Documentary

• Spaceship Earth | Blu Ray | (10/08/2020) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered biodome called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life-threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers could potentially reimagine a new world.

• Fugitive Images: Selected works by Andrea Luka Zimmerman 2-Disc Special Edition | Blu Ray | (02/12/2024) from £16.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first director to be shortlisted for both the Grierson and Jarman Awards, the work of filmmaker, artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman presents tender portraits of community and solidarity, exhibiting sentiments almost entirely missing from our contemporary political vocabulary. This 2-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition includes her multi-award-winning feature-length films, Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013), Estate, a Reverie (2015), Erase and Forget (2017) and Here for Life (2019), plus a selection of her acclaimed shorts and documentary works. The set also includes a 48-page booklet with essays by So Mayer and Ali Smith, plus writing by Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

• Ghost Squad: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete adventures of the agents of Scotland Yard's secret undercover crime unit dubbed The Ghost Squad. Season 1 Episodes: 1. Ticket For Blackmail 2. Bullet With My Name On It 3. Hong Hong Story 4. High Wire 5. The Broken Doll 6. The Eyes Of The Bat 7. Still Waters 8. Assassin 9. Death From A Distance 10. Million Dollar Ransom Season 2 Episodes: 1. The Green Shoes 2. Catspaw 3. The Princess 4. The Big Time 5. Death Of A Sportman 6. Interrupted Requiem 7. East Of Mandalay 8. Escape Route 9. The Last Jump 10. Polsky 11. The Heir Apparent 12. The Magic Bullet 13. The Menacing Mazurka 14. The Retirement Of The Gentle Dove 15. Mr. Five Percent 16. Gertrude 17. Sabotage 18. The 13th Girl 19. Sentences Of Death 20. The Grand Duchess 21. The Desperate Diplomat 22. Hot Money 23. Quarantine At Kavar 24. The Golden Silence 25. Lost In Transit 26. The Man With The Delicate Hands 27. The Missing People 28. PG7 29. A First Class Way To Die

• 1066 | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £12.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (54.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Channel 4 two-part historical drama telling the story of the Norman conquest in 1066 from the perspective of a group of ordinary villagers caught up in the chaos and bloodshed. Written by Peter Harness.

• Jonathan Meades Abroad - Collection | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  We make places. And places make us. We respond to what we have created. But how does this compact between mankind and its greatest artifices work? Jonathan Meades addressed this in a multitude of ways: visually comically rhetorically obliquely argumentatively and whilst swimming fully clothed. And also passionately. For these programmes are the expression of an obsessional preoccupation with places and with the properties they reflect: fantasy and necessity escape and expectation individual assertion and collective fear. Episodes Comprise: 1. Abroad In Britain : In Search of Bohemia 2. Abroad In Britain : Severn Heaven 3. Further Abroad : Belgium 4. Further Abroad : Get High 5. Even Further Abroad : Absentee Landlord 6. Even Further Abroad : Double Dutch 7. Even Further Abroad : Remember The Future 8. Meades Eats... Fast Food 9. Abroad Again: Father To The Man 10. Magnetic North - Part I 11. Magnetic North - Part II

• Serpico (50th Anniversary Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Beware of Mr. Baker | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ginger Baker is the mad bad drummer best known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith. One of rock's most colourful characters his reputation for drugs violence and all forms of excess preceded him everywhere. This brand new documentary includes revealing interviews with Eric Clapton Steve Winwood Carlos Santana and more to paint a fascinating portrait of a musical icon.

• Joy Division | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £9.74   |  Saving you £10.25 (105.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On June 4 1976, four young men from a post-industrial Manchester, went to see a Sex Pistols show. Inspired by the gig, they formed what was to become one of the world's most influential bands, Joy Division.

• The History Of Broadway | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £6.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (98.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The longest boulevard in Manhattan has become inextricably linked to one of America's greatest original art forms the Broadway musical. Broadway: The American Musical explores the epic of popular American culture as it has changed through every era. Episodes comprise: Give My Regards to Broadway 1893 - 1927 Syncopated City 1919 - 1933 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin 1930 -1942 Oh What A Beautiful Mornin' 1943 - 1960 Tradition 1957 -1979 Putting It Together 1980 - 2004

• Religulous | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £7.88   |  Saving you £5.11 (64.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Larry Charles ("Borat") and satirist Bill Maher unite to take on the foibles of religion in this hilarious, globe-trotting documentary

• Harlan Country | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Oscar winning film documents the events surrounding the coal miners'' strike against the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County. Caused when the mine owners refused to recognize the mine workers decision to join a Union leading to violent battles between gun-toting company thugs and the picketing miners.

• Hearts Of Darkness | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the late seventies celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast and crew ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, ApocalypseNow. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film’s narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed. Compiled from rare on set footage filmed by Coppola’s wife Eleanor and interviews with the cast, Hearts Of Darkness is the ultimate feature-length documentary, capturing the explosive events that lead to Apocalypse Now becoming an acknowledged classic.

• Sail Trimming Made Easy | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sail TrimmingPresented by Peter Bateman, an expert yachtsman and world champion, Sail Trimming is an instructional program aimed at helping yachtsmen trim sails more effectively in order to make their boats go faster. Using a combination of graphics and excellent onboard photography, this program demonstrates the basics of sail trimming in an easy to understand manner and gives a perfect perspective for understanding sail shapes and sail trim. Teaches: GENOAS - where best to check the shape; which shapes to have for each condition; how to adjust and trim to get the desired shape. MAINSAILS - how to set up the mainsail for fine tuning; trimming to balance the helm; how to make the boat accelerate; working with the helmsman to get the best boatspeed and highest pointing to windward; how to tune both mainsail and genoa to set as one unit. SPINNAKERS - How to adjust the rig for downwind sailing, the correct way to set spinnaker pole height and angle for maximum speed; how to identify the wrong shape and correct it; tipos on how to control a spinnaker in heavy weather. 34 min.

• Babies | Blu Ray | (28/03/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four countries... Four babies... From birth to their first steps. Their names are Ponijao Bayarjargal Mari and Hattie and live in Namibia Mongolia Japan and the United States. Babies plunge us simultaneously in the heart of four different cultures and seizes the most touching funniest and carefree unique and universal of the very first months of one's life.

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Series 1 | DVD | (09/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All five feature-length spinoffs from the classic 1960s spy series 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E'. With weapons in hand - and tongues in cheek - agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) carry out the bidding of U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll). Guest stars include Joan Crawford, Rip Torn, Herbert Lom, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, John Carradine and Leslie Nielson. Films are: 'The Spy With No Face', 'One Spy Too Many', 'Karate Killers', 'Helicopter ...

• Andre Rieu - Best of: Live | DVD | (21/05/2008) from £8.96   |  Saving you £2.03 (22.66%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Andre Rieu: Best of Andre Rieu Live

• Pina | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.02   |  Saving you £6.97 (77.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wupperta featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009. Director Wim Wenders takes the audience on a visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch's creativity.

• Escape To River Cottage | DVD | (06/09/2003) from £6.25   |  Saving you £18.74 (299.84%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's easy to be cynical about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's adventures as a downshifted smallholder in Escape to River Cottage; after all, given his fame and fortune, he could upshift again faster than a BMW sports gearbox whenever he chose. "Why don't you give it a go?", he asks us. Because we don't all have fat media contracts to fall back on, we roll our eyes and reply. However, despite HF-W's seeming like a Posy Simmonds character, the fact remains that no TV chef has come close when it comes to reminding the supermarket generation about where food really comes from, or indeed where it should come from, as well as the values of indigenous produce (also a largely overlooked aspect of macrobiotics, incidentally). In this well-stuffed double DVD set Weirdly-Eatingall does alarming things with a goose, smokes fish in his chimney, eats his rather cute pigs, monitors the movements of mice by marking them with lipstick (why does he just happen to have some lippy lying around?) and, almost in passing, cooks up some wonderful dishes with his home-grown ingredients. On the DVD: Escape to River Cottage two-disc set includes six episodes, plus a bonus in the form of the Christmas special. Extras are on-screen recipes, F-W's biography and some outtakes, which are deeply unfunny except when various things decide to bite the presenter, which they do fairly often. The extras are duplicated on both discs, which is pointless and/or a bit of a swizz. --Roger Thomas

• One Direction: This Is Us (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (19/12/2013) from £6.14   |  Saving you £23.85 (388.44%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One Direction: This Is Us is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall Zayn Liam Harry and Louis' meteoric rise to fame from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor to conquering the world and performing at London's famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys themselves and see through their own eyes what it's really like to be One Direction. Directed by Morgan Spurlock the film is produced by Simon Cowell Adam Milano Morgan Spurlock and Ben Winston. The executive producers are Richard Griffiths Harry Magee Will Bloomfield Doug Merrifield Jeremy Chilnick and Matthew Galkin.

• Bygone Pictures-Stoke on Trent | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Let Bygone Pictures take you on a nostalgic journey into Stoke-on-Trent's magnificent past. You will encounter marvellous street scenes as well as local events of the 20th Century from Coronation celebrations and sporting confrontations to terrible accidents and World Wars. All of these time locked photographs have been brought back to life using the latest digital technology. Anybody who knows this famous town either as a home or as a favourite place to visit will find this film both amazing and educational.