Documentary

• River Cottage Collection | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Escape To River Cottage: It is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's dream to escape the urban sprawl and find a little place in the country where he can live off the fat of the land. When Hugh finds River Cottage nestling in the heart of the beautiful Dorset countryside he sets about turning his dream into a reality. The first casualty to self-sufficiency is the flower bed which makes way for terracing to grow edible crops. Once the vegetables have been taken care of Hugh sets off in his 1965 Ford Corsair in search of livestock. The first arrivals at the cottage are a pair of eight week old Gloucester Old Spot pigs but more animals soon follow. Hugh also finds time to show how sumptuous meals can be prepared from the local produce be it sea fish pigeons or freshly caught pike. Return To River Cottage: The second series looking at the life of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who continues to live in River Cottage in Dorset. River Cottage Forever: 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 polytunnel for growing vegetables fox proof high rise chicken accommodation and pasture for his sheep cows and pigs. It is now the start of his third year and as well as being a time for looking back with joy and satisfaction at the events of the last two years it is a time to ask the really big question: should Hugh stay at River Cottage forever?

• Battle Of Finland | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nominated for Best Film, this spectacular drama weaves the incredible, untold stories of courageous young men who fought in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. June 1944; When Soviet forces break through Finland s defences on the eastern front, what follows is the Battle of Tali-Ihantala; one of the largest and most devastating battles in history, where few survived. Based on true events, this stunning, action-packed epic follows the lives and actions of individual men and uni...

• Secrets of Great British Castles Series 1&2 | DVD | (29/05/2023) from £17.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Accel World: Part 1 | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Accel World Part 1. Are you prepared to accelerate beyond your world? In the near future our lives will be organised and played out through devices known as Neurolinkers. Utilising it enables access to a virtual reality where there are no limits on an individual for Harayuki Arita this is freedom. Neither rich popular nor particularly attractive Harayuki spends his time building his ideal self here. He dominates this space until it is cruelly taken away from him by high school bullies. However salvation is at hand when Kuroyukihime the school's most popular girl offers him another chance to escape and become the person he's always wanted to be. Except this offer has a catch and it deals with his life. Delving into the virtual reality known as Accel World Haru will need to learn quickly how to fight if he wishes to uncover the secrets of this world and become Kuroyukihime's knight.

• The Lost Weekend: A Love Story | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wonders of the Universe | Blu Ray | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Explore the furthest reaches of the solar system in an entirely new dimension.

• The Real Godfathers - Al Capone - Scarface | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of the most notorious gangster in American history. In the thrilling underworld of speakeasies Tommy Guns and turf wars Al Capone was the undisputed emperor of Chicago. ""Scarface"" was many things to many people - a ruthless and vindictive murderer a generous patron and a wild and glamorous impresario. But to all Capone is the most notorious gangster in American history. Follow his journey from the immigrant neighbourhood of his youth to the glittering circles of Chic

• Moonage Daydream | DVD | (05/12/2022) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, Moonage Daydream is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. Moonage Daydream is not a documentary. It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year.

• Sisters of War | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £6.44   |  Saving you £3.55 (55.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1942 the Japanese war machine thundered across South East Asia in its path a tiny Catholic mission. This is the story of the nurses captivity their friendship their will to survive and their extraordinary courage.

• Bowling For Columbine | DVD | (01/05/2013) from £4.74   |  Saving you £17.01 (570.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the wake of the Columbine high school massacre acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest film takes a critical look at America's obsessive gun culture.

• Alistair Cooke's America | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A classic from what now seems like the Golden Age of TV documentaries, Alistair Cooke’s America was first broadcast in 1972-3 and it remains, along with the contemporary The World at War, an example of how documentaries should be made: there’s none of the flashy editing, wobbly camera-work, over-intrusive music or costumed actors prancing around in the mode of Simon Schama’s fussy History of Britain for example. Here there is just scenery, the odd map or illustration and—most importantly—Cooke himself talking directly and unhurriedly to camera. Over 13 leisurely hours, he narrates a "personal history" of his adopted country, beginning with his own arrival as a fresh young Cambridge graduate in the 1930s before taking us back to the very foundations of America, its colonisation, the war of Independence (told in an admirably non-partisan way) and so on through momentous and turbulent decades right up to the early 1970s, where Civil Rights and protest movements are high on the agenda. Throughout, Cooke interweaves anecdotes and digressions into the main narrative, charming the viewer with his storytelling precisely in the manner so beloved of listeners to his admirable Letter from America. By the end he has a warning that, although delivered in 1973, remains as telling today as it did then: America, like Ancient Rome as depicted by Gibbon in his Decline and Fall, stands poised between its remarkable vitality and its equally remarkable capacity for decadence. Whether, like Rome, the USA becomes a victim of its own internal divisions or somehow manages to pull back from the brink still remains to be seen. On the DVD: This four-disc set is neatly presented in digipack format, and includes a Pebble Mill at One interview with Cooke in which he discusses the series. --Mark Walker

• The Liners Box Set | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Liners: Box Set (4 Discs)

• Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the makers of 'Pennywise: The Story of IT' and the upcoming widely-anticipated movie 'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' comes an all-new special collector's edition Blu-Ray packed full of exciting bonus material, celebrating the legacy and career of one our generation's most beloved horror icons, the legendary Robert Englund. Shooting to super-stardom with his revolutionary portrayal of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise - a moment without doubt as visceral to the horror genre as Chaney's werewolf or Karloff's ground-breaking realisation of Frankenstein's monster-Englund has firmly earned his place in the pantheon of horror movie legends. This unique and captivating portrait, featuring exclusive interviews with Englund himself, plus Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and many of the star's co-workers from projects including 'Urban Legend', '2001 Maniacs', '976-EVIL', 'Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon', 'Wishmaster', 'V', 'Dead and Buried',' Phantom of the Opera', and, of course, the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, captures the full story of the man behind the glove, exploring not only his most iconic role but the depths of England's true power as a character actor in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth. Special features include: - Horror Icons - Nightmare Cafe with Jack Coleman - A Conversation with the Directors - Robert Englund: Chatterbox - A Peek Behind the Curtain: Dance Macabre - UK-exclusive Art Cards, and Reversible Sleeve Art

• 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould: The Sound Of Genius | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Internationally renowned pianist Glenn Gould had all the marks of genius - blinding talent, a craving for perfection and absolute bullheadedness. In Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, director Francois Girard goes directly to the center of Gould's ideas, his passions and his music. Using thirty-two elegantly constructed vignettes, the film span Gould's life from the age of four until his untimely death aged fifty. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould opened in 1993 and won four Genie Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a special citation at the 1993 Toronto Film Festival. It has not been available on DVD for many years in the UK and is reissued to commemorate the 30th year since he passed, and the 80th year since his birth.

• BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most artistically significant and controversial motion pictures ever made D. W. Griffith's silent epic The Birth of a Nation was a massive commercial success at the time of its release owing to its dynamic storytelling and its breakthrough developments in cinema language that have become common traits of practically every film that has since followed. However the picture's legacy is one that continues to elicit outrage over its vulgar depictions of African-Americans and its deceptive historiography of the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Birth of a Nation begins depicting the amiable relationship between two families Northern and Southern and the way in which the impending Civil War intensifies the conflict of their worldviews. Following the end of the war and the assassination of President Lincoln a lawless chaos courses throughout the Reconstruction South and the Ku Klux Klan is formed to take on a rising black militia and impose a vengeful vigilante justice across their land and birthright. It's a film that's deeply divisive even to the senses of a single viewer: images of painterly beauty in composition and tonal quality often exhibit a contemptuous inflammatory coarseness with regard to subject matter; just as frequently long tracts evince an innocent terrifically lyrical grandeur. Griffith would attempt to make amends for the moral schism of this schizophrenic epic in his next film Intolerance but The Birth of a Nation cannot - and should not - remain unseen or undiscussed: it is a great and terrible masterpiece. The Masters of Cinema Series releases Griffith's three-hour epic including a series of the director's Civil War shorts for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Special Features: New 1080p presentation (on the Blu-ray) of the film from archival 35mm elements in its original aspect ratio Music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra in 2.0 stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Short archival introductions to the film by D. W. Griffith and Walter Huston Newly rediscovered original intermission sequence and 1930 re-release title sequence Seven Civil War shorts directed by Griffith: In the Border States (1910); The House with Closed Shutters (1910); The Fugitive (1910); His Trust (1910); His Trust Fulfilled (1910); Swords and Hearts (1911); and The Battle (1911). A lengthy booklet with writing about the film rare archival imagery and more.

• Don Carlo - DVD Live from the Royal Opera House | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Don Carlo - DVD Live from the Royal Opera House (2 Disc)

• Rise Of The Nazi Party | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £12.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ten-part documentary series about Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels; the four men implicit in the rise of the Nazi Party. The episodes are: 'Nazism Is Born', 'Becoming Respectable', 'Seizing Power', 'In Power', 'Preparing for War', 'Hitler's Biggest Blunder', 'The Final Solution', 'Plots and Delusions', 'End Game' and 'Aftermath'.

• Earth From Space | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Earth From SpaceDiscover Earth From Space: ground-breaking science astounding images and unforgettable sequences behold a constantly evolving world of extraordinary beauty and power. Earth from Space takes you on an epic quest to reveal the invisible forces and processes that sustain life on our planet and for the first time see them in action in their natural environment in vivid detail. These truly unique images will explore the deepest mysteries of its existence raising profound questions and challenging the old assumptions of how Earth's system works. Earth from Space teams up with NASA and the world's foremost earth scientists in this ground-breaking journey. Using state of the art CGI transforms their raw satellite data into the visible spectrum to create truly authentic high definition moving images that show in vivid detail these invisible processes at work. This has never been done before. Earth's systems brought to life in a way that not even NASA's finest minds have seen realised. Earth from Space will journey around the world to discover how the Earth works and how it is changing. A landmark television event: provocative surprising and amazingly beautiful - you'll never look at the world in the same way again.

• Abbey Garden Tresco Isle of Scilly The NEW DVD | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A subtropical paradise brimming with exotic plants from every corner of the globe, the Abbey Garden onTresco is one of England's most fascinating gardens

• Handel Glyndebourne Box Set | Blu Ray | (03/03/2017) from £29.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A