Documentary

• Fetish Sex | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Conquest Of Everest | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A documentary account of Edmund Hillary's 1953 climb to the top of Mount Everest the first time the summit had been reached.

• Hammett | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £18.52   |  Saving you £-2.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.

• Reanimated - The Stuart Gordon Collection | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  "I don't believe in step-by-step teaching - first the snow plough, next the basic swing and so on. No one in the alps suddenly invented paralell turns, they evolved quite naturally" Ali Ross who is one of Britiain's best known Ski Teachers "Ali had us skiing down slopes with our boots unfastened, doing leg excercises and unlearning many of the rules we had held to be gospel. He's certainly unconventional and it works" - Andrew Neil of the Sunday Times

• James Martin's Spanish Adventures | DVD | (27/11/2023) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chef James Martin will take viewers on a journey of discovery, uncovering the history and culture of Spain's diverse regions through food for James Martin's Spanish Adventure. James will journey through Spain on the search for key ingredients, rustic eateries and traditional recipes that make the country one of the most exciting places in the world for gastronomy. Along the way James will share his own take on local dishes, setting up his mobile kitchen against backdrops of stunning scenery and also taking up residency in a Spanish 'home from home' kitchen.

• Live At The BBC (DVD) | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist: 1. Caroline Live At The N.E.C. (TOTP 27/09/1973) 2. Roll Over Lay Down (Live At The N.E.C.) 3. Backwater (Live At The N.E.C.) 4. Little Lady (Live At The N.E.C.) 5. Don't Drive My Car (Live At The N.E.C.) 6. Whatever You Want (Live At The N.E.C.) 7. Hold You Back (Live At The N.E.C.) 8. Rockin All Over The World (Live At The N.E.C. TOTP 13/09/2002) 9. Dirty Water (Live At The N.E.C) 10. Down Down (Live At The N.E.C TOTP 23/12/1975) 11. Don't Waste My Time (Live At The N.E.C.) 12. Pictures Of Matchstick Men (TOTP 15/2/1968) 13. Mystery Song (TOTP 15/07/1976) 14. What You're Proposing (TOTP 9/10/1980) 15. Rock 'n' Roll (TOTP 17/12/1981) 16. Dear John (TOTP 01/04/1982) 17. The Wanderer (TOTP 25/10/1984) 18. Rollin Home (TOTP 15/5/1986) 19. Red Sky (TOTP) 20. In The Army Now (TOTP 02/10/1986) 21. Dreamin (TOTP 1/1/1987) 22. Burning Bridges (TOTP 8/12/1988) 23. Let's Work Together (TOTP 3/10/1991) 24. Jam Side Down (TOTP 16/8/2002) 25. The Party Ain't Over Yet (TOTP 18/9/2005) Bonus Features 26. Francis and Rick Interview with Bob Harris (Old Grey Whistle Test 27th November 1984) 27. A Mess Of Blues (19/11/1983 Saturday Superstore) 28. Marguerita Time (05/01/1984 Little & Large Show) 29. Can't Give You More (Wogan 28/8/1991) 30. Old Time Rock 'n' Roll (07/07/2000 Jim Davidson Presents) 31. Roadhouse Blues Medley (Live From Amsterdam) 32. Rock 'til You Drop (13/01/1992 Pebble Mill)

• Lubitsch In Berlin | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £18.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (76.52%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in its tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's career and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master and as a virtuoso of cinematographic technique. Ich Möchte Kein Mann Sein (1918)One of the first collaborations between Lubitsch and the exuberant Ossi Oswalda Ich möchte kein Mann sein [I Wouldn't Like to Be a Man] is a concise sketch of society life in three acts. When Ossi's uncle goes away on a business trip a new guardian steps in to tame the distractable niece. But Ossi finds a way out of the house and into a grand ball... by way of a brazen cross-dressing scheme - and triggers what is perhaps Lubitsch's most twisted finale. Die Puppe (1919)Four amusing acts from a toy-chest - so reads the opening title of the comic masterpiece Die Puppe. [The Doll.] adapted by Lubitsch and co-scenarist Hanns Kräly from a libretto by A. M. Wilner (based in turn on a tale from E. T. A. Hoffmann). Ossi Oswalda stars in a double-role as both the mischievous daughter and automatonic creation of a wildly coiffed dollmaker. When a wealthy baron decides the time has come for his prudish nephew to take a wife an uproariously ribald plot unwinds into what is perhaps the world's first-ever sex-doll comedy. Die Austernprinzessin (1919)As Die Austernprinzessin. [The Oyster Princess.] Ossi Oswalda makes another turn as a plutocrat's rambunctious daughter - now the heiress of a global oyster empire devoting her wiles once again to the service of manipulation. A comic high-point in the master's oeuvre Die Austernprinzessin. showcases the trademarks of the Lubitsch Touch and its ten-fingered dexterity resulting in a film that is simultaneously clever concise and risqué. Sumurun (1920)By turns melodramatic and grotesquely comic Sumurun brings together performances by star-players Paul Wegener (Der Golem.) Pola Negri Harry Liedtke and Ernst Lubitsch himself (in the role of an ultra-pathetic hunchbacked minstrel) for this ensemble tale pulled from the milieu of The Arabian Nights. Featuring hundreds of extras milling through open-air set-pieces and dusky harem-chambers alike Sumurun demonstrates Lubitsch's ability to transfigure rote romance into vibrant pageant. Anna Boleyn (1920)Emil Jannings plays King Henry VIII in the story of Anne Boleyn's movement from the outskirts of the court to the royal boudoir and off to the chopping-block. Suffused with an atmosphere of entrapment that would not be out of place in later films by Fritz Lang and prefiguring the stately contretemps in John Ford's Mary of Scotland Anna Boleyn proceeds with a deathward momentum unique in Lubitsch's oeuvre. Die Bergkatze (1921)Set in one of Lubitsch's hallmark mythical kingdoms Die Bergkatze [The Mountain-Lion / The Wildcat] finds Lubitsch in exuberantly expressionistic mode employing a host of optical masks to create perhaps the most visually audacious comic spectacle of his career. Pola Negri plays the daughter of a band of thieves; seduction of army commander (and audience) ensues. Lubitsch's personal favourite work of all his German films Die Bergkatze represents a peak in both Lubitsch's silent oeuvre and the silent cinema as a whole. Special Features: Six Features Across Five Discs A Sixth Disc Containing Robert Fischer's 2006 Feature-Length Documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood Exclusive Concertina Score for Die Puppe Liner Notes for all Six Features by Film-Writers David Cairns Anna Thorngate and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

• Yesterday We Were In America | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £14.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.63%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the summer of 1919 two WWl flying aces climbed into the open cockpit of a converted bomber aircraft a Vicker's Vimy and embarked on the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. Sixteen gruelling hours later they touched down on the west coast of Ireland and entered the history books. This is a drama documentary chronicling the remarkable achievement of Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown. It tells the story of unlikely pair of heroes a navigator and a pilot who met just six weeks before the flight during a chance encounter. Sharing a love of flying a thirst for honour and galvanised by a ''10 000 reward they formed a bond of friendship that was tested to its limits during their perilous journey. Together they endured fog hail and snowstorms. Midway through one of the engines caught fire and Brown was repeatedly forced out on to the wing to clear ice from the air inlets. As conditions worsened Alcock fought to regain control when rough weather caused the plane to plunge from four thousand to just sixteen feet above the churning ocean - close enough to taste the salt spray. Using log books diaries and contemporary reports the film captures a vanished world of aerial adventure when nations vied to set ever more ambitious records just fifteen years after the Wright brothers' first powered flight. Alcock and Brown received a hero's welcome back in Britain and a knighthood from King George V. They had proved in Alcock's words that there are possibilities of flying between the New and Old worlds and ushered in the age of transatlantic flight. Their story is interwoven with the story of Sefton Potter and Paul Lomatschinsky who retrace Alcock and Brown's pioneering flight in a modern Diamond DA42 Twin Star. Unlike these latter day enthusiasts though Alcock and Brown did it with no instruments no navigational aids and sometimes upside down.

• Moonage Daydream Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £23.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Walk On The Wild Side | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Best Of British Aircraft | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (26.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

• People Like Us | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £8.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (124.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The spoof documentary has long been a source of television comedy, but few series can claim to have hit the target as accurately as the BBC's People Like Us. The six episodes of the first series offer moment after moment of well observed, thoughtful and hilarious humour. Taking the fly-on-the-wall documentary genre as its inspiration, it focuses on the everyday lives of a range of different people: businessman, teacher, policeman, photographer, estate agent and solicitor. The comedy walks the line between the observational and the absurd (much of the dialogue is similar to that used in The Day Today) but mixes the two to perfection. The man behind the camera is the hapless Roy Mallard, played by Chris Langham, but he is seldom seen. It was the type of role that Langham was to reprise in the film The Big Tease but for now, People Like Us remains his finest hour. Have fun also spotting the number of actors who would go onto greater things in the likes of Smack the Pony and Rescue Me. --Phil Udell

• Great British Aircraft | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (122.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Many consider the prolific British engineer Sir George Cayley to be one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics as it was he who designed the first actual model of an aeroplane. It was a British man, Sir Frank Whittle, who is credited with single handedly invented the turbojet engine! From the first aircraft they produced, to the impressive array of military aircraft and bombers and the incredible productions today the British have always played a very important role in the aeronautic industry. As early as 1912, British firm Vickers were experimenting with machine gun carrying aircraft and it was World War I when aircraft were used on such a large scale for the first time. Skip forward to World War II and we had produced incredible bomber planes such as the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. 1969 saw the first flight of Concorde, a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airline enter service. It was developed by British Aircraft Corporation & Aérospatiale under an Anglo-French treaty. With the advances in technology, we are now in the designers golden age and witness the production of incredible engineering feats such as the Airbus A380, a double deck wide body four engine jet airliner jointly developed by European countries including the United Kingdom.

• Death of a Gentleman | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £4.84   |  Saving you £13.15 (271.69%)   |  RRP £17.99

  What would you do if something you loved was dying? What if the sport that created your heroes and the back-story to your life, was in danger of disappearing? Test cricket is a game that has no right to exist in the 21st century. The five day game is the purest form of the second most popular sport on earth, representative of tradition, history and identity. Yet as the short attention spans of a new generation dictate immediacy, the Test game is in danger of being swamped by its shorter, sexier, more financially viable cousin ˜Twenty20'. Money corrupts the best of intentions, and as cricket's administrators rub their hands with glee, the Gentleman's game is now a product left at the back of the shelf. Two cricket fans who became journalists, Old Etonian Sam Collins and larrikin Aussie Jarrod Kimber, from opposite ends of the social and geographic scale but united by their love of Test cricket, join forces to try to help save it. They embark on a journey across the cricketing empire to find the answer to the question ˜Who really cares about Test cricket?' They talk to the players, ex-players, broadcasters, journalists, administrators and fans. They venture, often uninvited, into boardrooms, offices, hotel rooms and even the home of cricket itself, Lord's, looking for answers as to who is responsible, and what are they doing to save their game. Along the way they befriend journeyman cricketer Eddie Cowan as he prepares to make his Test debut for Australia in front of 70,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Eddie is the guy doing what they always dreamed of. His infectious love for Test cricket helps convince them that Test cricket is still relevant, that it is worth saving. They travel around Australia with Eddie and experience his ups and downs on tour, watch the Australia vs. India Test series, journey to India to take a closer look at the IPL, bug famous cricket people in the UK and look at open corruption in Sri Lanka as they try to piece together a picture for the future of Test cricket. They run into ogres, well-meaning automatons and the feverishly self- obsessed. Everyone passes the buck. As Eddie's future teeters in the balance, so too does the future of Test cricket. As a story of deceit, incompetence and greed unfolds; one man is living his dream, while two others are trying to keep theirs from dying. Death of a Gentleman is not a nostalgic look back at a sport that professionals played against amateurs while stopping for tea. It's a modern morality tale about a future where sport and money collide, India as a super-power, the curse of the professional administrator and set in a world where fans are better connected to (but more disconnected from) their heroes than ever before. More than that, it is a final call; not just to cricket fans and administrators, but everyone in a rapidly changing world. If you care about something that's in danger, then don't pass the buck, do something about it. Before it's too late.

• Becoming Bond | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next seven Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down...

• Great German Battleships Of World War 2 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (22.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This fascinating DVD with archive footage stills and interviews with German ex-Naval officers and seamen concentrates on the exploits of the famous Bismarck. This is followed byan in-depth portrait of the mightiest and most famous German warships of World War Two including the big sea battles they encountered.

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £12.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (131.58%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo journeys through a prosperous pre-war Europe of emperors and kings, pomp and elegance. A continent whose industrialists, factories and mines had created wealth, whose scientists and engineers were discovering and constructing the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways, whilst intellectuals plotted revolution. This early 20th century handbook opened up an exotic world to the Edwardian tourist; fr.

• Zabriski Point | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonioni's sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian director's first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigner's eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, that's the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.

• The Golden Compass | Blu Ray | (28/04/2008) from £10.72   |  Saving you £19.27 (179.76%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

• The Story of Film: A New Generation | DVD | (14/02/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A