Documentary

• The Greatest Steam Locomotives 6DVD Set | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £21.07   |  Saving you £-3.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The ultimate profile of steam's most famous locomotives FLYING SCOTSMAN A stunning pictorial record of how the world's most famous express locomotive steamed triumphantly into the Millennium. BLACK FIVE Experience all the excitement and drama as a Black Five - Stanier Class 5MT 45407 - answers an SOS from the Mid-Hants Railway to work a Daylight Railtour outing from Alton to Bridgnorth. CASTLE & MANOR See how Castle class locomotive 5051 Earl Bathurst copes with a 75-mile an hour dash to the seaside as she stands in for 7802 Bradley Manor on the first of a series of Torbay Express excursions between Bristol and Kingswear. CLAN LINE Bulleid Pacific 35028 Clan Line was saved from destruction in the 1960s by a group of enthusiasts who weren't prepared to let the Merchant Navy class die. This wonderful DVD follows her progress for a year. GREEN ARROW This is the story of 60800 Green Arrow and her heroic attempts to become the first V2-class locomotive to reach Plymouth after mechanical faults ruled out 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley. But no one on the footplate knew quite what lay ahead. KING EDWARD I Watch as cameras at more than 50 locations follow the beautifully restored 6024 King Edward I from London to Bristol and back to Didcot.

• Man With A Movie Camera | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An experiment in the creative communication of visible events without the aid of inter-titles, a scenario or theatre "aiming at creating a truly international absolute language of cinema," is how the inter-titles describe what is about to be seen. Bold claims indeed, but in its awesome sophistication The Man with a Movie Camera does live up to them, making it one of the most contemporary of silent movies. The subject, the life of a city from dawn to dusk, was not original even for 1928, but its treatment was--the cameraman as voyeur, social commentator and prankster, exploiting every trick permissible with the technology of the day (slow motion, dissolves, split screens, freeze frames, stop motion animation, etc). A young woman stirs in her bed, apparently fighting a nightmare in which a cameraman is about to be crushed by an oncoming train. She wakes up, and the sequence is revealed to be a simple trick shot. As she blinks her weary eyes, the shutters of her window mimic her viewpoint, and the iris of the camera spins open. Self-reflexive wit like this abounds here--there's even a delicious counterpoint made between the splicing of film and the painting of a woman's nails.The film was the brainchild of the Moscow-based film-maker Dziga Vertov (real name Denis Arkadyevich Kaufman), a furiously inventive poet of the cinema who made innumerable shorts about daily life (such as the much-quoted "Kino-Pravda"), and played at candid camerawork and cinema vérité long before they became the clichés of the television age. The editing has a fantastic abandon that makes most pop videos look sluggish. --David Thompson

• Classic Albums - The Band - The Band | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £0.21 (1.95%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Initially associated with Bob Dylan with whom they toured and recorded The Band were soon to be acknowledged as a truly seminal band in their own right truly The Band. Comprising Rick Danko Levon Helm Garth Hudson Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. The Band were signed to Capitol Records in 1968 and embarked on a recording career that witnessed eight U.S. Top 40 albums including three million sellers. The story of The Band and their classic album is told here in vivid words

• Hidden Treasures of the National Trust: Series 1 | DVD | (20/05/2024) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rawhide - The Complete Series Three | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (90.52%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Head 'em up and move 'em out! Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates in the third action packed series of classic TV Western Rawhide. Hit the Sedalia Trail with Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) Rowdy and their hard-driving gang of drovers as they take on murderous outlaws crooked ranchers and renegade soldiers in this rousing eight-disc DVD set jam-packed with whip-cracking thrills adventure and danger! A collection no true Clint Eastwood fan can afford to miss... Get those doggies rollin'!

• Occupation: Dreamland (A film by Garrett Scott and Ian Olds) | DVD | (01/08/2008) from £22.83   |  Saving you £-2.84 (-14.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

• London in the Raw (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £15.83   |  Saving you £4.16 (26.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'The World's greatest city laid bare! Thrill to its gay excitement, its bright lights, but be shocked by the sin in its shadows!' Following on from his Take Off Your Clothes and Live, and influenced by the world-wide success of Italian 'Mondo' movies, which combined documentary footage with staged sequences of salacious effect, legendary British low budget movie mogul Arnold Miller concocted this fascinating exploitation-style documentary. Peering voyeuristically behind the grimy net-curtains of London life into seedy bars and clubs for beatnik 'art lovers', and burrowing beneath the glittering facade of the capital's glamorous cocktail lounges and casinos, London in the Raw provides a cynical, sometimes startling vision of life on and off the rain-spattered streets of 1960s London.

• Captain America: The Serial 2 | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the arch villain called The Scarab who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations. Episodes Comprise: 6. Vault of Vengeance 7. Wholesale Destruction 8. Cremation in the Clouds 9. Triple Tragedy 10. The Avenging Corpse.

• Disappearing World - Vol.1 | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Granada's landmark anthropological series broadcast over three decades remains an extraordinary triumph of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed award-winning films offer intimate portraits of remote communities such as the Cuiva Embera and Panare Indians of Colombia the nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara the Kurdish Dervishes and the Meo of China while highlighting the fragility of these ancient cultures - many of which had been squeezed to the point of extinction at the time of filming. Developed from an idea by former World In Action producer Brian Moser who had witnessed at first hand the relentless and rapid destruction of native Indian tribes in Latin America Disappearing World displayed an unprecedented foregrounding of its subjects who spoke freely about their lives and values in their own languages and were filmed engaged in daily activities. A generous budget and much freedom was granted to the production and research team and the series' constantly evolving presentation format also acknowledged current concerns and debates within the field about the portrayal of 'primitive' societies. The films were made easily accessible to schools and universities and remain a valuable educational resource. Disappearing World was groundbreaking television whose aim extended far beyond the remit of 'serious' or 'educational' programming required by the broadcasting strictures of the day setting the standard for future investigative programming. This first volume collects 15 documentaries initially broadcast between 1970 and 1975.

• Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (50.06%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Great Minds Start Little. Created by a mum from a baby's perspective this DVD will captivate and stimulate your child providing numerous opportunities for you and your child to interact with one another! Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun is part of the Baby Einstein integrated family of award-winning videos DVDs music recordings and books which explore art music language science and nature. Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun is a captivating experience t

• British Steam - The Bluebell Railway | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £13.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Bluebell Railway was Britain's first standard gauge passenger carrying preserved railway. After 35 years this outstanding line set deep in the Mid-Sussex countryside is still at the front of the steam preservation movement. Beautifully restored stations are complemented by an unrivalled collection of steam locomotives coaches and wagons. Many of these are seen in action up and down the line while one of the world's most glamorous and luxurious trains is recreated in the Golden Arrow Pullman. Behind the scenes the programme explores the history and the current operation of the railway and there is also time to visit the National Trust properties at Sheffield Park and Wakehurst Place as well as many of the other attractions in the immediate area.

• The Guv'nor | Blu Ray | (10/10/2016) from £5.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The life of famed East End luminary Lenny McLean gets a touching, personal treatment in The Guv'nor. Famous (and infamous) as a bareknuckle boxer, bouncer, enforcer, and doorman from the late ˜60s, McLean's journey from unlicensed fighter to best-selling author and star of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is also the story of a working class man from Hoxton weathering the changing decades before his untimely death in 1998. Director Paul Van Carter follows his son Jamie as he explores his father's story, from troubled upbringing to stardom, on the way meeting a variety of East London characters to director Guy Richie. What emerges is a picture of a complex, troubled and driven family man.

• Gardens Of The National Trust - Vol. 3 | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  In the third of this splendidly produced series Alan Titchmarsh follows six more of the National Trust's loveliest gardens through the changing seasons. There's the magnificent Victorian sunken parterre garden and formal wilderness walks of Blickling Hall in Norfolk. Hampshire's Hinton Ampner - a perfect example of how horticultural skills and determination can triumph over the problems of an exposed site and unpromising soil. The famous broad hanging terraces of Powis Castle in Pow

• West of Memphis | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £11.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (70.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the 1994 conviction of three troubled teens for the murders of three younger boys, questions began to arise about the prosecution of the case, with numerous legal experts and celebrities demanding that previously ignored evidence be examined.

• Ernest and Celestine | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In normal bear life it is frowned upon to make friends with a mouse. But Ernest a big bear a clown and musician who lives on the fringes of bear society nonetheless welcomes little Celestine into his home. She is an orphan and has fled the mouse world down below. These two solitary characters find support and comfort in one another but in the process fly in the face of convention upsetting the established order.

• Living In World War Two Home Front | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Evacuees air raid shelters gas masks ID cards queues for food Local Defence Volunteers - The Home Guard snap drills sandbagging searchlights the Auxiliary Fire Service barrage balloons - this was life in Britain in World War Two on the Home Front. When mainland Europe fell to the Nazis in 1939 Great Britain was left isolated alone. The nation geared up for conflict. Conscription evacuation rationing the population learned to live with the privations that come with war. Hitler attacks and after his failure to overcome the RAF in the Battle of Britain the nation has to endure an unprecedented aerial bombardment of its cities. The air raids lasted for eight months killing 67 000 civilians. This drew the people of the nation together and ignited a common spirit of defiance against its powerful enemy. By refusing to crumble Britain was able to continue in the fight. This was our finest hour.

• Through Hell And High Water | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An engrossing documentary series that follows TV presenter Ben Fogle and Olympic gold medal winning rower James Cracknell as they struggle to race 3000 miles across the Atlantic in a 24ft rowing boat....

• Primitive London (DVD + Blu-ray_ | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £14.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (33.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The sensational follow-up to London in the Raw sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle of 1960s London depravity - and manages to outdo its predecessor. Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Cafe, cut some rug with obscure beat band The Zephyrs, witness a seedy Jack the Ripper re-enactment, smirk at flabby men in the sauna and goggle at sordid wife-swapping parties as we discover a pre-permissive Britain still trying to move on from the post-war depression of the 1950s.

• Steve Jobs - The Man In The Machine | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In his signature black turtleneck and blue jeans, Steve Jobs’ image was ubiquitous. But who was the man on the stage under the giant iPhones? What accounted for the grief of so many across the world when he died? In Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney presents a critical examination of Jobs, revered both as an iconoclastic genius and denounced as a barbed-tongued tyrant. The film is a candid telling of the Apple legend through interviews with a handful of those close to Jobs at different stages in his life. Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine is an evocative portrait of his legacy, and our relationship with the computer. It unravels the larger than life myth he so deliberately crafted, and examines the endurance of his values which continue to shape the culture of Silicon Valley to this day. he kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don’t understand and the only way out is to go as fast as their cop car can take them.

• Super Size Me | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Here's a documentary which needs absolutely no introduction. Why is America so fat? This is the question that Morgan Spurlock wanted to answer. He set out to interview experts in 20 U.S. cities including Houston - the Fattest City in America - whilst at the same time conducting his own personal experiment... To eat nothing but McDonalds for 30 days straight. There were 4 rules 1- No options. He could only eat what was available over the counter (water included!) 2- No 'supersizing' unless offered 3- No excuses. He had to eat every item on the menu at least once 4- No giving up. He had to eat three square meals a day - breakfast lunch and dinner. The results shocked even the doctors who were monitoring his experiment. The winner of a host of international awards this unmissable documentary has really got the world talking and the junk food peddlers running scared.