Documentary

• Essex Past Part 1: The County our Parents Knew | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £7.92   |  Saving you £5.07 (39.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Essex as it used to be, including: Theydon Bois in 1916, 1930s Chelmsford and Colchester, Frinton, Southend, Tilbury, Clacton and others

• Dogtown & Z-Boys | Blu Ray | (05/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.58

  In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighbourhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and off-handedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as "extreme sports" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade

• Jens Kruger's Banjo Method For Beginners | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Banjo virtuoso Jens Kruger has devised a unique and immediately satisfying way for beginners to get started. This easy but highly musical lesson will teach anyone - in minutes - to play the melodies to songs such as: Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Aunt Rhody; Grandfather's Clock; Wildwood Flower; Shady Grove and other favourites. 90 minutes, TAB booklet included on PDF file.

• East Anglia's Steam Years (Railways) | DVD | (15/10/2008) from £7.28   |  Saving you £5.71 (78.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Journey back in time to the heyday of steam, from the story of the M&GN Railway to the elegant Scottish Express en route from London

• Last Flight Of The Space Shuttle | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £9.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (33.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The film goes behind the scenes to follow the 18 months of preparations for launch close up. It draws on personal testimonies of key characters - the engineers astronauts and others who have spent their lives working on the Shuttle Program. For them this flight is loaded with mixed emotions immense pride and nostalgia for the program and sadness that it is coming to an end.

• Marilyn - Portrait Of A Legend | DVD | (27/01/2002) from £3.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (203.54%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Examines Marilyn through an in-depth investigation of her private life. From her turbulent childhood when her mother vanished beyond the dark wall of mental illness through her short stays at various orphanages and foster homes...to her marriage at sixteen to James Dougherty. Relive Marilyn's first exposure during WWII as a calendar girl for the war efforts her first performance in ""Ladies of the Chorus "" and acting debut in ""Asphalt Jungle"" then into the glamorous Hollywood supersta

• Legion Of Brothers | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £3.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Immediately after the attacks on September 11, 2001, the U.S. government deployed fewer than 100 Special Forces troops to Afghanistan to initiate a secret war. Building a coalition with the rebels of the Northern Alliance, the U.S. troops managed to drive both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda out of power without the use of conventional, large-scale military operations by the end of 2001. Despite this victory, the U.S. and its allies soon become mired in a seemingly never-ending war. Produced by CNN films and directed by Greg Barker (Manhunt), this untold story features unprecedented access to the Green Berets who played pivotal roles in these covert missions. Reflecting on their experiences and on the brothers-in-arms they lost, these elite soldiers offer a riveting celebration of valour and a sobering, cautionary tale.

• DVD Guide to Birdwatching in Wales | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £13.73   |  Saving you £7.26 (52.88%)   |  RRP £20.99

  With a coast rich in seabirds, woodlands with warblers and flycatchers, uplands with grouse and birds of prey and wetlands with woldfowl and waders, Wales has a lot to offer birdwatchers. Filmmaker Paul Docherty highlights the birds to be found at twelve key sites, one for each month of the year, showing the birds you might expect to see at that time. 129 species are featured, including seabirds, warblers, flycatchers, grouse, birds of prey and waders. An added bonus is the inclusion of mamma...

• Great Battles Of WWII 4 DVD Gift Set | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £14.56   |  Saving you £10.43 (41.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Blitzkrieg Poland Invaded 1939: With the use of powerful archive film footage and highly detailed computer generated battle maps, charts the progress of a deprived post World War I Germany. We follow the rapid and spectacular military build-up, through to the largely horse-drawn invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland.Blitzkrieg France Falls 1940: This DVD Follows the highly coordinated assault on Norway, Denmark and France. There is dramatic footage of the invasion of Norway, the British and French counter invasion at sea, the failure of the Maginot line and the German advance through the Lowlands and Belgium. Finally we follow the retreat at Dunkirk and the fall of Paris.The Road to Stalingrad: In August 1942 Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the City that bore Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost. They then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This epic battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives.The Road to Berlin: The Germans had repulsed every Russian attempt to drive across the Oder river to Berlin. However during early April, Stalin concentrated a tremendous force between Stettin and Breslau in reparation for a final blow against Germany. They struck on the night of April 16-17 and no one in Berlin had any hope of stopping the massive Russian offensive.

• Discovery Channel - 100 Greatest Discoveries | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Learn the details behind the one hundred most significant breakthroughs in the history of mankind! Take a journey through history and examine the discoveries, breakthroughs and eureka moments that have transformed all of our lives for the better. Host Bill Nye travels the world, meeting eminent scientists in various fields, to explore and explain the principles behind the most significant developments in the history of mankind. Each of the 100 Greatest Discoveries, in eight different fields of knowledge, is examined both in terms of the principles and personalities involved. Over 500 years of scientific advances are distilled and presented in this accessible, entertaining series to give you a good understanding of HOW many of science's toughest riddles were solved, WHO it was that solved them, and WHY these solutions are so significant.

• Fred Dibnah's Great Buildings | DVD | (26/12/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fred Dibnah's Great Buildings

• National Geographic - Seconds From Disaster Season 4 | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Seconds From Disaster 4 blends advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to allow the viewer to experience first-hand the gripping details of the final moments behind some of the world's most chilling disasters. Seconds From Disaster 4 takes a fresh look at the 9/11 tragedy in the USA, focusing on the vital and often confusing minutes and seconds in which Air Traffic Control and the U.S. Air Force tried to deal with the hijacks and the aftermath. Other episodes reconstruct the events leading up to the Paddington rail collision in London, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and one of the world's worst industrial accidents in Bhopal, India. We also analyse the circumstances surrounding a tragic cable-car accident which saw 19 tourists fall 300 feet to their deaths and look into a tragic plane collision at 35,000 feet above Germany in 2002. Disc 1 Pearl Harbour 9/11 Cable Car Collision Disc 2 Paddington Train Collision Collision at 35,000 Feet Bhopal Nightmare

• Nirvana - The Untold Stories | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.42   |  Saving you £6.57 (50.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seminal grunge rockers Nirvana are extensively profiled in this fascinating documentary. Drawing on rarely seen interview footage purged from various archives take a look at the men behind the classic ""Nevermind"" album. This release contains no musical content from the band.

• Trouble On The Terraces | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (19.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sean Bean narrates this documentary study of football hooliganism. Interviews with the police psychologists criminologists and hooligans themselves attempt to explain why the so called 'English Disease' of the 1970s has now re-appeared.

• Faces Of Death | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orgies using dead bodi

• LE PONT DU NORD (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The culmination of New Wave master Jacques Rivette's legendary middle period (which ranged from L'Amour fou through Out 1 Céline and Julie Go Boating Duelle Noroît and Merry-Go-Round) Le Pont du Nord envisions Paris as a sprawling game-board marked off with tucked-away conspiracies where imagination and paranoia intermingle; where the hinted-at stakes are sanity life and death. Regular Rivette actress Bulle Ogier stars as Marie a claustrophobic ex-con who shortly after wandering into Paris encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste (Pascale Ogier Bulle's actual 22-year-old daughter). Baptiste a knife-wielding self-proclaimed kung-fu expert with a drive to slash the eyes from faces in adverts (including in one instance those on a placard for Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha) accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover's (Pierre Clémenti's) suitcase: an amalgam of clippings patterns and maps of Paris that points to a vastly unsettling labyrinth replete with signs and intimations whose menacing endgame remains all too unclear. Gorgeously shot by the master cinematographer William Lubtchansky Le Pont du Nord is a freehweeling powerful experience whose hypnotic rhythm and ominous undercurrents resolve into a frightening and exhilarating portrait of post-revolutionary early-'80s Paris – and in turn form a prime example of Rivette's uncanny occult cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Jacques Rivette's rare and essential feature Le Pont du Nord on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time anywhere in the world.

• Great Britain Then & Now - The Heart Of Yorkshire | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Great Britain: Then & Now - TheHeart Of Yorkshire

• Tougher in Alaska Season 1 | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Forget the snow, the cold and the wild bears: the toughest things you'll find in Alaska are the people!In the bitterly cold, extreme landscape of Alaska, there are huge challenges associated with jobs that we often take for granted. From taking out the rubbish to commuting to work, daily tasks for ordinary people take on a new meaning in the face of the unforgiving environment. Now, native Alaskan Geo Beach takes a closer look at the lives of those people who sign up for some of the biggest challenges the frozen north can throw at them: gold miners blasting through rock in sub-zero temperatures searching for new fortunes; heli-loggers that fly to almost inaccessible areas for fresh supplies of timber; and troopers who patrol areas the size of entire states. Even the garbage collectors must face the challenge of doing their rounds before the local black bears can get into the bins!Take a fresh look at the beautiful, rugged and majestic landscape of Alaska in the company of some of state's hardest working - and often most eccentric - residents. To survive and thrive amid the imposing terrain takes a special kind of person. Just like the weather, the conditions and the lifestyle, the people you meet really are Tougher In Alaska!

• The Burmese Harps | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A rhapsodic celebration of song a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; even amongst the riches of 1950s' Japanese cinema The Burmese Harp directed by Kon Ichikawa (Alone Across the Pacific Tokyo Olympiad) stands as one of the finest achievements of its era. At the close of World War II a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to the British. Private Mizushima is sent on a lone mission to persuade a trapped Japanese battalion to surrender also. When the outcome is a failure he disguises himself in the robes of a Buddhist monk in hope of temporary anonymity as he journeys across the landscape - but he underestimates the power of his assumed role. A visually extraordinary and deeply moving vision of horror necessity and redemption in the aftermath of war Ichikawa's breakthrough film is one of the great humanitarian affirmations of the cinema. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and honoured at the Venice Film Festival The Burmese Harp is one of cinema's great anti-war classics alongside La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir) Grave Of The Fireflies (Isao Takahata/Studio Ghibli) Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) All Quiet On The Western Front (Lewis Milestone) and The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Burmese Harp.

• The Men Who Built America | Blu Ray | (10/06/2013) from £28.33   |  Saving you £-3.34 (-13.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From obscurity to extraordinary - the ruthless story behind America's business giants. The United States of America wasn't discovered it was built. Rockefeller Vanderbilt Carnegie Astor Ford and Morgan - these are the men who built it and their names became synonymous with the American dream. At the height of the Industrial Age these men constructed a bold vision for a modern nation and transformed the greatest industries of our time: oil rail steel shipping automobiles and finance. Rising from poverty their paths crossed repeatedly as they elected Presidents set economic policies and influenced every major event of their day - from the Civil War to The Great Depression. This is the story of a nation at a crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity. Special Features: From Rich to Richer The American Dream Monopoly Competitive Nature The Every Man The Rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt Traits of a Titan Carnegie.