Documentary

• Popstars - The Rivals | DVD | (07/12/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Davina McCall presides over a ratings-busting show where svengalis Geri Halliwell Louis Walsh and Pete Waterman sit in judgement over another batch of would-be pop stars and mould them mercilessly into rival male and female bands. Will they be the next Take That Atomic Kitten or (gasp!) Big Fun?

• Fighting for the Initiative - GM Chess Secrets with Tiger Hillarp-Persson | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £6.59   |  Saving you £18.40 (279.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Join one of the most creative and daring Grand Masters on the current international chess tournament scene as he reveals the secrets of the initiative in chess! Tiger Hillarp Persson has many victories to his name and has been consistently rated over 2600 ELO but he has the gift of explaining complex themes in a simple way. In his first chess instructional programme Tiger has decided to dispense with sitting behind a computer and going through variations. Instead he has invited you to sit down with him at the chessboard and explore the themes and ideas behind the initiative why it is important what to do with it and how not to get carried away! During the four hours of tuition Tiger's patient explanations and elegant style make this a must buy programme for all levels of chess ability who want to understand the Grandmaster Secret of the chess initiative!

• Whicker's World - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £8.35   |  Saving you £11.64 (139.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Whicker is a globe-trotting television commentator without equal. For some forty years on behalf of both the BBC and independent British television networks he has roamed far and wide in search of the eccentric the ludicrous and the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the world's inhabitants. For the very first time Whicker's World is brought to DVD on this volume one of the series.

• Britain's Most Beautiful Lost Railways | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Relive the glory days of Britain's railways in this exclusive 3 disc collection from Reader's Digest: LONDON AND THE SOUTH: RAILWAY MANIA: Since Britain invented the railways in the early 1800s it has been an innovation with a huge impact on people's lives worldwide. Discover how the invention spread through the South of England, transforming the capital. THE NORTH: THE BIRTH OF RAILWAYS: Discover remnants of early railroads in County Durham's countryside, and traces of the world's first publ.

• The Universe 3D Catastrophes That Changed the Planets | Blu Ray | (11/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The planets of our solar system have experienced epic catastrophes throughout their long history, both raining down from outside and bubbling up from within. We'll voyage back in time to investigate the violent events that profoundly shaped the planets, including earth itself. We'll witness stunning revelations about what transformed Mars into a barren, hostile desert; the disaster that changed Venus from temperate to hellish; the impact that blew Mercury's mantle, turning it into a planetary core; a colossal disturbance that rearranged the orbits of the gas giants; titanic impacts on Jupiter, and how a lost moon may finally explain Saturn's rings.

• Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £14.35   |  Saving you £-1.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD reviews the career and music of Kraftwerk from their inception in the late 1960s (as pre-Kraftwerk ensemble Organisation) through their most celebrated period in the mid 1970s and culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s with the popularity of synth-pop and techno. The film further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted in and pulled away from the electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as Krautrock. Sparing time also for many of the groups contemporaries from the same field and tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary music generally this programme presents a fascinating story previously untold on film.

• Evolution: The Grand Experiment | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (-26.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If you want to know what the most up-to-date information is supporting Darwin's theory listen to a number of top evolutionary scientists from universities around the world contribute their vast wealth of knowledge to support the theory of evolution. The bulk of evolutionary experts amongst detractors to the theory interviewed for this stunning documentary speak to the contribution of evolutionary science over the last 150 years as they give detailed opinions as to how creatures evolved and what their intermediate species might have been. This documentary was filmed on three continents over twelve years and includes incredible wildlife footage and photography as it takes a critical eye in the spirit of true science to the theory 150 years on. This is a great resource for educational purposes as the format is socratic systematic uses simple language that explains technical terms and is easy to follow for students of all ages. Evolutionary experts speak about the evidence for whale evolution dinosaurs to birds and rodents to flying mammals.

• Hardy's Wessex | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £6.31   |  Saving you £8.68 (137.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Martin Seymour-Smith and James Gibson present a profile on the writer Thomas Hardy includes locations featured in his novels and his family life.

• Bombers Of World War Two | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Which was the most famous bomber of World War Two? This DVD looks at all the legendary bombers and highlights their wartime action throughout the global conflict. They differ widely in appearance and operational efficiency but they all had one thing in common: they all possessed some claim to fame.

• Crash & Burn | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £4.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the thrilling story of flawed F1 racing genius Tommy Byrne. It tells the surreal tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid's rise to become the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna ever feared and his spectacular and bizarre fall from grace.

• The Lost Railways | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £4.02   |  Saving you £1.97 (49.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A nostalgic look at Britain's abandoned railways lost to the public since the 1950s Featuring the following famous routes: 1. The Great Central Railway from London to Nottingham 2. The Somerset & Dorset from Bath to Bournemouth 3. The Waverly route in Scotland from Carlisle to Edinburgh

• Glass Dolls | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The mists that wreathe the eerie city of Venice become the hunting ground for a faceless child killer that seemingly cannot be stopped in the taut and brilliant thriller Who Saw Her Die? directed by Aldo Lado (Night Train Murders). When Franco (in a career-best performance by George Lazenby) loses his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer he sets off on an unnerving journey of retribution that will bring him to the very edge of his sanity and quite possibly his life too. Rigid with tense atmospheric style this film bears an uncanny resemblance in mood to the classic Dont Look Now but was actually made a year before. Boasting starkly evocative cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo (Il Postino) and a score by Ennio Morricone Who Say Her Die haunts the mind long after viewing it.

• Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | DVD | (04/04/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• River Cottage - Gone Fishing! | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £9.20   |  Saving you £10.79 (117.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fish 'n' Chips. Where would the British seaside be without this iconic meal? Fish is one of the UK's favourite foods and the benefits of eating it regularly are widely reported. Yet with diminishing fish stocks there's a crisis at sea. So what's a fish lover to do? Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall begins an investigative culinary journey around the British Isles to tackle this in River Cottage: Gone Fishing! Hoping to discover alternative delicious and sustainable seafood that fishmongers should be selling and we should be eating.

• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills / Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On May the 6th 1993 the mutilated bodies of three 8 year-old boys: Christopher Byers Steve Branch and Michael Moore were found in a shallow creek in Robin Hood Hills West Memphis Arkansas. A short time later police arrested three local teenagers: Damien Echols Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley linking the boys killings to a satanic ritual. The three teens were then tried and convicted in a court of law. Damien Echols is currently on Death Row. The intriguing court case was abo

• Meet The Sloths | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £15.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A year in the life of the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary. Meet The Sloths uncovers everything you need to know about these thoughtful and cute arboreal animals, charting a year in the life of five slow-moving residents of the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, a refuge dedicated to saving orphaned or injured sloths. Filmmaker Lucy Cooke headed to the sanctuary to follow the stories of these loveable and distinctive creatures, and has captured a unique insight into the lives of these v...

• Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers - Series 2 | DVD | (24/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Just Dusty: The Real Dusty Springfield | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The legendary Dusty Springfield was Britain's leading female pop singer of the 60's with her unmistakable sound she was the greatest white soul artist of the 20th Century. Her singles Son of a Preacher Man I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and many more bona fide classics charted highly on the both sides of the Atlantic. With 20 top 40 singles and 10 top 40 albums and an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Dusty was a star in the realest sense. ith a troubled private life and untimely death aged only 59 Just Dusty gives the inside story into the life loves tragedies and successes of this remarkable artist . Featuring live performances unseen footage and photographs plus contributions from friends and colleagues including Pet Shop Boys Burt Bacharach Mari Wilson Marc Almond Pat Rhodes Simon Bell and Frank Allen from the Searchers this is THE definitive Dusty Springfield Story!

• BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  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.

• Telstar | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £14.35   |  Saving you £1.64 (11.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Telstar" tells the unflinching life story of Joe Meek, the British musical genius and so-called founder of British pop music.