Documentary

• King George VI: The Man Behind The King's Speech DVD | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The award winning movie The King's Speech has taken the film world by storm. The true story of King George VI's struggle to speak in public to the British nation during the crisis of his brother's abdication and the onset of war with Hitler's Germany has captivated the film-going public. King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech is a brand new documentary produced to coincide with the award ceremonies and home entertainment release of The King's Speech. Using archive footage of King George VI and new interviews this unique documentary charts the life and story of the man who never wished to be King of England and how he overcame his personal limitations for the sake of a nation.

• Calligraphy - A Complete Beginner's Guide | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This DVD suitable for all ages will show you how to write beautifully. You do not need to be artistic or creative as the simple to follow instruction gives you all you need to start. With a step-by-step approach to learning calligraphy that is warm friendly and easy to follow making learning a simple and stimulating experience where you can progress at your own pace inspiring you to develop your talent and above all enjoy your hobby.

• Escape Artist | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £15.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Francis Ford Coppola presents a star-studded film of a boy who fakes on the world... and wins! After leaving home to join his Uncle (Gabriel Dell) and Aunt (Joan Hackett) in their magic act, Danny (Griffin O’Neal) finds himself in a world of trouble when he nonchalantly picks the pocket of Stu Quinones (Raul Julia), the wild, troublesome son of the town’s corrupt mayor (Desi Arnaz). While attempting to extract himself from this harrowing predicament, Danny gradually discovers the previously unknown circumstances surrounding his father’s death, the extent of the legacy he left behind – as well as the delicate, oftentimes fragile bond between fathers and sons.

• Une Femme Mariée | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Une Femme Mariee (Masters Of Cinema)

• Moonage Daydream (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (26/09/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Heidi | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The iconic children's tale gets an movie update in this version which stars Max Von Sydow.

• Line Of Fire - The Gulf War | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £5.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (67.06%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On August 3rd 1990 Iraq under its ferocious dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait its oil-rich neighbour. Not long out of a war with Iran Iraq badly under-estimated the reaction of the watching world to its unprovoked attack; in particular they believed that the US would not dare to become involved. A coalition against Iraq was formed and it struck back with awesome power in January 1991. Iraq's air defence system and the country's infra-structure were taken apart by air attack

• Scorched Earth - Combat On The Russian Front - A Barbaric Struggle To The Death | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A military documentary looking at the struggle between Russian and German forces during WWII.

• Broken Silence | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (32.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Broken Silence features five documentaries from around the world about the Holocaust presented by Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The titles are: Lusi Puenzo's Some Who Lived Janos Szasz's Eyes Of The Holocaust Pavel Chukhraj's Children of The Abyss Andrzej Wajda's I Remember and Vojtech Jasny's Hell On Earth.

• The Hawker Hurricane | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £4.84   |  Saving you £5.15 (106.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to join the Royal Air Force and the first combat aircraft adopted by that arm capable of exceeding 300 mph in level flight.The Hurricane shouldered the lion's share of Britain's defence during the Battle of Britain.This programme portrays the history of this legendary aircraft which was to form an immortal partnership during the infamous battle. While the Spitfire was an entirely new concept based on specialized experience, the Hurricane was the logical outcome of a long line of fighting aircraft.

• Planet Ustinov - Travels With Sir Peter Ustinov | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Famed raconteur and wit Sir Peter Ustinov is tempted out of retirement in his Swiss Vineyard for one last grand journey around the world. Following in the footsteps of Mark Twain, Sir Peter travels first to Fiji and the Kiribati Islands, before heading for Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, India and finally South Africa. Along the way, he meets and mingles with taxi drivers and presidents, exiles and evangelists, the descendants of kings and cannibals - and living gods and dying colonials. It is an unforgettable journey, full of incident and character, all observed with Sir Peter's typical insightful and thought-provoking wit and culminating in a meeting with Nelson Mandela himself aboard the QE2. A true cosmopolitan, Sir Peter reveals the struggles by people around the world to rediscover and reclaim their lost heritage and to find for themselves an enduring sense of belonging in a rapidly-changing world. All four episodes of this sophisticated, intelligent and challenging series are included here on DVD for the very first time.

• James Joyce's Dublin - The Ulysses Tour | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  First published in 1922 'Ulysses' was the piece of work that made the name of its author James Joyce. Its publication was seen to expand the domain of permissible subjects in fiction. A remarkably ambitious novel a labyrinthine work of great humor and technical accomplishment it once was denounced as obscene occasionally was accused of being unreadable and is now generally acclaimed as being the greatest book of the 20th Century. Although he spent most of his adult life outside of Ireland Joyce's fictional universe was firmly rooted in Dublin providing him with both setting and subject matter. In 'James Joyce's Dublin: The Ulysses Tour' Robert Nicholson curator of the James Joyce Museum Sandycove conducts us through Joyce's world with great enthusiasm and an irreverent sensibility that Joyce would surely have relished. Whilst allowing himself a couple of very Irish digs at the great man he shares his admiration for the writer with us together with his love of the novel and the city that gave birth to it in a manner that is entirely captivating.

• Line Of Fire - Stalingrad | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The bitter bloody and inhuman struggle for Stalingrad was the turning point of the war on the eastern front and a pivotal moment of World War Two. Germany's defeat there signalled to the Allies at large that Hitler and the Reich could be beaten. Features recreations and expert comment and analysis.

• Great Adventurers - Sir Walter Raleigh | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £3.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (186.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This documentary delves into the life and times of Sir Walter Raleigh.

• British Airshows - A Film History - Farnborough 1990-2008 | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £6.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (37.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Strike From The Sea takes you on board the Supercarrier the USS Theodore Roosevelt. An extraordinary look behind the scenes from the flight deck to the galleys from the bridge to the cockpit of her squadrons. A detailed look at the aircraft types stationed on carriers- particularly the F/A-18 Hornet F-14 Tomcat and the A6 Intruder revealing how this potent combination can respond effectively to combat situations. The DVD also looks at the threat posed by submarines and the historic and contemporary measures taken to deter them. Also featured on this DVD is a look at how the world's navies retrieve their downed pilots often in dangerous combat situations.

• Tales From The Palaces | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £5.45   |  Saving you £15.80 (377.09%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This access all areas documentary was filmed over the course of a year with the conservation teams inside Britain's historic royal palaces featuring Hampton Court The Tower Of London Kew Palace Banqueting House and Kensington Palace. Narrated by Robert Lindsay this 10-part series offers a unique behind-the-scene glimpse at the work that goes into maintaining our nation's history.

• Tony Palmer's Films for The South Bank Show | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £133.70   |  Saving you £-25.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £107.99

  Melvyn Bragg has run The South Bank Show for over 30 years, producing in all over 250 films. Sadly, ITV has now decided to axe the show, so to celebrate the final season of The South Bank Show, a brilliant collection of Tony Palmer's films made for The South Bank Show is being released in a special commemorative boxset. The eleven films include the Italia Prize-winning definitive portraits of Benjamin Britten, William Walton and Maria Callas; the New York Film & TV Festival Gold medal winne...

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 2 | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hougoumont & D'Erlon's Attack is the second part in the explosive four part series, The Waterloo Collection, which covers the entire Waterloo Campaign from Napoleon's return to France and ensuing battles to his final pursuit and eventual surrender to the British. Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of the opposing armies. While the guns of the Grand Battery thundered in the centre, French columns bore down on the Hougoumont chateau and farm complex, which protected Wellington's flank held by the Guards and their German allies. Thus began an epic 'battle within a battle' that sucked away valuable troops from Napoleon's main attack, causing Wellington to declare that 'the battle turned on the closing of the gates at Hougoumont'.

• Crawshaw Paint Oils | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £18.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.53%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Cranshaw Paints Oils

• The Kings & Queens of England | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Normans & Angevins Our journey begins at one of the most important and probably best known events in English history; the Norman invasion of Britain and the Battle of Hastings in 1066 it takes us through the reigning monarchs of the next 150 years to 1216 and to the death of King John; the last of the Angevins. Along the way we are introduced to the four Norman kings; William I William II Henry I and finally Stephen the Angevins follow in 1154 with Henry II Richard I and the aforementioned King John. Learn about their lives deaths and the circumstances in which they inherited the throne. The Middle Ages We begin the Middle Ages programme with a monarch much ignored by history; King Louis. Short-lived though his reign may be Louis ruled England in the months between the death of King John and the coronation of Henry III in 1216. The next 183 years were to become known as the Plantagenet period. In 1399 Henry IV came to the throne he was the first of the Lancastrians; the remaining two being Henry V and Henry VI who between them ruled until 1461. Although historically the Yorkists ruled from 1461 to 1485 Henry VI was temporarily restored to the throne in 1470 only to be deposed again in 1471. The Tudors Although the Tudors reigned from 1485 - 1603 our story begins much earlier in the year of 1461 with a character called Owen Tudor. Owen was the source from which the Tudor dynasty would eventually spring. 1461 - 1485 saw the Yorkists Edward IV Edward V and Richard III on the throne until in 1485 the Tudor reign began with Henry VII. Henry VII was followed in the year 1509 by Henry VIII who with his six wives takes a very colourful place in history. Then came Edward VI Mary I and Elizabeth I along with Lady Jane Grey (the nine day queen) who historically gets very little mention. The Stuarts With the death of Elizabeth I 1603 heralded the beginning of the Stuarts; a royal house that was to last for over one hundred years. Here was a period that would see amongst other events; civil war a great plague the fire of London the abolition and re-introduction of the monarchy and the gunpowder plot. James I and Charles I ruled until 1649 when Parliament took over during an eleven year period which came to be known as the Commonwealth and Protectorate. The monarchy was finally restored in 1660 with the crowning of Charles II. The Hanoverians From George I to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837; the Hanoverians span a period of 123 years. A fairly stable period with five kings one of whom (George III) was to be the longest reigning king in British history. We start our visit in 1714 with a German who is 52nd in line to the throne and who became monarch without being able to speak a single word of English! 1727 sees George II come to the thrown; his reign was to last until 1760 when George III's 60 year rule began. George IV was crowned in 1820 followed ten years later by the last of the Hanoverians William IV. Modern Monarchy From her accession to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901 Queen Victoria was to reign for 64 years. In contrast Edward VII her successor was to be king for only 10 years. The first of the Windsor's; George V despite being a German prince was to be monarch throughout the First World War and up to his eventual death in 1936 at the age of 70. 1936 was to see his son and successor Edward VIII abdicated as a result of his love for divorcee Wallace Simpson in his place his brother Albert was crowned George VI. Albert was the first royal to marry a commoner since Henry VIII.