fellow astronauts and aviators and those who knew him in his youth and later life, ARMSTRONG is the extraordinary and unique story of a quiet, determined man who became an aviator, astronaut, husband, father and reluctant hero.

• Waltz with Bashir | Blu Ray | (30/03/2009) from £12.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (56.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Waltz With Bashir" is the story Israeli helmer Ari Folman and his quest to remember what happened during the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon where he served as a soldier.

• Origins of Us | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  We have uncovered the secrets of the atom and travelled to the moon. But how did humans come to be so successful? This series explores the anatomical changes that have given us and our ancestors the edge. Everything from the way that we walk to the shape of our jaw and even the way our thumbs move connects us intimately to the struggles and triumphs of our ancestors. Yet many of those changes have come at a surprising cost and the problems we face now are a direct consequence of our evolutionary journey. As much about our bodies today as about our bodies 6 million years ago Origins Of Us will change the way you see yourself.

• Shake Hands With The Devil | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 100 days - between April 6 and July 16 1994 - an estimated 800 000 men women and children were brutally killed in the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims - many horrifically hacked to death with machetes - were Tutsi and moderate Hutus who supported them. One man was tasked by the United Nations with ensuring that peace was maintained in Rwanda - Canadian Lieutenant General Romo Dallaire. But unsupported by U.N. headquarters and its Security Council far away in New York Dallaire and his handful of soldiers were incapable of stopping the genocide. After ten years of mental torture reliving the horrors daily and more than once attempting suicide Romo Dallaire has poured out his soul in an extraordinary book. Shake Hands With The Devil is a cri de coeur. The General pulls no punches in his condemnation of top UN officials expedient Belgian policy makers and senior members of the Clinton administration who chose to do nothing as Dallaire pleaded for reinforcements and revised rules of engagement. Dallaire is convinced that with a few thousand more troops and a mandate to act pre-emptively he could have stopped the killings. His impotence at a time of extreme crisis preys on his conscience still. The experienced Canadian documentary production company White Pine Pictures secured the documentary rights to General Dallaire's book and exclusive access to follow him during his first return trip to Rwanda in April 2004 - the 10th anniversary of the genocide. We were there as he revisited the killing fields that haunt him. Shake Hands With The Devil is the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide. Unflinching. Gut-wrenching. Challenging. Hard-hitting. This is appointment television for viewers throughout the world who care about human rights and international justice.

• The Best Of Steam | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (46.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Best of Steam (3 Discs)

• In Search of Shakespeare | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BBC series In Search of Shakespeare could be the English teacher's most important ally yet. With his typical mixture of intensive research, detective work, boyish enthusiasm and popular appeal, television historian Michael Wood comes closer than anyone to bringing the Bard to life. There are some astonishing discoveries along the way, which help to give a documentary cohesion to Shakespeare's story. But Wood is never arrogant enough to claim to have pinned the playwright's character down. The ifs, buts and maybes are all part of the fascination. The man himself remains tantalisingly just out of reach, which is probably as it should be. Instead, Wood takes us on an exhilarating journey through Elizabethan and Jacobean England, building a picture of his subject through painstaking reference to the climate of the age: a police state in which Shakespeare's family was devastated by the persecution of Catholics. Social, familial and political influences are all unravelled and pieced together, counterpointed with scenes from the plays--RSC actors conveniently to hand--and the life and times of the travelling actor and playwright are evoked in front of our eyes, becoming tangible and relevant. Wood gives us the chance to consider the plays in context, products of a great mind living in interesting times, rather than in academic isolation. It's a compelling tale, full of bloody danger, sex, celebrity and social history, and densely packed with layers of detail. Wood's great gift is to tell it in such an accessible way and without the sense of superiority that some of his peers bring to popular history. --Piers Ford

• Roger Waters: The Wall | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  'Roger Waters The Wall' is a concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

• Queen -The Complete Review | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £6.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (154.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  QUEEN The Complete Review (2009 UK 2-disc Region 0 DVD set - Its close to 20 years since the tragic death of Freddie Mercury meaning that Queen [at least the version that mattered] have been absent longer than they ever existed as the quite extraordinary group who made so much incredible music between 1973 and 1991. Featuring contributions from friends and close colleagues of Queen and with comment and critique from some of the finest rock journalists in the world plus much rare and classicfootage - including seldom seen performances of their finest tracks - news reports location shoots photographs from private collections a host of other features and a multitude of extras this package will prove a delight to the millions of fans who to this day worship one of the very few rock group to have earned the accolade of truly great band)

• Steam Classics Flying Scotsman | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £12.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (4.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Flying Scotsman is known as the most famous steam locomotive in the world. There are few people have not heard of this magnificent machine but far fewer know the complicated story of how Flying Scotsman became a National Treasure. Illustrated by evocative footage of the engine working on the British railway network in various guises this programme traces the story from the time when the locomotive returned from Australia after achieving its most recent record - the world's longest non-stop run behind steam - up to its acquisition by the nation and the National Railway Museum at York. In this programme we see Flying Scotsman with single and double-chimney fittings German smoke deflectors and LNER Apple Greene and British Railways' Brunswick Green liveries working from Carnforth in the North to Salisbury in the South as well as on the Ride the Legend excursions to Scarborough.

• The End - Confessions Of A Cockney Gangster | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £11.22   |  Saving you £3.03 (30.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Against the backdrop of the East End of London, first time filmmaker Nicola Collins explores the fascinating complexity of the lives of her father and his friends; infamous criminals that shaped their war torn environment into a violent underworld.

• Toughest Race on Earth With Ja | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £4.90   |  Saving you £25.09 (512.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It is dubbed the toughest race in the world. For a quarter of a century, athletes have been converging on the hottest place on Earth, to take on an extreme race across the desert, the Marathon des Sables.800 athletes from more than 30 nations compete in a 250km run over sand dunes, salt flats and mountains across the Sahara Desert. Up to 150 will drop out, however Olympian and adventurer James Cracknell will not even contemplate failure. But with such an unparalleled endurance race, no-one can predict the outcome.In the name of science, one of Britain’s most competitive athletes will surrender his body to science and team of specialists, thus becoming a living, breathing, competing experiment, as a team of experts attempt to condition Cracknell’s body to scientific perfection. Producing a body that can take on and overcome the toughest race in the world.

• Creation Stories | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rock School - The Complete First Series | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £6.83   |  Saving you £13.16 (192.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Rock School the fire-breathing blood-spitting bassist of Kiss Gene Simmons tries to turn a classroom full of prim-and-proper British school children into a hot and heavy rock 'n' roll band. Gene is invited to Christ's Hospital a 450 year-old boarding school outside London. There the students wear uniforms march in procession and study classical music. In just six weeks Gene's monumental task is to transform a class of classically trained thirteen year-olds

• Life in Cold Blood | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £13.05   |  Saving you £11.94 (91.49%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The last in David Attenborough's pioneering 'Life' series sees him exploring the fascinating lives of reptiles and amphibians that have roamed the planet for millions of years. Using the very latest in filming technology from the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit, David reveals the surprising and intimate lives of the cold-blooded reptiles and amphibians, discovering the secret of their success. From the largest and most dangerous reptiles on Earth demonstrating tender and sensual cou...

• Bettany Hughes' Voices of the Dead | DVD | (07/11/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Grayson Perry: All In The Best Possible Taste | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Grayson Perry, renowned artist, transvestite, cultural icon and giver of the 2013 Reith Lecture, has always been fascinated by taste: why people buy the things they do and wear the things they wear, and what they are trying to say about themselves when they make those choices. Grayson goes on safari through the taste tribes of Britain, not just to observe our taste, but to tell us in an artwork what it means. The work Grayson creates is a series of six imposing tapestries called 'The Vanity.