Documentary

• The Seventh Veil | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seventh Veil

• Documentary Feature -Railways Of The World ~ The 1960s | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-4.74 (-238.20%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In the late 1950s and early 1960s ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called 'Roving Report'; most have never been seen since their initial broadcast. The period covered by this DVD was a time of intense transition for railways the world over. From in-depth studies of rail systems in Europe to unique and unusual services around the globe - this is ITN ROVING REPORT : RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD : The 1960s Other Peoples Railways (1963 13 mins) With the Beeching Report Britain was faced with the question of modernisation and rationalisation of its extensive railway network. Roving Report made a comparative analysis of how different countries rail networks coped with the changes in technology and in demand for their services. In France we board the Mistral Express and in Japan the 'Dream Train'. An in depth look at Holland where over two-thirds of its stations were shut concludes the overview. French Railways (1968 18 mins) An in depth study of the French Railways following the journey of the fastest electric train of the day Le Mistral on its journey from Paris to Dijon. With interviews with staff and English passengers we are treated to a fascinating comparison with British Rail. The Tyrol With a Twist (1963 13 mins) Michael Barlsey journeys from Victoria Station to the Austrian ski slopes via the unusual and quirky Snow Sing train service. With loud music piped into the compartments and a dance carriage where passengers do the twist on board all day and night this is a trip not to be forgotten! Railway To The Moon (1961 15 mins) A fascinating study of the astonishing railway in Peru that climbs the Andes mountains built in the late 19th Century. At its peak the railway is 3.5 miles above sea level leading to a doctor on board having to give oxygen to its passengers. With amazing scenery from Lima and the mountains we follow the whole extraordinary journey. Mount Carmel By Underground - An Excerpt (1960 3 mins) A look at a trip on the only underground service in the Middle East travelling up and down Mount Carmel. Day Trip To Dieppe - An Excerpt (1960 8 mins) A wide range of characters take a day trip to France starting with a cup of tea and ending more often than not fast asleep on the return journey! Easter Excursions (1961 15 mins) A look at the various options for an Easter trip to the continent ranging from boats and trains to the rather unusual practice of flying your car over on an 'airbridge' chartered flight! Journey Through Malaya - An Excerpt (1961 4 mins) Footage of the construction of a new rail system to help transport goods from mining operations in very difficult conditions in Malaya. Whisky Train (1964 4 mins) A report from the Scottish Highlands following the transport of whisky barrels by train to the bottling plants. Such trains had become increasingly vulnerable to theft!

• Progress Live | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £9.69   |  Saving you £10.30 (106.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tracklistings:Disc 1: Rule The World Greatest Day Hold Up A Light Patience Shine Let Me Entertain You Rock DJ Come Undone Feel Angels The Flood SOS Underground Machine Kidz Pretty Things When They Were Young Medley (includes A Million Love Songs, Babea and Everything Changes) Back For Good Pray Love Love Never Forget No Regrets/Relight My Fire Eight Letters Disc 2: Making Progress Live

• Girls Aloud - Out Of Control Tour | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £23.61   |  Saving you £-8.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Girls Aloud: Out Of Control 2009 sees the saucy sexpots perform at the spectacular O2 Arena to a massive crowd of ultra-pumped fans. Playing songs from Out Of Control and a selection of their greatest hits the ladies also lay on some superb bonus features on this essential music DVD. The UK's greatest girl group filmed the show in May this year at The O2 arena in London. During the 32 date tour Girls Aloud played to approximately half a million people. The live extravaganza was dubbed their best live tour to date by the fans whilst the press raved about it. The London paper said it was their best live tour to date whilst The Times gave the show 4 stars. As well as the full live show the DVD includes several amazing bonus features including a Girl-cam that allows the viewer to follow their favourite Girl Aloud as she performs a song on tour. Also included are full promo videos for the hit singles The Promise The Loving Kind and Untouchable as well as the tour screen visuals. Tracklisting 1. The Promise 2. Love Is The Key 3. Biology 2009 4. Miss You Bow Wow 5. The Loving Kind 6. Waiting 7. Love Machine 8. Rolling Back The Rivers In Time 9. Untouchable 10. Sexy! No No No 11. Broken Strings 12. Love Is Pain 13. Call The Shots 14. Revolution In The Head 15. Sound Of The Underground 16. Fix Me Up 17. Womanizer 18. Something Kinda Ooooh 19. Girls Aloud Out Of Control Medley 20. Credits (Untouchable)

• Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi ("life out of balance") and Powaqqatsi ("life in transformation") are the first two parts of a trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns (2002's Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war", is the third). Both feature indispensable musical contributions from minimalist composer Philip Glass. Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. But it then attracted the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and reached a much wider audience. Its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass' reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos and, of course, similar movies. Dating from 1988, Powaqqatsi finds the director somewhat more directly polemical than before, with Glass's score stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatise the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labour and religious values--as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these "silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men, their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit, his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless, Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for renewal. --Robert Burns Neveldine

• Lovers Guide 3D - Igniting Desire, Enjoy The Best Sex Of Your Life | Blu Ray | (07/02/2011) from £13.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (78.76%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Twenty years after the original The Lover's Guide exploded into the lives of the UK public the ground-breaking guide is back with another no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making. And this time it's in 3D! To mark the anniversary of the series which has brought adult sex advice firmly into the mainstream the latest instalment has been created using cutting edge 3-D technology as the next stop in the sexual revolution. Here the audience is engaged with a never-before-seen sense of intimacy and massively richer viewpoint. After selling 1.5 million copies and being distributed in twenty two countries and in thirteen languages over its colourful twenty year history now bigger better and bolder than ever before The Lovers Guide 3D: Igniting Desire - Enjoy The Best Sex of Your Life will feature the voices of Gemma Bissix (Eastenders Hollyoaks Dancing on Ice) and Jeremy Edwards (Hollyoaks Holby City) and will take audiences to an altogether new level of love-making enlightenment... The Lover's Guide 3-D has been created by the original producers of The Lovers' Guide series - Robert Page and William Campbell and filmed by the award winning director Kenny Rye.

• The Somme | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £5.54   |  Saving you £7.45 (134.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This superb major BBC documentary provides an entirely fresh perspective on the Somme revealing that there was more to events than just senseless mass slaughter - because it was on those blood-soaked fields that the British Army learned how to defeat its German enemy. Featuring superb and highly authentic dramatic enactments and contemporary combat footage it compares the assault on Thiepval by a company of the 2nd Salford Pals on July 1st 1916 with an attack on the same objective

• Vladimir Ashkenazy: Master Musician | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £20.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (22.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Charley Boorman - By Any Means | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By Any Means sees adventurer Charley Boorman travelling across the world from Wicklow Ireland to Sydney Australia. From trucks to trawlers and ferries to fruit boats no mode of moving is overlooked as Charley befriends the world as he negotiates his way through 24 countries and over 16 000 miles. Taking in Eastern Europe and the somewhat undiscovered world of far Western Asia moving across India and high up into the Himalayan plains Charley mixes his passion for machines that move with his unique shoot from the hip humor and love of meeting people and appreciating some of the world's most incredible offerings.

• Undercover | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  How Deep Will She Go? A dark and seductive tale of deception passion and murder. Police officer Cindy Hannen is on the trail of a murderer following the death of a high-price hooker. In order to get closer to the killer and solve the case she poses as the dead girl's friend and is employed as a prostitute at the bordello. Nervous and awkward to begin with Cindy soon realises that her new persona and job description is not as distasteful as first she thought and she begins to find herself falling deeper into the world of sex and money. With a killer on the loose and a murder to solve Cindy must decide where her future lies and whether to follow heart desires or her destiny.

• Ghost Capitals Box Set | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £49.93   |  Saving you £-9.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  For the past 18 years renowned paranormal historian Richard Felix has been searching for the truth behind ghosts. One of his many projects has been the Ghost Tour of Great Britain. This box set contains Britain's Ghost Capitals that he has visited whilst conducting his ghost Tour of Great Britain. Listen to eye witness accounts as they recall personal tales of ghostly goings-on and unexplainable events in the most haunted cities in Great Britain. You will never see these 5 haunted cities in quite the same light again as Richard takes you on his chilling tour.

• Protect and Serve | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the mid-1970s the British government secretly made a series of information films to tell the public how to prepare for nuclear war. They would be shown on the nation's television sets if a nuclear exchange seemed unavoidable. Thankfully they were never broadcast - and remained unseen and hidden away.They include advice on:What To Do When The Warning SoundsChoosing Your Fall Out RoomBuilding A Radiation Resistant Inner RefugeEssential Items For Your Fall Out ShelterWater Food And SanitationFire PrecautionsEmergency Radio BroadcastsHow To Dispose Of The DeadThis DVD also includes five bonus rare films showing Government preparations for nuclear war:The Waking Point - A 1951 Crown Film Unit recruitment film for Civil Defence Volunteers.Sound An Alarm - Made in 1971 this is a dramatic account of the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation whose responsibilities included monitoring the spread of fall out after an atomic war.The Warden & The Householder - This 1961 film vividly illustrates the duties of a civil defence warden in his local community when a nuclear attack is expected.700 Practice Civil Defence - A unique film newsreel report on one of Britain's largest civil defence exercises staged in Hackney London to test the preparedness of the Civil Defence Corps.Doom Town - This Pathe news report takes you to 'Doom Town' a disused RAF base on the Cumberland coast designed to look like a city hit by a nuclear bomb. National servicemen are seen using the grim facility to 'learn rescue skills for the Atomic Age'.

• Xamd: Lost Memories | Blu Ray | (05/09/2011) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Facing a growing rivalry for the power of Xam'd Akiyuki isn't the only one who's become possessed by the mysterious power that is Xam'd. Seems his friend Furuichi is also filled with the dangerous energy, but while Akiyuki tries to harness it, his friend seems hell-bent on letting the Xam'd control his every dangerous move. From STUDIO BONES (Fullmetal Alchemist, Eureka Seven)

• Notorious Scottish Serial Killers | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £12.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Step inside the minds of three of the most infamous murderers in British crime history.Peter Manuel - The End of Evil?In July 1958, Peter Manuel, aka 'The Beast of Birkenshaw' was hanged in Barlinnie Prison, convicted of seven murders. He remains one of the most infamous serial killers in British history, and his story reads like an American gangster movie script. Now, this chilling documentary tells the story of his life and appalling crimes.Peter Tobin - Portrait of a Serial KillerTalking to criminologists, psychologists and those who have come face-to-face with this monster, this film looks at the other unsolved murders that Peter Tobin may have committed; killings which could stretch back for over a period of 40 years. The police suspect Tobin to be behind the disappearance of ten women in England and the programme looks back on the life and crimes of this monster.In Search of Bible JohnDavid Hayman examines one of Britain's most infamous and mysterious serial killers, Bible John, a murderer who is thought to have killed three women in Glasgow in the late 60s and who then seemingly disappeared. This documentary will look beyond the murders, seeing how these killings created a culture shock, while also leading to a police force changing its tactics in order to confront a very modern monster.

• Shine a Light | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £8.46 (48.26%)   |  RRP £25.99

  A career-spanning documentary on the Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.

• Amy Winehouse - I Told You I Was Trouble - Live In London | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Camden's very own Amy Winehouse captured live during summer 2007 at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. Amy performs songs from her platinum selling album 'Back To Black' including 'Rehab' and 'You Know I'm No Good'. Also included is 'I Told You I Was Trouble' a 50 minute documentary charting Amy's rapid rise to fame. Tracklist: 1. Intro/Addicted 2. Just Friends 3. Cherry 4. Back to Black 5. Wake Up Alone 6. Tears Dry On Their Own 7. He Can Only Hold Her / Doo Wop (That Thing) 8. F*** Me Pumps 9. Some Unholy War 10. Love Is A Losing Game 11. Valerie 12. Hey Little Rich Girl feat. Zalon & Ade 13. Rehab 14. You Know I'm No Good 15. Me and Mr Jones 16. Monkey Man 17. Outro

• Centennial - Series 1 | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Lady Vengeance | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's rare that a movie combines extreme violence, visual panache, and gut-wrenching emotion, but Lady Vengeance is just such a movie. Geum-ja Lee (the lovely Yeong-ae Lee, Joint Security Area) is sent to prison at the age of 19 for kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old boy. She becomes a model prisoner, apparently converting to Christianity and helping care for ill prisoners--but in fact, she's slowly making connections that will allow her to wreak revenge on the man responsible for her imprisonment. The first half of Lady Vengeance, in which Geum-ja Lee's plans are laid and her victim captured, spins to and fro in time with dizzying speed, moving fluidly among multiple narrative tracks. But once the man is in her clutches, the movie takes a turn that proves more harrowing and more emotionally complex than the previous films in writer/director Chan-wook Park's "vengeance trilogy," Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance or Oldboy--and if you've seen either of those films, you'll understand what a feat that is. These movies have much in common with the revenge tragedies written by contemporaries of Shakespeare; ornate plots full of extreme violence and perverse sex that delve into the darkest--yet often most vulnerable--sides of humanity. For all its sensational aspects, Lady Vengeance observes the toll of vengeance on the revenger; there's nothing cheap or easy about it. This movie, even more than Oldboy, demonstrates that Chan-wook Park is one of the most vital filmmakers of our time. --Bret Fetzer

• From The Ashes | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £6.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (130.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From The Ashes is the incredible story of English cricket's greatest ever comeback. It's the summer of 1981 and in the midst of a heated Ashes battle iconic all-rounder Ian Botham is sacked as England Captain with England 1-0 after two tests. Having been told by selectors that if he hadn't resigned he would have been sacked anyway not only is his career on a tightrope but English cricket is on the verge of total humiliation.

• Every Day Except Christmas DVD | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £7.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (119.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Lindsay Anderson directs this 1950s Free Cinema documentary about working class life in London focusing on a day in the life of workers at the Covent Garden fruit and flower market. The film was made as part of the three-part 'Look at Britain' series which also includes 'We are the Lambeth Boys' and 'The Saturday Men'.