Gordon Ramsay's F Word returns with an exciting new mission: the nationwide search for The F Word's Best Local Restaurant
CNBC: The Leaders - The Secrets To Their Success (2 Discs)
The 100 Years Series - The technology which has allowed the moving image to be captured is now more than 100 years old. To mark this centenary, Demand DVD in association with Ian Allan Publishing brings a series of programmes which explore the evolution of different aspects of public transport in Britain over the last 100 years. The four programmes, compiled mainly from archive material, some of which dates back to the early 1900’s, are now being made available on DVD for the first time.100 Years of British Ships - With its earliest footage dating back to 1901, this programme features a range of craft from warships to fishing boats, pleasure steamers and tugs. Port and resorts all around the coast are featured from Mallaig to Weymouth and from Holyhead to Dover. Among famous vessels included are HMS Ark Royal, the Mauretania and many others.100 Years of British Buses - Buses, Coaches & Trolleybuses are recorded over many decades at work in urban and rural settings throughout Britain. Operators range from small private coach companies to the great provincial and municipal concerns.100 Years of British Trains - This programme features great names and great trains such as the Golden Arrow and the Brighton Belle and covers a period from the heyday of steam to lines chopped by Dr Breeching’s axe. Industrial railway working practices and visits to the great cathedrals of the steam age, the loco sheds, are all covered in a comprehensive look at 100 Tears of Trains on Britain.100 Years of British Trams - This programme recaptures the era when the tram dominated the city street. Starting with horse trams and the smoke and grim of steam trams. Through to the rise and decline of the electric tramcar. The programme features dozens of systems the length and breadth of the country from Aberdeen to Bournemouth.
Montgomery’s brainchild, Operation Market Garden, was designed to end the war by Christmas 1944 and clear away Hitler’s V weapons from the North Sea Coast. Following the collapse of the German Army in Normandy and its flight back across northern France, it seemed that a bold move to seize the three major and numerous other waterways across Holland would place the Second British Army beyond the Rhine. This would deliver Germany’s powerhouse the Ruhr, put the Allies on the North German Plain and the road to Berlin. The Allies had, however, outran their supplies and the Germans were staging an amazing strategic recovery. The BHTV team, made up of leading historians and battlefield guides, probe the controversial background to Operation Market Garden. Early afternoon on 17 September 1944 the 101st US Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), who parachuted onto Drop Zones dictated by the air planners wish to avoid ‘unnecessary casualties from flak’ around Eindhoven, had been denied a coup de main against the first significant canal bridge at Son. With plenty of warning of the approach of the US paratroopers, the Germans blew the bridge arguably dealing Market Garden a potentially mortal blow. Meanwhile, XXX Corps were having trouble of their own after a start at 1430 hours. A mixture of SS and Fallschirmjger troops despite a bombardment halted the breakout of the Guards Armoured Division in its tracks! However, by nightfall the Irish Guards were through the German defences and had reached Valkensward 10 miles along the 60 mile route to Arnhem. The delay in reaching and bridging the canal at Son was significant but German resistance was hardening as troops were rushed to attack the airborne carpet and single route the British intended to use across Holland. With the bridging operation complete the Grenadier Guards Group covered the next 30 miles to Nijmegen in little over three hour. Market Garden looked as if it were back on schedule despite the setbacks and Arnhem was only ten miles further on. It was one thing to reach Nijmegen in forty hours but for the American Paratroopers holding the route open proved to be a different matter! The road north across Holland quickly earned the well deserved nick name ‘Hell’s Highway’. The paratroopers had to constantly fend of the growing number of enemy troops who were mounting increasingly strong attacks from east and west. Lacking numbers on the ground and transport it was an unequal battle to keep the road open. The Germans only had to get within firing range of the road elevated across the surrounding flat terrain to effectively close the vital highway and starve the troops fighting to reach Arnhem of all kinds of combat supplies. The team will examine successes and failures on Hell’s Highway to find out whether the reasons for failure can be found on here or was it soldiers of two nations fighting alongside each other to execute a fatally flawed plan?
An unprecedented behind the scenes look at one of Europe's largest sea ports Southampton. This port sees a considerable amount of shipping traffic which includes both container and general cargo ferries cruise ships and liners. In this programme all aspects of passenger and cargo operations not normally viewed by the general public are shown. Witness all the dockside action as cruise ships such as the Grand Princess are moored together with P&O cruise ships. Join us aboard the Grand Princess as we take a look at her magnificent facilities including scenes from the captain's bridge. Southampton has always had a long and distinguished maritime history involving such shipping companies as Union Castle and Cunard. We also take a brief look at the history of Southampton including that most famous of ships the Titanic. Titanic set sail from this port in 1912 and we take a look at her together with the dock where she sailed from almost a century ago. The lavender hulls of the Union Castle Line that visited this port in those halcyon days are also highlighted together with Cunard ships such as Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary. All of this and a great deal more can be seen in this magnificent DVD. Ships featured include Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas Princess Cruises' Grand Princess Sea Princess and P&O Cruises' Oriana Aurora and many more. This is a unique educational and entertaining DVD which will interest the enthusiast and holidaymaker as well as those within the shipping industry itself.
Fuzz. the sound that changed the world. The fuzz box: that tiny little box between the electric guitar and the amp. what on earth does it do? Clif Taylor explores this insane industry of noise making, from the geeky backyard 'boutique' engineers buildi
The amazing story of America's original inhabitants has been crystallized as never before into a powerful epic event. The insight actor/filmmaker and series host/executive producer Kevin Costner brought to his Dances With Wolves serves as a springboard to this thrilling chronicle filmed at actual locations from the jungles of Central America to the Canadian Arctic. A cast of star voices and state-of-the-art computer recreations bring this rich untold history to vivid moving life.
In 2002 we visited the Cologne Messe now it's the turn of Dortmund. It's quite an event: eight halls with the largest devoted to model railroads. Once again all the German majors were there and this time we concentrate on Fleischmann TRIX and Faller. Dortmund is big enough to have a hall for the just for the clubs and some exquisite models were on show: Team Kln were there again but this time with both banks of the Ltschberg! A stunning layout from Thringen just oozed 1960s nostalgia while the Hoeseltse Treinclub of Belgium brought along their Neubau-Schnellfahrstrecke!! From Austria came a complex representation of the BB and from Holland a US layout in N! There was even a delightful layout from Finland. Intermodellbau is more than just railways and we have selected a few clips to show you from other halls: boats fairgrounds and the Faller Car System. Filmed during the exhibition itself and on the press day a great reminder of the trip if you were there and an inspiration if you were not!
Filmed on location AX MEN breaks new ground in getting close to the action. You'll be ducking your head as logs swing by and wincing as entire trees crash onto the cameras! Through the experiences of the veteran bosses and their crews you'll know the ceaseless exhaustion thrilling triumph and relief of living another day that can only be felt after a stretch pulling wood out of the hills. You'll learn the innumerable risks and great rewards awaiting the AX MEN.
Nigel Marvin's Penguin Safari: In spring the breathtakingly beautiful island of South Georgia becomes a vital breeding oasis for the greatest concentration of wildlife on the planet. Join Nigel Marven (Prehistoric Park) living amongst a colony of King Macaroni and Gentoo penguins as he takes a close-up look at the life of these beautiful creatures in their natural habitat. Penguin Adventure With Nigel Marvin: Nigel focuses on King penguins with the 200 000 king penguins near the Antarctic ice-cap. He explores the real-life drama during 40 days of live-action shooting; getting to know individual penguins and experiencing the day-to-day soap opera of their lives.
The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summer's Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. There's a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lord's Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the America's Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monk's quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, it's worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse
Jeffrey Dahmer: Jeffrey Dahmer was a homosexual sexual deviant who raped murdered and ate parts of 17 victims. The Washington Sniper: Two black Americans John Allen Muhammad 42 a veteran of the Gulf War in 1991 and his stepson John Lee Malvo 17 were convicted in 2004 of being the 'Washington sniper' who had been terrorizing America over a period of three weeks killing ten innocent people. Ivan Milat: The Back Pack Killer. Australia's worst solo serial killer Ivan Milat is now serving life for the murders of seven hitchhiking backpackers between 1989 and 1992.
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Being a teen is touch enough for Kathy Cauldwell without having to be the target of her little brother George's constant practical jokes. But life really gets crazy when Dad and Mum leave for France and George is magically transformed into a pig via some ancient rocks belonging to their nanny Matilda. Only Matilda's Mexican Grandmother's voodoo can break the spell and Kathy Matilda George the Pig and George's friend Freud take off on a madcap adventure south of the border to find her. But things go from bad to worse with George is 'pignapped' by the local butcher. Now the race is on for the group to save George from becoming bacon turn him back into a boy and get home before their unsuspecting parents return.
An epic search for surfing's great truth, who started the Shortboard Revolution?
Eddie Stobart - Trucks & Trailers - Series 1-4
Tom Weir is regarded as one of Scotland's national treasures. His series 'Weir's Way' is one of the most popular and enduring programmes commisioned and broadcast about Scotland. Tom travels around Scotland exploring its landscape natural history and meeting its people. In each half hour programme Tom delves into social history physical geography and the life and times of people in the area - past and present. This is done with the charm and civility that Tom has become known for.
In the autumn of 2006 The Rolling Stones took time off from their stadium tour to play the legendary Beacon Theatre in New York City with some friends and played some songs - never performed live before - Martin Scorsese was there to capture it all!
A moving and beautiful documentary that records one of the most important religious events to take place in the UK: the tour of the relics of St Thrse of Lisieux, hailed as the greatest saint of modern times. Filmed by Michael Whyte (No Greater Love) in autumn 2009, Relics & Roses is a portrait of faith in the 21st century and includes exclusive interviews with the Archbishop of Westminster and the Dean of York.
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