Documentary

• The Chase (BBC TV Series) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £3.98   |  Saving you £17.27 (634.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keith Barron Gaynor Faye and Nicola Stephenson star in this compelling drama written by Gaynor's renowned script-writing mother Kay Mellor (Playing the Field Between the Sheets) The Chase follows the lives and loves of a family of vets in a struggling Yorkshire practice as they cope with new wives and babies money worries and shocking secrets. George Williams (Keith Barron) heads the practice with his daughter Anna (Gaynor Faye) and her husband Tom (Nicholas Gleaves). George's second daughter Sarah (Nicola Stephenson) lives in London where she moved following the death of her mother - and the discovery of Tom in a compromising situation with one of the surgery nurses Fiona (Heather Peace). But George has found a new wife Claudie (Michelle Holmes). At his wedding reception he announces his retirement leaving an eight-month pregnant Anna with a struggling business an estranged sister one vet down one vet defecting to the local opposition and a list of operations as long as her arm. It's enough to send a woman into labour!

• Mud Men With Johny Vaughan | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Vaughan and his mudlarking guide and buddy “Mud God” Steve Brooker, are on a muddy archaeological adventure, digging up the banks of the Thames to reveal our astonishing hidden history. Armed with metal detectors and trowels – the pair have just five hours before the tide rushes in to wade, search and dig the banks of the River Thames finding artefacts, from medieval chain mail to WW2 artillery shells and Tudor trading tokens to cursed Bellarmine pots. The extraordinary objects that they find propel them on quests through the streets of London and around the country to unlock the secrets of remarkable shared British past.

• Zappa (Dual Format DVD+Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £20.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Conveying the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life, director/producer Alex Winter and producer Glen Zipper were granted exclusive access by Gail Zappa to a vast collection of his unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in danger of being lost forever.

• TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1929 F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu Faust Sunrise) one of the greatest of all film directors invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location in Tahiti a Polynesian idyll in which Murnau imagined a cast of island actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their primitive culture. The result of their collaboration was Tabu a film that depicts the details of indigenous island life to tell a mythical tale that is rich in the universal themes of desire and loss. Subtitled A Story of the South Seas Tabu concerns a Tahitian fisherman (played by an islander Matahi) and his love for a young woman (played by fellow islander Reri who went on to star on Broadway) whose body has been consecrated to the gods rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The lovers flee their island and its restrictive traditions but will their love prevail in the civilised world? This Oscar-winning film (the Academy Award went to cinematographer Floyd Crosby) is both poetic and simple in tone. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - completely unc­ensored and fully restored - this landmark film of rare exoticism and magical beauty described by critic Lotte Eisner in 1931 as the apogee of the art of the silent film for the first time ever on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio. Special Features: New 1080p HD transfer on the Blu-ray of the Murnau-Stiftung / Luciano Berriatúa 75th anniversary restoration of the pre-Paramount longer Murnau-approved version of the film with uncensored scenes and titlecards appearing in its original 1.19:1 aspect ratio for the first time Full-length commentary track by R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens 15-minute German documentary about Tabu by Luciano Berriatúa Newly presented outtakes from the original shoot of the film Treibjagd in der Südsee (1940) - an archival short film 56-Page Booklet with articles by Scott Eyman Richard Griffiths and David Flaherty; an interview with the film’s cinematographer Floyd Crosby; and the original story treatments written by Murnau and Flaherty for Tabu and its aborted predecessor Turia

• Flying Monsters (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (07/11/2011) from £15.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (25.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  220 million years ago, as dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth, another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap. Pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction. In Flying Monsters, Sir David Attenborough sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern day jet plane. The central question and of the greatest mysteries in palaeontology is how and why did pterosaurs fly. How did creatures the size of giraffes defy gravity and soar through prehistoric skies? Attenborough starts to unravel one of science’s more enduring mysteries, discovering that the marvel of pterosaur flight has evolutionary echoes that resonate even today.

• Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Baby Van Gogh is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Vincent Van Gogh, who is here represented by a blue sock puppet! To begin with the video seems like something of a nature documentary with flowers in bloom and animals on the move, before we're taken through the colours of the rainbow with sections devoted to the individual colours. For example in Yellow, there are toy chicks, sunflowers, lemons and children playing in yellow paper shavings. All the while, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra play us music from Van Gogh's era such as The Blue Danube Waltz, The William Tell Overture, Swan Lake and Flight of the Bumble Bee. This is a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works. On the DVD: Baby Van Gogh is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. There's also an Art Exhibit of each of the featured Van Gogh paintings, a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. --Paul Tonks

• The Repair Shop: Series 9 Vol 2 | DVD | (25/03/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Spirit of '45 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. The spirit of the age was to be our brother's and our sister's keeper. Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain's regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews to create a rich political and social narrative. The Spirit of '45 hopes to illuminate and celebrate a period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK, the impact of which endured for many years and which may yet be rediscovered today. Special Features: UK Trailer Interview with Ken Loach Ken Loach short film: Which Side Are You On? Audio Description option for the blind or partially sighted English for the Hard of Hearing Subtitles 22 Extended interviews with all contributors to the film

• Cobain: Montage of Heck | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £9.22   |  Saving you £12.77 (138.50%)   |  RRP £21.99

  COBAIN – Montage of Heck invites you to experience Kurt’s life art and mind through his own unique lens bringing you as close to the generation-defining icon as it’s possible to get. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the first fully-authorized portrait of the famed rock music icon. Director Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art music and never-before-seen home movies with animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest confidantes. Following Kurt from his earliest years in Aberdeen WA through the height of his fame a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings emerges. While Cobain craved the spotlight even as he rejected the trappings of fame his epic arc depicts a man who stayed true to his earliest punk rock convictions always identifying with the outsider and ensuring the music came first. Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he is.

• The Salzburg Festival | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £12.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (54.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film the first to tell the story of this remarkable festival set in the birthplace of Mozart director Tony Palmer has been granted unprecedented access to Austria's film archives. Highlights include performances of 'Jedermann' from 1920 to the present day featuring actors such as Maximilian

• Hebburn | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £9.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (100.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hebburn is the home town of stand-up comedian Jason Cook, who has created this warm, true-to-life comedy based on his own experiences of growing up in the North East of England. It tells the tale of the Cook family and their son, Jason, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He's secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Clare, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family... Co-written by Graham Duff and starring Jim Moir (Vic Reeves).

• A History Of Scotland | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £37.09   |  Saving you £-7.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A History of Scotland

• James Herriot's Yorkshire | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £14.76   |  Saving you £0.23 (1.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Herriot's Yorkshire features the breathtaking scenery of Wensleydale Swaledale Coverdale Thirsk Sutton Bank Captain Cook country Scarborough Robin Hood's Bay York and Harrogate as well as featuring the people and animals so often associated with Herriot's novels.

• Queen - DVD Collector's Box | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the first time ever the Queen Collector's Box brings together films which document the band's entire career - telling their story from pop-rock pioneers in the 70s to stadium fillers in the 80s and on to critical acclaim in the early 90s. It will be an ideal visual accompaniment to any fan's collection.

• Hitting the Apex | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £3.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (333.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hitting the Apex is the inside story of six fighters - six of the fastest motorcycle racers of all time - and of the fates that awaited them at the peak of the sport. It's the story of what is at stake for all of them: all that can be won, and all that can be lost, when you go chasing glory at over two hundred miles an hour on a motorcycle. From the director of faster & fastest, hitting the apex takes us to the heart of this exhilarating sport at a time when the speeds have never been higher or the talent on the track more brilliant.

• Eugene - Marquis De Sade's Philosophy In The Bourdoir | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £19.33   |  Saving you £-9.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Spanish director Jésus Franco directs this controversial sado-masochistic drama regarded by many as his masterpiece. Based on the novel 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' by Marquis De Sade the film tells the story of an innocent young woman Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) who is taken by her father (Franco regular Jack Taylor) to stay at an island paradise at the request of the elegant Madame de Saint Ange (Maria Rohm) with whom he is obsessed. There Eugenie becomes the unwitting pawn in a game of sexual debauchery and sadomasochistic pleasure as the enigmatic hostess and her stepbrother conspire to corrupt her transforming her from a virginal innocent into a sexually-charged drug-addicted sadist.

• The True Glory | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £7.01   |  Saving you £12.98 (185.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The True Glory is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made. Co-directed by the legendary Carol Reed this feature length film was produced by the Allied military during 1944 and 1945 as a permanent visual record of the campaign in Europe and covers all the major engagements. Compiled from the pick of over six and a half million feet of film it includes some of the most devastating and memorable images of war ever captured on camera - and it won a well

• The Class of '92 - Extended Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (09/06/2014) from £4.18   |  Saving you £15.81 (378.23%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The must see extended edition of the football film phenomenon. An additional 28 minutes of unmissable footage including an all new never-before-seen interview with Sir Alex Ferguson! The players that inspired a generation: Class of '92 is a cinematic documentary detailing the rise to prominence and global sporting superstardom of six supremely talented young Manchester United footballers (David Beckham Nicky Butt Ryan Giggs Paul Scholes Phil and Gary Neville). The film covers the period 1992-1999 culminating in Manchester United's European Cup triumph and dramatically interweaves and mirrors the highs and lows of its football odyssey with the immense social and cultural changes taking place in Britain at the time. At the heart of this film is the tale of how six 14-year-old working class lads from diverse backgrounds came together to play for the same club became the spine of the most lauded team in world football and who throughout their period of unparalleled success remained best mates. The film has the unique distinction of having secured unprecedented access to all six players' gains new and revealing insights about each individual and this special period in British football and cultural history along with fantastic archive footage. In addition there are numerous other high profile interviewees including Zinedine Zidane Tony Blair Mani from the Stone Roses Eric Cantona and Danny Boyle.

• Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) - Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (07/08/2023) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn's first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (the story of hipgnosis) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Po Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom time of the seventies. They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularized music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music. During this period, record companies didn't dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like - Storm and Po did. They made money; they lost money. They did great things; they did silly things. They fell out bitterly; they made up. They never played a note, but they changed music. The film features brand new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more. Product Features Collector's Edition Booklet Audio commentary with Anton Corbijn and Aubrey Po Powell Theatrical trailer Digital Album Artwork Gallery

• A Year At Kew | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew were recently voted the UK's favourite garden and in July 2003 it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over a million visitors flock to enjoy the glories of this beautiful garden which hold a special place in our horticultural history. However Kew is so much more than just a garden it is also a highly respected centre of pioneering science research and conservation. This 12 part BBC television series is a month by month journey through the